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Show JURY BLAMES MAGNATES FOR WRECKJEATHS Disgraceful Scenes at In quest When Shonts, Belmont Bel-mont and Vanderbilt Are Held Culpable. LAWYERS ACCUSE CORONER OF BIAS Twelve Directors of Elevated Elevat-ed Road Must Answer in Court to Charge of Criminal Crim-inal Negligence By International Vewa Service, hEW ORK Jau 18 Theodore P bhonts, ugust Belmont Cornelius Vanderbilt and nine other directors of the Iuterborough Rapid Transit com paav aid General Manager Frank lied ley were found eullt) of culpable negli genee tedav b the jury at the inquest conducted bv Coroner 1 atnek Rlordan into the ele ate 1 wreck at One Hundred and sixteenth street and Eighth aveane on December S Culpable oetfl genu was defined bv Coroner Rlordan as criminal negll gence which under section 105J of the penal law constitutes manslaughter In the seeond Ugree. The d rectors named with ghosts Belmont and Vanderbilt as sharing the blame of the wreck were ilward J Berwind Thomas Dewitt Cuyler An drew Preadman Edward S. Marston Ho ace M. Fisher Charlea 1 Ludlow E. K Bacon W L. Peterman and F Pe C Sullivan Thomas ilcMahon and Alwyn H Bolfa, the metormaa and dneaer cd j the wrecked train, who were ongiaally held responsible for the two fatalities, resulting from the accident, were auto matieally discharged by the lordiet. Disgraceful Scene Tha InUrborourh officials were held fat the grand Jury under tSOOO ball each The coroner s charge waa followed by a scene characterized bv onlookers a so disgraceful aa to demand an iuveetlga tion b the higher cour a s the Jurv filed from the courtroom Mr Quackenbush. chief counsel tor the Interborough railroad shouted angrily You men of tl e jury the coroner hasn I given you the law Via jour own Judg nent. We are not going o have a row again said Coroner Rlordan, poinding for order Tou are going to have a row before tin get through answered Quackenbush who was by this time s ppor ed by Mar tin E. Burk and Michael Daly, his asso ctate counsel, who were talking at the same time The court was lu a tur 1 demand that the Jury be brought hack and instructed to d sregard the core ne s charge, demanded Mr Quacken bush. You have was ed two days and the public monev Coroner Reports Why should a court of competent Jur lsdlctlon use its power to malign the names of big men? shou ed Mr Bark. Why were not the fac a brought out In this case Tou had an opportunity to present your case replied Rlordan ou would not let me be heard re torted Quackenbush and that shows that you are unfit to occupy a judicial posl tion I never saw such a travesty on just oe. I is a disgrace to the people You know the rule of the coroners court was the coronet's a ewer that each side has the opportunity to exa nine the witnesses. Trie gent e nen who are now ra s ng such a high tin e d d not aval hemsel es of this common custom We do not object to the e dence tlat has been add ced here but we do object to your falsifying the evidence upon the record Interposed Mr Burk In the face of the record onta nln& the testimony of many witnesses show Ing that the elevated tracks and the ...1rJ tra nfl WArA nAf AOIliODed W th he proper lanterns s gnal swltchen etc the Interhoroush counse charged with dramatic emphasis he Inquiry had been he 1 o sat fy the prejud cea of a few nd vidua - That Is whv 1 am poln ng o out as a d Bgra e because you havo not acted a Judcal manner je ed Quacken bUThe onfuslon lasted for fully twenty minutes du ng wh ch the In erborough counsel a sed Coroner Rlordan of bu doi ng tactics and threatened that they wo d show him up before they got tl rough with him |