Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
Jeseph Parro testified that Incl waa

l l. 1 road wreck, and he went up to the l signal. It was the distant signal and | ne went there at night and remained l there until 5.30 in the morning. He 1 dld not go to the signal alone for there ] was another fellow with him. No
 one touched the signal while he was ! there. -o " e''
 In reply to MT. Fitzgerald he said ne knew the signal. He went to see Ihe dlstant signal. At the Providence hearing he said he did not go to the distant signal, but to the signal inst
 across the bridge. Witness said he did not want to talk with MT. Fi+z gerald, for he had been here two days and what he said in Providence before the utilities conGaission was right Wltness said he wanted an interpreter and Leo Ruisi who was in the court room was called. Through the in
 terpreter, the witness denied sorne statements he made at the con1uois- sion hearing in Providence, accordins to the record Witness said he was 5o 3o tne station, had been working all day and was sent to the signal station and remained there all night alone.
 Witness said he had no interpreter at the hearing in Providence
 Frederick L. Babcock, Iineman. testIfied that he was sent to the dis
 tant signal at 3.3o in the morning aft CT the wreck, to watch the signal. He relieved Parro, and was there 11ntii IV.5O when he was released by Mir Roche. section man at Stonington.
 Howard F. Roche, helper in sionaI service was sent out to guard the d;e- tant signal, which was set at norma; no one touched it while he was there. lie was assigned to watch dutv +ha next day and the signal was sin at danger. He remained there until E. 30 the signal department.
 Joseph Parro was recalled and ide,- t1hed F. H. Wickerson as the man who went to the signal with him. Witnesa told MT Fitzgerald he did not want to talk to him, but he said he did talk with Tyit a.,t Attorneys Otis and Phillips at Kingston without any interpreter. He went to court in Kingston because the boss told him to go there.
 Thomas Haggerty, a signal keeper. testified that he was at Bradford, and sent the next day after the wreck to the distant signal, to watch it. and the signal was set at caution. and ''i,e ha was on duty the next day from l0.30 D. m. to 2.40 a. m.. and the distant sig nal was at caution all the time he was there. He is and was then employed by the railroad and in the signal de- partment that is to keep the signals right and in working order. He was on duty alone at the signal, and no one was sent out to watch him.
 James Foss, chief electrician of the signal department of the railroad conn pany, testified that he arrived in Bradford on the morning after the wreck, and was assigned to duty in the tower, to see that the levers were not touched for the west bound track, He later served as watchman at the distant signal and relieved Thomas Haggerty, who in turn relieved the witness. Home of witness Nas in Mansfield, Mass, and he was sent to court by Foreman Tisdale. He went into the tower and several were in there and a spare towerman was on duty. MT. Morrison. the head of the department, was there. He was watch ing the levers in the tower from 10 a. m. to $50 p. n.. and relieved Hagger- ty at >6.35, and when relieved went to the tower and back to the signal. He was on duty continuously for about two days and while in the tower, he had his hands or his eyes on the lev- CTS. and did not nod at anytime dur ing his toI1r of dlztu- Ha was on