The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-22
MOB RULED in LATTIMER.
DBFESoE IN THE MURD ER 7tIlL
SHOWS n STATE OF AHIROHY.

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scribe the Terror That the strikers Caused.
wnKEsBARRE. Pa, Feb. 2l.-After submitting
the testimony Of two witnesses the Common
wealth closed lie case In the trial Of Sheriff Mar
tin and his deputies for the Lattimer shooting
this morning. George 8. Ferris then made the
opening address for the defence. After referring
to the Importance Of the case and the many
questions OF law and fact involved. Mr.. Ferris
said, in part:
"a shoriff with his posse meets q riotous mob.
He tells them who he 10, explains his oflco and
his duty and their own. He reasons with them
-begs, implores. entreats, commands them to
disperse and keen the peace and observe the
law. They defy him. resist him. overpower him.
seek to SHAY him. and. with yells Of rage. rush
upon the little band Of deputies, who fro, with
fatal effect. They kill, a fact which they and all
men with hearts ip their breasts deplore. but
they commit no crime. They do their duty.
They do not violate. but obey, the law.
I'm this trial James Martin and slxty-dvo
others stand charged with tho awful crime OF
murder. alleged to have been committed on the
persons Of ono Mix Czeslak. That Czeulak
was killed in the Lattimer riot Of Sept 10 10 not
denied. Tho theory of defence 10 that II he fell
under the deputies fire on that dreadful day IL
was BY reason OF his presence with and a. part
We shall show You that during the week
pulGr &c s Wero ss Of more sn tSsn daily lily o Ss aiGe aoe
The reign of law had given place TO 9 reign Of
terror; The hiShwsys were swept by snrsin5
citizens were forced into their ranks. Those
who resisted were set upon. beaten. dubbed.
The sanctity Of the home was violated. Rob.
berry was committed. Buildings were attacked
taken by storm. The local authorities. were
powerless and law had been supplanted by an
Coming down to the occurrences at Lattimer.
Mr.. Ferris said that the mob had endeevored to
rush through the lines of deputies, had fired re-
in a ditch whom tho deputies, to save their lives,
were obliged to fire.
She lived in HARDWOOD. and on the morning Of
Sept. 10 saw the strikers assemble for the march
al AZ i tindD 81 threats r . 'f She s sSW two men, Saa ONE %" Of
whom was Kasparik, go into q house opposite
her own and endeavor to drag q man out; 49,,
shouted Kasparik.
Tho other striker replied:
will do when We come back"
The witness also saw the strikers chase a man
other people %Hs' into M' the f brush. .n'' MS mousse anu
HARDWOOD, also saw the strikers congregste.
they came she told her husband, who did not
want to go along. that he had better got out and
their garden, tore out the bean poles and broke
them into club lengths. She saw several
strikers clubbing q man named Edmundson be-
cause he would not go along with them. Boys
running away were shot after by tho angry
Huns. When the strikers were departing she
heard one of them say:
Look outi When we come back we will fx you
had also seen the depredations committed at
HARDWOOD by the strikers from McAdoo q few
days before.
Mrs. Rose Gillespie, Mrs. Catherine Brennan.
Mrs. Michael Gallagher. and Potter Schultz, the
succeeding witnesses, all gave similar testimony
and gave details Of the outragos committed by
the strikers before they marched to Lattimer.
To Schultz q striker had said a few days
before that II he did not 60 along to Lattimer he
would be killed.