The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-05-16
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BY K.EENEY & | |: ! WHEN 1
He MADE |. |: Speech / 4
Newspaper Men i estifyS Today
in#Treason Trial at Z
Charles Town. q Sss
GORE HELD ii ]. CAPT 1 &
Funeral Of Father ofS ooIs
Teacher Held While ! 3 u
Was Prisone
GORE HELD CAPTIlVE &

8IiIdAha nSe&1tt pISSluSnI Is3s sOl+5SSsL L4Ae4s
United Mine Workers istrictS Np
vised a crowd OF marching aminers
at Danville to go home, heS to1dSa
newspaperman just before the
meeting. Charles Tramp corr
respondent for a Hunting gtonSneWss
paper testifi!elas to this tod ayS I'LL
the trial of William Blizzard gonssaSs
charge of treason
Frampton also told OF s$& seeing
Blizzard at Blair Just before $sat he
federal troops stopped fighting btt5
tween the miners and the state:
forces on the Logan County bordeE5
The defendant made al speech Mad T
vising the men to Surrender@sa anaTE
go home as quickly and qui,etl lyEa asN
possible, he said.
You all know who i am I. We,Tess
mentioning no names here, FasA
Billiards. preface to s his speech,sR
the witness said adding that the
next speaker said he didn't care
who heard his name and ssanno ounssSSS
ed it to the crowd n:
Keeney told Frampton beforesth hs
meeting that he did not wan ntsst All u
see him killed and would snotsa Low
him in THE meeting Hesassa ia he
was going to try TO stop the miners!
but did not know Wh ether he VOL idss
be successful and expected stToublesg
Frampton had just got by tlleA
guard at the gate VIII EN- b e#Wasss
stopped, taken to Ken ey, and then
sent out OF the ball park satetifeda
Later EKeeney related thessubstaDc
of his sIeech TO him
Ate With eeney
testified that he and sKeeneySN Nents
to the hotel for dinner II aItss
ing for the meeting TIME 81 esn:sssa
sta Bile Miller of sDanYi lie test fted8
last week that he Il tai lked
iKeeney when both came on utst sass Al
restaurant that noon nd Ss tll atSs
.1.eeney was alon e
NJ A newspaper ph hotograph#o #of .3lllzSSs 3llllzz ~
card at Sharples was IL ntToduceetaisls:
evidence during the tes timonyo
Dick Benton anoth HuntingtcI
newspaper man. The picture Ras
in a Charleston newspaper% anaS
Blizzard's s lawyers mad lee
ton to the picture but lid b1set
to letting the newspape g ssl nIos
the evidence. sSssS
Object to Report. sss Sss
An effort was made tQintrod oduGeAs
a report to- the sas goVerno rsSs q
Sheriff o. j. Walker, Prpsecut t1ngSs
Attorney F. G. Burde EFT andaJudge#a
Henry X. Black, all OF sKanaNhasss
County. covering the asituationatS
Marmet, where the miners gath
cred for their march. DefensesatSs
torneys protested that th Ell q oclas
ment was merely az statement%ohs
conditions. Judge VIC DDS reseTye
ed his decision.
Kept in Cousin s III lone
Albert Gore, son Of \ J ohne Core
the Logan County deputy herdhMs
who was killed during thess BIairS
mountain fighting, told ofA hisEexssss exssssS
perience as captive OF thesna11E a1Ensesrrss.ss2 M
for almost q wee Ks Thesyoungera
Gore, "a school teachers tesArgoass
san. had been living on the Goal f
River side of the .Sm ountain; and
was trying to make his way over
the ridge to the Logan side en-
he was captured. He vas @keptsinss
the home OF Jim jeffrey, aSc cousins
and was not harmed, WAS
brought on oss-e1amint efS
frey and others lied d#him%bg
telling him his bro hers. had8heeIn
killed. He was nots al1oWed tp
tell how he 1ear1.ed OF dsatfl
Of his father, who was XIII ed
bert was a captive. he& hroth-
ers were not killed sgS
State Police Disarmed
r. r.. Manown testified dssheS nd
other State Police were EdtsarmsdS
at C1othie Augusts 2,,ssssSEh hileSS en-
thei rway to inyestig igateH HtheSshDp
ing up Of the automob bilespfSS
Emil mbrey. The men were SordeEsdstnN
leave the county, dert hreatNo1As
having the scompany& y&club5houseSatsA
Sharples, where lived bIoEs
up. There anda&chaIsSE VI
drenS at the club yhcuse,h heasaids
to prevent endangering them
State Police walk dssaeToss ths
mountain tot Ethel . was asseanpl
OF the sho hooting at Emhrey are
and the disarming OF these fftcsrsss s
that Captain RBr6cku thsSStats
Police with a consid iderabIe 1oEEs
marched toward %ShaTp1esSa and Ahss
came involved IN " Z a;Sfi gltSnea5@that
pla ace.
observer, say EN- ons the nayclk
from olson to- osBIairssheSts
the day after he II lewSoyerSthen1ee
ing at the Danvil1e ball spaTk
which @. Frank pres1dera
of VI District N o.s s1 q. tnrned
marchers bac OK There SgeEe2a
men In one column he said
about %7 90 In al! NJ 5The& plane
fired on at Meffins and ssharplssss
Dennin Ssai ia. .Ss was s1peTatng
from Huntington at i tIheSS Se1ussst
the sheriff of Logan@G GoIInty
that the sWassusedsf furs o6sa
svationS on1 81 made epoTe
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