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Show TESTIMONY IN DAMAGE CASE In Judge N. J. Harris' division of the district court this morning the t-rlal of tho Lochhead vs. Jensen damage dam-age case was resumed, this being the third day of the trial. Most of the first day was taken up In securing a Jury and much time was exhausted in taking the testimony of Manager Sanderson San-derson of the Hemenway & Moser Cigar Ci-gar company, who was in the auto mobile when H turned turtle on the Pleasant View turnpike. Mrs. Violet Fife, a resident of Pleasant View, testified to giving aid to the Injured and related the sad story of administering to Mr. Lochhead, Loch-head, in whom there was barely a spark of life when he was taken from under thc automobile. She did not cee tho accident and knew nothing of the facts connected with the affair. af-fair. J. M. Bailey and H. J. Craven testified tes-tified to the -general contour of the turnpike, and explained the rough condition con-dition of the road at the time of the accident. At the point of the accident, acci-dent, the road was quite uneven on the south sido end there was a small gutter at the outer edge of the road grade into which the machine ran. Besslo Cragan and Clara Parker were called to the witness stand this morning and stated that they drove a horse and buggj from Pleasant View to the North Ogden btore the afternoon of the accident, meeting an automobile automo-bile on the way. Neither of tho girls could Identify the car, but they stated stat-ed that they saw none other than tho one ditched nqar Colfax ' Lane that afternoon. They met a large automobile au-tomobile containing three men near the point of the accident going at a orrlflc rate of speed and zig-zagglng on the turnpike. The young ladles stated that they turned their horse from tle pike to give the automobile full sway. Jt required about an hour for them to drive to the North Ogden store and back to tho place where they saw the machine travollng toward the Hot Springs. The machine wrecked In the roadway was similar, In their judgment, to the one they saw traveling travel-ing rapidly.. Miss Cragun stated that she had seen many autos driven on tho Pleasant View turnpike, some at a rapid rate of speed, but that the machlno she and Miss Parker saw September 0. 1910, was golng faster than any she had seen before. Mrs J. M. Bailey of Pleasant View testified that she saw n machine pass hor place one September afternoon and shortly after learned that an accident ac-cident had" occurred near tho Colfax Lnne. Tho automobile she saw was running rapidly, she said, but she did not know to whom It belonged. She was sitting on the front porch of her homo and saw the machine as it sped along tho highway, getting an occasional glimpse of It between the tall poplar trees. oo |
