The New York herald., 1922-05-12
WOMEN IN A MOTOR
FIRED ON BY MINERS
Witness at Treason Trial Tells
How 30 of the Army Rid
died His Machine.

CHARLES TOWN, w. Va, May IL CAS-
States case against William Blizzard.
charged with treason. was brought into
testimony to-day when S. +. Embry Of
Clothicr declared more than 100 shots
We're fired into his automobile on the
night of August % by a group Of armed
men in the road. Alva Rowe, another
! witness on the stand late to-day. testi-
fled that the armed men concerned in
the march and fighting around Blair,
seemed to listen to Blizzard and seemed
to be under him"
The defense was turned back again
to-day in its efforts to cross-question in
detail on an exchange of shots near
Sharples between State police and Logan
county deputy sheriffs on one side and
| a group of miners on the other in which
| two miners were killed and two wounded.
It has been argued several times by II.
| w. Houston, chief of defense counsel.
and his associate that the Sharples clash
was the cause OF renewed activity by the
| miners after District President Keeney
of the union had turned them back once
at Madison.
Judge Woods ruled squarely against
this contention. however. in declaring
that mot a single witness has let drop
! "a word TO show that the battle at
| Sharples had anything to do with the
men proceeding from Madison to Blair"
Embry, besides testifying as to the
shooting up of his automobile, which
occurred ON the road near Clothier, also
told of being forced as conductor of a
freight train to make a trip with his
train, gathering up men from Whites
vile and other points to be taken to
jeffrey. one of the base poirts of the
miners forces, during the fighting.
| With him in the automobile were
Julian Chambers, Mrs. Embry's sister,
16 years old, and Ruth Jay of Charles
Town, fifteen-year-o girl visiting at
the home of Dr. Hairless, at Clothier.
They had taken DR.. Hairless on a pro-
fessional call to n house about half a
mile from Clothier. After leaving him
there had gone up the road about a
mile and were returning to get the
| doctor, he testified. About thirty armed
men were gathered in the road, nearly
in front of the house the doctor visited.
he said and these separated as his car
approached.
One man remained in the middle OF
the road and began firing when the car
| was still about 100 feet away, Embry
testified. the others taking UP the shoot
ing while he stopped on the accelera-
tor" The firing continued as long as
he was in sight, and he found marks OF
six bullets which damaged the car, while
two passed through his hat. Nothing
was said or no motion made to indicate
he was to stop before the firing Began,
| he added
While under cross-examination Embry
said he thought he recognized the man
| in the middle of the road as Lewis
White. but was not positive Of this iden-
tification. He denied that he had any
thing else IN the car and Indignantly
cried. mo. indeed" when asked If il
carried any whisky
| The trip with his freight train to
| Whitesville was made September 2, En-
| bry testified. Six or seven men with
rifles told him to take the train out, and
when he said he could not a pistol was
poked under his nose and he was told
| he must.