The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-10
CASTONIk JUDGE
SHIELDS POLICE

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present defendants. She said the
first shot came from near the police
car.
Judge Barnhill this morning over
ruled a motion by the defense For
non-suit, although no credible evil
dence has been offered that the
seven National Textile Workers
Union Strikers and organizers in the
Loray strike who are now on trial
for the death of Chief of Police
Aderholt committed any murder.
The State has rested its case. The
Manville- lawyers have no
more perjured testimony to offer,
although Gastonia City Solicitor
Carpenter, boasting this morning
about 20 more witnesses haid he did
not see fit to call many of them.
Scab. Stool Pigeon Evidence"
This particular attempt to stop
the organizing of southern workers
will have to rest on the peculiarly
contradictory and unreliable evil
dence of the assortment of scabs,
proven stool pigeons, and deputy po-
licement with criminal records that
has been given so far.
Today Frank Flowers, counsel for
the defense, employed by the Inter
national Lafor Defense, reviewed
the mass of contradictory testimony
offered by 81 hirelings of the Loray
Mil bosses. He pointed out that the
case of the prosecution was not suf-
ficiently strong to go on with the
trial, and asked the judge to dis
miss the charges.
Barnhill answered that he consid-
ers the evidence sufficient to leave
it to the jury to decide on the ques-
ton of guilt or innocence Of the de-
PENDANTS.
Then Flowers moved for the dis
missal of the charges against Clar-
once Miller because of the absence
of evidence against him. Miller was
charged merely with as
sault, but when he appeared at the
first Charlotte trial he was charged
also with murder.
The Judge overruled this motion
also, but this provides another basis
for an appeal to a higher court in
case there are convictions.
The defense then began to put the
first of its hundred or more witness
es on the stand this afternoon, to be-
gin proving that the strikers were
forced by the terrorism of the Loray
gangsters to defend their lives and
the lives Of their wives and children,
as we'll as their headquarters
against the murderous attacks upon
them.
To Expose States Witnesses.
These defense witnesses will ex-
post the States witnesses as lying
hirelings of the Manville-Jenckes
The last of the States witnesses
were Jackson and c. M. Ferguson,
Gastonia policemen who accompan-
led Aderholt on the raid. Attorney
Unison, for the defense, finished
the exposure of Jackson, which he
began yesterday. His biting sar-
casm completely confused and broke
down jackson. Unison pointed out
after another of the discrepancies
both in his present testimony and in
the previous mistrial.
Jackson brought into court the
famous "little red book" in which
he said he Lad written down part OF
Beals speech: "Shoot to kill, etc."
For two b Unison ridiculed
jackson and his "little red book"
which turned out to be black book,
until nobody in the curt room be-
lcieved anything Jackson had said.
Ferguson said he went down to
the union lot with Aderholt, Whita-
ker, Praether, and Hord. Roach and
Gilbert stopped on the way to break
up the picket line. His account OF
their trip and what happened en-
route conflicted in several details
with the accounts given by other Of
ficers. He denied, as they all did,
that they had beaten up strikers on
the picket line, including old Mrs,
McGinnis and other women.
The defenc, has dozens OF wit
nesses able to testify to the reign Of
terror, the ruthless brutality of the
police and the Loray thugs necessi-
tating the organizing of the strike
ers' guard
Ferguson, who fired his rifle at
the strikers, and then ran like a
rabbit when trouble started at the
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