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o Man Testifiaj Striker Wanted , Him to Aid in Burning M, N. A. Trestle.%From Thursday's Daily—LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 24-Readtng into the record tonight depositions from his employers and fellow workers at a power plant near horsyth, Mo., tending to show that1ypoE. C. Gregor, striking Missouri Norht Arkansas Railroad employe, who was hanged at Harrison, Ark,, last, week, following a series of bridge burnings and depreciations along the railroad, could not have been implicated, the joint senate and house committee of the Arkansas state legislature appointed to inves 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 NorthArkansas railroad bridges are located.Questioned by Senator J. R. * Wilson of Eldorado, he said that there had been two fires on the bridges. Both, lie said, ’ had 'been daylight fires, with many persons around and that he was positive that the fires could not have been of incendiary origin.Y/iliiams 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.Kyle Cook, a striking employe of the road, who said he had been operating a restaurant in Searcy since January 1, said he left Heber Springs because he knew trouble was comt *mg.Cook's testimony substantially was to the effect that he had befen approached by a striker, who suggested burning a bridge about three days before the Alpena bridge was burned.
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Harrison Times
Harrison, Arkansas, US
Fri, Feb 02, 1923
Page 6
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