The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-08
Continuation of Testimony In Behalf
of the People.
SATURDAYS INCIDENT
ALTERATION BETWEEN oPPos-
ING COUNSEL.
Judge Woodward Denounced the Sen
sational Newspapers-one Witness
Pointed Out the Wrong Deputy
Deputy Who Wanted a Cent a
Head For the Strikers.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Feb. Hundreds
of persons anxious to hear what action
Judge Woodward would take in refer
ence to the sensational outbreak on
Saturday between Attorneys German
and Lenahan, opposing counsel in the
Lattimer shooting case, thronged the
court room today.
Judge Woodward spoke of the Incl
dent of Saturday. saying that after
he had left the bench and before court
adjourned an alteration had arisen
between two of the lawyers engaged
IN the trial which the court did not
fully hear nor realize until they were
seen in the newspapers
Had We heard" said the Judge,
what was said, we should have dealt
with the lawyers in a summary man.
ner, as the affair so deserved, and if
there is a repetition of it we shall
punish the guilty parties for contempt
of court
SEVERE IDENTIFICATION.
Then came a severe denunciation of
the sensational issue of certain news
papers in endeavoring, as the court
said, to prevent justice by an exag-
geration of the facts and incidents of
the trial. He would, he said, not men,
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the astounding falsehoods and mis-
representations continue the represen-
tatives of the papers will find the door
of the court closed to them"
The first witness today was Silas
Jones, justice of the peace of West
Hazleton He stated that he had seen
the meeting of the deputies and strik-
ers at West Hazleton and followed
them to Lattimer.
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said after the shooting. The defense
objected
After listening to all the arguments,
the court sustained the objection, thus
shutting out the evidence. This is re-
garded as an important point gained
for the defense
Just before the noon adjournment,
the court accepted bail for all the ac-
cused deputies and the sheriff in the
amount of $4,000 in each case, max
ing $4,000 in all. Bail was furnished
by the Philadelphia Trust company.
BAD BREAK OF YEAGER.
When court met again in the after
noon George Yeager resumed his testi-
mony.
After the first few shots" said the
witness, there was a volley. and then
"a number of single shots, and II men
were killed in five minutes and lots
wounded
Upon cross-examination, the witness
stated that he could point out any dep
uty who was present at the shooting.
and the defendant Immediately called
before the witness John Hampton, chief
of the coal and oil police. Yeager was
asked if he had seen Hampton with
the deputies.
Yes" he exclaimed, 'he was in the
line, and was holding his rifle this
way" and he illustrated the position.
The defense will prove that Hampton
was not on the scene at all, but was in
HazeltOn a the time.
SHOT NINE.
Thomas Hall. clerk of the Valley no.
tel, was at HaZelton at the time. He
testified TO a conversation he had heard
on the Sunday following the shooting
from the lips of Deputy John Turner
Turner was in the hotel and he said
speaking of the shooting:
We all marched out to Lattimer and
as the strikers came up 1 heard a shot
1t seemed to come from the ranks of
the strikers. and then we opened up
shot nine of them and killed five
PENNY 4 HEAD.
The next witness was Christopher
Bechen, miner OF Cranberry. Bechen
said he was at West Hazleton when
the strikers arrived. and that he talked
with Bernheiser. one of the deputies,
who wanted him to join the deputies.
Bernheiser said:
Every one Of these id strikers
ought to be shot"
A few days before the shooting the
witness had a talk with a deputy
named Dodson, who said: I'VE ought
to get so much a head for shooting
down such strikers. l would do it far a
cent head to make money at it,