East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-07

Though a large number or Witness
es were examined last evening the
members Of the jury empaneled by
Coroner Folsom to investigate the au-
tomobile accident which resulted in
the death of Mrs. Barr and IL possible
to fix the responsibility, were not en-
tirely satisfied and adjourned to meet
again this evening at 1880. Other wit
nesses are being subpoenaed and will
be examined at that time.
According to the testimony intro
duced last night, there was a fruit
wagon standing on either side of AL
tn street at the time Charles McBee.
coming up that thoroughfare in his
automobile met Irving Baker, who
was turning down the same street in
his cab, The collision resulted in
McBee being thrown from his car,
which, rendered driverless. charged
the crowd on the sidewalk and crush
ed Mrs. Barr against the brick front
of the Office saloon. The eye wit
nesses examined last evening said
they could not say which, II either,
driver was responsible for the acci-
dent.
McBee a Careful Driver.
Kyle Long of the Long Brothers
garage was the first witness called.
He testified that McBee was an ex-
perienced and very careful driver and
that he never ran his car at a high
rate of speed. Long also testified as
to the wrecked condition of the steer
ing wheel as the result of the coll
lision and said that with the throttle
In the position II was at the time ne
examined 1t a few minutes after the
accident, the machine must have been
running at a rate of speed not ex-
ceeding six or eight myes per hour.
He said the McBee car was capable
OF speed of not more than rs miles.
Saw the Collision.
Henry Thomson of SIT Aura street
and former member of the police
force, was the only witness examined
last evening who actually saw the
collision. He says he was standing
in the street. near the sidewalk and
about half way between the office
saloon and the corner of Main and
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ing toward Alta stree, when the ac-
cident occurred. Thomson testified
that he did not see either the cab or
the car until just the instant they
struck and he could not say how fast
either OF them was going at the time.
When asked who in his opinion was
to blame, he replied that he could
not say. He did say that following
the collision the car passed him at a
rate of speed he would estimate at
IL or 90 miles an hour, although he
explained that he had never had any
experience in judging the rate of
speed at which automobiles travel.
Thomson says the whole thing oc-
cured so quickly that he could not
tell who was driving either the cab
or the car or how the driver of the
latter was knocked from his machine.
All he could see was that there was
collision and that the driver Of the
car was knocked out landing six or
eight feet from his machine on the
pavement
According to the witness the boy
who was riding in the back seat and
who was Chester Reed. an East Ore
gonian carrier boy. climbed over into
the front seat and attempted to con-
troll the car with the wrecked stear-
ing gear. Failing in this he jumped
out Just as the machine struck the
walk.
Thomson testified that he and
e. T. Wade rushed to the machine as
soon as it struck the woman and pin
ned her against the wall, backed the
car away from her and started to
carry her across the street to the Of
flee of a physician.
Wade Testifies.
e. T. Wade, the real estate dealer
was the third witness called. At the
time of the accident he was standing
in the street in front Of the Office
saloon talking to Kenneth McRae. He
did not see the collision between the
car and the cab, the first he saw Of
the happening being when the car
came by him, headed for the walk,
and with the boy working with the
steering gear He saw the boy jump
out as the car struck and then rush
ed to the assistance Of the injured
man.
Wade said they experienced some
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