Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-09-14
By G. C.. McKOWN

| trlct No. il United Nine workers,
on the witness stand this morning
/ for the defense in the treason pro-
/ ceedings against Walter Allen, tes-
tilted as to the trip which he and
President C. Frank Keeney, of
District No. II, made from Char
| lesion to Danville last August IS
to advise the marching armed min
/ ers to turn back. They were sac
cessful in their mission, he said,
and he personally helped check up
the number of men who came out
on the special train secured to ex-
pedite the return, finding 1856 men
on it which he estimated to be APP
pro&imately the number which had
jinen at the DanYille ball park
when they were addressed by the
Union chiefs and advised to turn
back,
1t is the first time that Mooney,
who IS also under Indictment for
his alleged connection with the
march, has taken the stand in any
of the trials; and it is the first di-
rect testimony that has come from
the union chiefs as to what was
actually done by them at the Dan
| Vile meeting.
Defense Ready To Rest
The defense announced at noon
: today that it had only one other
/ important witness, that being the
/ defendant himself, who would take
/ the stand this afternoon after
which the defense expects to rest
Some rebuttal testimony for the
state is promised but will not be
expended and the end of the evil
dences was net unlikely this after
| noon.
Ike Wilburn. of Blair, Hayes
Webb of Blair, Charles C. Stump
of Eskdale, and Charles H. Stump,
of Charles Town, FORMERLY of Blair
| and Charleston were on the stand
this morning, testifying generally
to phases of the defense previously
developed. f. c. Lee, of Dry Branch
! was recalled and the ground was
laid for impeachment when he de-
MED that he had told Blizzard,
Frank Aliff and John Shannon, Of
Dry Branch. that he intended to
throw all the blame on Allen, a
single man who could bear it, in
case he found himself in trouble
as result Of his activities in con-
nection with the march. The state
this morning used Lee to testify
that authority had been given by
the Dry Branch local to pay him
sos for the supplies which he had
advanced to the people there dur
ing the march and that the state
| ment had been made at the meet
| ing by Albert Raines that funds
J were all exhausted for the sup
| port of the march except the sos.
Allen was present at this meeting
OF the local, he said, and also
spoke.
Tells of Trip to DanviIle
Mooney testified this morning
that he, Keeney and w. T. Dads
man, secretary-treasurer Of sub
district No. 8, left Charleston on
August 26, 1921, about 6:10 a NJ.
and went by automobile toward
DanVille. Wherever they met min
ers along the way, whether those
miners were actually marching or
were standing still, they advised
these men to turn back immediate
! ly They reached the head of the
army at Madison and advised the
men there to turn back, which
they did, he said. A special train
was detoured early on the morning
n WI, Ic
men out to St, Adams where Moo
ney arranged for special trolley
cars to take the men to theig
homes. Mooney said he was with
President Kenney practically every
minute at the ball park and he de
MED hearing Keeney tell the men
there on the quiet that he had
made his public speech, advising
them to turn back, ito save dis
trict No. H." and that he frequent
! ly asked the men to continue their
march
Mooney testified to seeing a
train come down from Blair during
the night He saw just a few men
on the train. He said two men, one
OF them being Lewis White, came
to the hotel room of Mooney and
kecney from this train and urged
them to quit trying to turn the
marchers back, but Mooney AMI
Hconey refused to do this and thu
men boarded the train again which
proceeded on up the road. Later
they returned and another delega
tom visited the union officials who
AGAIN refused to do anything but
iaTn the miners back. This delega
ton tod Mooney and Keeney that
There were reports that the depu
ties intended to invade Blair an(
! kl4 everyone at the head Of the
river, and said it was bad policy
to stop the men at Danville while
the slaughter was continuing al
Blair. When the train came back
Mooney said 1t had approximately
a dozen more men on it than wheI
lie first saw it, Neither he nor Kee
ney had anything to do with the
train, he said.
He said he did not know Waite
Allen at Marmet and did not know
that Allen ever held any office will
District No. II.
Mooney was questioned as to
speech which he made at a meetin!
in Charleston on August 7, 1921 III
said it was purely a political speed
! and that he advised the mon IN o.,