Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-12-15
AUDIENCE
HEARS STORIES
OF Staying Of
0N-UNION MEN
Witnesses Tell of Prisoners
Being Shot Down in Cold
Blood During the Rioting
at Herrin, III,
SEVERAL WERE TIED
TOGETHER WITH ROPES
At Least Two of the De-
PENDANTS Are Identified
From the Stand as Hav-
ing Been Mob Members

Marion, H., Dec. "a (by the As
sociated Press) THE march or
several hundred armed men driy-
ing before them through the
streets Of Herrin, six bloodstained
prisoners and the later finding Of
twenty bodies were described To
the jury by several witnesses to-
day at the trial OF five men IN
connection with riot.
Before u tense audience which
packed the sOmber, dimly-lightcd
court room to the doors and over
flowed into the stairway leading
to it and the corridors below, wit
nesses for the state pointed OUT
three of the defendants as men
they had seen with weapons IN
their hands the morning of the
tragedy.
Six of the bodies, according to
the testimony Of j, Marshall LAntz.
u Herriu real estate dealer, and Z.
n, Lentz, his brother, who is a
blacksmith and a member of the
United Mine Workers of America,
were bound together with a single
rope about their necks- Fourteen
other dead or injured victims were
found just outside the Herrin cem-
etery on the outskirts of the town
they testified.
Prisoners Driven Ahead
Marshall Lentz, the first of the
two TO take the stand, testified to
seeing n crowd OF several hundred
men passing before his house in
Herrin early in the morning OF
June %, the day Of the killing. He
said that the crowd was shouting
and singing and looked like a mob
and that about six prisoners with
bloody heads were being driven
ahead" Later. he said, he had
gone with his brother through the
woods at the edge of the village.
what did you see in the
woods?N he was asked,
Fourteen OF the men who had
BeGt- gl1or~ GOVT and Aorne armed
men, he replied and added thar
he had then gone toward the city
cemetery.
what did you find there" ask
cd Delos Duty, states attorney.
II found six men in the middle
of the road tied together with
ropes about the necks. Three OF
them were still breathing, ! think
Did you see anything else or
wounded or dead mcn?'
yes we drove down the road
in an automobile and saw four
moro dead-onc Of them was
hanging to a tree"
Mr.. Lcntz said that he could not
identify any Of those lie had seen
with guns except Herbert Walker,
who is not one OF the defendants
in the present case, an indictment
against him having been set aside
ut the request Of the prosecution.
Objection Sustained
I. Y. LentZ, Corroborated his
brothers testified regarding the
finding Of tho bodies. He also told
of meeting Herbert Walker and
Of having had a conversation with
him. An objection by the defense
to question regarding the nature
Of the conversation was sustained
by the court. lie was permitted to
say, however, that they met Walk
er an hour before he found the
bodies.
George Harrison, who has
larnl at lltIIll, llSdI tle oICliO ~
the staying, told of seeing a group
Of about twenty-five men with o
single prisoner near his farm.
"They started south with the
prisoner and shot him down when
ho ran" he said.
Later the witness testified he
saw another group of about twelve
armed men enter q clump OF woods
with two prisoners, Then he
heard shots. he added,
Points Out Grace
Mr.. Harrison pointed out Bert
Grace. a defendant, as one of the
men he had seen with a gun IN
his hand. He also said he had
seen otis Maynard and Dallas Nc
Cree, neither of whom Is defend
ant. Maynard, he said, had no
gun.
McCree, according to the wit
ness, with three other men whom
no was unable to Identify, came up
10 his barn and told him they
wanted TO go through the lot TO
head off some men who had got
oose."
"What else did he say" Har-
'ison was asked and replied:
He said: We shot two of them
before we got here
Another witness. Lawrence
Beare. a Herrin truck driver.
pointed out from the stand Joe
1arnaghi, a defendant, as q mem
Der of the mob whom he had seen