Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-09-20
THE DEDS TRIAL.
Thirteen Witnesses Testify Re-
garding Violence.
TELEGRAPH BOYS ON The STAND.
The General Managers' Association Scored
Judge Woods Replied That He
Would Lay Justice Harlans
Declslon Before II.

Oocl1lOu neIOr0 IL
CHICAGO, Sept. l2.-In the Debs case
yesterday the first witness called was
General Superintendent Dunlap, Of the
Rock Island railroad. Mr.. Dunlap
gave an exhaustive history Of the strike
ss It affected his road. He said that
many mail trains were stopped, the
men being intimidated. lie said that
many members Of the mob wore white
ribbons. He recognized some Of
the rioters as exemployes Of
the Rock Island. Mr.. Dunlap
said that he had had much
experience in railroad strikes, and
never knew Of strike which did not
result In trouble and violence.
Throughout the day the attorneys for
the defense continued to object to the
evidence introduced by the govern
ment, and for some unknown reason
Judge Wood sustained them much
oftener than he did during the earlier
davs of the trial In all thirteen wit.
nesses testified for the government
during the day, most Of the evidence
adduced dealing with the scenes Of
violence in and about the citv during
the strike.
Toward the close Of the afternoon
the counsel for the government cot
down to the actual worl, of connecting
Mr.. Debs and his associates with the
lawlessness bv introducing the tele.
graph messenger bovs who delivered
various teleorams nreviouslv mt in
evidence at the offices of the American
Railway union. Tn all Init three
cases the messages were either signed
by the doorkeeper or Mr. penedict the
typewriter. In three cases one Of the
messenger bows said he Ind delivered
kilograms to Mr. Debs personally and
he had receipted for them The de-.
livery sheet was mot in evidence how.
ever. and II will be nresented this
morning.
in Scales general snnerintendent
of the Mobile & Ohio railroad another
witness identified the teleoranbic cor.
respondence which he had with Debs
regarding the raising of tbe bovcott on
h;s road Va bod ,,;rod nabs In ,ha
first place. telling him that the Mobile
& Ohio road ran Pullman ears and re-
ouesting him to do what Law in his
power to prevent the strike. The next
telegraph bore the name of Debs and
asked If the Mobile g. Ohio, road he.
lonped to the General Managers, asso.
citation. Upon Mr.. Scales assurance
by wire that It did NOT telegram
was sent asking Mr.. Scales TO call
on DIVER, the local representative Of
the American Railway union and make
arrangements with him regarding tbe
calling off Of the strike This Mr.
Scales testified that he did, and read
the agreement which he had with
pwyer. The kilograms were all placed
In evidence. One Of the attornevs for
the government said that II the telc.
grams could be positiyely traced to
Debs in this case his directing hand in
the strike would be positively estab-
lished,
The feature Of the davis proceedings
was discussion brought about bv At- |
torney Gregory in which he scored the
General Managers association He
said: "We can pet the witnesses to
testify and the court will admit tbe
evidence Itb;,L Tho. wo o,r chow
that this General Managers associa- |
tion was preparing to reduce the waoes
of the EMPLOYEES on the roads which its
members represented. They were
seeking 10 do this by a combination
against labor and this was the real
cause of the strike. From one
end of this country to the other we
have heard people denouncing this
SYMPATHETIC strike Yet Judoe Cooley
in his address to the American Bar as.
sociation saws that no board of arbitra.
tion-and | add that no iniunction-
can compel men to work IL thew do not
want to- Now these emploves had a