New-York tribune., 1922-05-04
Storekeepers
Testify Miners
Looted Stocks
u,. Assert Over $4,000
Shoes and Clothing Was
seized by Marchers: Ono
later Received S372
Told to Charge 1t to Local
o,her Witnesses at Treason
Trial Tell of Threats
aoainst the Government

cu.prFSTOWN, ". Va, May (hy
=. Associated Press).-Proprietors oi
49, ., from, which men engaged IN the
80 march last year obtained shoes,
,Io.hing and groceries were among the
,.;...or witnesses heard to-day in CIR
.n;, ,ourt. where William blizzard ls
.r;od for treason. Other testi-
.r, covered many incidents of the
~.r,b and fighting and in great part
no. ,orroboration Of evidence pre-
yiously heard.
Nathan Haddad. whose general store
:. .. Clotbier. started the list Of COM
nlaining merchants with report Of
more than $1,000 worth of shoes gone
but not paid for. A. R. Browning who
had a general store at Blair estimated
@ oo0 as his loss. Mike August, Blair
Grocer. fixed 1872 as the value OF his
coods. but said that this year he had
received check for that amount IN
payment.
Told Him to Charge It TO Local
raddad said many Of the armed men
vrbon, he saw in Clothier came into his
store to get shoes, riding breeches and
leggings. and that they said TO charge
these goods to 'the local, but not
knowing which local, he could not col
lsc. He knew Philip Murray, interna
.ional vice president of the United
Mine Workers. and saw him q few days
later. Murray promising that he would
be paid for the shoes. according to his
testimony The men also got two
dozen red handkerchiefs he had in
stock. but paid for these, and two or
three men paid for shoes they got.
Some were polite enough" to ask him
to wait on them and some helped them
selves, Haddad replied to question by
H. " Houston on dissemination
Browning included in the stock his
sore supplied 10 the men at Blair not
only shoes. but shrtwaists. caps and
tobacco. An attempt was made to in
troduce what he said Nelasco Car
penter told him about the killing Of
John Gore, Logan County deputy
sheriff, but Judge J. NJ. Woods sus-
tanned the objection OF defense counsel
to this line Of examination.
Hanging of Government Suggested
A suggestion that they go to
Charleston, burn the newspaper Offices
snd hang the government, was at
trjbuted to some Of the armed men by
/. y. Stone, OF Charleston, contractor
on railroad work. A group of about
fifteen men passed the place where he
was at work in Winfrede Junction, he
said, and some Of those in the group
were doing the talking. This witness
also told Of hearing mon say they
were watching every train that came
to Marmet from Charleston for state
police and would kill any who got off
the train.
Testimony Of Emmett Ferrell that
he was hit in the hip by one Of the
many bullets fred a him when he dis
obeyed the order of an armed group to
halt, was admitted over the objections
Of the defense.
Savoy Holt, one Of the men indicted
with Blizzard on the treason charge,
said: "To hell with martial law. we'll
wipe it out" James King testified,
King also testified that Blizzard was at
miners headquarters in Blair school
house and when asked about the fight
ing at Crooked Greek, answered.: I'VE
are gaining ground" Previous testi-
mony that during dispute over au-
thorltv Charles Green had declared:
I've got orders direct from Blizzard 8"