The age-herald., 1898-02-05
FOR MURDER|NG
 THEIR FELLOWMEN Martin and Deputies Face the
 Bar of Justice. DEPUTIES LOOKED SERIOUS Many of Them Bore Physical Reminder
 of the Conflict
  NUMBER OF MINEass T IN BACK -,E Was the Testim0n' 'r. keIIar, Who
 Attended Wounded MINISTER SAID STRIKERS WERE QUIEn By a School Teacher the Defense Proves on Cross Examination, That the Strik- CTS Were Rioting and Terror ized Residents of LatiIner.
MINISTER SAID STRIKERS WERE ouIEp

Wikesbarre, Pa., Feb. 1.-The trial of Sheriff Martin and his deputies, who ara jointly charged with the murder of striking miners at Latimer, on Sept. 10, was conJ tinued this morning. The court room was crowded, notwithstanding Judge Woods wards order that no one should be allowed to enter after the seats had been filleds The deputies trial seem to realize the situation i'll which they are placed, and ara paying the closest attention to the testis mony of the commonwealths witnesses These witnesses are brought into court only as they are required to testify, the othera being kept in room up stairs.
 Many of them bear reminders of the Latte mer shooting in the shape of ghastly wounds. missing legs, arms, etc.
 One man with eight buckshot in his back is just recovering sufficient strength to enable him to move around.
 school Teacher Recalled
 Charles Guscott, the Latimer school teacher, who told such thrilling story yesterday afternoon, was recalled this morning and was on the stand until the noon recess wasS, taken He was chiefly occupied in pointing out those of the dep. uties he remembered having seen at LatfA mer just previous to the shooting.
 After this Guscott pointed out by maps and photographs of the scene of the shoot> ing just where the deputies stood, where the strikers halted, where the sheriff met the strikers and where the dead and woundA ed had fallen.
 It was shown by this witness on cross- examination that the strikers were in Lat. A.. ing and that there was some rioting.
 Number shot in the Back
 Dr. H. M. Ke1ar, who viewed the re- mains of the strikers and attended many of the wounded testified that number of tho strikers were shot in the back, thus bears ing out the allegations of the common. wealth that the deputies fired when tha men were running away.
 pr. Kellar mentioned in order each of the thirty-ndne patients taken to the Hazle, ton hospital and described their wounds minutely. It was evident that they had been shot in all positions, some while front- ing the deputies some while running away and some while lying on the ground in the hope of escaping injury Forty-six wounds on thrty-nine men were inflicted by 44-caliber Winchester bullets, and only a small number of them were caused by buckshot. The prosecution has all along contended that a large number of the men were shot in the back.
 Strikers Quiet and Orderly
 Rev. c. T. Stafieet, pastor of the Emaus uei Reformed church of Hazleton testified that the strikers were orderly and appars eny unarmed.
 srin oir.a1 csl1coofRN assistant at the Latimer school, proved td be the most important witness of the day. She said she was standing on the porch of the school house and saw the deputies hne along the road. Then the strikers ap- preached quietly and orderly. 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 few strikers pushed past the sheriff. At that moment a shot was fired. then came another and an instant volley.
 1T saw them fail,'' said Miss Coyle. .'Some of them ran toward the school house and when they had got half way they fell. I do not know whether they were shot just before they fell or if they were wounded by the volley and ran so far be-
 
 continiled for about two minutes and after the first voley 1t was scattered
 q 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 Boss laughed at me as he walked about smoking a cigar. I said: You ought to go to Cuba. Another deputy, Clark, laughed and said to him: Do you think you've done glorious deed today"
 Good for Both Sides
 Miss Coyie made good witness for the commonwealth, but in the cross-examinas tion she also made good witness for the defense. The defense will try to prove that the people of Latimer were very much afraid of the strikers and became much alarmed when they heard they were coming. Guscott, the principal of tha school had denied that his scholars were frightened. but he could not explain ver1 >~~-- --~------~-----------