The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-21
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sAIa WITNESS
Miss Emma ibs0n Was So
Down withod Warning 1sul
Hallman, Driyi3 at Terrible Pses
Testimony at Inquest Deselops
Auto swerved To Wrong Side : 4
Street as Miss bsOn stepped
From 4 Curb.

The inquest in the case OF Miss
Emma Gibson. SO years old, killed hy<
an automobile, driven by Lloyd Hallz
man, at spruce-st. I'D Trumbulkae
Monday nightt wa .begun Defore
jury in Coroner Burgess .consg FRI
day morning. Attorneys Percy Crosse
and Samuel II. Grove representa-
Hallman, while Assistant Prosecutor
Aldrich looked after the interests OF
the prosecution.
The first witness was County Physi-
clan Edwin B. Forbes He told of a
postmortem showing Miss Gibson had
sustained fracture Of the skull ind
many other additional injuries
Raymond Young, street car On
ductor, testified that he was runH hg
Trumbull-ave. car on Monday nt&ht
and that he stopped, south-boup63n t
Spruce-st. and Trumbullave.. a.. q.
TO allow two women to get on. They
got of at the south end or the car,
walked around the rear end and pro-
ceeded to the east side OF the street.
He saw an automobile coming along
the east side of the Trumbull-ave., APP
preaching his car, going north. AS 1t
got near his car, he said the driver
swerved to the west side OF the road.
right back OF his car. apparently to
avoid striking the women. He said
he saw Miss Gibson step of the curb
on the northwest corner of the street,
then turn to get out of the way or
the auto. After she turned, he saw.
nothing further, his car being in mo-
t{o,, xxrhar tho fafo1ftx noonrrad
Cross-examined by Crosse. Young
said that the roadway between tho
tracks at Spruce-st and Trumbull-
ave. was too narrow to allow two ve-
hicles to pass. He said he didn't hear
the driver OF the automobile give any.
signal as the machine headed to-
wards Miss Gibson. He wouldn't say
no warning was sounded by the chauf-
feur Young gave his address as No.
1908 Trumbull-ave.
Mrs. Annie Douglass. cousin or
Miss Gibson, living at Spruce-st. ard
Trumbull-ave., testified that she and
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Fred Gibson.
were standing on the corner OF Pine
ST., and Trumbullave., a block south
OF where the tragedy occurred, wait
| ing for car, when Hallman's auto
passed, Just prior to the accident.
| She said the auto was going at high
rate of speed, raising cloud OF dust
and causing her and her sister-in-law
to comment on its pace as IL passed
| them, at Pine-st. and Trumbuiiave.
She heard no signal from the automo-
bile and didn't see the accident.
Mrs. Fred Gibson corroborated TIE
testimony given by Mrs. Douglas.
Miss Rosa King, No. 119 Pine-st..
said she was on the northeast corner
OF Trumbull-ave. and Spruce-st., at
the time of the accident. She said
she saw the automobile approaching
at terrific speed, about 40-miles an
hour She saw the street car stop,
but didn't see any passengers get on.
She witnessed the striking OF Miss
Gibson by the automobile. The chaui-
feur, she said applied the brakes.
She helped to care for Miss Gibson
| Immediately after being struck down.
Miss. Gibson was going in a direct
easterly direction when the accident
happened. The witness was positive
that no signal was given by the driver
OF the automobile.
On cross-examination, Miss King
|
its approach, that she thought IL was
an interurban car. The machine
swerved across the street at the cor
ner OF Spruce-st. and Trumbull-ave.,
| but the witness said the driver
couldn't have done so TO avoid strik-
ing the women who had alighted from
street car, as she declared no wom-
en- got OFF the car She said two men
got on the car but no one got on at
the corner where the fatality occurred.
! Miss Gibson made no attempt to get
nnt-eIt the autos path, as she didn't
have a chance, witness said. On this
point she contradicted the street car
conductor, who stated that Miss Glib
son started to retrace her steps on
seeing the auto.
Mrs. Sarah Quirk, living at No. 81
| abrosse-st., said she was walking
westward along Spruce-st. near Trum-
bul.ave.. about the time OF the acci-
dent. Two ladies, Miss Lucy Hickey
and Miss Nav Doherty, we're with her.
She saw the automobile swerye across
the street Had II not done so, II
might have struck her. she said. As
the auto swerved. the witness said.
she exclaimed TO her companions:
"oh. my God. that lady Miss Glib
SOM will be killed."
Miss Gibson was not dead. she said.
when she reached her. The witness
saw no street car on the corner. and
she heard no warning from the auto
Miss Doherty, who was with Mrs.
Ouirk and Miss Hickey, at Spruce-st.
and Trumbull-ave.. when the accident
| occurred said the automobile struck
| her. as well as Mrs. Quirk. A moment
later she saw the auto heading to-
ward Miss Gibson. She was sure Miss
Gibson was going 10 be struck and
She turned her head. Then she heard
the impact between the auto and Miss
! Gibson. She then rushed to the
scene OF the accident and lent what
assistance she could TO the victim.
having called a doctor. She saw no
street car at the corner.
The members of the jury are: Hen
/ nv Kimball. william Thorndell. Amer
! M Chamberlain and Edward Barnett.
At 12 o'clock court adjourned until
y. m.