The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-02-05
MARTINS
ORDEAL
Another Day in the Famous Murder
Trial at WilkeSbarre.
The STORY OF A LADY TEACHER
Declares the Strikers Were Peaceabls and
SAYS She Rebuked the Deputies After
the Fatal vOlley-Evidence Of
Fermentation Ruled out.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Feb. 1.-THE wit
nesses in the trial of Sheriff Martin
and his deputies are brought into court
only as they are required to testify, the
others being kept ina an upstairs room.
Many pear reminders of the Lattimer
massacre in the shape Of CHASTITY
wounds, missing legs and arms, etc.
Charles Guscott, the school teacher,
finished his testimony yesterday, and
pointed out several Of the deputies as
among those he had seen just before
and after the massacre. Some of the
deputies e~ndeavored to avoid ~recogni-
ton, but were required to come for
ward where they could be easily seen.
DR.. H. NJ. Kellar, who attended many
of the wounded strikers and viewed the
remains of the dead, testified that
many of the strikers were shot in the
back, thus bearing out the allegations
of the commonwealth that the dep
uties fired when the men were run
ming away. Forty-six wounds on 80
men were inflicted by a winchester
bullet, and only a small number were
caused by buckshot. The classification
w dS do lOllO % 5llDA ulltNNAy III AAbAAf
8; indirectly in front, 9; directly In the
side, 10; indirectly in the side, 6; direct
ly in the rear, 3; indirectly in the rear
8. OF the 80 patients seven died in the
hospital, two are still there and slowly
recovering, and 30 have been dis
charged, all of them cured except one,
who is now in a Philadelphia hospital.
OF two who were wounded the bullet
h.l antgraI 4,,pt .I,rr. Tho ha.1 .r1
lodged near the kneecap. Only a man
running at full speed could be shot in
that manner.
Rev. S. f.. Stafflett, pastor of the
Emanuel Reformed church. of Halle
ton, told about going on the electric
car from Milnesville to Lattimer, and
passing the marching strikers en- route.
They were marching -four or five
abreast, were quiet and orderly, and
the only demonstration they made was
to cheer the car as it passed. The wit
ness said he saw them carrying no
weapons. Returning on the same car
from Lattinler, he again passed the
strikers just as they We're approaching
the sheriff. AS the car neared the end
of the column he saw the strikers there
running, heard a cheer, and Immediate
ly afterward the shooting.
Miss Grace Coyle, the young girl who
is Principal Guscott's assistant at the
Lattimer school, proved to be the most
important witness Of the day. She was
very brief in all her answers, and ex-
ceedingly nervous at first. She said she
was standing on the porch Of the
schoolhouse and saw the deputies line
up along the roadside. Then the strik-
ers approached quietly and orderly. The
sheriff stopped them, and some Of them
gathered around him, but she did not
see any of them attack him. Some Of
them cried, GO ahead" and a few
strikers pushed past the sheriff. At tina
moment a shot was fired; then came
another, n in an instant a crashing
volley.
81 saw men fall" said Miss Coyle.
"Some of them ran toward the school
house, and when they had got half way
they fell. / do not know whether they
were shot just before they fell of II
they were wounded by the vOlley and
ran so far before their strength failed.
The shooting continued for about two
minutes, and after the first vOlleY 1t
was scattered.
Il helped many Of the wounded strik-
ers who fell near the schoolhouse. l
~bandaged the wounds of some Of those
who were shot through the arm or leg,
and we carried two men into the school
house, gave them water to drink and
tried to max them comfortable. There
was blood all over the schoolhouse
floor; it was a horrible sight.
Il helped about u or Is of the wound
ed, and did not see any weapons on any
of them. While l was helping them a
deputy named Hess laughed at me as
he walked about smoking a cigar.
said, You ought to go to Cuba Dep
uty Clark laughed, and I said to him,
DO you think you've done a glorious
deed today? 1 called two more of them
buns"
Miss Coyle made a good witness for
the commonwealth in her recital of all
this, but in the cross examination she
also made a good witness for the de-
Tense, The defense win try to prove
that the people of Lattimer were very
much afraid of the strikers, and be-
came much alarmed when they heard
they were coming. Miss Coyle said on
this point just what the defense desired
TO get at, She said:
shortly before 4 o'clock Miss Cora
Heinbach came to the school and said,
The strikers are coming, and l want
my little sister to go home with me.
1 excused the little girl, and then
thought 1t best to dismiss the class, SO
they could get home before the strik-
ers came
DIR. John J. Corrigan, of Hazleton
testife ca to the fact hat he dressed the
wounds OF some of the strikers as they
were being taken to Hazleton in a troll
ley car. Several deputies We're in tn,
car, but said nothing to him about the
affair. hen the commonwealth called
Stephen II. Adams, a travelling man, by
whom 1t hoped to prove tina some o.
the deputies while journeying to tho
scene Of the shooting made threat.
that they would kill some of the strik.
ers. The witness sale he could no.
identify any of the deputies on IN,
car. AS he was proceeding to tell hi
story the defense objected on tn,
ground hat he could not Identify an,
of the deputies and it was not prope
evidence for him TO state what Wai
said. There was a long argument, an,
he court finally sustained the objection
of the defense, and the evidence will
not be heard.
Court then adjourned until today.
The trial is expected to AXE fou.
uraalrc Of Iaagt as fhara a1.a about a.