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Show CHIEF Of POLICE IS I WIHS FOR I WOOQARD I I nil The second day of the trial of the Elm city nsainst Roy Woodard, which is on in the district court before Judge A. II E. Pratt and a jury, was attended with II features of unusual interest Chief ot II I Pollc- Thoms E. Browning was a wit- ill ness for the d : ndant and was on the III .stand during tl: gn.atr part ol the II . morning session. , I Under tii direct and cross examina II tion, conn., d b; Jo eph Chez for II ; the defense, and W. H. Reeder for the city. Chief Browning related the inci dents of the demonstration at the H store of Ogden Commission com pan I on August 28 last, the day following I the demonstration when alleged strike jH breakers were taken from the union depol and inai-clu-d barefooted out of H the city. WM The chief told of events at the gas H plant and other establishments in the III cit where the defendant is alleged to II have created disturbances in his capac- l Ity .-is business agent for the Teams- I ters' union. mm Regarding the excitement at the iid, ben h . ! 1 1 -: i j i he ie I he gave Sergeant Jensen Instruction - -M to move the crowd back from the en- trance of the store He said he was in the office a few minutes and :aw H P. G. Uggla, the foreman, hand a piece f-H of yellow paper to a stenographer and tell her to make a copy of it. The H Chief said at that time he received a I summons from the commissioners to come to the mayors' office at one jfl Before leaving he ins-ucter Sergeant H Jensen to move the crowd back ofl LI : the sidewalk. fil Here Juuue f 'rati qu-stnoned the tl ' chief as to the order to the crowd and H Whether the clue'' had heard Jensen l 'I ihe order to the crowd to get H back The chlel said h- did not hear l the order given before he got into the H iiiutomobile to be di:en to il:e en I It is probable the case will go to H the jury late tonight or tomorrow H morning, (mm |