Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-02-05

or the Men Taken to the Hospital Seven
DIed-Young Woman School Teacher
Gives the Defense Another Point, q. That
Side Views It-Children Boited from
School Because the strikers Were Coming
Reign of Terror at Lattimer Alleged.
Wilkesbarre. Pa, Feb. 5.-Cne of the
most interesting witnesses heard yes
terday in the LattiHer shooting case was
Or. Kellar, who knows all about the
men who were hit-where they were
shot. how badly and the number OF
wounded or dead. He said that forty
Fix wounds on th.rty-nine men were in
f'icted by ii-caliber Winchester bullets
and only n small number were caused
by buckshot. The defense in its cross
examination asked the doctor to class
ify the wounds as TO the positions Of
the men when shot. The classification
was as follows: Shot directly in front,
FIVE: indirectly in front, nine: directly
in the side, fifteen; indirectly in the
side. six; directly in the rear. three< in
directly in the rear, eight. OF the thir-
pital. two are still there and recovering
slowly. and thirty have been discharged,
all Of them cured excep. one who is now
ra Philadelphia hospital The prose-
cutioin has all along commended that q
large number of the men were shot in
the back
Miss Grace Coyle Saw the Tragedy.
Miss Grace Coyle, Principal Guscctt's
assistant at the Lattimer school, proved
to be good witness for the state She
said she was standing on the porch Of
the school house and saw the deputies
lire up along the roadside. Then the
strikers approached. quietly and order
~. 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 a
Few strikers pushed past the sheriff At
that moment a shot was fired; then
came another. and in an Instant a VOL
ley. Il helped many of the wounded
strikers who fell near the school house,
and did not see any weapons on any Of
them. While / was helping them dep
uty named Ross laughed at me as he
walked about smoking a cigar. 1 said
You ought to go to Cuba, Another dep
uty, Clark, laughed, ard said to him,
DO you think you've done a glorious
deed today?' I called two more Of them
buns"
Defense Makes Strong Point.
Miss Coyle made a good witness for
the commonwealth. but in the cross-ex-
animation she also madea good witness
of Iafa
prove that the people of Lattimer were
very much afraid Of the strikers, and
became much alarmed when they heard
they were coming. Guscott. the princi-
pal of the school, had denied that his
pupils were frightened, but he could
not explain very clearly why they had
boiled cut of the school without being
dismissed. Miss Colye said on this point
just what the defense wanted to get at.
She said: shortly before 4 o'clock Miss
Cora Heinbach came to the school and
said: The strikers are coming, and I
want my little sister to go hCme with
me- i excused the little girl. and then
thought 1t best to dismiss the class, so
they could get home Before the strikers
came"
strihers Had Terrorized Lattjmer.
This will be strong evidence for the
defense. as it will SHOW that on the
Tuesday previous to the shooting
number of strikers were rioting in Lat
timer and terrorizing the residents.
While these were not the same men
who marched on the fatal Friday the
testimony will be valuable to prove that
in view CT the rioting of Friday the
sheriff considered the lives and proper
ties of the Lattimer people in danger.
The commonwealth called Stephen T.
Adams. travelling man, by whom It
HOPED . prove that some Of the depu-
ties white 'iourneying to the scene OF
the shooting made threats that they
would kill some - the strikers. The
witness said he coul. not identify any
OF the deputies on the Ca As he was
proceeding to Tell his story liz defense
objected. The objection was Sustained.
Locomotive works In Trouble.
Providence, r. l., Feb. 5.-The Rhod.
Island Locomotive works filed its petit
ton in insolvency yesterday in the an
pellaie court. The concern was not at
once adjudged insolvent but on the
motion of George H. Wilson, the treas
urer. for the appointment Of custodian
Of the property, Wilson was appointed
to that duty. The liabilities are $6l6..