The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-09
CAR MEN TESTIFY
 IN DkRROW TRIAL
Court Sustains Objections of Defense in Hartman
 Inquiry

Los Angeles, August s-Nine wit nesses. five of theh street car con- ductors, were on the stand today in the bribery trial of Clarence S. Dar- row. to impeach the testimony of Frank D. Wolfe and c. o. Hawley. two important defense witnesses. Except for scathing crossexamination of F. ". owen by Attorney Rogers the day was devoid of interest.
 owen. who was a member of the city fire commission when Hawley was on the same board. testified that Hawleys general reputation for truth and ve- racity was bad. Rogers attempted to show that owen and Hawley had po- litical differences while city officials and that owen had been charged with grating. The witness indignantly de- nied the assertion.
 Hawley has testified that he was the man who had telephoned to Dar row on the morning of Bert II. Frank lin's arrest, requesting him to meet Hawley at socialist headquarters In this manner the defense accounted for the presence of Darrow at the scene of Franklins arrest.
 The street car conductors were called to testify concerning the usual time at which Frank E. Wolfe arrived in Los Angeles from his home in suburb. Wolfe had testified he came to the city on the same car with Darrow on the morning of the Franklin arrest and that Franklin did not visit the offices of the McNamara defense at the time he asserted the alleged bribe money had been given him by Darrow. None of the conductors could remember whether Wolfe rode with him on the day in question.
 The alleged connection between the men who blew up the Times building in Los Angeles and Job Hartman, social ist leader and labor attorney, oYershao- owed the main issue involved when the bribery trial of Clarence S. Darrow was resumed today.
 Judge Hutton was expected to rule when court convened on the admissibility of testimony of Edward Adams Cantreii' another socialist leader, which the prose eution declared would serve the double purpose of impeaching Hartman and showing him as having had guilty knoWi- edge of the perpetrators Of the Times eA- plosion. Cantrell and Hartman broke up their friendship some months ago. The
  nied by Hartman and which was expect ed to be answered in the affirmative by Cantrell should the court permit 1t, con tained in substance the following ailega- tions: That Hartman had said to Cantrell on the morning of October 1 at San Luis Obispo, Cal: By Jupiter, Cantrell, the Times building has been dynamited, and like 20 people killed" that liar riman had taken Cantrell to his room in a hotel locked the door and then burst into fit of laughter, after which Can- trell said: What does 1t mean? Harri- man replying, Ut means the boys are on the iob;" that a few minutes later liar riman said, i've known for some time that preparations were being made to pull off the job and that in the resulting Hartman told Cantrell he had been in conference with the plotters and had begged them to postpone the matter until after the state socialist con- vention; that Cantrell at the time was socialist candidate for Secretary of state and last fall he ran for a membei of the board of education on the ticket which Hartman headed as candidate for mayer.
 According 10 Hartman, Cantrell was his ardent supporter and warm friend until a recent split among the California social ists, when he became a bitter enemy
 Judge Hutton sustained the objection of the defense as to the question asked by MT. Cantrel intended to impeach J. Har- rlman in the bribery trial of Clarence s. Darrow.
 Court ruled the question which related to Harriman's alleged connection with the Los Angeles Times dynamiters, purported to impeach Hartman in a collateral man ner and was therefore improper.