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Show LYNCH FOUD GUILTY. The Closing Act of Hostilities Between Be-tween the U. P. and the R. G. W. The case of Provo city vs.' John V. Lynch was heard before Judge Noon at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. A jury was procured. D. D. Houtz appeared for the city and N. M, Bradley Lr the defendant. Agent Craig, the complaining witness, wit-ness, testified: I am agent at the U. P. depot; was there on the 27th of March; we were taking part in the scuffle over the ties that were being placed across the track; I had hold of a tie and some on struck me behind the ear; in looking up I saw defendant kicking my hat; did not see who struck me; the U. S. Marshal came and stopped further trouble. Led ru Loveridge, foreman of -lie P. L., M. & B. Co., testified he w.;.-. at the depot and saw the trouble; Lynch struck Craig on the side of the head; Craig was trying to clear the track, and was stooping over when he was struck; he was not pushed, he was struck, and the blow knocked his hat off and he staggered; 'I slid to the people when Lynch hit him, "That's a shame;" Mr. Bachman, U. S. marshal, appeared and put a stop to the trouble. Jas. F. Dunn Saw Lynch strike Craig; he was stooping over at the time; Craig threw the ties off the track while Lynch put them on again; Craig was very cool both before and after, more cool than I would be under the same circumstances; it was a blow and not a push that Craig received. J. G. Coltrin corroborated the testimony testi-mony of the previous witnesses. John T. Lynch, the defendant, in his own behalf, testified: Was with my train in Provo on March 27; we had started to pull out, going west, before be-fore I knew anything about the trouble with the car; during the scuffle I was in front of the U. P. engine, heloiner to take out a rail, so the engine onid not back down against our train; I did not have anything to do with the ties until Craig threw one on my fingers and then stepped on mv foot; this made me mad, and I pushed him off; I did not strike him; I was not angry until he stepped on my foot. Houtz You pushed him then because be-cause 5011 were mad? Witness No; I pushed because he w as on my foot. Houtz Were you on the track? Witness Yes. Houtz Why didn't you get out of his way? Witness Because I had more right there than he had. Houtz Y'oh are certain jou did only push him? Witness I know I didn't strike him; I kicked his hat because it was in my way; our car repairer then said to me: "Here, Doc. no lighting here"; he told me afterwards he did not sec me strike Craig. Conductor Lund saw the trouble and said: We were trying to prevent the U. P. engine from running into us; our men were putting ties in front of the engine; Craig was trying to take the ties off the track; Lynch gave him a push; he did not strike him, merely pushed him; did r.oi heu Craig complain com-plain of being struck. John Deal, Tom Goodman and Al. Hardy corroborated the testimony of the previous witnesses. The case was then argued and sub-mitle sub-mitle I 10 the jury who returned a verdict ver-dict of guilty. Justice Noon sentenced defendant to pay a fine of $25. He was given time to file motion of sppeal. |