New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-20
TRIES TO TRAP PLENTY.
P4RKS,S COUNSEL FAILS.
Prosecution Rests Case against
Walking Delegate.


of Sam Parks. the walking delegate of the
Housesmiths and Bridgemen's Union, charged
with extortion. and adjournment was taken until
this morning without the disclosing by the de-
fence Of what they had in store for refutation
If the testimony Of the witnesses for the people.
Josephus Plenty the employer who Tues
day testified to paying Parks 500 for calling off
strike, resumed the witness chair, and Colonel
Robinson. Of counsel for the defence, resumed
the crosse examination.
After the lawyer had asked the witness lot
Of unnecessary questions and the Recorder had
said that time was being wasted, the following
was brought out,
Q.-You are very hostile 10 labor unions, are you
not A;-No. SIR. 49, 49, III. 49, .,,,e
action against Parks? A.-When saw by the
newspapers that others We're taking up similar
Q.-Then the newspapers got you into the prose
Q-When did yqg first decide that I,, you !, had
Der TO June? A-No sir | thought nothing &c, Of
the matter in particular until others began TO sur
CHAD no person agreed to stand part of what
Odd YOU ei er state to The District Attorney
that you were to stand the whole Of what you paid
Q@bid you have an agreement with the engineer
% the Hamburg-Amercan pier that the money
would be repaid to you if you could get Parks to
PIT his game on g CHECK Of fb 9amburgAerican
pier ask you to get Parks's name on cheek!
ODD anybody ask you TO get Parks's name ann. on on
check? No vas to be TePsl9 Chehd 5i5r ~
s E4a 5nlt R RihF PARKS As " ''S''s- -l~''
o What was the engineers name? August
oIwhen cid you make the agreement with with, him i'm:
A-The morning l paid Parks, when had the
ODD PARKS tell you there, were several a ways
20 fx the matter? Ayes he said there were
several WAYS: either that the strike would so on
or be settled in a business way -,
O.-Wasn't il that the refused to work with
the non-union men in your employ? 40 lne
men were willing to work with the non-unioh men,
but were called ont by the delegate
Mr.. Rand asked the witness regarding his
talks with the engineer. Nearly every question
Of the Assistant District Attorney was objected
70 by one or the other of the counsel for Parks,
sometimes different objections being offered by
the different counsel TO the same question. Re
corder Golf finally told them too much time was
being consumed in this way.
The witness said that under his contract for
the work for the neutrality-suspicious. company
he was under a penalty Of 5000 a day. He
charged $50 in his bill for the deal with Parks.
He was TO have received from the company one
half Of what he paid Parks He had incurred
additional expense which he had charged in the
bill The $50 was repaid the Hamburg
American company because the engineer said
he had understood it would cost $500 to settle
the strike but as it cost only $500 they felt they
should not pay anything.
Lewis H Holloway. cashier Of the Nineteenth
Ward Bank was called 10 identify the check
which was drawn by Plenty in favor Of Parks.
The witness said that to the best CT his recollec-
ton the check was the one presented to him
Nicholas Silvadic a porter in Lynchs saloon,
Fifty-ninth-st and Third-ave.. testified that
about four or five months ago he went to Bloom
ingdale's department store with Farley to cash
& check. The amount Of money received for the
check was $500. It was on his second visit to
the store that the money was paid. Then there
were Two men with him
Here J. Milton Doremus. a juror, took part
!n the questioning as follows
Q.-Are YOU in the habit of cashing checks at
Q.-Haye you done il many times? Ayes; every
at Bloomingdales? A.-Yes.
Nr. Rand then asked:
Did you ever go to Bloomingdales at any
other time, with Plenty and Farley, TO cash a
check"
No"
Mr. Holloway resumed the stand and
asked if he had cashed the check or telephoned
10 Jersey City to learn if it good. The
objections of counsel were sustained.
Il do not expect the cashier TO identify the
men who presented the check" said Mr.. Rand,
hut # he testhes that he telephoned regarding
a check Of Jesephus Plenty the occasion in
question. and that ne never teIephoned about
a check Of Josephus Plenty at any other time l
submit that that Identifies the tranea cton. ex-
cept as 10 the identity of the men,"
The testimony OF the witness was stricken
from the record.
Douglas b. Bugg, employed by the Common
wealth Roofing Company. testified that he
working on the neutrality-suspicious. pier
December Is. when he and the others working
with him were called out strike They
turned TO work on the following Monday The
defence did not ask this witness any questions.
Albert " Scblesinper cashier ut RIooming-
dale's. testified that the Plenty check had been
paid the store He did know whom
the money had been paid, but declared II had
been paid in currency. His testimony
stricken out.
Jesse Lorinler. secretary Of the Housesmiths
and Bridgemen's Union. called. Mr. Rand
asked a number Of questions, which object
ed TO- and tried, unsucceSsfuly, 70 introduce in
evidence the register Of the union
Mr.. Rand called Robert F. Neidig president
Of the Housesmiths and Bridgemen's Union.
dence Of the constitution and bylaws of the
union.
IT goes 70 the question OF opportunity" said
Mr.. Rand. 1t shows that Parks had the au-
thority declare a strike. And wish TO show
that the walking delegate did not conform TO
the constitution and bylaws in regard TO this
transaction
The Recorder ruled against Mr.. Rand, and
Mr.. Neidig excused.
Mr. Rand called Bernard Lynch, but. as Lynch
was approaching the witness chair the Assistant
District Attorney waved him away
Never mind: that's ALL" he said. The peo-
ole rest
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