The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-11
QUIET AT THE
MARTIN TRIAL
The Proceedings Unmarked by Sensa'
tioual Incidents.
MORE DEPUTIES ARE IDENTIFIED
The witnesses Have No Difficulty In
Pointing Out Several OF the Men
who Carried Guus--George YAM
chak Describes Action at Close
Range.

Wilkes Barre, Feb. 1O.-The Martin
trial resumed it's even tenor today ana
the examination of witnesses was con-
tinued without any sensational pre-
ludes. Morris Engleman, OF west
Hazleton. was first called. He sald
that on the day of the shooting he was
on the road near the deputies. This
was at the time the strikers were en-
tering Lattimer. He testified that he
was told by the deputies to go into his
house, as he was in danger of being
shot.
on cross ss-examination Engleman said
he thought the deputies were doing all
they could to preserve the peace, ana
disperse the strikers in peaceable
manner without violence. He did not
see the strikers carrying arms. but ad-
mitted that they might have been
armed, as he did not see all of them.
Daniel Ferry, a grocer of HaZeton,
who was driving along the road TO
Lattimer on the day of the shooting,
testified that he saw the strikers, who
were marching. and they were quiet
and orderly. They were talking quiet
ly among themselves. He also said he
saw the shooting at Lattimer, being
heard first a single shot, and saw
striker fall. Then there was a volley.
and several fell, and after the vOlley
there was a number of separate shots.
The witness said he saw a wounded
man, who was lying on the railroad,
get up and try to walk away, but he
was shot down again.
Ferry said he remembered seeing
DonptioS JSIuoyJ William
Raught and John Turner at Lattimer.
He said he saw william Raught, after
the shooting became general. run after
the strikers as far as the railroad track
and shoot at a striker who was run
ming toward the school house.
Counsel for the defense asked the
witness if Sheriff Martin was not in as
much danger of being shot as one Of
the strikers, when the shots were fired
by the deputies.
mo, sir" replied the witness, 'he
was quite out of danger. He was out
of line of the fire"
WHAT JOE ZAPP SAW.
Joe Zapp, one Of the men wounded
at Lattimer, was the next witness. He
said when the strikers reached Latti-
mer the sheriff stopped them. Il was
some little distance away" he said,
land pushed forward to hear what was
said. The sheriff told the leaders that
they could not go on to the mine, but
the leaders said they were going, and
the sheriff again told them they could
not go. Then about twenty men pushed
past the sheriff and the shooting COM
menced. | ran and got on the other
side of the railroad track before / was
hit. The ball struck me in the back.
j fell and got up again, because l was
afraid of being shot. | ran a short
distance and then fell again, and didn't
know anything more"
Daniel Murphy was ther called. He
said he saw Deputy A. r.. Hess give
water to a wounded striker, and to-
gether with AlOnzo Dodson and A. NJ
Eby carried some of the wounded men
to the cars.
He could not identify a Winchester
rifle as being of the kind the deputies
carried, but the next witness, Herman
Pottinger did so.
August Catski said that the deputies
pushed and prodded the strikers at
West Hazleton and forced them out of
the road; that he and Martin Loclla
although some distance from the other
strikers, We're followed by two depu-
ties who struck them with their guns
The witness said he was standing near
the car on which the deputies embark
ed to go to Lattimer and he heard one
of the deputies, whom he does not
know. say: Let them go until we get
TO Lattimer and then Wen shoot them. >
Catski said he was not at Lattimer
but his brother and several of his
friends We're wounded there.
Catski said the strikers were espec-
1ally notified at the meeting at Har.
wood the night before the shooting, not
to carry any arms because some OF
them might not know they were volat.
ing the law by so doing and would bC
arrested.
John Pentrick who reached Latti.
mer after the shooting, said he helped
several wounded men but could MOI
tell where their wounds were. Upor
the calling of John Ulrich the defense
agreed to admit the following facts il
order to hurry the trial along by avoid
ing continued repetition of the same
questions; First. the meeting of III,
strikers at Harwood; second, the pres
ence of the deputies and strikers a
West Hazleton: third, the fact that tn,
deputies We're armed; fourth, the fac
that apparently the strikers were no
armed.
DEPUTY IDENTIFIED.
Ulrich pointed out Thomas II. Hal
as the deputy who struck striker a
West Hazleton cutting his head anC
breaking his arm. He denied on cross
examination that he had struck Deput,
II. Miner Morris on the arm at Yves
Hazleton or that he threw stones a
any of the deputies. He also denied