rwTwt iinwvTVR'' nPFflOVIlV. T"TITDAV- FFRTiTTARY 20. 1920 . X 11U ilAV7J.tlXlVJi m.m.M-i T T m y I - BflETT OFFERS MASSACRE ALIBI r. W. W. Tenets Jauntily Up . Held on Stand. SOME PROMINENT FIGURES AT L W. W. TRIAL. HIDE FOR GUN RELATED Yno. Witnesses Called by Defence, However, In Ailempt to DUprove Any Part In Shooting. "on'inu'-'l From First Pas.. cared to dath?" queried Vanderveer at another juncture. "Oh. I object to counsel bullyra pinK his own witness," exclaimed the state. "You've had your turn, was 'the retort. "Did you not tell C. D. Cunning ham and J. H. Jahnke of the prosecu tion that there was nobody in the hall at the time of the shooting?"' insisted AbeL Rrplr Im Timidly Hade. "Yes, but they didn't swear me, was the quiverintc assertion. "That's all." Tell them why you said that," Ursd the I. V W. counsel. "I didn't want to be drawed into ft my wife was in jail answered lloAUister. Barnett had testified that Mrs. Mc Allister Mood at the front door of the UodTM-k, a revolver in her hand as the hall was attacked. Mrs. Mc Allister in her testimony denied this. When Mrs. McAllister took the tand. a larse woman with a prone ness for jrivins involved and Indirect answers. she said she had known KuReite Harriett for some years, that he used to board with her in Che.haU. and that she called him "little Gene." Corroborating her husband's testi mony Mrs. McAllister testified that her husband. Kimene Harnett and a stranger, were all in the lobby watch ing the parade when the firing began. W vera 1 soldiers came in on search, after the tragedy and while Harnett was yet there. She said, under cross examination, that, she knew none of these men as they all looked alike to her in uniform. Order to Runh flail Chanced. "A man on horseback blew a whistle and they all stopped." said the- witness, giving her version of the attack. "Some started to rush the I. W. W. hall. As near as I could tell only to of them got to the hall. I heard some glass shatter and then the shots rang out. Afterwards they wrecked the place and burned the furniture. They niust have run wild In there." Mrs. McAl lister named William Stales, Centralia grocer, as one who came into the lobby while Barnett was seated there. "Did you have a revolver?" asked Abel. "No, sir," was the answer. "I had a pocketbook. They thought it was a revolver." Harnett had testified that ho "threw his coat", when the attack came, thinking to "mix" in the fight. Mrs. McAllister said that he did not take off his coat. Harnett testified that he left his inner coat at the Roderick and later returned for it, first handing his 1. W. W. card to McAllister. Mrs. McAllister denied that. Victim Known by Woman. On cross-examination the witness said that she had known Hen Casa granda, one of the men killed on Armistice day, since he was a baby of '1 years. The state pressed her closely regarding statements she is alleged to have made to Mrs. Casa granda following the tragedy. "l'on t you remember that she said Hen was shot, and you said it served him right; he had no business to be marching with soldiers?" asked AbeL "No, sir." I 'art of the firing, the witness testified, Mounded overhead. Instantly the state asked her if it was not the fact that the gunmen were stationed in the upper rooms of the Roderick or ou the porch? Statement 1m Retracted. "I didn't mean overhead," said the witnets. "It sounded that way. There was no one up there. How could there be? All the doors and windows were loekedV" Cther features in the testimony of Farnctt included his declaration that Herman Allen, prosecuting attorney for Lewis county, stood on the south east corner of Second street and Tower avenue w hile the I. W. W. hall was being sacked and watched the property piled and burned in the street. The witness testified that books and papers from the hall were then delivered to Harnett by an un known man. On cross - examination Barnett denied that he had said to J. O. West, a neighbor, on the evening of Armi stice day, that the "soldiers had stopped In front of the hall and the boys bad shot some of them." I. W. W. Song Vera Introdured. Prosecutor Abel a!so questioned the defendant with respect to the words of a radical song, contained in an I. W. W. song book. The song is entitled "Christians at War." "Have you noticed in that song the ir f 1 , i f 5 t tr ffjWit, V i, -a ' ' 41 " of IH IM 3 "4 j Top lrf T. F Armnntront, who vaUKht Caanarranda a lie fell, and Ber nard Knbankn. who irn hot throoch lrK. Hrlow lrft( !llx I-rila Trfpp, who te-Mifird mhr nnvr priinman rmrrse from alley, and Mrs. Elmer Smith, wife of a defendant, nilh her lnly. suggestion about (ilinpr your bullet noses flat?" asked Abel. (Grimm Is alleged to have been slain by a bullet with the nose whittled down). "Many times," coolly ajiswered Barnett. Kver ping it?" "No, sir." "You do not believe in filing bullet noses flat?" "No, sir." Sone- Declared Satire. Vanderveer here interposed and as serted that the song was a satire upon modern warfare and thait the line was intended to convey the bru tality of such strife. He read the verse: "File your bullet noses flat. Poison every well God decrees your enemies Must all go plumb to hell." Barnett also identified and testified regarding a circular distributed in Centralia two weeks prior to Armi stice day, which was said to be appeal for protection