The sun., 1898-02-09
JUDGE WOODWARD THREATENED,

JUDGE WOODWARD THREATENED,
hut He Gives Notico at the Lnttimer Trial That
| Threats Won't Scare Him.
| WILKEsBARRE, Pa., Feb. s.-The incident Of
| especial Importance in to-day's proceedings Of
the trial Of Sheriff Martin and his deputies was
tho announcement made by Judge Woodward
| that he had received q communication threaten
| ing him bodily harm because of the repeated
failure of the prosecution to fix the identity Of
, the deputies in the firing squad at Lattimer.
Immediately after court opened Judge Wood
| ward, addressing all assembled. said that no
| had received large number OF anonymous COM
| munications having reference to tho trial. and
without speaking about them to anybody he
had consigned them to the waste basket, but he
| had received unsigned letter yesterday
which he could not pass over In silence 1t
threatened his life II he did not conduct the
trial differently. Continuing the Judge said:
II wish to say that regard tho writer Of this
| letter as scoundrel and coward. A scoundrel
| for trying to influence my judgement in a cause
| at trial and a coward for sending an anonymous
communication. 1t will not influence my judg-
/ ment nor cause me any fear came from o
| family, one of whose marked characteristics is
an absence of fear, and would advise all who
might be tempted to write me threatening letters
10 refrain from QOlnR 30 ah CnGy Will nave no
| effect upon me-"
| After the buzz which the Judges declaration
had elected had subsidized, the lawyers on both
sides crowded up to tho bar to hear the Judges
| decision as to the question of tho admissiblity
| Of evidence as to threats alleged to have been
| made by Deputy Hess against witness Costello.
, His ruling was against the admission of the
proposed evidence. on the ground that 1t was In
competent to show motive or malice.
| Costello was then recalled to tho stand and
| told what he saw at Lattimer after the shoot
ing. He saw dead and dying men lying around.
Ono had the top of his head shot off; others had
! been shot in the side; others in tho breast and
legs, and one man was riddled like sieve. None
| of the dead or wounded he saw had weapons
On cross-examination Costello said that of
| course he could not tell whether not these
men had any weapons in their pockets. as he
Chief of Police of West Hazleton. was the next
witness. On direct examination he said that he
day Of the shooting near the stripping at West
HaSleton, and had some conversation with their
to Lattimer. but he told them that they must
not 60 through the town of West Hazeton. but
ak he s
On crossexamination Jones said that while
he was At dinner at his home word was brought
to him that the strikers were coming. and as
he feared that there might be row II the strik-
ers and the deputies met he had run out in his
He found the Sheriff expostulating with tho
strikers and telling them not to go to Lattimer.
and told them that they must not go through
the line, meaning the line OF deputies drawn up
bo sbsS ssS Manssd 10 oSt 40 ne tss
witness finally told Them that II they were
bound to go there they must go by route
other than the one running through tho village
"You were afraid that they would disturb tho
peace and quiet of the borough, were you notT
asked Mr.. Lenahan.
Yes" replied the witness. they were very
repeatsdiy to 20 back. but they Would not listen
John Lynch. lunch peddler in the streets of
rences at West Hazelton. He had seen the
deputy sherifrs drawn up there. and among
way, John HoucL, Willard Young, Edward Bar
ton. John salem Harry and John zierdt; A. P;
Martin. Tho latter had ordered the spectators
to disperse. He said that II the strikers did not
ssies should Are on them the SPECTATORS We're as
likely to get hit as were the strikers.
The deputies holding out their guns then en-,
way way. Deputy Manisy struck him On t tho @ back c
the strikers and their reply that they would go
to Lattimer. He saw the deputies get on the car
toward the strikers as the car was leaving. He
heard apotneG deputy tS make the remark Ark from
WIZ OF them Sss he
On crossexamination the witness admitted
that he had 6seb IN is IN East0p charged with
asked ii he had not threatened tho deputy with
it and had never, owned one in his life
Herman Boetcher of Hazleton. the next wit.
lSssi West Hszieton; He had an alteration with
Deputy Henry 1iehi % because ,s ne refused % to get
head off. drawing u revolver and flashing it in
his face. The Witness then went on to say that
he had seen Deputies Manley Hall Barton Bel.
OF the strikers roughly and finally drag him off
on car r, with 6ot., the evident intention OF taking
"You saw the deputies got in tho CARP
Yes. was only, four feet away from them
Did you hear them make any remarksr,
"Yes, / heard Thomas Hall say. ! would like
to get pop at one of those men, and another
ssld. i bet will drop six when get over
On cross-examination the witness could give
no satisfactory reason why he had been In the
crowd at West Hazleton, nor why he was not at
work at his place OF employment at the time.
DO yop Fsmsmbsr ad =, s"Syipg Sg to BENJAMIN Nor
II don't Know ' much about this o.se. but am
getting damned well paid for testifyingf The
witness s9uiTmad and ad hnr In rr
was brought into the courtroom replied with
flushed face and much confusion; Il don't ro-
LenehAn,
Yes" replied the witness. and no was al
lowed TO depart.
John Fortchak and Simon Kowatski, two
Polanders, the next witnesses, testified that
they had been in the crowd OF strikers that had
marched to LaItimer and to tho occurrence at
West Hazleton and L4attimer. Kowatski's testi-
mony was only significant in that he said that
after the first voley no and q comrade had
started to run and the deputies had shot again,
and his comrade had been shot and fell down
and lay there. When asked whether he recog-
nized any OF the deputies who had fired he said
that the only one he saw shooting was Alonzo |
DodsOn.
Walter Pecaiski, the next witness. gave some
new testimony contradicting the testimony OF |
other witnesses. Pecalski said that when the |
Sheriff struggled with the two mon he NJ;
tempted TO arrest NJ Lattimer he had snapped |
his revolver twice and then II chad gone on.
The sheriff had then run bAoS to the ds1e