Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-11
THE MARTIN CASE.
Further Evidence That the Marching
Strikers Were Orderly and Unarm-
ed When They Were Shot Down.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, February 10.-The
first witness called to the stand in the
Lattimer case when court convened
this morning was Morris Engleman, of
West Hazleton. Engleman said that
on the day of the shooting he was on
the read near the deputies. This vas
at the time the strikers were in Lat
timer. He testified that he was told
by the deputies to go into his house,
as he was in danger of being shot
On cross-examination by counsel for
the defense, Engleman said that he
thought the deputies were doing all
they could to preserve the peace ahG
to dispense the strikers in peaceable
manner without violence. The wit
ness said he did not see the strikers
carrying arms, but admitted that they
might have been armed.
Daniel Ferry, a grocer of Hazleton,
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 a
single shot, and saw 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 William Raught after
the shooting became general run after
the strikers as far as the railroad
track and ChnOt a q Tjly
Counsel for the defense asked the
witness if Sheriff Martin was in as
much danger of being shot 40 the
strikers when the shots were fired by
the deputies.
mo, sir" replied the witness, "he
was quite out of danger. He was out
of line of the firing"
Joe Zeppa, one of the men wounded
at Lattimer said that when the Strlh-
ers reached Lattimer the sheriff stop
ped them and told the leaders they
could not go on to tAe mine. but the
leaders said they we're going and
about twenty men pushed past the
sheriff, and the shooting conMencou
Daniel Murphy said he saw Deputy
Hess give water to wounded striker,
and together with Alonzo Dodsun ard
A. NJ Eby, carry some OF the wounded
men to the cars.
August Catski said that the depu-
ties pushed and prodded the strikers
at West Hazlton and forcd them out of
the road; that he and Martin Locka,
although some distance from the other
strikers, were followed by two depu-
ties, who struck them with their guns.
The witness said he was standing
near the trolley car on which the dep
uties embarked to go to Latftimer,
and he heard one of the deputies whom
he does not know, say: Let them
go until we get to Lattimer and then
we'll shoot them Catski said the
strikers were especially notified at the
meeting at Harwood the night before
the shooting not to carry arms. At
this point the denfense agreed to adj
nit the following facts in order to
hurry the trial along by avoiding con-
tinued repetition of the same ques-
tons:
First. the meeting of the strikers ut
HARDWOOD: second, the presence Of the
deputies and strikers at West Halle
ton; third, the fact that apparently
the strikers were not armed.
Several other witnesses were exam
ined. but their testimony contained
nothing new.