The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-16
Blacksmith M'Gahay Wondering Why He Was Not Summoned to Testify Before
 Coroner Wilson
Eye Witness Joy Ride Tragedy Is Certain that Student
 Party Had Been Drinking ng-Decares that Responsi- bility for Death of Mrs. Saunders Should Not Be Placed Solely on Shoulders of Motorman Peterson Finds Whiskey Bottle With New Haven Label on It.

Investigation by the Farmer into the
 strangely concealed facts of the Strat-
 ford auto-troliey tragedy of last week
 brought to light today a new witness
 to the condition of things immediately
 following the accident. in the person
 of John J. McGahay, the blacksmith
 at Broad and Elm streets. this city.
 whose home is in Stratford avenue, Stratford. and who summoned the doc- tors who attended the dying. woman
 and injured student. Motorman Peter
 son will likely be released in bail of
 $1, 500 before night.
 McGai1ay is at loss to understand the outcome of Coroner Wilson's m quest He is surprised to learn that the coroner had no evidence before him that would show that Peabody suffered from the effects of drink. He Is ready to testify. he says. in the interests of justice, for he believes that Peterson is being made the scape goat for a dea for which the dead wo- mans student companion should De held equally responsible.
 Tt was one of the most brutal things I ever saw." said McGahay to a Far
 ner reporter today. the conduct or
 Peabody. after the accident. Mrs:
 Saunders was laid out on the floor of al
 there too. The Forster girl asked
 Peabody what they were going to do about their companions.
 s" What the he'll do we care about them? Let's get out of here was the
 answer Peabody gave her:
 Nobody but a man who had been drinking would talk like that. They say a man isn't drunk so long as he can lie down and hang on to the
 grass continued McGahay. Maybe Peabody wasn't drunk. But you can
 say that I am ready to testify that he showed the effects of drink. His breath would knock you over." MT McGahay was routed out of his home just after the accideDt. Two ! men were kicking his door when he answered. They told him woman
 was under the car and they wanted a {. doctor. The men were not students. i but either passengers from the car or ! others who had come up.
 ! ,"I called up Dr. G. F. Lewis. our
 family doctor, bu. he wasn't home. l i left word with Mrs. Lewis and then
 called pr. Howland.' He said he ! would come at once. Both doctors 1 got there about the same time. s-'rhe woman and Thompson were ly- | ing on the floor of the car. I got out near he wreck and found on the ground a. pint whiskey bottle. 1t bore l the name of New Haven house. It was. empty. I gave it to Jim Forbes. the trolley inspector. I suppose he kaSt it. "The Forster girl-she looked like a pretty big girl for a school girl-had a handkerchief up before her face when I saw her. She complained about her eye being hurt and asked me to look at it. I couldn't see any, thing wrong with her. But she kept | the handkerchief up before her face most of the time.
 "when I heard Peabody speak as he did of his injured companions. my blood boiled. I could have knocked 1 him down bu- for the condition of things I thoueht it was one of the 1 most heartless things I ever heard. | You can't tell me that Peabody was soher Nobody but a drunken man would talk like that.
 "I keps' on the car with the injured neople while it was run over town. My son was with me. We thought all along that Thompson was hurt on | the head, he acted so queerly. But soon we came to realize that he was | not suffering from any hing but too
 much drink.
 "We remained with the injured peo- pie until the car reached the point l where the ambulance transferred the people to the hosrital
 Now let me say just word for poor Peterson, the trolleyman. In the exc 'tement following the accident, Peabody and the motorman got in- tto an argument. Peabody began to