Evening journal., 1898-03-01
FOUND A REVOLVER.
Reporter Says He Took One
From Dead Strikers Hand.
MARTIN TOLD DEPUTIESTO KEEPCOOL
Witness For Defense Admits He Saw
Deputies Kick Wounded Man Whom
He Was Trying TO Rise Details
of Other Evidence.

WILKESBARRE. Pa, March LA
great many witnesses were examined
yesterday at the trial Of Sheriff Martin
ana his deputies Miss Cora Heinbach
testified that she had asked Miss Coyle,
the school teacher, to excuse her little
sister from attending school, as she was
afraid of the strikers. Stephen Gutten-
miller gave the first evidence to sub
stantiate the assertion OF the defense
that a man stood behind the line Of
deputies and urged the strikers on. on
cross examination he said many men
were lying dead and wounded in the
road and he saw one OF the latter try
ing to rise. whereupon two men who
were deputies kicked him.
william ]. Evans, a reporter, said
that, hearing of q disturbance at West
Hazleton on the afternoon OF Sept. 10,
he went there and found the strikers
along one side Of the road and the dep
uties on the other side. Burgess Smith
was on a little knoll telling q lot of
women and children to go home saying
IL was not safe for them there. He saw
one of the strikers I'm the act OF throw
ing q stone at A. p. Plat, a deputy.
After the shooting" he said, Il saw
three men lying dead together, and close
| to the hand OF one OF them was q re-
volver. picked it up. stuck II in my
pocket and showed II to the sheriff.
kept it until the inquest, when gave
it to Coroner Mckee"
Reporter Evans testified that the vol
ley fired by the deputies came from the
center Of the line. The prosecution fail
ed 70 prove that the pistol picked up by
Evans was his property, and he also
was positive that the strikers did not
start TO run away until the shooting
| ceased.
Benjamin Norris of Hazleton, a mo-
torman on the trolley line. testified tC
bringing the dead and wounded to ia.
zleton and to the finding OF an empty
pistol in the coat Of one OF the dead
men. The pistol was produced In evi.
dence.
Oliver Leibensberger, a builder ant
contractor Of Hazleton, hearing that thI
strikers were going to march TO Mines
Vile or Lattimer rode out on his bi
cycle to these places, and. after hndlni
they were bound for Lattimer. he rod
there. passing on the way some - or
strikers, who pursued him, crying
XIII himl Kill hint" IT got behin
lethe line of the deputies" he said, "som
! o' ANSA anu Mdl1ntQ the tlIlktlt UD
Z preaching. When they drew near. Sher
\ in Martin said TO his deputies: Boys.
want you to keep a cool head. This 1
the worst crowd we've ever met"
John Wolfe, a conductor and Georg
Name of Hazleton testified the striker
had clubs. The first witness Of the ait
ernoon was Burgess w w. Smith O
West Hozleton. He said on Sept g n
saw about so strikers drive the me
from the Cuyle strippngs by thrown
stones at them He began TO tell ho'
the policemen whom he ordered to al
; rest the men We're afraid, but was stor
, ped by the commonwealth, and the Oh
lection was sustained. The burges
went on to say that after Sept. he oil
T dered Policeman Jones TO place on dut
three special policemen to aid him q
4 night. This was owing TO the fear {
violence at the hands Of the strikers.