ring in the direction of
the Verona.

Lawrence Manning, Harston Peters, and Ed. J. Shapeero, defendants, told
their simple straightforward stories of the "battle." Peters stated
that as he lay under cover and heard the shots coming from the dock he
"wished to Christ that he did have a gun." Shapeero told of the wounds
he had received and of the way the uninjured men cared for the wounded
persons on the boat.

Mrs. Joyce Peters testified that she had gone to Everett on the morning
of November 5th in company with Mrs. Lorna Mahler. The reason she did
not go on the Verona was because the trip by water had made Mrs. Mahler
ill on previous occasions. She saw Mrs. Frennette in Everett only when
they were on the same interurban car leaving for Seattle after the
tragedy.

Albert Doninger, W. B. Montgomery and Japheth Banfield, I. W. W. men who
were on the Verona, all placed the first shot as having come from the
dock immediately after the sheriff had cried out "You can't land here."

N. Inscho, Chief of Police of Wenatchee, testified that during the time
the I. W. W. carried on their successful fight for free speech in his
city there were no incendiary fires, no property destroyed, no assaults
or acts of violence committed, and no resistance to arrest.

H. W. Mullinger, lodging house proprietor, John M. Hogan, road
construction contractor, Edward Case, railroad grading contractor,
William Kincaid, alfalfa farmer, and John Egan, teamster, all of North
Yakima and vicinity, were called as character witnesses for Tracy, the
defendant having worked with or for them for a number of years.

The defense followed these witnesses with Oscar Carlson, the passenger
on the Verona who had been fairly riddled with bullets. Carlson
testified that he was not and never had been a member of the I. W. W.,
that he had gone to Everett with his working partner, Nordstrom, as a
sort of an excursion trip, that he had purchased a one way ticket which
was taken up by the captain after the boat had left Seattle, that he
intended returning by way of the Interurban, and that the men on the
boat were orderly and well behaved. He told of having gone to the very
front of the boat as it pulled into Everett from which point he heard
the first shot, which was fired from the dock. He fell immediately and
while prostrate was struck with bullet after bullet. He then told of
having entered suit against the Vashon Navigation Company for $50,000.00
on account of