The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-19
Facts Speak EIoquentIy For The Truth Of DOherty's Claim
 The Brake Was No Good

Falsehood sometimes prevails because nobody takes the time to the truth because those who know the unwilling to disclose it. But nature abhors u truth she abhors vacuum, and multitude of facts will usually confirm to the intellect the ver1 ties any matter worth the trouble of verifcaton
 Under the searching examination to when aefr have arisen support his statement that the brakes or the fatal Pacific engine did not work properly and
 what of these circumstances are what of impression they make upon the unbiased mind with this engine. He with his first inc rn Tt is reasonable to suppose he was watchfu even that he was inordinateIy wafchful He was under the impulse which strongly induces every locomotive penalty his mistake if he should make There all his anxiety to make good showing and there was the circumstance that he had twice run too far.
 If he was not Hatchfl coming into Stamford on the day of the disaster then he was most pecular @ man
 Let us see II Ta he MaS tce and the emergency brake once He says, finding his brakes did not work that he he cab There is testimony show aside from his ow he shut power before reaching the distance signal that he did put the brakes His fireman testies to ths and do others the train Fireman Smith heard the air valve hiss three times and Doherty says he used the air three times.
 The engine had record of running by, for E.rf gneer John Harmon had been laid off for passing nal Harmon now test1es that the brake worked, but he entered in the complaint book under the designa ton 'sar statement that the out of order
 Doherty testified that two days before the accident he had reported the brake the engine defective and the book, being produced contained the en cosplcuousy brake testified that he an EXTERNAL inspection thought nothing the matter and returned the engine to Doherty, without remark.
 Moreover the engine, having been four days in the ossesson of Haven corporation and having been subjected such repairs the railroad officials desired to make was test tr when the brakes proved utterly unreliable. They uncertain in action gave out entirely at the eighth tes upon the test which designedto be duplicate of Dohertys of them, name l service applications and emergency application, ran 375 feet into the danger
 An air brake that works perfectly seven times and fails the eighth is brake that may justly be described as seNo good.''
 Dohertv furthermore testiies that just as he was taking the engine fatefu Thursday, Road man Carroll him: 'sFor Christs sake be careful Harmon got yesterday. The brakes don't hold and HeIl.''
 The sentence is profane rings with convincing ring The brakes out of order so why shouldn t Carroll have said soq
 It looks very much as if this attempt to blame the engineer would fail
 The of wrecks on the New Haven are deeper seated than the personal equation of engineers.
 They will be found in the disorganization that grows out of reckless high finance, in management that buys trolley roads for than they worth and that makes monopoly with hand while it enriches the creators of monopoly with the other.
 Doherty went to his engine experienced man know ing his business we'll He eager to 'make good. He got engine which Harmon had driven past signal Harmon item against the air pumps.
 Dohery, after trying the engine wrote ten specifca tons of complaint it's condition One of these items was ssbrakes no good He by Bridgeport He al most down child, and would have done had not intervened He had his life at stake That was daily risk He had the best job that came to him hanging in the balance. He watchful the alert anxious to do his right His story matches with hundred circumstances that prove it true.
 But thing to lie against him. He wasn't strong enough to throw the reversing lever What would have happened had he been strong enough
 When an engineer with modern air brake at his command gets his reversing lever the dead usually being loaded into the wagons.
 But let admit that Doherty didn't throw the re- verse and let the fact be accepted for what 1t is worth ha ir1TS% 110oo1 To o4 14 Io