People v. Williams

The defendants seek to remove the trial of two actions now pending against them upon indictments found in Kings county to some county outside of the city of New York. The indictments' grow out of an accident upon the Brighton Beach Line of the New York Consolidated Railroad Company, on the 1st *67day of November, 1918. At that time about 90 persons were killed and about 200 persons maimed and otherwise injured. The indictments are substantially the same in language. Each contains two counts. The first count in each indictment charges the defendants with the crime of manslaughter in the first…