VIRGINIA MINERS
TWO HUNDRED ON TRIAL. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, April 24. (Received April 26, at 12.5 a.m.) At the historic courthouse in West Virginia, whero John Brown was convicted of treason in 1353, 200 miners, mostly mountaineer folk, are being tried for murder, arson, riot, and lessor crimes as the result of last autumn's coal strike and mine war. More than 7CO indictments have been returned, but all the arrests have not yet been made. The prisoners in the court were chained in gangs.—A. and N.Z. Cabl. [John Brown, “of Ossawntomic ” (18001859), was the hero of Harper’s Ferry. His action in inciting certain negro slaves to rebel in 1859 struck the noto°of alarm which resulted in the Civil War, His attempt to take the arsenal at Harper s Ferry was defeated, and ho was hanged, being afterwards regarded as a martyr by the abolitionists.]
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Evening Star, Issue 17953, 26 April 1922, Page 5
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