The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-09-14
CASE OF DANIELS
EVIDENCE AGAINST YOUNG MAN
CHARGED WITH SHOUTING
"SCAB" at NON-UNION GLASS;
CUTTER TAKES FIVE HOURS
AND ARGUMENTS ARE PUT
OVER UNTIL SEPT. 20.

ON Elk JNlIh SELL. ~.
1t took Justice Robert A. Smith
all day Friday to hear the evidence
in the case of Frank Daniels, one
of nine men charged with disorderly
conduct when, on Aug. 80, as al
legged in the complaint, a number
of union glass cutters jeered a non
union man and made things disa-
greeable for him and the two De-
mers, who were walking down Court
street with him just after work at
the Herbeck-Demer shop had ended
for the day.
The first witness got on the stand
at 1920 The last one left the
stand at 4.45. The county court
room held about SO or 60 specta-
tors and it would have been quite
out of the question to hold the
hearing in the Squire's little Of
fee downstairs. At first it was
proposed to do business in the
grand jury room, but, come to think
of it, the grand jury room isn't
such a whole lot better as to seat
ing capacity than the regular justice
office. so the case was taken up
stairs Just so soon as Janitor Ball
could unlock the big room.
Peter H. Iloff prosecuted. He
wanted all nine men tried together
and the whole thing argued in
lump to save time. f. c. Mumford
and Charles A. McCarty, who de-
Tended Daniels and the rest, said
No. Mr.. McCarty told the court
emphatically that every man in
PENNSYLVANIA who wants a separate
trial can have one. The prosecu-
tion decided to try Frank Daniels
first and sought to prove he was the
leader of what Mr. Ilof, despite
the repeated and vigorous protests
of Mr.. McCarty, repeatedly allud-
ed to as 1.-The mob"
The first witness was Charles H.
Dorflinger of White Mills, who said
he happened to be in Honesdale,
at the home of his brother, Louis
]. Dorfiinger of Court street, the
night of the trouble. He said he
was on his brothers porch soon af-
ter 6, when the crowd went by, and
he noticed Daniels because, as he
explained when Mr.. Mumford cross
examined him, Daniels was big
ger man than the men with him.
He judged there were fully 90 men
following the two Demers and a
man they had with them. He
heard hooting as the party passed
down the street and he also over
heard one man say: Il can take
one of them"
Mr.. Dorflinger told Mr.. Iloff he
did not know Daniels. The hoot-
ing. he said, commenced near the
courthouse, and as the party went
along the noise seemed from where
he stood to increase rather than
diminish. He wondered what the
trouble was, for he knew very few
Honesdale workmen Mrs, Dor
finger. who was with him, was rem
dered nervous by the racket, and
she couldn't eat her dinner.
Mr.. Mumford asked if Daniels
wasn't on a bicycle. Mr.. Dorflinger
said that if Daniels were on a
wheel that night, then it must be
that Daniels has a double in Homes
dale. Daniels, he remembered,
wore a dark suit.
Mrs. John Kuhbach was called
She testified that she lived next tC
the courthouse and was at home al
on the night of Aug. 80. She
was sitting on the porch, she said
reading a paper, when all at once
she heard a commotion and saw
Mr.. Demer and another man fol
lowed by crowd. How many mel
there were in that crowd Mrs. Kuh
bach could not state, but she re
membered they were noisy. Sh'
did not call Mayor Kuhbach on thu
telephone to tell him about tn,
trouble, but went on reading tn,
paper.
To Mr.. Mumford she said th
racket did not make her sick.
Mrs. w. II. Ham said she live,
on the corner of Court and Mint
streets and was at home Aug. 30 a
6. She was sitting on the pore
when the crowd went by. The
were making quite a bit OF noise
she said. The language of some o
the men was not very choice" I
employ the precise words of thi
witness. The crowd, part of it o
the sidewalk, part of 1t in tn
street, disturbed the peace an
uuietude of the neighborhood. Mri
Ham said the men going by max
a good deal of noise every day, bu
this noise was an exceptions
noise.
Miss Lucy Edgett. the next wi
ness, said she lives on Court stree
five houses from the courthouse. 4
that night she was at home. 81
heard an unusual noise and wei
from a back room to the porch
find out what was up. She saw
crowd, say SO or 60 strong, passiI
down the street and the crowd 81
said, was very noisy, but she d
not recognize any of the men
they went by. Their talk, this wi
ness told Mr.. Iloff, was mot refine
or polite" The word "Scab" WI
used a number of times. The moi
increased as the crowd moved t
ward the bridge.
Mr.. Mumford asked the witne
If she was afraid on account of Il
noise and loud talking. She sa
she was not afraid personally, b
she added that 1t made her feel ba
ly to think a man who wanted
work should be treated in thi
manner. There was a good deal