their lanterns and went out to the scene thinking they might find some
of the men out there hurt, with a broken leg, or arm or something, and
that they could be taken to their house to be cared for. No men were
seen, but three covered with blood were found and after examination were
returned to where they had been picked up.

Early next morning some of the deputies, frightened at their cowardly
actions of the previous night, were seen at Beverly Park making an
examination of the ground. Two of them approached the Ketchum residence
and asked if any I. W. W.'s had been found lying around there. After
being assured that they had stopped short of murder, the deputies
departed.

A little later an investigation committee composed of Rev. Oscar McGill
of Seattle, and Rev. Elbert E. Flint, Rev. Jos. P. Marlatt, Jake Michel,
Robert Mills, Ernest Marsh, E. C. Dailey, Commissioner W. H. Clay,
Messrs. Fawcett, Hedge, Ballou, Houghton and others from Everett, made a
close examination of the grounds. In spite of the heavy rain and
notwithstanding the fact that deputies had preceded them, the committee
found blood-soaked hats and hat bands and big brown spots of blood
soaked into the cement roadway. In the cattle guard was the sole of a
shoe, evidently torn off as one of the fleeing men escaped his
assailants.

"Hearing of the occurrence I accompanied several gentlemen, including a
prominent minister of the gospel of Everett, next morning to the scene.
The tale of that struggle was plainly written. The roadway was stained
with blood. The blades of the cattle guard were so stained, and between
the blades was a fresh imprint of a shoe where plainly one man in his
hurry to escape the shower of blows, missed his footing in the dark and
went down between the blades. Early that morning workmen going into the
city to work, picked up three hats from the ground, still damp with
blood. There can be no excuse for nor extenuation of such an inhuman
method of punishment," reported President E. P. Marsh to the State
Federation of Labor.

J. M. Norland stated that "there were big brown blotches on the pavement
which we took to be blood. They were perhaps two feet in diameter, and
there were a number of smaller blotches for a distance of twenty-five
feet. In the vicinity of the cattle guard the soil was disarranged and
there were shoe marks near the cattle guard. You could also notice
where, in their hurry to get across, they would go in between,