Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-18

the New Haven and Central Vermont tracks, Dec. g. 1917, during a snow storm He was returning from Hart ford with his package express, and saw MT LindhelTn approaching on the wrong side of the road. He got as far off the road as possible, his right wheels in sand bank. and as the | other car did not turn out, he jump ed About $45 damage was done to | his car, and he lost $50 worth of bus- 1 mess 1 After recess of an hour for din | ner thes defense cross examined MT. | Sweeney. Nothing new was brought | Gut except that he was travelling at | the rate of eight miles an hour be- cause of the snow. It also developed that the rear wheel. which was smash ed at the time of the accident, had been repaired some time before the accident. On examination, he said that he did not argue with MT. Lind helm when the latter said that MT. l Sweeney was to blame. because Lind- helm had been drinking.
 Mechanics Evidence.
 i Sigfrie and Ture Olson. mechanics lat Jordan's garage. who were on the wrecker which brought Sweeney's car to this city. testified that they had their attention called to the track of IOl lHS IOitu Dy sweeney, WnO Sdl0 LlaL
 1t was his. They saw this track when they first arrived, and no other cars
 had passed. Neither one of them had
 noticed Lindhelm's tracks or car.
 County auto inspector Ralph Young
 of Danielson next took the stand. He
 said that he visited the scene of the
 accident few days later, and auto track was present on the side of the
 road, off of the cement road. and | esos5 RIoG 17s,. ear. When asked in the cross exam ination. if, when he was there on of Hcial business, he did not look up the
 tracks of the other car, he explained that they were obliterated by pass ing automobiles.
 Denfenders Testifies.
 August Lindhelm of Andover, the defendant, then took the stand. He
 said that the accident happened about a.l5, he and his family, and two other men were in the car, one of them } drunk. He stopped at the c. V. rail-
 road tracks to look for train. as the
 snow made it nearly impossible to l see. He was on the right hand side
 of the road, and went very slow. He , saw Sweeney about a mile away, and
 the latter was going about 20 miles y an hour. He stopped his car when Sweeney did not turn out, and Swee- r Eey ran into him. In the collision
 Sweeney's car skidded into the bank,
 and his car was pulled across the
 road. He asked Sweeney to look at
 his tracks in the snow to decide who
 was to blame and Sweeney refused = Several autos passed before the Jor- , dan wrecker arrived, and when it did he could not see the tracks of the
 Sweeney car at the side of the road
 When the car was being repaired ir
 a garage he saw them put in new = wiring system and brakes. His eross- = examination was deferred as the court [. would be in session only a few min I, utes longer and it could not be finish Ii ed anyway.
 {. Albert Gilman, who runs a saloon Il on Main street, testified that Lind II helm left bundles in his saloon ever, $ i Saturday when he came to town. anl t that he only come in there on busi- = hess. He was not a drinking man
 but often drank little beer. On the
 might in question, Lindhelm was iT l his saloon about ten minutes. trying
 to get Dwyer out of the saloon, al o the latter, a neighbor of Lindhelm's V was drunk. Lindhelm had a smai
 glass of beer. five-ounce glass, anc
 was not drunk. He was examined bA e the plaintiffs attorney and then eour e adjourned until next Tuesday morning l. at 1915. when the Lussier murder case s will be taken up. The Sweeney Lind e, kelm case will be finished at the nex n calendar session.. next Friday morn, ol ling.
 l. Jurors Drawn.
 s The following jurors were drawn =. Ashford. Edward A. Wilbur and Hen ,- " c. Barlow; Brooklyn, LeRoy F ,- Pearl and Alfred Williams; Canter l. bury, Clinton D. F'rink and George E in Larkham; Chaplin. Frank Landon an ,d George E. Snow: .Eastford, Charles [
 Tatem and Henry Bosworth; Hamp NY ton, Frank w. Congdon. George N [o Thompson and William Ormsbie; Xiii in lingly, Ernest E. Legg, Edward Me r- Roy; Plain6eld, Pomfret, Andrew Fur d long, Arthur T. Grosvenor; Putnam of William D. Capwel. Themek Te A treault and Frank Lercier; Scotland " George N. Perry. c. H. Murray
 Sterling, Charles N. F'rink, Georg
 Wood; Thompson, Edward Arnold an
 Oscar L. Johnson; Windham. Everet ls D. Hopkins, Edwin B. Latham; Wood l stock, Charles F. Snow and Charle e. H. Todd.