The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-12-01
Respondent Was One Of
Final Witnesses on
Stand
TOLD OF SOUNDING
HORN AS WARNING
Claimed Kelsey Freeman
Jumped Back in Front
of s-to

| forenoon in w, - gton county court
in the trial Of q liam w. Parry o'
Barre, who is 8 red with manslaugh
ter in inhicti - atal injuries on KeI
sey Freeman d rs years, by strik
ing him wit Is ! automobile in Cabot
on July p
Cross exannation of Mr.. Parry, the
defendant, by Attorney General Archi
bald, occupied the first part of thu
morning session. Mr.. Parry stated thai
the car which struck Mr.. Freeman
would have passed three or four feet
| from him if he had stood still. Ht
STAYED near Mr., Freeman until the lat.
ter was removed to his home. He did
not see DIR. Milo Warren give the in.
jured man any aromatic spirits oi
ammonia, he testified Previous TO the
accident, he did not see either Mr.. oI
Mrs. Freeman stop, the witness testi'
| fed.
| Asked If there was not some dis
tance between his right track and .ths
concrete walk at the side of the road
he said there was some, he did mol
know how much. He had been over the
road about half dozen times since
the accident, he testified. Asked if he
could not have turned out further, hs
said he presumed he could. He stated
! in reply to the question as to whether
| ii would have been feasible to turn
out further that he did not know what
the attorney general meant by the
word. Asked to say what it meant
to him, he said in this case it meant ia
him the same as customary.
He. estimated the weight of the cai
at 4,200 pounds.
Asked to describe what he meant by
the jacxknifiing of the splash pan al
| the time of the accident, he said that
| il was bent back. The head light fas.
| Jennings he estimated to be a three.
eighths inch iron bar across the front
of the car and five-eighths connection
back against the ear One of the lights
was bent, according to testimony yes.
terday. The splash pan, he stated, he
presumed to be made of sheet iron.
He kept his eye on Mr.. Freeman con.
tinually up to the time of the acci-
dent. Mr. Parry testified.
Miss Grace Parry and Mrs. Parry
were called to testify that the horn
was sounded only once.
Mrs. DeAfille. who was stenographer
at the grand jury hearing on the case
testified in rebuttal for. the state.
Harry A. Black, secretafy of state,
and Mrs. Kelsey Freeman. widow Of
the deceased in the case. also testified
rebuttal.
The argument was begun about
TO-: 40 by States Attorney Fred B.
Thomas. This was Mr.. Thomas last
appearance as states attorney as he
was sworn in this morning as COM
missioner Of taxes He was followed
by Earl r. Davis of Barre for the de-
fense. Mr.. Davis had not completed
his argument at noon. John w. Cor
don for the defense and Attorney
General Archibald for the state viii ar
que after Mr.. Davis completes his ar
gument
In closing his term as states attor-
eny, MIR. Thomas gave what was con-
eidered to be one of the best argu-
ments in his career.
Mr.. Parry, describing the accident in
direct testimony yesterday afternoon,
stated that Mr.. Freeman jumped
AL of four feet directly into the
front of the car just after Mrs
Freeman cried out. Mrs Freeman at
the time was little behind her hps-
band on the opposite side of the road.
He had a loud horn on the car, and
gave a good blast when he first saw
Mr.. Freeman, Mr.. Parry testified Mr..
Freeman turned and looked at the APP
preaching car. which was going at a
rate which Mr.. Parry estimated at
from 10 to l2 miles an hour. Mrs. Free
man was Just crossing the bridge as
the car passed her, and Mr.. Freeman
was crossing the road diagonaily from
the bridge TO the grass plot at the
fork of the roads. He had almost
crossed when the car went on the
bridge.
Mr.. Parry Testified Mrs. Freeman Gave