Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-11-16
!, ", W, MEMBER
ADMITS TAKING
PART IN MURDER
Says Attack on Armistice Day
Parade Was Planned in
Advance.
FEARED OWN HALL
WOULD BE WRECKED
|. Roberts Tells of Plot to Open Fire
All Who Participated Expected
to Die-Loughenoff, Finn,
Was Leader.

Centralia Wash, Nov. 15.-Indus-
trial Workers of the World planned
the Centralia shooting three weeks
before Armistice Day, according to an
alleged confession made by L. Rob-
erts, confessed l. w. w., who surren-
dered himself to the officers follow
ing Tuesdays shooting in which bull
let's from the guns Of the radicals
killed four former American soldiers
marching in the holiday parade.
The confession said the |. w. W.
expected their hall would be attacked
on Armistice day and that all the rad
icals who took part in the shooting
expected to be killed. According to
Roberts statement, E. Wesley Ev-
eretts, the lynched l. w. w., apparent
ly directed the movements of the
radicals, as he sent Roberts and two
others to Seminary hill, near the
scene of the shooting, with orders to
"shoot when they shoot or when we
heard shooting"
Roberts, in his alleged confession,
implicated several alleged l. w. W.,
who are in Jail here and nearby cit.
les. After making the confession
Roberts is said to have stated that he
feared vengeance at the hands of his
fellow radicals because of his admis-
sion.
The alleged confession, bearing
Roberts signature and witnessed by
Robert Jackson, local police Off
Ger, and G. II Lewis of Portland,
Ore, and member of the American
legion, follows:
Finn Was Leader.
81 was on top of a hill with 90
high power, shooting into the street.
/ shot five shots. We started plan
ming this three weeks ago, as we fiee
ured the I. w. w. were going to be
attacked. Wesley Everetts sent me
to the hill with two other men. His
right name is Loughtenoff and he is
Finn. The /. w. w. furnished the
guns. I used 20 high power cali
bre and Hansen used $50 savage.
l don't know the name Of the other
man, but he wore loggers' shirt and
blue overalls. We were sent up on
the hill about 1 o'clock. Just before
we went one man was put in the, Ava
Ion hotel. don't know his name,
but he wore brown suit. light mack
NAV, and he had small light NOUS
tache. Everetts told US to shoot when
they shot at us, or when we heard
shots. Smith was to use 1890 re-
volver. We expected all to be kill
ed and we done this with the inten-
ton Of protecting our hall. / do not
think that we got orders to do this
from the outside, but planned it
among ourselves"
81 don't know anything about en-.
other plan or where men were to he
put. but Smith was to stay in the
hall. l know o. C. Bland, Britt
Smith, Row Becker. Hansen, alias
Lought enoff, the other fellow shat
was with us. and myself. took part
in the shooting. After the SHOOTING
went home and hid across the field
from the house in the brush. The 9th
err two men went to shack Of Har-
sens up at the Sanford river. Har-
son and the other man went together
We took the guns up in a SUITCASE
and Hansen carried the suitcase TN"1
was the suitcase that was found up
there"
Roberts, who, it is said, Is know
among the radical element as "Grard
Mount" made the confession. az
cording to officials, while in iail hc~a
Friday. Roberts was one Of the -
prisoners charged here vester1c-'
with murder in the first degree v
was said tonight that County Attc~
ney Herman Allen and C. D. Cun-
bingham, his special assistant. have
obtained a more detailed confession
from Roberts since Friday.