Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-13
MARSH AND INQUIRE.
Told Their Stories to Judge and Jury In Superior Court Late
 Yesterday Afternoon.

The attendance in court at the trial
 of the trolley strikers has dwindled down to those whose interests are cen tered in some Of the accused, either by relationship or social ties. There was room to spare at the hearing yesterday, | but the number of women in attend
 ance appears to be growing larger j daily. The trial jogs along without
 any startling developments. The alibi which seems now to be the defense of
 all the prisoners is neither intricate nor
 difficult to understand.
 I Marsh, the last of the prisoners who ! were arrested on the bench warrant,
 was on the stand at press hour yester-
 day. His defense is an alibi. He said his occupation before his late arrest
 was fireman on the Highland division Il of the Consolidated Railroad Go. He
 was asked regarding the disappearance of his moustache and he said that he cut it off because of the dirt of his oc- cupation. He made & total denial of the evidence of Wolcott. The rest of his testimony was substantially repe- tition of what the preceding witnesses I testified to. It was practically all
 
 and the card playing at Devoe's the fol- lowing night which, it will be remem- I bered, were on the nights of February
 9 and 26 respectively. He added that Il he wore his wedding suit on both occa- sions, and a light overcoat and black
 derby hat He never owned black
 overcoat. It was his custom to go to
 Devoe's about twice a. week. He usu- | ally left about Ii o'clock. MT Will l Hams thought he lived about two miles, | distant. He lived in the west end
 Marsh said it was about mile and
 three-quarters. There was short in-
 terruption here, Mir O'Neill asking to
 have court adjourn.
 Witness could not tell where he was
 on March 8 and could not tell where he was on January 3I He knew the
 location of the Model laundry. It is
 about 1000 feet from Faber's switch
 on Waterbury side. Is familiar
 with the roadways leading off the Wa 1 terville line and knew the path leading : from the Model laundry to the trolley l track. but did not know where the l path led on the laundry side. Was
 never at that end of it.
 Mrs Dennis was recalled and pro
 duced the receipt" for her furniture given by the railroad company when the goods were delivered in Danbnry MT Williams asked why she called it a
 receipt; he claimed 1t was not & re-
 ceipt. She claimess, it was the paper
 she referred to yesterday in her evil
 dence and which she thought he al- 1 luded to when he asked her to produce i it in court. It was the only paper she 1 got from the railroad company.
 Mcclure was then suddenly sprung l into notice. Since the trial began he
 has been 1oQnging In his chair every day, apparently indifferent to what was
 going on. Except what Wolcott said
 about him his name has not been men, 1 tioned in the trial. He evidently did
 not expect to be called into the glare of the witness stand so soon. On ac- count of his quiet and modest appear 1 ance and the little known of him, a great deal of interest has centered ! about him.
 He said his name is John J. Mcclure and that while he was in the employ of | the trolley company he boarded with 1 Patrick SIaloney and his wife at BAY West Main street on the corner of South Willow street. He came here l from Torrington. He was there two
 months Before that he lived in Win sted seven months. to which place he | came from Antrim, N. H. Tn that | place he lived five years and was en- | ployed by cutlery company there. He I quit work when the strike was de- ! clared and was at work in the Spoon shop when arrested on the bench war rant A-
 Regarding his movements on the evening of February 20 he could tell
 very little. He was in town all day. | He came down town in the evening;
 walked as far as the West Main street 1 bridge about 8 o'clock. About that | time he saw wo1cott Then he went to | the center. Walked around while | and went homo about il o'clock. He was not in Wclcott's pool room that night nor a+ Fahar's switch: in short. knew nothinn whatsoever about the assault uptil he read about it in the parers the next r1orring
 Cross exa mined: Ts about o7 years | old. First time fle went to WoIcott's | pool room was on last Christmas eve. with lot of other trollevmen. He was never there since that n'o'1t He never 1 had any trouble with wo1cott and so
 frr as ha knew was on good terms with 1 him. He cn7lld not sav where he was
 on Nawch and February 20 excent | That he must have F1nen i1 town He
 nav have heen dryvino ,hus that day.
 as that was his business about that
 lime Hn was not certain. however. Ca11ld not ssv what time he went home i on that evening Fa naid n" attention
 ta his movements .nn The night of Feb
 ruarv 26 untiI after his arrast. Gen
 era11v he gn+s home about 10:30 o'clock
 ars very seldom stays out un+if after
 rnidniaht. hut he was out until ahout
 that time -a7out March 25, On the evening Of February o6 he met no one
 or spoke to anyone that he could re- call. K
 At this point court adjourned and 1 the Jurors were warned against read ing accounts of the trial in the news papers