South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-19
WITNESS TELLS OF
SEEING SIX SHOT
AT HERRIN SLAYING
Others on Stand at Trial of
Miners Describe Attack
on Victims.

MARION, III, Dec. 1S.-(By \.
P.>- DR.. o. f. Shipman testified
today at the trial Of five men in
connection with the Herrin riot that
he had been an eye witness of tho
shooting down of six unarmed men
by a mob in front Of the Herrin
cemetery the day of the killings.
Two other witnesses. Mr.. and
Mrs. George Nelson, testified chat
they had seen a crowd Of armed
men drive so or 40 unarmed prison.
ers from the strip mine where the
trouble started, past their farm near
the mine.
r. o. Greer. former mayor OF
Herrin also testified that he had
seen the prisoners brought from the
mine and that there were As in the
group escorted b. 25 to 80 armed
men. He said there We're several
hundred spectators about the mine
and that he saw automobiles from
Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky ard
other states.
NolIey of Shots.
DR.. Shipman testified that he had
followed the mob and its bleeding,
pleading captives a mile and a half
through the streets of Herrin to the
cemetery and that there had been
n volley of shCts and he saw the six
prisoners drop to the dusty road.
He testified that a man whom he
could not Identify stood over the
PROSTATE victims and empted the
contents Of two revolvers into their
bodies He swore that John Car
naghi. one Of the defendants had
fired into the PROSTATE body Of one
Howard Hoffman Of Huntington,
Ind, one OF those killed. and that
blood had sDUrted into the air as
the bullet struck.
Oh, mon, men, What are you
doing he quoted Hoffman as
saying.
"Tf you have ever said your
prayers, say them now. d-m you.
for you won't have much longer, :"
the witness testified an unidentified
leader Of the mob told the prisoners
just before they We're shot down.
Asked if ne could tell who dId the
shooting, Or. Shipman named Joe
CarnaEhi and Leva Mann. two Of the
defendants now on trial and Percy
Hall and jim Galligan who have
been indicted but who are not de-
PENDANTS in the present case.
Prisoner Married in Jail.
The name of Peter Hitler. another
Of the defendants. who was married
in the Jail tonight to Anna Camp
bell, IS years old Of Marion, was
brought into the evidence for the
first time
George Nelson was the first wit
ness to name Hitler. whom he said
he had seen among the crowd at
the mine in the morning, but with
out a gun. DR.. Shipman testified
he had seen Hitler that night with
a gun strapped about his body and
some OF the prisoners had gotten
away and he was bound back to the
mine TO search for them.
Under the longest and severest
cross yet given any
states witnesses, DR.. Shipman said
that he had represented coal COM
panies in about a hundred" claim
cases in the last three years He
denied. however that he was pre-
JUDGED against the miners and said
he had represented three or four"
miners in suits.
Recognized superintendent.
Mrs. Nelson testified that she had
recognized c. X. Mcdowell. super
fntendent OF the strip mine, limping
painfully along among the prison
ers taken from the mine, that he
was taken down a road and that she
later heard shots. She said the only
other person IN the crowd she rec
ognized was Mrs. Otis Clark, wife
OF one OF the defendants and that
Mrs. Clark said: They've got old
Peg Leg
Nelson, however, said he had seen
Otis Clark and Oscar Howard, the
latter not a defendant IN the pre-
sent case. with guns. lead McDo-
well away down the road and had
heard shots and found the mine
superintendent bullet-pierced body.
Dan" O'Rourke and three other
mine guards were in court today
prepared 10 take the stand and tell
OF their experiences during the riot
but were held over until tomorrow.
O'Rourke is the only survivor OF the