Evening journal., 1922-08-07
ACQUIT FOUR
ACCUSED OF
ROCK ATTACK
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tion was finished.
Mrs. Joseph, who was not hest
. tant in giving her testimony,
e said that after she had been
t struck by the rock, she saw Grubb,
Boots and Mcguire in the rear of the
house. Grubb, she said, was the
only one she saw throw bricks. He
threw three, she stated. She said
that Mrs. Ralston threw four rocks
/ on her porch and "called her every
, thing but a decent lady" She tes-
titled that Mrs. Ralston sneered at
her, calling her "scab," skunk"
"brazen D." and other deroga-
tory names. About 125 were gath
cred about her home, the witness
said.
Mr.. Joseph is car inspector for
the Pennsylvania railroad, Mrs !
Joseph said the attack in her home |
was made ito get her husband at |
the railroad shop" The defendants
were suspected of being strike SYM
pathizers.
Mcguire and Boots, the hearing
disclosed, are not strikers, but on
the contrary, are still in the en-
u
Mrs. Ralston is the wife of Matthew
+. Ralston. president of the State
Federation Of Labor; president of
Carmen, Brandywine Lodge, No. S22,
and member of the local advisory
board of shop craft. Grubb, who
Mrs. Joseph testified, was the only
one she saw throwing rocks, is a
youth about Is years of age.
Mrs. Ralston was accompanied in
court by her husband. They sat to-
gather throughout the hearing.
Mrs. Myrtle Hensley testified that
she heard Mrs. Joseph accuse Mrs. '
Ralston of throwing bricks on her 7
porch. :
Boots said that he was not within c
300 feet Of the Joseph dwelling. | r
Grubb denied that he threw any \
rocks in the window of the Joseph I
home, but that he was attracted to n
near the place by the assembling of o
a large crowd. Mcguire said he took Z
no part in the disturbance and that
he was drawn to the scene by the D
confusion. Mrs Ralston denied hav-
ing any part in the trouble and 4
denied throwing stones on the l
Joseph porch.
Mr.. Ralston and Edward Logan
gave testimony as to the lighting
at the time of the trouble.
The night was cloudy and there was
no light of a power to serve to rec n
ognize a person only at very close ST
range in the rear of the Joseph n
home, they agreed. a.
Other witnesses testified in behalf II
Of the defendants. II
Matthew E. Ralston and z. r. So
Logan, representing the local rail-
road labor unions, together with
Robert G.. Harman, their counsel,
visited superintendent of Police, OF
George Black, Saturday and had a te
with him over the strike in
situation.
They attributed the disorders TO
certain persons having no connection ra
With the local unions. They said f
heir organization advocated a h,
,eacable strike and disapproved III
ome of the methods being used at in
he present time.
Mrs. Joseph upon leaving the
ourt room left the building by the
King street entrance to avoid the NJ
rowd OF strike sympathizers lined 20
p on French street. She was greet m
d by a number of friends in the br
orridor. r,
When asked as to her future plans to
frs. Joseph, with tears in her eyes, CT
reclaimed: he
"Oh, 1 don't know where I'll go. m,
'e bought our home on seventeenth ioi
rect, and have just spent over 5000 Pc
king it up. but I can't go back cet
lere. I am afraid they will kill a
le." m.
George ]. Logan, a railroad strik-
:. was dismissed by Deputy Judge
ynn in Municipal Court this morn
6 on a charge of threatening bod vh
, harm to David Farra. a strike no
'eaker, with the understanding WI
at he conduct himself in accord liz,
ice with the edicts of the union ia
aders, that picketing be conduct the
peacefully. at
Farra said Logan threaten "to
rock his damned head off IL no w
e was around" Logan said Farra n
st accosted him and asked him nj,
'hy he did not go back to work" vii
2 said he considered that as an ~
suit and told Farra that he would -
nch him in the mouth If no one 49,.
re around" Farra said that af- - -
: the threat, he is afraid of Lo-
n.
F'arra, in answer to questions of n
bert G.. Harman, attorney for the Co.,
was firm in his story that ,,',.,
filed the charge of his own voli- cra,
n and not in response to urgings
railroad police. So
From my knowledge Of Mr.. Lo- ,,jt,
n. do not think he meant to do ne,
ira any, bodily harm" Judge
nm said.
Irwin Spencer, Negro. before court u
a charge of disorderly conduct, socr
after police attempted to Co.
ICE a strikebreaker under arrest. Eor
was alleged TO have run between phT
icer Jones and an alleged disorder 80,
strikebreaker and succeeded in pen
ing the strikebreaker to make his bsn
away. When Spencer was taken a. =
o custody, he attempted to strike "
officer and to make his escape. uI
was fined SO and costs. o.
rohn Grablis, Peter Reich, An uob
w Panko and Frank Wisniewski, hort
,ged strike sympathizers, were be- Den
e the court on charges Of threat Con-
ng to do bodily harm to Bolek had
rink. an alleged strikebreaker. the
e trouble created intense excite
mt in Grubb's place when the
eat was alleged to have been made w