nt at the Seattle police station when
Philip K. Ahern, manager of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, requested
the release of Smith and Reese, two of his operatives who had been on
the Verona. Underwood stated that upon hearing of the treatment given
the I. W. W. men at Beverly Park he had exclaimed, "I would like to see
anybody do that to me and get away with it."

"You meant that, did you?" asked Vanderveer.

"You bet I meant it!" asserted the witness positively.

The two reporters proved to be better witnesses for the defense than for
the prosecution.

Sanford Asbury, T. N. Henry, Ronald Johnson, John S. Donlan, and J. E.
Gleason, then testified regarding the movements of the men who left
Seattle on the Verona and Calista on the morning of November 5th. They
uniformly agreed that the crowd was in no way disorderly, nor were their
actions at all suspicious. The defense admitted that the Verona had been
chartered but stated that there were passengers other than I. W. W.
members on board.

The first witness from the Verona was Ernest Shellgren, the boat's
engineer, who testified that he was in the engine pit when the boat
landed and heard crackling sounds telegraphed down the smoke stack that
he knew an instant later were bullets. He was struck by a spent bullet
and ran to various places on the boat seeking shelter from the hail of
lead that appeared to come from all directions, finally returning to the
boiler as the safest place on the boat. He stated that he saw one man
firing a blue steel revolver from the boat, only the hand and revolver
being in his line of vision. The only other gun he saw was one in the
hands of the man who asked him to back the boat away from the dock
during the firing. He also stated that the I. W. W. men on the way over
to Everett comported themselves as was usual with any body of
passengers.

Shellgren was asked if he could identify John Downs or Thomas H. Tracy
as being connected with the firing in any way and he stated that he
could not do so. The defense objected to the use of Downs' picture, as
it did on every occasion where a picture of one of the prisoners was
used, on the grounds that the photographs were obtained by force and in
defiance of the constitutional rights of the imprisoned free speech
fighters.

Seattle police detectives, Theodore Montgomery and James O'Brien, who
made a search of the Verona upon its return to Seattle, testified to
having found a little loose red pepp