Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08
ORDER TO SHOOT
|SLA|D TOBE
Labor Leader Told Strikers
to Kill Any lnterferers,
Witness Says.
~ the Associated Press.


CHARLOTTE, N. c., September
THE Charlotte Observer tomor-
row will print q story stating that
on at least two occasions suspicious
persons have been seen minelinE
with or attempting to minsle with
jurors in the case of Is strikers and
strike leaders accused Of the murder
Of o. r. Aderholt. Deputy Sheriff
Avery B. Johnston, in charge Of the
Jury. is quoted by the Observer as
saying that three different persons
had been observed by him interfer-
ing with the jurors.
BY the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE. N. c.. September T.
Fred Erwin Beal, Lawrence, Mass.
labor union leader, today was accused
of having exhorted strikers to "go into
the Goray) mill and drag them out"
and shoot to kill anybody who inter-
fered" BY witnesses in the trial Of ID
Gastonia textile mill strikers and strike
kaders. charged with the murder OF
o. F.. Aderholt, Gastonia police er!ef.
The exhortation to shoot to kill" di-
rected to pickets being sent ~ the
I,oray mill was testified to BIZ II. e.
Jackson. policeman, while Mrs. Tom
jenkins living next door to the strikers
tent colony, told how Beal told the
pickets to 60 into the mill and drag
the workers out. The plea by Besi
was alleged to have been made at
meeting Of the night of June that
preceded a visit to the camp by police
men, during which Aderholt was fatal
| ly wounded and A. j. Roach, Tom Gil
bert and Charles Ferguson, policemen.
| and Joseph Harrison, union organizer,
were wounded.
Attorneys Wage Battle.
The testimony of Mrs. Jenkins and
| Jackson was the most important OF
| the short Saturday session, although
w. p. Upton, q CASTOR County deputy
! sheriff. told of circumstances surround.
| ing his having arrested Clarence MIL
and others, and Miss Griges Dunv
! told of happenings prior to the night.
| The session was punctuated by wordy
battles by attorneys over plaster OF
paris effigy of the dead chief and the
circumstances surrounding destruction
OF the headquarters in April
| Patrolman Jackson. who had gone TO
| the union grounds to answer a call re-
porting trouble there, was positive that
/ shortly after he entered the grounds
| he heard Beal:
Go to the mill, 60 to the mill, and
IL anybody bothers you, shoot to Kill"
jackson said he left the lot when he
was threatened by william McGinnis.
Beal and McGinnis, with N. L. Glib
son, Russell knight, j. c. Hehner,
K. o. Byers. K. Y. Hendricks, George
Carter. Louis Mclaughlin, Robert Al
son and Clarence Miller, are charged
with first degree murder. Vera Buch.
| Amy Schechter and Sophie Melvin are
! charged with second degree murder.
! Describes COmmotion.
Mrs. Jenkins who was the first wit
ness of the day. said she saw Beai
and others go into the union Offices
and close the windows and place
piece OF cardboard over the glass. This
was prior to the speech making, which
was interrupted she said, all Of sud-
1ien by a commotion and people
started running in every direction"
Mrs. jenkins said she heard Beal
/ tell the pickets to Go to the mill and
rived somebody shouted for women and
children to get back. and she ran into
the house and saw nothing of the
shooting
W. r. Upton. a deputy sheriff. who
arrested Clarence Miller. New York
Communist, testified that he saw Vera
Buch, Sophie Melvin and Amy Schech-
ter in the union hail when he went
there after the shooting.
He said he asked Miller what the
trouble was and that Miller invited him
into the hall. Miller, he said, told him
that the chief Of police. Tom Gilbert,
and one of the men from the tent
colony had been shot and that while
this was going on. Miss Schechter and
Miss Buch we're handling some cart
ridges lying on a table. He said Miller
told him that thieves and thugs" had
destroyed one headquarters and that
when the officers came they were
ordered OF and then the shooting
began.