The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-17
Complaint Book
 Corroborates Doherty

Stamford, June 17-
 The third session Of the coroner'a. inquiry into the wreck on June 12. of the Springfield express.s at this place, ! was marked by many surprises, but5 none of them tended to dfscredit toi straightforward story which Engfneeri Doherty, driver of the death-dee1inG second section. told on the first day.
 Sitting inside the court railing. mainly as a. spectator at the hearings but occasionally called upon to cIeaEH up technical points in the. testimony of others, the great faith of his friend and protector John H. Dillon, of New Haven, is one of the things which fa chiefly noticeable beside his own in4t terest in being vindicated from the awful charge that he was the cause of death to so many of his fellow beings.
 Dillon, whose ample fortune has been said to have been placed at Doherty's disposal should necessity l arise, daily accompanies him from tn @ ] Elm City and sitting beside him, com forts. suggests and protects him from 1 the encroachment of newspapeFmen, [ railroad employees and the morbidiy curious. Never for a moment iai Doherty permitted out of his sight
 In an effort to show the condition 1 of the brakes on train 53 at South Norwa1k, Herbert 70. Pratt, agent for the Adams Express Company at that station was hrst put upon the stand and related, as later did Frederick w. Force, and Richard F. Kane, other employees, how a little f1ve-year-old girl, playing about the station plat form. was snatched from the very jaws of death by an unknown here of the electrical construction force
 It was: asid thaL the little giEl ran to the p1atfBrn's 6 edge and though the AS Id -fs-tT- about 25O feet away and bearing down at a rate of IS miles per hour passed beyond her some $50 feet before stop ping. Doherty explained that he had seen the child grabbed by some lineman at his own personal risk, auds that even though the brakes had been working and he would have normallys stopped within three car lengths he could not have saved her.
 Contradict1ng in some essentials the conversation he was alleged by John Francis Carroll, engine foreman to have had with him prior to 1eavingi New Haven Thursday, Doherty re- called it as being an injunction to look out for his run, continuing in what he believed CarrolPs words: Harmon, got into it yesterday. The brakes ons this engine are not holding. Look ouEf for the water-g1ass for the water-5 glasses on these engines are out of order" And the engineer answered. 1T wi11.''
 The record book from the Stamford engine house, which Doherty had said would show a record of his having re- ported the brakes on 1888 out of or der on Tuesday was placed in evil dence and after the entries had beeni acknowledged by him as accurate and in his hand writing, was made public
 It showed that at 4:56. June 1O.f Doherty and Smith had turned the engine in at the roundhouse with the following recommendations for exam nations: "Rods-main and side-runi warnn," ''cross-head'', teccentrics," water glass don't work" .'grates and4 ash pan,' "oil engine trucks ''of driving boxes,'' 'springs'' No entry was made at the printed point air brakes" but at the foot of the sheet under the capton"Other work needed, Doherty had written in heavy pencil BRAKE NO GOOD" He explained his omission at the lair brake lfuef by saying that he feared only the pump piston would be examined for stroke, whereas he wanted it known that the brake was not good and needed more than piston-stroke exam ination. As Doherty said in court. ''1 thought he Cthe inspector whose duty it was to examine the engine upon the report) might look at the air-va1vs and I thought there was much more needed than air only.''
 And what Doherty feared came trI1e+f according to Joseph J. Cash, the me-, chanie assigned to repair the engine at the aeh-pit before it's return trip. Cash told Coroner Phslan he had been, in the employ of the New Haven com psny but 10 months, having formeriys worked for the Delaware. LacIcawan- ne. & Western road. On Tuesday, last, he had looked over the report of Do- herty and repaired the main rods on engine 1888. 1T looked over the brakes to see if the piston travelled right. and from an external examination thought the engineer had been mistaken" And the engine was sent into cOmuissiou without notice to the engineer, who returned to take charge of his fron- steed. An effort was made by thd company to have further records put in evidence showing that the engfusi was later handled by other drivers who failed to report similar defects. They will be accepted later, many wit- nesses having to depart from the city, securing precedence today
 The most sensational surprise of tho Gay came when Coroner J. J Phelau, after quietly questioning several em- ployes of the road as to whether a ru- nor that engine 1888 with It's fatal freight-the parlor-ear ".sky-larlS'', had been moved, under it's own steam. to a place in the rear of where the co1- lision occurred, and securing an abso-
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