The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-03
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ped in front Of the hall and blowed
three blows with their horn; then
asked us what time it was. We said
we didn't know. They asked a second
time and Julius said, Haven't got
any watch
"They bowed aagin three times
like they was waitin' on someone.
Julius said, Are you-all waitin' on
someoneP and Fleener said, Why,
what's 1t to you?' Julius answered,
Thought maybe it might be those
people that went into that house
Then they bowed three times
again and heard the driver say
something about somebody KNOWN
the car horn. Then they backed up
little, turnin' the car so that the
lights was full on us. We turned
to go in the house but that Fleener
was out on the far side Of the engine
and said, Stick your hands up and
don't start to run We thought it
was safer inside so KEEP agoin'; hard
ly thought he'd shoot lis in the back,
but he started to shootin' and hit me
in the shoulder just as my foot was
on the doorstep.
Il turned around. There was three
or four shots more. I saw Julius
fall over on the gravel AS the car
left there was three or four shots at
him as he lay on the ground; then
a volley Of shots at the building and
they went off. Julius was shot in
the back Of the head. All the shells
we found was As calibre automatic
Near's we could judge, the driver of
the car was Grip Niderford, and Law
renee Howard was on the back seat"
While other reporters were accept
ing the sheriff's story, 1 went to in
vestigate. AS I reached the building
the next morning, I found a crowd
of women and children counting five
bullet holes low in the tin walls of
the hall and one hole in the door,
and looking in horror at two great
pools of blood a few feet from the
door. They said no other reporters
had been around.
Those men been alvin in there
with their families; they didn't have
no place to co." they said. THE
Moores had two little children; the
Baldwin's four was sleepin' right in
there when all this happened"
I visited Mrs. Moore, whose hus-
band had been shot to death almost
at her side. She's a thin little woman
with brave eyes. I found her in a
shack near by. She said, THE Bald
wins was outside; and my husband
was in the doorway standin' lookin'
out and he squattin' there on the door
step, when the law said, Stick up
your hands, Seems like there wasn't
hardly time for them to do it when
Fleener began to shoot. After the
first shot I got out of the way and
went into the other room. I didn't
know he was hit then. I went to
see about the children and never saw
him until found him lynn dead with
the moon shinin' on him"
The other women with Mrs. Moore
told me how 10 or 20 deputies came
and searched the hail. finding two
single-bareled shotguns and one
Winchester pump shotgun. After it
seemed like they had finished search
in and cursin', one came back again."
one of the women said. 1.-THE others
called, Where you goin'?' Joe, he
answered, Been wantin' to pillow up
this soup kitchen, and now is the
time to do it. The others yelled.
We're all through searchin' there,
come on
II plead so hard for the women
and children in there; but this Joe
said, Damn women and children! If
you got children in there, get your
children out He was terrible drunk;
but they said, Don't do no more to
those women and children and they
got him away"
There is no law in Kentucky
against the possession Of guns in