Decause that Justice was known to be friendly to thymine owners. " "Striking miners in Baltic were not even allowed to have beer In their houses. And if they did have any, deputies would break into the house, seize the beer and carry it off to the mines. And all this 4inie many of the deputies were running blind pigs on the side with the company's per mission. "The men who made up the per sonnel of the Waddell-Mahon strike breaking staff were mostly ex-convicts, dope fiends and men who had been arrested Several times for minor offencesjn the East. "The police blotter at the station' at South Range will show strike breakers' names on it for every day since the strike began. They were always getting drunk and causing trouble. "James Hamilton, Sheriff Cruse's right hand man, told me the day after his house was burned-down, a fire of unknown origin, that for every nail in that house he would break the head of a striker. "The Waddell-Mahon men and deputies who took part in the mur der at Painesdale are still walking the streets of the city of Houghton and are still in the employ of the company. They were released on $10,000 bonds each and are still car rying guns. "The records will show that every Waddell-Mahon who has caused se rious trouble since the strike began has been spirited out of the county so that they cannot be punished for their crimes. "Sheriff Jim Cruse, the former hoisting engineer of the Cahunet & Hecla mines, has always been friend ly with the mine owners and has played their game. "I was present on the railroad platform the night of December '26 when President Charles H. Moyer of the Western Federation of Miners was assaulted by the members of the Citizens' Alliance. It was one of the foulest scenes I have ever witnessed. "One reason the strike has been continued so long is that the expense of the special deputies used by the company is borne by the citizens of Houghton county. "These things and many others I learned during my 58 days' service as a Waddell-Mahon guard. (Signed) "William B. Croat," Sworn to before me this 15th day of January, 1914. C. L. Murphy, Notary Public. o o CITY OFFICIALS TAKE STAND IN VOTE FRAUD CASES Mayor Harrison, Peter Bartzen, Leland S. Rapp, James Mclnerriey and Police Lieutenant M. J. Gallery took the stand yesterday-at the close of the hearing of direct testimony in , the vote fraud cases. The four appeared as witnesses for the defendants, Charles Baranovi Thomas Geary, Joseph Gordon and David Rose. Harrison identified a letter written to him by James A. Harris, an 18th ward politician, one of the state's witnesses, in which the latter denied he had given any evidence that would reflect on Maclay Hoyne and Peter Bartzen. James Mclnerney said that the mayor had turned the letter over to him. Lieut. Gallery identified a simi lar leter that had been written to him and also testified that Harris had told him he would send the four de fendants to the penitentiary. Rapp and Bartzen merely stated that they didn't know any of the de fendants and knew no reason, why the men should do anything in their behalf. FEAR KIDNAPING Fear that Judith Klassner, 17;. of Dusseldorf, Germanq, who disappear ed from the home, of her uncle, Henry Ritter, 3037 Seminary avenue, Satur day, may haye been kidnaped, caused a general police order to be sent out todav bearing Instructions to search ior tne girl.