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high-power, and that he had it with
him when he was captured near his
home two days after the shooting. He
would have tackled four or five men.
he declared but said he didn't care to
,tangle' with rs or 80. after he has
witnessed what had happened two
days before.
State counsel, during cross-exami-
nation questioned Barnett relative to
statement he is alleged to have m,...-
in the Lewis county Jail at Chehalis
following his arrest. He denied tha
he had told the men who conducted
the examination that he would moi
surrender 10 any damn Legionaire'
but would surrender to an officer of
the law. Barnett was in Centralia
Sunday night previous to the SHOOTING
and slept at the Avalon with Bert
Bland, one of the defendants, he test.
fled.
Denies He Was on Street.
Asked to whom he had mailed the
parcel post package on the day of
the shooting, Barnett gave the name
of his mother-in-law, Mrs. A. j. Down.
er, Cottonwood, Idaho. He admitted
having a conversation with neigh
Dor, after he had ridden to his home,
but denied that he had told this neigh
! Dor he had been on the street with
James McInerney, another of the de-
PENDANTS, during the shooting.
| Il told him that soldiers had raided
the l. w. w. hall and that two of them
had been shot" he said. The two
men he saw fall, he said, he saw from
the window of the Roderick. They
tfell in front of the hall, he testified.
Mrs. Mary McAllister, landlady of the
Roderick, was standing in the door of
the hotel when it occurred, he said
Other than Britt Smith, one of the
defendants, Barnett could not tell who
was in the |. w. W. hall Just before
| the shooting and just before he went
upstairs into the Rpderick, he said.
Several were there, but he could H.
member Britt Smith as the only one
he knew.
| Attorneys Clash. ....
| Defense and state counsel engaged
in personalities and the court, during
recess, instructed them that it would
not apply any further such personali-
ties to pass. The clash came when
Vanderveer made the statement that
the prosecution was being financed by
private interests.
| Describing the alleged rush upon
the l. w. w. hall, Barnett testified
after telling of the business men maxi
ing signs TO the soldiers, that a man
on horseback rode by and told them
to 'buok up"
Finaly there came an order" he
testified. 81 couldn't make out what
it was, and they all rushed for the
hall. | heard glass break and then
the shooting began. The first shots
came from the back of the hall. When
the rush started l threy' my coat.
thought there was going to be scrap.
But when the shooting began l knew
| had no business there"
1t was after this Barnett left the
hotel, mailed the package and rode
home, he testified
Says He Feared LyncIIing.
On the way out of town, he said ht
saw mob trying to lynch one of the
prisoners. They had rope and were
dragging him toward a telephone pole
he said. 1t was this sight, he said
which caused him to arm himself anC
offer resistance when posse went to
arrest him. Barnett admitted that he
had been arrested in Cottonwood, Ida.
no, and charged with obstructing the
draft, but said he was not convicted
He said he got in trouble because he
wouldn't work for $225 day. "They
charged me with talking against the
draft, he said, but they never proved
it.
The statement Barnett is alleged t
have made in the Chehalis Jail wa
! read into the record by the defense
Barnett said he did not mention, IN
the statement, anything about what he
had seen of the alleged raid on tht