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Show 1. W. W. TIT TD PROVE oh coiPiic? Six Witnesses Brought Into ' Court but Judge Decides Evidence Not Admissable -MONTESANO, Wash., March Counsel for ten Industrial Workers of (he World on trial here on a charge of murder in connection with the Armistice Ar-mistice Day shooting at Centnilin. Wash., called six witnesses to the stand in an effort to prove a conspiracy conspir-acy to run the I. W. W. out of On-iralia On-iralia but none vraa permitted to testify. testi-fy. The court ruled that before such evidence would be admissable defense must prove that Warren O. Grimm, with whose murder tho defendants are specifically charged, was a parly to the alleged conspiracy. This, " the court held, had not yet been'-established George F. Vandeveer of counsel for the defense was permitted, however, in the absence of the jury, to slate for the record that he expected to prove-by prove-by these witnesses that at a meeting of Ccntruiia business men held on October, Oc-tober, 20, last, plans to drive the I. W. W. out of Centraliu were discussed. Ho said also that he expected to prove that a contemplated raid on the I. W. v. hall was discussed at other meetings meet-ings in Cenlralia. In conclusion he said ho made the offer to show that the men marching in tho Armistice day parade which was fired upon were the aggressors "and to show the frame or mind of these defendants." In sustaining objection of the prosecution prose-cution counsel to this line of testimony Judge Wilson said he was of the opinion opin-ion ' that the evidence falls far short of being sufficient to show an overt act on the part of the deceased (Grimm)." |