The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-02-09
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d,i,rs Adduesd unfas orab'eto shrrlT.
Depntir,, Tending 10 show Ahimas
Against siriLsr..
,WILKEsBARRF,, Pa. Feb. s, = Ans
other sensation was eprung on the audi
tors u the Martin trial to-day when
Judge Woodward announced that he had
received an anonymous letter, threaten
Ing him With hprm unless certain things
were done.
The Judge said "rhe man who write
this will probably hear what l have. TO
say, and want to tell him that he Is
scoundrel and n coward. and that no
such dIshonorable means Will any way
effect my Judgment Cowardice and
personal fear are not characteristic OF
the race from which l come"
Before the hearing OF evidence was re-
sumed the judge sustained the defense,
and ruled out thu: part OF the testimony
OF John Costello relating to his con-
versatlon with Deputy He2s, In which
the latter threatened 70, shoot him be-
cause he protested against the shooting
OF the strikers. This evidence was
given yesterday afternoon. and a lengthy
argument followed on che question OF lis
admlsslbllity
Costello was recalled this morning,
and ea!d that he had seen three dead
and eight wounded men lying along the
road from Farley's. hotel TO Lattlmer,
He said he did what he cnuld for the
wounded, and found no weapons on any
OF them, K
Evan Jones, chief of police OF West
1Iazleton, testified that the strikers
reached West HaZleton on the after
noon OF the shooting, and there met the
sheriff and the deputies. They carried
n flag. and talked loud. but they had no
arms, and made no disturbance OF any
kind. The sheriff told them they could
not march TO Lattimer, and they must
go home, whercupon he, Jones, induced
them to 20 back, and showed them how
they could march by n side street.
John Lynch testified that he was at
West HazlctoH when the strikers ar
rived, and they were unarmel and or
DERBY.
The sheriff told some of the specta-
tors they had better get out of the way,
as there was liable to rbe trouble IL the
strikers did NOT disperse. The witness
pointed out the following deputies as
being among those he had seen ut West
HaZleton: hs
Roupt. Ridgway, Young, Harry and
Frank Ziedert, Plast, Cook. Dodson,
Ferry, Barton, Sobers, Clark, Jones
and the sheriff.
The witness said Deputy Marley had
struck him with gun as he was moving
of the street, and that another man had
also been struck. He heard several
threats against the strikers. One deputy.
pointed his gun at striker, and said:
II could get bead On that fellow"
Another said: "I'll get even with the
d. when we get TO Lattimer.' Deputy
Ferry told a man who was sympathizing
with striker whose head was bleeding
that II he did not shut up he would
blow his head of.
Witness denied on cros5-eSam!nation
that he had q black Jack. and tried to
HIT a deputy with It, or that he had tried
to break through the line of deputies.
Herman PottInger, OF HaZleton, said
that while he was u. West Haz!ston on
the day of the shooting Deputy Henry
out II did not get off the road"
The witness PORTED out Barton, Hall,
Belssel, Manley and Mollc as deputies
whom he saw at Vast Hazleton. He
heard Hall say I'D like to get a pop at
them" Another deputy said: II bet |
drop six OF them when get over there"
The cross-examInation was severe, but
did not affect Pottinger's story.
.
Judge Rice. Of the superior court oc-
cupled n seat beside Judge Woodward
when court convened for the afternoon
session.
The cross-examination OF Po.tinger
was resumed, and he was asked II he
did not tell Benjamin Morris that he did
not know much about the case, but that
lie was getting d. well paid for It, show
ing him at the same time roll of money.
Pottinger denied this.
John Fortchek, who required an inter-
prefer said that he was at West Halle
ton with the strikers, and saw the sheriff
threaten TO shoot down several men.
He stated that the strikers had no CLUBS
nor weapons Of any kind, that one Of
the deputies pulled down the American
flag and tore It. At LIttinlIr the Wit
ness saw no disturbance, and almos. as
soon as the strikers halted u shot was
fired. and then came the volley. The
firing continued about five minutes, he
said. On cross-cxamination he said he
did not see so much Of what happened
during the shooting, as he was badly
frightened and the bullets were whiz-
ling about his head. He said he did not
see any men fall within fifteen feet of
the strikers, and that he stood about
fifteen yards away. He said chief OF the
coal and iron police was rhe man who
tore the flag at West Hazleton.
Simon Kow!aski said that when the
sheriff stopped the strikers al Lattimer
he asked where We were going. ITO
Lat:imer 20 see our fellow workmen.''
he replied. Then he grabbed man by
the collar, pulled him out nf line and
pushed his revolver against his throat.
The next moment there was n shot, and
l ran rs fast as could. When I came
back. Mr.. Doison, a deputy. came over