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...Tony) Boyle began last week in the Philadelphia suburb of Media, Pa., evidence in the form of a .38-cal. revolver and a carbine rested ominously on a table. No less dramatic was the opening statement by Prosecuting Attorney Richard A. Sprague: "We will show how a family named Yablonski was murdered. The defendant here is the man who used the money from the United Mine Workers, from the sweat and blood of the miners of America, to pay for these murders. We will go step by step up the ladder until we get to the top, to this defendant...
U.M.W. Insurgent Joseph A. ("Jock") Yablonski and his wife and daughter, winning the convictions of three triggermen and four coconspirators. The State accuses Boyle of instigating the murder in order to stop Yablonski's efforts to take over the union...
...Asleep. On Dec. 30, 1969, testified Vealey, the killers sat restlessly in their car near the Yablonski home in Clarksville, Pa., and waited for the lights to go out. The gunmen slugged whisky and beer, then tossed the empties-covered with fingerprints-into the snow. After midnight, said Vealey, he and the two others broke into the house and crept into the bedrooms. "They were all asleep," he testified. "Martin had the .38 revolver, and I had the rifle. I heard Joseph Yablonski making a gurgling sound after Martin shot him. I shot two or three times more to make...
Boyle's attorney, Charles F. Moses, contends that the murder conspiracy stopped at the local union level. Yablonski, Moses told the jury, threatened to expose misuse of union funds in U.M.W. district 19 in eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. To quiet him, district leaders ordered the execution. Moses promised to produce an audit that will show approximately $907,000 unaccounted for by local U.M.W. officials between 1967 and 1969. "Sprague's paths," says Moses, "lead not to Tony Boyle but to others convicted in this case...
When they came to get Tony Boyle, now 71, he was giving a deposition in Washington on another union case. As it happened, he was being cross-examined caustically by Joseph ("Chip") Yablonski, the younger of the family's two sons, who was living away from home at the time of the killings. Since then, Yablonski has been helping to lead the pursuit of Boyle. "It's been a long wait," said Yablonski after watching the arrest. With an FBI agent lightly holding each of the little man's arms, Tony Boyle was led away...