The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-04-25

sary surstiss were immsdiaksly enaerod
inton The man never was IN cus6odp a oln-
glo dnY Il WAS sent 30 he Qunxtex $50
sions, and che document issred " the Court
OF Quarter Sessions rsads thus: "Benjsminl
Ward, appellant and the Justices Of Wei
verhampton. respondents. Il Il ordered that
the conviction appealed against be quashsd
without costs All this goes 70 prove that
% such thing 90 mn aggravated assault took
place where Mr. Mault says there was one,
and that the man never went TO gaol at I'll;
be was simply tried, they committed him for
two months Tor Intimidation, and when the
case was properly and thorc1ighly gone into
the Judgment Wa quashed. Il viii be found
that Mr.. Mault was asked II he could pro-
duce report Of the trial. Mr.. Booth asks
him, "Havs you any printed report Of the
ne ct present" Sir Edmond Head saya
I'VE could obtain, suppose, an account OF
that conviction which you mentioned Pr
''Readily" d the reply. Do you know the
name OF the man and the date OF the con-
victioa.f'-'1 win ascertain that" IL the an.
sweF. Now, with all Difference to Mr. Mauls
| won a suggest that in reference to him and
me, nd anybody else, where important
statements are concerned, the Commits
sioners shonld test the value of these state
ments BY having the facts produced. We
are all liable TO make inaccurate statements;
my feelings might lead Ase, for instance, to
say many things which would be sorry for,
and-I do submit that the proper COURSE be-
fore basing . report on any statements Of
that kind is that ell those statements should
be verified. I have made particular in
quiries whether there was ever such case,
during the strike or after it. and | an
assured that what have mentioned il the
only case. There is another statement that
Mr.. Manlt makes, of which have perhaps
more reason to complain than Of all the rest
put together, because 1t concerns myself
and my own society, and that ia
! his statement IN reference to that
Cardiif outrage. Mr.. Mault is asked at Ques.
ton 4076 whether he knows anything Of this
outrage that took place at Cardiff, and he
states that, "When Mr.. Applegsrth, the
Secretary Of the Arualgamated Carpenters
Society, heard Of tits case, be went down
there, and, on the parl Of his union, cffered
an additional reward FOR the apprehension
and conviction Of the offenders, but alto
gether without any result" Now, the state
| Inent Of which | complain Is this ssThe
masters knew perfectly well that that was q
trade union outrage, and that this man suf-
fered simply and solely because he was
working in opposition, IS the men call it
and they know that the perpetrator of the
outrage is perfectly we'll known to a large
number Of the joiners Of Cardiff, because
they have been overheard expressing their
surprise that the man who actually COM
mitted il did commit it, because they thought
that the man was too quiet man to have
done it, which shows quite well that they
know who did it." Now, / say, thai the
least which Mr.. Mault could have done when
be knew that rewards were offered, and as
be might have inferred should have been
only too glad to do anything IN tue matter,
would Rave been to let the matter rest, or
not 10 have exceeded the facts Of the case
when naming it. Instead Of that, he states
in the first instance, "the masters knew per
fectly that that was a trade union outrage
Now | say, without fear Of contradiction, that
that is more than the master builders of Car.
diff viii say for thems elves, and there Is not
one of them will cone here ana say they
know it. The next statement is that large
number Of the joiners Of Cardiff know who
it IS. / say that the employers OF Cardiff
know nothing Of the kind. They did say
that they had heard from some individual
that there were six men with him az the
time, but then it is reasonable to suppose
that some Of those six men might not have
seen the man who did it, from the fact thai
the man himself did not know who had done
it. 1t was busy night, the militia were
out in the front street, and there was good
deal Of noise, as there generally is when the
militia is disbanded for the night Therefore
| say that Mr.. Mault has inferred unfairly
that large number Of the jOiners knew who
perpetIated the outrage.
TTo Be coEFIEggD.l