Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-09-06
By G. c, MckoWN

was presented by the state this
morning in the treason case of
Walter Allen through Josh Pau!ey,
a member Of the party, which eX-
planned 70 the jury the circumstan-
ces surrounding the incident in
which the automobile Of S. P. En-
brey was shot up near Clothier
the night of August y, last I'M
med.ately following this occur
renee a body Of armed miners, Of
which Pauley was also a member.
held UP car including Deputy
John Browning, of Logan county,
two other deputies and several
state police in uniform, disarmed
these men, cursed them and gave
them a few minutes within which
to escape.
Pauley testified that he joined
ibis armed party under compuls-
on He said he was special Off
Ger and had been with j. w, JET
frey on a hunt for moonshine
stills and moonshiners near Cloth
Ter He came into Clothier late in
the afternoon Of August Y and
was captured by the armed men
and taken to Lewis White who in
structed the armed men to keep
Pauley with them and shoot at
him if he attempted to escape
There were between 40 and so
men in the party which opened
fire on the Embrey car that night
on the road, between 40 and so
shots being fired. Shortly after the
Embrey car had been damaged the
armed party continued UP the
road to point near a coal tipple
where the deputy party was at
tackled He heard while he was
with these armed men that the
men understood the purpose of
the armed march was to invade
Logan county, kill the thugs"
there, continue to Mingo, blow up
the courthouse, open the iails, re-
lease and arm the prisoners and
to take charge of martial Ia
themselves on the theory that they
were the law and order" Pauley
said he escaped the party the fol-
lowing morning by telling them he
wanted to go to Madison to get
some ammunition for his ripe.
On cross examination he said
he supposed the men sought him
to make him a party to some rob-
berries which they had planned. He
denied an alleged frame-up by
which the defense intimated that
he wanted to be the leader OF
party that held up a car of depu-
ties and state police and that they
had made a mistake in taking the
Embrey car for the state police
detail
Many Witnesses On Stand
The state again this morning
sent a succession of witnesses TO
the stand, most Of them testifying
to the alleged reasonable purpose
OF the march.-namely to destroy
martial law in Mingo county and
release the state prisoners.
Other detailed evidence, how
ever was put on regarding the
condition in and around Blair
which was close to the fighting
line
Sam Hume, an eX-servlce man,
who served as a scout, was captur-
ed by five of the armed men, he
testified, and taken to a barn to
be shot. He was kept a captive
from Wednesday until Sunday,
September 4, and released when
the federal forces arrived He said
that the guards lost the key to
the handouts and that they had to
be beaten off.
c. v. Wallan, of Hewitt's Creek,
saw the forces in Logan county.
He was forced to go to Jeffrey and
we kept there about a day, accus-
-. Of signalling to the Logan Off
kials.
Renee and George Crago were
recalled this morning and testified
to having heard a report that 10
gan deputies were planning a raid
upon territory on the Blair side.
Attended Wounded Miners
Dr. W. F. Harliss, OF Clothier
testified as to the shooting in TO
the Embrey car at a point near
Clothier. Embrey had taken Dr..
Harliss for a professional call and
the physician was awaiting the
cars return when the attack took
place. He saw the car punctured
with a number Of shots. He saw
armed men on guard generally on
the public read but he had little
difficulty in passing the lines be-
cause he was generally known as a
phvs!cian and later in the fighting
carried cross on his headlight.
He saw Lewis White with prison
ers and directing armed forces
about Blair. The armed men de-
creased in number after the En-
brev shooting, he said. Some OF
the men we're strangers. Dr.. Har-
Iss attended wounded miners on
Hewitt's Creek every day during
the fehting. treating four or five
altogether. He heard the men say
thew intended to invade Logan and
Ningo. release prisoners from the
Mingo jail and kill the Logan sher-
if and deputies. He heard this talk
before August IS and n.
Or. HAIRLESS saw train go down
from Clothier the night OF august
26 toward Madison, and It was not
a regular train. He did not see It
return although he understood it
had come back.
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