e.

"Then the man who was holding my left wrist with one hand and my
shoulder with the other, said, 'Wait a minute until I get a poke at
him,' and McRae said, 'All right, doc,' and then someone else said 'All
right Allison, hit him for me!' This fellow they called Doc Allison hit
me and blackened my eye. McRae swore at me, he seemed to be intoxicated
and he looked and acted like a maniac, he said 'If you fellows ever come
back some of you will die, that's all there is to it.' I said, 'I don't
think there is any necessity for killing anybody,' and he answered 'I
will kill you if you come back,' and he raised his blackjack and said
'Run!' I said 'I wont run,' and he hit me again and I dropped to the
ground. He raised his foot over my face, and used some pretty raw
language, and as he stood there with his heel over my face I grabbed
hold of a fellow's leg and pulled myself along so instead of hitting my
face his heel scraped my side. Then I got some kicks, three of them in
the small of the back around my kidneys.

"When I got up I walked thru the line, there were twenty or thirty
different ones hollered for me to run, but I was stubborn and wouldn't
do it. And when I got to the cattle guard and stood at the other side
kind of wiping the blood off my face I heard some one coming and I said,
'Four Hundred," and he said 'Yes,' and he was crying. It was a young boy
and I walked down the track with him afterward.

"At the City Hospital in Seattle next day the doctor told me my nose was
badly fractured and that I had internal injuries. A few days later my
back pained me severely and I passed blood for a time after that."

C. H. Rice, whose shoulder was dislocated, gives about the same version.

"Two big fellows would hold a man until they were thru beating him and
then turn him loose. I was turned loose and ran probably six or eight
feet, something like that, and I was hit and knocked down. As I
scrambled to my feet and ran a few feet again I was hit on the shoulder
with a slingshot. This time I went down and I was dazed, I think I must
have been unconscious for a moment because when I came to they were
kicking me, and some of them said, 'He is faking,' and others said, 'No,
he is knocked out.' I remember seeing some of the boys during that time
running by me, and when they got me up I started to run a bit farther
and was knocked down again.

"Then they called for somebody there, addressing him as Dr. Allison, and
he grabb