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1 Man Teat if: 3a Striker Wanted, Him to Aid in BurningM. N. A. Trestle.* •*From Thursday’s Dally—LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 24-Readtng into the record tonight depositions from his employers and 1 el low workers at a power plant near Forsyth, Mo., tending to show that K. C. Gregor, striking Missouri Norht Arkansas Railroad employe, who was hanged at Harrison, Ark., last week, following a series of bridge burnings and depredations along the railroad, eould not have been implicated, the joint senate and house committee of the Arkansas state legislature appointed to jnves-j tfgate the Harrison situation, closed that phase of the investigation, dealing with the examination of strikers.Perhaps the most important witness examined tonight from the viewpoint of the striking employes of the railroad, was D. G. Williams of Woodruff county, who testified he operated an 1,800 acre plantation upon which two Missouri North Arkansas railroad bridges are located.“I 'ZQuestioned by Senator J. R.'Wilson of Eldorado, he said that there had been two fires on the bridges. Both, he said, ' had 'been daylight fires, with many persons around and that he was positive that the fires could not have been of incendiary origin.Williams said he had no personal interest in the trouble between the strikers and the railroad and that lie had good friends on both sides. He said he was interested financially however, and wanted the road to operate.
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Harrison Times
Harrison, Arkansas, US
Fri, Feb 02, 1923
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