The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-11-21
VICTIMS OF |. ". v.
HATE LAID TO REST
Wrapped in the COlOrs That They Low.
ed-Centralia Pays Fitting
Tribute to Dead.

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from Oregon and other states, memoir
ial services were held over the bodies
of the four former service men who
fell before l. w. w. sniprs' bullets
while marching in an Armistice day
parade Tuesday.
While the members Of the Ameri-
can legion from many points in Ore
gon and Washington and the citizens
of Centralia marched through the
streets to the auditorium, wherein the
caskets were draped with the Amer
lean flag, other ex-service men kept
watch on the streets and on the hills
which surround it-lest lurking radi-
Gals %re-enact the attack of Armistice
day.
The four whose memory comrades
and citizens honored were Lieutenant
Warren 0. Grimm, Dale Hubbard, Ar
thur R. McElfresh and Ben Casagran-
da. The first two were laid to rest
in Mountain View cemetery at the con-
%clusion Of the legion's memorial SER
vice.
The funeral Grafton of the Rev. H.
W. Thompson, veteran of the Civil
war, was a fiery exhortation to cour-
age and continued faith in the republic,
a challenge and defiance to radicalism
and a tribute to the gallant character
of the four victims of the Armistice
day assault.
Several thousand people were drawn
to Centralia to pay their tribute and
the auditorium was utterly inadequate
to contain them. Throughout the SER
vice hundreds stood patiently in the
street waiting for the funeral cortege
to emerge. The city closed it's bust
ness places, by proclamation of the
mayor, for the entire afternoon. Shop
windows bore placards lettered in pen
Gil and ink informing the public that
the rules of business were suspended
Gin honor of our heroes"
One blanket complaint, charging 10
alleged members of the Industrial
Workers of the World with murder
in the first degree in connection with
the Armistice day parade shooting,
was filed with Justice Charles H. Hoss
by Prosecuting Attorney Allen. The
10 defendants r T. C. Morgan, Brit
Smith, Roy Becker, Joe Doe Faulkner, !
James Mc1nerney, Bert Bland, Com
modore Bland, ]. H. Lamb, Lauren
Roberts and Eugene Barnett. All are
in Jail except Bert Bland, a fugitive.
The complaint reads:
"That On or about the 18th day of
November, 1919, at Centralia, in the
county of Lewis, and in the state of
Washington, the said r. C. Morgan,
Britt Smith, Roy Becker, John Doe
Faulkner, James McInerney, Bert
Bland, Commodore Bland, j. H. Lamb,
Lauren Roberts and Eugene Barnett
and others unknown to complainant
did then and there wilfully, and I'M
lawfully and fe%loniously and with pre-
meditated design, conspire, federate
and agree to kill and murder ex-ser-
vice men of the United States army
who might participate in a parade to
be held in the said city of C%entralia,
in the State of Washington, as afore-
said, on the said 18th day of Novem-
Der, 1919, and in pursuance of the
said unlawful, willful and felonious
conspiracy by the said defendants
(names given) and others to complain
ant unknown did, wilfully, unlawfully
and feloniously and with premeditat-
ed design with pistols, revolvers and
rifles, loaded with powder and ball,
then and there held in the hands of
the said defendants, shoot and mortal
ly wounded w. o. Grimm, an ex-ser-
vice man of the United States army,
while the same w. o. Grimm was par
.ticipating in said parade on said date
as aforesaid, and, as a result of said
shooting and wounding of the said
W. o. Grimm by the said defendants,
in ~furtherance of said conspiracy, the
said W. o. Grimm did then and there
and died.
therefore, said complainant prays
that the said defendants and others
complainant unknown, may be ar
rested and dealt with according to law.
"HERMAN ALLEN.
County Attorney"
Justice Hoss Immediately issued