THE - SUNDAY OREGONIAN, " PORTLAND. 3IARCIT 7, 1920
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SOUTHERN
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Plea of Self-Defense.
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BY BUN HL'R LAMPMAN.
MOXTESAN'O, Wash.. Slarch 6.
(Special.) The narrative of ,Ccntra
lia's tragedy, wherein four ex-service
n.en fell last Armistice day, now is a
complete record in the archives of
the superior court for Grays Harbor
county. It comprises the transcrip
tion of testimony for and against the
accused. The defense rested its case
at noon today, after six weeks of
trial, and the 10 I. W. W. defendants,
charged with the murder of Warren
O. Grimm legionnaire, wait within a
week of the verdict.
When court reconvenes on Monday,
it will be to hear the testimony of
witnesses called by the prosecution
in rebuttal witnesses whose recitals
of what they saw, declare the state
counsel, will further shatter the plea
of self defense advanced for the ac
cused, and will demonstrate that
Grimm had committed no overt act
against the I. W. W. when he fell, in
a holiday pageant, mortally wounded.
Rebuttal to Be Brief.
It is the opinion of C. D. Cunning
ham and W. H. Abel, special prose
cutors, that rebuttal testimony will
occupy but a few days, possibly not
more than two though scores of wit
nesses are under call. Their testi
mony will be brief, and will be con
fined to specific points. The defense
will then present a number of wit
nesses in snr-rebuttal, of even briefer
duration. The case should go to the
jury before the close of the coming
George F. Vanderveer. attorney for
the accused, closed his case today j
with renewed offers, declined by
Judge John M. Wilson, presiding, to
prove the defense contention that
Centralia business men, in a secret
commercial league, conspired to raid
the I. W. W. hall and drive the radi
cals from the city and that this pur
ported conspiracy culminated in
bloodshed.
The refusal of the judge is based
upon total lack of evidence to con
nect Warren Grimm with any such
alleged plot, or to show that the dead
legionnaire made a single hostile
move against the Centralia I. W. W.
as they waited in their hall and at
outside points, rifles and pistols
ready.
Diftvloanre Startling.
One of the most startling disclosures
of the entire case came yesterday
when Rev. T. T. Edmonds, defense
investigator and witness, admitted
the authorship of a letter written
to Vanderveer, in which the secret
service clergyman absolved Grimm
from all blame and suggested means
to controvert this fact. Edmonds
testified that he is not and never has
been an I. W. W.. but that his zeal for
the cause is actuated by a desire for
justice.
Vanderveer offered proof relative
to an alleged commercial conspiracy
in Centralia, to the lynching of Wes
ley Everest and to various other mat
ters, as follows:
To prove by Earl Craft, Centralia
electrician, that on the night of No
vember 11. during his temporary ab
sence from the lighting plant, the
doors were unlocked and the lights
of the city turned off, during which
time Wesley Everest, slayer of Dale
Hubbard, was taken from the jail and
lynched. And further, that when Craft
returned he found in the lighting
plant the mayor of Centralia, the city
electrician and the assistant city elec-
irician.
Grim Jext Itrought Up.
To prove by Dr. David Livingstone,
coroner of Centralia, that Livingstone
went to the Elks club. American Le
gion headquarters. following the
lynching of Everest and there made
an oral report, as coroner, that Ev
erest had broken out "of the city jail,
had gone one-half . mile to a bridge
over the Chehalis river, had tied a
rope about his neck and jumped off
the bridge, that the rope was too
short and Everest had clambored
back and lengthened it, that he had
then leaped again, shot himself
through the body, cut the rope with
his own hand and dropped into the
river. (The grim jest that Everest
died by his own hand was current In
Centralia following the lynching.)
To prove by George F. Russell, man
aajfr of the employers' association of
Washington, that he had conferred
wjth Governor Hart and had planned
the simultaneous arrest and prosecu
tion of I. W. W. in all counties, thus
depriving them of adequate legal pro
tection; that Russell is the same man
who organized movements against
radicals in Chehalis and Centralia;
that the governor did call a meeting
of prosecuting attorneys at which the
proposed plan was adopted, and that
the plan had the approval of L L
Thompson, attorney-general of the
Matter Held Irrelevant.
To- prove by Judge John M. Wilson,
presiding in the present trial, that
Judge Wll6on made public addresses
on the Centralia tragedy, following
Armistice day, and that he preached
a funeral oration at an Elks lodge
in memory of Warren O. Grimm,
Arthur McElfresh and Dale Hubbard,
victims. And further that after vari
ous changes. Judge Wilson was ap
pointed by Governor Hart to try the
present case.
To prove by W. H. Abel, special
prosecutor In this case, that he had
once been appointed special prose
cuting attorney, during labor troubles,
to serve without pay and that such
appointment was at the instance of
timber interests.
