ge, and "Honest" John Hogan, all three jailers
and deputies, Robert C. Hickey, city jailer, David Daniels and Adolph
Miller, police officers, Charles Manning and J. T. Rogers, personal
friends of McRae, Oscar Moline, dance hall musician, Albert McKay, of
the Ocean Food Products Company located on the Everett Improvement Dock,
T. J. McKinnon, employe of McKay, R. B. Williams, contractor, John
Flynn, agent Everett Improvement Dock, W. W. Blain and F. S. Ruble,
secretary and bookkeeper respectively of the Commercial Club and also
deputies, A. E. Ballew, Great Northern depot agent, H. G. Keith, Great
Northern detective, Charles Auspos, who was shown to be in receipt of
favors as state's witness, and George Reese, Pinkerton informer and
"stool pigeon."

One deputy, H. S. Groger, stated on cross-examination that he
continuously fired at a man on the boat who appeared to be trying to
untie the spring line. Outside of this evidence of a desire for
wholesale slaughter nothing developed of sufficient importance to
warrant the production of sur-rebuttal witnesses, except in the
testimony of Auspos and Reese.

Auspos testified that defendant Billings in the presence of John
Rawlings had stated in the Everett County jail that he had a gun that
made a noise like a cannon. This was intended to controvert the
testimony of Billings.

Reese related a conversation that Tracy was alleged to have carried on
in his presence on the Verona as it was bound for Everett. He stated
that a launch was seen approaching and someone remarked that it was
probably coming to head them off, to which Tracy replied "Let them come;
they will find we are ready for them, and we will give them something
they are not looking for." This was intended as impeachment of Tracy.

Cross-examination of this informer brought out the fact that he was a
Pinkerton agent at the time he was holding the office of delegate to the
Central Labor Council of the American Federation of Labor. Reese stated
that he was employed on the waterfront during the longshoremen's strike
with instructions to "look for everybody who was pulling the rough
stuff, such as threatening to burn or attempting to burn warehouses, and
shooting up non-union workers, and beating them up and so forth." He had
been in the employ of the Pinkerton Agency for six weeks this last time
before he was ordered to go down and join the I. W. W. He stated in
answer to a question by Vanderveer:

"I was instructed t