hat there was no way to
stop them from asking the interminable questions but it was merely a
waste of time. But all of Cooley's dilatory tactics could not erase from
the minds of the listeners the simple, earnest, sincere story Fred
Savery told of the death of his fellow worker, Hugo Gerlot.

Charles Ashleigh was then placed upon the witness stand to testify to
having been selected as one of the speakers to go to Everett on November
5th. He stated that he had gone over on the Interurban and had returned
that afternoon at four o'clock. After the prosecution had interrogated
him about certain articles published subsequent to the tragedy Ashleigh
was excused.

To impeach the testimony of William Kenneth, wharfinger at the City
Dock, the defense then introduced Peter Aikken of Everett. Following
this witness Owen Genty, one of the I. W. W. men wounded on the Verona,
gave an account of the affair and stated that the first shot came from a
point just to the rear of the sheriff.

Raymond Lee, a youth of 19 years, told of having gone to Everett on the
day of the Beverly Park affair in order to mail free speech pamphlets
directly to a number of Everett citizens. He went to the dock at the
time of the deportation, getting past the deputies on a plea of wanting
to see his uncle, his youth and neat appearance not being at all in
accord with the current idea of what an I. W. W. member looked like. Lee
was cross-questioned at great length by Veitch. This witness told the
story of the death of Abraham Rabinowitz on the Verona in these few,
simple words:

[Illustration: View of Beverly Park, showing County Road.]

"Rabinowitz was lying on top of me with his head on my leg. I felt my
leg getting wet and I reached back to see what it was, and when I pulled
my hand away it was covered with blood. He was shot in the back of the
brain."

James McRoden, I. W. W. member who was on the Verona, gave corroborative
testimony about the first shot having been from the dock.

James Francis Billings, one of the free speech prisoners, testified that
he was armed with a Colts 41 revolver on the Verona, and shortly after
the shooting started he went to the engineer of the boat and ordered him
to get the Verona away from the dock. He threw the gun overboard on the
return trip to Seattle. Black tried to make light of the serious
injuries this witness had received at Beverly Park by asking him if all
that he received was not a little brush on the s