Miner Mounts Testifies In Matewan Battle Trial
Willamson March 9 AP K F Mounts coal miner testified as a defense witness that he saw Albert Felts fire on Mayor Testerman and shoot into a doorway during the Matewan battle in which ten men died. He said he fled with Ven Clay and Doug Mounts, and that he saw neither Clay nor Mounts with a weapon. Cross examination pressed for a pistol claim, Mounts denied having one and altered stories. J E Boggs recalled for cross examination denied prior statements about firing and about a remark that not enough men had been killed.
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Mounts
Ven Clay
Doug” Mounts
Clay
J. E
Boggs
Felta
Testerman
Lynn
United Mine Workers
C E Lively
Hogesa
Isaac Brewer
Jack Desking
Sid Hazeld
Beldwin
Richmond Death Notices and Funeral Announcements 1921
Notices of arrests and identifications in Virginia alongside multiple funeral announcements. Recaptured suspect near Disputanta linked to a Centralia assault. uncertainty remains. Obituaries include Beale, Wheeler, Franska, Jenkins, Agnes Fing, King, Butter, Wille, and Bulle, with service details and interment plans.
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Beale
Elizabeth Wheeler
George N Beale
D. m
Franciska
Trinity Lutheran Church
Fourth
Prospect Hill
Hardy
Fannie Whitson Hardy
Jenkins
Itgintae
Thomas Jenkins
Fourth Street
Frank Geler
Lone’ Co
Seventh Street
Glenwood Cemetery
Agnes M
Henry King
Florida Avenue Northraat
Rock Creek Cemetery
King
Providence Hospital
John ‘A
Meris B. King
Johnson
Pos
Florida Avenue Northwest
Fairfax
Buter
Kla
T Street North West
George J
Emma T Sater
Kin
Relativen
Glenwood
Wille
Thollane
Walter H. Wills, JR
Trial of John J Guinan Opens in Lynchburg Case
Special to The Washington Post Petersburg Va March 9 The trial of John J Guinan former detective charged with shooting and killing R H Brown of Lynchburg in this city April 30 last began before Judge RG Southall Prosecution rested Guinan testified he shot Brown to save his own life The case may go to the jury tomorrow It is his second trial.
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Washington Post
Petersburg
John J. Guinan
R. H. Brown
Lynchburg
RG. Southall
Commonwealth
Guinan
Brown
Washington
Pst
Moses Brown
Corporation Court
John B. Gray
Christian
Corporations Win Suit Over Nonresident Taxation
Richmond judge rules against city and state in a tax case worth over 1 million dollars. Judge William A. Moncure grants judgment for Central Products Corporation and Wood Newspaper Machinery Corporation. Issue centers on nonresident companies not doing business in Virginia but taxed there.
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Richmond
Virginia
William A. Moncure
Chancery Court
Central Products Corporation
Wood Newspaper Machinery Corporation
Women Candidates Fail in Virginia Education Contests
In two Virginia divisions on March 9 the State Board of Education elections saw women defeated for division superintendent posts. J B Fray won Campbell county, defeating incumbent W L Garbee. other candidates included Adelia Petty and Joseph H Riddick. In Carroll County J J Cox was reelected with Alma Wilkinson challenging him. Special to The Washington Post.
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Richmond
Fray
Campbell County
W. L. Garbee
Adelia Petty
Joseph H. Riddick
Carroll County
J. J. Cox
Alma Wilkinson
Fifty Year Celebration Honors Columbia Engine Company No 4
Alexandria banquet marks the Columbia Engine and Motor Company No 4 fiftieth anniversary with guests including Representative R Walton Moore Mayor James M Duncan and city officials. Norman Roberts presided as toastmaster as brief addresses and prayers were offered amid music by the Citizens band. The court case over Lewisa Adams will contest the will continues with handwriting experts testifying ahead of morning sessions. The Pendleton tragedy in Lynchburg is noted with the Rev William Gibson Pendleton as husband of the deceased.
