, 1879-05-22
CUSTOM-IIOUSE CASES.
A Day Devoted to Hearing Pruss'
ing's Witnesses.
How the Wotkmen Strengthened Up
When He Hove in Sight.
Ills UnrcIenting Severity and tho Fear
11ley Had Of Him.
They Played Baseball, Went Swimming,
Slept and Read Papers.

They Played Baseball, Went Swimming,
Slept and Read Papers.
The fourteenth day OF the Custotn.1Iouso
trial opened with
7l1r WITNESS MORAN
anan on the stanl+ III rcspnnte 10 Mr.. Lack.
ner's questions, he went over inur1, Of the
ground covered In Lis testimony The day before,
especially with regard 10 loafnr. The work.
nlcn were held responsible, said h., for the
slime they cut, u,,sI charged with wfint they
spoiled. The result Of th!s was to secnre a bet
ter qualtty OF work. md TINT, Of course. re-
ottrrd greater expenditure of time. rtisstg
tull witness to bc quicker nhout bis work wlch,
On Que occaBlon, be thought lc took too tauch
time. rrusslrg, In fact. dockcd him half-a-
days time. When Prusslns was arolhd, thu
ulcn never idltd; they respected him as an cfiI-
Client officer,
str. Campbell cross.e1amlucd, and witness
suIl he hrst heard ol Biz Square" in the fall
Of 1876. The elect VI casllng out tlnse magic
rorlB was instantaneous. MeQuecney had'
given tho sIgna several tfa,cs. Witness had
bcen told since the Indictment that Prusslng
wanted to sec lin. and he went and saw him,
aid talked ntl thcBe matters over. lie talked
with him again Inst Sunday. lie had never seen
rrusslng enter the shop through window. II
tho men had worked as hard al! the time rs they
did when 1'fussing was around, 1t would have
shortened up thu work about olIc-third. When
MrQuecney caught him that tiulu on state
street witness 4ad flushed tile stono OIL which
lie was d, work in lie tine allowed him, atd
Ind eone OF on Stale street to attend to aoEne
business.
On the redirect, wtness said he went 10 SEQ
prnsstng and tell hin, about these matters be-
cause ile believed tic Indictment was WI unjust
QUE. Witucss had dono some carving on the
job, hut nut the most sli!llcuit PORTIONS of It.
The carving. generally, vas quite as good Us any
he had oycs seen.
On the rccross, the witness said there was
ornamental work Oh the urne, bit. he coudu't
s0v what It was.
ANY animals, birds, Or anything on itl
uNo.n
"Well, what ara the urns likns''
'''sumtner s9nashca, of COURSE" put IN Mr..
Hoyne. amidst general laughter.
But The wltucss di1u't know ANYTHING about
that sort OF fruit, mud hence could not testify
that they constituted the chief glory OF the urs.
1Ir. Campbell tnnlty pumped IT. cut Of hin that
the work he Ind lonu on thu ,,rt,s WAS slmply to
cut aonlc grooves utwn tic sides.
JACOB sCltMInT.
another atonceutter, testified ycrv positively
tllGi thH work on thu new Courthouse wouldn't
compare In uullfty With that nu the ncw Gus
''13Ig Square," hut tl!r Men did fair tla!'s
work, ns a rule, except towprds The cud OF fhc
job u fhoso Jolly days he l,au seen tho men
strom vast 'round.'' Men we're sometimes Ills.
charged, or, IT. not, dockcl, md PrssnE hail
complained TO him that he was taking excessive
time. lIc had told Prussing all tliesc things
last 4unoay at the latter's 0{1cc, where illcrc
were LOT Of stoliccuttcrs-twenty or thirty Of
thenI-nnl tnWJers.
On cross examination, the witness also said
that IL the mon E,a worked hard ali l,e titne
as they did when rrtlsstnE was around they
would lavs shortened the Joh one,thxl. liz
had lcara Of the ''rclcf watch" hut 1t wasn't
IL hts shop. Tie stouecitters at Inst SuntlaY'e
naatlncu III fruss!l.g's oiEicc were Witnesses In
tile case+
MARTIN o'NKrLt,
another carver AMI 6toteeuttcr, gnvc the build
t!lG aiNl the stone.worls an extended pun, fol-
lowing NH! corruburnti,Ig the Witness LegE, who
was On tle stal,d Tuesday, tn th[s und In otl,rr
respects. 1lc. t"o, admitted on the cross that
the jnb could hRye been stlurtcpcd onc.th.rd II
thu men bad worsrd as lard oil tho ttnlo n they
did when pruestag casne on tllc ground.
Henry SpellfnEcr, corycr, who commenced
on the building away buck !n 1874 uni worked
up 10 1877, tedtousy testified to the same gun.
EDWARD nrLE,
smother s.onecutter, gave the cutting and cary
Ing ot, thu new building goud nal1.c, testified
To prussns's dock[ng hin Tor taking excessive
tune sn s sSays's sssss Il ut: % sR:Fs sSs3s & k9sSs Il
Trussing's abseure there VIVA q good
deal of' 1ossne.-amoktng down ut ttls
lake, etc.,-but, On thu eignal hcing given, Or On
Pruss!nG's approAcll being reported verbally BY
SOME QUO who went dawn to the snen neaE the
like, things stgaighttncd up very pruluptly.
Uuth Mct(uecney and a!ndelo knew lie pur-
port nf "gig Square,h and sung It. out orca.
wttuess, assd na!a It Ill hack, Alter hasrow!"g
money hc 1sever rcpurtcd witness. prussing
was sort Of . terror IL tl,e men,
WILLIAM lsussELL,
nnOther carver nntl ktonceutter, moro youthful
and ".botter heele.i than any Of the preceding
witnesses i'll thls butch, sHore tint thu carving
,wns superior to TINT on any building arnuud
llcrc. The carvers had to follow tic niotirs,
und were responsible Tor snoiainy stone, bcsl'les
ee!ag IN danger u 1e!nE pu. to cutting at -
took all ttN tine tllas was ",lccessnry." Bnt
I'LL The men did fair day'a work, except to-
wards the end Of tho job. pr4sstnE came around
very often, and "BIg Square" brtokenud llis
approach.
In the cross. witness sald he WAS now "yartl.
tnE" stock at the Stock -fRrds; had Eona nut
OF thu stone-cuttlng business 1ccauss he
couldn't nuke a iiVmc. "l3E. Stuaren was
necessary III Ills own Ease, md It i,al ns nuci,
etlect Oh him Us the OILERS. The staN1artl Bct
for cutting a certain class Ut st.,,,cs Was not
very htgh, tac iirst, or sample, stone bel,E cat
III EeNetnus tii.iu And tl'e oters following lint
lead. When thu men had tInp TO spase, which
happened through the convenient arrangement
OF this easy standard. they went down To .lr
!ake. Witness had seen some OF the nlcn help.
Ing others.
Arcd-faced man With u t,call frlngel with curly
red hair, tesLi!leu tl1pl Prusst,ls occasionally