The remaining witnesses for theprosecution--Hafthor Yngvason, director of Gallery57, where the exhibit was shown, and Richard C.Rossi, Cambridge's deputy city manager--describedWalsh's removal of the dildoes.

Yngvason said Walsh appeared angry as heremoved the dildoes from the work.

"We walked to the artwork and he ripped theelements out of the box," he said. "He justreached down into the box, grabbed it, and took itout."

And Rossi said Walsh "was extremely adamantabout" his concerns that the dildoes representedpornographic material.

"He reached into the box and yanked them up,"he said.

The Defense

But the defense attempted to show that Walshdid not act maliciously.

The first witness, Mary Alice Monagle, anemployee at the Cambridge traffic office locatedin the City Hall Annex, testified that the shecomplained to Walsh about the pornographic natureof Evers' exhibit.

"What was upstairs was sexually offensive," shesaid. "I was shocked and offended by the exhibit."

And the final witness, Walsh himself, said heacted out of civic responsibility.

"I was very disturbed the city had allowed thisto happen with nobody being informed, " he said. "I didn't like the artwork."

And Walsh denied "yanking" the dildoes fromtheir mount.

"They popped out," he said. "You pull them offlike a jacket."

In an interview before the trial began, Walshsaid "the whole case is ridiculous."

"What do you think the job of a city councilloris?" he asked. "This is a city that you can't putup a Christmas tree because that would beoffensive. And they would allow something likethis in the City hallway annex?"

Walsh said the government was wastingtaxpayers' money in pursuing the case against him,which stems from a complaint Evers filed againsthim last October.

"It's a sincere joke, a political issue for theartist, " he said. "I can't believe that [Moffatt]is trying a case like this with taxpayers' money.For what purpose? This is government at its heightof stupidity."

But Evers, in an interview before the trial,said Walsh must be accountable for his actions.

"So being someone who's been involved with citygovernment for a long time, who was in politicaltrouble at the time, I think he very much knewwhat he was doing--he was setting up thesituation," Evers said. "So I think if there wasanyone who was after publicity, who was going toget some kind of message out, it was Walsh.