Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1905 — INQUISITION OPENS UP [ARTICLE]

INQUISITION OPENS UP

Grand Jury at Chicago Has Driscoll, Alleged Strike Adjuster, on the Stand. TROUBLE FOR TRAM OWRXRB Grocers Find a City Ordinance That Hits Them in the Union. Mayor Asked to Enforce—Lawyers Before the Maater Have a Monkey and Parrot Time—Jeerer ghot. Chicago, June 15.—A large number of the retail grocers of the city have addressed a communication to Mayor Duune in which they demand the revocation of the licenses of team owners who decline to make deliveries to boycotted bouses. The attention of the mayor is called by the retail grocers to sections of the municipal code which render discriminations as at present practiced by the team owners a misdemeanor. If the mayor acts as requested by the retail grocers the team owners will be forced to take the chances of a strike, or lose their licenses. Drltooll lie for. th. Urand Jnry. John C. Driscoll, the much desired witness in the bribery probe being corn ducted by the state’s attorney and the grand Jury in connection with strike troubles, appeared before the inquisitors. Driscoll did not appear at the criminal court building until the state’s attorney had threatened to send detectives after him. Driscoll’s evidence covered the historical points in con>nectlon with various labor organizations and he told in detail of the work he had done in forming the Coal Team Owners’ association, as well as the connection of Albert Young, formerly president of the Teamsters’ union, with that organization. He told of specified strikes, the causes, tbe terms of settlement and stated the amounts of money which were, he declared, paid to various labor leaders. Llv.ly Tim. 1b Court. Albert Young, ex-president of the Teamsters' union, occupied the stand in the hearing before Master-iu-Chancery Sherman. When Attorney Austrian, acting for the employers, was interrupted during his questioning of the witness by Attorney’ Leboskey, for the defense.lie appealed to the master, saying: “Am I to lie lectured by this grease sent here?”

Some Unkind Remarks. Till attorneys for the defense, rising to their feet in a bunch, objected to this language from Attorney Austrian, and Attorney Slack, a colleague of Attorney Leboskey, insisted that Austrian apologize lo Leboskey. “ I will not beg his pardon now or at any other time,” answered Austrian. Lebroskey shouted: “You are not gentleman enough to apologize and you are not brave enough to address me like that outside of. this court.” The master ordered Attorney Leboskey to sit down, threatening to have him excluded front the court room. Attorney Austrian, replying to Leboskey, said that his fear for him would not prompt him to leave the building by a different door tbnn that used by Leboskey. Young Ana wars Few Questions. Following this tilt between the attorneys Young was asked a long line of questions and In almost every Instance he refused to answer, declaring he was afraid, of self-Incriminatlon, Shot for Jeering Officer. Arthur Tall, a union driver, was shot by a policeman who was escorting a lumber wagon and fatally hurt. Tall was sitting In a wagon which had stopped to allow several lutobet* wagons escorted by police to pas?. He jeered the officers and drivers, and one of the policemen drew his revolver and fired.