, 1879-05-18
Ct1SVOM-IiOUSE CASES.
More estimony by Some OF the
Stone.Cutters.
Patching as One Of the Fine Arts
. Complaints Useless.
The Case for the Prosecution H1n Be
Ended Monday,
When 9 Motion Will Be Made for the Dis
charge Of Potter and Hill;

When q Motion Will Be Made for the Dis
charge Of Potter and Hill;
And the Appearances Are that It Will
Prove Successful
The eleventh days proceedings in the trial OF
the Custom House cases opened with Patrick
McQueeney again On the stand.
The Court. referring to the testimony OF the
witness the previous day in regard to one-half
of the saving being OF no benefit to the Govern
unent, asked Mr. Boutell to have the witness
explain more fully what he meant
s.In what respect was this saving OF no bene-
ft?" asked Mr.. Boutell.
swell, owing to overthickness OF stock and
the stone being In &wiuds.' The stone was
sawed in excess oi depth sizes. In some stones
there we're four sawed faces where two would
have been sufficient"
The Court appeared to be satisfied with the
explanation
dM'ouEESpy's cRoss-ExAM1NAr1oH.
Mr.. Lackner, in cross-examinng, began back
at the food, comparatively speaking, and tried
to ind out all he could in regard to the way
McQueeney got here from Charlestown. = Z.
Tie fact that the Government paid his fare and
got him here seemed to be OF paramount 1npof-
tancc in the counsel's eyes. Finally the Witness
aftcr rchearsins the duties Of :hc timekeepers,
WAS asked to give the names OF the men he had
renorted. aud ne called off the names Of Thonp-
son, Richards, Hawlcy, Hollahan, Thetraw,
Shauchncs5y, Macheret, Aoncr1ef. Schneider,
and TYLER. Richards was discharged by Hoi-
man, hut witness found him taken back he re-
u0rted it to P7uss;ng, aud the latter said, GlVe
him chance, aud, il he turns out had,
let blu. go'' Richards was next discharged
". .prussing at Gindele's suggestion, and, soon
afterwards, the witness believed, he died. He
did not know Of Richards having been dis
charged ulid taken back FIVE times. Ihetrau
was discharged, at tie witness suggestion, by
prussing, for cutting too long on an arch stone.
Prussiny, br Mills, took him back again. law
ley. another idier, got pretty full Of liquor and
was discharged under Holman but re-emploEca
nndcr P1ussing. Witness had told PEussing OF
the reason for Hawley's discharge, and Prnsslns
hrl said the u,au might do better. and SO took hln
hack. He did do better. Hol1ahau, reported
for iiling by witness, was taken back In Week
When he got back, ne didn't idle SO much, but
was discharged afterwards for some ' big time -
IN mulIious. Witness reported Shau@hnessg
for wasting time on the double I course. 1he
others wcr- cutting an arch stone, and taklns
rood deal Of tine. Witness reported them TO
prussing, who talked to them. Some said they
rould do better, and we're kept Others salu
they couldn't, aud had: to go. As matter OF
rocr. however, the retained men did not do much
brtter. He reported this to Prusstng, but didn't
reco11e.t inst what be said. The reason n. qu1t
renortine men towards the end OF the work was
that he got tired OF reporting them to frussln'''
Of the rejected stone afterwards used IN tne
attic. some were rejected for color, ana otners
Tor being too thin. The rejected stones thus used
formed from 10 to Is per cent OF what was con-
+o;ne, in the attic- Some that were rejected
lad been designed for third story PIERS ,,,+ ,o+
1Don't ron know, as an actual TACT, rthat no1 no
q foot OF stone rejected for lmpcr1cc1lons III tne
material vas used in the attic.''
Tie stone In the corona course, he further
cta,cd. was scalcd.--the scales could be seen to-
day-but, since being put IN place. aho -. oe1ole hs
,raathcr. &c did hot understand that the men
~, tle r course went back to their work at the
estimated time Of tile timekeepers, but tla1
.i,er vere dealt with more generously than that.
he odm,ttcd that P1ussing had some Dad stone
reiectcd. The suspicious stones were markeo,
M one side, sstr.ed," and, Il they turned out
.p-a31 were used; otherwise, they we're rejected
Some Of the rejected stone could be USED ~
other parts Of the bq1lo'ns Wne1e tns3 "pua ora
nicsed better stone, however, than some that
vas-used In the attic
FURNISHING TESTIMONY.
McOueeneY's attention vas then called 10
Dan,ox,s testimony. He said be had met Rector
on the cas one evening, heard his story aud told
Nse!u ssThen a YOU helped the Government hunt up
no. can't SAY that did,
"Wheu die you meet hee;es"
He came to see me- one evening, and asked
me the facts In regard to the stone7ntt1ns.
..Did you send Cooper. Griffen, or DaYonst
II told him about Davoustn
'sYou were discharged by Mr. Burlng, weren't
your
And taken baekf'.
AIes1f -
= 1Under whom!"
s'Gen. Mcdowell"
s4On whose recommendation
sir. Tnomsou's.n
"Gct pretty good pay. don't yoa1'
stFair pay for fair days wages"
"Don't work very hard, do Soua'
"Oh, do q fair days work.''
tsHayeu't you been caught there doing nothing
but reading the ncwspapers!"
"No, sir"
Is Isn't it fact that you have told some OF
the men they needn't work so hard because they
were taken t2re ofr'
tsNo, sir." 1880
"aaven't you told unemployed stonecutters
II they wanted employment to go down to the
Government Building and testify3''
mo, sir"
The matter Of cutting the urns was then gone
into, the witness insisting that they were as bare
Of carving as his head. Prussing, be thought,
did not want them carved, but carving WAS
charged for all the same
"Big squarcn came IN for another show. and
the witness admitted TINT, in its secondary use,
It was d nickname for Pruss;ng, at whose
approach the mems mall-ts did perhaps swing q
little quicker. Tie first man vino cried e big
square" called loud CROUCH for all the men in
tile shop to hear It, Witness had never given
the signal 1imse11, or watched for Prussing' s
approach in order to give 1t. Nor did he inform
Prussng as to the significance OF ''big square, !"
because he thought Prussing understood it.
The latter generally approached from the north,
but sometimes came from other points OF the
compass. Witness didn't know that Prusslng
ever came on the men uuawares. II be did, he
might have found some Of the men idling, but
he wouldn't have found witness loafng.
Mr.. Lackner asked THE witness If he had eyer
ropuourrn MONEY! PROM SOME or TIE MEN.