ht,' McRae grabbed me
by the coat and hit me on the head with a black club fastened to his
strap with a leather thong. I was looking right at him and he knocked me
unconscious. Then Kelley picked me up and shook me and I came to again,
and I fell over the curb of the sidewalk.

"Kelley then turned me over to Daniels, a policeman in Everett, and he
turned me over to a couple of Commercial Club deputies. Then Fred Luke
came along and said, 'I will take care of him.' So we walked a little
ways and he said, 'You better go to the doctor and have that dressed.' I
said to him, 'Oh, I guess it ain't so bad,' and so he said, 'Come along
with me and we will wash up at the jail.' I said, 'All right,' and while
I was going up the steps to the jail, why a policeman by the name of
Bryan or something like that,--a little short fellow, well anyhow he got
canned off the force for being drunk, that is how I heard of him,--when
I was kind of slow walking along because I was bleeding pretty bad, he
said, 'Hurry up and get in there, you low-down, dirty son-of-a-b----'
And I answered, 'I guess I ain't arrested, I don't have to hurry in
there.' So he cursed some more.

"I went into the jail and washed up and came back into the office of the
county jail. The fellows that they had arrested were sitting in the
chairs and McRae came in and grabbed one of the I. W. W.'s--I guess they
were I. W. W.'s, anyway one of them that was arrested--and he says,
'What in hell are you doing up here, don't you know I told you to keep
away from here?' and while he was going in the door into the back office
I saw him haul off with his sap, but I don't see him hit him, but the
little fellow cried like a baby.

"McRae came back and he looked at me and said, 'What in hell are you
doing up here?' I didn't know what to say for a little while and then I
said, 'I didn't do nothing, Mac, I don't see what you wanted to sap me
for.' And he said, 'I didn't sap you,' he said, 'Kelley hit you.' Then I
said to him, 'My wife says for me to meet her down at the corner of
Wetmore and Hewitt at nine o'clock and I would like to go down there and
meet her.' So he said, 'All right, you go; you hurry and go.' I was
going out the front door and he said, 'No, don't go out there. If you go
out there, they will kill you!' He led me to the back door of the jail,
I don't know where it was, I never was in jail in my life before, and he
said, 'Hurry and beat it, and pull your hat down over