The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-12
WALDRON TESTIMONY ENDS.
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held meetings in Windsor last fall,
the one at Waldron s house.
at Waldron S request, when Burr was
present. She said all those who want
ed the Holy Ghost were asked to kneel
and that Burr was kneehng when he
fell on the floor. She did not hear any
Of the statements credited to the min
ister
Floyd \. Wright, formerly of Wind
scr, who has been in Springfield, Mass,
since Oct. 81, said he heard Waldron Il
make the statement, ''To hell with pa II
triotism, but that it was in 1916, be h
fore the United States entered the war,
and shat it was said in connection with /
other remarks in which Waldron was |
ridieuling the idea that there was pa |
triotism in Emperor William. Mrs. |
Dean Blanchard of Windsor testified to |
hearing the same remark, which was i'll |
sermon in which Waldron was crit |
cising the patriotism Of the Kaiser.
The defense called 10 witnesses yes
| terday afternoon, and some of them
| were examined by Attorney \. y.
| Clawson Of Mr.. Bacon 5 office All are
I
scr, those who are not now living there
| having been residents of the place dur
ing the time that the alleged acts and
utterances complained Of are supposed
To have occurred. One was Rev. +. r.
/ Daniels of the Unitarian church and
| all the others are or have been attend
ants of the Baptist church, although
from the testimony il appears that
when the trouble in the church culmina
ted many of those who sided with the
pastor withdrew from the church with
him.
1t is this church row, the details of
which have not fully appeared, that
has caused a suspicion in the minds Of
some of the spectators that there is
considerable bias on the part OF wit
nesses on both sides.
Rev Mr. Daniels was called to show
that Rev. Mr. Waldron was a member
| of the ministerial union of which Rev.
Mr.. Daniels is president and that the
witness never heard the respondent say
anything unpatriotic but Judge Howe
excluded Mr. Bacon 5 offer and only
e two or three questions were asked the
: witness.
- The other witnesses of Ia" afternoon
: were Mark +, Reynolds of Springfield,
1 Mass, Amos Newton Chase of Wind
e sor, Albert Swanson of Wavland. Mans,
1 George Brown, Mrs l.. Aileen Lacey,
( who is one of the respondent s bonds
4 men. Stanley j. Ware, Mrs. Frank
: White, Moses B. Harrington, and Doro-
e thy Brown.
/ The burden of their testimony was
< that during all their associations with
Is Mr.. Waldron they never heard him
Z make the unpatriotic statements attrib
a. uted to aim by the government. but il
y cross examination they admitted that
a it would have been possible for Mr.
e Waldron to have made the statemntt
d and they not know about them
Miss Brown, Mr.. Harrington, Mrs
Lacey and Mr.. Swanson tea.ified to be
present at meeting Of the Pentecos
tails or Holy Rollers in MIR Waldron
home, where it is claimed by Austil
". Burr, a government witness, tina
the pastor told him that d young ma
should suffer punishment rather thai
fight and that some of the young me
of the church had enlisted III spite 0
all he could do They said that the
heard no such remarks at the meetin
and the subject of the war was nc
brought up.
District Attorney Billiard made
number Of inquiries as to the conduc
of the Pentecostal meetings, in whic
it appeared that those taking part 81
around the room in a circle and praye
for the Holy Spirit to descend upo
them and those who brought their vii
under the greatest degree Of sabmi
son were most likely to have the Ho
Spirit "strike as the district alto
ney put it. When the visitation can
those receiving it became Frustrated
Mr. Billiard started an interastil
line of inquiry, but he didn t follow
up as far as many of the spectacle
would have been pleased to have hi
90.
At the completion of the examir
ton of these witnesses the court a
nounced that recess would be tax
until this morning, with the expect
ton that all the evidence would be
before noon and that then another
cess would be taken to Monday aft
noon for the beginning of the arr