White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-20

| threatened q waitress in the board
ing house or having exhibited a gun
to her, telling her that he meant
business. He also denied shooting
at a negro named Saunders. and
said that he did not know why the
foreigners had clubs; and from the
time the strike was called on Mon
day evening to the time of the
shooting on Thursday morning he
did not see any guns exhibited, any
clubs used or any fights or scrim-
ages, but that the foreigners were
at all times peaceable. He said he
was not an employe of the company
but had washed dishes for Mr..
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| Garliss was followed by There's
Fouras, who testified that he went
up to go 20 work as ne understood
that the strike was settled. He tes-
titled that there was trouble when
he went to go in. He did not know
saw the shooting and saw the man
fall.
The testimony of the first two wit
nesses was along the same lines.
Garliss claimed that the shooting of
the men was brutal and after the
men We're shot he saw Greek
named Jim Brown strike Prinaris,
who was shot. over the head with
gun when Prinaris was lying en- the
ground. He claimed that later the
men We're dragged by the feet up
near the fence.
Alfred Doull was the third witness
called. He testified that the condi-
tions which existed at McGill since
the strike was declared were desper-
ate; that he had seen many men who
were desirous of going to work bru-
tally assaulted by the Greeks and
beaten with clubs; that ne had been
threatened on several occasions, and
that Prinaris had held him up on
one occasion, by thrusting the point
of a gun against his breast.
John Sgler was next called to the
stand and testified that he was COM
ing up from the town in the direc-
tion of where the trouble occurred.
He said that the first two volleys of
shots were fired high, as he could see
the angle at which the rifles we're
held; that he was very much
frightened and after the shooting he
saw the dead men picked up and
carried over near the Office; that he
later went over near the Office and
was afraid to move; that Mr.. Lake
nan had evidently seen him through
the office window and came out to
ask him what was the trouble; he
told Mr.. Lakenan that he wanted
protection in order TO reach the rail-
road depo. and that Mr.. Lakenan
instructed one of the guards to ac-
company Sgier to the depot; that on
the way over he conversed with the
guard who was evidently a stranger.
and had the appearance of a labor
! ing man and from his accent he
gathered that he came from the
South and was perhaps from Mis-
souri,
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ness called and told practically the
same story as the first two witnesses.
Some witnesses claimed that they
saw Mr.. Leak order the guards to
fire, while others claimed that the
only foreman whom they saw was
Merrill, who rode up on his horse
and inside the gates about the time
the guards came out.
DIR. Richardson, who had examin-
ed the bodies of the deceased men,
testified as to where the bullets en-
tered the body.
w. G. Allen was the first of the
deputy sheriffs to be called. He
testified that on Thursday morning
Jim Brown told him a certain man
wanted to go to work and pointed
out the man who was standing with
: some other Greeks. Allen said that
, he went down and took the man by
! the arm to escort him inside, and the
trouble then started by the 9TH
er Greeks interfering; that two
other deputies, Ross and Nc
} Queeny, went down with him and
, that a scrimmage took place between
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