university student, both of whom were deputies on the dock on
November 5th, then testified, but developed nothing of importance.
Stuchell's father was part owner of the Eclipse mill and was said to
have been on the board of directors of the Commercial Club. These
witnesses were followed by Raymond E. Brown, owner of an Everett shoe
store, a weak-kneed witness who had been sworn in as a deputy by W. W.
Blain, secretary of the Commercial Club.

One of the greatest sensations in this sensational trial was when former
sheriff Donald McRae took the stand on Tuesday, March 27th.

McRae was sober!

The sheriff was fifty years of age, of medium height, inclined to
stoutness, smooth-shaven, with swinish eyes set closely on either side
of a pink-tinted, hawk-like nose that curved just above a hard, cruel
and excessively large mouth. The sneering speech and contemptible manner
of this witness lent weight to the admissions of his brutality that had
been dragged from reluctant state's witnesses thru the clever and
cutting cross-examination conducted by Moore and Vanderveer.

McRae told of his former union affiliations, having once been
International Secretary of the Shingle Weavers' Union, and on another
occasion the editor of their paper--but he admitted that he had never in
his life read a book on political economy.

He detailed the story of the arrests, deportations and other similar
actions against the striking shingle weavers and the I. W. W. members,
the recital including an account of the "riot" at the jail, the
deportation of Feinberg and Roberts, the shooting at the launch
"Wanderer" and the jailing of its passengers, and the seizing of
forty-one men and their deportation at Beverly Park. McRae's callous
admissions of brutality discounted any favorable impression his
testimony might otherwise have conveyed to the jury.

He admitted having ordered the taking of the funds of James Orr to pay
the fares of workers deported on August 23rd, but denied the truth of an
account in the Everett Herald of that date in which it was said that I.
W. W. men had made some remarks to him "whereupon Sheriff McRae and
police officer * * promptly retaliated by cracking the I. W. W.'s on the
jaw with husky fists."

Regarding the launch "Wanderer" the sheriff was asked:

"Did you strike Captain Mitten over the head with the butt of your gun?"

"Certainly did!" replied McRae with brutal conciseness.

"Did any blood flow?"

"A little,