Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 208, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1932 — Page 8

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MINER, FRIENDS • WERE FRAMED, REPORTSTATES Harlan County Sheriffs Planted Evidence, Mer. Testify. This is the fourth of a serifs on condition* in the flarian county <Ky.) mine ■trike zone, where terror conditions haye prevailed for months. It Is written by John Moutouz. a staff writer of the Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, barred from courtroom because of an editorial in his rrewspaper dealing with the verdict in a murder trial tn the district. BY JOHN T. MOITOIX Times Staff Correspondent FRANKFORT, Ky„ Jan. B—"A bad case of official misconduct” which "should be brought to the attention of a federal grand jury” was the report of the Governor’s commission in one of the many cases of abuse it found in Harlan county. The case was that of J. W. Freeman, ‘52-year-old miner and father j of seven children, who reported his home was raided at 11 one night for literature, but that nothing was found. ‘There were eleven in the raiding party, including the city judge,” he said. "They took me out in the yard. They had a searchlight. "The policeman said, ‘We have to search him; he might have a gun.’ He searched me. There was a fellow behind me. He snatched at my left hand coat pocket. Planted "Marked” Money "He missed the pocket and dropped two $1 bills at my feet. He claimed it was marked money and that he got it off of me. I didn’t have a penny in my pocket. They took me in a room and j chained me by both legs to a radi- ; ator. "The next day (Oct. 7) they took j me to Harlan. A justice of the j peace bound me over for trial Oct. j 27 before United States Commissioner Rollins at Pineville. Rollins threw the case out of court. The Governor’s commission commented:

"This is a bad case of official misconduct and should be brought t.o the attention of a federal grand jury and the officers indicted for perjury, etc. If this man’s statements are true, the law acts rather unlawfully in Harlan county. The witness impressed us as truthful." Liquor Charge Faked A similar case found by the commission was that of L. P. Fuson, 51-year-old property owner, contractor, and father of seven children. “Mose Middleton (Evarts policeman), Frank White, George Haywood and Ek Cox (deputies) came to my house one night and raided it for liquor,” Fuson told the commission. Q—Did they find any? A—They found what they brought with them. Frank White took a bottle out of his pocket. He said I had thrown it out of the window. That was not so. I do not drink liquor and do not deal in it. Q —What happened to you? A—They took me to Harlan at 12:30 at night and turned me over to the jailer. The jailer wouldn't put rnc in jail. I got a car and went to see United States Commissioner Rollins at Pineville. Q—What did he do? A—He dismissed the case Q—Your belief is that your arrest was made because you were friendly to the strikers? A—l am not a miner and did not belong to the union, but I did go on some bonds for some of the men. Fuson .is treasurer of the Baptist church. Cause Wife’s Relapse Asked if he had anything more to pay. he added: “At the time the deputies came, my wife had been sick for more a. year. Dr. Ramsey and Dr. Burns had beer, treating her. They advised me to keep her quiet. Dr. Burns said he thought within six months the danger of high blood pressure would be over. “Fifteeen minutes after the deputies left, my wife had a stroke of paralysis, which Dr. Burns said was caused wholly by the excitement of the raid. She has not yet recovered.”’ The examining commissioner made this comment: “This commissioner and Captain Barrett examined and photographed the window through which the liquor was allegedly dumped. There was no sign of any hole in the screen or its removal: it is soldidly nailed in and screened like the others. Notice the growth of vines into the screen." Sheriff in Michigan The commission, in a report which accompanied the nine volumes of testimony, called attention to the Fuson case; also to that of a man named Simpson, “who was found drunk in Evarts, arrested by Murl and Dillard Middleton, and put in the lockup. Later, while Simpson was on a couch in the jail, he was shot to death through the bars and was found there the next morning. It is claimed no one knows who committed this murder.” Next: “Conditions Almost Too Horrible for Relief" in Harlan County.

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BY BEN STERN IF you have been listening in on the radio and have been too lazy or tired to turn to another program, no doubt you have heard several exhortations to support a retail sales tax law. The elocutionary effects that come from the loud speaker are those of Charles Parker, the oneman lyceum bureau. "Chiseling Charlie," as they now call him over at the statehouse, is clerk for the state banking department and his efforts along lines not connected with his duties have given rise to much caustic criticism among his colleagues. As soon as he was appointed to the post a couple of years ago, after working as a salesman, he bustled around and organized the Statehouse Republican Men’s Club, or something like that. His experience as an organizer and salesman in another order, it is said, stood him in good stead. The club flourished a couple of months and then died, mainly because of Charlie and his oratorical proclivities, it has been unkindly said. it n n Then during the last session of the general assembly, when several vain efforts were made to take away from loan sharks their annual 42 per cent interest, Parker appeared as a pleader in their behalf before the house committee. "What business have you appearing as a lobbyist in this matter when you are a public employe?” members of the committee indignantly queried and then verbally burned him down. But not one whit abashed, Charlie has continued using his oratorical and sales talents for various and sundry causes. He used them to such effect when it was seriously considered slashing governmental salaries, Parker got a raise in his annual salary from $3,000 to $4,000. nan It was felt that now he would be quiet, but imagine general astonishment when he was introduced as “a tax expert’ over the radio and spoke in behalf of a retail sales tax. Again state officials are asking by what authority Parker speaks on this controversial question, when it has been an unwritten rule that no pmploye has a right tn appear either

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on one side or the other of a matter of this type. The retain sales tax speeches are sponsored by the organization formed by Bert Fuller, manager of Leslie’s campaign for Governor in 1928. EYE MEN TO MEET Speaker Announced For City Session of Optometrists. The thirty-fifth annual convention of the Indiana Association of Optometrists will open here Sunday. Leading speakers of the three-day session will include Dr. G. S. Grubb, Dr. O. I. Crawford, Dr. H. Riley Spitler, Dr. W. A. Springborg, and Dr. John Glazier. Election of officers will be held Monday.

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Hobart lost his fighting crown, and a decision of the court decrees he must spend five days in jail and pay $1 fine and costs. Mrs. Baynes and Mrs. Edney exhibited face wounds and body injuries to prove that Henry Hobart had struck them when they appeared at his home Dec. 2. The women were searching for "Baby Dog.’’ the 6-months-old pet of Mrs. Edney, they told the court. The bout opened, according to testimony today, with the women demanding custody of the dog, which they charged Alexander had stolen. The second round consisted of Alexander demanding why "they wanted to cause me trouble.” When they came out of theicorners for the third round, Alex-

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ander wa3 alleged. In testimony, to have left-hooked Mrs. Edney and then swung a right from the floor on Mrs. Baynes. Both women fell, they told Shaeffer, and Alexander fled. "I’ll say I hit them," Alexander admitted. "All Mrs. Edney is doing is trying to cause me trouble. I used to be married to her. She’s had five husbands already.” "That’s not true—just two husbands,” Mrs. Edney interposed. "Why. Henry Hobart has served time in Virginia.” Alexander admitted this as readily as he did his attack on the woman, asserting the sentence was for criminal assault. "I lived with her for six months and now she trails me wherever I j go,” Alexander added.

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