SENSATIONAL TRIALS
U.S.A. MINE WAR
TWO HUNDRED MINERS APPEAR ON VARIOUS CHARGES.
OVER 700 INDICTMENTS. By Teleeraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and, N.Z. Cable Association. (Received April 26, 12.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 24. , At the historic Courthouse, in West Virginia, where John Brown was convicted of treason in 1859, two hundred miners, mostly mountaineer folk, are being tried for murder, arson, riot, and lesser crimes, as the result of last autumn’s coal strike and mine war. More than 700 indictments have been returned. All the arrests have not yet been made. 'Hie prisoners in court aife chained., in gangs.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11193, 26 April 1922, Page 8
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