r, Owen Clay, Louis Connor, Jr.,
Fred Durr, A. J. Ettenborough, Athol Gorrell, Thomas Hedley, Joe Irving,
James Meagher; Donald McRae, J. C. Rymer, Edwin Stuchell, and Charles
Tucker. Hooted, hissed, and jeered at by the thousands of citizens on
the viaduct and hill above the dock, these self-immolated prostitutes to
the god of greater profits were taken to the hospitals for treatment.

Among the crowd of citizens was Mrs. Edith Frennette, who had been in
Everett a couple of days in connection with a lumber trust charge
against her, and with her were Mrs. Lorna Mahler and Mrs. Joyce Peters,
who had come from Seattle to attend the proposed street meeting. Making
the claim that Mrs. Frenette had threatened the life of Sheriff McRae
with a gun and had tried to throw red pepper into his eyes as he was
being transported from the dock, the Everett authorities caused the
arrest of the three women in Seattle as they were returning in an auto
to meet the Verona at the Seattle dock. They were held several days
before being released, no charges having been placed against Mrs. Mahler
or Mrs. Peters, and the case against Mrs. Frenette was eventually
dismissed, just as had been all previous charges made by McRae. These
three arrests brought the total number of free speech prisoners up to
two hundred and ninety-four.

What were the feelings of the Everett public directly following the
massacre can best be judged from the report of an Everett correspondent
to the Seattle Union Record, the official A. F. of L. organ.

"Your correspondent was on the street at the time of the battle and at
the dock ten minutes afterward. He mingled with the street crowds for
hours afterwards. The temper of the people is dangerous. Nothing but
curses and execrations for the Commercial Club was heard. Men and women
who are ordinarily law abiding, who in normal times mind their own
business pretty well, pay their taxes, send their children to church and
school, pay their bills, in every way comport themselves as normal
citizens, were heard using the most vitriolic language concerning the
Commercial Club, loudly sympathizing with the I. W. W.'s. And therein
lies the great harm that was done, more menacing to the city than the
presence of any number of I. W. W.'s, viz., the transformation of
decent, honest citizens into beings mad for vengeance and praying for
something dire to happen. I heard gray-haired women, mothers and wives,
gentle, kindly, I know, in