was commonly thought that the
case against Gill and the attempt to involve Vanderveer were moves of
the lumber trust and Chamber of Commerce directed toward the I. W. W.,
for in the background were the same interested parties who had been
forced to abandon the recall against Seattle's mayor. Gill's final
acquittal in this case was hailed as an I. W. W. victory.

Upon the resumption of the trial the prosecution temporarily withdrew
Clapp and placed Clyde Gibbons on the stand. This witness was the son of
James Gibbons, a deceased member of the I. W. W., well and favorable
known in the Northwest. James Gibbons was killed by a speeding
automobile about a year prior to the trial, and his widow and son,
Clyde, were supported by the I. W. W. and the Boiler Makers' Union for
several months thereafter.

Clyde Gibbons, altho but seventeen years old, joined the Navy by
falsifying his age. Charity demands that the veil be drawn over the
early days of Clyde's training, yet his strong imagination and general
untruthfulness are matters of record. He was shown in court to have
stolen funds left in trust with him by Mrs. Peters, one of the persons
against whom his testimony was directed. It is quite probable that the
deceit about his age, or some other of his queer actions, were
discovered and used to force him to testify as the prosecution desired.
The following testimony bears out this idea:

"Who was it that you met at the Naval Recruiting Station and took you to
McLaren?"

"I don't know his name."

"Well, how did you get to talking to this total stranger about the
Everett matter?"

"He told me he wanted to see me in the judge's office."

"And they took you down to the judge's office, did they?"

"Yes, sir."

"And when you got to the judge's office you found you were in Mr.
McLaren's and Mr. Veitch's and Mr. Black's office in the Smith
Building?"

"Yes, sir."

Gibbons testified as to certain alleged conversations in an apartment
house frequented by members of the I. W. W., stating that a party of
members laid plans to go to Everett and to take with them red pepper,
olive oil and bandages. Harston Peters, one of the defendants, had a gun
that wouldn't shoot and so went unarmed, according to this witness.
Gibbons also stated that Mrs. Frenette took part in the conversation in
this apartment house on the morning of the tragedy, whereupon Attorney
Moore asked him:

"On directing your attention to it, don't you remember t