The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30
GAST0NIA trial.
RE0PENS TODAY
Organization Goes On
Despite Terror

ing to get them sent to prison as
soon as the Charlotte case is over.
Many Were Arrested.
These defendanst are all that re-
main out of the NOSE than seventy
arrested during the reign of terror
by Manville-Jenckes gangsters hiatt
followed the raid on the strikers
tent colony, April 7 and afterwards.
Many of them were not charged at
all, but those charged with assault
with intent to kill and dismissed at
or before the hearing are: J. o.
Hinsley, Dewey Ward, Sam Bou-
knight, VIM. Siddell, James McTn-
mis-, ]. L. Brewer, Harold C. Curry,
Earl Tompkinson, Caroline Drew,
Edith Saunders, C. Miller, Clay
Runner, Gladys Wallace, c. NJ Lell,
Roy Butler, Horace Lloyd, D.
Sailors, H. H. Miles, w. W. Sprouse.
Talk of New Trick.
Continued rumors that the pros
ecution staff will reduce the charges
or even the number of defendants
continue. The prosecution thus
shows the weakness of its case, the
international Labor Defense points
out, but is no less dangerous. For
it is openly admitted by the pros
ecution attorneys that the main pur-
pose of such a plan, if it is carried
out, as it is by no means surety
that it will be, is to reduce the
number of peremptory challenges,
and permit more easily the packing
of the jury with prejuriced business
men who will convict regardless of
evidence or lack of evidence.
With Is defendanst charged with
first degree murder, and three with
second degree, the defense had in
the first Charlotte trial 1853 peremp-
tory challenges. With these they
I were able to secure jury suffi-
GENTLY unbiased so that when the
prosecution had exposed its case,
put its most important perjurers on
The SIdliu, Vic jury was ASoNJ w
acquit. Three-quarters of the jurors
came voluntarily to the defense af-
ter q mistrial was declared on ac-
count of the insanity of juror,
and stated that they would never
have convicted on teh basis of the
prosecutions case.
This first trial ended Sept. 9,
having started the last of August
and involved exhaustion of three
venires of prospective jurors. Dur
ing the course of the trial, prosecu-
ton witnesses turned out to be very
untrustworthy, contradicting them
selves and each other. Witness
Mason, a man with a criminal rec
ord, tried to say that the police did
not fire at all, during the raid of
Chief of Police Aderholt and his
followers on the strikers W. l. R.
tent colony June 7, and that Striker
McGinnis fired the first shot. This
contradicts other prosecution wit
nesses, who said others fired first.
Doctor Smashes Own Story.
Doctor Mcconnell contradicted his
lawyers, when he told of the angle
of shots striking Aderholt.
Policeman Adam Hord, one of
Aderholt's followers in the raid,
failed miserably to identify any
body, but said enough to contradict
Policeman Roach in regard to their
preliminary raid on the picket line
when they beat up and choked
strikers, and announced they were
going to the tent colony to clean
it out. Hord also admitted he car
ried a shotgun on the raid, mat
ter that the other police denied.
Policeman Roach and Gilbert,
placed on the stand, had to admit
they were under indictment for
shooting up a refreshment stand a
few hours before they took part in
Aderholt's raid. Each blamed the
other for starting the affair.
Jackson Tangles Case
Witness Jackson, a hireling OF
the Manyille Jenckes bosses, testi-
fled that he heard Beal's speech
before the picket line was formed
June 7, and contradicted the other
prosecution witnesses when he
claimed to give Beal's words order
ing the pickets to get out the Man
ville-Jenckes workers.
A woman witness for prosecution,
who was bribed by being made
private secretary at the Loray mill
of the Manville Jenckes Co., testl-
fled to seeing things she could not
have seen unless she could look
through house.
While the jury was out, the de-
Tense witnesses testified to torture
of MeGinnis and others, in order to
extract statements from them after
they were arrested. These are wit
nesses the prosecution will use
again in the present trial.
Mistrial
On Sept. Q, Juror Campbell be-
cao,a a., rav;pp maniac He had heen