HERRIN MASSACRE TRIAL.
DEFENCE SCORES A POINT. LETTER OF A MINE GUARD. .Australian and N.Z. Cabin Association. (Reed. 5.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 6. At the trial at Marion of miners alleged to be implicated in the massacre of strike-breakers at Herrin, Illinois, in June last, the defence scored a victory when it produced in evidence a letterwritten by-a mine guard long before the massacre, showing that machine-guns had been mounted and ; long-distance rifles supplied to v the guards, who/were "anxiously awaiting*a head to appear within three miles for an opportunity to blow it off." Witnesses who were residents along the street where the mine guards were marched before being killed declared that they were rumble to recognise any defendant as a member of the mobj
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18292, 8 January 1923, Page 5
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