The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-02-11
LArTtMER RIOT CASES.
Nothing New Developed = Prosecution
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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
HaEleton. Engclman said that on the
day OF the shooting he was on the road
near the deputies. This was at the time
the strikers were In Lat,imer. He tes-
titled that he was told by the deputies
to go into his home, as he was In dan
ser OF being shot.
On cross-examination by counsel for
the defense Cngleman said that he
thought the deputies were doing all they
could TO preserve the peace and to dis
perse the strikers In n peaceable man.
ner without violence. The witness said
he did not see the strikers carrying
arms. but admitted that they might
have been armed.
Daniel Ferry, n grocer OF Hazleton,
who was driving along the road TO Lat
timer on the day of the shooting. tes-
titled 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 ut the
time. He heard first single shot, and
saw striker fall. Then there was u
yolley 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 William Raught. after
the shooting became general. run after
the strikers as far as the railroad track
and shoot Mt n striker,
Counsel for the defense asked the wit
ness X Sheriff Martin WAS not In as
much danger OF being shot as were the
strikers when the shots were fired by
the deputies.
mo. SIR" replied the witness. The was
quite out Of danger. He was out of line
OF the firing"
Joe Zappa, one of the men wounded at
I.attimer, said that when the strikers
reached Lattimer tho sheriff stopped
them and told the leaders they could
not 30 on 10 the mine, but the leaders
said that they were going. and about
twenty men pushed past the sheriff, and
the shooting commenced.
Daniel Murphy said he saw Deputy
Hess give water TO wounded striker.
and together with Alonzo Dodson and
a. N. Eby carry some of the wounded
men to the cars.
August Catski said that the deputies
pushed and prodded the strikers at
West Hazleton 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 that he was standing near
the trolley car on which the deputies
embarked 10 go to Lattimer, and he
heard one of the deputies. whom he does
not know. say: LET them 20 until we
get to Lattimer and then we'll shoot
them" Catslii said the strikers were
especially notified at the meeting at
Harwood the night before the shooting
not TO carry arms. A, this point the
defense agreed to admit the following
facts in order to hurry the trial along
by avoiding continued repetition OF the
same questions:
= First. the meeting OF the strikers at
Harwood: second. the presence of the
deputies and strikers at West Hazle-
tons third. thesfact that the deputies
We're armed; fourth. the fact that ap-
parently the strikers were not armed.
Several other witnesses were exam
ined. but their testimony contained
nothing new.