The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-05
SAW MEN SHOT DOWN
MISS C0YLE'S GRAPHIC STORY OF THE
LATTIMER AFFRAY
Good Witness Against Sheriff Mar
tin and His Deputies, but the De-
fense Able to Score a Vital Point
In the Cross-Examination
tail of the Day.

WILKESBARRE, Pa, Feb. 4-The
taking of testimony in the case against
| Sheriff Martin and his deputies was
continued today. Miss Coyle, teach
er in the Lattimer school, was on the
stand and gave graphic story of the
| shooting Of the strikers. On cross-eX-
animation, the defense brought out a
very important point In favor of the
prisoners, showing that the people
We're afraid of the strikers.
In the morning the cross examination
| Of Principal Guscott, Of the Lattimer
school, was concluded, and then DR..
Kelley was called. He mentioned in
order each of the thirty-nine patients
taken to the HaZleton hospital and de-
Scrlbed their wounds minutely. 1t was
evident that they had been shot in all
positions, some while fronting the strik
ers, some while running away, and
| some while lying on the ground, in
the hope of escaping injury.
The defense in It's cross-examination
| conducted by ex-Attorney General Pal
mer asked the doctor to classify 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; indirectly
! in the rear, eight.
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 now is in a Philadelphia
| hospital.
The prosecution has all along con-
tended that a large number of the men
were shot in the back.
Rev. 5. e. Staf1eo, pastor of the
Emanuel Reformed church, of Halle
ton, testified that the strikers were Or
derly and apparently unarmed.
Miss Grace Coyle, Principal Guscott's
assistant at the Lattimer school, prov
ed to be the most important witness
of the day. She said she was standing
on the porch Of the school house and
saw the deputies line up along the
road. Then the strikers approached
quietly and orderly. The sheriff STOP
ped 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 mo-
ment shot was fired, then came an
! other and in an instant volley.
Saw Men Fall.
II saw men fall,' said Miss Coyle.
Some of them ran toward the school
| house and when they had got half way
| they fell. l do not know whether they
were shot just before they fell or if
they were wounded by the volley and
ran SO far before their strength failed.
The shooting continued for about two
minutes, and after the first volley it
was scattered.
81 helped many Of the wounded
strikers who fell near the school house
and did not see any weapons on any
of them.
"While I was helping them a deputy
named Ross laughed at me as he walk
ed about smoking cigar. [ said: You
ought to go to Cuba Another deputy
Clark. laughed and I said to him, Do
yol. think you've done a glorious deed
today?' l called two more of them
buns"
Miss Coyle made a good witness for
the commonwealth, but in the cross
examination she also made good wit
ness for the defense.
The defense will try to 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 principal of the
school, had denied that his scholars
were frightened, but he could not ex-
plain very clearly why they had Lolted
out of the school without being dis
missed. Miss Coyle said on this point
just what the defense wanted to get
at. She said:
Shortly before o'clock Miss Cora
Heinbach came to the school and said,
The strikers are coming and 1 want
my little sister to go home with me-
I excused the little girl and then
thought it best to dismiss the class so
they could get home before the strikers
came''
This will be strong evidence for the
defense, as it will show that on the
Tuesday DreVious to the shooting a
number of strikers were rioting in Lat
timer and terrorized the residents
While these were not the same men who
marched on the fatal Friday, the testi-
mony will be valuable to prove that
in view of the rioting of Friday, the
| sheriff considered the lives and prop
critics Of the Lattimer people in dan
ser.
The commonwealth called Stephen T.
Adams, a travelling man. by whom it
hoped to prove that some of the depu-
ties while journeying to the scene of
the shooting made threats that they
would kill some of the strikers The
witness said he could not identify any
of the deputies on the car. AS he was
proceeding to tell his story the defense
objected. The objection was sustained