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Show Coal Shoveler Tells Story About Graft Explains On Witness Stand How Western Wes-tern Fuel Company Juggled Weights San Francisco, Cal., Jan 20. When a tub of coal hoisted from tbo Western Fuel company's barges was to bo weighed, Philip QamasI, a shov-eler shov-eler for the company on board tho barges, litis Instructions to heap tho tub as high as he could with closo packed, lino coal. When tho tub was not to bo weighed, ho was Instructed to use coarso coal, and as llttlo as he thought would pass without complaint. com-plaint. ' Sometimes such a bucket would contain onlytwo or threo big lumps. In testifying to this effect todiiy, Gamasl said his orders camo from the hatch tenders on tho barges, par-tlculr,rly par-tlculr,rly from tho boss hatch tender, Itooker. Counsel for the eight officers, directors di-rectors and employes of tho company charged with criminal conspiracy to defraud tho government of customs dues by Juggling weights endeavored to shhko Gamasht's testimony by leading lead-ing htm Into hypothetical explanations of tho motives thnt might have been behind his Instructions. Gajinasi was a llttlo uncertain of his ground on this field, but bo was posltlvo what his orders had been and that ho had executed them. |