The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-31
NEW HAVEN OFFICIALS ARRESTED ON CHARGE
 OF MANSLAUGHIER, GIVE BAIL OF $5,OOO EACI

desired to make. Mot me-" the smile which followed becoming most pronounced as the word "rne'' escaped from him. In fact as far as the press was concerned these were the only things that did escape from him. MT. Woodward said pleasantly he had nothing to say, to the public. with ref erence to his arrest and MT. Pollock nodded negatively to similar inter- rogaion.
 MT. Spock when questioned said that there was statement he de- sired to make in behalf of his clients at this time as he had no knowledge of the impending action until mid night yesterday. Before leaving the clerks office Vice President Horn with a fine display of deference thanked him for the pleasant nainer in which they had been received. The genial sheriff assured him that the ficia1s then left for the lower floor where they congregated with their at torney and bondsman and chatted among themselves
 When the bond was handed to MT. Woodward for his signature the latter glanced at it and then told the clerk for instead of Charles N. Woodward as the warrant read. the name was Clayton N. Woodward This was mere clerical error and it was cor rected before the bond was accepted. The complaint, which is coucheds in the archaic verbiage customary to such documents. contains four counts, describing the death of one Jane Doe, who to the State attorney is further unknown.
 The complaint is addressed to the Superior. Court for Fairfield County. Count one reads:
 Stiles Judson, of Stratford, in said county. attorney for the State for said county, here in court on his oath makes, that at Westport, in said coun- ty, on the srd day of October. 1912. Henry J. Horn, then of Boston, State of Massachusetts; Benjamin R. Pol lock and Charles N. Woodward, both then of New Haven, New Haven county, State of Connecticut, being then officers of the New York. New Haven 6 Hartford Railroad Company, a corporation duly organized under the laws of the State of Connecticut. and transacting business in said State and in said town of Westport, in and up- on one Jane Doe, whose correct name Is to said attorney unknown, then Of there being. in a certain railroad car operated by and upon the tracks of said the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company. with force and arms. Wilfu1ly and felonlous- 1y did make an assault. ased did then and theres wi1fuhy and feloniously choke, suffocate and burn her the said Jane Doe, by means of a certain fire that then and there was burning in said car in which she, the said Jane Doe then was, and near and about
 
 means of the smoke thereof and by means of the said fire and flames 1 thereof. wiifully and feloniously did burn and wound her the said Jane Doe i thereby giving unto her. the said Jane Doe, by means of the said fire and of the smoke thereof, certain nnor- tai choking and suffocation, and by means of the said fire and Of the flames thereof, divers mortal burns, sores and wounds in and upon the head, body and limbs of her the, said
 To-, &s<al11 r7 -F,r-ivN ton of which is to said attorney un- known, of which said mortal choking and suffocation and of said mortal burns, sores and wounds, she, the said Jane Doe than and there instantly died; and so the attorney for the State does say. that they, the said Henry Charles N. Woodward, as such officers of said railroad company, in the man. ner ana by the means aforesaid, will fully and felonious1y her, the saSd thereby then and there, commit the crime of mansfaughter, against the peace and contrary to the statute in ! such case made and provided.
 Nt2nd Count. And said Attorney for
 the State further complaint and infor-
 nation makes that at said Westport on said ~3rd day of October, 1912, the said Henry J. Horn, Benjamin R. Pol lock and Clayton N. Woodward were officers of the said New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co.,, hav- ing the management and control of a certain locomotive engine and train of cars thereunto attached then run ming on the tracks of the railroad of
 said The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co.,; that said train was then passing said railroad d through said Town of Westport having certain passenger cars attached to said engine filled with passengers, one of whom was said Jane Doe, then of said
 Westport; that at said Westport, on said 3rd day of October, 1912, the said Henry J. Horn, Benjamin R. Pollock and Clayton N. Wooward, as such of | fcers of said Railroad Company, with force and arms, so carelessly, unlaw- fully and feloniOuSly managed said en- zine and caused the same and said cars with such rapidity to run upon such road that one of said cars, in wuhich the said Jane Doe and others were sitting, ran off from the track of said railroad and was, thrown in and upon the engine of said train and
 being so thrown in and upon the en- zine of said train. caught fire, which said fire was thereby communicated to the said Jane Doe, of which said fire and the flames thereof and of the smoke thereof, she, the said Jane Doe ; was choked,. suffocated and burned, and did by means of said fire and the smoke thereof receive a mortal chok-
 ing and suffocation and by means of said fire and the flames thereof cer- tain divers mortal burns, sores and wounds, a more particular description of which is to said Attorney unknown, in and upon the head, body and limbs of her the said Jane Doe, of which said mortal choking and suffocation and mortal burns sores and wounds, she, the said Jane Doe, then and there instantly died; and so the Attorney for
 the State does say, that the said Hen
 ry J. Horn, Benjamin R. Pollock and
 Clayton N. Woodward, as such officers of said railroad company, her, the said Jane Doe, in the manner ad by the
 means aforesaid, wi1fu11y and fe1oni-
 ous1y did kill and slay, and did there
 then and there commit the crime
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 and contrary to the statute in such
 case made and provided.
 @'3rd Count. And said Attorney for
 the State further complaint and infor-