The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-24

~--~-->-----~~--~-->----~ ing sensation in my arm, and upon look ing down at it l found 1t was hanging limp. Then l started to run and fell
 Effect of the Wound.
 Later l staggered to my feet and Greer came up and asked me if 1 was shot. I felt my breath getting shorter and my eyesight growing dim so l asked him to lay me down and tie a handker- chief around my arm. He did this and twisted it up with knife and the flow of blood stopped
 T became thirsty, and Greer got me some water. Three men came up but left after a short while. A train came by going towards Horse Creek and the crew stopped and wanted to take us to town, but we were afraid to go. Soon after wards about twenty men came up the track with turpentne and rags, and some of them dressed my arm the best they could. They put a new shirt on me and took me to the doctors office on a cot after which I was put on the train and brought to Birmingham to the hospital"
 The witness further testified that Bal finger told him that he had tried to get the men not to do as they did; that MT Jackson and MT. Ford came to Birming ham with him; that when he was lying down he heard some fussing behind him and asked the men not to get into any more trouble on his account. He also testified that Monroe Hill, the driver, who was taking them from Empire to Cordova, seemed to want them to miss the early train, and they asked him several times to hurry and he would not do 1t.
 Questions for Defense.
 To the questions put by the counsel for the defense the witness testified that he was 35 years old; that he came to the United States when he was 19 years old and that he had been in Alabama four teen years and two months. He said he was born in Rhondda in Glamorgan coun- ty, Wales; that he had never mined coal but that he was a horseshoer about the mines; that person was eligible to mem- bership in the United Mine Workers of America who worked in and about the mines in any capacity He said that he was district organizer for Alabama and that he worked directly under President Flynn
 Vice President Greer.
 B. L. Greer, coored, vice president of the Alabama district organization, was next called. He testified substantially to the facts set out by Mir. Hallier. In addition he said that while he was at Empire he had been set upon and beaten by two of the guards at that place. Their names were Shores and Rayburn. Con- tinuing he said:
 ''When I tried to get them to stop beating Mir. Hallier at Horse Creek they turned on me and began to beat me over the head. When we started down the track five or six of them followed us. They abused MT. Hallier, ealing him a nigger lover, and accused him of eating and sleeping with niggers. One of them said they didn't propose to have the U. M. w. of A. come over there and run the company's business. When they told MT. Hallier to kiss me I turned my face aside and he barely put his mouth against me-
 He said that after the crowd came down to where MT. Hallier had fallen a carpen- ter told the marshal and others that they were nothing but set of d. towards. and that they began fighting and were finally separated
 At the afternoon session Rufus Brown. a white man. went on the stand. He said that he was standing in Williams store at Horse Creek and saw some of the trouble at the station. He said that he saw Ballinger hit the colored man and kick him, and later he saw them all going down the railroad pretty fast.
 Booker Sargent.
 Booker Sargent, colored. was then call ed. He was standing on the platform at the station and saw most of the difficulty there except that when they drew their guns he ran into the station. His testi- mony was substantially in accord with that of MT. Hallier and Greer as to what took place there.
 C. A. Kemp, colored was the last wit ness He testified that he ran a restau- rant near the station and that he saw part of the trouble at the station. He