"RIOTERS BROKE WINDOWS," The Province (Vancouver). December 4, 1913. Page 4.
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Description of Troubles in Ladysmith Last August.
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New Westminster, Dec. 4. - Samuel Raster was the chief witness for the crown at this morning's sitting of the Assize Court in the case of the fourteen coal miners arraigned on a charge of riotous destruction of property at Ladysmith in a riot which, it is alleged, continued from the afternoon of August 12 until August 15. He asserted that he had been stopped by a crowd of strikers in which were two of the accused. He was dragged behind the station and there assaulted, receiving three severe blows on the head.
Robert Bonner, a mine foreman, testified that the crowd stoned his house, breaking every pane of glass in the windows. He was afraid the crowd would eventually rush the place so he fired several shots from a gun and this caused the crowd to disperse. The next day he was ordered to leave town by several of the accused and immediately complied with their demands.
Harry Mitchell graphically described an attack on his house by a crowd of about sixty men. The windows in his home were broken and in order to protect his wife and six children be placed them in the clothes closet and under the bed. He stood by the window while the stones were flying and was able to see who were throwing them. Several of the accused he Identified as being there.