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)
Walter Mulholland, an 18 year old boy, and Henry Krieg, both of whom
were members of the I. W. W. and passengers on the Verona, then
testified in detail about the shattering gun fire and the wounding of
men on board the boat. Mulholland told of wounds received, one bullet
still being in his person at that time. Krieg, not being familiar with
military terms, stated that there were many shells on the deck of the
Verona after the trouble, and the prosecution thought they had scored
quite a point until re-direct examination brought out the fact that
Henry meant the lead bullets that had been fired from the dock.
E. Carl Pearson, Snohomish County Treasurer, rather unwillingly
corroborated the testimony of ex-deputies Luke and Plymale in regard to
the actions of McRae at Beverly Park.
The witness chair seemed almost to swallow the next nine witnesses who
were boys averaging about twelve years in age. These lads had picked up
shells on and beneath the dock to keep as mementos of the "Battle."
Handfuls of shells of various sizes and description, from revolver,
rifle and shotgun, intermingled with rifle clips and unfired
copper-jacketed rifle cartridges, were piled upon the clerk's desk as
exhibits by these youthful witnesses. After the various shells had been
classified by L. B. Knowlton, an expert in charge of ammunition sales
for the Whiton Hardware Company of Seattle for six years, the boys were
recalled to the stand to testify to the splintered condition of the
warehouses, their evidence proving that a large number of shots had been
fired from the interior of the warehouses directly thru the walls. The
boys who testified were Jack Warren, Palmer Strand, Rollie Jackson,
William Layton, Eugene Meives, Guy Warner, Tom Wolf, Harvey Peterson,
and Roy Jensen. Veitch, by this time thoroly disgusted with the turn
taken by the case, excused these witnesses without even a pretense of
cross-examination.
Completely clinching this link in the evidence against the citizen
deputies was the testimony of Miss Lillian Goldthorpe and her mother,
Hannah Goldthorpe. Miss Goldthorpe, waitress in the Commercial Club
dining room, picked up some rifle shells that had fallen from the rifles
stacked in the office, and also from the pocket of one of the hunting
coats lying on the floor. She took these home to her mother who
afterward turned them over to Attorney Moore. She also identified
certain murderous looking blackjacks as being the same as those stored
in the Club. It is hardly necessary to state that the open-shop
advocates who continually prate about the "right of a person to work
when and where they please" were not slow about taking away Lillian's
right to work at the Commercial Club after she had given this truthful
testimony!
James Hadley, I. W. W. member on the Verona, told how he had dived
overboard to escape the murderous fire and had been the only man in the
water to regain a place on the boat.
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