Word: yablonski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cars belonged to a Cleveland house painter, Paul Eugene Gilly, 37, who had come to Yablonski's home on Dec. 18, ostensibly to ask for help in getting a job in the mines. Local police turned the slain man's list of license plates over to the FBI, and last week Gilly and two others, Aubran Wayne Martin, 23, and Claude Edward Vealey, 26, were arrested in Cleveland and charged with shooting Yablonski, his wife and his daughter in their beds before dawn...
According to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, "Yablonski had been stalked and his residence cased on several occasions. Forcible entry was made into the Yablonski home, telephone wires were cut, and automobiles on the property were disabled." Yablonski's daughter Charlotte, 25, was shot first, as she slept, then Yablonski's wife Margaret, 57, then Yablonski himself as he lunged for his shotgun...
Hamburgers. Yablonski's anxiety began last summer, when he became the first insurgent to challenge U.M.W. leadership in 43 years. He lost the bitterly contested election for president on Dec. 9, but charged irregularities that the Labor Department is now investigating. Yablonski's two sons claimed that the murders had grown out of the election, but U.M.W. President W. A. ("Tony") Boyle denied any union involvement. Last week, after the arrests, the union issued a statement saying that "We are most happy to learn that they [the three suspects] apparently have no connection" with the U.M.W...
...said that. Indeed, the sons' contention that the murders were related to union affairs was borne out by federal charges against the suspects that they killed Yablonski to prevent him from testifying before a federal grand jury. The jury is investigating the alleged mishandling of U.M.W. pension and retirement funds. But Yablonski, a 30-year U.M.W. veteran, had numerous enemies, any one of whom could conceivably have been hurt by Yablonski's reform efforts or his grand-jury testimony...
About the only thing that could be reasonably assumed from FBI information was that the three suspects had not acted on their own. None were known as coal miners, and robbery was not a motive. Moreover, whoever ordered Yablonski murdered did not have access to the services of professional killers -or chose not to employ them. He could scarcely have come up with a sorrier clutch of losers-"a bunch of hamburgers," according to one courthouse veteran...