Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-04-28
LAWSON TRIAL
DRACS ALONG IN
TRINIDAD COURT
Pat Murphy Alias ]. R, Petty,
Gives Evidence Corroborat-
i've of That of Charles Sny-
der on Previous Day,

ieS sossiHa JOURNAL srtciSt Lsasen wtas
Trinidad, Colo. April 11.--Dlreet
and cross examination of witnesses
for the prosecution was continued to-
day and at night session of district
court in the trial of John f. Lawson.
international executive board mem
her of the United Mine Workers of
America, charged with the murder Of
John Nimmo, a mine guard Lawson
was telling the men 10 go out and
fight and at the same he was tele-
phoning the governor that he could
not influence the strikers, declared
one witness who gave his name as
Pat Murphy alias j. K. Petty. and
explained that he was employed by
the United Mine Workers of America
in 1913 to distribute arms to striking
coal miners, who We're ordered to
shoot and shoot to kill"
C0rrohorates snyder,
Murphys testimony in the main
corroborated that given yesterday by
Charles snyder. Snyder was on teh
stand again the greater part of the
day After telling Yesterday that he
had seen Lawson on the scene of the
battle Of October %, 1919, in which
Nimmo was killed. Snyder testified on
cross examination that he was at
present employed Indirectly by a
private detective agency.
snyder testified further that he
was receiving $40 a month through
A. G. Felts; that he was i'm the en-
ploy of the mine owners association
at a time when he asked money from
the miners union; that he was hired
by the mine owners association to
assist the prosecution in the Lawson
and other cases against eX-strikers,
and that he himself was under bond
and other alleged crimes.
The mine owners association. he
said, WAS composed OF the Victor
American Fuel Co, the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Co, the Rocky Noun
tain Fuel Go. and the National Fuel
company.
Pat Murphy Called.
Following the cross examination of
Snyder the state called Pat Murphy
He testified that he had been en-
ployed by the United Mine Workers
to serve as a secret agent and body
guard.
After relating numerous alleged
events in the early DAYS of the re-
cent strike, he testified that on Oc-
tober %, 1913. the day Nimmo was
Killed. he went with Charles Snyder
TO Ludlow in an automobile to get
ammunition. His story of his alleged
meeting with Lawson on the battle
field was similar to that of Snyder.
when we approached the Colo
RADIO and Southeastern railroad cut
we showed what we called our flag
Of truce he said. I'VE were stopped
by John Lawson and some other fell
1--WE first saw them when theyi
raised from the Colorado and SOUTH
eastern cut. They We're using the
cut for breastworks.
Fired on By lawson.
Lawson came over to the automo |
bile and said: My God, BOYS, is any
body hurt? We've fired about 250
shots at you thinking ii was the gun
boat The gunhoat was one of
the names applied TO an armored /
automobile used by the coal mine
GENERATORS during the recent strike |
The witness then testified that |
Lawson sent To the railroad cut half |
If The ammunition brought by the |
automobile and the rest was taken |
to- the tent colony. Lawson, he tes- !
tilted returned TO the railroad cut. I
In a lengthy cross examination |
uoraee N Hawkins sought to make /
lhe witness admit that he was en- I
Moved Inv tho baldwin detect |
I've apencv Mummy said his income I
-, &c 7.o'oi,,oa ~, ',,,ou and that he
dia M bno,v y,ho GENT him money. I
liz said ha Nod been making secret /
ta,.astfsatione in the Trinidad district I
e.. eaas,,ral r,,anths and renorting byl
,,,,1 ~ nasaoffice hoy 40 Denver. I
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~, ~ ,,as ~ tho emnIov Of the de-
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n, ra5Jraot ayan,ination Murphy /
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farr,s ~ -
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.a,i ie 'iien .oiu " ~ aiso described
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