The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-20

ron of the Jail, are also mentioned.
said, although she did not know
in what direction or how many
times.
Arthur Neuschwander tore open
the top and helped her out, she
said, then she went to Wallace
whom Vern, ''drug over to the
shoulder"
She sustained cuts on the fore
head, chin and cheek, a sprained
ankle, bruised leg and knee, she
testified.
She was in the hospital for two
and one half weeks and couldn't
walk without pain for three
weeks.
Husbands Health Impaired
Her husbands health was good
before the accident, she said, but
since it he is not as strong as be-
fore, is nervous and irritable.
She said that two weeks ago he
went to his brother laws and
tried to drive a tractor for a week
and two days. T
Asked on cross-examination if
Wallace hadn't hauled straw for
j. A. Storts, iceman, since the ac-
cident she said she had forgot
that.
DR.. T. E. Finn who treated the
injured persons at the hospital
here after the mishap said, 81 saw
no signs of drinking. I did not
smell liquor"
He said thateCarruth had been
sent to University hospital with a
head injury few days after the
accident and that he has dressed
a draining head wound off and on
ever since.
Another Operation Needed.
There is still discharge from
a trepine hole on the left side. of
Carruth's head, he said.
"He is not in shape to work." he
testified, ''When he bends down,
rides or has a jar he feels a pain
lin the head. The pain is sufficient
to Keep him from doing hard
work" the doctor opined...ss.s..,
4 He should have another opera
ton, the doctor said, to remove a
piece of bone or bit of foreign
matter which is causing the drain
age.
DR.. Finn was followed on the
stand by DIR. Wallace Richie of
st. Paul who performed the head
operation June %. t.l
He said that after opening the
skull at three places they found a
blood clot near the brain and re-
moved it.
Using human skull to illus
trate, he gave a simple and mast
erly description of the operation.
He concurred with DR.. Finn! in
the opinion that Carruth should
undergo another operation.
Gertrude Gum, University hos
pital librarian, testified Carruth
was admitted there June 20, 1889
and discharged July 2.
Carruth was then called to the
stand.
His direct testimony on the oc-
currenceS up to the time of the
accident closely paralleled that
given by Mrs. Carruth.
On cross-examination he adj
mitted he had lost his drivers Ii
cense in a conviction for drunken
driving May 80, 1888.
Vernon Schaefer testified he
had seen the car 200 feet before
he struck it and that he was
travelling As miles an hour at the
time, but put on his brakes.
Confronted with the official &C
cident report which he had sent
to the state highway department,
he admitted he had written As
miles an hour as his speed both
before and at the time of the iac-
cident. "
He said he must have skipped
filling in spaces which would have
indicated that the Neuschwander
car was illegally parked or with
out lights.
He said the Neuschwander ma
chine was across the center line.
Ella Mahoney, night nurse at
Redwood Falls hospital, bolstered
the plaintiffs testimony in re-
gard to sobriety. ''To my know
ledge they had not been drink
ing" she said, adding that she had
not smelled liquor on any of
them.
w. E. Daily, policeman at the
Morton dance which all the prin-
cipals in the case attended the
night of the mishap, said he con-
sidered Mr.. and Mrs. Carruth and
Schaefer sober. They walked and
talked normally, he testified.
In the course of cross examin-
alton King asked him, $50 people
who attend dances at Morton
don't drink"
mo sir, I wouldn't say that, :"
said Daby.
l.. D. Ward, highway patrolman
here who visited the scene of the
accident shortly after it occurred
and later talked to the plaintiffs
and Schaefer at Redwood Falls
hospital, testified that. Mr.. and
Mrs. Carruth told him all three
had been drinking heavily that
night and that Mrs. Carruth made
Statement to him that Schaefer
had been cautioned three times
to slow down on the trip home.
He carried Mrs. CaSruth to the
x-ray room in the hospital. he