Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-17
TIGHTENING THE ROPES.
Damaging Evidence Rolling Up Against
the LattImer IDENTITIES

The Prosecution Committee. organized
to secure the conviction of Sheriff Mar
/ tin and his deputies, were given story
on Monday of the alleged treatment of
some of the commemorative witnesses
/ by the coal companies in this end of the
county. 1t has been reported to the
/ committee that when Joseph Mokki. who
| testified last Thursday and showed where
/ he was shot in the arm, on Saturday
went back to the Harwood mine to re-
sumo work, Outside Foreman John
Beach stopped him and said: You testi-
fled against MS, didn't you? And you
/ lied, too, when you were on the stand.
You are no good, you ----. You'll get
no more work here"
/ This mine is owned by Pardee & Co.,
and is the one from which the men start
ed on their march to Lattimer. A large
| number of the witnesses are employed
there.
John SJforonick, who was shot thi ough
the shoulder and was in the hospital for
three months, started work a few days
ago. but found his shoulder so weak he
/ could not do what he had formerly done.
/ He asked Foreman Robert Fagin, he
says, for lighter work. and Fagin is al
| legged to have said: YOU go to some
other place if you want work. You
will never do any more for Pardee & Co.
There will be lots of jobs and lots of
empty company houses around here
after the trial.
The commonwealth will put both these
men on the stand and endeayor to get
this evidence before the jury, in order
to show the means the defense is indi-
rcctly employing to ntimidate witnesses.
The testimony presented on Monday
was a continuation of the details of the
shooting being practically repetition
of the stories that were already given
| from the witness stand. Joe Purti. who
got bullet in the arm. and as he was
running away. stopped another that
lodged in his leg, declared that none of
the strikers were armed. He said
| further Il saw six or seven of the
deputies leave the. line and shoot as
| they walked away. OF the deputies /
can only remember seeing John Cook
and Pardee there"
Andrew Stult carried the flag in the
march of the strikers. He testified:
I'VE were stopped at West Hazleton by
! the sheriff who had revolver in his
| hand. similar scene occcured at Latti-
mer. whore the sheriff seized one of our
men and we pulled the man away from
him. | saw the sheriff pull the trigger
of his revolver three or -four times. |
lay on the ground when the shooting
began
| Marcy Guncayage testified that he
was marching with the strikers at West
! llazIeton when the sheriff seized him.
| He begged to be let go, whereupon the
| sheriff said: you seem good fellow:
| you had better get away from this, as
there is going to be big trouble here to-
day" Continuing, the witness said that
at Lattimer he heard the sheriff give
the order to 'tire," and shot followed.
Michael Malody, the next witness,
said the shooting began as the strikers
pushed by the sheriff.
Andrew Cvar, No /, as he is called,
to distinguish him from his nephew, told
how after the volley fired by the deputies
at Lattimer, "A large number of them ran
after the strikers and kept firing as they
ran. He could not mention the names
of any.
Thomas Raczick, testifying as to the
needing at lIarwood the night before the
shooting, said: A delegate, Joseph
| Caltick. came over from Lattimer and
asked us to march over there the next
dayand invite the men employed there
to join the strike The giving of this
delegates name is new evidence.
On Tuesday Casper Winshiski gave
very damaging evidence against Sheriff
Martin and sixteen of the deputies.
saying that the sheriff fired the first
shot aud killed Il man, and that he saw
the deputies, whom he pointed out,
shooting down the men who were run
ming away. He described this graphic
ally by aiming a gun us he said the
deputies had done, not at one man and
| in one direction, but at many men in
various parts of the field. He was
extremely positive regarding the fact
that the sheriff fired the first shot
Samuel GomperS, president of the
American Federation of Labor, arrived
in Wilkesbarre on Tuesday afternoon to
report the trial for IA New York paper
He was deeply incensed at the discharge
of witnesses by C. Pardee Il Co., aud
said it was outrageous.
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