against raid the I. W. W. anticipated. Judge Wilson per mitted the examination of the witness on this point, but ruled that the cir cular itself was not admissible as evidence. Hiflp Ovrnernhip Denied. Under direct examination Barnett basel his alibi upon the claim that he knew nothing about the proposed defense, that he was in the lobby of the Roderick hotel throughout the firing, that he never had possession of the 38-55 caliber rifle with which Grimm was slain and that he had no weapon with him on Armistice day. As a boy of eight years, said Bar nett, he had begun work as a coal miner, employed at sapping. This was in Caldwell, .N. C. He w orked in the mines near Centralia and was out on strike at the time of the tragedy. He is a member of the I. W. W. and of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica. "How long were you in the hall?" asked Vanderveer. referring to Bar netts' presence there shortly before the parade. Barnett Belatra Movement". "Not long, five or 10 minutes. I went to the Roderick hotel. 1 used to board McAllister wlio runs the place. I talked with him and read and I was there till after the shooting." Another man was in the lobby tes tified the witness. After the firing, two American legionaries came in. One held a leveled revolver. Barnett had warned them not to shoot, say ing that Mrs. McAllister was in a rear room. Of the parade itself the defendant testified that he watclrcd it from the Roderick pass north and retrace its course. A contingent of business men marched before the veterans. From the window o"fc. the Roderick he ob served them as they were passing the front of the hall. "T saw the business men making LAST TIMES TODAY BLIND HUSBANDS THE STORY OF A LOVE BUZZARD COLUMBIA ORCHESTRA Every Afternoon and Evening COMING TOMORROW Marguerite CLARK The Columbia Is Portland's Best Ventilated Theater "ALL OF A SUDDEN PEGGY" x: faces at the hall," testified Barnett. "Some of them put their thumbs to their noses. They were making signs to the soldiers over their shoulders. A man rode along on a brown horse. The soldiers were halted. 'Buck up, men,' he ordered. One man crouched like this. "Finally there came an order I couldn't make it out and they all rushed for the hall, pretty near all of them. 1 heard glass break and then the shooting from the hall be gan. The first shots came from there. "When the rush started I threw my coat. 1 thought there was going to be a scrap. But when the shooting began I knew I had no business there." I.ynehinR Attempt Related Barnett testified that he left the Roderick, went down town and had a parcel-pott package weighed and stamped at White & Gable's store, obtained his saddle horse and rode home. Near the city jail he saw a crowd attempting to lynch one of the prisoners. They had a rope and were dragging him toward a telephone pole. It was this sight, testified the wit ness, that caused him to arm himself and offer resistance when the posse came to arrest him. He was feeding his hunting dog as he saw the men coming. With his rife, a 30-caiiber, he ran up a hill and threw himself behind a -log. Later he surrendered without fight. "I could have killed them all," he testified. "I had all the advantage in the world." Before he left Centralia, said the defendant, he shed his mackinaw coat at the Roderick, because it con tained his I. W. W. card. He told ot meeting and talking with persons both going and coming from his home. Men Reported In Hall. Just prior to the shooting, when Barnelt visited the I. W. W. hall six or seven men were there, he tes tified. Of these he recognized none but Britt Smith. He did not hear any discussion of the raid, or see any weapons. He was unaware of any plans for -armed resistance when he left for the Roderick. The only talk he had ever heard of a raid was in discussion at the mines, three weeks Barnett identified the large, broad brim med black beaver hat as that which he 'wore on Armistice day. State witnesses have testified that one of the escaping Avalon gunmen wore a broad-brimmed hat, some thing like a cowboy's, and one .of them identified Barnett as, the wearer of the hat, and as the gunman who came from the rear of the Avalon, reloading his weapon. The witness testified that his visit to Centralia on Armistice day was caused by the necessity for drawing up documents concerning a home stead. He had sought Elmer Smith, defendant, as an attorney and had met him outside the I. W.. W. hall at 1 :15 o'clock. "Were you a party to any con spiracy to shoot or murder anyone?" asked "Vanderveer. Conspiracy Plot Denied. "I was not," replied Barnett. "I never heard of any plans, and did not have a gun with me that day. Cross-examination by W. H. Abel, special presecuting attorney, sought to prove the improbability of the de fendant's statement that he knew nothing about the raid, when he visited the hall while, plans were in preparation, just before the tragedy. Bert Bland, the witness admitted, was his close friend. They slep together at the Avalon on Sunday night. And Bland, so the state has alleged, and according to the confession of Loren Roberts and Bland's own statement following arrest, was one of the rifle men on Seminary hill. "Did you not say that you'd sur render" to an officer, but not to any damned legionnaire?" queried W. H. Abel, special prosecutor. "I did not." i "Did you not have a talk with a man named Jones?" "I did." "Did you not tell Jones that you were standing on the street with Mclnerney when the soldiers halted; that you thought they were going to raid the hail, and then the shooting started?" I did. I didn't even know Mcln- erny." Previous Arrest Admitted, 'You've been in trouble before over seditious utterances?" 