The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-11-14
One |. W. W. Is HANGED

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fell at the second burst of fire,
mortally wounded. ..
George Stevens, of Centralia, at
tempted to disarm an alleged I. w.
w. and was wounded during the
struggle.
Hubbard suffered his wound in
pursuing a supposed l. w. w.
Tore Out Front CT Building.
Casagranda was in the ranks and
rifle bullet struck him in the body.
They got me this time" he said as
he doubled up and fell in the street.
The crowd, uniformed and un uni
formed, started to chase the reds
and Hubbard was shot while chasing
one of the leaders.
Gathering up persons suspected of
affiliation with the radical order.
sone of the service men took them
to Jail while others of the marchers
tore out the front of the building
where the 7. w. w headquarters
were located. seized and turned a
hqdantity of literature and all the
| furniture and distributed among
themselves and Centrsiia citizens the
arms and ammunition stored in the
headquarters.
Former Soldiers Prevent Violence.
Meanwhile a crowd was gathering
about the Jail. Former service men.
some of them armed with the seized
weapons and others armed patroled
tne ground near the jail to prevent
According to. former service men,
who said they were present, Hub
bard's party caught the man they
were chasing, after he had fired at
item several times, on the banks of
the Skookumchuk liver, a small
stream which runs through the
town. Hubbard and the man grappl-
ed, they said, and the supposed 1. w.
w. fired directly into Hubbard's
body. George Stevens, another of
the crowd chasing the gunman,
kicked the pistol from the l. w. WIS
hands.
Marchers Dash Into Hall.
The whole city was thrown into
CONSERVATION, and the parade of
veterans of the world war for dem
ocracy broke up quickly as the uni
formed marchers made a dash to
raid the /. w. w. hall and round up
suspicious characters.
With the dash shown in going over
the top in Europe the service men
soon stripped the hall of all furniture
and documents and arrested eight
men. These thrown in Jail, were
guarded by the former soldiers to
prevent their escape and at the same
time to protect them from lynching
until their guilt could be established.
A mob seeking vengeance on the
prisoners was fought back by the
overseas men who stood guard at
the Jail to see that officials made no
effort to take the suspects away.
AS the parade column swung around
a corner of Tower avenue and Sec
ond avenue, the band struck UP a
patriotic march. Then bullets came
into the ranks from an unseen
enemy. Men fell to the pavement
and tiny rivulets of blood showed the
spectators what had taken place, the
crack of the rifles having been
drowned by the hlare of the band.
Women Aid Fallen Men.
Wives, daughters and sweethearts
of the paraders after a momentary
pause from the sudden terror of the
situation, rushed to the aid of the
fallen.
That the firing was intended for
soldiers was shown by the fact that
all the killed and injured were in the
military section of the parade, which
was made up partly OF residents of
Chehalis. AS the women gathered
about the fallen, stray bullets were
still singing. but no further casual
ties resulted
Smith Made Confession.
UNITED Press Dispatch
Centralia, Wash, November IL
Armistice day massacres which oc-
Cured here yesterday, resulting in
the death of four members of the
American Legion were carefully
planned according to the statements
of Britt Smith," the member of the
/. w. WIS, who was hanged after the
shooting occurred. Smith made a
full confession of the planned attack
on the marching veterans. He claim
ed that the Centralia organization of
the l. w. w. deliberately planned to
XII XIII ., as many ofIthe Dictionaries as
Veterans RaIded !. w. w. Hall.