The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-03

the strike, Dut on cEoss-SAe.lAi.ile-s. failed to show just how it had been ln- jured.
 On cross-examination much time was spent in trying the memory Of the witness as to just what kind of buttons the union men had worn-whether they I were brass, gun metal or nickel.
 Attorney Sullivan said: Isn't 1t so that there was competition to get freight. and that you took freight to deliver which you had no order to get?"
 MT. Noll answered: ''No. sir; we had all we could do to handle the orders which we had"
 William c. Paronto was the next witness. He lived at 2S0 George street and had worked for Schwaner as driver during the trouble He told about a funeral on Davenport avenue being held up because he joined the line, and that he was ordered by the people who hired the carriage to leave the line and drive another way to the cemetery. He was briefly cross-exam- ined.
 Court then adjourned until 10 o'clock this morning, when the trial will be re- stunned.
 Frank N. Palmer was first on the stand yesterday morning, his cross-ex- animation not having been completed
 last Thursday.
 From the first three witnesses exam | ined but little new evidence was gath cred, Policeman Pickering and Martin IC. Schwaner, who followed MT. Palm CT, contributing nothing of interest to l the record.
 The first questions propounded by MT. 1 Sullivan were in regard to funeral on St John street where MT. Palmer had jhad so much trouble. In answer wit l ness declared that Cornelius had per- I studded a woman not to get into his I hack. this proceeding being repeated an hour or so later on Hamilton street,
 where witness was deprived of another fare. On this second occasion he was also out on a funeral and was driving
 his own hack.
 l. Cornelius had asked people not to en- ter Palmer's carriage, and the iattei had spoken to a policeman about the
 matter, the reply being that the com
 plainant would have to secure writ
 before an arrest could be made. He had thereupon telephoned to Captain Brew CT. who said that he would send a mar up.
 When Palmer endeavored to collect
 his fare from a passenger on Chape
 street Cornelius interposed and advised
 l. the passenger not to pay more thar s1. .50 instead of the $4 demanded. Her' } MT. Sullivan strived to bring out ths } fact that in charging $4 Palmer hat , violated the ordinance regulating th' 3 price to be paid for hack hire at a fu ) neral, witness, however, stanalng Ill
 ground and maintaining that ne na'
 charged the lawful rate only. NOT nat
 the argument with Cornelius been con : cerning an overcharge, but about Cor l nelius, effort to send him home withou 3 any pay whatever.
 Returning to the subject of the Wa z street funeral, where witness had los [, his badge. Palmer could not recollec : identifying Whitmore in the city cour h hut thought he had testified positivel : that Whitrnore had interfered with hir t at. the funeral. MT Sullivan endeav y pred to entangle the witness on his pre- t lvious evidence in regard to Whitmof y and his twin brother, but witness al ,, tnot recollect enough of his previou IS testimony to become very deeply CT Is meshed.
 0 For fifteen minutes more witness wa e questioned along the line of his test Le rnony in the city court, but nothing n importance being developed he was
 lowed to depart.
 & Next to the stand came Policerns q. Warren Pickering, who declared tn T. Hawkins and Whitmore were the on l. men he had seen involved in any arg at ment with Palmer in a Wall street eI n. so1e referred to, Whitmore being u in der the influence of liquor. As witne B. understood it, hack drivers were obli m ed to wear badges only when solici a ing trade. With this Pickering W he excused.
 ly Martin c. Schwaner, a liveryman CT I'll George street, followed the polio He man and testified that he knew all t vn defendants. Stockford, Beck, Cornell nd and several others, all wearing t id union button, had called on him in ad gard to the agreement prior to t at strike, and he had declined to sign 1t ed From that on the witness line of t ad timony was very much the same i'd that of Frank N. Palmer.
 th, Schwaner is one of the employs ng whose business the defendants he charged with conspiring to ruin. he Probably the most important DO en developed during the day was brous he out during the examination of Edws
 a M. Atwater, hack driver, who te sr- the stand on the departure of ! i'm schwaner about 12:So. Atwater h if formerly been driver for Frank he Palmer, but had gone out with the o ng CT strikers.
 he According to the witness, an eff jed to interfere with him had been ma his by striker as late as a month
 when Beck, one of the present defer
 ants, had impeded the progress of $
 carriage. To this testimony MT. Su ,rs var, entered. strenuous exception on