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Show MORE TESTIMONY ON EASTLAND DISASTER H-RAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 23. Captain Walter Scott, former harbormaster harbor-master of Cheapo, and for fortv years a tailor on 'the great lakex, was on tho ptand for the defense today in the examination ex-amination of six men indicted in connection con-nection with tho capsizing of the TCa.st-land TCa.st-land in the Chicago river last July with a loss of more than SOD lives. Captain Scott took soundings in the Chicago river soon after the Eastland tragedy. His testimony was to establish estab-lish . one of the claims of the defense that the accident mm- have bonn caused when the vessel struck the river 'oot-tnm 'oot-tnm . The preliminary' part nf Captain Scott's testimony concerned the "oo-grsphirnl "oo-grsphirnl location of the Chicago river. The witness said he had known the river since 1SQH. |