"I marched in the procession from Harwood to Lattimer on the tenth of the month. I was about three hundred yards from the front, and could hear nothing of what was said between the sheriff and those marching in the first rows. So it was near West Hazleton, and so near Lattimer. When the firing began near Lattimer I saw everybody run away; I myself bent over so as to partly protect myself, but I could nevertheless see everything. As I stood so bent over one of my fellow-workmen came running to me. I do not know his name, but it seems to me it might have been a Lithuanian. He came running to me, wounded in the right arm, and begged me to help him.I told him I would gladly do so if I did not have to save myself. The firing lasted two or three minutes. I only stayed a short time bent and then ran myself. While we were running the deputies shot at us when we were already about three hundred yards from them." 

- Andrej Sivar, testimony in court

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