Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — SAY STRIKERS WERE UNARMED. [ARTICLE]

SAY STRIKERS WERE UNARMED.

Evidence at the Coroner's Inquest in the Lattlmer Affair. Coroner McKee of Hazleton, Pa., Thursday afternoon began the inquest into the deaths of the score of striking miners who were shot by a posse of sheriff’s deputies at Lattimer. A two hours’ session was held, during which a score of witnesses were examined. District Attorney D. A. Fell of Luzerene County was there, and H. A. Fuller of Wilkes-Barre appeared for the coroner; State Chairman Garman, John McGahren and B. H. Laughlin for the prosecution, and George H. Troutman of Hazleton for the deputy sheriffs. Dr. Thorodovieh, Secretary of the Austro-Hungarian consulate at Philadelphia, and R. D. Coxe, attorney for the consulate, were also present. Nearly all the testimony adduced was a repetition of that brought out at the hearing of the deputies at Wilkes-Barre. Most of tie witnesses were foreign strikers who were in the march halted by the deputies’ deadly fusillade. All declared that none of the strikers was armed; that Sheriff Martin pulled a revolver on them, but no one attempted to take it from him; that no violence had been offered that official, and that the miners had no intention of making an unlaAvful demonstration.