| Show IDAHO SIBERIA OF HORRORS Witness Describes an Awful Condl Cond SI ChARGES MADE J SlId Cruelty Afternoon Washington March nI lL J Strap Simp kine an engineer at Ward Vard Wardner ncr ner Idaho testified In the Cosur Coeur before the committee on military affairs today Ho Mid lie he did trot lIot particiPAte In theriot the riot but Lut soon foon after that event he was arrested b by a 1 ot of United StAtes troops who went about the streets ar roiLing tires pointed out by Dunker mine spotters Two spec on the streets who stopped to see ee this soldiers and their prisoners iro arrested and put with the other prisoners The witness lInell said one ot of the prisoners a 11 Swede S t was ink inken en with a fit whereupon a 11 negro sql 01 dier struck hIm senseless with the butt buttof buttof of 1 a gun The corporal ot of the guard came up and turning taming over the fallen fallin man num said I 1 guess youve oue fixed that tallow all right said laid one of at the prisoners was wa rob robbed ot o to 90 Ont One of recitals caused something ot of IL a sensa sensation tion lie He said uld he was as taken corn the bull pen b by n a squall squad of tour four soldiers and marched to an open enclosure where he was Illa 1 with his buck back against a building The soldiers stepped back end and cocked their guns gun apparently apparent ly h malting making ready to shoot hoot him At this point he said a 11 high ot of tire the Bunker Hili mill mItre appeared and sah 1161 the they had evidence enough to hang the witness or rend him up for or man many years but If h he would t tell who blew up the mill he would be turned loose he be protested that he did not know who ho the guilty parties were Sod aud the effort to get evIdence from him was given gln up tire Tile witness stated that at another time while In the bull pen n a party part who saId Id he was waR authorized b by an air om iah offered him to 10 implicate t two tIO grons In the blowing up of the mill The party said It did not matter much who were implicated but the nameS ot of certain miners and the coun county county ty ale were ware given whom It was noah moil desIred to for the put pur pose the witness said of hanging them or ir getting them out ot of the count country lIe le said ald afterwards learned that the had with the Bunker Dunker mine over ocr their heir 4 The detailed an Interview with nEil an army arm In which the latter hatter declined to permit a priest to be sum aum to ona In of If the who was lying and also allo refused to allow him to with his partner as to the of itis hll property lie He d many other Instances es of alleged cruelty One ne ot of his hili recitals was as to a brief Sell Ii by Gen Con Merriam to the bull pen rid the refusal to allow prisoners to communicate with him In tellIng ot of the ire shooting of Johnson the prisoner went insane ne the tho witness contrib ted additional Id testimony that while Johnson was wall running AWn away u a certain nine mine official shouted shoot shoot and tho ho soldiers accordingly shot The Tho witness said Mid h he helped to dig dighe the he tunnel intended l as u a means menn of as cape apt al a he be was dying by Inches lie also leo Rae gave ills hll experience on the stand is line and willie while In solitary confine confinement tent ment When Shen Representative who dl di r toted td the examination asked the wit ot of liar har ese this SiberIa In objections were made d to the but on OD 1 a vote ote the corn com committee the question |
