as confined to examination
as to the perjury he had committed in his initial sworn statement to the
defense.

The sur-rebuttal of the defense occupied but a few minutes. It was
admitted that Mr. Garver, the court reporter, would swear that Reese had
made an initial statement to the defense counsel and that the same had
been taken down stenographically and sworn to. Charles Tennant, captain
of the detective force of the Seattle police department, testified to
having telephoned to the sheriff's office in Everett on November 5th to
give the information that a boatload of I. W. W. men had left for
Everett. He did not describe the body of men in any way and had not said
that they were armed. This was for the purpose of showing that somewhere
between the time that Jefferson Beard received the message and the time
it was transmitted to the deputies some one had inserted the statement
that the men on the boat were heavily armed. John Rawlings, defendant,
testified that no such conversation as that related by Auspos had
occurred in the presence of defendant Billings. Thomas H. Tracy denied
making the threats ascribed to him by Reese, and this closed the
hearing of evidence in the case.

Outside the courtroom on the day the last of the evidence was introduced
there was in progress one of the largest demonstrations of Labor ever
held in the Pacific Northwest. The date was May first, and International
Labor Day was celebrated by the united radicals of the entire city and
surrounding district. Meeting at the I. W. W. hall at 10:30 in the
morning, thousands of men and women fell into a marching line of fours,
a committee pinning a red rose or carnation on each marcher. Fifteen
solid blocks of these marchers, headed by Wagner's Band, then wended
their way thru the streets to Mount Pleasant Cemetery and grouped
themselves around the graves of Baran, Gerlot and Looney--Labor's
martyred dead.

There, upon the hillside, in accordance with his final wishes, the ashes
of Joe Hill were scattered to the breeze, and with them were cast upon
the air and on the graves beneath, the ashes of Jessie Lloyd and Patrick
Brennan, two loyal fighters in the class struggle who had died during
the year just passed.

A fitting song service, with a few simple words by speakers in English,
Russian, Swedish, Hungarian and Italian, in commemoration of those who
had passed away, completed the tribute to the dead.

Nor were the living forgotten! The great c