Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-02-17
LEGION men
MADE NO MOVE
TOWARD HALL
Participant in Armistice Day
Parade at CenraEa Says
Marchers Made No Move
Against |. ". W.

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Montesano. Wash, Feb. l7.-Frank
r. Van Glider, Olympia, who COM
manded the first platoon in the Cen
tralia contigent of the Armistice au-
parade and who stood alongside War
rem o. Grimm when the latter was
shot, testified today in the trial Of the
eleven alleged l. W. w. charged win
Grimm's murder, that the members of
the American Legion made no move
toward the l. w. w. hall before the
shooting started.
Van Glider went to Centralia to par
ticipate in the parade because several
of his "buddie" who had served with
him in France were to participate an1
because he wished to marc.. with
them, he testified. He knew Grimm,
he said, and when Van Glider arrived
in Centralia, almost at the time the
procession vast 0 start, Grimm placed
him in command of the first platoon
of the Centralia division.
The shot which killed Grimm came
from the direction of the Avalon hotel,
Van Glider testified. A shot from ,nas
direction had only a second or two
previously "whizzed' past Van elders
ear, he testified This shot caused him
to look toward the Avalon and he saw
gun in the window of the Avalon
In the march of the parade nor,n
lalong Tower avenue from First stree,
and the counter-march back south to
Second street, where it halted, Van
Glider was temporarily in command OF
the Central:a contingent, he testified
This was due to Grimm s returning tC
the rear of the procession to instruc
those following, to salute the Civil
War veterans.
Il made 'bobble' of it," Van Glider
testified. Grimm said, when the lat
ter is said to have spoken about fail
ling to salute the Grand Army men.
| Grimm rejoined the division at thu
intersection of Tower avenue and Sec
ond street, Van Glider testified anC
it was while he stood there talkini
that the shooting started and tha
Grimm received his moral would. Vat
Glider told him to run across Secont
street, he testified and to get to ,n
hospital as quickly as possible. Val
Glider then gave a command to clea
the streets, he said.
On crossexamination he said he say
the marchers scattering in every di
rection after the shooting started. n
saw evidences of shooting from the !
w. w. hall, he said.
Looking George F. Vanderveer, de
fense counsel, squagely in the eyes
Van Glider in answer to a question a
to whether the boys raided the hall
declared mo sir" He amplifIed hi
answer on redirect examination b.
saing he didn't even know there wa
an l. w. W. hall until after the shoot
ing
Nine witnesses were examined at tn
morning session of court, much o
their testimony being of a corrobora
tive character
: Leila Trip, II whose home Is 4
Everett, but who was visiting an aun
in Centralia on the day of the shoot
ings testified to seeing a man runnin
from the Avalon hotel after the shoot
ing Her testimony corroborated tha
given last week by Charles Briffet
who had told Of seeing a man goin
/, from the rear of the Avalon, re-loadin
his rifle as he walked Although sh
! had seen Eugene Barnett, one Of "
? defendants whom the state did In
! shooting from the Avalon, at tn
: county jail at Chehalis, she would nc
attempt to identify him in court toda!
Her description, generally, OF the ma
D she saw in the alley in the rear Of tn
2 Avalon. fit Barnett.
: Asked If she had been told durin
L the court recess. where Barnett wa
sitting on the prisoners bench, she d,
S MED speaking to any one during tn
recess.
Alleged conversation between a ma
charged with committing felony an
e his physician, was not permitted at III
trial today The state had placed d
John p. Coleman of Chehalis on III
: stand to tell Of treating o. c. Blan'
one Of the eleven defendants for
? cut hand.
Defense counsel objected to the wi
ness telling Of the conversation bI
tween Bland and the doctor, declarin
: that such alleged conversation 'wf
Improper The court ruled that sue
: testimony would not be admitted unit
authorities had been cited to show tn;
: II was proper. Bland went to Chehal
!. the day. Of the shooting to have h
a hand treated for cuts. said to hay
been received by breaking glass. tt
defense admits that Bland cut h
r hand at a window in the Arnold hote
but refuses to allow his conversation
with his physician to be divulged.
later ruling may be made, however.
= Several of the witnesses examine
today. who were participants In II
4 parade, testified that they did N
!, know therew as an /. w. w. hall
: centralla until after the shooting ar
. learned that many Of the shots hs
been fired from the hall.