The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-19
NOTHING BUT CASH FOR PARKS
WALKING DELEGATE REFUSE A
CHECK, WITNESS SAYS.
Josephus Plenty TELLS HIS story OF Giving
Parks &20O Ia Call or q strike or
HIS .J0lD-PrlsOner's Lawyer Makes
aSb lection 10 Prosecutor RanSa's ways

WDJeGthOm 70 prosecutor Nanhs Ways.
Josephus Plenty, maker of skylights in
Jersey City, who says he paid Sam Parks
$500 last December to call off strike on
job Plenty had in Hoboken, was the only
witness called yesterday at Parks's trial
before Recorder Golf in the General SEES
sions.
Parks's counsel put in nearly the entire
day in cross-examining Plenty and an
nounced at 0 o'clock last night that the rest
OF the cross-examination would require
at least two hours more. Thereupon the
trial was adjourned until 1880 o'clock this
morning.
The Plenty charge was considered by
Assistant District Attorney Rand to be the
strongest of the cases for which Parks was
indicted. but after he had finished outlin-
ing it to the jury Col. Robinson, counsel
for Parks, moved for the dismissal Of the
indictment on the ground that it charged
no crime. He said that a strike is not a
crime, and il Parks refused TO stop strike
that was no crime.
Mr.. Rand replied that when Parks re-
fused to stop the strike unless he We're
paid $500 1t was az much Of an attempt
to extort money by threat as if he had
had Plenty by the throat and said: "If
you pay me $40 l will stop choking you.
Such remark would mean that Parks
would continue to choke Plenty unless
he got the $40, Mr.. Rand said. The Re-
corder denied the motion to dismiss the in
dictment.
Mr. Robinson was greatly wrought up
I,,t 81 ~ Ra nd
| accused Mr.. Rand Of signalling TO Plenty
in the cross-examnation and Of breaking
in with remarks that put the next answer
into the witnesses mouth.
Mr. Robinson time and again prot est ed
TO the Recorder, who returned soft answers
which did not turn away Mr.. Robinson's
| wrath.
Mr. Rand in reply to Mr. Robinson's
| accusation that he was signalling the wit
ness, said:
Il will state to your Honor that Mr..
Robinson stat ement is false"
Very WELL" replied Mr.. Robinson,
"Mr Rand may be afflicted witha physical
! disability that compels him to wag his
head at the psychological moments. But
will watch him and when he does il again
L
once"
| When Mr. Robinson complained TO the
! Recorder. Mr. Rand and Assistant District
Attorney Corrigan turned around and
! smiled at him.
| "Ill go on when they've got through
! giggling, stormed Mr. Robinson.
Owing to these Interruptions Mr. Plenty
at times got an opportunity TO get his bear
! ings in a cross-examination that was so
close concerning apparently trivial doings
| relating to transactions six months old that
| he was even required TO tell how many
drinks and cigars he had on Dec ~. the
day when he says Parks got the $500, He
had two drinks and several cigars, ne SAID
In his direct testimony Mr.. Plenty said
| that In November and December last he
was putting in skylights in the Hamburg
| American line pior at Hoboken. The men
RI his employ were not union men
| Other contract ors on the job employed
| union men. These men were called out
about Dec. 10 and there was nothing left
| for Plenty's men to do. Plenty went to
| the Headquarters OF the Housesmiths and
Bridgemen's Union in Third avenue and
| saw the secretary. whose name, he said f,
WAS Hannah, and asked what could be
done to stop the strike.
"See Parks" he was told by Hannah.
he said, and q letter of introduction was
given him. He called to see Parks in
Parks's fiat at Eighty-third street and
Lexington avenue He told Parks that he
had tried to settle the strike with walking
delegate, Dolan, in Jersey City. Parks sald
that the other delegate wanted money and
that he himself would need some.
Plenty testified that Parks said that 5000
| would be enough and that he arranged to
meet Parks the next day at Brevoort Hall,
Parks told Plenty not to bring check.
Bring the cash. said Parks. Plenty did
bring q check made out TO Parks's order,
and he met Parks and Henry Farley also
walking delegate, the next afternoon in
front of Brevoort Hall in Third avenue
Stand up, Farley" called out Mr., Rand.
and Farley stood up before A. C. Eustace,
one OF Parks $ four counsel, could call out,
Don't you do 1t, Farley.
Mr. Plenty went on TO say that the three
went into a saloon where the check was
| offered to Parks, who refused it. Mr..
Plenty said that Parks then told him and
Farley to get it cashed, which they did at
nearby store.
| Lynch Bros saloon, Fftty-nnth street
and Third avenue, where. according to the
witness, Farley said; Sam sent me here TO
cash this check
The money was taken to & he saloon mt Third
avenue and Fifty-third street, where Parks
was waiting The money was paid over to
| ParKS Dy raTley anu TActty' lllr httel
testified Plenty said that at the time
Dolan was in the room. but couldn't see
the money pass. Plenty said that Dolann
| told him that Parks never gave him part
Of the money. The witness said that work
was resumed the next day on his job at
Hoboken, although his own non-union
men held their places.
Mr.. Robinson tried vainly to shake the
complaining witnesses story, although sew
eral times Mr.. Plenty got himself momen-
tarily in a tangle over dates.
Mr.. Plenty said that he had never before
stated that Farley said to Lynch: sam
sent me here to get this check eashed;
MIR. Robinson bore down heavily upon him
as to his reasons for not remembering
it until Mr. Plenty answered:
"You are trying to rattle me How could
any one remember anything after you've
got through with him.
Mr.. Robinson then questioned Mr.. Plenty
for fifteen minutes as to how Dolan could
be in the room when the money was passed
and rot see it done He was ct i'll at il when