Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-14


counsel for the defense. The question
was raised on Friday by the story of an-
other witness. a striker, Mike Iochak
in the course Of his story, was asked:
Did you hear any of the deputies say
anything after the shooting?" This was
sas promptly objected to by he defense
fhe prosecution offered to prove by this
witness that a wounded striker asked
for water, and that deputy was heard
TO eXclaim to him: I'VE Wont give you
water. Wen give you --."
Martin Loughran swore that he had
seen IA deputy kick striker, Andrew
Meier, in his wounded leg, which was
afterward amputated. But as the state
could not identify this deputy, the state
ment was objected to.
Thomas Parrish told of the shooting,
where Il bullet, entering behind the
right arm, crashed through bone and
tissue until it came out in front.
Matthew Chya was another of those
wounded He swore to this statements:
Il was running away up the hill to-
had been fired. | was about 200 yards
from the deputies, or from the road
where | had started to escape. Then
heard single shot, and | felt bullet
20 through my shoulder. The rifle bull
let passed clean through, coming out in
front. The witness showed the two
scars to the jurymen. II saw two
other men shot while they were running
away, one in the arm, the other in the
leg
The saddeSt sight of the trial was IA
Lithuanian witness, Michael Julas. lie
was pale, emaciated, his shoulders bowed
aud had death in his eyes. He looked
the wreck of IA man of remarkable
physique, strong aud muscular above
most OF his fellows. His dry, racking
cough seemed almost to tear his heart
out. He stripped his giant frame to
the waist. a dull red disk, the size of IA
dime, showed square in the middle of
his back, below the shoulder blades On
his chest. Just above the heart, was an
other and similar scar. A Winchester
ball had passed directly through the lefa
lung. putting hole clean through him
from back TO chest. The ball entered
from behind 1t is miracle that he
has lived so long. He has been in the
Hazleton hospital for five months. His
death was expected daily for weeks.
He is now splitting blood the most of the
time.
Saturdays testimony was without
special incident. The first witness,
Frank Krupa, of Crystal Ridge, was in
the march and told the story again of
how the strikers decided to carry no
weapons. He ran when the shooting
began and saw two others dropped by
the deputies while they were trying to
escape up the hill. He told IA clear story
and his evidence could not be shaken by
the attOrneysfor the defense.
Anthony Gamma, 10 years old, sub
mitted his tattered ccat as proof of the
insults offered the men at West Halle
ton, where the thugs tried to induce the
strikers to resent the indignities heaped
upon them.
Mary koher, a domestic of Lattimer,
saw the strikers coming. She stated
the people of town got afraid when
the men were coming. This an
swer pleased the defense, but their
pleasure vanished when she explained
that the fear was caused by the rumor
that the deputies intended to shoot the
miners.
John Petrusky testified to seeing the
deputies get guns at a hardware store,
four blocks west Of the Central hotel, in
Hazleton. He thought the deputies in
tended to do harm and followed them to
Lattimer. He saw the men murdered.
The iurymen are keeping up their in
terest in the proceedings with surpris-
ing attentiveness. They We're given
two weeks pay on Friday by order of
the court. as several of them wished to
replenish their wardrobe. Each jury
men was paid SOS.