Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-10-15
MRS. UNGER A WITNESS.
Tcstihes In Her $4,000 Damage suit
against the RutIand R,tIrond.

'es'"es In Her $4,000 Damage suit
against the Rutland Railroad.
The 10000 suit of Clara t'nger of New
YORK against the Rutland Railroad com
pany' In which the plaintiff claimed that
she suffered permanent bodily injury by
reason OF the derailment of a train on
winch she was a passenger at Brooksville
orlose' April q, 1913 was resumed In
Chittenden county court Thursday.
The plaintiff herself. was the principal
witness Thursday. She said her name
was Clara Unger, that she was married
out not living with her husband from
"hom she had been separated five years.
ana that Unger was her mothers name.
Her age, she testified. was 90, she was n
Je"ess by nationality and born in War
saw Poland. She came to New York l6
years ago. On the morning OF April y.
lSl3' she left New York to come to Bur
inston to pay "A visit to Mrs. Alec Fem
berg. Her ticket was purchased with n
hftv dollar bill by w. G. Jones. the $50
heing Of her own savings The change
amounted to about s41 which Jones gave
to her with the ticket The first sho knew
OF the accident was when the car began TO
wriggle awfully" and she was thrown
''''' il'I SPHt on the le1t OF the tram 70
the floor on tho right She knew moth
ing NOR" until she awoko In bed in tho
Mary Fletcher hospital in this city. She
was then in pain all over and her head
was in an ice pack and frequent hvpoder-
mics were given her during the night On
Tuesday she was removed to the Fcinheru
residence. whore a nurse was employed
She did not return to New York for three
Ire a IL
cane. Her illness continued and she stil
had ringing i'm her ears She was also
unable to retain food in her stomach for
any length of time. These symptoms
have continued until the present day and
there has not been n day when she has not
vomited. Besides about s42 or Si3 IN
money, she lost silver mesh bag worth
s41 gold headed umbrella worth s1S and
a diamond from a ring worth 500 in the
accident. An Of these were gifts to her
She made several trips back to- Buring-
ton To meet the physicians of the Rut-
land railroad, who examined her, and she
stayed at Queen city Park on one visit
for a week
On the examination, conducted ~
X. +. Brown. Mrs. Unger admitted that
she had lived with her husband for min"
months in Chicago An address was given
as 2.73o Wabash avenue where she re
sided. She was asked If she had been ex-
amined in the year 1911. when she was liv-
ing at this address, by DR. r. II. Stevens
Tor injuries received In a street car acct
dent Tho witness denied that she han
but she said she had been to a physician
once for slight injury to her arm re-
ceived when ahghting from a car In re-
Hponsc to further questioning she denied
that she had complained to a Chicago
physician of pain In her right shoulder and
right chest, or of n stiffness in her neck
or an injury to her hip. She also denie
that she had made any claim for da ma gcs
against the street railway company.
Mrs. niger was asked by Mr. Brown
what was the source OF her income nj
the time Of the accident. The witness re-
piled that she was millner and was
working at a millinery store in New York
for SIS per week. She also testified that
she kept house, lived in an apartment and
had couple living with her and also kept
maid. Mr.. Brown started to ask tho
witness how much she paid for the apart-
ment when the opposing counsel objected
ana the testimony was not allowed On
the REORGANIZATION further along Mrs
niger admitted that she was in another
accident in the summer after the rail
road accident when man attacked hor
in her apartment and tried to get her dia-
monds. lie struck her several times and
bit diamond out of one of her rings. She
was asked If she didn't testify in n New
York court at a hearing of her assailant
that the man struck her over the head
with a rubber hose four or five times
and she replied that she did not so testify
kept to say that IN" man did strike her
several times and once in the face but sh
Warded off tn" other blows with her
hands. She admitted going to Rockawav
Beach once last summer after she left
Burlington and she identified a photograph
taken there IN which she was one of 4
group.
Other witnesses examined during the
day We're Walter G. Bellrose and William
II. Gimrd of this city. who were passen-
gers on the train the day Of the accident.
Their testimony was about the same a :
that given by the others Both said that
the train was going very swiftly. The
nurse who cared for Mrs Unger for eight
days after she came from the hospital
gave testimony as to the bedside charts.
etc. On the cross-examnation she testi-
lied that she had given a copy OF the rec
ord TO Mrs. Unger. She said she did not
know that the object Of keeping the rec
ord was for the purpose of a law suit
she tried not to hear ANYTHING outside her
work as a nurse
Mrs. Alec Feinberg. at whose house Mrs
| niger was nursod, and Mrs p H. Nc
Mahon both gave evidence as to symp-
toms OF illness on Mrs. fingers part after