Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-04


excellent English. He proved the
saw him lying dead in the road nj Lat
timer with bullet IN his head. Wit |
ness saw the sheriff draw his revolver
and heard It snap, and then the shoot
ing commenced.
The defense attempted to show that |
the witness had been engaged In ter
rorizing men who did not want to |
strike to such an extent that thcy were |
forced to Join the atiiltcrs through fear |
of injury, but the court would not nj |
low IT, Later the defense asked the
witness " he had not been eugpged in
or known Of sundry cases of violation
with the strikers Ms the aggrsesors on
fine day of the strike. This the witness
denied.
The second witness was John Ma
hala. who was at the time OF tho strike
The president of the HarwoUd local
union of the United Mine Workers Of
America. lie told of the meeting, Where
II was agreed to march to Lottimcr Mt
the invitation of the miners there; his
counsels of peace ana the start the
next day. all the men being armed. Al
West Uazelton they were stopped by
the sheriff. who ordered them to dis
nerse. .Mahnla. protested that they
,yere brenking no law, whereupon one
of the deputies grabbed the american
nas. he bore and tore 1t in halves,
threatened to shoot. The deputies
n,,shed us around with the muzzles of
| ,hoir guns and swore at us and one
struck John Eustis twice with his gun,
an his head and breaking his arm in
| two places. r,,,
eos, demonstrated with the sheriff, say
ing and he could keep the peace with
n,,t using any weapons that he had
confdence in us and would let us
| march through the streets OF MS DOT
| ough ms much as we liked. the sherii
and his deputies then boarded me uars
and we marched on toward Iattlmer.
| witness was on the road when the
| sbnotiur commenced. He saw ten men
and n number of wounded lying in the
| road. A.. ...,. -,
rev. Father Richard Aust pastor OF
the st. Stanislaus foilsh 'atho III
church at Hazelton, chairman OF the
1roseeuting committee, was called to
nrove that many of the strikers were
srhot in the back. He said he had eX-
amined number of he dead, but
could not tell in detail what thelr
wounds were. lie hau ouiieu '"''
| of the dead.
pey carl Hauser, pastor OF the l-u-
tbarnn church at Freeland. said he mad
sxomiped several and found all OF them
We're shot in the side or back.
boarded a car he saiu' w"en
hTnnHht
the wounded from the scene OF the
eho,inp. There was n pile OF rifles IN
| - cnrner | said to one of the deputies,
Frank Clark, am afraid OF some oi
them falling and exploding. You ne 81,
not be afraid he replied they are an
| empty now. ,,,, %, tho
J.attimer school. n building about ooV
wards from the scene OF the snoolii,s
| said he was teaching school Wuch ~.
heard an unusual noise and gong 70
the window he found that a nuinper Oh
men. some eighty, We're allsh'ins ias
an electric car. They were "eputies'
He saw the deputies line up to the SIDE
If the road and form with rifles ready
The strikers We're by this time solhe
two or three hundred yards away
They were marching hve ana sly
abreast and were quiet ana no, o na ,.r,cd
Witness could not see that 'heS N"'
any weapons. ia, II
JAS they drew near the sheriff ad.
vanced to meet them. As he reached
the first man a dozen or so formed .
sort of half circle around him: lie ule
not hear the sherin say anytnihs no,
did he see him read any paper.
minute after the line first stopped those
behind pushed ahead of the sheriff.
"At that moment one of the deputies
stepped out of the line and advanced
and one shouted, If you do not come
we will shoot you too. me ienoN
Jumped back into line and almost i'm
mediately after the witness heard
shot. II came from the left line O
deputies. A moment later two shot
were fired and then came the voley
As soon as the volley was fired tn
strikers ran In all directions. Between
the road and the schoolhouse ffteei
men fell, struck down by shots fire.
after the first volley."
He saw man shot and killed Will
running at full speed at distance o
100 yards from the road. The shootihi
continued for some two or three min
utes. The witness did not see any
the deputies leave the line and rul
/ after the strikers to shoot them II
, knew number of the deputies am
, saw them plainly just before the shoot
ing occurred.
Gnscott will continue tomorrow.