The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-13
, CONFESSIONS TO THE PRIESTS.
DYING Words Of Victims of the Fu-
siIlade at HazletOD.

Hazl-ton. Pa. Sept 13- From priests
who administered to them the last sacred
rites OF their church is learned the state
meuts made by Sheriff Martins victims
as they were drawing their last breath OF
life upon earth.
The Rev. y. Forve pastor OF the Church
Of the Hdy Trinity, which is attended by
Germans, was the first clergyman to reach
the state Hospital after the wounded
were brought in
There were nineteen ofthem there when
] vert in" said Father Forve. ''Au oi
them were terribly wounded"
''pia YOU notice the location of the
wounds?' -
Every Tnanofthe nineteen was wounded
in the back part of his body" was the re-
ply Every one. There was not a single
exception
Did anyofthe men ;alk to you about tie
shOcting?"
Yes: all those who were a bic did.
THE story yof all was the same. They told
meoftneir march from Harvard, all Of which
the publ.c already knows. They told me of
TIE meeting with the sheriff and how he
ordered them t. halt. They said they gath
pass peaceahy through public way. He
ordered them back, and they crowded
around him.
Then, according to the stories of all
OF them, the sheriff drew d revolver. fired.
and killed his man. Then came the slaugh
tering fuillsce."
WAS this told you before or after con.
fession?''
Both before and after Those men were
on .he borderland of death, and surely
they would not tell lie almost in the
presence Of their God and Judge"
Ibid You see the clothing OF the men
searched for weapons?"
''Yes, Thelped to do it. We found two
small pcnEBiyes-very small ones, abso.
lutely harmless"
Ibid you speak to your people this
morning on the subject OF the shooting."
Not in 4 direct way l spoke generally
OF Justice. I believe in leaving the de-
Ciding of the question OF guilt to tho
proper authorities Let them sift 1t. 1
haze friends on both sides OF the contest,
and did not want tc prejudice them. I
will say, however, that the men who We're
in the party that met the sheriff were
the most peaoeable men in the world.
''Tney were not armed; that is GER
tainty. II, as some OF the sheriff's u..n
say, revoisers We're found ON the scene of
the shooting. some of the sheriff's deputies
placed them there.
Employers are in the wrong in this case.
The whole burden of the trouble is on them.
They have not treated the men fairly. They
should, by every law OF right and justice,
have given the men the ten cents xtra they
asked f1r. There never woudhave bee any
shooting if the employers had been just
Il wss called to the State Hospital to at
tend the Victims" said the Rev. Father
FDrnanic, pastor of the Hungarian Cath
olic Church. The first man / saw had been
Slot In the center of the back of his head
did you see any others who had been
shot in the backg'
''Oh. yes, lots OF them. 1 think there
were even more than twenty. but, you see.
] was so busy giving the last sacraments
to tie dying that I did not have time to
make a thorough investigation and record
OF what I saw.
Most OF those attended said the depu.
ties fired at them when they had made no
show of violence. They ran. they said. at
the first fire. and then the deputies fired
slot after shot at them as they ran. The
work must have been done with careful
Ain, TREY told me, because they scattered
in all directions. Some of them who fell on
the track OF the railroad, and who tried 20
drag themselves over the rails 10 shelter,
were shot as they lay there
Ibid any Of them tell you that the sheriff
fired WIZ his revolver and killed aman?'