e of clubs in dispersing
street crowds at the I. W. W. meetings he said:

"I used my sap as a club and struck them and drove them away with it."

"Why didn't you use your hands and push them out?" asked Cooley.

"I didn't think we had a right to use our hands," said the big
ex-deputy.

"What do you mean by that?" said the surprised lawyer.

"Well," replied the witness, "what did they give us the saps for?"

Cooley also asked this witness why he had struck the men at Beverly
Park.

"Well," replied the ex-deputy, "if you want to know, that was the idea
of the Commercial Club. That was what they recommended."

Luke, who was a guard at the approach to the dock on November 5th, told
of having explained the workings of a rifle to a deputy while the
shooting was in progress. The state at first had contended that there
were no rifles on the dock and later had made the half-hearted plea that
none of the rifles which were proven to have been there were fired.

Following this important witness the defense introduced Fird Winkley, A.
E. Amiott, Dr. Guy N. Ford, Charles Leo, Ed Armstrong, mate of the
Verona and a witness for the state, and B. R. Watson, to corroborate the
already convincing evidence that the stern of the Verona was swung quite
a distance from the dock.

Robert Mills, business agent of the Everett Shingle Weavers, who had
been called to the stand on several occasions to testify to minor
matters, was then recalled. He testified that it was his hand which
protruded from the Verona cabin window in the photographs, and that his
head was resting against the window jamb on the left hand side as far
out as it would be possible to get without crawling out of the window.
As Mills was a familiar figure to the entire jury and was also possessed
of a peculiarly unforgettable type of countenance, the state's
identification of Tracy was shown to have been false.

The Chief of Police of Seattle, Charles Beckingham, corroborated
previous testimony by stating that the identification and selection of
I. W. W. men had been made from a dark cell by two Pinkerton men, Smith
and Reese, aided by one of the defendants, I. P. McDowell, alias Charles
Adams.

Malcolm McLaren was then placed upon the stand and the admission secured
that he was a detective and had formerly been connected with the Burns
Agency. Objection was made to a question about the employment of McLaren
in the case, to which Vanderveer replied that it was the p