ed my arm and pulled me up, and he raised my arm up and said,
'Aw, there is nothing the matter with you,' and jerked it down again. My
arm was out of place, it seemed way over to one side, and I couldn't
straighten it up.

"As I was going over the cattle guard several of them hit me and some
one hollered 'Bring him back here, don't let him go over there.' They
brought me back and this doctor said 'You touch your shoulder with your
hand,' and I couldn't. He says 'There is nothing the matter with you.'

"Then the fellow who was on the dock, and who had been drinking pretty
heavily, because they would have to shove him back every once in a
while, he shouted out 'Let's burn him!' About that time Sheriff McRae
came over and got hold of my throat and said, 'Now, damn you, I will
tell you I can kill you right here and there never would be nothing
known about it, and you know it.' And some one said, 'Let's hang him!'
and this other fellow kept hollering 'Burn him! Burn him!' McRae kept
hitting me, first on one side and then the other, smacking me that way,
and then he turned me loose again and hit me with one of those
slingshots, and finally he said 'Oh, let him go,' and he started me
along, following behind and hitting me until I got over the cattleguard.

"I went down to the interurban track until I caught up with some of the
boys. They tried to pull my shoulder back into place and then they took
handkerchiefs and neckties, and one thing and another, and made a kind
of a sling to hold it up. We then went down to the first station and the
boys took up a collection and the eight of us who were hurt the worst
got on the train and went to Seattle. The others had to walk the
twenty-five miles into Seattle. Most of us had to go to the hospital
next day."

Sam Rovinson was beaten with a piece of gaspipe, but taking advantage of
the fact that the shooting when Archie Collins made his escape had
attracted the attention of the deputies he got thru the gauntlet with
only minor injuries. Rovinson testifies that McRae said to him:

"This time we will let you off with this, but next time you come up here
we will pop you full of holes."

"I just came up here to exercise my constitutional right of free
speech," expostulated Rovinson.

"To hell with free speech and the Constitution!" shouted McRae, "You are
now in Snohomish county, and we are running the county!"

After the deputies had returned to town the two Ketchum brothers took