The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-11
SAW THE STRIKERS FALL
ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY REGARDING
THE LATTIMER TRAGEDY.
Important Facts Admitted by the De-
Tense in Order to Expedite the
Trial of the Deputies.

WILKESBARRE, Pa, Feb. 1O.-The first
witness called to the stand in the Lattimer
case, when court convened this morning.
was Morris Engleman, of West Hazelton.
Engleman said that on the day of the
shooting he was on the road near the depu-
ties. This was at the time the strikers were
in 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-eX-
animation by counsel for the defense, En-
gleman said that he thought the deputies
were doing all they could to preserve the
peace and to dispense the strikers in a
peaceable manner, without violence. The
witness said he did not see the strikers
carrying arms, but admitted that they
might have been armed.
Daniel Ferry, a grocer of Hazelton, who
was driving along the road to Lattimer on
the day of the shooting, testified that he
saw the strikers who were marching and
that they were quiet and orderly. He also
saw the shooting at Lattimer being near
the deputies at the time. He. heard first
single shot, and saw a striker fall. Then
there was volley, and several fell. The
witness said he saw wounded man, who
was lying on the railroad, get up, but he
was shot down again. He said he saw Will
liam Raught, after the shooting became
general, run after the strikers as far as the
railroad track and shoot at one Counsel for
the defense asked the witness if Sheriff
Martin was not in as much danger of being
shot as were the strikers, when the shots
We're fired by the deputies. mo. SIR re-
piled the witness, The was quite out of dam
ger. He was out of line of the firing"
Joe Kappa, one of the men wounded at
Lattimer. said that when the strikers
reached Lattimer the sheriff stopped them
and told the leaders that they could not go
on to the mine, but the leaders said they
were going, and about twenty men pushed
past the sheriff and the shooting COM
menced.
Daniel Murphy said he saw Deputy A E.
Hess give water to a wounded striker, and,
together with AlonZo Dodson and A. M.
Eby, carry some of the wounded men to the
cars.
August Catsk said the deputies pushed
and prOdded the strikers at West HaZelton
and forced them out of the road; that he
and Martin Locka, although some distance
from the other strikers, were followed by
two deputies, who struck them with their
guns. The witness said he was standing
near the trolley car on which the deputies
embarked to go to Lattimer, and he heard
one Of the deputies, whom he does not know,
timer and then We'll shoot them Catsh
said the strikers were especially notified at
the meeting at HARDWOOD the night before
the shooting not to carry arms.
At this point the defense agreed to admit
the following facts in order to hurry the
trial along by avoiding a repetition of the
same questions: First, the meeting Of the
of the deputies and strikers at West Hazel
ton third, the fact that the deputies were
armed; fourth, the fact that apparently the
strikers were not armed.
Several other witnesses were examined,
but their testimony contained nothing new.