The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-28
IArTrMER NEWS DErEroE.
sher,R R1aFtis aua Dsputiss 70 Tell Tseir
stories This week.

INVITE HAha NNNN1H
HAzLEToN. Pa, Feb. 27.-The testimony
which will be offered this week in the trial Of
Sheriff Martin ana his deputies will be the most
important yet given. That part Of the true
story OF the shooting Mt Lattimer on Sept.
10Iast by which nineteen strikers lost their lives
and over fifty were wounded which has never
been heard will then be told. An entirely trust
worthy source is authority for the statement that
this account will put an entirely new version on
this much misrepresented affair.
Very soon after the shooting Lawyer Trout
man advised the deputies to refuse all inter.
views and to keep absolutely silent as TO the oc.
currence at Lattimer until they took the stand
on their trial. II is n remarkable fact that up
to date not a one Of these eighty accused men.
although of various grades Of education and
saRacity, has said one-word for publication nor
connded much Of the details of tho tragedy even
to most intimate friends. Yesterday and to-
day Lawyer Troutman again went over their
statements with them. but except himself and
the men themselves no one knows just what
they are going to tell. Their stories, therefore,
when they 20 on the stand this week, will have
aSnovolty.
All we want" said ono OF the deputies to
THE Sun reporter to-day. us that the whole
truth shall come out. All of us regret that so
many lives should have been sacrificed. but we
icci bhht We ouly uiu Our uuty III tno pTeullbtb,
and should the same circumstances arise again
could and would act no. differently. feel con-
ndent that when tho public in tho course Of this
week hears the truth Of the. Lattimer case they
vii! think differently Of u.s."
Sheriff Martin, who will in all probability
take the stand in his own defence before the
close of the week, expressed the same senti.
ments.
1T would be improper for me- he said. "at
this stage of the proceedings to give any indica-
ton OF what my testimony regarding the occur
rences at Lattimer will be. but / think that
after my testimony and that Of the deputies
has been submitted, a great many people will
think differently than they have heretofore"
A train load Of witnesses will go from Halle
ton to Wilkesbarre early tomorrow morning.
Among them are almost 100 school children,
who have been summoned to refute the testi-
mony of teachers c. ii. Guscott and Grace
Coyle. OF the Lattimer school, who gave such
peculiar testimony for the prosecution. Their
evidence was to the effect that the children
noon of the shooting had been so frightened by
the passage of n few mine mules that they had
fled from the schoolroom. That children
brought up in o mining community where
mules are as plentiful as mosquitoes In a Jer.
sey summer resort should be so terribly fright
ened by anything Of the sort was remarkable. Mr..
lenahan's cross. examination made II patent to
that the children were frightened by
the approaching strikers and not by the mules,
and this is iust what Mr.. Lenahan is going to
prove in the direct examination OF the children.
II will be an important link in the chain of
already given showing the state Of
apprehension prevailing among the people of
before the shooting.