You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday May 26, 1915
Trinidad, Colorado - Robert Uhlich Acquitted of Murder in Death of Mack Powell
COLORADO JUSTICE
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Although we welcome the news that Brother Uhlich has been acquitted of murder in the death of Brother Mack Powell, we would point out that no acquittal can ever restore to Uhlich the many long months that he has spent in that filthy jail in Trinidad. The news accounts below state that Mack Powell was a cowboy. We will remind our readers that Brother Powell was a union miner who was working as a cowboy and was shot off his horse by mine guards when these guards attacked the Ludlow Tent Colony in October of 1913.
From the El Paso Herald of May 22, 1915:
UHLICH WOULD PROVE ALIBE AS DEFENCE AGAINST CHARGE
Trinidad,Colo., May 22.-Denial that he was at Ludlow on Oct.9, the day that Mack Powell was shot and killed, and that he took any part in the battle between strikers and deputies, was made on the witness stand this morning by Robert Uhlich, on trial for his life. The testimony of the defendant, which was short, balanced the testimony to establish a complete alibi offered by a number of witnesses Friday.
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From the El Paso Herald of May 24, 1915:
UHLICH MURDER CASE GOES TO THE JURY
Trinidad, Colo., May 24.-Two and a half hours of argument this morning to be followed by four hours of argument this afternoon was to conclude the trial of Robert Uhlich, former president of the Trinidad Miners' union, on trial for his life for the murder of Mack Powell, a noncombatant, during a battle between strikers and deputies on Oct. 9, 1913.
The case will go to the jury late this afternoon.
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From the El Paso Herald of May 25, 1915:
UHLICH IS ACQUITTED OF CHARGE OF MURDER
Trinidad, Colo., May 25.-On the jury's first ballot, Robert Uhlich, a union leader, was acquitted Monday night of a charge of murder of Mack Powell, a cowboy, Oct. 9, 1913. Powell was killed in a fight between mine guards and strikers near Ludlow during the coal strike.
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