Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-30
START TRIAL OF
WOMAN LEADER
Of SILK STRIKE
Elizabeth GnrIey Flynn First OF
|. W. W. Agitators to Face
Foreign Jury.
POLICE ADMIT DISCUSSING
ALLEGED riot" SPEECH
Woman and Man Shot and Mill
Dynamited as Violence
Breaks Out Again.
IFrom a stan correspondent

aO6biA NuI1Gy Il ~ I'LL lAiC iiiOSN PiN
turesque leader of the silk strikers
during their five months fight, was
placed on trial today, charged with
melting to riot.
She was represented by an array
OF counsel Miss Inez Milholland and
Miss Jessie Ashley. both noted
women lawyers. are expected to en-
& ter the case for the defense.
The most damaging blow struck
during the mornings testimony was
the admission of Sergeant Otto KEEP
pier, who arrested Miss Flynn, that
he had signed the complaint without
reading it.
There was little trouble in selecting
a Jury. The veniremen were all resi-
dents of Hudson county, drawn by a
special order of Justice Minturn. to
whom application had been made for
a foreign jury on the ground that an
impartial trial could not be obtained
by a Passaic county jury.
While the jury was being selected
Miss Flynn, quietly dressed in white
silk shirtwaist and blue skirt, sat
at the lawyers table and talked with
Jacob Kushner, who, with Gustav
A. Hunzicker and Henry Marelli. ap-
peared as counsel for the defense.
The defense used three and the
State four challenges
Captain Tracey, of the detective
bureau, was the first witness. He
testified that he had been in Turn
Hall on February % with his entire
squad of eleven men and had made a
memorandum of what Miss Flynn
had said. He admitted on cross-ex-
animation that he had talked over
what he had heard with his men
from time to time.
Keppler, who was the next witness,
said that when he had arrived at the
hall it was about half empty, but
that later the main floor and galleries
filled up and the standing room was
occupied.
who were on the PLATFORM asked
Assistant Prosecutor Munson Force.
Miss Flynn, Tresca, Lessig and
! Qdinlan.,'
How long did Miss Flynn speak,"
"She spoke for four or five minutes
She was interrupted in the end by
Quinlan.i
What was she saying then?''
''She said: The strike must not be
a failure There are number of
people, | understand. who have not
gone out. You must go to the mills,
drive them out, drag them out get
them 1t was at this point that
Quinlan interrupted"
What Quinlan had done was to put
her words in the form of a motion.
For doing that he was recently found
guilty of melting to riot by Pater-
son jury. He has not yet been SEN
fenced.
Continuing his question Mr.. Force
said:
What effect did her words have?"
1.-THE entire hall was in an uproar.
The people were excited and 1t looked
like riot"
Marelli jumped to his feet with an
objection.
"The fact that the people were ex-
cited" he argued, was not an an
swer. 1t was merely the conclusion
of the witness"
Judge Klenert refused to order the
answer stricken out.
Keppler went on to testify that i'm
mediately afterwards the audience
made a rush for the doors. There
upon the sergeant had arrested Miss
Flynn.
On cross-examination, Keppler said
that he was only twenty-five feet
from the stage when Miss Flynn was
speaking.
did you talk over the complaint
with anyone?" inquired Mr. Hun
ticker.
YES. ! talked it over with Captain
Tracy and with the acting recorder
Recorder Lambert"
"Who drew up the complaint" ?"
"The acting recorder"
"And you signed it?"
81 did"
"Of course. you read it over first?"
The witness paused and seemed
confused.
DIdn't Read Complaint.
why don't you answer" snapped
Mr.. Hunzicker. Yes or no."
mo, | didn't read it over.''
Asked about the words he attribut-
ed to Miss Flynn in his complaint,
Keppler admitted that he had not
written them out.
Captain Tracey had" he asserted
"Did you ever look at the words
again, or have you given them to US
inst as you recollect them?'
II looked at the complaint last
Monday to refresh my recollection
The trial of Miss Flynn was expected
TO come up then"
Detective Sergeant Matthew Con-
nell the next policeman called, sub
stantiated the testimony of the others.
"What did you do after the meet
ing broke up?" he was asked.
~ escorted Miss Flynn and Tresca
IN the station-house. On the way
there | told them to leave town.
when / took them to the chiefs
private office he gave them the same
advice"
The next witness, Detective Ser
geant William Kinney, gave par
ticularly clear account of what had
banpened and he came in for volley
If questions from Mr.. Hunzicker.
He mentioned the fact that Miss
Flynn's speech had been interrupted
for five or six minutes. when a
photographer attempted to take her
picture.
Mr.. Hunzicker asked many ques-
tions as to the exact time. 1t be-
.ame evident from the way he at
fcoufinued ON Page 8. Column 80