The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
Ry our staff correspondent.)

the silk mills of Sidney Blum enthaI
 & Co.,, begun yesterday and continued throughout today in the Shelton town , court, to give concrete expression to i the indignation of the peace loving residents of this place to the fragrant 1 conduct of the horde of special agents who have been imported into 1 this territory since the recent dis agreements between Ene weaVers and l their employers.
 The trials served to adduce evidence 1 of what the townspeople had long
 suspected-that the disorders that oc- casionally have cropped out since the 1 strike began are due not to a ten 1 dency towards violence on the part | of the strikers, but to the inso1ence,
 and in some instances the brutality 1 of the strong armed strangers who
 until now have got away with
 most remarkable methods.
 The appearance in the defence of 1 the strikers yesterday or Attorney P. 1 B. O'Sullivan, and his croes-exanfna- | tion of these special agents during | the prolonged trials of yesterday and | today, was taken to indicate that the l strikers, long patient, have tired of the obnoxious methods of the strong
 armed squad and propose to see that
 they, like the strikers, are brought tot
 book for infractions of the law. Most remarkable disclosure came | late yesterday in the trial of Antoni
 
 l age, 34 years in this country, and a
 native Of A1sace-Loraine. Villagers
 arrest created no little surprise, for l though he has been in Shelton but l three, months, the people here had | regarded him highly for his superior | intelligence and uniform courtesy. He | was charged with having participated l i'll the riot of yesterday, but he was not penalized. It was very apparent l that Judge Dillon, presiding in these iea1 iT1%< Java most unusual situation in the public 1 mind, of the attitude of Prosecutor
 Joseph G. Shapiro. &-
 O'Su1hvan finally broke loose and
 recalling the statement of Attorney 1 Shapiro, made in the forenoon, 1 declared it was futile to try to
 defend his case in a court where his | witnesses would be arrested as fast
 as they were Drought in, and said his | client would not allow him to sum- i were to be called, only to suffer the | ignorniny of arrest.
 eve propose to take these cases | into a court where we can get our
 moneys worth!' decsared O'Sullivan. | Shapiro bounded to his feet and de- | c1ared the court had, been outraged | by eO'SuIHvan'S charge that justice
 couldn't be obtained. Judge Dillon took a ca1mer view of
 the situation, said ne appreciated
 O'suIlivan's position, and when the | lawyer began to apologize for any un- 1 intended reflection, in his deelara tion, i upon the court, Dillon said it was wholly unnecessary
 i At length O'Sul1ivzn was persuaded to call his client to the stand.
 i Vi1iger made an excellent impr es I sion on the court, well as the | crowd Of spectators who packed the | court room to suffocation. It re- mained for his testimony to bring out 1 the fact that he was at no time in the 1 hostile group where the stones were l thrown. He was across the street l from the rioters all the time. He de nied shouting or waving his arms, | and then, with rising temper, told of the scanda1ous conduct of the special l agents
 l One of them, who gave the name of Smith had met him near the entrance ] to the factory, where he had gone i yesterday expecting to see Boston ac- quaintances going to work. Though l vested with no authority, Smith or l dered him to move on.'' Viliger did l not move, but at the same time pro- tested that Smith mad no authority. | Viliger said he was q citizen, the fa- | ther of two children, and a 1aw-abfd- 1 ing man. Smiths reply to this was | a kick which connected squarelya upon l ViIiger. Smith is a man robust, ac-. | tive. of 200 pounds or more, while Vi1-
 iger is not large, and is well past mid
 dle age t@Then he followed me up the
 street. said Vfliger- 'I heard a rack 1 ct, looked across the street and saw 1 them packing prisoners into au- | tomobile like herrings. Then Smith | came up to me and began abusing | me He choIzed me like a, dog, and 1 then turned me over to the police" | Villagers statement was uncorrobo- l rated because O'Su1livan was afraid l to bring witnesses into court. Judge l Dillon expressed regret that such a | condition of affairs should have aris- | en, and reminded O'Sullivan that sum- l monses could be issued for the wit I nesses if necessary. But Viiger, who | was thoroughly familiar with the pro- | cedure, would not allow O'Sulhvan to 1 jeopardize the others In his behalf. l Judge Dillon then said he believed l Villagers offence was not a serious l one at the worst, and he imposed a 1 fine Of $25 for breach of the peace. 1 the sentence for one month, with the
 promise of an indefinite suspension of | it's execution conditioned on Viliger's l good behavior during the month.
 Judge Dillon expressed regret that l there should have been any violence | among the strikers.
 l 'rVioIence never will win @ cause, in l this country" said he, and he turned | significantly to the big gathering in | the court room that contained many | strikers, as he spoke fmpressively on l the duty of the strikers to preserve | peace He assured them the court would insist on fair play and again
 counselled against violence
 l Early yesterday, when the case of l the first strike breaker was progress I ing Attorney O'Sur1ivan declared he could produce @ number of people | who were in the riot zone yesterday 1 forenoon to testify fin refutation of
 the statements of special agents, the | ernpIoyes of the strike bre reaking agen- 1 cy sent here by the Blumenthal inter 1 ests.
 | Prosecutor Shapiro declared that
 men who were in the vicinity were l equally cuIpabIe. and hinting at a list