Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-24
orally peaceful conditions ABOUT the

orally peaceful conditions ABOUT the
shops.
Sheriff C. 8. Hutson testified to hav.
ing been asked by the company t
swear in some men it had secured as
deputies, and he refused. He said hi
offered at the time to swear in citi-
zens OF Marshalltown if the company
ever called ON him to do SO, which 1,
never did.
Yesterday Afternoons Evidence.
IA. j. Abbott, a machinist who said
he was not a striker, was the frs
witness called yesterday afternoon, and
denied that he had been frsquentins
the striking district or had used any
vile language toward anybody.
Robert Jones' of NO. g South street
a boilermaker who had been laid off
at the shops before the strike, said
he was not a defendant in the case
and denied that Martin had threatened
Sundberg, as testified by Sundberg on
said, since the strike.
How do you spend your time q
asked Mr.. Sewers.
Just loafing round" was the re-
ply. He admitted he had been on the
depot platform two or three times a
week since the strike, usually i'm the
evening. He said he had not applied
for work at the shops. and would not
while the strike was on.
Still you are not a striker?
mo, SIR" He said he had watched
to see how many men were shipped in
or shipped out by the Iowa Central.
He said he supposed some Of the ex-
employees around the depot were pick
cts. and named John Fink and Charles
Winters. Jones said he did not belong
to Marshall lodge 2s9, of the MAJ
chinists' union.
Fred Ring, who was q special police-
man at the shops from July Is to Aug:
10. altho he passed the depot many
times, heard Of no picketing, and said
his sole duties consisted of walking to
the trains when they came in, with the
car inspectors, and back again, the in
spectors being afraid. Between trains
he waited in the shops. Witness said
1t looked to him like useless service.
John J. Pink, a resident of Mar
shalltown, said he was a striker. but
never a picket, and that he had been
working insurance since the strike,
which made it necessary for him to be
at the depot frequently. He asserted
he had had official permission when
he went thru the Iowa Central shops,
and that General Car Foreman H. Y.
Brown had not ordered him out, as
Brown had alleged on the stand.
He said it was not the wish OF the
union to have or cause trouble. He
said he belonged to Machinists' Help
ers' union No. 708, and had been of
fered work by the road since he
quit it.
/ Joseph j. Thompson said he saw q
strike breaker throw something like
the end of truss rod at George
who was later shot dead, then
run into the company yard and dare
Davies to come in. He believed if the
same class OF men were working In the
Iowa Central now, as early in the
strike, the undertakers up town would
be kept busy. One who was intoxicated,
he said, threatened to throw him In
the creek. Thompson said that the yard
81 the Consumers Fuel company, where
he is employed, was frequently Uttered
with bottles in the morning, thrown
there by shop men, early in the strike,
and that one of his employees little
boys had made money gathering these
and selling them.
George r. Stone, in the restaurant
business at sos South Third avenue,
.estified to orderly and peaceful con-
litions around his place Of business.
He had heard of assaults, but had
never seen any, he said. Ete knew of
the shooting of George Davies and
said the men in the crowd at the time
,f the occurrence were three or four
strikers and the man who did the
shooting. He said he had just sold the
nan who did the shooting meal ticket
lhree or four minutes before, and di-
ected him to the Y. M. c. A., where
ne was going for room. He had seen
men around the east end OF the depot,
out he knew nothing about picketing.
Mrs. Belinda Kelly, 513 South Sec
md street, testified that she had shell
cred Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Barrett.
strike breaker and wife, one Saturday
hight, and that the couple had quar-
'eled all night. The quarreling, she
'aid, began about II o'clock, and grew
ess violent about or 8. She heard the
nan strike his wife, she said. In the
morning she said she told them to go,
irving as her excuse that some strikers
lad called on her the evening before
Ind asked her If she did not know she
vas harboring a striker. She testified
hat no one had so called on her.
Clyde whitney, grocer Of 10 East
Church street, said he had passed the
hops frequently and conditions were
Ed Sheridan, so2 South Center
treet, a grocer. said many employees
rad been coming out of the shops at
'arious times of the day since August
%. He admitted that twelve or four
cen strikers traded with him
Charles Pickering, in business at 412
south Center street, said he had seen
10 trouble, but had read of some in the
Anton Scheid. captain of the fire de-
'artment at the station, near the shops,
estified as to peaceful conditions, and
aid more men were drinking in the
aloon near the fire hall than before
he strike
MANY TO HEAR TAFT.
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