and hanging on the butt of the gun."

"And that was before there was any shooting?"

"Yes sir."

As to the condition of the boat after the trouble he gave an affirmative
answer to the question:

"You know that the whole front of the pilot house and the whole front of
this bulkhead front of the forward deck leading to the hurricane deck is
full of B. B. shot, don't you?"

James Broadbent, manager of the Clark-Nickerson Mill, and a citizen
deputy, followed Armstrong with some unimportant testimony.

L. S. Davis, steward on the Verona, also stated that McRae committed the
first overt act in taking hold of his gun. He was asked:

"He had his hand on his gun while he was still facing you?"

"Yes sir. I could see it plainly," answered Davis.

[Illustration: Pilot house of the "Verona" riddled with rifle bullets
at Everett]

"That was before he started to turn, before he was hit?"

"Yes sir."

Davis was wounded in the arm as he was on the pilot house steps.

He was asked about the general disposition, manner and appearance of the
men on the Verona on the way over to Everett, and answered:

"I thought they were pretty nicely behaved for men--for such a crowd as
that."

"Any rough talk; any rough, ugly looks?"

"No sir."

"Any guns?"

"No."

"Any threats?"

"I didn't hear any threats."

"Jolly, good-natured bunch of boys?"

"Yes."

"Lots of young boys among them, weren't there?"

"Yes, quite a few."

Davis stated that three passengers got off at Edmunds on the way up to
Everett, thus establishing the fact that there were other than I. W. W.
men on board.

R. S. "Scott" Rainey, commercial manager of the Puget Sound Telephone
Company and a citizen deputy, was called and examined at some length
before it was discovered that he was not an endorsed witness. This was
the second time that the prosecution had turned this trick. Vanderveer
objected, stating that there would be two hundred endorsed witnesses who
would not be used.

"Oh no!" returned Mr. Veitch.

"Well," said Vanderveer, "a hundred then. A hundred we dare you to
produce!"

"We will take that dare," responded Veitch. But the prosecution failed
to keep their word, and deputy Dave Oswald of the Pacific Hardware
Company, who during the various deportations tried to have the I. W. W.
men stripped, covered with hot tar, rolled in feathers and ridden out
of town on a rail, and a number of his equally degenerate brother
outlaws were never