The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-03-15
COMPLETE TRIAL
OF THE ACCUSED
STRIKE LEADERS
Military Commission Completes
Trial of Mary Jones and
Other Leaders.
HATFIELD WILL ANNOUNCE
VERDICT IN A FEW DAYS
Papers Must Be Approved by the
State Executive Before Yer
dict Is Announced.

Special Dispatch to the Inteiligencer
CHARLESTON. W. Va. March 1A>-s
Although the military commission lats
this afternoon completed its findingp
In the trial OF Mary Jones, Charles
Boswell. John w. Brown. George r. |
Parsons and forty-flve others, charrsd |
with murder. conspiracy and incitfng
riots. the findings will not become
public until Governor II. d. Hatfield
has had time to go over the evidences
and sign them. This is necessary be- ?
fore the sentences. IL conviction -
found. can become effective.
1t will be some time next week"
said Governor Hatfield tonight, DE
fore pass on the papers. l will want
to go over them. and that will take
some time"
To Take Up New Cases.
II is probable that the papers WIN
not reach the Governor until some
time tomorrow, as the findings will |
have TO be written out and signed by
Colonel c. F. Jolliffe, president OF the
military commission. Tomorrow the
commission will take up the case in
volving some twenty-odd miners and
Socialists charged with shooting up
tho special train conveying Sheriff
Bonner Hill and a corps OF deputies
who were attempting to serve war
rants on some of the men sheltered at
Holley Grove. one OF the strikers
camps. AS Sheriff Hills train neared
Holley Grove it was fired on from both
sides of the narrow valley. Every
pane of glass in the train was broken,
the engineer shot in the hand and the
cars riddled with bullets. Sesco Es-
tcp. miner. was killed. Whether he
was shot by the deputy sheriffs return
ing the fire or by a shot of a miners
gun. coming across the valley, is not
known. Many of the defendants in
the trial Just ended are defendants in
the trial 10 begin tomorrow, and IL
Is understood that. like in the first
case. some of them will confess to
their part in the shooting and the gen.
eral plan 10 kill the sheriff and all
his deputies on the night of February
Stb.
Hatfield Holds Conference.
Governor Hatfield has had several
conferences during the day with rep
representatives OF the coal operators.
, as also OF the United Mine Workers
organization. Both Governor Hatfield
and President Thomas Cairns Of dis
tTict seventeen denied that a PROPOSE
J
aimed at a settlement OF the present
controversy.
They admit discussing the situation
Governor Hatfield has expressed a de-
sire TO do all he can TO relieve the sit
uation. and wants all the information
he can get about the situation. For
that purpose he has called into con-
ference both representatives OF the
miners. coal operators and persons not
connected with either, but who are
familiar themselves with the situa-
I ton.
Adjutant General Elliott has remain
ed in the city all day and has been I'm
conference with the governor.
The commission late this afternoon
tried Oscar Petry. charged with shoot
ing at Dr. !. &. Anderson, a driver,
and Ben Burke. who was being taken
20 the sheltering arms hospital having
been injured in NucSlow mines. Burke
died before reaching the hospital.
Three people testified that oscar
Petry. Sesco Estep. killed the follow
ing night and one other man not ap-
pretended. fired on Anderson and his
party Petry sought 20 prove an alibi
Anderson identified Petry as one OF
the men who did the shooting.