The sheriff was fifty years of age, of medium height, inclined to stoutness, smooth-shaven, with swinish eyes set closely on either side of a pink-tinted, hawk-like nose that curved just above a hard, cruel and excessively large mouth. The sneering speech and contemptible manner of this witness lent weight to the admissions of his brutality that had been dragged from reluctant state's witnesses thru the clever and cutting cross-examination conducted by Moore and Vanderveer. McRae told of his former union affiliations, having once been International Secretary of the Shingle Weavers' Union, and on another occasion the editor of their paper--but he admitted that he had never in his life read a book on political economy. He detailed the story of the arrests, deportations and other similar actions against the striking shingle weavers and the I. W. W. members, the recital including an account of the "riot" at the jail, the deportation of Feinberg and Roberts, the shooting at the launch "Wanderer" and the jailing of its passengers, and the seizing of forty-one men and their deportation at Beverly Park. McRae's callous admissions of brutality discounted any favorable impression his testimony might otherwise have conveyed to the jury. He admitted having ordered the taking of the funds of James Orr to pay the fares of workers deported on August 23rd, but denied the truth of an account in the Everett Herald of that date in which it was said that I. W. W. men had made some remarks to him "whereupon Sheriff McRae and police officer * * promptly retaliated by cracking the I. W. W.'s on the jaw with husky fists." Regarding the launch "Wanderer" the sheriff was asked: "Did you strike Captain Mitten over the head with the butt of your gun?" "Certainly did!" replied McRae with brutal conciseness. "Did any blood flow?" "A little, not much." "Not enough to arouse any sympathy in you?" "No," said the sheriff unfeelingly. "Did you strike a little Finnish fellow over the head with a gun?" "I certainly did!" "And split his head open and the blood ran out, but not enough to move you to any sympathy?" "No, not a bit!" viciously answered McRae. "Did you hit any others?" inquired Vanderveer. "No, not then." "Why not?" "They probably seen what happened to the captain and the other fellow for getting gay." As to the holding of Mitten in jail for a number of days on a charge of resisting an officer, and his final release, McRae was asked: "Why didn't you try him on that charge?" "Because when we let the I. W. W.'s go they insisted on him going, too, and I said, 'all right, take him along.'" "You did whatever the I. W. W.'s wanted in that?" "Well, I was glad to get rid of them," remarked the sheriff.