The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09


/ resulted in the death of Alder
2holt, for which the seven Ma
tional Textile Workers Union
members are being tried for
murder, yesterday naively told
of his close connections with
the Loray mill management as
though they were something to
boast of. Gilbert says he served IS
special deputy, paid by the Loray
mill, for a year, then was promoted
to the Gastonia city police force.
Alarmed by the fact that the de-
fense was showing the close con-
nections of prosecution witnesses
with the Manville-Jenckes company,
the states lawyers have evidently
warned the rest of the witnesses not
to admit such connections, rewards,
and promotions. So this morning
prosecution witnesses denied being
stool pigeons and hirclings of Loray.
The defense this morning brought
out the remarkable fact that the
states witnesses are only able to
remember two or three sentences
from the speeches of Beal, and all
of them remember exactly the same
alleged sentences: "Go to the milf
and go into the mill and drag them
out. Shoot and shoot to kill"
These sentences have been re-
peated by every witness thus far,
parrot-like, with new variations
when some witness forgot his lines.
| Today J. D. Cooper, step-father
of Grace Duffy, told about going to
the union lot to hear Beal speak.
He denied that he was sent by the
Manville-Jenckes Co. as stool
pigeon. He quoted Beal as warning
the Loray thugs that if they tried
to break up the meetings, the strik-
ers' guards would put them off the
lot.
Cooper witnessed the attempt to
break up the meeting on the after
noon of the raid. He said There
was some scuffling and stones were
thrown at Beal and Buch. Then
there was a shot" Cooper said he
was with Grace Duffy on the porch,
but didn't hear the remarks she
quoted yesterday in the attempt to
prove conspiracy. He saw the Of
ficers arrive later, and admitted
there was no trouble at that time.
He saw the officers seize the guard,
says he heard someone yell, Turn
him loose, heard shooting, which
he said came from the front AMI
He admitted he could not identify
any of the men on the union lot that
night. He also testified that he
knew for weeks before juno 7 that
the Loray mill thug1 had bean
threatening to destroy the union
headquarters ard "clean cut TIE
union" 1t was brought Gu. by the
Defense that the porch from which
he and Grace Duffy claimed to wiz
ness the shooting is so situated that
only few feet of the union grounds
were in their line of vision They
could neither have seen what they
described, nor heard what was sad.
Dan Hord, who has been a police
man for 35 years, couldn't identify
any defendants. He told of taking
shot out of a tree opposite the union
lot. 1t will be shown by Defense
witnesses that Hord fired his shot
gun. Hord said the shot in the tree
were buckshot This is his attempt
to show that his own shot didn't kill
Aderholt as the doctors testify that
the chief of police was hit by No.
shot. AS Hord himself admits he
removed I'll the shot from the tree,
where Aderholt FELL there is no way
to show whether these "buc&Shot"
we're from Hord's gun or not.
Hord contradicted Sheriff Line
berge rby saying that he took Mac
Laughlin, one of the strike defend
ants in this trial, from Gostonia to
Shelby and obtained his confession.
Lineberger said that he was the one
who took MacLaughlin to Shelby, to-
gether with Carter, another of the
seven on trial. This was when, by
third degree methods, they forced
the so-called Confessions" from the
two strikers, that they had fired.
Hor dadmitted that they had no
warrants on the night of June 7.
He denied that he had been in
dicted number of times for illegal