Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-01-17
GALLAGHER ON THE STAND.
10 Says lie Got Eighteen Powders OIL
the Defendant
wnrcu mE USED IN sorP
prepared for Non.union workmen
During the strike ut
Homestead.

PrrTsnuRo, Jan. l6.-When court
resumed In the afternoon Gallagher
again took the stand and stated all In
that he got eighteen powders from
Demp,ey. He used the powders In
soup, aud got some OF It himself. 1t
made him sick and gave him dlarrhea.
Continuing he said:
al cav Dempsey September 22nd,
and told him was sick, and ho told
me 10 lay oil few days md then 20
back. l said we could get a man In
Cincinnati 10 do the job In the mill.
Before went TO work again, two
cooks came from Cincinnati, Tony
Gilferl and William Coleman, anu
they went TO work Ia the mill. re-
ported to Dempsey that they were here,
and he said: Don't you bring them
near me; 1 don't want any one but
YOU. Beatty and Davidson know L nm
In this.' We all worked In No. u
cookhouse, ON the night turn. After
| went bnck TO work | got six more
POWDERS from Dempsey. used the
rowDDRs IN THE COFFEE
the night got II, October 18th or 9th,
1 could not swear which. William IL.
Griffith got part OF this coffee.
~ don't think i got any more pow.
dcrs from Dempsey after October 9th;
| left October 18th. saw Dempsey
again October Goth. | told him there
was detective In the mill. went TO
Dempsey ten days after that and asked
him about my money. 1 received
some money, but not directly from
Dempsey. October 18th l saw Demp.
aey and he pnid, sFour detectives have
been Watching me- all the morning.
Slip into the building and you will get
the money! | went in and the man
whom | would recognize said, Sign
these receipis.' did 40 anu he gave
me SIS. presented the bill to Demp-
sry about November 9th. Dempsey
marked 1. 20. X, Dempsey pre-
sonied the bill 10 Beatty and he said,
10 ~ with Dempsey, he can pay his
own bills.'
''wnen 1 first heard OF Beatty's
arrest wrote note TO Dempsey In
which said, Il see Beatty has been
arrested in Louisville. Send me some
money anu will get out OF town. In
answer to the message met Dempsey
on the same day Mt his Office on Third
avenue. Dempsey said to me: 'What
are you afraid Of? l am not afraid.
You attend to your own work, you
need not be afraid. II you are arrested
VIII get you n lawyer aud yet you
bail. II you have to 20 on the stand
swear you never knew me and | will
swear the same. II they ask yen about
the powders, say you don't know"
This finished Gallagher's direct cx-
animation. The cross examination
was conducted by Thos. NJ. Marshsll,
who used every method TO try TO con-
fuse the witness, but failed. The jusy
were irtently Interested In Gallaghei's
story, and that II made decided
Impression was manifest. Robert
Beatty was brought into court AMI
Identified by Gallagher. j. NJ. David
son, Gallagher's alleged accomplish,
was then called. He said:
last August, Beatty, Gallagher,and |
myself went to Knights Of Labor
ball on Third avenue, where we met
Dempsey. Dempsey said, well, |
9oye, We want some men TO 70 10 |
Homestead to break the strike Beatty
suggested croton oil. objected, and !
Dempsey didl too, saying no did not
want TO harm the men, only to make
lh.m sick. L made up my mind 1 |
would not have anything to do with II.
dempsey said there was money In 1t
i9r US, anu he would guarantee us
Beatty then continued and told the
,atne story IA was sworn 10 by Gala.
gher' lie said Dempsey paid him Sl2.
- ueorge w. Grail, n dispatcher OF the
rennsylvania Avenue line, testified
mat Dempsey left s25 with him for n
man who called and recelpted for II,
signing the name OF Gallagher. The
court then adjourned.