The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-05

WITNESSES are DIOuSul lALO EOuIl OAIlg
as they are required to testify Many
of them bear reminders of the late
shooting, in the shape of CHASTITY
wounds in legs, arms, etc. One man
with eight buckshot wounds in the
back. who is just recovering sufficient
strength to enable him TO move, was
present.
DEPUTIES IDENTIFIED.
Charles Guscott, the Lattimer school
teacher. who told such a thrilling story
yesterday afternoon. was recalled this
morning. He was chiefly occupied in
pointing out those of the deputies he
remembered having seen at Lattimer
just previous to the shooting. After
this GuscOtt pointed out by maps and
photographs the scene of the shooting,
just where the deputies stood, where
the strikers halted. where the sheriff
met the strikers, and where the dead
and wounded had fallen. It was shown
by this witness, in crosS-examinatiOn,
that the strikers were in Lattimer on
the Tuesday previous to the shooting,
and that there was some rioting.
SURGEONS TESTIMONY.
Dr. William 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 cut the allegation
In&I the deputies UFeQ WnGn the men
We're running away.
DR.. Kellar mentioned in order each of
the SO patients taken to the Hazelton
hospital, and described their wounds
infinitely. 1t was evident that they
had been shot in all positions-some
while confronting the deputies, some
while running away and some while
lying on the ground, in the hope of
escaping injury. Forty-siX wounds on
80 men were inflicted by 44-calibre Win
chester bullets, and only a small ma
jority of them were caused by buck
shot OF the patients. seven died in
the hospital, two are still there and
recovering slowly and 80 have been
discharged, all of them cured except
one, who is now in a private hospital
Rev. ). I. Staffiet. pastor of the
Emanuel Reformed church of Hazelton
testified that the strikers We're orderly
and apparently unarmed.
MOST IMPORTANT WITNESS.
Miss Grace Coyle, Of the Lattimer
school, proved to be the most valuable
witness oe the day. She said she was
standing on the porch of the school
house, and saw the deputies line up
along the roadside. Then the strikers
approached quickly 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 a few
strikers pushed past the sheriff At
that moment a shot was fired, then
came another. and in an instant the
volley.
Il saw men fall" said Miss Coyle I
"Some Of them ran toward the school
house, and when they had got half way
they fell. / 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 /
them. The shooting continued for |
about two minutes, and after the first /
volley q was scattered.
SAW NO WEAPONS.
81 helped many Of the wounded strik- /
ers who fell near the school house, and |
did not see any weapons on any of /
them. While / was helping them, a |
deputy named Ross laughed at me as
he walked about, smoking a cigar. /
said: You ought to go TO Cuba An
other deputy, Clark, laughed, and 1
said to him: Do you think you have
done a glorious deed today2 ! called 1
two more of them buns"
Miss Coyle made a good witness for
the commonwealth, but in the cross-ex-
animation she also made a good witness
for the defense. The defense win try to
prove that the people of Lattimer were
very much afraid Of the strikers, and