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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
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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
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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.
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Change of Climate Did No
Good but Tanlac Soon Re-,
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"Yes, sir, I can recommend Tanlac
for since I started taking it I have
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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
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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.) Joseph Maxwell, a resident of
the Moxes valley, slashed his throat
and wrists in an attempt at suicide
while mentally deranged as a result
of an attack of influenza. He is in a
hospital here in a critical condition.
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Iark Kvans Indicted.
M IS D FORD, Or.. Feb. 19. (Special.)
.piovon indictments were returned
by the grand jury Wednesday, the
most important Demg against x.ar
Kvans, charged with the robbery of
W. (I. White of tirant; rass lasr ran
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