The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-01

Wilkes Barre. Feb. 2S.--Tha Martin
trial started in another weary week to-
day. with the resumption of evidence
for thl defense.
Miss Cora Henibach. aged is. who
lives at l.attimeI. testified that on
September 10, the day of the shooting,
she heard Il woman who was running
past her house call out that the
strikers from HarWCod were coming
and that she was going to find her
husband and make him hide, II was
afraid they would blow up the town.
continued the witness, 80 J ran to
the school house and asked the teach
er Miss COyle, 10 excuse my little Sis
ter as j knew she would be safer at
horne. She did so and l hurried home
with the little girl. We We're all going
up stairs to hide in the garret hen the
shooting commenced There were d few
single shots and then volley. I did
not hear any shots after the v1lley."
Stephen Guttenmiller gave the first
evidence to substantiate the assertion
of the defense that man stood behind
the line of deputies and urged the
strikers on. He said: II was driving
from West HazletOn to Lattmer and
got there just as the deputies lined up
along the roadside. l stood some lit
tie distance behind them and saw the
strikers come up. AS they approached
] saw a man standing behind the de-
puties. He was a big fellow and had
no coat on. / saw him wave his arm
and beckon the strikers to come on.
They did so. After stopping a moment
with the sheriff they pushed past him
and on toward the deputies. They We're
close to them when the shooting COM
menCed. Witness said that after the
Vollcy there was no shooting.
on crOss-eXam mination he said many
men were lying dead and wounded in
the road and he saw one of the latter
trying to rise, whereupon two men
whom he though We're deputies, kicked
him.
John Wolfe, a conductor on the troll
ley road, said he saw the strikers near
Harley's hotel just at the entrance to
Lattimer They were armed with clubs.
George Name. of HazletOn, was at
Lattimer on the dav of the shooting
and heard the firing. He described it
as "a single shot, then two, then a lot
like the roll of a drum ending with a
few scattered shots. 1t lasted about
llull q HllHulc.
THREATS TO BURN A BREAKER.
Nr. Name said he was with the sheriff
at Crystal Ridge a few days before the
shooting and saw the sheriff Gisperse a
number of strikers. AS they went away
one cried. Well come back to- night
to burn the breaker"
Mrs. Katharine Craig, whose house
&c, 4 h. ch
cured, saw the sheriff advance to stop
the strikers.
They pushed, and pulled him
around" said she. "and crowded past
him and went toward the deputies
Then ! became frightened and ran in
to the house with my boys. One OF
them ran to the. window and cried:
oh mamma, they are killing the
sheriff. The shooting commenced
about that time. There were a few
scattered shots, then a vollev. Wher
1t was all over the DEPUTIES came tC
my house for water and linen for the
wounded men. That night we heard
the strikers were coming to burn ol
blow up the town and everybody left
the town. Our family walked to Mil.
nesville at 2 o'clock in the morning.
This afternoon Joseph Schwartz,
prominent Pole Of this city, received
a check of $500 from the Nationa
Polish alliance, of Chicago, to be added
to the prosecuting fund.
The first witness of the afternoon wa
Burgess w. w. Smith, of West Halle
ton. He said on September 8 he sav
about fifty strikers drive the men from
the Cuyle strippings by throwing stones
at them. He began to tell how tn
policeman whom he ordered to arres
the men were afraid, but was stopped
by the commonwealth and the objec
ton was sustained. The burgess wen
on to say that after S ptember h
ordered Policeman Jones TO place o.
duty three special policemen, to ali
him at night. This was owing TO tn
fear of violence at the hands of tn
strikers.
oliver Leibensberger, q builder an
contractor of Hazleton, hearing tina
the strikers We're going to march I
Milnesville or Lattimer, rode out on hi
bicycle to these places and after find
ing they were bound for Lattimer, h
rode there, passing on the way som
twelve or fifteen strikers, who pur
sued him, crying: XIII him, kill him.
THE sHERIFFs ADVICE.
81 got behind the line OF the depu
ties" he said "sOme thirty feet AN