The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-08

 quarters, to whom and to President George Sherman Hill, of the Police lComrnission, Detectives Arnold ana ECrorir he related Siemon's version or his connection with such death as shown by said aff1dayit and by Sie- mons other statements to him. Where upon after consideration it appearing to President Hill that no pertinent ar sufficient evidence in his judgment was in the hands of the police connect ing Siemon with the death of DeMar- fino other than that suggested in the affidavit, he informed the Superiff tendent and detectives that they need % no further with the matter of in vestigation that he would take care fof it himself.
 In view of the determination and the direction of President Hill no fur liner work was done on the case by the police department The Superinten- dent and said detectives prudently but without legal right, continuously but fainly waited for action on the part of such President they fully assumlng he would bring the matter to the attention of the proper criminal off, cers for such legal and final adjust- rnent as the latter upon their oaths of office deemed proper. The police. at that time had witnesses competeIlt l to dispute the accuracy of some of the essential statements of the Slemon af- fldavit.
 There was no evidence brought out. to show that President Hill has at any time called or attempted to call l the attention of the criminal authorf- 1 ties to the matter of said death, but on the contrary the latters evidence showed he assumed authority to sup press the proceedings sought for by ISiernon, and required by the state
 In the course of the investigation in addition to that of Siemon, Bates. | and Thrall was given by one Reginald Ivan Ness who was at the time walking IsoutLs on Grove street about one hum dred feet from the point of injury He claimed the Siemon machine was running about 25 miles per hour that its occupants were bareheaded before l it crossed Grover Street or struck the deceased, and that it did not swerve Ito the left until after it struck the l deceased The body of the deceased l he claimed was thrown about 50 feet | and within about 6 feet of the place where the Siernon machine is claimed 1 to have stopped after having struck l the pole mentioned above, that the machine did not stop after striking ltne deceased or at least was not to 1 be seen in the street by. the witness. jury and that no horn or signal was given, as the machine was approach | ing the street corner.
 Tho testimony Of Florence N. An derson who was distant on the south side of Fairfield avenue about one hundred feet from the point of injury shows that the occupants of the ma chine were bareheaded before they crossed Grove street that the machine was going at a high speed, she thought however the machine stopped momen- ta1-ily within about six feet of where the body Of the deceased was thrown, and that the said body was thrown a distance Of about forty feet on to the grassy part of said sidewalk
 l. The testimony of Charles A. Wade showed him to have been on the south side of Fairfield avenue about fifty feet from the place of injury He said the men in the machine were bareheaded before it struck the de- cased, that it was running at a high speed thai it swerved towards The place where the deceased stood in- stead of away from it that the body was thrown about TO feet and that the machine did not stop after striking DeMartino.
 The testimony of Gustave A. Peter son, Nellie Peterson, his wife, Alice Peterson. his daughter, who were on said sidewalk about 150 feet west Of the point of accident showed the Sie- mon machine to be running at high speed as it passed them and that the machine did not stop after the injury as claimed by Siemon and rtsS compan-
 
 htestified seeing the body Of the deceas- ed about 1-2 feet in the air as though in a cloud of dust when it was struck by the machine
 It will be appreciated from the fore going that not only is the testimony given in opposition to the statements of Siemon and his companions reIa- tive to the immediate facts surround ing the said death and to~ the speed of the machine. it's management and their uncertainty as to the striking of lDeMartino germane but. Of compelling significance. That in view of 1t the apparent care with which the affair was hushed by those concerned for a period of thirty months, and until Sie- mon felt compelled by threat Of criminal exposure to make acknowI- edgement Of the happening by affida- wit but adds to its presumptive strength and makes 1t a prtma facie duty to bring the matter to the at tention of the criminal authorities for action.
 Aside. however. from any blamable inference that might be drawn from the prolonged silence of Siemon. or from the unwarranted act of the Pres ident of the Police Commission in sup pressing Investigation by the police, the testimony of the former and his lcompanions in the car is clear that they had no Knowledge that a horn or bell was sounded to warn the deceased ] of danger, or of the slackened speed for it's better control by sienon as the machine approached Grove Street, orswere any headlights burning to per-. init or enable the driver or the de- ceased by reason or their glare to see and thus avoid each other before col fiding.
 The matter of the actual speed of the machine at the place of injury is only estimated by the witnesses in a general way except that minimum rate of fifteen miles is asserted 1bv inc ] occupants of the machine, whilst the i estimate of Van Ness. Wade and the l Petersons make it much higher true it 1 is, however, from the testimony of
 man. that its speed and impact was such as to hurl the body of the deceased into the