You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Friday April 30, 1915
Trinidad, Colorado - State Rests In Murder Trial of John R. Lawson, Union Leader
John Lawson with Mother Jones
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From the South Dakota
Lead Daily Call
of April 28, 1915:
STATE RESTS IN THE LAWSON CASE
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Defense will Begin Its Part of the
Murder Case Tomorrow.
TRINIDAD, COLO., April 28.-...The state this morning rested in the case of John R. Lawson, the union labor leader, charged with murder in connection with the killing of Nimmo, a deputy sheriff, after a number of witnesses had testified that they had seen Lawson at Ludlow on the day of the battle when Nimmo was killed.
Below the fold,
Hellraisers features reporting on the prosecution's case against John Lawson who is charged with the murder in the death of John Nimmo, a deputized mine guard who was killed as striking miners defended the Ludlow Tent Colony from attack on October 25, 1913.
From the Chicago Day Book of April 28, 1915:
CROSS EXAMINATION BRINGS OUT
INTERESTING POINTS
Trinidad, Colo., April 28.-Charles Snyder, who testified for state that "Mother" Jones and defendant, John R. Lawson, urged the striking miners to fight if necessary, admitted on cross examination yesterday that he was in the employ of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency and that he demanded money from Lawson a short time ago, saying he would get it from the "other side" if the labor leader did not give it. Lawson refused to give him money.
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From The Leavenworth Times of April 28, 1915:
TOLD THEM TO FIGHT
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Miner Testifies Lawson Gave Them
Instructions in Strike.
John Lawson at Ludlow, followed by mine guard.
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Trinidad, Colo., April 27.-A witness who gave his name as Pat Murphy, alias J. R. Petty, testified today at the trial of John R. Lawson, labor leader, charged with murder, that at the time Lawson was telephoning the governor of Colorado that he could not control the striking miners in the Southern Colorado coal fields, he was telling the men to go out and fight. Murphy swore he was employed by the United Mine Workers of America in 1913 to distribute arms to the striking miners who were ordered, to "shoot and shoot to kill" and also said he had been employed to act as a bodyguard to labor leaders and a secret agent.
Murphy told on the stand a story of seeing Lawson on the scene of the battle at Ludlow on October 25, 1913. This story closely followed that told yesterday by Charles Snyder, another witness for the prosecution.
On cross-examination counsel for Lawson sought to make Murphy admit he was employed by a detective agency, but he avoided making such an admission. Murphy said his income was received by mail and he did not know who sent the money.
[Emphasis added.]
From The Indianapolis News of April 28, 1915:
John Lawson during the strike.
SAYS HE HAD REVOLVER
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Young Woman Testifies in Trial of
Lawson, Labor Leader.
TRINIDAD, COLO., April 28.-Anna Cameron, daughter of James Cameron, superintendent of the Hastings mine of the victor american fuel Company, took the stand for the state today in the trial of John r. Lawson, labor leader, charged with the murder of John Nimmo. She testified that on October 25, 1913, the day of the battle in which Nimmo was killed, she went by train from Trinidad to Ludlow, on the way to Hastings, reaching Ludlow while the fusillade was in progress.
Lawson, she testified, escorted her past the danger zone, warning the strikers to be careful. She said Lawson was belted and carried a revolver. On cross-examination she said she reached Ludlow about 2:30 in the afternoon. She thought she got to the tent colony about 2:45.
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[Photograph added.]
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SOURCES
Lead Daily Call
(Lead, South Dakota)
-Apr 28, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The Day Book
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Apr 28, 1915, Noon Edition
(Also source for image.)
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The Leavenworth Times
(Leavenworth, Kansas)
-Apr 28, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The Indianapolis News
(Indianapolis, Indiana)
-Apr 28, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGES
John Lawson & Mother Jones
http://www.newspapers.com/...
John R Lawson at Ludlow followed by mine guard
http://www.newspapers.com/...
John Lawson during the strike, about October 1913
http://ludlowsymposium.wordpress.com/...
See also:
Battle of Ludlow + JayRaye + Oct 2013
http://www.dailykos.com/...
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Which Side Are You On? - Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman
Across this great old nation
Tell me whatcha gonna do
When there's one law for the rulers
And one law for the ruled?
-Florence Reese/Tom Morello
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