Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-31
{ E|LNSAs MEN FREED QF KIDNAPPING 0F PARTISAN MAN
Business Men and City # Marshal Are
 E Tried

tIalford. Kan, Jan. 3O.-Hun- 212sof former service men in uni
 wand Nonpartisan League or ws and members gathered here
 |eek for preliminary hearing
 fee business men for kidnap- # member of the Nonpartisan American Legion drew decid-
 irst blood, when the case was
 Ssed. A fistic encounter in the
 foom stirred the fighting blood < S legion members, and showed Ehe feeling between the two or stions is real.
 se who saw the humorous side
 event called it Act II of the
 {ght Frolics, the first episode
 hich occurred on the night of
 hber 7 last. when Jay McFad,
 Farmer of Stafford, and acting
 Rirman of a Nonpartisan League
 was taken from the hall into
 buntry and "made to shimmy or
 nlighted haystack with neither
 nor music to guide his fal-
 steps"
 Extra Deputies on Duty.
 ty former service men were
 in as deputy sheriffs to pre-
 order in the crowds which
 (ged the town the two days of
 rial. The hearing was held inI
 )pera house, which was filled to
 ity.
 orneys for the defense hailed
 hecision rendered by three jus
 of the peace as a great victory
 he state for Americanism and American Legion, and as hard
 to the Nonpartisan League. Ing the hearing, some of the |he's fundamentals were pillow In telling style by the witnesses gattorneys. he defendants in the hearing e: E. M. Smart, formerly Stat banker, now a prominent busi- man of Wichita; Clarence Hen a farmer, and Charles Thompson, marshal. Immediately after Radden was taken from the meet ! |last fall, the Nonpartisan League hbers began raising funds for |ecution of the case. Much of money came from the farmer hbess ,and a great deal of it was Anced by McFadden himself, ac- ling to legion men.
 Prosecutor Refused to Act. he league applied four times to nty Attorney Beales for war for prosecution, and each dime g refused, as that official de- led there was not enough evi- De to convict, They then went Justice of the Peace Fort and ob- led the warrants, charging kid ing on three counts. The charges e said to be little short of ridic- IS. Two other justices from ,hboring towns sat on the bench. obliging and humorously inclined ,e-shifter at the opera house had lnged the stage with prison le OH the "drop."
 he legion members attending e from many parts of the state, were the Nonpartisan League ad~t ants, who realized that much was take. Virtually every legion post tiiHe otdIe Ido CoAoSAhAeu Iiio ,ue.
 was said those who spirited 'adden away thought he was an anizer who was to speak that 1t. When it was learned who alden really was, they released
 unharmed. The three justices the end of the hearing voted for acquittal. ot once during the trial was men z made of McFadden's alleged laping, although this was the , of the complaint. When the ring ended, it looked as if a partisan Leogue organizer, who ed prosecute, would get rough ding. But the city marshal, re- cd to duty by his acquittal, let ,e known at once that there Id be nothing of thati kind per- ed.
 he fist fight occurred when Paul Iagle, one of the counsel for de- e, was reading at length from constitution and bylaws of the partisan League and treatise ,he league. A witness was being mined by Nagle at the same }. Nagle asserted that the wit ! knew who wrote the treatise. You are a liar!" shouted c. A. lbach, counsel for the Nonpar- n League. Nagle rushed across stage and planted stiff blow in Leinbach's face, while the feet he latter attorney went up in the and twisted around Nagle. Dep