Norwich bulletin., 1913-06-26

scious and was leaning his head on his elbow.
 The witness testified to remembering being lifted into an automobile and also to having her wounds dressed by Dr. Stanton in an upper room in house to which she was taken Her husband was brought to see her there, and he asked her if he might go home. That was the last time she saw her husband and alive,
 house on the evening of the accident and couldn't tell much more of what happened that night.
 MT. Smiths eyesight was remarkably good, she said, but he was slightly deaf, but not enough SD that she had to raise her voice in speaking to him. She said there was no signal of the approaching trolley until three sharp whistles just before they were struck. The first that she knew there was any trolley road there at all was when she saw the trolley car. It was her testi money that the gait at which MT. Smith was driving was just jogging along
 On cross examination by Attorney Allyn L. Brown, Mrs Smith testified that the surrey had a top supported by four iron posts at the corners. As they approached the crossing and she was looking up the Norwich road, she did not see the track or the trolley poles. She could not tell exactly where the wagon was when she saw the car, but she looked up the track and saw the car.
 Her husband had been in the whole sale grocery busness but had retired, and for the last twelve years had been in no employment that brought him in an income. To a question she answered that suit in her own name had been brought against the trolley road for $15.000 damages in connec- ton with the same accident. Mrs. Smith displayed considerable uncer- tainty about answering the question directly about the amount involved in the suit. saving that she had left the matter to her attorneys.
 Miss Emily A. Copp, who was on the rear seat of the carriage with Mrs. Smith, was the next witness. She could not rememb%' anything of the things immediately preceding the ac cident and could not remember any thing until about two weeks after the accident. The last she remembered before the accident was seeing sign that said q Mile to North Stoning- ton"
 Miss Kate c. Copp of St. Louis, Mo-. cousin of Mrs. Smith, who was Sn the front seat of the surrey with MT. Smith testified that she was looking ahead when approaching the crossing, and she did not see the car until she had heard Mrs. Smiths call to her husband. Miss Copp thought the car was coming very fast She heard no signal from the car. The witness could not remember anything immediately following until coming to and seeing the four people who had been in the surrey lying on the ground where they had been thrown. She had periods of partial consciousness and remembered MT Smith coming into her room and noticing that his face was badly scratched and she thought he walked into the room unassisted
 Court adjourned at this point till 10 o'clock this morning
 On the point argued by the attorneys on Tuesday just as court adjourned re- garding evidence which the plaintiff s attorney wanted to introduce to show that the trolley express was habitual- ly run in a reckless manner. the court ruled against admitting evidence on this point.