The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-30
|,LAIM SHERIFF WAS.
EIATED TO DIE BY
MARCHING MINERS
Witness Testifies That They
We're to Get Chafin and Re-
lease Men in Jail.
DROPPED
BOMBS NEAR MINERS
Five of the Seven Bombs Ex-
ploded, But No Damage Was
Done to the Marchers.

tsv Tho Associated Press)
rp,RLEsTON. w. Va. April 90
rsason u,al and an amateur base
,au shared here today in interest, with
5e same man as central figure in both,
~. although the game had the larger
attendance. even the longest home run
ro9I not produce the thrills of the
sory IN court.
D-atls of marching through sections
Of nree counties, the communicating
o. .ainoad train battle in which
machine gun and unnumbered rifles
spa, from West Virginia hills all flow
Cd to the same ears of jury, court and
spectators in the matter of fact tones
II Ed Reynolds. coal miner and self
implicated leader of a band that had
these experiences. William Blizzard,
sub-districJ president of the United
Mine Workers, charged with treason
and now on trial led a similar band,
the witness declared. .......-.-
The baseball game Which in the af-
,srnoon drew the attention the court
Ahad held IN the day, was between the
team Of the United Mine Workers,
Prcry man Of which Is here in connec-
ton with the armed march trials, and
picked players Of the town.
We were going to kill Don Chafin
and that bunch and march on through
Logan to Mingo and release the men
n jail there" Reynolds testified. Don
chafin, further questioning brought
out, was sheriff Of logan county, and
that bunch" the deputy sheriffs with
whose aid the defendants believed
Cnafin had prevented union men from
pervading the Logan coal fields.
Even when his direct testimony had
finished and Harold w. Houston open-
Cd the cross examination for the de-
tense by asking about his arrest on q
charge Of collecting money under false
prelenses the witness did not make
any display Of emotion but calmly gave
Ills story OF collecting $500 from a half
oo@en mine union locals for "benevo-
en' relief payment Of part of it for
TWO grocery bills that had been in
cured in Jeffrey, which he had pre-
'Vu'lv desisnated as a base of sup
pneS ior the fighting men on the miners
sue and delivery of the rest to NJ.
1ap'ons'aIl, acting president of dis
@ .I'r' /, or the union, who he said, had
lection '''e 'o'-
LIS IIFSt testimony was Of a meet
ny, ms IN Charleston, August Z, 1921, at
,. wuon he said he heard President
H,,y HtSney speak about conditions in
AiHgo county.
n,s ~ 'Ae meeting, he said, he and
1''A1SEa set out afoot for Racine. each
Ill command Of about 800 men. Ar
,'',"s aug 'here that night, Reynolds sent
-, Iv,achhlent q, to get railroad train
os, we branch OF the Chesapeake and
h'. O' winch he said they took" On
,,S uey went the next day to Sproul
"a. a''er holding up the operator there
". 'el 'ne right of way, the train con-
,'aeu on to Madison. Blizzard was
,,,. ,"e ''ain' Reynolds testified, by in
.,T'. T'S examination. he said, he had not
,o,.,s,. WIN the leader Of the other
WV. gent or heard the lattel give any
,o. ' S'ad'son President Keeney, Dis
,5,.. secretary Fred Mooney and Brig
.In.s,,, General Bandholtz. overlook the
lroo.on lrrryu'''on and at ball park there,
y"ey maj ana Keeney told the men to go
NM. u" '"eir homes. Savor Holt, Dee
bo l ana Walter Allen, with whom
baa I"'''eF arrangements for the march
f,,.1e oeeh made and from whom he had
h."" MIS- orders thus far. told them
h,. nal the speeches meant nothing.
IA N'eney had to say what he did.
ia ., o' district II, and that they were
ar3 VA Ills band and that of Rliz-
y,a.o continued to Jeffrey on foot the
A MS declared, and there separated.
M. On up the mountain at night
tpsr,,.l ,,'''l IN position. and I'VE met our
%a the next day, he testified.
Sever, ",'oess told Of the dropping of
s.gon 'ombs on or near their po-
ser,, from airplanes. Five of the
caa,,. vAp'oded but the men had
ana 10 examine the others he said,
With g''o ,hey We're made of iron pipe
ao,o'.o. ups threaded on the ends and
it. ms1, zap and plunger to explode
inserted at one end.