Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There were 24 wounded (mostly in the back), including a woman. One of the wounded men died before the Marion mill whistle shrieked its next day's warning. Three more were dying. Sheriff Adkins, 13 of his deputies, two mill foremen and a mechanic were arrested, charged with murder. Governor Oliver Max Gardner sent in two companies of National Guardsmen, also an outside judge to investigate. Forty of the mill workers were arrested for riot and rebellion but released without bail. R. W. Baldwin, chief of the Marion Manufacturing Co., blamed Vice President John A. Peel of the State...
...thank God a man who believeth in Jesus Christ is not dead. "We know that we are not very high in society, but God loves us. ... O, what would Jesus say if he passed through Marion? He's weepin' at all this scenery." At Gastonia. The Marion murders gave North Carolina its sixth textile tangle now current in the courts. One of the other trials, that of 16 workers accused of murdering the police chief of Gastonia, got going again last week at Charlotte after repeated delays (TIME, Sept. 23). The 16 defendants, mostly Northern organizers...
...dance hall, where she was insulted and he accidentally killed the offender. The blunt ritual of the courts sent him to prison for ten years. There, in the cancerous association of evil men, he learned the criminal code. Six years later, when he happened to witness a murder within the prison walls, he refused to "squeal'' and was hurled to the dungeons for the third degree. Harassed, broken, he slew his inquisitor and himself. He did not know that the warden had signed an order for his pardon...
...Murder...
Mountain Fury explains the malevolence which exists in the Alleghenies between the hill proletariat and the dale aristocracy. Naturally a dale-boy loves a hill-girl, to the accompaniment of baying hounds, tempests, a forest fire, murder, suicide, theft, and the bemused mumblings of a woodland lunatic...