The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
.CASTONIA CASE.
States Witness
Sees THRU WALL
Defense Brings Out the
Masked Mob Raid

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fore defense lawyers when he was
questioned by them a few days ago.
At that time he testified II went
up to the corner to use the phone.
l went into the Long drug store, but
the phone was in use, so l tried to
telephone in the undertaking par
lor nearby, but was not able to get
anyone"
Admits "No Trouble"
Additional evidence that there
was absolutely no trouble" at the
union headquarters, the excuse
given for the subsequent raid on
the tent colony, was found in the
admission by Jackson that he told
his chief: "There is no trouble at
the union headquarters, and there
is no use going there"
w. P. Upton, a Gastonia deputy
sheriff, was the next witness. He
told of arresting Clarence Miller on
the night of the June attack on
the tent colony, and quoted him as
saying that he ordered Aderholt
and the other officers off the lot
when they appeared. -o.-
The deputy testified that after
arresting Miller he searched him
and found a number of cartridges
in his pocket. This is flatly denied
by Miller, who declares that fol-
lowing his arrest he asked why ne
was being held. and was told there
was no charge lodged against him.
Four days elapsed before a formal
charge was made against him, and
not until the grand jury met was
he added to the list of those charged
with murder.
Masked Mob Raid.
At this point defense counsel
asked the deputy whether he knew
that the first headquarters Of the
strikers and the Workers Interna-
tional Relief station were destroyed
by masked mob at 2 a. m. April
10, at which time the food for the
strikers and their families was
thrown into the street. The ma
tional guard was stationed only
three blocks away, it was brought
cut by the questioning. The de-
Tense is expected to show later in
the trial that the police ard the
national guard worked hand in hand
with the mill thugs of the "Com-
mittee of 100" in its destruction of
the strikers headquarters ard the
relief station.
Hoey's Wild Charge.
Pricked by the description of the
attack on these headquarters, Clyde
Hoey, attorney for the prosecution,
leaped to his feet and made the fan
tastic charge that the strikers de-
stroyed their own headquarters.
"There is not word of truth in
your statement defense lawyer
Adams shouted.
One Of the frailest witnesses yet
put on by the state was in the per-
son Of Grace Duffy, who testified
that she lives across the street from
the union headquarters. She said
she stood on side porch of her
home and from there heard the
shots on the union lot. =
Attorney Unison, for the defense,
brought out the fact that there is
house between this porch and the
uniol lot and he commented sarcas-
tically upon her ability to "see
around the curve"
Changes Testimony.
This remarkable person, who ad-
mitted under cross-examination that
she works in the main office of the
Loray mill, and got a job after
June Z, testified that she heard "a
lot of shots, about $780," She said
that the shots came from the rear,
but later, on the stand, changed her
mind and said they came from the
SlQS anu IGal, IlOI 10 uSI I6SLl-
mony, the highest number of shots
estimated was Is.
Apparently in return for her
services in helping the attempt to
convict the unionists on trial, the
young woman, Unison brought out,
was last week promoted to be secre-
tary to the first purchasing agent
of the Loray mill. Her father is a
well-paid carpenter in the plant.
She said that, during the speak
ing" she heard someone shout:
Form a picket line; go to the mill
and into the mill"
Questioned about the nature of
the voice of the person shouting,
she admitted she was unable to see.
She replied: at wasn't so terribly
coarse, and it wasn't so terribly