Sheriff Martin On Trial

Wilkesbarre, Pa., Feb. 1.- Not since tba trials of the Molly Maguires has a case attracted so much interest in the coal región as that of Sheriff Martin and his eighty-two deputies, which began In the Luzerne county court. Hundreds of persons were unable to gain admission to the court room. Sheriff Martin and his eighty-two deputies are charged with shooting and killing twenty-two striking miners and wounding over fifty more at Latimer, thia county, on Sept. 10, 1897. The eightytwo deputies marched in in a body and after seating themselves began to read the morning papers, apparently unconcerned. The bar was crowded with lawyers, ■while around the tables were grouped some of the best attorneys in this section of the state. Judge Woodward presided. The commonwealth asked íor a nolle prosse in the cases of Leonard Babcock, William Drum, John Dougherty, J. J. Gallagher, William Mulhall, Fred A. Sleppy, William Costello, William Siewell, Calvin Pardee, John W. Crooks, Jr., R. C. Warriner, Thomas A. Harris, Samuel Arnold, Craig Anderson and Samuel Gundery. The court then allowed the motion and the nolle prosse was entered. The work of selecting a jury was then begun.