Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-03
CASE OF EDITOR IN
HANDS OF THE JURY
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real Irishman. Why didn't he sue
Mr.. Scott for libel and not prosecute
him for hostility to government"
Mr.. Carless then took up the article
in question and read it to the jury.
1t was headed: "Bimson Overrides
Citizens and Is a Boss Strike
Breaker"
The article continues:
Paterson was once famous as the
city of the red. (Meaning anarch-
ists.) They spoke a great deal, but
they did not harm hair of anyones
head. But now Paterson is fast be-
coming famous as the city of the
blue. as the hot-bed of brass-button
anarchists.
They swing the mighty club and
if you don't like 1t. you can get the
hell out
1.-The Paterson police have become
professional strike breakers. Will
the workers of Paterson stand for it?'
DO not allow the bitterness that
exists here and there against Social
ism to sway you in your decision"
went on Mr.. Carless.
=
day in the Evening Star of Newark,
which, in speaking of a Socialist can
didate for governor, said that while
as a political party the Socialists are
in minority, they have been of
some benefit to mankind in helping
to modify ideas of government"
Prosecutor Dunn, in summing up,
explained that the Hostility to gov
eminent statute had been enacted
in 1902 after the assassination of
President Mckinley. He insisted that
it had been shown that the defendant
was guilty.
In his charge Judge Klenert said
that the State had attempted to show
that the article written by he de-
fendan was of such nature as to
incite hostility to government; that
the defense had maintained that it
was not of such a nature. He point
ed out that the burden rested with
the State and warned the jury not to
be prejudiced because Scott had not
taken the stand to defend himself.
Calls Cases of a. Strikers.
AS soon as the jury had been locked
up the cases of forty-four strikers
charged with unlawful assemblage"
were called Among the co-defend-
ants is one girl, Hannah Silverman,
the heroine of many strike battles.
Mr.. Hunziker exhausted all his
twelve challenges and Mr.. Force, the
assistant prosecutor eight before a
l1ury was obtained.
The act of unlawful assemblage,"
Mr.. Force said, was committed on
April 25 in front of the Harding mill.
| Sergeant Halstead was the first
witness.
II met the crowd and ordered them
to move on" he said. Miss Silver
man told me to talk to her, as she
was chairman of the strikers. They
all booed me-"
"Booing' Is one of the I. w. w.
war cries.
A bomb exploded on the first floor
OF the three-story house at S0S
Straight street last night and set
fire 10 the building. Six families
were rescued with difficulty by the
police and flremen.
Mrs. Peter WASTING, who lives with
her invalid husband on the ground
floor, is a weaver in the Paragon
silk mill. She has worked through
out the strike, and declares that
twice in the last two weeks she has
been told her home would be blown
up If she did not stop work.
Vice Chancellor Stevenson denied
yesterday the motion for an injuno.
ton to prevent the closing of TURF
Hall, former headquarters Of the 1
w. w. silk mill strikers. but out.
door meetings continued and plans
for labor pageant" in New Yorl
! city went forward.
| When 1000 silk workers leave next
Saturday morning on their march tt
New York to take part in the strike
benefit pageant at Madison Square
Garden, the column will be headed
! by Hannah Silverman, the 17-year-
! old girl whom William Haywood say
is "the greatest little 1. w. w. WON
an in America" She Is known a.
Joan of the silk Mills"