Word: unthanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deputy Unthank could not be questioned, having disappeared some weeks ago, but many a witness was ready & eager to tell where his "expense money" went...
After a peg-legged, 73-year-old union organizer named Lawrence ("Peggy") Dwyer had told how his hotel room was dynamited in 1933, the Committee dramatically produced the men 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...
...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 $30 to keep his mouth shut. He knew the money came from the Harlan County Coal Operators' Association because Unthank had told...
...nightmare of shootings, beatings and dynamitings of union organizers described to the Committee. Ben Unthank was by no means the only law officer accused. Star witness was thick-necked, freely-sweating Thomas R. Middleton, who served five months for bootlegging before he was elected High Sheriff of Harlan County in 1934. Member of one of the section's largest families. Sheriff Middleton once had a distant cousin named Elman Middleton who was prosecuting attorney of Harlan County and started a crusade for miners' rights. Two years ago Cousin Elman stepped on his automobile starter, went...
Damping the hopes of horrified citizens, evidence appeared last week that Harlan operators and their henchmen were not to be regenerated by any such shadowboxing as a Supreme Court decision and a Senate investigation. A young grocery clerk who testified that Ben Unthank had offered him $100 to "shoot up" a union organizer, returned to tell the Committee that a Harlan deputy and three other men had followed him to a Capitol washroom and pushed him around, that he had later been warned by telephone to get out of Washington or be "buried in Arlington." Hapless...