The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-11
EVIDENCE NOW ALL IN.
WILL COMMENCE
 THIS MORNING

Former Witnesses Recalled Yesterday Verdict Expected Friday.
 The taking of evidence in the cases of the striking teamsters charged with conspiracy was finished in the superior court late yesterday afternoon. and the jury was dismissed until 10 o'clock this morning when the arguments will com mence. The counsels for both the state and the accused agreed that each side should be allowed three hours and half in which to present their case. Under this arrangement the cases will probably go to the jury at the latest tomorrow morning, if not this after noon.
 When court re-convened at o'clock yesterday afternoon the first witness called to the stand was John Mitchell, | a hack driver. and his testimony was | corroborative of those who had before testified in behalf of the accused. The next witness was Peter Daly. sec retary of the Trades Council. He told about trying to get the team owners to sign an agreement and how he had att tended most Of the meetings held by both the teamsters and the hack driv- CTS. He denied the evidence given by MT. Palmer who stated that Daly had said that he was representing the
 Trades Council when he had visited him. Daly testified that the calls he had made had been in private capaci- l ty. Witness had made speeches at various meetings during the time of the l trouble. and had tried to effect a set l clement.
 l He made one address on Sunday, May
 3, a week before the strike, and told the men at that time that they had better
 wait another week in the hope that mat 1 ters might be settled in the mean time 1 Witness then told of a conference which had been held with Mayor Sud- ley when he was accompanied by An-
 drew Russell and Lynn Wilson. Witness has been secretary of the Trades Council for three years. At torney Arvine objected to MT. Williams
 questioning as to who the officers of the Trades Council were, but the judge allowed the question.
 I Daly testified that he knew George
 Cain and that he had talked with him on several occasions.
 l MT. Daly had been labor editor of the
 New Haven Sunday American. and he
 was asked if Attorneys Maher or Sulli-
 van were interested in the venture and
 he replied that he did not know. l Joseph J. Reilly of 76 Prince street,
 a lineotype operator on the Leader, was
 the next witness. He was president of
 the Trades Council and during the strike he had conferred with Stockford
 relative to effecting a settlement. The
 witness and Stockford had visited Nes- bit in the hope that he would get the
 Iiverymen's association to agree to settlement. MT. Nesbit had not been threatened in any way at that time. 1 Martin Schwarner. the liveryman on
 George street, was then recalled to the stand. He told Of how woman had come to him for carriage to attend a | funeral: how he had told her it would
 costs S4: how she agreed to this, and how he had then turned the order over l to Palmer. Asked if he had said that
 he was disgrsted with the Livery
 mems association, he could not tell
 whether he had made any such state- ment or not.
 1 Liverynlan Frank N. Palmer eorrobo-
 rated this evidence and said that he
 thought that he had right to charge
 $4 for the carriage as long as the hirer
 was satisfied. He denied having treated
 Mitchell in a saloon.
 Archie M Hendricks was then called
 to the stand by the state He is driv-
 CT for Peck & Bishop. He had been one
 of the strikers but had gone back to
 worl. on May 27. He identified Stock
 ford as taking an active part in affairs. ] At this point court was adjourned
 until 10 o'clock this morning, when ar
 gunents will commence.
 Opening with an argument between opposing counsel, which lasted over a
 quarter or an hour, the trial of the nine teamsters dragged along yester- day morning. Nor was later progress
 marked by much greater rapidity, dis
 cussions being frequent and prolonged. Proceedings opened with the recalling of two witnesses who had testifiedT ues- day, Percy Cornelius, one of the accus- ed. making most favorable impress sion, personally, albeit his testimony lcould not have been very encoura ging to his counsel. The extraction of evil tdence from this witness was provocative of abundant discussion, and objections land exceptions flew thick and fast. | The initial argument between MT.
 Arvine and MT. Williams concluded, Cornelius was led on by the state at torney into a review of the testimony given by him in the police court.
 Didn't you commit a breach of the lpeace against Joseph Kenney on May 17 last?" asked MT. Williams
 T did not" replied the witness. l Surrendered by Mir. Williams, MT. Arvine drew from Cornelius his story of the altercation with Kinney, his reply
 to counsel that Kinney was drunk and used abosive language being stricken
 ou. on MT. Williams motion Another lexeeption.
 This redirect examination giving the state attorney another chance at the witness. a. second cross-examination was undertaken and another batch of objections and exceptions was recorded.
 Fire minutes later Cornelius was aI- lowed to leave the stand, his place be- ing taken by Henry Cowles, a driver
 for Peck & Bishop, who had also testi- fled Tuesday.
 The direct examination was brief. MT. Williams then putting witness through