Eyewitness accounts of the incident were contradictory.One local newspaper, the Marysville Appeal, noted that while a large number of people had witnessed the shooting, "their stories varied considerably." Quoted in Philip S. Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Volume 4: The Industrial Workers of the World, 1905–1917. New York: International Publishers, 1965; pg. 265. In the best estimation of historian Greg Hall:
