The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-01-12
HAS EVIDENCE
BEEN BURIED?
Question Is Asked of Everett
Commercial c Iub interests
In View of Many Rum0rs Now
Circulating
(Seattle Union Record)

was there a regular passenger, not
a member Of the !. w. w., who was
among those who We're shot while
struggling in the water after having
been pitched off the steamer Verona
by the rush of the men on board
seeking to escape the bullets coming
from the dock, on Bloody Sunday, No
vember 5, in Everett, Wash?
Has the body Of this passenger, to-
gether with an unknown member of
the l. W. w. party, been illegally de-
stroyed or disposed of in a vain at
tempt to cover up the terrible facts?
But Murder viii Out!
What other conclusion can be
drawn from the widespread reports.
prevalent in Snohomish county, that
two bodies were seen floating near the
Everett Packing Company's cannery
during the week following the shoot
ing? According to these reports, the
police were notified on the day of
discovery at noon and were to come
down to secure the bodies at about 2
o'clock in the afternoon.
From the description given, one
body was exceptionally we'll dressed.
"He must have been a commercial
traveller" said the informant, "he had
patent leather cloth top shoes, a tan
colored suit and white collar and tie.
There was a bullet wound in the back
of the neck"
Was this death wound received
when he was struggling for his life
in the water? The position of the
wound, as reported, appears to indi-
cate that such was the case.
The other body was not so plainly
seen, but was apparently dressed in
the ordinary style of a workingman.
Was He an Elk?
Another witness, a resident of Ev-
erett, whose name and adress will
be furnished at the proper time, pick
ed up, during the same week, on the
beach contiguous to the shooting, an
Elk's badge, attached to which was a
miniature siIken stars and stripes.
Had the badge come off the body of
the well dressed victim who was shot
by the posse that fired without warm
ing on United States passenger
boat?
What Became of the Bodies?
There is no record of either body
at the cornor's office. From another
quarter come reports that the son of
an eX-Pinkerton operator, himself a
gunman, took two bodies. found near
the cannery, out to deep water and
sank them. A third corroborating re-
port has not as yet been confirmed
is to the effect that two fishermen
IN rowboat saw a peculiar bundle
thrown overheard from a launch off
Everett. Drawing closer, they voiced
their curiosity and were told in an
offhand manner that it was a body
from the shooting which was in such
bad shape that they thought it was
best just to dump it overheard.
The defense would like to hear
from these fishermen. or from any
others who saw the bodies before
their mysterious disappearance. Also,
if any person has a clow as to the
identity of the well dressed passenger
described above, or has knowledge of
anybody who took passage upon the
Verona that day, they will be doing
a public service by communicating
their information to the attorneys for
the defense.
Officials, as Usual Deny
Both the police and the coroner
profess to know nothing of the af-
fair, but the feeling is general in Ev-
erett that there is too much co-opera-
tion between the coroner's office and
the Commercial Club. 1t will be re-
membered that none of the officials
nor the kept papers were at all inter-
eated in reporting the case of Oscar
Carlson, the passenger on the Verona
not member Of the I. W. w, who
was shot nine times in the fatal at
tack. And this despite the fact that
he was well known in both Seattle
and Everett. Had it not been for The
Record his thrilling story would not
have been made accessible to the
public.
The attitude of the Everett police
may be judged by the fact that when
a resident Of Beverly Park notified
headquarters by telephone of the
CHASTITY brutalities being enacted
there the night of the gauntlet-run-
ming and beating up, the officer at
the desk merely laughed in answer!
But murder will out