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longshoremen from Seattle, none of the men named by McRae being members
of the I. W. W. The testimony of Brown was also of such a nature as to
be impeaching of the statements of Mayor Merrill on the witness stand.

Charles Gray, Robert Adams, and Joe Ghilezano, I. W. W. men on the
Verona, then testified, Adams telling of having been shot thru the
elbow, and Ghilezano giving the details of the way in which his kneecap
had been shot off and other injuries received.

The murderous intentions of the deputies were further shown by the
testimony of Nels Bruseth, who ran down to the shore to launch a boat
and rescue the men in the water. He was stopped in this errand of mercy
by the deputies.

Civil Engineer F. Whitwith, Jr., of the firm of Rutherford and Whitwith,
surveyed the dock and the steamer Verona and made a report in court of
his findings. His evidence clearly showed that there was rifle, shotgun
and revolver fire of a wild character from the interior of the
warehouses and from many points on the dock. He stated that there were
one hundred and seventy-three rifle or revolver bullet marks, exclusive
of the B-B and buckshot markings which were too numerous to count, on
the Verona, these having come from the dock, the shore, and the
Improvement Dock to the south. There were sixteen marks on the boat that
appeared as tho they might have been from revolver fire proceeding from
the boat itself. There were also small triangular shaped gouges in the
planking of the dock, the apex of the triangles indicating that bullets
had struck there and proceeded onward from the Klatawa slip to the open
space on the dock where deputies had been stationed. The physical facts
thus introduced were incontrovertible.

Defendant J. D. Houlihan gave positive testimony to the effect that he
had not spoken privately with "Red" Doran in the I. W. W. hall on the
morning of November 5th, that he had received no gun from Doran or
anyone else, that he did not have the conversation which Auspos imputed
to him, that he had no talk with Auspos on the return trip. All efforts
to confuse this witness failed of their purpose.

In verification of the testimony about deputies firing on the Verona
from the Improvement Company Dock the defense brought Percy Walker upon
the stand. Walker had been cruising around the bay in a little gasoline
launch and saw men armed with long guns, probably rifles or shotguns,
leaning over a breastwork of steel pipes and fi