The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17
Adrian Wolff
 Trial Started
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fusion was made but that death oc- cured within four hours after his
 admission to the hospital.
 Patrolman Joseph Petit, brother officer of Patrolman McNally, both doing motor patrol duty that night, and Dufresne, gave details of the collision. Dufresne said he was pro- ceeding easterly on East Main street, following an East Main street bound trolley and two other autos. The trolley suddenly stopped and Dufres- ne's car collided with the car ahead of him.
 He said he attempted to start his car but found the starter would not work. He said Officers McNally and
 Petit came on the scene and took charge.
 Officer Petit did traffic duty from behind Dufresne's car while Officer
 McNally took the information from Dufresne concerning his accident. Officer McNally ordered Dufresne to get his car out of the way and Du-
 fresne explained the machine would not start.
 Dufresne said Officer McNally
 called Officer Petit and decided to
 push the car to the curb. Dufresne
 said he took a position near the
 driving wheel, Officer McNally near
 the right rear mudguard and Officer
 Petit in the left center in the rear
 of the car. They started to push the
 car when there was terrific crash.
 Dufresne testified.
 Dufresne said he heard Officer
 McNally cry, "Oh, My God, I'm hit!" Running around to the rear he said he saw Officer McNally on the
 ground. Officer Petit picked him up and carried him to the side of the
 road and later put him in machine
 and hurried him to the hospital. Officer Petit corroborated Dufres-
 ne's testimony and added that just
 before he and Patrolman McNally began to push the car, they both Place, or westerly direction to make
 He said he did not have the tail light obscured on Dufresne's car, by hls position.
 Officer Petit continued, We had just turned around and started to push the car when crash!-I saw Matt in a sort of sitting posture and crying out in pain. picked him up by the shoulders and carried him to the side of the road and later put
 him in another car to take him to the hospital"
 On questioning by Assistant States Attorney William B. Fitzgerald. who is trying the case for the state, Of- ficer Petit said he could not re-
 member whether the lights on
 Wolff's machine were lighted. He
 said that only d minute could have
 elapsed between the time they
 looked around and the time of the impact.
 He admitted that his police coat was torn by the Wolff machine as
 1t came in contact with the Du- | fresne car.
 Dufresne on cross examination
 conducted by Attorney Terence F. Carmody, Wolff's counsel. denied he
 was drunk the night of the mishap.
 He admitted having one bottle of
 beer but denied he stated at the hospital that if he were not drunk.
 Officer McNally would not have
 been injured.
 Other witnesses testifying this this morning were William E. Key
 holds, surveyor, who furnished a map of the scene of the accident, k. I Sidney Bronson, photographer. who | took pictures of the scene and Capt i William r. keegan, head of the de- tective bureau who said he exam ined the Wolff machine and found the front fender pushed back on to
 the right front wheel.