The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-20


 with Shannon to acauaint you with ssI told Hill that never knew Sic mon. My statement was very brief. T spoke to those gentlemen without listening to them. Issaid. Have you acquainted the prosecuting author sitIes.' They said athey had not but that they were going to and: the thing was coming up legally and would be tried out, and that a consideration would be given this woman. said: This is a pretty serious matter. There are only three of us here and noW1 pro pose to have Arnold and Cronan come two men. MT. Hil1 explained to the men that there would be a legal trial and that he Supposedly Siemon) wanted to get the matter off his mind. Shannon said: Everything will be all right; there will be no trouble.s said: we don't want anything here but what is right The two men did ask them if the prosecuting au- sthorities were cognizant of the facts and understood they were not at. that time. but that the case would come to legal trial
 Expected Legal Trial.
 O. ssDid syou ever know that they were acquainted afterwards?''
 A. No sir, I was given to under stand the matter would be brought
 Did you ever make, any at tempt to acquaInt the prosecuting at =torney2''
 5. A. ..I am not sure. Q. Did Hill or Arnold speak to you ?''
 A 1cronan was given to under stand that it would be settled in a legal manner and should be dropped.
 @. -sW1io was it that told them the case would be dropped it Mir.
 A. ssHirl said MT siemon had ex- p1ained to him that it was worrying him and he wanted to have the mat ter tried in the court and settled. We understood it was .ended. 2 < e. Give me your best Recollection of the words MT Hill used 2
 A. That the case was going to be lawfully settled in court. not in direct words but that was the inference.
 .sOn May 1 5 MT. Garlick (Earl Gar lick, assistant court clerk) and MT. Siemon came to my office. Gar1ick told me Siemon was held on war rant and that he had accepted $3,50o bond. Siemon asked me to give him my word that would not say any thing to the newspapers until he got back from Atlanta. [ gave him my word that nothing would be said by me and have kept it. !,
 Now in relation to MT DeIaney's statements. Iyhave no af1idavits from MT Hill nor have seen any affiday- it's from Shannon or Hill. I< have afidavfts from different chiefs of spo- lice where I have written giving de- scriptions of the cars and I have Jgot some letters of their, if I have not burned them up MT. shannon and MT. Hill never showed me any docu-. ments. ?
 @. "so, in obedience to MT. Hill, you and the detective department dropped the case 2, k
 Yes; have found. Hin fair and he said the case would be law fully tried out. .''
 @. .Hin told us yesterday you had two meetings; at one of which he. told you about MT. Siemon's S confession as to the death of DeMartino and asked you and the detectives to investigate the case.''
 A. s.No, that is not SO The case was stated tome by Shannon and Hill first and I asked if the prosecuting attorney was aware of the case. He stated they would be shortly
 sI said, This is a serious case Let me call down two mem He probably got mixed in the case and thought that was the second time. HnI and Shan now have been in only once Hill spoke about it last Sataurday night: T see Siemon is under bonds in that case. I said. t$s, 800.
 Hills testimony of Monday was read to the witness. who refused to change his statement that there was but one meeting. Asked by the coroner about agree-l ing to let the matter drop as was tes-1 tif1ed. to by Hill, Sup. Birminghama said Ger had nothing to say. Hstened,s } that's all Hili said .Siemon is the man.
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 Clarence A. Bates, living at 1.s43s Fairfield avenue, who rode with Sic mon as their car sped up Fairfield avenue, on the night of the football game, three years ago, appeared as the first witness at yesterdays ses- sion of the coroners inquest into the death Of John DeAdartino. He said l he was an electrical engineer by pro- fession and that he had been ac- uuainted with Sienon for about six years. He placed the time of leaving the center of the city at bout 7:S0 and the speed at about 15 miles per hour. which he gauged not from any 8 car, but in having witnessed races and other tests of speed.
 He was not sure about the exact To- cation of the accident, as he was not paying much attention to the road. He sscould not really tell whether it was a man on foot or a. man on a, bi-s cycle. as there were no search lights lit He fiared up in front of us very suddenly. MT. Sdemon swerved to the left and then come back again. In doing so, I. think the car got away from him and slid over We ran one wheel up on the curb. We glanced off the telegraph pole
 Asked by the coroner if his hat flew off, he said that his did and he thought that two of the others did. : o. What caused that ?''
 4. We thought, when we went up on the curb and struck the post a sudden jar. I was in the rear of the car at the time and it was a narrow