Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-02
BURLINGTON. VT.

the blood. They then concluded that
| it was elcctrocutlon that caused death.
ELECTRICITY kills by spasm The
angina pcctoris in this case was the
angina caused by deadly and dan
gerous current
what was John Leary worth? He
was forty-nine years old. What was
he worth to his chilircn? lie was the
/ kind of man to want his children to
have education and opportunities
No money could replace him to them.
How much was he worth to his wife?
How much was he worth to his bust
ness? Was he worth one hundred
dollars Il month? He was worth more
I'm money can give. There will be
talk about going down into thc poe
kcts of the city to pay these children
! and his widow. Give them back their
father ana husband and they will ask
nothing more"
Acknowledgement r. e. Brown address
ed the jury in substance MS follows:
at is not my intention to talk long
This suit is AGAINST the city Of Burling-
ton. But remember this. every dollar
taken out Of the city is taken out of the
| pockets of taxpayers
/
pinned their faith to the proposition that
negligence of the city's employees caused
a deadly current of clectrcty to be on
;hc wires of the Leary circuit on the
evening Of February u, 1912. and killed
this man. Unless they can show that
the deadly and dangerous current was
ON tho wires they cannot recover.
"'rhcy are asking YOU under oath to say
what no one of their experts has dared
90 say. In January it Is said that one
witness, Mr.. Hallhan. saw sparkling on
the wires and from that II is argued that
there was on the wires a dangerous and
deadly current. There were too many
other wires there. And remember this.
there were nine other houses on that cir
cult.
Again man named Heflon claims that
he got shock on the night of the death
He testified that he was standing at the
head of the dead man. Dr. Dalton Dr.
IaBomhard and ! don't know how many
others were there. How did it happen
when he received this shock that none
of them noticed ii or knew anything
about it? Does that look Ike a deadly
and dangerous current? Thomas Leary
got his shock in the daytime. Did he get
II from the arc wire? Tho arc wire was
as dead at that time as this rail under
my hand. Sherwin and Matthew Leary
went down and performed their expert
ments in the daytime. The arc wire was
dead. They never in all their experiments
got more than 10 volts current
rs it reasonable to suppose that there
could have been deadly and dangerous
current when all the evidence tends to
show that there was no deadly and dan
Eorous current there?' CAT this point
counsel read a long Hypothetical ques-
ton to one of the plaintiffs experts. end !
ing with the query whether this condition
was evidence of the presence of a deadly !
and dangerous current on the wire. The |
answer was: 1T might have becn')
1T might have been!" A great many |
things might have been. But you are
not going to take my money or the money /
of the city Of Burlington without being !
able to say: 1T was"
Owing to the opening of the supreme |
court the meeting of superior court |
judges and the banquet of the State Bar
association all coming in the early part
of next week. the jurors not on the panel |
now serving We're excused by the judge |
until next Wednesday at 200 p. m.