Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-03-06
HAYMARKET RIOTS
HERR|N REMINDER
Prosecutor of Miners Says
: Two Were Hanged for Ad-
vocating Violence.
SURVIVOR PICTURES MOB
Picks Two Defendants as Among
Those Who Participated in
Sayings.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MARION. Ill, March 6.-Sweepins
aside all the legal skirmIshinS tha'
marked the opening of the nrst
Herrin riots trial, the prosecution
today continued the Introduction OF
evidence against Hugh Wills, state
board member of the Illinois Mine
Workers. and five other defendants
charged with murder in connection
with the outbreak.
The prosecution was prepared 10
lay special emphasis on Its conten-
ton that the killing Of the twenty
two non-union miners resulted from
y conspiracy.
The case of the Haymarket riots
in Chicago. where an editor and
speaker who took no actual part In
the killings were hanged because
they had advocated violence. was
cited by c. w. Middleknuf, special
prosecutor. in his statement to the
jury as applying to the present case.
The opening for the introduction Of
testimony along this line was made
by Judge J. T. Hartwell during the
first trial, which resulted in YER
dict of acquittal.
scope of Responsibility.
Judge HartweIl instructed the first
Jury that if one of the defendants had
helped to take the non union men
from the mine and then had publicly
part in any acts of violence. he still
would be guilty of murder if the
jury found that his previous acts re-
suited in murder. even though he had
not actually been present at the time
of the killing.
Barnard I ZONES Suryiyar IF fhs
riots. testified at the morning session,
and pointed out two of the defend
ants. James Brown a negro. and Otis
Clark. as two members of a crowd
panions prisoners. He said he had
seen these two men with guns. and
had heard Clark say: Il have spent
five nights watching these scabs, and
myself This isn't West Virginia.
Wen kill them all and wipe out the
breed"
Jones testified that he had seen
Brown wearing a battered Army he'll
met and carrying a gun.
The witness said that he had seen
e. *. Mcdowell. crippled superin-
tendent of the mine. taken from the
ale of prisoners by Clark and another
man when he was unable to keen up
Jones said that Clark struck Me-
Dowell over the head with the butt
end of a gun and knocked him down
It was near this spot that Mcdowell
body later was found.
Forced TO Line ID.
The witness said that the prisoners
were marched until they came to a
strip of woods and that an auto
mobile drove up and he heard cries:
Here comes our president Here
comes Willis"
Jones testified that he had been
knocked down then and was unable
to recognize any one in the automo-
bile. but heard some one say to the
man called willis: Were going
to take these scabs into the woods
and loose them under gun fire
Then we were forced to line up In
V formal ton before a barbed wire
fence" the witness said.
Somebody told us he said. when
I say go you scabs start through that
barbed wire He also told members
of the mob with shotguns to fire
first and those with high-pow
rifles next. Then | heard some one
say Co. then the shooting started
and 1 climbed the fence and run"