48 MEN CHARGED WITH MURDER
Shooting Of Miner During Strike charged with murder to day because the prosecution said none would a dl P** to firing the shots that killed a 29 vear-ola coalminer . The prosecutor, Mr James R eed, said that two boys also fac ®l.^ ar . g o 1 in the mass prosecution, which fol towed violence at the strike-troubled ink River Coal and Lumber Company WTwn C “ Widen, West; Virgin*. The victim, Charles Frame, was killed and three other miners wounded last Thursday by a burst of gunfire while patrolling the strike-torn area in a of 50 suspects followed almost immediately. They were crowded into the small county gaol at Clay, which was built to hold about 20 men. The families of some of the accused men kept an all-night watch outside the gaol. The shootings came .after a sevenmonths’ strike involving 500 men. There have been dynamitmgs and other violence, but Frame was the first man killed in the dispute. The strike began originally oyer a discharged workman. Other issues have arisen since.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27037, 12 May 1953, Page 9
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