| Show LATTIMER MASSACRE trial of 0 sheriff martin for shooting down donn milliners liners Il pa feb 7 the trial of sheriff martin and deputies for shooting into an unarmed body of miners diners last september killing seven and wounding about forty others is renewing the excitement caused by the rash deed tho the witnesses are brought into court only as they are required to testify many of them bear reminders of the late shooting in ili the shape of ghastly wounds in legs arms etc ono one man with eight buckshot wounds in the back who is just recovering sufficient strength to enable him to move was present charles guscott Guse ott the lattimer school teacher pointed out those of the deputies lie remembered having seen at lattimer just previous to tho the shooting after this Guscott pointed out by maps and photographs the scene of t the he shooting just where the deputies stood where the strikers halted where the sheriff met the strikers and where the dead and wounded had fallen dr william keller who viewed the remains of the strikers and attended many of the wounded testified that a number of the strikers were shot in the back thus bearing out tho the allegation that the deputies fired when the men were running dr keller mentioned in a order each of the tha thirty nine patients taken to the hazelton azelton IT hospital and described their wounds voun ds minutely it was evident that they had been shot in all positions some while fronting the deputies some while running away and some dhilo lying on the ground in the hope of escaping injury forty six wounds on the thirty nine men were inflicted by 44 caliber winchester bullets and only a small majority of them were caused by buckshot of the patients seven died in the hospital two are still there and recovering slowly and thirty have been discharged all of them cured except one who is now in a private hos pital rev S E Staf flett pastor of the emanuel reformed church of hazelton azelton Il testified that the strikers were orderly and apparently unarmed miss grace coyle of the lattimer school baid said she was standing on the porch of the schoolhouse school house and sow saw the deputies line up along the roadside then the strikers approached quickly and orderly the sheriff stopped them and some of them gathered around him but she did not see any of them attack him some of them cried go ahead and a few strikers pushed past the sheriff at that moment a shot was fired then came another and in an instant the volley 1 I sa saw men fall said miss coyle some of them ran toward the school house and when they got half way they the fell I 1 do not know w hether they were shot just before they fell or it if the they were v ounce I 1 bythe by the volley and ran so far before their strength failed them the shooting continued for about two minutes and after the first volley it was scattered 1 I helped many of the wounded strikers who fell near the school house and did not see any weapons on any of them while I 1 was helping them a deputy named ross laughed at me as he walked about smoking a cigar I 1 said you ought to go to cuba another deputy dark clark laughed and I 1 said to him do you think you have done a glorious deed today I 1 called ano two more of them bums public feeling is considerably consides ably aroused over the recital of the events leading up to the trouble alich resulted in the shooting |
