The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-03
STANTON WAS
IDENTIFIED
WELLS POINTED HIM OUT AS
HIS AssAILANT.
Dramatic Incident in Connection
with the Hearing Of the Injunc-
tion Case Against the Car Builders
A Considerable Amount of Testi-
mony offered Showing That Work
men Had Been Intimidated, Had
Violence offered Them and Were
Boycotted.

1t is probable that the complainants
testimony will be all In today before
court adjourns in the injunction case
of the Delaware, LaCkawanna and
Western company against the striking
members of the Car Builders union.
Considerable evidence of boycotting,
threats apd some little violence was
offered yesterday. With reference to
the matter of violence the most direct
testimony was offered by Charles
Wells a painter, who says he was as
saulted i'm Forest court by w. II.
stanton and two other men. lie idcn-
tilted stanton in court as the man who
deCoyed him to the place where the
assault was committed.
James Thompson, who was on the
stand when court adjourned on Thurs
day afternoon, was again examined
yesterday morning by Attorney O'Mal-
ley. He denied that any local union
had passed a resolution providing for
the paying of men n dollar a day to
assault non-union men and denied the
correctness of certain papers which At
torney OMallcy held, and which he
ella lined were minutes of the meetings
of the Car Builders union.
Special officer NJ, J. Spellman, for
mer police lieutenant, but more lately
employed as a deputy by the company,
was the next witness Mr.. Spellman
told OF an instance that came under
his observation whore union man had
followed n non-union man into n bar
bor shop and warned the barber against
shaving him, with the result that the
union man was turned out. The
same thing occurred in a saloon where
the men were refused drinks at the re-
quest of the strikers.
THAT FALSE ALARM.
He described at length the disorder
upon the occasion of the false alarm of
fire turned in and described his arrest
of boy and the lattcr's subsequent
rescue bv two men.
Under cross.eXamination by Mr..
NcwComb he told of taking twelve
armed men from the shops to the &C.
dar avenue bridge one morning to
protect the nOn-union wOrkmen on
their way to work. There was crowd
on the bridge. he said, but no disorder.
Witness could not say that he rccOg-
nizcd any of the men in the crowd
upon the occasion of the alarm as
members of the Car Builders union,
nor could he say that he knew of any
instance where any damage was done
by the strikers.
Chief Special Agent Adamson, who
had charge of the deputies stationed in
and around the railroad yards an ! at
the shops, told of the crowds Of strik-
ers he had seen near the shops and the
station. on May 90 he saw stanton
and Cordicr at the head of a gang OF
men at the station when No. came in
from New York with 125 imported men.
The crowd hurled stones and the i'm
ported men were called "scabs' and
vile names. he said.
He didn't recognize any of the mcm-
bers of the crowd. except Stanton and
Cordier, but said he knew they were
strikers, because stanton finally asked
all union men to withdraw, and a
large number Immediately left.
Charles Werner, one of the forcmcn
at the car shops, testified that on the
early morning of July 6 and 7 several
of his windows and two of his doors
were broken by stones. Mr.. New
comb objected to the admission of this
| testimony claiming that it did not
| connect the defendants with the de-
struction of the property. Judge Kelly
took the matter under consideration.
Albert Zeisman, who went out ~
strike May A. but who returned on
July /. was the next witness, He told
of being accosted by strikers on the