Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-26

ley. slfperintendent OF the Baltic mill,
was put on trial on the charge OF man
slaughter in causing the death OF
Charles J. Mckay, an insurance agent
of this city. through an automobile ac-
cident.
The accident happened in the early
part of the evening of June at Burn
ham square, which is at the junction OF
Main and North Main streets Mr.. Nc
Kay's skull was fractured and he died
at the hospital on June IL.
After the jury in this case had been
selected all the other jurors on the
panel were paid off and discharged, as
the illness of persons concerned in
other cases will prevent any more
trials at this term.
The jury in the Buckley case was
chosen as follows: Able L. Hale, Philip
SpeIman and William M. Burdick, Nor
witch; John P. HIollowell, Preston; Will
liam r. Palmer, Edwin M. Gray and
William A. Edmond, Griswold; Horace
Foote and Elmer E. Pultz, Lebanon;
Alfred NJ Clarke, North Stonington.
William J. Brassill, Franklin;s Olaf
Nelson, Lisbon.
Medical Testimony.
State Attorney Hull who is assisted
by Attorney John D. Hall, began the
Buckley trial by calling DIR. Louis T.
CASSIDY to the stand. The doctor at
tended the autopsy performed upon
Mr. McKay's body by the late DIR.
Rush w. Kimball and he described the
way the body was bruised and said
that the skull was fractured. Coroner
Franklin H.. Brown made notes of the
autopsy.
After Civil Engineer George E.
Pitcher had explained plan that he
had made of the locality of the acct
dent, DR.. N. B. Lewis was called to
the witness stand.
He said that at the time of the ac-
cident he was coming across Preston
bridge with Sherwood 3. Potter and
saw the Buckley automobile and Mr..
Mckay. When the doctor reached the
machine when it had come to a stop,
the injured man was under the front
of it. Mr.. Mckay was unconscious
and the doctor gave him treatment,
which seemed to revive him, and then
he had bim taken to the hospital
Points about the mechanism of
1913 Cadillac car, which was the kind
Mr.. Buckley had, were explained by
Irving Watkinson of the A. c. Swan
company. and he also told how the car
is operated.
TroIIeymen Testify.
Leonard F. Lovett, who was the mo-
torman on the trolley car that was
going towards Greeneville, said he saw
Mr.. Mckay step from the curb and
come towards the trolley car. The car
was bound to the barn without pas
sengers and he told Mr.. Mckay that
there was a car following. The witness
said that the Buckley automobile was
near the rear of the trolley car and
he saw Mr.. Mckay looking towards it
He heard a wOman's ejaculation just as
the auto was abreast of the trolley car.
Maurice B. LOBBY, who was the con-
ductoF on the empty trolley car, ttesti-
fed that he saw Mr.. Mckay coming
towards the trolley car and saw him
hit in the chest by the automobile. The
man chung to the auto for a time and
then fell under it. He was dragged
by the automobile. .a s..4ss-
William Joseph Fitzgerald and Lloyd
G. Gelino also testified as to what
Franklin H. Brown told of the testi-
mony at the investigation he con-
Quoted, and Sherwood G. Potter gave
testimony as to what he saw when
Mr.. Mckay was hit by the automobile.
Attorneys Arthur NJ. Brown and
Charles D. James were counsel for Mr..
Buckley, the defendant.
Defense Begins.
AT 3.15, after a recess, the court
came in again and the defense was
begun when Attorney Arthur M. Brown
called Hugh Kinder to the stand.
He testified that he lives in this city
at 351 Main street, which is the third
house west of the stable fronting on
Burnham square, where the Buckley
accident occurred. Mr.. Kinder said
that he saw the Buckley machine on
the evening at the time of the acct
dent and when it was going past his
house it was not going more than IL
or Is miles per hour. The witness did
not see the accident.
The witness was not asked any
questions by State Attorney Hull.
Saw Accident from Her Window.
Mrs Rose E. Riley, who has lived for
six years in the Marguerite building,
which fronts on Durham square, tes-
titled that she occupied corner apart
ments there. She said she saw the
accident as she was looking from her
front window. She said that she knew
Mr.. Mckay by sight but not Mr.. Buck
ley.
At the suggestion of Attorney Brown
she told the story of the accident in
her own words. She said trolley car
passed and she saw Mr. Mckay step
ping out in the street and he was look
ing down. Then he looked up and saw
the machine, as if it made some noise
to attract his attention. He stepped
back and then stepped forward again
in front of the auto, throwing himself
across the front of the machine She
thought he caught his heel in the
trolley track The automobile was
going very, very slow, she said, and
MIR. Mckay was dragged only a very
short distance.
w men 0IdI0 AClOTASy CIOSS CA
amined her he took up her statement
that she thought Mr. Mckay caught
his heel in the trolley track, asking
her to explain just which track Mr..
Mckay was on when he caught his
heel. She said she saw Mr.. Mckay
come across the track behind the troll
ley car from the Burnham side of the
street When the trolley car stopped
after the accident she said she could
just see the end of it from her win
dow.
She was asked by the state attorney
if Mr.. Mckay did not come across the
street from the Marguerite side, but
she said: mo, it was from the Burn
ham side"
Defendant on the Stand.
The defendant, William H. Buckley
superintendent for nearly five years of
the Baltic Mills company, operating a
cotton mill at Baltic, was snext4 put on
the stand. He said he is At and was
born at Manchester, England, and had
formerly been in the employ of an
English concern Installing new textile
machinery. He had erected machinery
in Taftville, and came to Baltic to
erect machinery in 1899, and subse-
quently became overseer with the com
Danv and later assumed his. DreSent