Closing Arguments Set In Demonstrators' Trial

Closing arguments in the trial of three pickets involved in violence at City Hall in FebruÜYy, 1964, will begin Monday morning in Circuit Court as both sides rested their cases yesterday. The defendants, David Barnard, Larry Collins, and Mrs. Judy Weissman Williams, are charged with obstructing poliqe. officers in the lawful performj anee of their duty. Defense attorney Eddie Smith presented the bulk of his case lyesterday afternoon, concluding j much earlier than expected. After desired testimony from j his first witness was successfuljly objected to by the prosecuition, Smith called as the deIfense's second witness Gregory Jones of Detroit, brother of defendant Barnard. Jones admitted to being part Pof tho nirket lino anri tn hilting ireman Richard Hartman. He said, however, that Hartman had first struck him with the grocery cart about four times. He said Hartman had also hit a female picket with the cart. Jones also testified that there was no other violence before the pólice arrived. On cross-examination, Prosecuting Attorney William F. Delhey questioned Jones about his lestimony concerning w h o m Hartman had struck with the cart. Later in the afternoon. Delhey called policeman Eddie Owens as a rebuttal witness. Owens then testified that Jones 'uad told him during an examijnation shortly after the picket-ring incident in 1964 that Jones rand another male picket had been struck by the cart, not Jones and a female picket as Jones now claimed. Smith next called Don Calvert, 1441 Broadway, who was the cook at the fire station on Friday, Feb. 28, the date of the picketing incident. Calvert said that there was no need for Hartman's trip to the grocery store jas far as his cooking needs were concerned, but that ther%; was a possibility that Hartmajj Icou'íd have been going for food for Sunday's meals. He said that the normal practice for getting food for Sunday was to get it Friday morning, however, and that the Fire Department frowned on additional trips. Defendant Judy Weissman Williams of Detroit was the next and final defense witness. She B that the picket line was just breaking up when the violence occurred, and that she and at least three other pickets were then well away from the picketing site. She further said that she was never informed that she was under arrest or what the charges against her were during any of the time she was conüned in City Hall. At thfÉ thr defonsc ted and a short delay was necessary to lócate rebuttal witness Owens. On cross-examination of Owens, he téstified that j the general impression he had received from the juveniles he had questioned shortly after the picketing incident was that tljey believed that Hartman 1. liberately pushed the car one of the pickets.