On Wednesday afternoon the hearing was continued.
Mr. Wright ssid that at the Iset sitting Ge applied to the Court to have a charge framed against the accused of conspiring to injure the complainants' trade by inducing the workmen to leave their employ. The Court stated they didn't think the charge could be framed because according to the evidence the intention of the accused was not to injure the complainants but the contractor. His reply was thet im i juring the contractor they had i jured the complainants and the defendants were presumed to have knowledge of the natural consequences of their acts. He again asked for a fresh charge to be framed on the lines indicated, or that the contractor should be added as a complainant in the present charge.
Mr. Musso opposed the application and urged that there were anthorities for the contention that even if the defendants had promoted a strike, which they denied, and if by that strike s company or hundred companies were injured there would be no offence at all.
The Assessor allowed the addi-cause other men kept a watch on the door.
Mr. Musso submitted to the Court that there was no case for his clients to answer and asked that tion of a further charge That they conspired together to injure the contractor in the course of his trade."
In opening his case for the defence, Mr. Musso reviewed the
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