Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-05
THE S'FnIIK IIIII|S FEARED
Defense Fro GIT This out In
Karin Trial.
MISS CoYL& DISMISSED SCHOOL.
Testified Strongly as to the Brutality Of
the Deputies-Three Shot Directly In
the Back and Eight Indirectly Gus
colts Testimony Completed.

WIIKEsBARRE, Pa, Feb. 5.-When
the Martin trial was resumed Charles
Guscott, the Lattimer schoolteaeher,
continued his testimony. He was CHIEFLY
occupied in pointing out those { lie
deputies he remembered having efu ut
Lattimer just previous to the sheet ng
and afterwards when he was assisting
the wounded.
Some of the deputies endeavored to
avoid recognition by bowling their heads,
and the court was compelled to order
them to arise and come forward. They
were then required to remain in the
front row, where they could be easily
seen.
The witness was turned over to the
defense for cross examination.
Counsel for the deputies endeavored
to prove by the witness that the chill
dren of his school were not frightened
by the approach of the deputies, but
upon the first intimation of the ap-
proach of the strikers they became
alarmed. 1t was shown by this witness
that the strikers were III Lattimer on
the Tuesday previous to the shooting,
and there was some rioting. The wit
ness admitted that some of the children
Were fearful of repetition of the scenes
of Tuesday and that he had allowed
them to go home, knowing that their
attention was distracted from their
studies.
DIR. H. NJ Kellar, who attended man.
of the wounded strikers and viewed the
remains Of the dead, was then called.
{ fGG+fffaI tbaf Of no
We're shot IN the back, thus bearing out
the allegations of the commonwealth
that the deputies fired when the men
were running away. DR.. Kellar de-
seribed III detail the nature of the
wounds
The defense III its cross examination.
conducted by ex-State Attorney Gen
eral Palmer, merely asked the doctor to
classify the wounds; as to the positions of
the men when shot The classification
was as follows Shot directly in front,
8; indirectly in front, 81 directly in the
side, 10; indirectly i'll the side, 6; di-
rectly i'll the rear, 3; indirectly in the
rear, s.
OF the 80 patients, died in the hospi-
tai, 2 are still there and recovering
slowly and 30 have been discharged, ali
of them cured except one, who is now
in Philadelphia hospital He has a
bullet in his head, and the physicians
are trying to locate it by means of the
X-rays. This direct classification rather
upset the calculations of the prosecu-
ton, which had all along contended that
large number of the men were shot in
the back.
Miss Grace Coyle, the young girl who
is Principal GuScott's assistant at the
J oft
on the porch of the schoolhouse and saw
the deputies line up along the roadside.
Then the strikers approached quietly
and orderly. The sheriff stopped them
and some of them gathered around him,
but she did not see any of them attack
him. Some of them cried go ahead, and
few of the strikers pushed past the
sheriff. AT that moment shot was
fired, then came another, and in an in
slant crashing volley.
Some of the strikers ran toward the
schoolhouse and fell. She didn't know
whether they were shot while running
or fell from exhaustion from being
wounded at the first volley. She
helped some of them into the school
house and bandaged their wounds. One
deputy named Hess laughed at her,
while he walked about smoking a cigar.
ana she told him he ought to go to
Cuba
"Another deputy, Clark, laughed"
said she, ''and [ said to him, do you
think you've done a glorious thing to-
day" l called two more of them
buns"
She further said; Shortly before
O'Clock Miss Cora Hinbach came to the
school and said The strikers are COM
ing and [ want my little sister to go
home with me- [ excused the little
girl and then thought it best to dismiss
the class so they could get home before
the strikers came. y
This will be strong evidence for the
defense, as it will show that on the
| Tuesday previous to the shooting num-
| Der of the strikers were rioting III Latti-
mer and terrorized the residents. While
these were not the same men who
marched on the fatal Friday, the testi-
mony will be valuable to prove that in
view of the rioting of Friday the sheriff
considered the lives and property of the
Lattimer people in danger, and felt he
was justified in using extreme measures
to protect them.
Another Loan of Quinlan.
AsHEvILLE, N. c., Feb. 5.-W. J.
Quinlan, the Chemical National bank
cashier, of New York, loaned the First
National bank of this city, which failed
some months ago, 100000.