Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-22

The adjourned session of the super for court for Washington county, Judge Elmer E. Rathbun, convened in Westerly, Thursday morning, and the trial of the case against Charles H. Mansfield, was commenced. He is charged with manslaughter on two Janet Clark of Westerly, and Mrs. Olivia Martell, of Uxbridge, Mass. Mansfield was engineer of the Gilt Edge express, known as train 625, that collided with the New London local, known as train 623, at the Brad| ford station on the night of April IT, last which resulted in the death of three men and two women, and injury several others. The state is repre- sented by Abbott Phillips. Fred A. Otis, of the attorney generals office, and the accused by John J. Fitzgerald. of Pawtucket. and John J. Dunn of Westerly.
 Dr.. Henry L. Johnson of Westerly, the first witness, testified that he had practiced medicine in Westerly four years and had previous hospital practice. He was called to Bradford on the night of April F. He saw there had been an accident and cars were burning. He found several injured people in the station, and one was Mrs. Olivia Martell. She was uncon- scious and was placed on a stretcher and taken to Vars drug store. There were compound fracture of the right and left legs and left arm. and broken ribs and cut in the head. The station took fire soon after witness arrived. The woman gave her name as Murtell and her son gave the first name. The witness turned Mrs. Marten over to pr. Cheney, of the Lawrence hospital in New London. There was no poSSi- bility of her recovery, and injections were given to combat the shock. The woman's shoes were taken off and her little son who was in another room, said the shoes belonged to his mother.
 pr. Frank M. Dunn, of New London, testified that he was called to Brad ford at about TAO on the evening of April IT, and arrived at Bradford be- fore o'clock Cars were burning when he arrived and he took charge of the New London contingent. He visited several injured persons, in- cluding Mrs. Martell, who was in serious condition and was unconscious. | He took her by special train to New London and by ambulance to Law renee hospital and she died about 20 | minutes after arrival.
 pr. Michael H. ScanIon of Westerly | is medical examiner for Washington 1 county, and gave evidence that he was 1 called to Bradford. When he arrived | the wrecked cars were burning and |
  a burning car. Four bodies were | passed by him from the car and he 1 could not identify any that night He | placed the bodies in charge of Under taker Murphy. He had the bodies tag ged and the part of the car from which they were taken noted. There were three male bodies and one fe- male. The first body taken out was B female and marked No. 1. At a subsequent investigation he gained l more detailed knnvIr1adoa Io+ L visited Bradford, the next day and 1 made careful search of where the body Of the female was found and secured | articles that belonged to Miss Janet Clark. The body was that of a fe- male and as Miss Clark was the only female missing he was satisfied the body found was that of Miss Clark
 pr: John Champlin of Westerly tes- afIed that he was called to Bradford and attended Miss Catherine Cottrell. saw Mrs. Walter Price and Ed. Bar per. The next day saw four burned bodies in Murphy's undertaking rooms. One body was female and three other bodies were males. There was burned fabric such as women wear near the waist, and was satisfied that the fe- male body was that of Miss Janet Clark. He was satisfied that the body was that Of young woman, as he
  was the only woman reported missing. l
 Joseph r. Murphy, an undertaken and en1balner of Westerly, testified hat he went to Bradford and took our burned bodies from a shed and 70 his undertaking establishment He was ordered to be careful in keeping 1 the bodies separate and in the order that they were received He did not know who the bodies were, there was one female and three males. The fe- nale body was that of a small woman | Drs. Scanlon and Champlin called for he purpose of Identification ana found inc fabric attached to what remained of the female body.
 Henry |. Burdck of Westerly. a res- dent for r'ten years or more, with law 'fhce in Providence, went bv rain between Westerly and Providence 1aiiy. He was passenger on the New london local on the night of the wreck. The train made stop at Bradford sta ! ion station between 7.30 to 7.35 or '32 by his watch. He sat in the rear coach in the seat with Mrs. Walter 9rice- There were also in the car loout the center, seated together, Miss '1ret Clark and Miss Catherine Cot rel. Thomas Boardman, a victim of he wreck, sat in seat behind witness. n hen the crash came the lights went l put. Before this Conductor French old witness the passengers for New | fork were to be transferred. When he crash came he took Mrs. Price by he back and the seats they occupied were crushed together. Miss Cottrell rood up in the car and called to her cousin, Miss Clark. Then they got ,ut of the car as best they could. The ,nly means of exit was through the onward door. He did not see Miss Clark come out # the doorway, did not see her after he wreck, nor has not seen her since, The Gilt Edge locomotive went about i ialf way through the car, or to the ( eat that was occupied by the Misses ] >ottrell and Clark. He did not assist i n taking any from the car after the i irst crash. The baggageman went ( lhead to protect the train and Con !, luctor French was near the train. The z lars took fire and he saw no effort f made to extinguish the blaze. Later 1 Be Young Looking Darken Gray Hair i l