Word: tackett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convicted of the dynamiting. Unthank, said swart Chris Patterson, had paid him $100 for the job, $50 per month salary during the ten months he served in prison for it. But, he protested, he had not actually touched off the explosion. He had paid one R. C. Tackett $50 to do that...
...custody of a deputy U. S. marshal, up shuffled aging R. C. Tackett, clad in a homemade shirt and overalls. Jailed in Kentucky on a shooting charge, he had refused to venture up to Washington except under Federal protection. With his Adam's apple bobbing, Tackett kept glancing nervously back at the bosses and deputies in the audience as he told the Senate Committee how the dynamiting had been plotted among Unthank, himself, Patterson and the prosecuting attorney of adjoining Bell County. He had been too drunk to do the job, he twanged, but had been paid...
...Tackett also returned, said that a thick-shouldered young mine superintendent named Ted Creech, son of a Harlan operator, had approached him outside the committee room, threatened to have him jailed for ten years when he got back to Harlan...