The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-09-14

mony took about 25 or 80 minutes.
Daniels told Mr.. Mumford he
worked for Krantz, Smith & COM
any and was in their shop all day
Aug. 80. He quit at 5. From
work he went to the house of his
uncle and aunt on Ninth street, get
ting there at five or 10 minutes af-
ter and remaining until a little
after 6. He said he made a prac-
tice OF going there two or three
times a week. He saw the Demer
party a little north of the place
where Martin 4. Galvin's barn was
burned. He stated he got on his
wheel at the corner of Court and
Ninth, rode to the Katz underwear
factory and stopped to talk, and
from that point rode to his home
on Erie street. He saw Smith and
Kiegler. He denied that he passed
Louie Dorflinger's house or Squire
Hams house with the crowd that
made the noise. He was reminded
that Mr.. Demer's testimony placed
him on Court street with the crowd
that did the Kissing.
"Demer," said Daniels, 'is likely
to say anything"
He said he didn't walk on Court
street at all that night. He could
see the Demer crowd as he rode his
wheel home, but they were a block
ahead. He was certain he hadn't
called anybody a "Scab."
81 never used that word in my
life," he said.
On cross-examination Daniels
told Mr.. 1loff he goes home Court
street to the German Catholic
church, thence to Main and Erie.
Did you know about this riot
before it came OFF," asked Mr.. Iloff.
NO" said Daniels. II was at
my uncle's when it started"
do you mean to call Charlie Dor
and Mrs. Ham, and all the rest of
them?"
my word is as good as theirs"
said Daniels.
"Do you belong to the union?"
eyes," said Daniels, and then Mr..
McCarty stopped him, saying the
| idea of union membership is not
material in a case like this.
! Theodore Roosevelt" said Mr..
Iloff, sis trying to bust the trusts.
But the biggest trust of all is the
labor trust, which may keep a poor
man with a sick wife or mother or
children from working for his
bread"
"Since you make Roosevelt an is
sue here" retorted Mr.. McCarty,
Il may say he is a member of sew
eral labor unions. He belongs to
the Hod Carriers, for one"
"Yes, and to the Rough Riders, -
said Mr.. Iloff.
Mr.. Iloff asked Daniels how far
apart the men in the crowd were.
Il didn't take a tape and meas
ure the distance between them," was
the answer.
Ray Marks was called as the next
| witness. He said he knew Frank
Daniels and met him at 6 the nigh
of Aug. 80 on Court street, near the
site of the Calvin barn that went
up in flames. 1t was five or 1C
minutes after 6. The Demer crowd
was ahead. Ben Briedenstein
Clarence Smith and Henry Kieglel
were with the witness and Daniels
He did not hear Daniels holler tC
anybody. Daniels walked his whee
to the underwear factory and ther
on to P. E. McGranaghan's where
he got on and started for home
Daniels, according to Briedenstein
was about seven or eight rods be
hind the Demer crowd.
Mrs. Maria Daniels, who said she
was the aunt of Frank Daniels, was
the next witness. She said she was
at home between and 6 the might
of Aug. 80 and her nephew dropped
in to see her and his uncle then
He got there at sos and stayed
an even hour. He walked his whee
up Ninth street to Court when i
came time to go. Mrs. Daniels sale
she neither saw nor heard any
crowd on Court street that night
Charles Daniels, the husband o.
the last witness, said Frank, his
nephew. came to the Ninth stree
street house at sos and remained
an hour. The young man arrived
on his wheel and left on his wheel
benjamin Breidenstein said h'
worked for the McKennas and LIVED
at 141 Cliff street. He had known
Daniels two years. On Aug. 80 a
6 o'clock he saw him, and at tina
time Daniels had his wheel. The!
walked down Court street together
Daniels having dismounted. Ra!
Marks and Clarence Smith wer'
along. At Farnham's bridge thu
witness left the Daniels-Sn1ith-Mark
party to go to his home on Cliff
street. A man in the Demer party
he said, called them "a pack o
skunks."
John Spohr of 227 River stree
was the next man to sit in the wit
ness chair. He was on his way u
supper the night of Aug 80, he said
when the Herbeck-Demer help cam
out of the shop. He was right be
|, hind them. In the crowd that fol
lowed, he said, he did not see Franl
Daniels.
On cross-examination he told MI
, Iloff that no union man or an,
other man had asked him to Joil
, the party following the Herbeck
Demer men. He had never beel
) near the Herbeck-Demer shop at
o'clock at night before. He denie
! that he was picket there whel
. the strike was on.
Clarence Smith, another Rive
y street young man, employed b
Krantz, Smith & Co., said he qui
work that night at and was on tn
/, corner of Eleventh street and Cour
? when the Herbeck-Demer men cam
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