The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-11-13
LYNCHED MAN
IDENTIFIED
Washington Mob Victim Was
Ernest Everetts, !. W. w.
Organizer. x
CRIMINAL PLOT REVEALED
Information Against Accused
/, Believed Will Result in
Convictions,

NJ CentraIia, WASH, Nov. 13.-(A. Ply
The man who was Iynched here
Tuesday night after four members Of
the American Legion had been shot
and killed during an armistioe day
celebration, was identified early to-
day as Ernest Everetts by a woman
who conducted the rooming house
where Everetts lived. He was work.
ing here as an l. w. W. organizer, the
woman said.
Another Soldier Fired On.
Z George Paxton, Of CsntraIia, for
mer soldier, was fired upon before
daybreak today as he was patrolling
a road between Centralia and Che
halle near the bridge where the al
legged Industrial Worker Of the World
was lynched Tuesday night. Police,
national guardsmen and former serv.
ice men searched vainly for several
tours for the man who fired the shot.
Paxton was not hit.
This Identification was partly borne
out when the police went through
effects found in the room occupied
by the man. These effects included
receipts for Industrial Workers of the
World literature and blank receipts
for membership dues in the ]. w. W.,
according to the police. The body
had been previously identified as that
OF Brick" Smith. secretary of the
local branch of the I. W. w.
Crimina Information against
twenty-six alleged members of the
Industrial Workers of the World has
been prepared for fling with the
county clerk at Chehalis, county seat
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Attorney Herman Allen All infor-
nation. it was understood, would al
lege, either participation in or GRIM
inal knowledge of the killing of four
members of the American Legion
Mr.. Allen said he had information
which he believed would result In
convictions in all cases. This infor-
nation, he asserted, came to him
through alleged confessions of two
young men who admitted member
ship in the Industrial Workers of tho
World.
Woman Also Under Arrest.
OF the twenty-six alleged members
of the Industrial Workers of the
World in Jail here and at Chehalis
one Is a woman. She was manager
OF the lodging house from which the
fatal shots were alleaed to have been
fired at the marching Legipners.
Several state and federal officials
Rave investigated the situation here
since the shooting Tuesday and have
conferred with Mr.. Allen. They in
olsdcd Brig. -Gen. Harvey ]. Moss
I adtutant general of Washington;
Henry Ar. White, United States i'm
raitsrntidh commissioner. and several
agants Of the United States depart.
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prosecution awaited those accused oi
corIplicity in the shooting was con-
taincd in the statement made by Rob-
crt l.. Saunders. United States dis
trict attorney.
I'm my judgment, the /. w. w
fsve gone far enough with their acts
10 emphasize the truth that theiI
principle is the overturning of gov
ernment, including the federal gov
e'rment," Saunders was quoted as
sewing, IF that is so and can be
established by evidence. every indi'
vidual I. W. W. is guilty of that
crime.
Against Every One.
II shall place charges against every
one of the men arrested. The COM
r'aint will be placed before the United
States commissioner at Tacoma and
believe my evidence will be con-
elusive enough to hold all of them
for the federal grand jury.
'T shall charge tfat each and every
enc of them wickedly and feloniously
confederated, conspired and agreed
10 ovcrturn the federal government
by force and resist the execution OF
its laws"
The local post of the American
Legion has made plans for a military
funeral tomorrow of the four former
service men killed during the parade
Resolutions demanding drastic action
by state and federal authorities
arainst radical organizations have
been adopted by American Legion
posts and other organizations in many
Pacific coast cities.