The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-29
STATE MEETING
WITH OBSTACLES
Prosecution Finds 1t Difficult to
Secure Testimony Against
Greeks.
]. MAMALAS ON TRIAL
BEFORE JUSTICE SMITH
Motion to Dismiss Is Made,
but Goes Over Until
Today.

From the drift Of the testimony
offered by the State In the case Of ].
Mamalas. one OF a number of Greek
laborers charged with melting riot
June IA, at Garfield, offered In Justice
Smiths court Thursday afternoon, 1t
is evident that the State is having diff
Guilty in having witnesses to the
rumpus appear in court.
Prosecutor Lyon inferred. after
Thursdays hearing, that 1t was ex-
tremely difficult for the State to have
twelve or fifteen witnesses appear at
the trial at one time. rs it would ma
terially hinder the work OF construc-
ton at the smelters.
The defense moved to dismiss the
case OF Mamalas, but the court denied
the motion, with tho provision, how
ever, that II the State did not offer
sufficient evidence the motion would
be granted.
a long and sharp legal squabble
arose between the attorneys in the
case concerning this motion. during
which the court held that 1t was up
to the prosecution to prove It's case,
and that such evidence must be sub
mltted at the next hearing, intimatIng
that If the prosecution did not produce
such evidence, 1t would lose It's case.
For the Prosecution.
S. B. Gully and G.. A. Williams, two
foremcn at the works. In charge Of
the gang Of Greeks said to have taken
part In the trouble, testified that
Mamalas threatened to throw q brick
at a fellow Greek. who came running
In answer to a call from one of the
foremen for help.
Mamalas was also positively identi-
fed as having threatened to at
tack one of the foremen. and of
having led in the rush upon other
gangs, 10 prevent their working. There
were three distinct small-sized riots.
1t appears, on that day, One took
place shortly after 1 o'clock nt the
furnaces, another inside of a partially
completed building, and still another
at the pay ofIlce, During these periods
of trouble 1t was stated that the men
acted very threateningly toward their
foremen, and toward various officials.
all Of them being armed, It was said
with clubs, stones and tools, as
weapons.
Austrian Frightened.
When the trouble was at it's height,
the state showed, an Austrian laborer
became frightened and hid In furnace
until the infuriated gang rushed on.
Then he came out. and with a fore
man, went back to work
Theodore Center q mining engineer
employed at the smelters, gave very
damaging testimony against Mamalas.
positively Identifying the man as one
OF the ringleaders in the trouble. John
Transeau, a foreman, also testified for
the State.
During the course OF the trial Il de-
veloped that Assistant Superintendent
Knight, OF the smelters, ordered Center
to lay off the men engaged In the
outbreak The men were discharged
and but four men remained under
Center. and continued work.
VIII Resume Today.
The State will be called upon TODAY
to produce more evidence In the case
of Mamalas, and in the event of failure,
the motion to dismiss the case will be
granted by the court.
George Roumaleotis. supposed to
have been one OF the leaders In the
trouble. will be given hearing today
at 10 o'clock before Justice Smith.
Roumaleotis was known as Number
1928 at the smelters.