The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
JURY RETURNS
OPEN VERDICT
Inquest Into Death of Ra-
cine Youth Fails to
Show Cause.
SOME DRINKS HERE
Testimony Given to COr0ner's
Jury Describes Drinks at
Local Clubhouse.

ence Anderson, 10, Racine youth, on
Saturday afternoon and then, after
another hour of elaboration, failed to
determine the manner and the means
by which the boy met his death.
No testimony was given to it, the
jury reported, to show exactly how
the boy was killed. The motorman of
the North Shore train that struck the
automobile in which Anderson had
been driving, when it was stalled at
the Berryville crossing, testified that
he was positive that his car did not
strike human body. He told of tele-
scoping the rear of the automobile
which had been driven on the tracks
at the Berryville crossing. The COM
panions, with which Anderson had
been riding, however, all testified that
they were sure that Anderson was not
in the car at the time, although none
of them saw the youth leave.
Drinks Spring Sensation.
The most sensational development
that brought new turn in the in
vestigation of the cause of the death
was brought out when Talferd Jude,
of Racine, driver of the fatal car, and
Claude Miller, Rodney Webb, Dan
Sullivan and John Smith, all of RAJ
cine, and all co-workers of Jude who
had come to Kenosha to bowl with o
Kenosha Evening News team, each
told of going to the Moose clubhouse
on Market street where each of them
had had three or four rounds of
drinks. On questioning by Assistant
District Attorney John Kennedy the
men testified that what they had had
was grape juice and beer, although one
of the men called it wine. All of them
swore that the liquid was not intoxi-
+ eating, and C. S. O'Hsnlon, manager
of the Moose clubhouse, told the jury
that the liquid was. pure grape juice
and that the beer was near-beer and
it was in no wise Intoxicating.
Describes Ride After Match.
Jude told the jury, and his testi-
mony was substantiated by the other
men who were riding with MIN in the
machine, that after the bowling match
in the Thomey alleys near the corner
of Rowland avenue and Elizabeth
street, the party went to the Moose
clubhouse. There they spent about
an hour in the buffet of the club, leav-
ing for home about 11:O5 o'clock.
From the clubhouse the party drove
north to the Lake Shore road to the
Birch road, thence west to N. How
land avenue road until they reached
the Berryville road. Jude turned east
on the Berryville road until he APP
preached the North Shore tracks, he
testified, and then he admitted mis-
taking the right-of-way of the rail-
road for the roadway and turned left
on the tracks until his rear wheels
were about six or eight feet off of the
highway, he said.
Jump Out to Flag Train.
AS soon as the car stopped some
one noticed the headlight of an ap-
preaching North Shore train and the
next word was "Get out and flag that
the car while Webb, Smith and Sui
livan left to flag the train. None of
the men remembers seeing Clarence
Anderson get out of the car, although
Miller insists that if Anderson had
train" Jude and Miller remained in
been sitting in the rear seat he GER
tainly would have noticed him. Jude
| worked frantically in his attempts to
get the car into reverse and get off
of the tracks, but failed. He stepped
out only a moment before the crash
came.
Chester Barrows, a farmer residing
near the scene Of the accident, testi-
fed that he rushed to the crossing
after he had heard the crash, and he
also said that he smelled liquor on
the breaths of some of the men in the
crowd that had gathered. He could
not say whether this odor came from
the men who had been riding in the
automobile or from men who had been
in the train.
Jude Is Taken Sick.
Robert Russell, Racine cab driver,
told the jury that he had taken the
party from the North Shore station
where they had been taken by the
same train that had crushed into
Jude's car. He noticed that Jude was
a sick man and that he vomited sew
an ice cream parlor where he got him
some headache powders but this failed
to help him. Jude was taken to the
home of Claude Miller and remained
there until three o'clock that morn
ing when he went home.
Clarence Anderson, in the mean
time, had died on his way to the hos
pital in Kenosha.
Several theories were advanced by
the coroner in his discussion of the
case. He offered the suggestion that
Anderson might have tainted in the
excitement and had fallen to the bot
tom of the automobile. The left door
in the coach was blown off adding
credence to this theory, indicating
that the youths body might have been
thrown out of the car in the impact,
taking the door with him. The body
was found about $50 feet north of the
crossing and about 20 feet south of
the spot where the automobile was
pushed.
It was six o'clock when the evidence
was completed and it was seven
o'clock when the jury was dismissed
"Clarence Anderson came to his
death of injuries received on the
night of Nov. %, 1925, at the Berry
vile crossing of the Chicago North
Shore and Milwaukee railroad by
what means and in what manner this
jury is unable to state" read the yer-
dict.
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