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Show LOCAL LABOR iTRftlJB'LES-IN iTRftlJB'LES-IN COURT ,,; Tho case of G. T. Ahord, one'jjf tho strikers charged with disturbing the peace on the morning of January 5, came up in police court this morning morn-ing after several postponements dining din-ing the past two weeks. The case, as presented for the city, was heard this morning and, after thr losfimonv was In tho.aitnmo,. ... -- h.oh",i iuv hi, i.iu;.tiiuri)uy lur tho defenso made a motion for a dismissal dis-missal of the case, claiming that no disturbance of the peace had been shown This, however, was denied b the court and on adjournment taken until 3 o'clock this afternoon The first witness to take the stand was N. D. McMillan, a special officer employed at tho Btockade by the railroads. rail-roads. McMillan testified that early on the morning of January 5 he noticed no-ticed a crowd of men onthe corner of Wall avenue and Twenty-second street and heard loud talking, the import of which ho was unable to determine. de-termine. He noticed George S. Wagner, Wag-ner, the plaintiff In the case, as the cenlor of what seemed to be a disturbance dis-turbance of some sort and hurried out from his place near the gate of thc stockade, arriving In time to hear somoone call Wagner a "dirty cur." Ho claims to Identify Alvord as the man, from his clothes and a peculiar shaped cap he was wearing. Wagner took the stand and told his story of the affair. He claims to have been threatened with a beating several days before and In consequence conse-quence had been sworn in as a special spe-cial officer In order that he might carry a gun and have legal authority. Wagner testified that he had been a resident of Ogden, off and on, for nearly seven years and returned to Ogden tho last time about a month ago, when he went to work as a machinist ma-chinist at the local shons On the morning of January 5 he was on his way to work when, on reaching the corner of Wall avenue and Twent-second Twent-second street, ho was accosted by several men standing on the corner as "scab" and one of the men gave three whistles, at which men approached, ap-proached, he claims, from every direction. di-rection. Fearing bodily injury, Wagner Wag-ner says he drew his gun and told the men to stand back, which, he says thej' did. and, after passing through tho crowd one of them, whom he identifies iden-tifies as Alvord, ran after him, calling call-ing him a "dirty cur" At this point the special officer ai rived and Alvord Al-vord was arrested. hi the cross-examination the attorney attor-ney for tho defense endeavored to bring out the fact that there had been bad feeling between Wagner and Alvord Al-vord for some time, hut Wagner denied de-nied this, although he admitted having hav-ing some trouble several years ago In which Alvord was concerned. Tho attorney for the defenso said ho had some seven or eight witnesses who were to testify, and this afternoon, after-noon, when the case is continued, the other side will bo heard. oo |