Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-02-04
GUSCOTT RECALLED
Continuation of States Testimony in
Sheriff Martins Trial.
DEPUTIES AVOID IDENTIFICATION
Father Aust Tells What He Knows
of the Tragedy.
HISTORY OF THE AFFAIR

W1LkESBARRE, Pa. February 4.-The
trial Of Sheriff Martin and his deputies,
who are jointly charged with the murder
Of the striking miners at Lattimer on Sep
TENDER TO- was continued this morning.
The court room was crowded. notwith-
sta nding Judge Woodward's orders that no
one should be allowed to enter after the
seats had been filed. The deputies who
are on trial seen. to realize the position in
which they are paced. and are paying the
closest attention to the testimony of the
commonwealth's witnesses.
These witnesses ere brought into cour.
only as they are required to testify, the
others being kept in a room upstairs.
Many of them bear reminders of the Lat
timer shooting the shape of CHASTITY
wounds, missing legs. arms. etc.
One man With eight buckshot wounds in
the back is just recovering sufficient
strength to enable him to move around.
Charles Guscott Recalled.
Charles Guscott. the Lattimer school
teacher. who told such a thrilling story
yesterday afternoon was recalled this
morning. and was on the stand until the
neon recess was taken. He was chiefly
occupied in pointing out those of the dep
uties he remembered having seen at Lat
timer just previous to the shooting, and
afterwird when he was assisting the
wounded Some of the deputies endeav-
ored TO avoid recognition by bowling their
heads- and the court was compelled to
order them to arise and come forward.
fhey were then reQuir ed to remain in the
front row where they could be easily seen.
After this GCscott pointed out, by maps
and photographs of the scere of the shoot
ing. Just where the deputies stood. where
the strikers halted. where the sheriff met
the strikers and where the dead and
wounded had fallen. The witness was then
turned over to the defense for cross-exam-
iEation.
- Children Feared the Strikers.
Counsel for the deputies endeavored to
prove by the witness that the children of
his school were not frightened by the ap-
preach of the deputies. but upon the first
iniimaticn of the approach of the strikers
they became alarmed. 1t was shown by
this witness that the strikers were in Lat
timer on the Tuesday previous to the shoot
ing and that there was some rioting. The
Wltness admitted that some of the children
we're fearful of repetition of the scenes
OF Tue Stay, and that he had allowed them
TO go home, knowing that their attention
was distracted from their studies
Guscott was still being cross examined
when the noon recess was taken.
Late Testimony of Yesterday.
After the day report of the trial closed
yesterday Rev Father Richard Aust pas
ter OF st. Stanislaus' Polish Catholic
Church at Hazleton. chairman of the prose-
cutting committee, was called to prove that
many OF the strikers were shot in the back
He said he had examined number of the
dead. but could not tell in detail what their
wounds were.
Rev. Carl Hauser. pastor of the Lutheran
CHURCH at Freeland, said he had examined
several and found all of them were shot
In the side or the back