The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-06-17
DYNAMITE FIGURES
IN RIOTERS TRIAL
Explosive Handled Very Ginger
ly Counsel and Witnesses.

The introduction of dynamite into
the trial of William Palmer, John
Darcy, Dennis Maher and William
Smith, who We're arrested for riot
ing at Wharton the night of May
25th, caused much uneasiness among
those who have attended the courts
sessions. Prosecutor Reed offered as
evidence the two sticks taken from
Palmer the night of his arrest. Coun-
sci for the defence also had a stick
or the explosive on hand for the pur-
pose of confusing the states wit
nesses
After Deputy Sheriff Thomas Il.
/ Lowe had told of the circumstances
OF taking the dynamite from Palmer
and putting it away Mr.. Brown, coun-
sci for the accused, tried a piece of
legerdemain in an effort to substi-
tute his stick for the dynamite of
fered as states evidence. But
prosecutor Reed saw the attempt and
frustrated it. Mr.. Drown tried to mix
up Keeper Carroll who had taken
care of the dynamite since it has
been at the courthouse, offering him
the defences stick to identity but
failed to shake the witness testi-
mony.
Mr.. Brown asked the court to ouash
the indictment of Palmer for having
dynamite in his possession on the
ground that it was defective and that
Justice Parker had ordered that it
be quashed. Prosecutor Reed asserte
that Justice Parker had not ordered
the Indictment quashed and that the
Supreme court justice had no juris-
diction over the common pleas of
Morris except to come here and issue
the order from the bench. Judge
Salmon denied the motion
Charles H. Wilson, the first of the
men indicted in connection with the
Mt. Hope-W Wharton strike riots, was
acquitted by jury of assaulting
Deputy Harry Patterson after the jury
had deliberated for four hours. His
/ counsel, Messrs. Brown and Bolitho,
applied to Judge Salmon for reduc-
tion in his bail and the Judge re-
duced it to $4,000. James E. McCabe
of Mt. Hope, who is also bondsman
for John Darcy, went on Wilson's
bond for his appearance in court
Monday morning for trial on an in
dictment for rioting.
Thomas Brown asked the court TO
quash the indictment on the ground
that the same facts as presented in
the assault case were at issue in
the rioting case but Judge Salmon
did not see it that way and refused
the application.
! A case growing out of the strike
riots was the arrest on Wednesday
afternoon of Patrick j. McGowan, OF
New York, who was a sheriffs dep
uty at Wharton the night of the riot
and who is a witness in the defence
of the rioters. He was charged with
the larceny of Captain Harold Norr-
bury's revolver. 1t was asserted that
he borrowed the revolver from the
captain after the latter had been shot
at Wharton and when asked for the
revolver in Jeremiah O'Brien's office,
at Newark, later had declared he did
not have it. He was arrested by
Policeman Wildey on warrant issued
by Justice Pierson, on complaint of
Captain Norrbury's brother, James
Norrbury. Several deputies who are
witnesses for the state appeared at
the hearing against MCGOWAN.
Mr.. Bolitho appeared in McGowan's
behalf. The justice committed Nc
Gowan to Jail in default of 5000 bail
to await the action of the grand jury.
Mr.. Bolitho asked that the witnesses
against MCGOWAN also be held under
bail but upon the assertion of Harry
Patterson, of the OBrien agency,
that the men were regular employees
of the agency and could be produced
any time, they were allowed to go.
J Thursday morning Mr.. Brown as
serted in court that during the trial
the day previous two of his witnesses
Smith and MCGOWAN, had been taken
from the court room and searched
by a police officer in uniform. Mr..
Reed denied all knowledge of the al
legged act and protested against it
being discussed before the jury say
ing that it was brought up only for
the purpose of influencing the jury in
the case of the four men now on trial
Mr.. Brown then appealed for a writ
OF habaes corpus in behalf of Me-
Gowan and asserted that McGowan's
arrest was direct scheme to intimi-
date witnesses for the defence. Mr..
Reed protested against what he
termed the insinuations and inuendoes
made by Mr.. Brown. declaring them
to be unprofessional and improper,
anu sdlu lhdI ne personally mad noun
ing to fear from the slurs. Judge
I Salmon ruled that the discussion of
the writ would go over until the noon
recess.
Judge Salmon finally disposed of
the case by releasing MCGOWAN under
parole of Messrs Brown and Bolitho.
Mr. Brown withdrew his application
to have the indictment against Pal
mar ouashpd