on the bed, mashing and tearing
flesh and knuckles. Upon regaining consciousness the mutilated boy found
himself in the jail corridor, crushed beneath Merrill's massive form,
the mayor having grasped Skaroff by the hair in order to repeatedly
hammer the lad's head against the hard cement floor. Finding that
Skaroff's spirit could not be broken the cowards finally desisted.
Skaroff was released at the end of eleven days.

Chaos reigned in Everett following the tragedy. That night over five
hundred deputies patrolled the streets, fearing just retribution for
their criminal misdeeds. Those who had been on the dock as parties to
the massacre were overheard saying to each other, "We must stick
together on this story about the first shot coming from the boat."
Certain officials called for the state militia which was mobilized in
Seattle but not used. One militiaman, a young lad named Ted Kennedy,
refused to serve, claiming that it was the same as strike duty. The fact
that the militia was mobilized at once, and that Governor Ernest Lister
went to Everett to confer with officials and mill owners there, when he
had refused to furnish protection or even to make an investigation at
the request of the I. W. W. a short time before showed the governor's
bias in favor of the employers. In this lumber district the militia was
apparently the property of the mill owners.

A hastily gathered coroner's jury in Everett on November 6th brought in
a verdict that C. O. Curtis and Jefferson F. Beard met death from
"gunshot wounds inflicted by a riotous mob on the Steamer Verona at the
city dock." If any of the jury dissented from its false statement they
were too spineless to express their opinion. The deliberations were
under the direction of Coroner A. R. Maulsby and the members of the jury
were Adam Hill, C. E. Anthony, O. H. King, Chris Culmback, C. Sandstein,
and Charles F. Manning.

The inquest was a farce. Those who were outside the "deadline" and who
were willing to swear that the first shots came from the dock were not
permitted to testify, only sympathizers with the Commercial Club being
called as witnesses. No real attempt to take testimony was made. The
Seattle Central Labor Council on November 8th appropriated $100 for a
more complete investigation after branding the Everett inquest as
fraudulent in the following resolution:

"Whereas, It appears to this council that, following a lockout and
open-shop campaign by R