The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-27


to Sacramento on July 4. He identihed
| Worden as having approached his engine
after the soldiers left at Twenty-second
| street. he said Il thought this was Bill
SCOTS engine" Belden replied: Il am
] representing Bill Scott" 1.-The - you
are," replied Worden. Worden had on an
| A. r. u. badge. Belden told how he had
| taken his engine to Stockton on July o,
where he ran into the roundhouse ana
| disa bled it on the morning OF July III.
Belden's engine was stolen from the round
| house. Witness went down town where ne
met WOrden, who told him he was going
to organize an A. r. U. lodge there. de
| also said he was going to Sacramento.
How can you get there when the trains
are not running?" asked witness. ION.
replied Worden, "the A. r. U. have an
| underground wire. You pull the string,
zip and there you are" Belden stated
that Worden had told him if they had
known the company was going to SEND
that train out with troops it would never
have got to Sacramento; also that If the
train had stayed ten minutes longer In
Sacramento it would not have gotten out.
| Worden admitted to the witness that he
had cut the air hose of the train.
Attorney Cook stated in response to an
! objection that he Intended to show that
! Worden bad sent armed men to take Bel
den's engine at Stockton and that he had
gone and stolen another engine himself to
60 10 Lathrop.
! On crOss-examination by Attorney Cad
dis, Beiden stated that lie had put back
the knuckle Joints OF the engine on July
| g. He disabled it again by taking out pin
| from the valve-stem. The strikers took
the missing parts from engine 1888 and at
tached them to Belden's engine. 1777, when
| it was stolen. 1t was on the evening Of
the Sth that Belden saw Worden at Stock
| ton.
One question Mr.. Gaddis asked was:
Don't you think that a man who carries
soldiers on his train to fight against his CO.
laborers is considered the worst scab on
earth?"
Carroll Cook entered an energetic objec-
ton to what he called insulting the wit
ness. The court refused to allow the
question to be asked.
In the afternoon a brakeman, G. c.
Grismer of Oakland, testified to the facts
of the leaving of the special with soldiers
on the 4th for Sacramento. as stated by
Belden, the engineer, during the morning.
The witness identified Worden as having
been there.
care you a scab?" asked Attorney Cad
dis on cross-exa mination, but the court
ruled the question out.
S. G. Lyon of Alameda, the engineer of
the engine which was stolen at Lathrop.
was put on the stand. He said he had
seen Worden there. "Mr Worden met
me between and 10 o'clock of the night
of July TO-" witness said, land catching
me by the lapel of the coat dragged me
into the street and asked me If | was the
engineer. He said he wanted me to get
the engine out. He told me 1t didn't make
any difference who gave the orders. and l
wept and got the engine out, hltched her
to boxcar and ran her into a Pullman.
Wordsn gave me letter. With him was
a tall man with a gun. There were other
armed men around. We backed on to the
main line and pulled out. had a regular
fireman. Worden got him In the round
house and marched him up under guard"
"Who gave you orders to leave La
throp?" asked Cook.
"Worden did. He ordered us to go to
Sacramento. Worden ordered him not to
blow the whistle going through Stockton.
Sometimes Worden rode on the engine
and sometimes on the Pullman" laugh
teri said the witness. This side of Stock
ton," he went on. forty or fifty men got
on the train. They stopped at Gait and
got water. They stopped at Elkhorn,
too, to telephone for a committee to meet
them at Sacramento"
Did committee meet you ?" asked
Cook.
Zone man came along the track with a
lantern. Nearly all the men got off at
Eleventh street, Sacramento. Then / put
coal in the fire bin and went into the
sleeper. They wanted me TO 20 up TO the
fremont House and get something to eat
but l wouldn't 60. Mr.. Hatch came to the
engine at Fourteenth street. He was
armed with revolver and knife. He took
out the knife and iabbed it at the fireman
because the fireman asked what he was
going to do with his revolver. Worden
and Hatch and others marched up to the
A. r. q. headquarters. One Of the men
had a gun. There batch went inside and
passed me 10. went in and read letter
which Worden had given me the night be-
fore. Twas asked If l was going to join
the union by Hatch"
"Do you know anything a bout the wreck
of No. 4?" asked General Hart on cross
examination.
''No. SIR"
who brought you from San Joaquin to
tell this story?"
Carroll Cook and Mr.. Myers. chair
man of the general grievance committee of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers."
us that committee of the world, or of
Alameda or the United States. or what2"
1.-THE Southern Pacific doesn't reach all
over the world" said witness testify.
swell, it reaches over good part of it."
retorted Hart. and the audience laughed.
"How did Myers discover you?"
II got an order from Superintendent
Wilder to meet Myers at the Sacramento
depot Engineer Dunn was with him."
"What did you say to Myers?"
Nothing"
did you bow to him ?'
II said good evening""
$50 Mr.. Wilder has ordered Mr.. Small
to order you to meet Mr.. Myers at the
depot. you looked at him, he looked at
you. you said good evening and that was
all. eh?"
Eyes. SIR" Laughter
Never talked about the facts in this
case at all"
mo, sir"
"You are as certain of that "a Won ara