The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-12
RACE ISSUE IN
CASTONIA TRIAL
Witness States Gilbert
Threatened Raid
(Continued from Paae Onel

lHcFlnllHdle HIlu VI SeI nm W ISS-
tify for the state.
Attorney Cansler of the prosecu-
ton also read Saylors' affidavit
made the day after the kidnapping
of the three organizers when Wells
was beaten and threatened with
lynching. Cansler attempted to
poke fun at Saylors' declaration
that he saw Carpenter and Bull
Wrinkle and that they helped to or
ganize the Loray gang that swept
through three counties the night
after the mistrial resulted from the
insanity of Juror Campbell.
Prove Police Hatred.
Cansler also tried to discredit
Saylors by references to his arrest
with seven others for "oyerthrowing
the government" which charge
was dropped when the state failed
to produce any evidence.
Despite Judge Barnhill's ruling
yesterday excluding the testimony
of Gladys Wallace that Buch and
Melvin had been beaten on the
picket line, by the police, the de-
Tense succeeded in getting great
deal of such testimony into the rec
ord today over the strenuous objec-
ton of the prosecution. 1t showed
the brutality of the police, their
hatred of the strikers and subserv-
fence to the Manville-J enckes Co.,
which necessitated arming the
guards to protect the union.
Flat contradiction to the perjury
of the states witnesses who testified
that X. Y. Hendricks ran into the
house of Connie Neal, asking to be
hid and saying, eve have shot Alder
holt and Gilbert" was given in the
testimony of Dewey Martin this
morning. Martin told how he had re-
turned from the picket line which
the police had broken up with VIC
ious brutality, and went to the house
of his father-in-law, Tom Phifer,
near the union headquarters. Mrs.
Connie Neal was there, also Mrs.
Tramble, Tom Phifer and Martins
wife. They were standing in the
back yard when the hsooting oc-
Cured. Hendricks arrived while the
shooting was going en-, so that it is
impossible that Hendricks could
have been at the union headquarters
when Aderholt was shot.
While standing in the back yard,
a boy ran by and told them the police
had been killed. He said, "The police
are looking for Beal." Martin, Hen
bricks and Martins wife went back
into the house, and found Hack Will
son, one of the Loray Committee of
100 there. Wilson left, returning
ten minutes later with a white hand
kerchief around his arm. Hendricks
was with Martin and the others all
the time.
Judge Shields Police.
Whenu Martin started to tell how
Officer Jackson had knocked Earl
Tompkinson down on the picket line
and then kicked him, and how the
police had knocked old Mrs. McGin-
mis- down, the prosecution objected.
Barnhill sustained them, and this
testimony was ruled out as irrele-
want. Marti nalso testified that he
tod Hendricks that since Hendricks
had been beaten by tho police, only
few days previously, they would
be looking for him, and that he had
better get out of town and offered
to take him away in an auto.
Hendricks refused, saying, II have
done nothing wrong. / don't have to
run away" Then Hendricks went
home to sleep and was arrested.
Insinuations.
N omore vicious cross examination
ever took place in a coutr room
than that to which Jake Newell of
the prosecution subjected Martin in
the attempt to disredit him and i'm
peah his testimony. Lying insinua-
tions, vile suggestions, and innuendo
were resorted to by Newell. The
mill bccses' attorney tried to give
the jury picture of Martin as an
immoral scoundrel. He tried to
barge by his questions that Martin
ra naway with other mems wives.
Newell based all his insinuations
solely upon the fact that Martin
went with Weisbord, Cecil Berger,
and two women strikers to New York
to appeal for funds for the Workers
international Eelief to feed the Lo-
ray strikers. Newell intimated re-
peatedly, despite objections from the
defense, overruled by t. judge, that
Martin believed in free love and that
this tour for the w. /. r. was i'm
moral.
Newell then asked Martin the