Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-02-08
THE LATTIMER RIOT.
More Witnesses Give Evidence
Against the Deputies.
THE DEFENSE GAINS SOME POINTS.
Graphic Description of the AFFAIR
Given by IL Young Schoolma'am,
Who Gave the Deputies q
Piece of Her Mind.


are jointly charged with the murder
of the striking miners at Lattimer on
September 10, was continued Friday
morning The courtroom was crowded
notwithstanding Judge Woodward's
order that no one should be allowed to
enter after the seats had been filled.
The deputies who are on trial seem to
realize the position in which they are
placed and are paying the closest at
tention to the testimony of the com
monwealth's witnesses.
These witnesses are brought into
court only as they are required to testi-
fly, the others being kept in a room up
stairs.
Many of them bear reminders of the
Lattimer shooting in the shape of
CHASTITY wounds, missing legs, arms,
etc.
DR.. II. NJ. Keller, who viewed the re-
mains of the strikers, and attended
many of the wounded, testified that
number of the strikers were shot in
the back, thus bearing out the allega-
lions of the commonwealth that the
deputies fired when the men were run
ming away.
How They Were Shot.
DR.. Kellar mentioned in order each
OF the 80 patients taken to the Hazleton
hospital and described their wounds
infinitely. Itmas evident that they had
been shot in all positions, some while
fronting the strikers some while run
ming away and some while lying on the
ground in the hope of escaping injury.
Forty-six wounds on SO men were in=
ficted by 44-caliber Winchester bnl-
let's and only small majority of them
were caused by buckshot.
The defense in its cross-eNamina-
ton, conducted by eN-State's Attorney
General Palmer, asked the doctor to
classify the wounds as to the positions
of the men when shot. The classified
lion was as follows: Shot directly in
front, five; Indirectly in front, nine; di-
rectly in the side, Is; indirectly in the
side, six; directly in the rear, three; in
directly in the rear, eight OF the 3G
patients seven died in the hospital, two
are still there and recovering slowly,
and 80 have been discharged, all of them
cured except one, who now is in Phila-
aflphia hospital. The prosecution has
ali along commended that a large Nuns
Der of the men were shot in the bacls.
Rev. S. +. Statfeet, pastor of the
Emanuel Reformed church of HaZleton,
testified that the strikers were orderly
and apparently unarmed.
story of IL school Ma'am.
Miss Grace Coy.e, Principal Guscott's
ASSISTANT at the Lattmer school, proved
to be Inc most important witness of the
| day. She said she was staading on the
| porch of the schoolhouse and saw the
| deputies line up along the roadside.
| Then the strikers 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 .sgo ahead"
and q few strikers pushed past the sher-
1T. At that moment 2 shot was fired;
then came another. and in an instant
volley. Miss Coyle sa,ds
'I saw men fall Some of them ran
| toward the schoolhouse, and when they
| got half way they fell. / do not know
| whether they were shot just before they
fe SF # they Were sa S wounded by the vol
failed. The shooting .Qptinued for about
two minutes, and after tie first yoiley 1t
| was scattered.
Called Them "Bums."
~ helped many of the wounded strikers
VINO fe3i pear the schoolhouse, and did not
| SEQ any weapons GA any of them. While
was helping them deputy named Ross
| laughed at me as he walked about sn,oks
| ing a cigar. said: You ought to go to
| Cuba Another deputy Clark. laughed,
ana 7 said to him: DO you think you've
done & glorious deed to-day?' called two
more Of them SuAis,''
Good Witness FOR DeseAae,
Miss Coyle made good witness for
the commonwealth, but in the cross-ex-
! animation she also made a good wit
ness for the defense. The defense will
try to prove that tise people Of Eattimer
| were very much afraid OF iha strikars
| and became much alarmed when they
! heard they were coming. Guscott, the
principal eff the school, had denied that
his scholars were frightened, but he
| could not explain very clearly why they
| had bolted out of the school without be-
ing dismissed. Miss Coyle said on this
point JA5p NHdl tHe aelellSe wanted 10
| get at. Shs said:
| "shortly before four o'clock Miss Eora
| Heinbach came TO the school and said !:
| The strikers are coming. and want my
| little sister to go home with me.' / eX-
| cused the little girl and thought it best
| to dismiss the class. so they could get home
| before the strikers came"
This will be strong evidence for the
| defense, as it will show that on the
Tuesday previous to the shooting a
number of strikers were riotng in Lat
timer and terrorized the residents.
While these were not the same men who
1 marched on the fatal Friday. the testi-
Mony 4sili he valuable to prove hat in
view of the rioting OF Friday the sheriff
considered the lives and properties of
the Lattimer people in danger.
Received with Courtesy.
| Washington, Feb. 5.-The navy de-
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