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Show uu INQUEST HELD AT LUDLOW CAMP Trinidad, Colo., May 1 "That s right, girlie; Inve vonr nig Suuday today and tomorrow we'll have the roast TIiIk was the remark ot a man wearing :i militia uniform, on the day before the battle ol" April 20 in which the Ludlow tent colony was burned, according to the testimony ol Mrs. Penrl Jolly before the coroner's jury at the Ludlow inquest today. The alleged remark was made to B woman, wom-an, who had laughed at four militiamen, militia-men, who were watching a baseball game between strikers Mrs Jolly did not know the name of the man, who, she said, made the statement. The witness declared that the militia mili-tia turned a machine gun on the tent colony, and fired explosive rifle bulls into the camp She swore that she had scon and heard the bullets explode. "Several times during the day ot the battle I went from one tent to an other and I never once made my appearance ap-pearance without being shot at," she testified "Once a bullet shot off 1 i the heel of my shoe." Woman's Ver:on of Battle. pl Mrs. Jolly gave her version of the &JJ beginning of the battle She said that tea? on the morning (Monday) after the Ny ball game, four militiamen came to iftfe the tent colony and asked Louis Eg Tikas "Louie The Greek" to permit them to arrest a man, who she said lyf was not in the colony. Tikas asked 53ji them for a w arrant and demurred at ,c a demand to produce the man at the F order of the military alone. & |