'I have not" (defiantly). "Were you not arrested while the war was on" 'Yes." 'Wrhere was it?" 'Over in Cottonwood, Idaho. I got in trouble because I objected to work ing for ?2.25 a day. They charged me with talking against the draft but they never proved it." Reading from a statement made Dy Barnett following his arrest, Abel asked the witness if he would abide by his statement that Britt Smith was the only man he knew of the several In the hall just prior to the shooting and that he saw no weapons. The witness declared that such was the case and that he did not know whether any of his fellow defendants, with the exception of Britt Smith, were in the hall. State's Charges Denied. "Britt said that he was going to tell them, in a gentlemanly way, that he was within his constitutional rights and that the hall was open ac cording to law," was the defendant's only admission of prior knowledge of the rumored raid. 'Did you not teil Preston McDonald and others that you ite your dinner at the Roderick and then went over to the Avalon. and that you were seated in the Avalon at the time of the shooting?" pursued the state, re ferring to an alieged admission of the defendant after arrest. "I did not," answered Barnett, Testimony 'given during the state's case had been that several defendants were in the hall at about the time Barnett says he visited it. Of these a number were known personally to the witness. Vanderveer Is Rebuked. Judge Wilson was again forced to rebuke Vanderveer for assertions that the case is being prosecuted with funds supplied by the lumber inter ests and to advise the I. W. W. attor- , ney that the only issue is the guilt or ; innocence. 1 Various witnesses were called from ! the Logan district, Centralia, through which Barnett rode to and from the city on armistice day, to prove that he was unarmed on both occasions, and that he was dressed in cowboy attire, chaps and broad hat. One witness designated the hat as brown. It is black beaver. These witnesses were John llahar. 11 years old; Charles G. Roy, Mrs. Alma Roy, William Mahar, Phillip Mahar, Krtwin Ayers and P. K. Mahar. HE WAS FORCED TO CHAM WORK Change of Climate Did No Good but Tanlac Soon Re-, stored Health. "Yes, sir, I can recommend Tanlac for since I started taking it I have not only gained ten pounds in weight, but I feel like a different man," said William Kraack, 1100 East Harrison street, Portland, Or., carpenter and mechanic, while telling of his experi ence with Tanlac. "For the past ten years." Mr. Kraack continued, "I have suffered from stomach trouble and indigestion. 1 had a poor appetite and ata very little, but after every meal, no matter how little I ate, my stomach felt like tfrere was a heavy weight in it and I would puff all up with sour gas. There was a constant pain in the pit of my stomach and my back was so weak I could hardly get up or down. I took all sorts of tablets and differ ent kinds of medicines but kept get ting worse until finally I could hardly get about and at times would just have to stop work. I had a fruit ranch near Salt Lake at this time and as I thought perhaps a change of climate would help me I came to Portland, but this did me no good and I never got any relief' until I started taking Tanlac "I saw so many statements of the remarkable benefits others had re ceived from Tanlac I decided to try it, too, and I want to say right here I think it is everything good anybody has said about it, I have taken five bottles in all, and now I feel better than I have in years. I have a splen did appetite and can eat anything I want and everything agrees with me perfectly and I never have a particle of trouble with my stomach." I have regained my strength until I can do as much work as I ever could in my life. I will be glad to tell any one what Tanlac has done for me, as I always take great pleasure in saying a good word for it." Tanlac is sold in Portland by the Owl Drug company. Adv. This is the second indictment, the first being dismissed when Evans es tablished what the state believed was a valid alibi. In its report the grand jury recommended that the J 500.000 good roads bond issue to be voted on at the May election be supported by the people of the county. Irrigation Canal to Be Repaired. YAKIMA, Wash., Feb. 19. (Spe cial.) The task of lining 7000 feet of the Hubbard irrigation canal with vitrified clay segments at a cost of $25,000 will begin this week. The section to be improved is one where seepage has causea a large loss of water in recent years, resulting in considerable damage to orchards. KlPctrR-Hl Workers Out Only a Day. YAKIMA. Wash., Feb. 19. (Spe cial.) .Members of the electrical workers' union in this city who "took a vacation" when the strike call for employes of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company was issued last week, returned to their posts after being out one day. Influenza Causes Suicide Attempt. YAKIMA. Wash., Feb. 19. (Spe cial.) 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