The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-20

the porch found the bOmD. The fuse
| was lighted. He cut the fuse with a
knife and prevented an explosion.
Exhibited the Dynamite.
Special Officer Lewis exhibited to the
| commission one of the five sticks of
| dynamite which composed the bomb.
He had it enclosed in an old stocking,
| carefully packed in wet cloths. 1t had
been previously frozen to lessen the
danger OF a sudden and tragic adj
| journment of the hearings. The wit
| ness did not contribute much to the
ease of those sitting about the witness
box by his statements of the destruct-
i've powers of the bomb. 1t would blow
| a house to pieces, he declared.
Mary Kultz, of Weston, near Der
| ringer, in lower Luzerne county, gave
testimony through Deputy Clerk of the
Courts Charles Mirtz acting as inter-
prefer.
A crowd surrounded her house one
evening, when her husband returned
from work in the mines, and stoned it
for six hours. Every window was
broken and many things inside the
house were smashed by the big stones
which passed through the windows.
She and her child sought shelter i'll the
garnet during the bonlbardments. The
crowd dared the husband to come out,
threatening to hang him to a tree. The
next day they moved to Drifton. on
receiving a letter threatening that If
they did not leave the place in two
days their house would be burned
down. They owned their own home,
but now are paying rent In Drifton.
Mrs. Kultz declared she would never
go back to live in it, because of fear,
On cross-eXamination. Mr.. Mccarthy
brought out the fact that Mrs. Kultz
had had William Fl. Dettery, district
board member OF the United Mine
Workers, arrested for leading the at
tack, and that at the hearing he was
acquitted and she was held for false
swearing. Mrs. Kultz reiterated that
she was still satisfied that it was Det-
terry who led the mob,
Her husband followed on the stand
and corroborated the story of the at
tack. Photographs of the house "be-
fore" and "after" the bombardment
We're shown the commission. 1t was
testified that the house cost 81 900.
From the "after" pictures, the house
would not bring much more than thirty
cents at a forced sale the morning fol-
lowing the bombardment.
The Damage Done.
Il. A Oberander, private secretary
for Alexander Coke, who had the pho
tographs taken, gave an account of the
damage done. Stones Weighing thirty
pounds were hurled through the doors
and windows, and against the side of
the house. The stove was broken and
the furniture, in general, demolished
Frank Fidati testified that he
was sent TO Winton by j. l.. Crawford,
president of the Peoples Coal COM
pany, to watch the house of Dominick
Bertaki, one of the employees at the
Oxford colliery. Four men, two of them
officers of the United Mine Workers
local, waited on him and warned him
that If he did not quit protecting Ber-
taki's house, he would be hurt. The
next night two men shot at him with
revolvers ten times. One of the bullets
struck him in the leg. He had to go
to the hospital.
Dominick Bertaki, the owner ~ the
house, testified that the next morning
in company with squad of soldiers
from Camp Wyckoff. he went TO his
home and found a dynamite bomb in
the yard. The fuse had been lighted