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Show WITNESSES IN WRECK CASE The rlistrbi court and a Jury are occupied again today In hearing" tlo-oat: tlo-oat: ef Mary Jeppeson against the Oregon Short Line company with no prospects of concluding the same before" be-fore" tomorrow. In her testimony In the case, Mar garet Hall stated that she lives near I the scene of the accident and that ou February S she heard the crash of a locomotive car and the motor car as they came together. She rushed to I the scene of the accident and offered her torxiecs to the injured. Miss Jeppeson. she said, was apparently life Icsh arid she gathered snow from the ground and bathed Iht face with it. Mrs. Hall stated also that she returned re-turned to her home and got the camphor cam-phor bottle and administered cam-phor cam-phor to Mis? Jeppeson. She neenm-panb-d the woman to the depot and remained by her side until she wn removed to the hospital. It was the opinion of the witness that Miss Jeppeson Jep-peson wns vlrtuolly unconscious all the time she was at the depot, and that hhe was badly injured. She said the lady was bruised about the face and arms and In m . an,j that she tuf-fered tuf-fered a '-ood deal of pain. Mrs Mary Ilaxter, who also lives m ar the jd.ice where the accident occurred, oc-curred, tcstilied to practically the same facts that Mrs. Hall testified to. she baxlng accompanied Mrs. Hall on her mission of aiding the Injured. She ncrood -with Mrs. 1 J ;l1 that a man xvith a pencil and paper appealed on the scene at the depot and asked Miss Jeppeson Questions regarding the accident, ac-cident, and I hat the Injured lady made replies, or attempted to, to the questions ques-tions propounded, but she said she did hear what the woman said. She did net knoxv whether Mbs Jeppeson told her age, where she was hurt, where t-ho llxcd or where she xxas going, Mrs. Baxter and Mrs. Hall also al-so visited Iho plaintiff at the hospital and tiny tald the woman was vcrv 111 there. Fdw.ird 15. Hanson stated on the witness stand that be xvas In the j motor car at the time of the accident und that be saw the plaintiff thrown xlidently against the back of a car seat. She fainted and a man. un-I un-I nown to him. raiHe.i ber bead and aided the ladles xxbo came to the rescue In resuscitating her. He could not say whether she struck her lo-ad againnt the seat or xxhether her chest struck it. He saw her after the Injured In-jured people w ere taken to I he depot and her condition bad not improved, as far as he could tell. This att rnoon Drs. Condon and Coulter were placed upon the witness stand to te.-.llly. They stated that Miss Jeppeson It suffering a form of parulxsls that nirht have been sns-tjlned sns-tjlned through injuries smii as f.be received in the accident of February S. The plaintiff likely will be through with her side of the case this afternoon after-noon and the defense xlll betin the Introduction of evidence In support of lis theory. |
