The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-24

at any time take baths at bath mousse
where everybody else would be cxclud-
ed They have been occupying their
cramped court house quarters now for
three weeks.
The monotonous line of testimony
crept alorg today as usual. Michael
Brennan testified that he ran for the
brush when some strikers tried to cap
ture him. Two shots were fired, hut
he managed to ESCAPE.
August Winnock, who worked at
Cranberry. testified that on Sept. 3.
seven days before the fatal shooting,
crowd of strikers told the workmen
there they must quit or they would
he hurt. He and others went home.
On the day before the sooting they tried
again to work but were stopped on the
road and told :hay would be killed if
they went to the workings. They went
hCme.
Ludwig Lauba, of Cranberry, stated
that he refused to go home when or
dered to do so by the strikers and in
consequence he was struck in the back
with Il stone thrown by striker, and
badly hurt. Witness said he was so
afraid of the strikers thai he carried
a revolver for the first time in his life.
of a corroborative nature concerning
the alleged beligerency of the strikers
before the shooting occurred.
STRIKERS WE'RE RIOTOCS.
jacob Williams, time keeper of the
Cranberry breaker, gave some interest
ing testimony relative to the move
ments of the strikers from Sept. to
Sept. 90. "On Sept 8. a week Nefore
| the shooting" he said. "the McAdoo
strikers stoned the breaker office at
| Cranberry. They stopped a coal train
and stoned the conductor and engineer.
| They were armed with clubs and pieces
| of iron. They tried to stop the Crys-
| tai Ridge strippings on Sept I. They
! were sixty or seventy of them, but the
| sheriff and four deputies We're pres
| ent. The sheriff told them they We're
doing wrong and violating the law, and
| they went back again"
| ION Sept. 10 we got word that the
| HarwOod strikers were coming. l saw
| them marching into Crystal Ridge and
| saw several small parties leave the
| main body and run to the houses to
| bring out the men living there. The
men fled to the bushes, but a few were
| caught and compelled to join the strik-
| ers. When the main body reached the
| breaker they armed themselves with
clubs and iron slaves from the scrap
| heap and then marched on to West
| Hazleton."
| y. r, Dreemer corroborated Will
| liams' testimony in general and added
| that he saw the Harwood men on
Sept 10 at Crystal Ridge draw man
| out of the bushes, where he was hid
| ing and club him viciously with red
| clubs. One of these clubs which he
had found was exhibited in evidence.
1t looked like a portion of a curtain
| pole.
| AFTERNOON TESTIMONY.
The first witness this afternoon. Mrs.
| a. Reese, of West Hazleton, said she
told the boarders at her house to hide
| in the church, where they would be
safe from the strikers, and they did
so.
William Steible saw on Sept 10 the
Harwood strikers beating Andrew
Worshak, who had been hiding from
them at Crystal Ridge. He took the
man home and sent for DR.. Robert
son, who found the mans left arm and
shoulder a mass of bruises.
Mrs. Carrie Haas, of Cranberry saw
the strikers drag a man out of his
| home by the arms and saw them fire
two shots at some fleeing men. The
man dragged out of his house had
| been sick in bed. She is a German
but understands Polish and attended a
| meeting at Cranberry on the day be-
fore the shooting. The people at the
| meeting We're Hungarians and Poles.
One of the speakers said IF the
English-speaking people get their Jobs
back and we don't get ours then ev-
cry breaker in the region will go up in
the air"
The witness explained that they
meant either to blow up the breaker
with dynamite or set fire to it. This
evidence was only admitted after q
lengthy argument. when they found
| was a German woman" she said
they would say nothing more in my
hearing"
OTHER EVIDENCE.
John Mummy said two shots were
fired at him as he ran into the bushes
Gustav Jack, of Cranberry, told how
he was dragged out of a shanty where
he had hidden and forced to join Their
ranks. Joseph Ermold, of Hazleton
said when the strikers tried to stor
him on Sept. 10 he drew a revolver
Whereupon they let him pass peace.
ably, but threatened to fix him that
night
John Beach, foreman of the Harwood
cOlliery, was the witness of the day
He said: "On Sept 3 l heard the Nc.
Adoo men were coming and told all my
men to go home. Two of the McAdoC
strikers came up on wheels, and said
We are going to stop the mine and
drive the men out
when the strikers came some o.
them wanted to cut the rope of No.
plane. A carload of men was beint
hauled up and if the rope had been Gu
they would have been killed. BY harC
, talking / managed to persuade tn,
strikers not to cut the rope. They cried
. as they left: You won't work an,
more for a month; if you do we'n xii
you
"On Monday, Sept. 6, a crowd of Har
wood men, armed with clubs and stones
> came TO the breaker and went through
, it, looking for men who were hidin,
from them. They found none, and tn,
leaders, Joe Eebotski and John Kubit
ski. told me that IL any of them cam,
to work they would be killed. Tha
, night / got twenty procamations from
the sheriff and posted them from Gran
; berry TO Harwood. / read one and tn,
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