Evening star., 1923-11-24
RED AUTO FIGURES
j IN MURDER TRIAL
Declared to Have Carried AS.
saiIant, Who Terrorized
Maryland Miners.
epecial Disnatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, November "a
THAT the occupants of the dig reo
automobile" terrorized the ROAD useu
by union miners On their way "
work on the morning of August
last. and that this machine had as us
occupants Henry Martin, charged Win
the murder of George Porter union
miner, and John Walbert, FORMER
mine guard, charged as being an ac-
cessory. were the principal points
scored by the prosecution at the trlal
here yesterday.
More than a dozen Witnesses All
union miners. have declared that the
road on that morning, the same time
which Porter was killed, was terror
ICED by yolleys of shots from this
car
The shooting came as the culmina-
tion of the lengthy mine war be-
tween the union and non-union WORK
county, and was followed by a period
of mob disturbances. The bitterness
of the feud and the vindictiveness or
the opposing factions was apparent
in the courtroom as the sullen miners
took the stand.
Martin also is accused or shooting
another miner, Frank Miller, with in
tent to kill Miller was shot through n
the body while in his automobile with
in a mile of the spot where Porter
was killed and within few minutes
of the murder.
On the stand yesterday Miller di-
rectly accused Martin as his assallant,
pointing him out in the courtroom as
the man who leaned out of an auto
mobile and fired the volley. Other
witnesses identified Martin as having
been seen on the rear seat of the au-
tomobile from which the shots were
fired, with Walbert at the Wheel.
Other miners testified that they. TOO,
had been fired upon while on thelr
way to work in the Sunnyside mine
on the morning of August -. Ihree
occupants of automobiles alleged 10
have been the target for volleys lden-
titled Martin as having fired the shots.
All of the witnesses were union
miners.
The actual murder of Porter was de-
scribed for the first time by Harlanu
Porter. a cousin of the slain man. VINO
was riding on the rear seat or the
motor cycle when the fatal shot was
fred.
AS the big "red automobile passed
the motor cycle, Harland Porter de-
clared an arm protruded from the
left side of the rear seat, holding re-
Volver in the hand. Porter was lesS
than two feet from the barrel OF 'he
weapon when 1t was diScharSed
While the prosecution claims that
Martin, recognized by nearly score
of witnesses as having been seated
on the left side of the rear seat OF
the machine, the defense scored a
point in the testimony of Joseph
Nolan. another miner, who declared
he saw a second man on the rear
seat handling revolver.
Union Conspiracy Charged.
In the cross-examination of Nolan,
B. Walter Camper, defense counsel,
indicated a union conspiracy against
Martin.
A second time in the grilling Of
witnesses, Capper and other attorneys
for the defense intimated that the
miners had talked up" the case
against Martin.
John Davis, one of the witnesses
who declared he had been fired upon
while riding to work, testified that
he recognized Martin and Walbert in
the red machine" The defense
brought out that Davis. until the trial
began, had never known Martin.
The testimony Of other machines
having been fired upon on August "a
was brought in to prove. prosecution
said, that Martin, Walpert and their
associates were on the road that
morning to war upon the union
worker.