Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-05
TESTIMONY FINISHED
AVID ARGUMENT BEGUN
IN TRIAL Of POLLARD
Prosecution Attempts to Show
That Defendant Was Con-
nected With Buying of Dy-
Mantle for Car Tracks

allowed each side two hours for arguz
ment and Solicitor Eb T. Williams i'm
mediately opened for the state outlining
the case against Pollard.
MONDAYS TESTIMONY.
Solicitor Williams decIared that Poll
lard's alleged crime OF leading men to
dynamite street cars was far worse
than the crime of placing dynamite on
car tracks. He was followed by At
torney Sam D. Hewlett, of counsel for
the defense, who finished speaking at
1890, when Judge Hill took recess
for lunch.
Attorney Hewlett denounced the power
company as a greedy and grasping corr
poratfon, and declared the issue in this
case is an issue between the company
and the people
Attorney John Y. Smith, also Of coun-
sci for the defense, was scheduled to
speak for the defense when court re-
convened at 1870 o'clock, and was to be-
followed by Attorney Ben ]. Conyers,,
leading counsel for the state on be-
company. Attorney James L. Key,
leading counsel for the defense, was
then to follow with the closing speech
for the defense, after which Attorney
r. P. Jones was to close for the state.
Rebuttal testimony for the prosecu-
ton was introduced Monday morning.
and consisted of testimony to the effect
that two men went from Atlanta to Lii
thonia in a taxicab about the middle
of October and purchased dynamite; that
the owner of the taxicab presented the
bill to Pollard telling him what the men
went to Lithonia for, and that Pollard
attended to the payment of the bill; that
the dynamite was later found near a
steel transmission tower near Duluth
when two men were captured in the
framework of the tower at might. What
purported to be the same identical suit
case full of dynamite was brought into
court by Attorney Conyers, for the pros.
ecution, very much to the discomfort
of Judge, jury, lawyers and spectators.
Judge Hill ordered it removed at the
earliest moment after it had served its
purpose.
In sur-rebuttal to this testimony, Pol
lard took the stand and made a state
ment denying that he. had ever, seen
the owner OF the taxicab or ever had
any conversation with him about dyna-
mite, taxicab bills or anything else.
This closed for the defense.
A. w. Bruce, a taxicaD driver for w.
II. Mills, was the first witness for the
prosecution Monday morning. he
testified that he took two men. to
Gainesville and return on october 10,
and that Mills took the same two men
to Lithonia and return a few days aft
errards. He did not testify as 20 what
the men did in Gainesville. He testified
that the bill for the two trips was $40;
that he and Mills tried to collect the
bill from Carver, the secretary of the
striking trolley mems union, and failed;
that they went to Pollard. to whom
Carver had referred them, and Poliard
said he would fix if up; that on the fol-
lowing day a man came to Mills place
and paid the bill.
Mills then took the stand He testi-
fled that he took the two men, whose
names he thought were Hall and Free
man, to Lithonia a few days after Oc-
tober Is, and that the men bought dy-
Mantle from a store in Lithonia
EXPLAINED WHOLE MATTER.
He testified that he went to Carver
to collect the bill for this trip and the
Gainesville trip, and that Carver re-
ferred him to Pollard He testified that
Pollard didn't give him much satlsfac-
ton the first time he saw him, and
that when he went to see Pollard the
second time he told him that he didn't
want any more fOolishness."
In answer to the direct question as
to whether he told Pollard what the
men bought in Lithonia, Mills testified
that he explained the whole matter to
Pollard" He testified that Pollard, on
his second visit, promised ito mention
the matter to the boys at the hall that
night and have it attended to-" and that
the next day a short, chunky man came
to his place and paid the bill of $40.
c. S. Johnson, a member of the firm
of ]. C. Johson & Sons, general mer-
chandise, Lithonia, Ga, was the next
witness. He testified that about Oc-
tober Is, or few days thereafter, two
men came to the store in an automobile,
driven by a man who looked like Mills,
and bought a suit case full of dynamite.
He said they told him they wanted it to
blow I'D stumps, and asked him to pack
it tight.
At this point Attorney Ben ]. Con-
yers, of counsel for the prosecution. In
troduced a suit case, and asked johnson
If he could identify it, which Johnson
did by the labels pasted on the OUT
side
DYNAMITE IS SHOWN.
Attorney Conyers then opened the
suit case and disclosed twenty-six
sticks of dynamite, a number of dyna-
mite caps, several feet of fuse, a re-
volver and a piece of rope, together
with a quantity of packing.
Johnson could not identify the dyna-
mite, but identified the package of caps
JOHNSON TESTIFIES.
The next witness was I. 5. Johnson,
s,1perintendent of the transmission lines
of the Georgia Railway and Power com
pany He srelated the events leading up
10 the capture of a man named Butler
and a man named Gully on a steel
tower line of the company near Duluth,
and of the finding of the suit case full
of dynamite, previously introduced IN
court, near the pole.
He said between October Is and 20 he
was guarding the tower line from Tai
lulah Falls to Atlanta, watching all sus'
picious automobiles leaving Norcross
and other points and tracing down all
rumors. He said one night Ford car
with three men left Norcross and he and
his assistant followed it. Between Nor
cross and Duluth they saw a flare
against the sky and knew the line had
been cut They decided to hurry to
Sewanee and telephone to Atlanta and
Tallulah Falls, but their car broke
down before they reached Sewanee and
to walk.