James Broadbent, manager of the Clark-Nickerson Mill, and a citizen deputy, followed Armstrong with some unimportant testimony. L. S. Davis, steward on the Verona, also stated that McRae committed the first overt act in taking hold of his gun. He was asked: "He had his hand on his gun while he was still facing you?" "Yes sir. I could see it plainly," answered Davis. [Illustration: Pilot house of the "Verona" riddled with rifle bullets at Everett] "That was before he started to turn, before he was hit?" "Yes sir." Davis was wounded in the arm as he was on the pilot house steps. He was asked about the general disposition, manner and appearance of the men on the Verona on the way over to Everett, and answered: "I thought they were pretty nicely behaved for men--for such a crowd as that." "Any rough talk; any rough, ugly looks?" "No sir." "Any guns?" "No." "Any threats?" "I didn't hear any threats." "Jolly, good-natured bunch of boys?" "Yes." "Lots of young boys among them, weren't there?" "Yes, quite a few." Davis stated that three passengers got off at Edmunds on the way up to Everett, thus establishing the fact that there were other than I. W. W. men on board. R. S. "Scott" Rainey, commercial manager of the Puget Sound Telephone Company and a citizen deputy, was called and examined at some length before it was discovered that he was not an endorsed witness. This was the second time that the prosecution had turned this trick. Vanderveer objected, stating that there would be two hundred endorsed witnesses who would not be used. "Oh no!" returned Mr. Veitch. "Well," said Vanderveer, "a hundred then. A hundred we dare you to produce!" "We will take that dare," responded Veitch. But the prosecution failed to keep their word, and deputy Dave Oswald of the Pacific Hardware Company, who during the various deportations tried to have the I. W. W. men stripped, covered with hot tar, rolled in feathers and ridden out of town on a rail, and a number of his equally degenerate brother outlaws were never produced in court. Rainey testified that he had seen a quantity of murderous looking black-jacks in the Commercial Club for distribution to the deputies. He also saw men fall overboard from the Verona and saw none of them rescued. He thought there were twenty-five men with guns on the boat, and he did his firing at the main deck. "And you didn't care whether you hit one of the twenty-five or one of the other two hundred and twenty-five?" scornfully inquired Vanderveer. "No sir," said the miserable witness.