Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-06-19
"There Was a Reign of Terror
in Strike District" Says
Glasscock.
MINE GUARDS MADE TROUBLE
Wanted to Get Rid of Them
Long Sentences We're Civ
en- for Their Moral
Effect.


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DETECTIVES CAUSED TROUBLE.
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tnt trouo'e AGAIN started
me governor was uhequ'No'a' IN Ms
-commiss,on which tr,od prisoners in m,
strike zone. He explained that the sen
fences imposed by the military c"nnhls'
sion which exceeded the penalties pro
vided by the civil statutes were never
intended to be carried out, He said tha'
long sentences were planned TOR the
moral effect"
The question Of justification for the
declaration Of martial law was taken
up at length by the committee to-day
Representative S. Il. Avis, who was
county prosecutor when the trouble be-
gan, testified that juries secured In
the civil court could not be depended
upon to try cases arising out Of strike
because of the widespread prejudice
and bias throughout the country
Were the jurors secure" any more
SUBJECT TO TINS general P'cJu"''e INA"
the mllltla oIll'erS VINO "'""e up '"e
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COMMITTEE DIVIDES ITSELF
At the conclusion of the examina
ton of former Governor Glasscock. The
committees. to expedite the inquiry
divided itself. Senators Shields anc
Kenyon began the investigation of the
conditions which led up to the strike
From Luke Gump, a Mucklow miner
the new subcommittee heard descrip-
tons of a number of encounters be
tween min guards and miners JUS
before the strike began Many othel
witnesses along TINS line were to be eX
"nhl'ed'
senator hoIan' MS p'ah'h OF the IN
P"HS 'ohel"oeo' l'It lor washington TO
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Ao-hlSht the ulVlded committee reas
semhled again and the examination O
the women of the mining camp was be
gun There We're seven waiting to b
called and three of them carried littl
chlIdren whose crying Interrupted tn
examination several times.
Mrs. Sarah Blizzard of Eskdale sal
that she started to visit a neighbor /
April of this year and while walkin
along the railroad tracks had been ord
cred back to her home by a mine guart
"IIc said lnnked like Mother Homo.
to him and told me To hit the dirt dow
the road" said Mrs Rlizzard
Mrs. George parkcr testified that
rrard had urov,Atad bor from yie,tiro
gray. ward f., .cloor nm tba groya nj
nor nahv