| Show BERNSTROM CASE AIRED IN COURT Witnesses Testify Machine Going 20 Miles an Hour Struck Rock Preliminary h hearing of or charges of oC involuntary in- in vol voluntary un tar manslaughter r a against J J. J V. V Jernstrom Bernstrom In connection with th the tue death cath of ot Mrs Irs Ethel Ma May Lawless Sept Sep- Sep t omber IS 18 when an nn automobile driven n nb b by y crashed Into a l pole at Se South and the toc Holliday road oad may mar be this afternoon It t opened terCa tor forenoon noon lH before toro Justice L. L It R c Jr Toward tho the close of ot the afternoon session yesterday Mrs Irs Alma Bernstrom wife of ot th the accused man took the stand for tor or the defense She testified that after arter artera a late luncheon at the Bernstrom home at which anI only three small bottles of or beer were consumed she sho and her husband hus- hus band and Mrs 1 Lawless Fred Wells and Teddy eddy Abrahamson boarded her hug bus band and s automobile and drove e In the tho dh of or Murray She said that Mrs Irs Lawless and Abrahamson were seated on the hood of or the machine when the accident nt took place She Site testified that the he machine was not being driven rapidly and that the accident came when a front tire tiro burst after striking a big stono stone left In the roadway Fred Wells testified during the forenoon forenoon forenoon fore fore- noon for the state that the machine was wag not traveling more moro than twenty miles an hour when the accident took place Julius Milliken a blacksmith who lives near the scene of at the accident acci ned dent testified that a grader had been at work on the road the tho day before the thc accident and that man many loose stones had 1 been left in the roadway a At dawn f the tho accident ho he observed a n rock In n the road road which It was apparent that the he tire of the automobile had struck He added that the thc tracks track showed showe that after tho the tiro rull fully Inflated to have hae struck th the rock roel tho the track one of the ho fore wheels or orthe of the tho machine 1 Indicated De beyond ond doubt that It was run aun running fling ning on the rim rimS the rim track continuing continuing con con- to a telegraph pole which stopped the m machine Harry Harn Smith machinist at nt tho the police headquarters garage Harry Wilcox a chauffeur and Sanford W V. Hedges Helges count county chauffeur testified pertaining to the tho effect of or the bursting of or a n tire on an nn automobile gorner P t twenty miles an hour Dr C C. C C C. C Snyder county count physician W was s alo also a a. Abraham Abrahamson on who received a compound compound compound com com- pound fracture of oC the skull when the machine struck k the tho pole IH Is still tilI In a critical con condition at the County Count hos hos- pi pital tal hO 1 |
