The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-20
PROGRESS OF
The HEARING
TESTIMONY AT THE BIG Ex-
PERIENcE MEETING.

Who Interfered with Him-Evi-
dence by a storekeeper to Sup
port the Allegation of Boycotting.
There was more than a full allow
ance of interesting incidents at yes
terday's hearing before Judge Kelly
in the injunction case of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad
company against the striking car
builders. Tits between the lawyers
were very frequent, and once during
the afternoon ex-Judge Willard and
Mr.. Newcomb had an encounter that
threatened for a time TO call for the
intervention of the police power of the
court. Mr.. Newcomb. who can be
very sarcastic when occasion demands
was especially so yesterday. There
were, also. a number OF witnesses
| whose answers were provocative OF
| laughs in which the court itself was
| forced to join.
The plaintiff occupied the whole day
| in presenting testimony and when ad-
| journing time arrived II was stll far
| from resting.
The first witness of the day was n.
| H. Hollister. He corroborated Phil
| ander Silsbee, witness Of the pre-
| vous day. who told that he had been
| threatened by W. H. Stanton,a a striker.
| Hollister said that stanton approached
| Silsbee and threatened to knock his
- head OFF.
| j. w. Biesecker. n butcher of $50
| Cedar avenue, testified that he refused
] to sell meat to workman named
| John Schroeder, because owen Pattcr-
| son, a striker. warned him that he
| would lose the patronage of the union
men If he furnished Schroeder with
food.
NOT COERCED.
on cross-cxamination Biesecker said
he was not coerced in the matter; that
| he considered the trade of union mon
more valuable than that of non-union
men, and If he had to lose one or the
other he would prefer to lose that of
the non-union men.
Frank D. Dellman. a car shop en-
ploye, testified that James +. Thomp-
son and two other mon, on May s. near
the First National bank, threatened
to kill him if he continued to work.
He told that at another. time when
he was walking along with two i'm
ported men from New York, he was
held up and threatened by strikers lie
| could not remember the names of the
| imported men, but thought that Jones
was the last name of one of them.
Mr.. Newcomb suggested that probably
the other was j. Pierpont Morgan. The
| witness frightened up and said he
| guessed that's who it was. Thereafter
| during the examination, this other man
was referred to as "Mr. Morgan"
Foreman Charles Werner, who was
with Dellman at the first encounter
with the strikers, corroborated him as
to that incident and told that Thomp-
son threatened 10 knock him into the
gutter for interfering in Delman's be-
half.
Reuben Gaumcr told of having been
met by strikers pickcts and warned
that if he did not refrain from work.
ing they would make him 10 so. w.
II. Stanton was one of the strikers.
he said, who thus threa tened him.
WAS DENIED BEER.
Charles Fischer, a Polander from the
Sout Side, told of his inability to Get
drink of beer, one night when he was
extremely thirsty. When he entered
a saloon, Theodore Smith, one of the
defendants, would follow him in and
direct the bartender not to sell him
anything because he was "scab." The
bartender would obey the directions.
Jacob Adler. of Crown avenue, tcs-
titled that Messrs. Campbell, Winter
mantle and Thompson, three of the
defendants, met him one morning while
he was bound for the shops, and TAX
ing hold of him made him face about
and start in the opposite direction. Al
another time Philip Ehret and John
Hoffman called him names.
John Tulleberg, a car inspector. ac-
cused George Benson, w. Ii. Thomp-
son and others of intimldating him.
Like all the other witnesses. how
ever, he admitted on crosse -examina
tion that he continued to- work every
day.
Thomas Hatfield, massive fellow OF
about $50 pounds, testified that George
Snyder came to his home Sunday
June 5, and told him if he didn't Quit
working he would not be able to get
anything to eat, and that he would
be kicked out of town.
On Discrimination he was asked
by Mr.. Newcomb: "Who do you feal
will kick you out OF town."
After some hesitancy the witness an
swered Snyder"
SNYDER STOOD Up.
Snyder was asked to stand up. Wher
his comparatively dimnutive proper
tions were contrasted with the huge
ness of Hatfield, a general laugh was
evoked.
Mr.. Newcomb suggested that the
witness looked as if he didn't su@el
much from lack of rations.
Samuel Mofitt, an imported
watchman, who came from Jersey
city, told of II. IT. Bolcy threatening
to shoot him if he did not quit town
of his being set upon by crowd OF
Lackawanna avenue and knocked
down unconscious. lie could not tel
who his assailants were.
Charles Raper, a striker and one o
the defendants, who belongs to tn
Thirteenth regiment and wanted L
get away, was called as the first wit
, ness of the afternoon, as for eros
examination. He lives on the Soutl
Side, worked at the car shops for four
teen years. belonged to the union an,
went out on strike.
= He was asked by Mr.. O'Malley
series of questions tending to brin,
! out an admission that he served a
picket and that the executive com
mittee of the union was wont to sen,
out pickets with instructions to stol
the workmen, but the witness wa
; very unwilling and his answers wer
: decidedly evasive.
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