The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14

stopped at the side of. the road, and saw the trolley car grind It's wheels over the body of the man struck by his. automobile. He failed to account for this fact other than to say that when he saw the trolley car coming toward the mans prostrate body, 1t was too late for him to do anything about 1t.
 Jumped From Truck M
 Important in the case Is Evan cho's claim that Sweeney must have jumped from a truck which he was passing at the time, dia rectly into the path of his auto. Evancho, employed at a Naugatuck rubber company. was on his way to night school in Waterbury when the fatal accident took place. Sub- stimulation of the youths claim that Sweeney jumped from the truck would offer a strong defense against a coroner's claim of reck- less driving, but would not aid in freeing him from 9 possible charge of evading responsibility in making no attempt to remove Sweeney from the path of the ohcomiIig trolley car.
 Evancho told his story this morning to State Trooper Thomas Layden and "a Democrat reporter. He has also been questioned by Coroner Monzani, Captain Frank Cutting, and Detective Sergeant Henry Johnson, all of whom work ed on the case last night. as did Trooper Layden, who was passing by the South Main street scene a few minutes after the fatality.
 Cooley Reports First
 First news police had of the ac- cident came from George Cooley of Torrington, a bus-driver, who call- ed headquarters to tell of a mans body lying on the trolley tracks on lower South Main street. Struck by Evancho's car, Sweeney's body was hurled on to the tracks. Foley, the trolley operator, saw what he thought was a bundle of rags on the tracks. When he finally saw that it was a mans body, it was too late to stop the car. The blow from the trolley car severed Sweeney's head from his body and almost severed one arm.
 One of Sweeney's shoes was found along the track, torn from his foot by the trolley, while a stocking was found short dis tance further away by Trooper Layden, who also located the door handle of the automobile and the glass fragments from the shattered headlight.
 There was blood along the trolley tracks where the body was struck, but 1t cannot be determined wheth- CT the blood was from wounds caused when struck by the trolley or if the man was bleeding from the result of the automobile-cau injuries as he lay on the Connecti- cut Co. tracks.
 Evancho came to this country only five years ago from Central Europe. Tn cell at police head quarters this morning he told the following story of the accident:
 Tells His Story
 Tt was about half-past six, and I had left Naugatuck to come to night school in Waterbury. I was driving along near the place where it happened when saw big truck in front of me, swung my car out to pass 1t, and just then saw the man in front of my car"
 q don't know yet where he camc from, unless maybe he jump ed from the truck. Anyway. the car hit him and knocked him over to the tracks. stopped the car at the other side of the road. and I was all excited and din't know what to do. Then I saw the trol- ley car coming along and knew it would hit him as he was lying there on the tracks. but thought 1t was too late for me to do any thing about it."
 Trolley Hits Him
 "The trolley car hit him. |