Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-02-11
LArrrMER MASSACRE.
Trial of sheriff Martin for Shooting DowA
Minera.

Miners.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Feb. THE tria
of Sheriff Martin and deputies fo
shooting into an unarmed body o
miners last September, killing sever
and woupding about forty others, /,
renewing the excitement caused by the
rash deed
The witnesses are brought into court
only as they are required TO testify.
Many of them bear reminders of the
late shooting, in the shape of CHASTITY
wounds in legs, arms etc. One man
with eight buckshot wounds in the
back, who is just recovering sufficient
strength to enable him 70 move, was
present.
Charles Guscott. the Lattimer school
teacher, pointed out those of the depu
Lattimer just previous TO the shooting.
After this Guscott pointed out by maps
and photographs the scene 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.
DR.. William Keller, who viewed the
remains of the strikers and attended
many of the wounded testified that
number of the strikers were shot in
the back, thus bearing out the allega-
ton that the deputies fred when the
men were running. DIR. Keller mem
toned in order each of the thirty-nine
patients taken to the Hazelton hos
pital, and described their wounds
had been shot in all positions, some
while fronting the deputies, some while
running away, and some while lying
on the ground in the hope of escaping
injury. Forty-six wounds on the thirty
nine men were inflicted by 44-caliber
Winchester bullets, and only small
majority of them were caused by buck
shot. Of the patients, seven died in
the hospital, two are still there and |
recovering slowly, and thirty have
been discharged, all of them cured ex-
cept one, who is now in private hos
pital.
Rev. S. f. Stafflett, pastor of the
Emanuel Reformed church of Hazelton,
testified that the strikers were orderly
and apparently unarmed
Miss Grace Coyle of the Lattimel
school said she was standing on the
porch of the school house and saw the
deputies line up along the roadside.
Then the strikers approached quickly
md orderly. The sheriff stopped them
md some of them gathered around
Tim. but she did not see any of them
lttaclS him. Some of them cried, $50
head" and a few strikers pushed past
he sheriff. At that moment shot
vas fired, then came another, and in
n instant the volley.
81 saw men fall" said Miss Coyle.
Some of them ran toward the school .
ouse and when they got half way they
ell. do not know whether they were
hot just before they fell or if they
'ere wounded by the volley and ran so
ar before their strength failed them. !,
he shooting contin ued for about two :.
linutes, and after the first volley ii
'as scattered
~ helped many of the wounded \
trikers who fell near the school house,
nd did not see any weapons on any OF
lem. While | was helping them
equity named Ross laughed at me as
3 walked about smoking a cigar. ]
nd: 'You ought to go to Cuba An. .
her deputy, Clark, laughed, and ]
id to him: Do you think you have
me u glorious deed today?' l called =,
70 more of them buns"
ublic feeling is considerably aroused
err the recital of the events leading Is
} TO the trouble which resulted in the ef
ooting. su