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Wasmimglum
Patrick Street
Alexandria
Columbia Engine and Motor Company No. 4
Westminister Building
R. Walton Moore
J. C. Gray
Seat Pleasant
Mds
James M. Duncan
Norman Roberta
Columbia Company
G. J. Hill
Methodist Protestant Church
Louis Smet
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Moore
Gray
Ogden
Citizens’ Band
Charles M. Adams
Lewisa Adams
Circuit Court
Samuel C. Malone
Baltimore
J. Herbert Taylor
Bureau of Identification
United States Navy Department
Clifford la. Grant
Harvey Given
James M. Green
Washington
Lynchburg burial and Irish republic rally in Richmond
Lynchburg arrives at noon for a burial at Ivy Hill cemetery with rites by Rt Rev Robert Carter Jett and Rev Dr 8 A Wallis. Also notes a Dublin style Irish republic rally in Richmond at 3 pm with speakers Ruth Cunningham and Daniel C O Flaherty.
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Lynchburg
Ivy Hill Cemetery
Robert Carter Jett
Southwest Virginia
A. Wallis
Braddock Chapel
Pendleton
Nicholas Dawson
Seminary Hill
Cooper Dawson
Semimsiy Hil
Philip Dawson
Richmond
Ressa F. Downing
Washington
Ruth Cunningham
Daniel C. O'Flaherty
Edmonston to Exemplify Rebekah Degree Tonight
Moltie E. Edmonston, president of the District of Columbia jurisdiction, will visit a Bmarian Rebekah lodge tonight to exemplify the Rebekah degree. Exercises occur in the young people's building and will be followed by a banquet.
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Moltie E. Edmonston
District of Columbia
Bmarian Rebekah Lodge
GROVE
State Democratic Convention Plans Advance in Virginia
Lynchburg Virginia March 9 Plane more than half the members of a Democratic State convention in April called by State Democratic Chairman R A James of Danville announced today following committee poll last winter have been count.
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R. A. James
Danville
Lynchborg
James
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Felts
Mayor
Guo
Cotton Jones
Disputanta
Centralia
Bulle- Imterlog
Regina I Bulle
St Dominic’s Church
Mamma
Capa
Frank Geier's Sons CO
Fey
Korth
James T. Ryan
Medere
Tonia
WM. H. Sardo & CO
Lefiere
Tise Ee V.L. Speare Co
Pao
Ery
A. J. Schifpert
PA Ave
Chapel
William Ler
Thos. S. Sergeon
I‘r-Speareco
H Street
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Apspeare CiNichols Wespeare
Ta Ra
Theodore Roosevelt
Hugh Miller
Maryland
Virginias
Slayer
Bristol
Margaret Kendrick
N M. Watson
R. G. Waterhouse
Emory
Mary J. Morgan
Memorial Methodist Church
Virginia Weddings
Charles Barnette
Charleston
W. Va
Misa
Ada F. Partlow
L. L Partlow
Barnette
Charlotte
D. C
Hagerstown, Md
Smithsburg
Burmeas
Davie Newman
Chester Brandenburg
Samuel Murray
John Wolf
Charles Slick
State
Creek
Cambridge
Isabel Thomas
George M. Thomas
Cambridge Creek
Furman
Richmond, Va
Joan J. Wicker, Jr
Furman Steamship Line
Steamship Line
Samuel Greenwalt
Hagerstown
Chambersburg Hill
Jewelers
Anc
R. Harris & CO
Alexandria News
Maria Dawson Pendleton
William Gibson Pendleton
Palais Royal
A. Lier
Bolivia
Old Dominion Boat Club
J. T. Ashton
C. Pletcher Dyson
G. H. Wingate
J. & Douglas
Fitzgerald Gomietl
Fitzgerald Connecti
Knights of Columbus
St. Mary's Hall
Counseil
Lyceum
Liberty Council
Hope Council
Sona and Daughters of Liberty
Friendship Council
This City
Martha Washington Rebekah Lodge
No. 3
Sami
Hemstitch
Salengeles
Columbia
Grafonola
Columbia Graphophone CO
New York
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