The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-10-16
Irving Parberry the Chief Wit
ness for the State.
HE CALLED LEONE LANTERMAN.
Lanterman Came, and Straub Bru.
tally Shot Him to Death.
The Boy who Decoyed the Victim ia
His Doom Tells "A straight story OK
His Part I'm the Murder >traub
Turns Religious as His Earthly
Prospect Grows Dark.

Friday Harhor. oct. fS-fn the Straun
murder trial Irving Parberry. the i9-year.
old hoy who was with Strauh at the tins
OF the murder. was put on the stand at
$50 o'clock this morning. lie told a
straightforward. clean-cut story. every
word carrying conviction. He Is by no
means fluent. having "a slight hesitation
in his utterance. but the very tones OF his
voice had truthful ring, and the thor
ough natuTalneSs OF his manner seemed 10
shut ont the possibility of deception. The
substance Of his testimony. up to the close
of the direct examination. is as follows.
Straub gave me six-shooter and or
6ered me 10 go with him 10 the field whera
the Burnses and Lanterman wero at work.
At first ! refused. hut he drew a bead on
me- and told me would have TO cail and
holloa for Leone I.anterman. Then | went
and called TO the men in the field. I
called TO Leone Lanterman. He was
humphacked. and holloaed 10 him 'Yeu
--- humphaCkeu OF --. Then
Leone started toward me. I was stand
ing on a fallen tree. and when he came
up TO where I was he said: WHAT'S eat
ing yous and struck at me, dodgcd
him and struck him in the back with an
AK. Then Lanterman reached .or stick
ard as he picked II up or the ground
Straub stepped out from Dehini an ~.
turned stump ana yelled; You hump
hacked --- Of a -. have YOU where
when he said that he shot. Leone Lam
tstnlan gave a grOan and started back for
the field. just as StTauh fred Rap.i
Blythe rushed forward with hoe in his
hand. and Strauh fired his rifle AZ him.
Blythe pretended To be wounded and crop
ped: but Strauh came up 10 where he
was and started 10 fire again. Blythe idmp-
ed up and started and ran zigzag drop
ping every now and then and Gatting
about, Then Strsuh saw that Blythe had
cot away. and 80 he started up the trail
that Leone Lanterman had taken. He told
me 10 follow him. and made me fire che re-
volver which he gave me. | shot, nut as
soon as ! saw that Straub was out of
sight In the alder bushes aloag the trail
7 started and ran 10 the beach. going to-
ward Strauh's house. When ! Sot 20 his
house I broke down tho door, got \ shot
gun and loaded 10. aud n 32-caliber r.he-
Then I went out and hid on the hill. for
was afraid Straub was going TO kill me.
He came hack I'm the direction where had
shot, and called me. / could see him.
but I did not answer. Then he put his
gun down carefully behind a tree and CALI
ed up toward the house for me. When he
got no answer he started toward the house.
But he had a dog with him. and the dog
got on my trail. When the log harked
Straub looked up the hil and saw me. and
he saw. too. that had him covered with
my gun. Then he talked 70 me awhile.
and We went up TO the house. He got
some more ammunition and we started
for my house. On the way Stralb said:
The humphacked - of a -- lies as
dead as a toad IN that potato field. He has
always claimed that he lived on Blakeley
and Decatur islands. but people won't
have 10 ask where he lives now
The boy also told of their arrival at his
home and how the news was received by
his agonized mother. lie told In great de-
tail the story which stranb had instruot-s
ed him 10 toll at the trial. saying that
Straub had made him say IT over and over
TIL he knew IL thoroughly. The boys evi-
dence on this point VIII be corroborated by
one Of the deputies. who overheard Straub
coaching the boy.
Straub broke down completely at the
ian Sunday and asked to he taken 20 tho
church He has heretofore professed 20
be an infidel. but on Sunday. completely
overcome by emotion. he spoke again and
again Of religion. and said. Nobody needs
IL worse than ! do