The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-04
Jury Fails to Reach Yer
dict and Seeks More
Witnesses.
ADJOURN TO FRIDAY
To Question More Persons in
Train AutO Crash in Which
Ed. Devlin Was Killed.

The coroner's jury called to hear
the evidence in an inquest into the
death of Edward Devlin, who on
Thanksgiving day was killed when the
automobile in which he was riding
was struck by south-bound Chicago,
Milwaukee, and st. Paul passenger
train at the Geneva road crossing at
Truesdell, reached no verdict on Tues
day afternoon. Three witnesses were
called to give evidence at the hearing
but neither Acting Coroner John
Slater nor the coroner's jury were
satisfied at the conclusiveness of the
evidence and the judge ordered that
the inquest be adjourned until Friday
afternoon at two o'clock by which
time an attempt will be made to Sc
curem ore witnesses of the accident
for further testimony.
There were several new develop
ment at Tuesdays hearing. The most
important of these was the testimony
of thee ocomotivet fireman of the
train which figured in the accident.
Nicholas A. King, Fl Thirty-Seventh
street, Milwaukee, who was firing the
train on its run from Milwaukee to
Chicago last Thursday, testified that
as he approached the Geneva road
railroad crossing at five o'clock he
noticed one car parked on the east
side of the crossing evidently waiting
for the passenger train to pass.
Passed Parked Car.
When the locomotive came within a
hundred feet from the crossing, ac-
cording to Fireman King, he noticed
an Oakland roadster dart out from
behind it and speed over the cross
ing just in time to collide head-on
with the engine. King testified that
the roadster must have been going
at speed ranging from 35 to 40
miles an hour at the time it went on
to the tracks"
King described to the coroner's
jury how the train was stopped with
in 600 feet of the accident after he
had first shouted "Hold 'er!" to the
engineer who had then applied the
emergency brakes when the impend-
ing crash was first noticed. King also
told of how the train was held up
for an hour before it could proceed
again due to the damage * the To-
comotivo pilot. King was Enable to
shed any further light on the cir
cumstances leading up to the acct
dent.
John Lorimer, S7O9 Parkhill ave-
nue., Milwaukee, engineer on the loco
motive that figured in the crash, was
unable to tell anything of the events
prior to the accider; because, he said,
he was sitting on the right side OF
The engine cab and was unable to see
anything approaching the crossing
from the east on the Geneva road.
Going so Miles An Hour.
Lorimer told the coroner's jury that
at the time of the accident his train
was boing between so and So miles
an hour. He said that he never saw
the car that was struck and that the
first indication that he knew that any
thing was wrong was when the fire.
man shouted to him, and this warning,
he said, came simultaneously with the
crash.
Judge John Slater, who also acted
as coroner, was a witness in the case.
The judge was riding eastward on the
Geneva road on the afternoon of
Thanksgiving day and arrived at the
Geneva road crossing at Truesdell a
few moments after the accident. He
Immediately took charge of the affair
he said, and ordered that the body Of
the man who was killed be taken to
the Hansen Mortuary in Kenosna to
4RWait Identification. .se~