Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-05-02
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On Wednesday, Brinkman testi-
fled new Studebaker car came in
to Blair, halted and that one of the
men in the car went to the school
house which was the headquarters
and there turned over ammunition 10
Morrison who in turn distributed II
to the crowd The man spoke there
he said and said you have what Won
have been waiting for-now 90 get
it.D He Unidentified this man as VII
liam Blizzard, defendant on trial
Less than an hour later two col.
umns of men. were formed equipped
with rifles and guns. The Rev. vii.
burn was in charge of the column to
which Brinkman belonged, he said,
and he did not know who led the
other column. There were about
10 or lis in his crowd. They went
to the hills on Wednesday afternoon
and slept that night in the noun
tains At daybreak the following
day firing commenced on the other
side of the mountain. They ad-
vanced and met party. He was
questioned as to the miners pass
word and he said before the clash
with the guards the question was
"Where tor; the answer ito Min
90" After the first clash he said
the query was "Who comes" and
the answer II come creeping" On
meeting this party the leader was
asked the usual question and he re-
piled in kind. He was asked sec
ond time to give the password and
then this leader, Gore, and two
others in unison said "Amen." Then
the firing started, the miners firing
the first shot. Two men fell. Gore
raised his rifle, Brinkman said, but
was knocked over, arose again, step
ped back and came up and Brink
man thought that Gore fred one
shot. A half dozen shots were fired
in the exchange he said. He saw
Rev. Wilburn fire at Gore and he
was not more than six feet away.
Henry Cruikshanks, of Glen Jean,
Fayette County, which is about 100
miles from Marmet, was called to the
stand late yesterday morning. He
said he was a member of the U. NJ.
w. in August of last year, attached
to the Local at Boards Fork He
was in the armed march, he said,
being compelled to join when his
Local was advised that all men must
join. They were headed, he said,
for Mingo to fight, to take Chain and
his deputies and organize Mingo
county and release the prisoners
there. He did not know how they
were going to accomplish this. At
Danville they spent night, he said,
and then took train and came back
home
The session yesterday morning was
enlivened by clash between excited
lawyers, in which Harold w. Hous-
ton marked as "a lie" an implication
in remarks by A. M. Belcher that he
had prior knowledge of the shooting
of Sheriff Don Chain at union head
quarters in Charleston. Although
the trial was on a treason charge
against William Blizzardhe was men
toned in the testimony only one of
the witnesses.
The clash between attorneys came
on Mr. Belcher's objection to ques-
tons by the chief defense attorney,
who was asking Logan county dep
uty sheriff about Sheriff Chains in
terests in coal mines. From there
the lawyers arguments turned to Mr..
Houston's declaration that coal oper-
ators paid large sums of money to
Chain for the purpose of making
war on the United Mine Workers, to
which Mr.. Belcher countered that
the vice president of District II of
that organization shot Chain after
he had conferred with Mr.. Houston.
The defense counsel pulled off his
glasses as he rose and waving his
forefinger up and down before
Belcher's face, shouted: 'If YOU i'm
ply that | knew anything about that,
it's lie."
81 can prove that you did and III
meet you anywhere you say for that
purpose" Mr.. Belcher added while
the court admonished against any
further outbreak" Mr.. Houston
apolized to the court for his state
ment, but added he did believe
Belcher had gone too far.
M. B. Mellen, of Madison, w Va,
was called to identify a map show
ing points covered by the armed
marchers. A yellow line, indicating
the 25-mile "battle 'front.'" was point
ed out to the jury.
A witness named Lepage was put
on the stand this morning and testi-
fled as to seeing Blizzard with the
miners whilst he (Lepage) was en-
gagged in moving women and chill
dren back from the firing zone.
Dat Dickens also testified this
morning that his local union contri-
buted 1885 to the Marmet gather
ing.