To prove byC D. Cunningham, spe
cial prosecutor, that on November 11
he was attorney for the Eastern Rail
way & Lumber company, of Centralia,
of which F. B. Hubbard, who is al
leged to. have directed a purported
commercial conspiracy against the L
W. W, was and is still its president.
"All objected to as Incompetent, ir
relevant and immaterial," said Spe
cial Prosecutor Abel. "No excuse In
this for the killing of Grimm."
Objection sustained, ruled Judga
Wilson.
Defense Wltneaa Recalled.
John Patterson, witness for the de
fense, was recalled by the state for
continued cross-examination in an ef
fort to impeach the previous testi
mony of the witness who had testi
fied that he stood at the corner of
the variety store, during: the shoot
ing and saw the body of Arthur Mc
Elfresh carried from the entrance of
the L W. W. halL
The witness denied that he had ever
said, in the hearing of Ruth Godfrey
and her sister, of Centralia, that he
was not in the vicinity of the trouble
and that he did not see anything, or
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that he had ever made a similar state
ment to J. A. Pollock, a neighbor.
The state asserts that Patterson
did disclaim any direct knowledge of
the tragedy.
Since he had testified, said Patter
son, he had been interviewed by state
investigators, aB had his wife.
"Get Out," Orders Woman.
"You get to hell out of here and
don't come back until you have a war
rant," was the reply that she gave to
state investigators, testified his wife,
Mrs. Patterson.
Britt Smith and Mike Sheehan, de
fendants, both testified that the doors
of the hall were kicked open by pa
raders before shots were fired.
Charles Everest, Aberdeen, brother
of Wesley Everest, the I. W. W. par
ticipant who was lynched on armi
stice night, testified that his brother
had been in the United States army,
that he possessed a .45-caliber auto
matic, presumably that which he used
on armistice day, and that he had
never heard his brother speak ill of
the. army service.
On cross-examination by W. H. Abel
the witness admitted that Wesley Ev
erest was drafted into the service and
that his military record comprised a
period with the spruce division in
logging operations.
Faulkner Ilidea Card.
Himself a defendant but a few days
ago and released oy oraer 01 me
court, Bert Faulkner of Centralia,
who was one of the I. W. W. in the
hall at the time of the shooting, was
called to the stand to testify.
Faulkner said that he had never
heard of any plan to post riflemen
outside the hall and that the only
suggestion he had heard of antici
pated trouble was when Wesley Ever
est had approached him and asked if
he had his "card on him." He had
taken the card home, secreted it and
had returned to the hall.
That Centralia business men,- as
they passed in the parade, "made j
faces" at the hall, 'and that Paul Uhl- j
man, cashier 01 tne i-armers ana
Merchants Bank, whom he knew,
"made a face" at him as Uhlman saw
Faulkner standing near the window,
was the testimony.
When the parade returned and had
halted, testified Faulkner, he heard
shouts of "Let's go get 'em!" followed
by the rush towards the door. He
testified that at the time the shoot
ing started he was standing between
the defenders and the door. A bulle
fired from outside, into the hall, de
clared Faulkner, pierced the shoulde
of his overcoat. This coat, he said,
had been loaned while he was in Che
halis jail, and the evidence destroyed
by enlargement of -the tear.
Friendship Casual.
Faulkner testified that he was on
terms of casual friendship with all
of the legionnaires who were killed
that he know most of the men in th
parade, that he had gone to school
with Grimm, and that he had ho mal
ice against the paraders.
On cross-examination Faulkner said
that six or seven men were in the
hall. Of these he knew only Wesley
Everest and Britt Smith. He saw no
weapons and heard no plans. The
defendants had not talked of their
case in jail or had reached any agree
ment regarding their tactics of de
fonse.
Recalled to the stand, Elmer Smith
attorney defendant as accessory, tes
tified that he went home about
o'clock on the afternon of armistice
day. convinced that there would be
attempted lynchings, to get his re
volver and endeavor to preent mob
action. His wife had cried as be left.
I. W. W. Right Asserted.
Smith asserted, under cross-exam
ination that he did not advise the de
fendants to station men outside the
hall to fire upon the paraders, but
he is now convinced, he said, that
the I. W. W. had the right to station
riflemen in the Arnold, the Avalon
and on Seminary hill.
Frank Xearing, Chehalis, who
marched in the eighth platoon, tes
tified that he saw soldiers rush the
hall, but that their movement and
the shots seemed to be simultaneous.
He -saw the-body of Arthur McEl
fresh, where it had fallen at the cor
ner of the variety store.
Nearing also testified that he
thought he heard several shots at his
left, after the firing had opened from
the hall. His platoon was halted al
most before the Arnold hotel which
would be on the left hand of the col
umn, where O. C. Bland and John
Lamb, defendants, were stationed.
The defense denies that any shots
were fired from the Arnold.
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