Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-05-26
speoial to the EVENING NEWS.

New Brunswick, May 26.-The
state sprung a trump card late this
morning in the trial of the ten dep
uties' here for the murder of Ales-
andre Tessitore, fertilizer striking
employe, at Roosevelt last January,
when witness was produced who
positively identified nine of the ten
men as having formed part of the
gang of deputy sheriffs' who did
the fatal shooting on January ~.
The witness went so far as to iden-
tify by calling their names and pick
Ing them out of the group of ten,
four of the men on trial.
The star witness of the state de-
veloped to be Edward Conlon, sixteen
years old, formerly an office boy at
the Williams & Clark plant until he
was discharged, he declared, about
two weeks after the fatal shooting.
The men on trial, whom he identified
by name and pointed them out from
the ten were James Bavier, Fred
Mullen, William Mclaughlin and
Robert j. Wallace The others of the
ten on trial he identified, but did not
know their names, except one, John
Smith. whom he declared he had
never seen before.
The court session convened at $50
O'Clock this morning, but because OF
the Importance of the testimony only
two witnesses had been examined up
until noon. The jurymen took an
other long walk this morning, guard
ed by the two constables. A fair
sized crowd was on hand, and specta-
tors were generally admitted to the
court room, the original rule OF ex-
cluding curiosity seekers not being
enforced because there was no ap-
parent need for same. The attorneys
for the state and the defense alter
mated in examining and cross-exam-
lining witnesses, but the bulk of the
questioning Is being done today by
Attorney General Wescott and
Robert H. McCarter.
Alex Macy, of Chrome, was the
first witness on the stand and gave
pretty much the same line of testf-
mony as did the witnesses produced
yesterday. He declared that he was
in the crowd about the plant of VIII
liams & Clark during the shooting
January 19. He saw twenty-five to
fifty men come out of the plants gate
and approach the crowd of strikers
He saw them begin shooting at the
crowd about the Williams & Clark
station about fifteen to thirty steps
from the station The strikers scat
tered in all directions, he with them.
On cross examination by Mr. Strick-
er the witness said he did not know
what had caused the deputies to
open fire. He said the strikers only
stopped the train in an effort to find
strikebreakers, and declared he did
not know what expediency would
have been used had strikebreakers
been found ON the train. He said
that the strikers were armed with
sticks, but were very quiet until the
shooting began. He admitted seeing
q red flag on pole in the crowd OF
strikers, as testified to by other wit
nesses. He saw the train stop for
the first time and then saw it pull
out slowly and stop the second time
nearer the station. He also saw Jul
ius Jeager, a striker, mentioned by
other witnesses, but did not see him
stop the train. He saw men jump on
the train during the shooting but
not before. He saw twenty-eight
deputies, all of whom he declared
carried revolvers and guns. He
picked up one of the strikers who
was shot in the fray and lent him aid.
The testimony rendered by Ed
ward Conlon, sixteen years old, for
mer Office boy at the Williams &
Clark plant, came as a bolt from
clear sky to the defense, after the
examination yesterday and the day
before of nearly thirty witnesses,
none of whom were asked to identify
any of the men on trial. Conlon was
placed on the stand shortly after 10
o'clock, and testified with apparent
ease.
He said that he had served as Of
flee boy at the plant for nine months
previous to being discharged two
weeks after the shooting. He had
finished the seventh year in the
grammar school, and during his du-
ties at the plant following the COM
mencement of the strike he had be
come intimate with the deputies
employed TO guard the fertilizer
works.
He said that he had been In the
habit of coming to work at o'clock
until the strike started and his serv-
ices were not needed so early when
he began coming later. He said that
he was on his way to work shortly
after 8 o'clock on the morning of
January 19 when the shooting oc-