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Show TELLS OF THREATS MADE fl AGENT E. A. Edwards of Spokane Principal Witness Against Cash Register People. CINCINNATI. O.. Dec. 1.1. -In the trial today of President Patclrson and twenty-nine" twenty-nine" other officials or former officials of tho 'National Cash Register company, 13. a". Edwards of Spokane, owner of a wholesale atorc fixture concern, proved to be the government's principal witness. wit-ness. He testified that he purchased a number num-ber of Michigan cash registers to sell and thai shortlv afterward. C. G. Pruitt. National Na-tional sales agent for that territory, called upon him nnd tried to induce him to stop selling nn ytnachincs other than Iho National. Edwards said that Prniit said he was too good a man to stand the "bumping" that necessarily would come his way if he continued to "buck" the National. Edwards testified that after Pruitt raw there wars no chance for him to throw out Michigan machines, he threatened threat-ened to have manufacturers of scaler, TVlthrir&y" their agencies from Edwards and by having suit brought against him. Finally, according to the witness. Pruitt. Pru-itt. showed him a "morgue Hat" containing contain-ing iwoiity-slx names of firms that Pruitt Pru-itt said h.-ul been forced out of business because they refused to quit selllntr machines ma-chines that were not made by tho National Na-tional company. Edwards claimed that Pruitt. told him Ihni Edwards would be the twenty-seventh, and next day thrco machine regis ters that had been sold were returned and that (others had been returned to him ever since. J. W. Shupe. one of Edwards's salesmen, sales-men, testified ho heard Pruitt say thai If Edwards did not keep to the scale business, the National would spend $10,-000 $10,-000 to put him out of business entirely. J. A. Snndwnld of Seattle said National Na-tional agents had followed him evory-wJiero evory-wJiero ho went and tried to stop his sales, lie said Pruitt was known as the "knocked captain" and that he always followed him. L. L. DesBoIlIons. former Amorican agent at Savannah. Ga.. paid he drove a National agent out of his office with .a gun when the lateti- refused to leave while a prospective purchaser was in his office. D. . Antwerp of Seattle, Paul E. Stiver, secretary to Edwards, and several other witnesses testified today. |