Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — HARRIMAN WINS POINT [ARTICLE]

HARRIMAN WINS POINT

PASTOR’S TESTIMONY IMPEACHING HIM AS WITNESS BARBED. ■■' ■ V ■ Charge of Guilty Knowledge of Los Angeles Times Dynamite Plot Is Not Sustained. Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 9. —Impeachment of the testimony of Job Harriman in the bribery trial of Clarence S. made by Rev. E. A. Cantrell was balked by Judge Hutton. The court ruled that the minister’s statement, which inferred that Harr!man knew all about the Times disaster plot beforehand, was improper. The impeachment question, which had been denied by Harriman, and which was expected to be answered in the affirmative by Cantrell, should the court permit it, contained in substance the following .allegations: That Harriman had said to Cantrell on the morning of October 1 at San Luis Obispo, Cal.: “By God, Cantrell, the Times building has been dynamited and something like twenty ’people killed.” That Harriman had taken Cantrell to his room in a hotel, locked the door and then burst into a fit of laughter, after which Cantrell said: “What does this mean?” That Harriman, replied that it “means the hoys are on the job.” That a few minutes later Ilarrftnan Baid: “I have known for some time that preparations were being made to pull off the job.” That In the resulting conversation Harriman told Cantrell he had been In consultation with the plotters and had begged them to postpone the matter until after the state Socialist convention.