Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-05

Running-Evidenc Of a Young
Lady School Teacher Was Inter-
| eSting.
Willesbarre, Pa, February 4-The
trial of Sheriff Martin and his depu-
| ties, who are Jointly charged with
| the murder of the striking miners at
Lattimer on September 10, was con-
| tinued this morning.
The court room was. crowded, not
withstanding Judge Woodward's or
ders that no one should be allowed TO
enter after the seats had been filled,
! The deputies who are on trial seem
| to realize the position in which they
are placed, and are paying the closest
| attention to the testimony Of the
| Commonwealth witnesses.
These witnesses are brought into
| court only as they are required to
testify, the others being kept in a
| room upstairs.
| Many of them bear reminders of the
Lattimer shooting in the shape of
| CHASTITY wounds, missing legs, arms,
| etc.
One man with eight buckshot
wounds in the back, is just recovering
| sufficient strength to enable him to
MOVE AROUND.
| Charles Guscott, the Lattimer school
| teacher, who told such a thrilling
| story yesterday afternoon, was re-
called this morning and was on the
| stand until the noon recess was taken
| He was chiefly occupied in pointing
| out those of the deputies he remem-
bered having seen at Lattimer just
! previous to the shooting.
| After this Guscitt pointed out, by
maps and photographs of the scene OF
the shooting, just where the deputies
stood, where TIE strikers halted,
where the sheriff met the strikers,
and where the dead and wounded
! had fallen.
| 1t was shown by this witness on
| cross-eXamination that the strikers
vious to the shooting and that there
was some rioting.
DR.. H NJ Kellar, 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-
| lions of the Commonwealth that the
| deputies fired when the men were run
ming away.
/ DR.. KELLAR DESCRIBED
! in detail the nature of the wounds
Dr. Kellar was on the stand for long
time and he mentioned in order each
of the thirty-nine patients taken to the
Hazleton hospital, and he described
their wounds infinitely, explaining also
in what positions the len must have
been at the time they were shot.
| This testimony was particularly de-
| sired by the commonwealth in the
endeavor to show that many of the
men were shot while running away.
| AS the evidence was heard it was evil
dent that they 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. DR.,
| Kellar examined forty-siX wounds on
| thirty-nine men, Most of them were
| inflicted by 3S-calibre Winchester bull
| lets, and only few of them were
caused by buckshot
The defense in it's cross-examination
! conducted by ex-State Attorney Gen
eral Palmer, merely asked the doctor
| to classify the wounds as to the posi-
lions of the men when shot. The clas-
| ly in front, 5; indirectly in front, 9;
directly in the side, Is; indirectly in
the side, 6; directly in the rear 3; in
| directly in the rear, s.
| Of the thirty-nine 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 a Philadelphia
| hospital He has a bullet in his head
and the physicians are trying to To-
cate it by
MEANS OF THE X-RAY.
This direct classification rather upset
the calculations of the prosecution,
which has all along contended that a
| large number of the men were shot in
| the back. The evidence relative TO
some of the men being shot while run
| ming away was made clear by the tes-
| timony that in the cases of two who
were wounded the bullet had entered
| just above the heel and lodged near
| the knee cap. Only q man running
at full speed could have been shot in
| that manner,
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