Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-21
A STRIKERS DEFENSE
he Claims Not to Have Taken Part
in the Attack on the Barges.
ANOTHER POLITICAL DEAL IN KANSlS
Annexation of Hawaii Again Dis
cussed.
srnrKrh cnrrcurow.s DEFENSE.
It L. Claimed That HI~ Gun Was Not ffr-d
Daring the Riot NJ Homestead.

It 10 Claimed That uIs Gun Wa. Not Ffr~d
Daring the Riot st Homestead.
PIrrsPURa. PA. Nov. 2l.-John Malley wss
the FIRST witness called in the Critchlow case
this morning. There WAS large crowd present
IN anticipation that the defense would open.
"nid YOU see the defendant on July g." he
remarked
Yes, sir. | saw him standing At the pump
house NJ am. and after the surrender. lie
was then coming IN the barges. AZ am. he
had gun In he hands and also in the evening"
on cross-eNamination he said he the
employ ot the iiukertous. When he say
Critchlow the witness was standing in the how
OF The boat There were four ive men with
Cri;chlow
Maj. Montooth conducted the cross-examina-
tion. and put questions very rapidly 20 the Wit
ness and succeeded in getting him 10 admit
that about all be knew about the case he had
been told
number Of photographs we're then offered
in evidence and also the bullets dug out Of the
barges by Capt Cooper and the commonwealth
rested.
Mr.. W. J. Brennan said the attorneys for the
defense desired 20 go into consultation. Tbs
was agreed 10 and the defendants counsel
tired. and, after consultation. returned. and
Geo. W. Argo. esq. Of Sioux City opened for
the defense and said
TO me is assigned the important duty q
opening the defense in this most extraordinary
case. ought 10 explain the presence of Mr.
Erwin and myself here. We were sent here by
the laboring men Of the northwest TO aid a. far
as We can this de:endsuL"
Mr.. Argo then told the story of the sending
of the Pinkertons TO Homestead. and continued:
we say this was an invasion by foreign.
armed force; an assault on the county, an
sarlt on the commonwealth. an assault on
the soi. and an assault ON you and all tho
people Of this county and state Tins armed
body of "A no Invalid fl.fa a.. -
employed laborcrs, they were men
who could not have been made deputy
sherifis: they were emissaries for Whist
purpose? When they reached Homestead they
made an attack on the people Of this county and
state. SO FAR a. has been shown they not
there TO protect prooerty: no evidence TO show
what they were doing there.
They were met by tine good citizens OF Home
stead. and whom they attempted to land they
were met with resistance
We saw all persons on the banks Of the
river when this armed body attempted
to land had right there; that each had
right 10 defend himself and others
present: that all had a right 90 use deadly
weapons when attacked by such weapons
these people on shore were attacked; thew had
right 10 defend themselves and each other;
that Critchlow had nothing TO do with the death
of Connors.
The evidence. far a. Critchlow is con-
cerned, will be that about $50 am. July 6 he
W
went to Brsddock and remained there till noon
and returned home; that he was not at the
mill, not present during the trouble.
but that II another Critchlov,
not the defendant, whom they sag
behind the breastworks: he did not fire q gun
from behind such breastworks: did not 90 on
the barge. as has been testified TO. That he
passed along by the Office on the morning Of
July and thst he had gun is true but he did
not use il. He had ammunition. We ex-
pect TO prove by witness that the shot which
killed Connors came from the Braddock side"
Mr.. Erwin then addressed the jury. He said
in part:
The theory Of the prosecution il that there
was riot That Is doubly damned fiction
IL there riot Critchlow on one side %
guilty and these on the other side are equally
guilty. This is fictitious attempt TO
shut out the truth from the jury. They
wish to hide the cowardly. tyrannical
and INSCRIPTIONS condnct of Carnegie ana
Frick, and they expect this court 10 act Pom
titus Pilate. Never since the days of Herod has
there been such a hard-hearted. cold-blooded
man as this man Frick. Ii il the most dis
graceful thing 10 note that while this yeoman.
this skilled worker. is here ON trial for
murder this man Frick, who caused all tho
trouble. is hobnobbing with the heads Of the
government This man Frick. this brutal
tvrant. dared to commit treason by bringing
into the borders Of this state armed body Of
men FOR his own private purposes"
The court then adjourned for dinner