Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-12

+ ATTACKS ON Ex- SERVICE
tContinusd from Pare one, Z
tons had been made BY fatrolman
Jackson and members OF the soldiers
posse.
Reports from the bedside OF Earl
Watt, one of the injured ex-service
men are encouraging and 1t is believed
he will recover.
The police chief said the officials
with the aid of the state militiamen
now have the situation well under
control
MAKES CONFESSION.
Smith is alleged to have made
You fellows can't hang me-" he is
said to have boosted. II was sent to
do my duty and did it,"
From the reported confession made
by Smith and from the talk of boy
of 16 District Attorney Herman Allen
Of Lewis county has begun work on
his murder charge with which he ex-
poets to send to the gallows every
man who was in the I. w. w. hall
when the shooting took place.
Allen was busy until morning gath
ering together the numerous threads
of evidence and said within few
hours a special grand jury would be
Calle0 TO take up the investigation ana
return indictments.
The last words of smith as he was
strung up to the bridge, two miles
southwest OF Centralia, It is alleged.
were boasts that a premeditated plan
for the killing on the part of himself
and assistants and his only regret, ac-
cording to witnesses was that not
enough of the soldiers had been killed.
BOY TELLS OF PLOT.
The 16-year- old boy is Dewy Lamb.
whose father is said to be a member
of the |. w. w. He falteringly told
the district attorney of the converse
tions he had overheard of the plans to
kill the Centralia soldiers on armistice
day and of how arms were smuggled
into the building from which the
shooting was done. The boy told of
how he stood on viaduct not far
from the scene of the shooting, just
out of range. ito see the fun"
Another bit of evidence in the invec-
tive hurled at Lieutenant Scales re-
firing commander of the local Ameri-
can Legion post, by the aged woman
proprietor of the Roderick hotel.
across the street from /. w. w. head
quarters.
Screaming in her rage, a short time
after the shooting, the woman said
that Scales and his gang" had
planned to raid the hotel and that the
| boys" had got the soldiers in re-
venge.
You were marked and you can
thank your lucky star that you are
living today, Scales" she is reported
| to have said
| Centralia, Wash, Nov. 12.-Opera =
| tives of the department of justice and
other forces of law and order repre-
senting the state were gathering here
| today planning a concerted effort to
wipe out the !. w. w. nest following
the attack of the radicals on the
armstice day parade of veterans yes
terday afternoon.
| Four American Legion men are
dead, killed by bullets fired it is be-
leved by snipers from l. w. W. head
quarters.
| The body of one !. W. W., Britt
Smith still hanged from a bridge early
group of men. Smith was captured
after he had run from the 1. w. w. hall
! with smoking rifle in his hands.
Until company r of the state mill
| tia arrived from Tacoma at midnight
it was feared the small police force
would not be able to protect 10 pris-
| oners in the jail, as the mob, esti-
mated at 1900 swarmed about the
Jail with constant cries of lynch
| them"
| The mob did not entirely dispense
until nearly daybreak.
| The dead are:
FOUR DEAD.
Warren Grimm, former lieutenant
with the Siberian forces and .comman-
der Of the local post Of the American
Legion.
months in France.
Ben Casagranda. who served in
many French campaigns.
| Dale Hubbard, ex-Serylce man.
l. w. w. scattered from their hall
as service men and the crowd charged
the building. Britt Smith fired on the
/ crowd as he ran. He was pursued to
! the Shookumchuck river
Emory Coleman. one of the pursu
ers was shot through the leg. Smith
4 turned at the river and slot Hubbard
three times through the body. Hub
| bard died instantly.
| Smith was then overpowered and
| jailed.
/ FIRE !. w. w. HALL.
A mob meanwhile had fired the 7. w
| w. hall, after lootng 1t of its papers
This fire was extinguished by the fire
| department.
An attempt to lynch Smith was
| first made behind the jail. This
was thwarted by the police.
Last night all the lights In the city
suddenly were switched off and mer
began to gather about tho jail in auto
mobiles. The machines that APP
proach the place were ordered to turn
off their lights. Smith was taker
from the Jail and hanged.
The citys undertakers have refused
to allow the body to be taken to their
esta blishments.
Centralia is said to have been the
headquarters for !. w. w. Of Lewis
county. From this point they have
worked in wide radius in the lum
Der camps.
The force of police here 10 small, but
state troops will not be required, 1t IL
believed. Two government agents ar
rived here early today from Seattle
and prornised n 1~aApins in vAati1 m ton