Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-11-03

never had received assistance while at |
work before. He had lost sleep from |
work at home.
He had returned late the night be- |
fore from the last Togus trip and |
| reached his home at 12.45. walking |
from the car barn to his home at 40 |
Monroe street. Augusta. Got up at 4.30 |
| the morning of the accident: left home |
at $50 to go to work at 10 o'clock.
| Alfred Dulac, motorman, testified |
that it the time of the accident he was |
Off duty, and was on the car Saw the |
team about 10 feet from the crossing |
Re old not see Spear when he tried to
stop the car. The men in the team APP
peared to be facing each other, talk
| ing. "Mr. King told Mr. Spear when
he came to the place to ring the gong
did you see either of the bodies be-
fore they struck the ground?"
'No. SIR
The witness jumped off the left hand
side If the front vestibule King COM
planned of being sick somewhere west
Of Island park.
Dana H. Dudley testified that he was
standing on the rock in front of the
blacksmith shop near the crossing. at
tho time of the accident. He believed
| that the car was going faster than that
at which the cars ordinarily pass the
| crossing. The witness believed that if
n gong had been rung he would have
| heard it.
When the car struck it was all over
in an instant, and the witness did not
at first see the men. The first that he
saw was the horse, rolling over and
struggling to get upon his feet; later
he SAW Mr.. Martin.
Questioned by Attorney Hildreth:
Nov. IN your Judgment how fast was
the car goins?'
well, ! should say 20 miles an hour
or better
Mr.. Heath: "Mr. Dudley, was the
horse hurt?''
"No, sir, he had only a little hair
taken off on his hip
the wagOn?"
"Most everywhere"
'Strewn all along?"
eyes, strewed all along for about 300
feet"
Attorney Heath questioned as to the
location of the bodies. and the wreck
age of the wagon. The harness was
not broken very much
Questioned by Attorney Hildreth,
TIE witness said that he would not no.
tice the sound of the gong as a strang-
er WcUlG. The measured distance from
the sf"''a ~ front of the blacksmith
shor a;,n:r the highway to the center
| Of tho t''a''5 was 262 feet, inches
John Dudley was the next witness.
The team. rrCViCus to the accident,
w@S going at the rate of eight or nine
5 miles an hour. When he saw the team
the car was about two poles up the
track.
Did YOU hear the gong?"
81 didn't hear it,
c did you see them stop?"
"No. sir"
about how fast were they going?"
g ''They We're going right along: I don't
know how fast"
G ''The car carried Mr.. Martins body
: down about how faro
''Sixty-seven feet"
you measured it, did you?"
eyes, sir"
|. Questioned by Attorney Hildreth. the
n witness said he had just gone out of his
s ice house before the acciden.
|. Are YOU positive that you saw the
$ car about two trolley poles from the
S track?'
II Yes, SIT.
G "And they were going at good rate
of SDeed?"
e eyes, sir
Questions by Mr.. Heath brought out
n details relative to the location of the
car and team at the time of the COLI
It sion. Neither the car nor the team
slackened speed. Mr.. Stewart and Mr.
G Martin We're talking The witness be-
| tlot
side of the wagon. Witness caught the
s horse, which was practically unin-
jured.
G l.. f. Taylor was recalled and teSti-
e fed that a car going six miles an hour
would nave S,S feet in q second, and
g at 20 miles an hour would move 293
feet in a second. The distance which the
car would travel after the brake was
II set would depend upon circumstances.
William Y. Ballard said he was in
t front of the blacksmith shop talking
with Mir. Jackson and Mr.. Dudley. He
saw the car when it came into the
n field Of vision. Did not see the car stop.
Did not hear the gong ring
y BY Mr.. Heath: The witness said he
saw the team coming when it was near
Dana Dudlcy's barn. Witness estimated
toe distance from this point to the
\ crossing as 10 or - rods.
\ Fred A. Jackson of Winthrop was at
s. Dudley's crossing on the afternoon of
Oct. Is. First saw the car at the wait
ing station. Heard someone shout.
Elbow fast do you think it was go
ing?"
Going somewhere around 25 miles
an hour; maybe 80.
"Where did you first see the team? -
'"1he horse was just about on the
railr Dad track when | turned around
Attorney Hildreth asked if the wit
ness could see the car from where he
was standing.
40, sir; [ was setting" the wit
ness replied.
The witness, examined by Mr.. Heath
said he first saw the car just north OF
the Dudley crossing station. The horse
was at that moment on the track
Conductor Herbert Spear was re-
+ called and questioned by Coroner
Plummer: