Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-11
NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS In the Trial Now Progressing in
 This City
AGAINST STRIKING MINERS
Will Probably End Today-De- fenSe Will Not Introduce
 Witnesses.

lne DTel1m1nary tr1al or tne LnlTteen striking miners charged with murder in connection with the Pratt mines riot of July 16 draws wearily along. Quite 8 number of witnesses were on the stand yes- terday, but nothing new was developed.
 The trial will probably end today, the state having introduced nearly all of it's witnesses. It is understood that the de- fense will offer no testimony, but will rely upon the evidence of the states witnesses for discharge of the various defep dants.
 When court convened yesterday nornin g Penny Scott was called to the stand and cross examined.
 PENNY SCOTT, coLoRED.
 ID. Truillious and Yes Meredith were the first men l saw shoot at No. 6. They were shooting at sblackleys' and were close to the negro whom I saw fall"
 Cross-examination: "When the shooting began l turned aud ran down the creek, and some one told the others to shoot at .he, as would go off and give it away. l Caldwell and Charlie Ballou were with the crowd and had guns. saw D. Trulllious 2 in front with gun and he was shooting. All started from the place of meeting to- eether, but at the crossing they separated |. Some going on and some stopping. Ray mona WAS aL tne ueeIlnB anu roSS up Ou the right when the vote to go and attack the train was taken. Don't know that Benoit did. All the Frenchmen did. A day or two after l was arrested l was taken to Superintendent Moore's office, where made statement. They made me no promise of any kind. After made my statement in court last week Smith Hous. ton, Jim Seifold and Jack Phillips asked me not to have anything more to do with 1t, sas the men were now against me and If l wouldn't know anything more about 1t they wouldn't be against me-"
 B.B. M'CAA.
 t'July 16 was a guard at No. 5, and went up on the engine with the deputies to Ensley, and when we got to the crossing the mob fired on us. Five of us jumped of the engine and ran about 300 yards up the hiTl before Fierce was killed. The mo b ran of in northerly direction. They fired on us as soon as the engine stopped, and when I he mob seemed to have both rifles and shptguns. 1 saw men in the mob whom recog nized afterwards. Two of them were Brock and Benoit. took some of them for white men, but their faces were blacked. There were some negroes in the crowd. Some of the men were at the cor- nero house and some at the church. They continued firing as they fell back. l saw the Frenchman who was shot. The mob was scattered in small squads. They were nearly all armed. The Frenchman who was shot had 38-caliber Winchester and pouch of shells. didn't see any one but Fierce and Regis, the French man, wounded there. .''
 k The cross and redirect examinations ' brought out nothing additional to the di- rect.
 [, J. II. SKINNER.
 F "I am miner and went out on the strike. l attended the meeting on Village creek-and nominated MT. Kelso for chair man. He asked the men If they were going to sit and eat up what was coming in. He said the north was doing something and it was time for us to do something. Some one suggested that the blacklegs be driven out, and asked to take vote on it. The first vote was by rising and the negatives seemed to be in the majority. Then those who were willing to go were asked to stand on the right and those opposed on the left. About two thirds went on the right. MT. Kelso said no one need be hurt; that he thought there were enough guns in the crowd to do the work. George Hudson said he knew d-d well there were more guns in Pratt City than that, and unless they got more he would not go with the crowd. MT. Kelso put out pickets with instructions to let all come who wanted to. but to let no one leave. Clark was picket. Twenty minutes were given for the men to get their guns. left and didn't return. Will Bailey went as far as the ksnsas City railroad with. me, but don't know if he returned. When the vote was taken Bailey, Treherne, Raymond and Benoit went on the right. Kelso put the motion, but did not vote. About fifty men left when did. Between 250 and $50 men were present. It was about an hour after I left that heard the shooting. A good portion of the crowd was from Pratt mines. The call was for the meeting to be at the lumber yard, nearly half a mile from the creek.'
 Cross- examin nation: tsIt is not customary for pickets to be put out at the meetings. opposed going into it open handed with out arms and spoke against it.. Some of the mon were sitting down and didn't get up when the vote was taken. Bailey and Treherne walked over to the right. l was arrested and put in jail, but did not prom ise to go back to work if they would release me. I have not gone back to work and will not do so until the trouble is settled. The purpose was to drive the blacklegs off. MT. keiso said there were only five guards at the mine and there was no need of hurt ing any one or of any one getting hurt"
 JESSE wILLINaHAM, coLoRED.
 ssI was at Paisley and saw thirty or forty men going towards No. 8. Some of them had shotguns, some pistols and some siicks. They said, Hold up your hands. Al crowd of miners near me ran off, and one fell. don't t know whether he was shot or not. That is where Andy Gamble is said to have been killed. That was near the pump house. The negroes didn't shoot. Some of the men spoke to me. knew Eugene Alien, George Coleman and two Ere enchmep. kdon't see either one of them here. Allen had shotgun. am not a mner."
 a Cross examination: ssMr. Kelso was not with that crowd. saw him near the lum- Der yard in Pratt City, about half mile