Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-18

in conversation. when he saw car come around the bend and coming fast. Next this car came on between car of the witness and the approaching car. He saw the left wheel of the car strike Mrs. Bush and the right wheel went into the sidewalk He saw Mrs Bush run over, and saw the Davis car come to stop some twenty or twenty-fve feet from
 the scene of the accident. Mir. Davis came back and MT. Bush rushed towards him and said Davis had no right to
 drive on the right side of the car of witness, and witnes stold Davis he was driving too fast Witness heard a shout
 as the Davis car approached and he be- lieved MT. Bush shouted. Subsequently MT Davis said he was driving the car
 at the time of the accident
 Where witness stopped his car, the
 rear wheel was eight feet from the
 sidewalk, and when he stopped the car he put on the brakes. He did not drive
 his car close to the walk, when he back ed his machine for thirty feet before coming to stop.
 If another car had been opposite his
 car, there would have been no room for the Davis car to pass but there
 was room for one car to pass at a time Mir Field continuing his testimony said he stopped his car about four feet off the tarvia. Mrs. Bush was near the front end of the Field car when she was struck, had she stepped in front of the car, about four feet, she would not
 have been hit by the Davis car.
 Mrs. Harry c. Field was the first wit ness of the afternoon and corroboratcd ] the testimony of her husband in regard to stopping of the automobile and back ing down to meet MT. and Mrs. Bush, ! position of the parties when the Davis
 car came along.
 After being run over, Mrs. Bush was | lying with her head towards the side walk with face towards Watch Hill, | and when the rear wheel struck her, | the body was turned over. Had she gone l in front of the Fields car she would not | have been injured. She did not hear any warning cry from the aDvis car, but she | saw MT Davis apply the brakes and
 stop the car. Just after the accident l she went into Mir. Barbey's cottage
 where the body of Mrs. Bush was taken. Thomas E. Brown, chief of police, tes- l tified that MT. Davis told him the car was operated by him at the time of the
 accident. He added that the section where the accident occurred thers were l houses less than one hundred faeI apart.
 On cross-examination by Mr Hewitt ;lle
 witness said the only brsincs; place there was the telephone exclanse. He
 thought the next dwelling house south
 of the Barbey cottage was less than one hundred feet. There are not many
 houses north, and none on the opposite
 side of the road.
 Thomas Tarka of Philadelphia gave | testimony that he saw the Davis car as 1 he rode from the Ocean house to the golf
 grounds. The Davis car slowed down at l the curve and the car witness was in
 slowed down. After the accident he saw the Fields car. He heard the Davis car horn at the curve.
 Ernest, R. Maine of Westerly testified he saw the Davis car near the Nizigret
 road4l Watch Hill a. short distance ahead Witness said he was driving at
 rate not in excess of 15 miles and the
 Davis car was the distance of one and | one-half telephone poles ahead of him | when Davis stopped.
 Herbert s. Davis of Mystic, the accused, was the next witness. He was for two years in the automobile business and had been a licensed operator eight years and 1 perhaps driven 100,0 900 miles and had l driven the car in which the accident fig
 ured for the past. four months and was
 in good order. He drove the car from