New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-21

on a technicality and not on the meritsS
ASKS ABOUT MORE EXToRTIoNs.
Then the cross examination went on:
Q.-Did you ever receive any cash for settling
a strike? A.-NO
Q.-Did you not on December last receive
$500 from Louis Brant for sending the men
back 10 work the St Cloud Hotel? A.-No-
Q.-Do you know Mr.. Frazee. OF the Tiffany
Q.-Do you know OF the Tiffany Studios? A
Q.-But you never saw Mr.. Frazee? A-No.
Q.-Is it not true that you We're paid 5000 by
Louis Schmidt for permitting the metal men OF
the Tiffany Studios to return to work? A.-No
Odd you know Herman LobeIl. OF this
o 9MD i'd YOU not receive $500 from Herman
Looell Tor calling off a strike on the WOmen's
Hotel and the Republican Club? A-No.
Mr.. Loben stood up in the courtroom while
these questions were being answered, as did
Messrs, Frazee and Brant
Parks said that he knew Bernard Lynch; that
ne had been adjudged guilty of a charge of as
sault which occurred in Lynch's saloon He
would not admit that Lynch is an intimate
friend Of his. and did not know whether or not
Lynch could write. He stated further that he
had got Lynch to cash a salary check for him
Did Lynch sign that check?' asked Mr.
Rand.
Il think it was drafted so it wasn't necessary
to sign the check"
Didn't you see Lynch sign a bail bond?"
Il wouldn't be sure of that"
The witness said he had been in Lynch's sa-
loon with his friend Harry Farley about twice
since his Indictment
Did you talk over the case with Henry Far
ley to-day after you had been sworn in as a
witness?'
L talked with several men, and Farley may
have been near enough to hear" answered
Parks
Farley was then called
Did you see the defendant Parks and
Josephus Plenty together on December 10. or at
any other timer Mr.. Eustace asked.
mo, sir"
Mr.. Rand then took the witness
/ 9.-Bo, you know Josephus Plenty? A.-Yes.
December last? A-Yes.
| ,-Q.---Did you. Httle before O'Clock go to the
Q.-And he had the check: Ayes
Farley testified that ne asked at the bank to
know whether the check of Josephus Plenty
was good; that Mr. Hallowav teIephoned to Jer-
| sey City and said that Plenty had an account
| at the bank ON which the check was drawn,
fIehly then went back 70 Lynch's saloon, and
he asked Lynch to cash the check. Silvadio
vas present, ana SlIVadlo was sent to Bloom
/ mgdales- lie made two trips, and the second
| time he got the money. $500 which was given
! TO Lynch. He then related the incidents of his
/ first meeting with Plenty. whom he said he had
| never met until the day he went with him with
/ the check. No one introduced them he said but
| with a group of men in a saloon they drank to-
/ gether and he learned that Plenty wanted TO
/ cash a check and went with him to Lynch's
Farley admitted under further eXauina ton that
/ he deserted from the British Army in 1881 and
/ that he was removed from the mounted police
/ OF this city under charges. He did not receive
/ any of the money from SilVadio and did not see
any of it paid to Parks.
/ The witness was asked by one Of the jurors:
Did you see the check before IL was Cashed? %
Yes" answered Farley.
Who was il drawn to?
I Parks or bearer
| The hearing then adjourned until 1870
! o'clock to-day.
| S. P. Mcconnell of the George A Fuller Com
pany, said yesterday afternoon:
There There is no truth in the statement that sam"
! PARKS was brought from Chicago by with the
! intention OF having him cause strikes among the
WorkInen OF rival companies. Parks. II IS true was
( brought here by our company but for no personal
! reason. We had employed him in Chicago as a
steel worker, and about five years ago brought
| MN here, as we brought many others, simply to
/ work for
/ Beyond the working powers Of the man we knew
nothing of him He was a splendid worker. but we
( merely employed him We did hundreds OF other
steel men.
/ He was employed of and on, when we had work
/ Tor him, and We paid him by the hour I know
little or nothing Of the present trial having fol-
/ lowed the reports Of it in the papers.