The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
fine; it might have been a man and
it might have been woman
Ado About Cardboard.


it might have been woman.p
Ado About Cardboard.
Another "star" witness of the
prosecution, Mrs. Tom Jenkins, tes-
titled that on the night of the shoot
ing she saw Beal and several other
defendants put piece of cardboard
up against one broken pane in
window in the inner office of the
union building. She heard no con-
versation of any kind, but it is I'M
derstood that the state will try to
show that it was here that the con-
spiracy was formed.
Haven't you ever seen anyone
pull shade over a Window" At
torney Mccall asked the witness
contemptuously.
This witness reported she heard
Beal tell the strikers: go to the
mill, drag them out"-a further
variation of Beal's alleged remark
upon which the prosecution pins so
much hope. These were the only
words she heard Beal say, the wit
ness testified, nothing before and
nothing after.
The defense lawyer brought out
the fact that both Mrs. Jenkins and
her husband had on number of
occasions asked the union guards to
also protect their home as they
were in constant fear of attacks by
drunken deputies and hired mill
| thugs.
Witness Tripped.
Spectators laughed, and the judge
raped his gavel, when, comment
ing on the witness assertion that
the strikers INDUCED in profanity
defense attorney Mccall remarked,
"these defendants were not indicted
for cussing."
The witness later again betrayed
herself when, after she had stated
that she had never seen the tents
back of the union hall because of
the trees, she estimated that the
distance between her home and the
tents about three blocks. She was
considerably confused when defense
lawyers called her attention to this
inconsistency.
Toward the close of the session,
Hoey for the prosecution, referred
! to the union guards as "gunmen."
Arthur Garfield Hays was on his
feet at once and denounced this as
an obvious attempt to prejudice ths
jury. After the judge ruled out the
use of the word, Hoey barked out
that he would not take lecture
from any defense lawyer
Additional fireworks were provi-
ded when Defense Attorney Adams
asked that the jury be removed and
assaulted Solicitor Carpenter on the
continued presence in the court
hove building of the dummy re-
sci bling the dead chief of police
which the prosecution paraded be-
fore the jury when it opened its
case on Thursday Adams demanded
that the "ghastly object" be re-
moved from the building, and gave
the prosecution hauling over the
Goals for resorting to this cheap
trick. The judge denied Adams mo-
ton, but ordered the solicitor to
lock it up, presumably where the
jury could not see it..
Carpenter limited that the pro-
secution would drag the effigy out
again during the course of the trial.
In Fridays session, Policeman
Gilbert told a story as much mixed
and contradictory as the other prose-
cution witnesses.
Fought with Family.
Gilbert also denied that only
month ago he got into fight with
his own family, who called for help.
Another denial was that several
Gastonia bootleggers have accused
him of confiscating for his own use
or sale their stocks of liquor. AL
though Gilbert said, mo-" to the
question: Didn't you gently have
fight with man named Hoyle ?"
he admitted trouble with the Bos-
wick boys many years ago. He still
bears on his person the marks of
that fight He denied that he had
renewed the fight with them this
year.
Gilbert's story conflicted with
Roach's and Mason's as to who fired
and as to identity of the guard whom
he disarmed. He denied that he
saw any pickets on the way to the
tent colony or that he took part in
breaking up the picket line, although
he admitted he had seen McLaugh-
lin and McGinnis (defendantslt only
once before, he had no difficulty in
identifying both at a glance in the
dark as the strikers who fired first.
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