Bisbee daily review., 1920-04-20
WALKED OUT
 WITHOUT CAUSE
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the Hne, according to his testimony. The nearest ot loud talking and abu- sive language he ever heard during the strike was when the pickets jeer- ed at the "gunmen," as he termed them for failing to keep moving as re- quired by the city ordinance. Other than few bitter words that passed between the strikers and these so-call- ed sunmen there was nothing to indi- cate strike was in progress, Bar ney said. As in the case of every oth- CT witness yet called by the state in its rebuttal the last questions pro pounded by the defense was, have you a damage suit pending against the companies growing out of the deporta- tions," every witness has given an af- firmative answer to this question.
 Had No Grievance.
 Because he was averse to 'scabbing" Harry Rapier said he walked out with the strikers on June 26, although he did not have any grievance against the companies or it's employees. He said he was not a member of the l. w. w. and did not know that they lad called the strike. On cross examination ne testified that previous to the strike he had lived in the same house as Ben Webb, one of the men who signed the demands made by the Industrial Workers of the World. He also ad- l,n nil he friendly with Webb but that the lat ter had never mentioned to him who had called the men out.
 has Bad Memory.
 RaLler's testimony at the prelimi- nary hearings held in Douglas last year was recalled to the witnesse's mind Oy w. II. Burgess, chief counsel for the defense, who asked him if he was sill certain that the train carry ing the deported men stopped at Doug las wniie Oscar Gilman, one of the defendants, walked up and down the track with gun pointed in the direc- ton or cals. He admitted that he had given this testimony at the Douglas hearings but said he was not sure now whether the train had made stop at the Shelter city.
 Mrs. Harry Rapier wife of the wit ness, who had just testified, was call cd to the stand and corroborated the story of her husbands deportation. She said that after they had taken him away at the point of d gun she ran to the home Of a neighbor where she remained until he came back to Bisbee several weeks later. She ad mitted, on cross examination, that this neighbor was Mrs. Ben Webb, wife of the l. ". ", leader She alsoSsatd that she struck with the girls at the Warren laundry after she had been there only three days.
 You seem to be d nice boy. l wish 1 had known you before and would ha'c deputized you to help run out ta- other boys" Captain Harry Wheel CT told him when he returned to ans wer to the draft summons, Ben Keep testified. He also testified that Wheel CT remarked, you had better be good
 
 Keep could not explain how the lat, ter remark fitted into his conversa- ton with the former sheriff, when cross examined. Wheeler told me that there were few men deported, who were all right" the witness said. 'I do not remember how he happened to make the remark about me being good to him. 1 know that he made lr, though"
 F. l.. Crawford, machinist for the c. & A. company previous to strike, testified that he believed the demands made by the l. w. w. were fair, but when cross examined could not tell what the strikers demanded
 He told Of his being hit in the head by "gunman" on the morning of the deportation because he "sasseG" a guard. They tied up his head with bandages and he told them that 'he would rather have d rag on his head than wear one around his arm
 Says all Was Peaceful"
 Crawford said that the Bisbec strike was lllt IuOSI ptdCelul one ne Qdu ever seen. He said he had been in a strike in Cripple Creek, Colorado, in 1904 which was twice as bad as the War ren district affair, but nc one was de- ported.
 Richard Langdon vigorously denied that he had ever been member of the I. w. w. when, during cross eX- animation, Burges read number from a membership card bearing the same name as the witness. Langdon said that he was on the picket line, but that he never used abusive language in his arguments with the miners who persisted in remaining at work.
 We just jollied with them.' the witness testified. Langdon said that he did not have a grievance with the company and was in sympathy with the strike, although he was not mem