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Show II ROSENTHAL'S HEARING OPENS Husband of Dead Woman Testifies Regarding Accident Details Indicating the exceptional Interest being tuknn lv the ..ul.l:. in the pre-I pre-I miinary hearing of Harry J. Ron-thal, Ron-thal, charged with involuntary manslaughter, man-slaughter, tho oily court this morning was crowded with spectators. Among them was Earl Plngrce, brother of Frank Plngree, who was exonerated I recently by n coroner'i jury after his rtutorr, oollr had struck -nd killed 151- HH Riiscnthal sat with llll attorney. H liarles Holl ingw. rt h. and apcared H to be Intensely interested in I lie pro ceedings. George Tolrme was the fir? i wltno-s called Tie testified that With Mr?. Mary ToTml; his wife., h w is struck by 'ti automohih" driven l.v Konnthal fin the evening " April G at the infi f section of Twrnt -fifth Btrect ind Monroe avenue n n I who died shortly afterwards, ho was on his way to STEJ's FROM C'.VR H He stated that he and Mrs. Tolmle j mmWml hail alighted from street car at the street intersection ami aftci wait ing for the car to move on h.i.l stor ed north along the west cross-walk H- of Monroe; that he had taken but a few steps off the slngl- street car 1 track when the automobile approach - WmWm Ing at an angle struck Mrs. Tolmle H beforo he could pull her back out of the way. Cross-examined by Attorney Hol-lingsworth Hol-lingsworth he stated emphatically that mmWm he was on the east side .f Mrs. Tolmic H and that the car was approaching AWmWu from an angle, that he had thrown his AWmWJ body back the tlmehat h H tried to pull Mrs. Tolmle out of the F way, that the automobile uponjer In an Instant and that the impact carried car-ried her body about 60 feet down the street before it fell to the li ti n i,. XO WAKVlM. H He said that the automobile had' 1 lights burning dimly at tin time of the H accident, and that no signal d or Its apprexoh Dr. Roy Wilson wat tin ness called and he testified o I 1 physical condition of the body and H that In his opinion death was due to the fractureil skull H Ml Norma Qrace Taylor school H teacher, employed ut the South Wash ington school, testlfli i u alighted from the same car with Mrs. IM. R. TWjodward. she alighting first, Mrs Woodward second, Mr. T.dmie next and then Mrs. Tolmle; that he and Mrs. "VVoodu .,i ,1 and the Tolmles stood waiting until he street car had moved cast alonK Twi ntyTfll h -.(. I that when she fir.--, alighted -I., an a-utomoblle with lights east the street car and on the north aide of Twenty-fifth street aproaching; and that when she next saw .. it was upon Mrs. Tolmle. who wah Imntpdlfl : aJiond or her walking with .Mi Tol nlc north on the west cross-walk of Won roo avenue CARRIES BODY ALOXG She testified that the automobile after af-ter striking Mrs. Tolmle carried the body down west of the Uttle store across from the high school building, where it fell to the car tracks She testified tes-tified that no signal had I.e. n given j at the approach of the automobile. t n cross'-rixainlnaclon she remem-l bored that when she first alighted from the s;ree ear u man w:ls jstand-i Ing on the cross walk waiting for he passenger, to get off aft-., which he got on. She did not know him and i paid no attention to him. she said. Questioned as to distances in feet she said that whenever dlstan.es were greater than a few feet she was unable tc. lorn, a lUdgmeiil as J, H.m ric.-s and she reiterated that statement, refusing re-fusing to be pinned down to distances in feet by Attorney Hollliigsworth, At ii iclusion of her testimony i court was adjourned until 1 p. m lit |