The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-05
MILLER IS EXAMINED.

MILLER IS E.xAMINED. As soon as the night session began menced and continued for a long time | after which Flagman Murray was call ed. It is understood that Miller was closely questioned upon what speed Wal1ingford to the wreck, upon the density of the fog, upon just where he first saw the 1agman and heard the torpedoes. At the Yellow building inquiry on Tuesday afternoon he tes- tified that at Wallingford he was mak- ing 40 miles an hour and that com ing toward signal 23 he put on the brakes a little and let her drift. At that hearing also he said that he saw the outlines of the rear car of the Bar Harbor Express; saw the fagman and heard the torpedoes at about the same time-When he was a cars length away from the Bar Harbor train. Miller was also questioned very closely upon the rule which provides that he must be able to stop instantly at a red sig the examination Miller was taken to police headquarters by Coroner Mix, where bail was given for him.
 F1agman Murray was put--through an even more extensive cross exami- nation than Engineer Miller. He was asked particularly about how far back he went when he first left his train, where he was when he heard the recall from the whistle of the To- comotive, where he placed his torpe- does, where he was when he first heard the rush of the oncoming White back again and where he was when the White Mountain express passed him.
 At the Yellow building he testified that he went back the first time and placed torpedoes on the road six tel egraph poles from the signal a dis tance of about 500 feet or more, that he went back to his train upon hear ing the whistle of recall and that he had about reached the rear of his train when he heard the White Noun in. Then he said, he ran back up the track and was about 400 feet from the signal when the White Mountain went by him.
 At the conclusion of the examina- ton of these two witnesses the hear ing was adjourned until this morn ing. ~%i ks4s E
 The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion will be given this morning a copy of all the evidence taken by the coroner yesterday and this will be continued by each witness. Both Mill poenas last night by Inspector Bel nap of the Federal Board to appear in the United States court room this morning at 10 o'clock.
 CORONER's WARRANT
 The coroner's warrants upon which Miller and Murray are held read as follows:
 Whereas l. the undersigned Eli Mix, coroner for the county of New Haven, having good reason to suspect and do suspect August B. Miller of the said town of North Haven of having crimina1ly caused the death of Royal A. Hotchkiss at the town of North Haven, on the second day of Septem- Der, 1913, in regard to whose death the said coroner is holding an inquest
 Whereas said coroner has ordered and does hereby order that said Au-' gust Miller be forthwith arrested and committed to the common jail afore said until the exp.rat ton of 24 hours from and after the finding of said coroner in and upon said inquest or until he shall be otherwise released or discharged.''
 Then follows the authority to the jatler to receive the prisoner.
 MURRAY TALKS FROM JAIL
 From his cell in the jail Murray