Arizona republican., 1920-04-07
TESTIFY b|SbEE BOOMING HOUSES I H R [ A I [ N | ]
One Landlady Tells of Dy- namite Strangers Had In Room Others Tell of Threatening Talk Made By Strikers-Flag Was Reviled
Republican A. p. Leased Wire]

TOMBSTONE, Ariz., April 6.-F'ive sticks of dynamite with fuses were found in a room of a Bisbee hotel two months before the mine strike called June 26, 1917, Mrs. Anna c. Richards, at that time proprietor of the hostelry, testified today at the trial of Harry F.. Wootton. charged with Kidnapping for his alleged participation in the Bisbee deportations of July F, 1917.
 Mrs. Richards said she reported her find to the chief of police. The men in whose rooms the explosives were found left shortly afterward, without having registered without paying their bill.
 During the strike, commission of men called upon her to use her in fluence to cause her husband to stop working in defiance of the strike, and threatened to declare her house unfair to organized labor in Richards contin- ued to work. Mrs. Richards testified As a result of these incidents, Mrs. Richards sold her hotel and left town a few days before the deportations, according to her testimony.
 Other Places Threatened
 Other threats to rooming house keepers were mentioned by witnesses testifying for the defense today. Mrs. John Gonderson of Bisbee, declared IIldL SIlG WAS dShcO lO tJcCl iiiC4i WiiO were working during the strike, under pain of ''being run out of business, and of being hog tied" and with in timations that there had been such things as buildings being blown up." S. K. Williams. an attorney of Bisbee who conducted a rooming house at that time, testified that a committee requested him not to rent any rooms of his to '.scabs', and threatened to boycott his house if he did. As the committee was leaving, Mr. Williams said, one of the callers turned to him and asked: How would you like to see it in ashes?"
 Two men were killed during the de- portations, the witness testified, ex- plaining that one of them was striker and the other a deDorter.
 Earlier in the day Mrs. Bertha But Ter. another rooming house keeper in this vicinity at the time of the depor- tation, testified that Finnish women had threatened that the place would be burned down if Mrs. Euler served meals to men who disregarded the strike. As a result of this threat, the witness said. she did not open the din- ing room
 l. w. w. Revied U. s. Flag
 After the women in the court room had been requested to retire by Judge Samuel L. Pattee, William Jewell, Bis bee miner, repeated some obscene lan- euage regarding the American flag, used he said by man who had ad- vised him to join the Industrial Work CTS of the World, and whom he be- Iieved to be a German. The conver- satior occurred a few days before the strike.
 Frank Salmon, of Bisbee, testified that he saw Fred w. Brown who is the prosecuting witness in the present trial standing on the picket lines dur ing the strike, writing and asking ques- tions of two men who wore I. w. w. buttons. On previous occasions, the defense has sought to show that Brown, who the state alleges was deported by Wootton. was connected with the l. w. w. organiza ton County At torney Robert N French has repeat edIv declared that he would prosecute no one for deporting an I. w. w. and that he would put no one on the stand who belonged to that organization.
 Talked of Dynamiting
 That if he kept at work he would have mo home or family left, was the Warren district, testified was made to him by an organizer for the l. w w, during the strike C1ague said he went back home and told his wife to shoot on sight any person trying to enter their home
 Jesus Rochas a Bisbee storekeeper, and worker in an assay office at the time oI the strike. said that some of his customers threatened to burn his store if he did not stop working. The witness said he heard speaker declare that the strikers had an abundance of dynamite with which to blow up the mines and the homes of those who did not syrnpathize with them
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