Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-05
TESTIMONY FINISHED
AND ARGUMENT BEGUN
I'M TRIAL OF POLLARD
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(COutiuued from Rage One.D
before they heard a noise which at
tracted their attention and in the frame
work of a tower near the road they
found two men-Butler. a lineman, and
Gully, a blacksmith-and covered them
with reviewers and arrested them He
testified that they had a revolver.
He testified that while waiting for
the two men to come down from the
tower, they heard a man break and
run from a bush, and heard an automo-
bile leave hurriedly, and going to the
road they found the suit case full or
dynamite.
At the conclusion of Johnson's tes-
timony, Judge Hill ordered the dyna-
mite removed from the court room
WAGGONER ON STAND.
Detective Bob Waggoner. of the At
lanta police force, was the next wit
hess. He was put up to rebuff the tcsti-
mony of j. A. Hollis, who testified for
the defense that his s14.50 voucher was
given him by the union for relieving
sickness in his family. This was the
voucher which l. G. Williams testified
Hollis Endorsed over to him, and with
which proceeds Williams testified he
bought dynamite at Douglasville. Detec-
tive Waggoner testified that Hollis told
HIM he had never got any money for
relief of sickness in his family.
On croSs-examination, Attorney James
L. Key put Waggoner through grilling
On his past record. He admitted he was
once a aotorman for the power company
and that he was once removed from the
police force for striking a negro, but
claimed he was later reinstated. He
denied that he had ever threatened to
whip Pollard.
Preston S. Arkwright, president of the
Georgia Railway and Power company,
took the stand to rebuff the testimony of
w. C.. Stradley, the business partner of
{. w. Hatcher, Il member of the jury.
Stradley, q witness for the defense. tes-
| titled last week CONCERNING a visit to
Mr.. ArlIwright with a committee repre-
senting strike sympathizers. He swore
that Mr.. Arkwright told them he would
sooner give away light and power than
recognize the union This testimony
was denied by Mr. Arllwrlght. who said
he told Stradley and the committee that
their offer to withdraw a proposed agi-
tation against light and power rates, pro-
vided the company would recognize the
union, was a species of blackmail SINH
lar to the dynamiting of street cars.
THE STATE CLOSES.
IIhe next witness was H. f. Young, a
street car motorman who did not strike.
st. Louis eighteen years ago, that there
was a strike of conductors and motor
men, thath he stayed with the company,
and that one day Pollard and a strik-
| ing motorman boarded his car and call
ed him scab. He said there was so
much violence, five non-striking car
men being killed, that he beat it to
Evansville because things got too hot
| for him."
The testimony of this witness closed
the rebuttaI testimony of the prosecu-
ton, and Attorney James L. Key, for the
defense, then put Pollard on the stan0
for a statement in sur-rebuttal.
But before Pollard took the stand. At
torney Key attempted to introduce the
minutes of the board of police commits
! sioners for the purpose, as he stated.
! of showing that Detective Waggoner
was not discharged for striking a negro,
as he had testified, but discharged for
! lying"
After some discussion pro and con,
| Judge Hill decided not TO allow the in
| PRODUCTION of this evidence, and Pollard
/ then took the stand and made a brief
| statement.
al want to state" he said, that
| have never seen nor heard anything of
| this man who testified he saw me in the
! ST. Louis strike. l may have seen him
q the Atlanta strike, but if did don't
recall him."
Pollard then read several kilograms
| from labor men in st. Louis, Offering
to come to Atlanta and testify to his
| good character.
DENIES TAXICAB BILL.
! AS to the testimony of Mills concern
! ing the taxicab bill of $40 for the dyna-
mite trip to Lithonia, Pollard said:
fore. nor do I know anything about any
dynamite transactions or interviews
which he is alleged to have had with
me. / do know Bruce (the taxi driver),
| however That is all l have to say"
This concluded the sur-rebuttal testi-
mony for the defense, and Judge Hill
then announced that each side would
! be allowed two hours for presenting
! arguments to the jury.
Solicitor Eb T. Williams led off for the
state outlining the case for the prose-
cution against Pollard.
SOLICITORS SPEECH.
In the opening speech, Solicitor Will
liams drew attention to the fact that
| never once had Pollard cautioned the
| strikers against dynamiting, only me-
! chemically begging them not to enact
| any violence. He charged that the
! 'strikebreaker" pamphlet was the cause
| of melting numbers of men to violence
and mentioned Pollard's record in the
st. Louis strike.
! Attorney Sam j.. Hewlett began his
! speech by a vigorous indictment of the
! Georgia Railway and Power company
| it's methods in offering rewards for the
/ conviction OF, dynamiters with a view
/ of getting men of shady character to
/ testify in connection with recent dyna-
mite cases, it's inability to connect the
! defendant with any of the instances Of
violence and declared that the case was
! an issue between the people and the
power company. Mr.. Hewlett addressed
| himself to single members Of the group
of attorneys for the power company
seated at the states table, upbraiding
the company as a grasping corporation
! whose methods were to be condemned
! and declaring that they were striking
at the roots of the liberty of the peo-
pie of the state.
He made the point as regards the in
PRODUCTION of witnesses by the state in
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