The moment in time i want to focus on is in bold.
On the second day of the strike, sometime around 12:00 pm, Tom Larius and a few other Greek strikers left the Namino saloon in Segundo where they had been talking. They were heading back to the strikers’ encampment when they got to the new company bridge that had just been built to allow scabs easy access to the mines. The bridge, usually guarded by CF&I gunmen, had been left unattended. Since no one was there, Tom Larius and his fellow strikers decided to tear the bridge down. They hadn’t gotten far in there progress before Robert Lee was notified and rushed to the bridge on horse back, taking his rifle with him.
When he got there, he shooed the strikers away by butting his horse against them until they started walking away. Lee continued herding them off as if they were cattle, following them on horseback. About 200 yards past the bridge, the miners turned and surrounded Lee’s horse. Lee pulled out his rifle to fire, but before he was able to, Larius raised his shotgun, fired, and tore Lee’s jugular vein out of his throat. Larius and the miners took off into the shrub and disappeared amidst gunfire from company guardsmen who had heard the gunshot.
Blood Passion by Scott Martelle
Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre by Zeese Papanikolas
(I could only find two sources on this at the moment)
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