Evening journal., 1909-03-10
POLE CUTTING
CASE CONTINUES
State Offers More Testimony
Today in Support
Of Charge

In the Court OF General Sessions this
morning trial of the case Of Calvin c.
McCallister and William G. Little was
resumed. Dennis Mahoney, an employe
of the telegraph company. was the first
witness called today. He testified that
on May q last a pole was cut down op-
posite the McCallister farm. The fol-
lowing day he went out with gang
of men and started to put the pole back
into its place. McCallister and Little
we're there, he said, and McCallister in
terfered with the work. The following
day. Mahoney said he found that a rope
had been cut. allowing the pole to fall
again. new pole was put up further
down tho road
In cross-examination Mahoney said
that when they put up the pole il was
moved to within eighteen inches of Nc
Callister's hedges. 1t had cross-arms
with wires and the cross-arms were four
feet on each side OF the pole.
John Levy testified that poles that were
in the gutter along the county road had
to be removed.
Constable John Chambers testified that
on Sunday night July 26, he accompanied
Little and McCallister from Newark to
McCallster's farm. He had a warrant
for the arrest Of Allard on the charge
Of trespass.
James Edmundson testified he has been
with the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany for thirty-two years. The first pole
that had been cut down last May had
been moved by request of the Levy
Court. He measured the road and It
was 81 feet from hedge to hedge. He
saw the pole that was cut down and saw
Little sitting under a tree. As he went
close to the fence Little put him under
arrest. Lneman Lyon grabbed Little
and they went into the middle Of the
road. The pole TO replace the one cut
down was erected opposite the Green
walt property to avoid controversy with
Little. Witness saw Wood on October
1s sitting on the stump and later pulled
Wood out Of the hole and erected a
pole Witness said Little was inside the
fence talking about the points Of a
stilletto. Two OF the wires cut down
were used by the United States Gov
ernment and the other fourteen for COM
merclal purposes.
George T. Lyon. a Western Union Tele-
graph Company lineman testified to the
erection OF the poles and stringing or
wires opposite the McCallister farm. He
was arrested for assault on Little and
was fined by the magistrate in New
ark.
AS the McCallister and Little case
is expected to take up the line OF the
court all week the jurors for the Court
of oyer and Terminer were discharged
this morning until Monday next
L. I. Handy spent the greater part Of
yesterday afternoon cross-examining VIII
liam E. Wood, colored. the star witness
In the case. Wood left the farm without
collecting his months wages. denied he
had been then or since in the employ OF
the Western Union Telegraph Company.
lie also denied that a saw produced IN
court was the one McCallister used to saw
down the poles. He stated that although il
was dark at the time he saw the de-
Pendants cutting the poles, he lay/on his
stomach twenty feet away and refognized
the saw. which he said McCallsber used.
william T. Shugar and John G. Allard,
of the Western Union Company, testified
to some minor matters.
Hugh Meginnes denied that he told
other people he would get a lot OF money
( out Of the Western Union Company II the
case came up for anOther trial He fur
ther denied that he attempted to induce
his brother to get into the case.