The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-19
LATE DEPUTY
TESTIFIES TO
BRUTALITIES
Prosecution and Commercial
Club Have Hit a Nest of
Hornets
BY Albert Brilliant

has been pointed to by the state as
the center of conspiracy which had
for its object the invasion of the city
Of Everett, the assassination of the
city authorities, and the destruction
of the city by fire, has taken the wit
ness stand in the defense of Thomas
H. Tracy, who is being tried before
Judge Ronald of the King County Su-
perior Court.
Mrs. Frenette testified that on the
night of November and on the day
following she was in Everett, and
stopped at the Merchants Hotel. At
torney Vanderveer introduced for her
identification the page of the hotels
records upon which she had register
! I'd. This fact contradicts all previous
testimony that she was in Seattle on
November 5 at the Colman dock at
he time of the Verona left for Ever
ett. She also denied that she had a
gun on her, or that she had ever
seen Sheriff McRae on the Sunday
lfter the shooting. She stated that
he did not even know Sheriff Nc
Rae at the time. The witness in
troduced her clothing that she had
worn on that day, proving that no
gun could be carried in her clothes,
Is some state witnesses had testified.
The defense is successfully contra
verting the testimony of the state
witnesses. About two dozen Everett
citizens have testified and all of them
stated that there was no violence or
resistance to arrest committed by the
I. w. w. in Everett Their testimony
terded to absolve the |. w. w. from
any remnant of a conspiracy as
charged by the state. They have re-
peatedly related the violence an' =
human treatment the I. w. w
Everett citizens had received from
citizen deputies. They told how the
deputies would come in groups and
mercilessly dispense the crowds and
abuse men, women and children re-
CARELESS of age. George Kannow, a
citizen deputy, testified that while
he was in the employ Of Sheriff Nc
Rae during the free speech fight,
the deputies were ordered to use their
clubs vigorously in case the crowd
showed any signs of gayness
deputy substantiated and CO.
rated a great deal of former wit
nesses' testimony regarding assault
ing l. w. w. and Everett citizens.
He also stated that while he was
acting as night jailer. Sheriff Nc
Rae would come in drunk during the
night and would continue to drink I'M
til early in the morning when he
would beat up l. w. w. prisoners.
An Important Witness
One of the most important wit
nesses of this week was Nicholas
Ccnieff, Russian, who testified that
he was on the Verona on November
5, and when they were approaching
the Everett city dock, gasoline boat
greeted them, which he took as &
friendly sign, but as they came near
err the dock he observed an L forma-
ton of people. AS the people got
ready to get off the boat, he heard a
voice from the dock say, "Boys, you
can't land here" and Immediately af-
ter the reply from the boat, "The
hell we can't" he heard shot from
the same direction as that of the first
voice. Instantly the people on the
boat began to move to the other side,
and simultaneously two other shots
were fired, followed by a volley of
shots, coming from the dock, and did
not cease until the boat was way out
in the bay.
To complete the impeachment of
Mayor Merrill who appeared in the
early part of the trial for the state
as a witness and upon cross-examin-
alton denied that he had ever as
saulted Louis Scaroff, that person
was placed on the stand.
ScarOff CorrobOrated
Chester Mickham, an |. w. W., tes-
tilted that he was arrested the same
night Scaroff was and for the same
cause. He corroborated the testimony
of the previous witness, and also
stated that when Scaroff was return
ed to the cell, he was bleeding and
that inches of skin were missing
from his hands.
B. C. Henry, cooks helper, tes-
titled that at one of the meetings he
saw Mayor Merrill and engaged him
in a conversation about the free
speech situation. When he asked the
mayor why he did not allow the l.
W W. to speak, the mayor had re-
piled that he had no objections but
that McRae had taken the entire mat
ter out of his hands and was there
fore helpless. Mrs. Leota Carr tes-
titled that after her husband had
been hurt at an I. w. W. meeting bv
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