New Britain herald., 1929-09-18

I didn't in the clothes I was wear ing. l said l would rather catch a ride on the highway"
 Rode With Negroes
 Tessner then hailed a truck m which two negroes were riding and came from Gaffney to Charlotte with them.
 He was seen in bed in a hotel room here which is occupied by Bill Dunne. secretary of the conf munist party in America.
 Tessner showed gashcs on his back and legs and several severe Sashcs on his chest.
 Kings Mountain is in Cleveland county. approximately 30 miles from Charlotte From Kings Noun tain to Gaffney is approximately D miles.
 Charlotte, N. C. Sept IS. (P}- Legal machinery in North Carolina Textile centers, which had been cloggod with charges ranging from kidnapping and flogging to consplr- 2cy to overthrow the government and murder, all growing out of strike violence. rested today for the first time in almost a month. pre- par&tory to resuninG it's dealing with strike cases the latter part of this week.
 The courts became idle late yes tarday after Judge Thomas J. Shaw. sitting as d magistrate, ordered seven men held as being members Of the mob which early last week liidndpcd three mon affiliated with the National Textile Workers union and nogsed one of them. Seven other men arrested were released.
 Inquest on saturday
 Tho inquest into the death of Mrs Ella Mae WiGgins, killed in tho strike disorder whose funeral yesterday was occasion for call by communists and union leaders of one day strike of Textile work CTS in this section, will be continued Saturday. The trial of the 16 per sons for the staying of Chief Ader- holt will come up at the next term of superior court here.
 The National Textile Workers union and the communist party leaders sought to make of her funeral an occasion of mass protest against the mob staying. Although several hundred persons were pres ont at the ceremonies, mill eXecu- tivcs in Besscmer city, where Mrs. Wiygins was buried, said no work CTS left their places to attend.
 International Labor Defense an- nounccd after the burial that mass protests" meetings had been called throughout the country for Septem- Der 21 and 22.
 Kidnapping under the North Car olina law is a felony with a, maxi mum punishment of twenty years | Imprisonment. The other charges against the seven men held yester- day are misdcmeanors with a maxi mum punishment of two years i'm prisonment.
 Only 15 In Actual Crime
 JulSt t1lld w III lioINlIS tilC iii'ii denounced the mob violence. ''The evidence shows said the jurst, that only l 3 persons were guilty of taking the man (Wells) out and beating him. The trouble with mob l lawlessness is that if a person joins in with the mob to the time the crime is committed, all entering in i the conspiracy are guilty whether | they had any participation in the crime or not. The court finds that while the physical injury is not l serious. yet the circumstances ere such that serious injury has been inflicted in the meaning of the law
 "I want 10 say that this is a very unfortunate case for this sec ton. l said the other day that all lawlessness is the same whctfir from mobs or from communists. An example of mob law is that which i occurred when the woman was shot | Saturday. I want to repeat again, l don't care who is connected with it, but the Kidnapping of these men and thCt which occurred Saturday are a disgrace to Gaston county
 No Further Disorders Although there have been no fur l thcr disorders this week, police eX- pressed apprehension today after discovery last night that a ware | house of the Hercules Powder com panv near here had been robbed of q quantity of dynamite.
 Rural policemen Investigating the robbery express fear that the stolen explosives might land in the hands of some of the factions in the labor strife.