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Is5-burg. Fla. They Inspected the Everglades national park sue.Threat To Witness Sensation At Civil Liberties HearingJ I _Mine Superintendent Brought Before theCommittee On Charges of MakingT IThreat of RetaliationWashington. April 18.—IU.PJ—The Senate Civil Liberties inquiry of brutal acts in bloody Harlan county. Ky.. was thrown into an upload late today when a witness complained that a mine superintendent threatened to send him to jail because of his testimony.The incident occurred after two Methodist preachers and a young I grocerv clerk had described vividly a wild reign of terror in the county that readied its peak with the ruthless murder of a crusad-I mg prosecuting attorney.The committee was preparing to *-“ ; ~ _recess over the week-end when ft. ty U. S. Marshal Robert Uni Bon-C. Tackett, who earlier had testi ficd that he received $30 for keeping his mouth shut in the , | attempted murder of Lawrence Dwyer, aged mine union organizer.’ arose. He is under arrest in connection with Harlan county vio-, lcnce and was in custody of depu- I 'Continued on Page Three/X s: /Wi A 1 .1 „...... rrnam.Tackett said that Ted Creech, mine superintendent of the Ft. W. Creech Coal Co.. approached him and said:•You've fixed up the coal op-
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Elizabeth City Daily Independent
Elizabeth City, North Carolina, US
Sat, Apr 17, 1937
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