Do not imagine that these incidents rest upon the credibility of Lee Calvin alone. They were sworn to by numerous persons of all classes. Mr. Quinn Morton himself admitted before the Senate committee that he had called up the superintendent of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and ordered the “Bull Moose Special” for that night; also that he had gone to a hardware store and purchased thirty Springfield rifles and taken them in a taxi-cab to the train. He objected to the train being referred to as “his” train—explaining that by the objection he meant that he did not own the train!
Also there was introduced the evidence of many persons who happened to be at the muzzle-end of Mr. Morton’s thirty Springfield rifles: for example, Mrs. Estep, wife of a miner in Holly Grove:
Senator Kenyon: “Had there been any disorder in the settlement that night? Had you heard any shooting before that time?”
Mrs. Estep: “No, sir.”
Senator Kenyon: “Could you hear this train coming?”
Mrs. Estep: “We heard it after it commenced shooting. We had not heard it before. We had our doors closed.”
Senator Kenyon: “Could you see the train?”
Mrs. Estep: “No, sir; I never went out the front way at all.”
Senator Kenyon: “When did you know your husband was shot?”
Mrs. Estep: “I didn’t know he was killed until after the train quit shooting, and I heard some of them speak to him and call his name, and I never heard him answer.”