The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-14
WITNESSES FOR
DEFENSE CALLED
Lawyers Wrangle in Trial
of Rev. MIR. WaldrOn in
Burlington
BULLARD STRONG IN
CROSS-EXAMINATION
Windsor Residents Tell of Respondent
Praying for President and Boys in
Trenches-Many References to
Word of the Cross
Especial to The Reformer.)
prp1 nIAL

BURLINGTON, March I.
Counsel for the defense put on FIVE
witnesses this morning in behalf of Rev.
| Clarence II. Waldron, now the leader of |
the pentecostals or - Hcly Rollers of |
Windsor, but formerly pastor of the !
Baptist church, who is accused of sedi- |
ton. The witnesses on direct examina |
tion by Attorney NJ. G. Leary of Bur
lington testified to Waldron s favorable |
attitude towards the government and |
the war, that at various times he prayed
for the strengthening of the President
and the army and navy and that he
did open patriotic meeting in the Bap-
fist church at Windsor. which was con
Quoted by several students from Dart
mouth college, Hanover, y. II. The wit
nesses included Deane Blanchard,
trustee and Sunday School superintend
ant, Horace A. Allen, president of the
Waldron Bible class and member of
the choir, Miss Alice Chase, organist,
and Newton Chase, member of the
Waldron Bible class.
4 On cross-examination by Attorney
r Vernon A. Bullard, Witness Blanchard
, testified that Waldron offered PRAYERS
! for the Strengthening of the United
:, States army in the trenches of Europe
! as early as Jul;- Attorney Bullard
/ called the attention of the court that
n the defendant was praying for the sol
= dIers III the trenches while in fact not
a single detachment OF United States
. soldiers went into the trenches until
-. a.. ID -.
Waldron inferred that Christians should
90 by the Bible and their own con
science instead of the law of the coun-
try.
Witness Allen on cross.examination
testified that he was present at the
sermon on the kaiser and he understood
that the subject was Is the Kaiser the
Ante Christi" Attorney Bulard stated
a that ante meant prior and considerable
discussion ensued between counsel for
defense and court over the admittance
Of the testimony, but it was admitted
Miss Alice Chase on cross-examina-
IL tion stated that her inference of the
ID kaiser sermon was that the kaiser was
90 more powerful than Christ, but Wal
, dron stated at the conclusion of the ser
u mon that he would leave il to the con
i'll science of the people TO answer fol
a themselves whether the kaiser was the
antiChrist or not.
Yesterday morning saw the compile
tion of the government s case and yes
C. terday afternoon at 3 clock after
recess of nearly six hours the defense
.st opened. Attorneys Brown, Williams
Leary and Bickncll spent several hour
in conference with witnesses, many o
-es whom did not arrive until yesterda,
civ morning and had never arranged thei
Of testimony with counsel.
on The first two witnesses put on in be
-ba half of the defendant, after cross-exan
oIe ination by District Attorney Bullart
,o,, were badly muddled and gave cor
los fused and jumbled answers. Objection
zed and exceptions were libcrallv calle
for by the defense and the al
obt which L. s. District Attorney Bullar
Cor used in his cross-cxamination wf
,ro called unfair and unjust to the wi
aa, nesses and the defendant by Attorne
~ Leary for the defense. Judge How
~ ruled that cross examination was
haa creditable art and that because an a
"ol torney possessed it and used it to Il
~ advantage of his cause was not showir
N.3 unfairncss. The entire quartet won
''eu rise and loudly call for an objection
IL the questions put by Attorney Bullar
Even when the court attempted to az
I, some direct questions of Witness Cha
" the attorneys for the defense reno
strated and asked for exceptions.
Fau Their first witness was Q. B. Nor
lund. trustee, chorister, president
the Waldron Bible class and a prom
Is nent member of the Windsor Bapti
the church On direct examination by
tors torney Learv the witness stated tn
inc the pamphlets, The Word of the Gro
less were bought by the trustees of
rom church, after they had been recommcr
oou ed by Waldron, and that neither t
trustees nor Waldron knew what W
VIII in them at the time they were order,
put He stated that he was a dear friend
our OUT Waldron. Under a grilling by
VIII district attorney Nordlund admit
heil that the trustees never paid for
Au pamphlets and that they were rcceiy
by Waldron and therefore he must ha
paid for them personally. Waldron,
the witness admitted was working
der the authority of the trustees of
Raid church when he refused to permit 6
patriotic meetings to be held in
church on Sundays, the trustees thu
ght ing that religion came first, Nc
and lund admitted that he had received
SlN pamphlet from Waldron with the sti
there ment Here is where | stand. =