Evening journal., 1894-06-05
THE LINES OF DEFENSE.
Being Constructed BY Lawyers
for the Company.
FRED. SCHILLER LET DOWN AT LAST


Boys Climbed Up 20 the striDGers TO
Replace Them-schiIer Pat His Word
Against Six or Eight witnesses.
Alfred B. Marks was continued to
testify in the Chieliusky case i'm
msdistely after the Superior Court con-
vened yesterday afternoon. He said he
was often in the nu room and never saw
belt of Mr.. Spruance wanted to show
by the witness that the company paid the
boys doctor bill and continued his wages
while he was sick. Mr. Bird objected.
but after Mr.. Spruance had been over.
ruled a number of times and noted ex-
ceptions, he succeeded in introducing
the matter and got the reply from Marks
the statement that Chielinsky was paid
full wages until May. 1898 This opened
the door for Mr.. Bird and he practically
showed by the witness that an insurance
company was back Of the Hopes and
Townsend Company, and that the latter
company did not have to pay the boys
doctor bill.
General Foreman Frederick Schiller
testified that he did not see the belts
come of very often. and the main shaft
belts never came off except when they
we're slack and needed tightening, which
was very seldom. He told the boys TO
get William Barrett or Wilson to put on
all belts which came off He was on the
stand when court adjourned.
This morning Schiller reiterated what
he stated yesterday afternoon, He had
never seen q line shaft belt off unless it
had slackened or needed renewing. From
November TO December 1882. the time
faIf Iru cal.
nut room, he had never seen a line
shaft belt of either for
tightening or renewing il He said Il
was impossible for the line belt to have
come oil eight or nine times between the
times mentioned, or from December s to
| December 13 He denied seeing Apple
gate up on the stringers on any day be
tween November s aud December ..
Mr Spruanoe then took up the plot Of
the works and witness showed that 10
was impossible for a number of Mr.
Birds witnesses to see into the nut room
from the places where they worked
Only the men from the cutting machines
had business in the nut room and they
we're only there to look at defective
/ threads.
Mr.. 5ird-'Areyou German by.birthl"
mo, sir.
you are an Eoglishmsn, aren't your
II guess 50.
Don't you know sou
eyes, l guess I do"
How long have you been in Hopes
and Townsend's employY
Eight or nine years"
Wasn't it your duty TO see that the
machinery wds in proper order and safer
eyes, sir.
Suppose you didn't attend to your
duty, what would the firm have done
with your
discharged me, guess.
you know the witnesses who have
testified
yes, sir.
Would you put your Judgment against
theirs as TO the belts coming off re.
peatedlyT
Mr.. spruance objected, saying that
Mr.. Bird had made an argument in his
question and it was improper.
Before the court could rule on the
question Mr.. Bird withdrew It and asked
schiller II the statement of each witness
were true as 10 the main line belt com
ing of Schiller denied the statement OF
each in turn, confuing his denials to the
time that Chielinsky worked there. He
said they had all testified to what was
not true. He had never seen boy up in
the stringers only when Chielinsky was
hurt.
Mr.. Brd-"Dld you ever see main
belt ofig'
"You are confning me TO the time the
boy worked there.
Mr.. Bird-'No, 1 am speaking from
the beginning OF the world. Have you
i an In l..
shifterg'
mo, never knew it, but it could be
done
Schiller denied that John Applegat,
would have an opportunity TO 20 about
the snop. He denied that he ever pul
Applegate to work the small cutter
From any of the machines Applegate
worked he could not see into the nuttinl
rooms He contradicted Oscar Guildi
statement that sometimes he woulC
be out of work an hour or two a day fol
a week at a time. He believed William
Applegate's statement that he wal
frequently in the nutting room, to be in
correct. because he had no business there
Mr.. Bird-"If the belts never came Of
why did you answer Mr.. Sprusnce thaf
you instructed the boys what to do wheI
j they did come OFF,
a Mr.. Spruancs-'I object. 1t is hypo
d thetical question which is not true.
; Mr. Bird changed the form Of his ques-
d tion and got his answer.
Il Schiller said that short fingers an,
false threads would not throw of tn
n main line belt, but that the latter woult
P throw off the belt from the machine d
= the counter shaft
He said that when he put Chielinsk,
to work on the machine he told him no
to have anything TO do with the belts
It was II SO o clock when Schiller left tn
. stand.
John Ginther, young white man, fol
lowed Schiller He testified that b.
worked at a machine near window com
= = manding view OF the interior Of tn
nut room. He had never seen the boy
: putting the belts on He had only see
. the belt fxer adjusting them
Edward Fahey gave similar testimon
as to the custom of fixing belts, and a
to the smHll number Of times they cam
, of. He was in the nut-room frequentl
= while ChielinskY worked there, and ha