The Everett Massacre: A history of the class struggle in the lumber industrySmith, Walker C.
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The Everett Massacre: A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry
Smith, Walker C.
Industrial Workers of the World; Lumbering -- Washington (State); Lumbermen -- Washington (State)
Oscar Lindstrom then took the stand and corroborated the stories of the
witnesses who had testified about the shooting up of the "Wanderer" and
the beating and jailing of its passengers. H. Sokol, better known as
"Happy," also told of his experience on the "Wanderer" and gave the
facts of the deportation that had taken place on August 23rd.
Irving W. Ziegaus, secretary to Governor Lister, testified that the
letter concerning Everett sent from the Seattle I. W. W. had been
received; Steven M. Fowler identified certain telegrams sent from
Everett to Seattle officials by David Clough on November 5th; after
which Chester Micklin, who had been jailed in Everett following the
tragedy, corroborated parts of the story of Louis Skaroff.
The evidence of state's witness, Clyde Gibbons, was shattered at this
stage of the trial by the placing of Mrs. Lawrence MacArthur on the
stand. This witness, the proprietor of the Merchants Hotel in Everett,
produced the hotel register for November 4th and showed that Mrs.
Frennette had registered at that time and was in the city when Gibbons
claimed she was holding a conversation in an apartment house on Yesler
Way in Seattle.
The defense found it necessary to call witnesses who logically should
have been brought forward by the prosecution on their side of the case.
Among these was the famous "Governor" Clough, citizen deputy and open
shop mill owner. David Clough unwillingly testified to having been
present at the deportation of twenty-two I. W. W. members on August
23rd, having gone down to the dock at 8:30 that morning, and also to his
interest in Joseph Schofield, the deputy who had been injured by his
brother outlaws on the dock just before the Beverly Park deportations.
Mahler and Micklin were recalled for some few additional questions, and
were followed on the stand by Herman Storm, who gave testimony about the
brutal treatment received by himself and his fellow passengers on the
launch "Wanderer." John Hainey and Joseph Reaume also gave details of
this outrage.
"Sergeant" J. J. Keenan, who had become a familiar figure because of his
"police" duty in the outer court corridor from the inception of the
trial, then took the witness stand and recounted his experiences at
Snohomish and Maltby, his every word carrying conviction that the
sheriff and his deputies had acted with the utmost brutality in spite of
the advanced age of their victim. John Patterson and Tom Thornton
corroborated Keenan's testimony.
A surprise was sprung upon the prosecution at this juncture by the
introduction on the witness stand of George Kannow, a man who had been a
deputy sheriff in Everett and who had been present when many of the
brutalities were going on. He told of the treatment of Berg after the
"Wanderer" arrests.
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