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Show M'GILLIS IS PRAISED BY PROBEWITWESSES Treatment of Newsboys Declared De-clared to Be Kindly; Hearing Continued. A. H. Crabbe city commissioner, Constable Thomas S. Fowler, W. C. A. Vissing, apartment house builder and owner, and David Alder and Lyman Whatcott, both former newsboys, testified testi-fied in behalf of Charles McGillis, city circulator for Salt Lake daily papers, in the continuation of the hearing on cruelty charges against the latter before be-fore the state industrial commission yesterday afternoon, Commissioner William Wil-liam M. Knerr presiding, and Attorneys E. A. Eogers and J. H. Haas representing represent-ing the accused. Mr. Crabbe declared Mr. McGillis a highly suitable man to have charge of the boys, and his observation was that he treated them fairly. He said he had known McGillis not only not to abuse the boys, but that he bought them caps and gloves at the Crabbe clothing store. Ho had heard McGillis caution boys against smoking, and had never heard him curse them. Mr. Vissing said he had sold papers in Salt Lake more than twenty-five vears ago, and that accounted for the interest he felt in the welfare of news-hoys. news-hoys. He had observed the treatment of the boys bv McGillis, he said, and had nothing biit praise for the way in which he handled them. He had not been asked to testify by Mr. McGillis, but had come of his own accord. Constable Fowler said that he had three sons in the military service, of the United States now, and each oi them had sold papers under McGillis. whom he declared to be the friend of his boys and of himself. He said that the accused had helped him and his boys, and he felt grateful to him for it. He had watched McGillis handle the newsboys and had learned to respect him for what he had accomplished with David . Alder and Lyman Whatcott, the former newsbovs, said that Mr. McGillis Mc-Gillis always treated them fairly, as well as all-other boys, so far as they knew from their experience. He was not cruel to them, but, on the contrary, was their friend and treated them with fairness, never cheating them, notwithstanding not-withstanding what accusation was made to that effect. The hearing was continued to 4 o'clock this afternoon. |