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Show CHARGES ARE FILED MIST ATTORNEYS Lawyers for United Mine Workers Are Charged With Subornation. TRINIDAD. Colo., Sept. 1.".. Informations Informa-tions charging Horace N. Hawkins, general gen-eral counsel for ihe United Mine Worker Work-er of America, and Fred W. Clark. local counsel, with subornation of perjury, were filed In the district court hero today by Attorney f ieneral Fred Karrar. The char-yes were filed in connection with an affidavit signed by Grover Kail, a Juror in the murder trial of John II. i.w.son, labor leader. Hall recently was arrested on a perjury charge. Hall'H affidavit was used in the application appli-cation for a new trial for l-awpori, and also In connection with tut.- petition which secured a supersedeas from the supreme court. It allied that Hall at first stood out for an acquittal of La whom, but that he finally agreed to a verdict of guilty as the result of coercive measures employed em-ployed by Frank Gooden. a court bail iff. GoodeM, according to the affidavit, told Flail that his wife was seriously ill and later informed him that Judge Qranby E-llUyer had ordered the jurors locked up without food unttf thev were ready to agree upon a verdict. I.awson was convicted May 3 or first degree de-gree murder and sentenced to life Imprisonment. Im-prisonment. Ho was tried In connection with the. deatli of John Nlramo, a deputy sheriff, killed In a strike riot at Ludlow in the fall of 1013- Recently the Colorado Colo-rado supremo court granted a super-I super-I sedeas, and an application for Laweon's release on ball now is pending. In the meantime the labor leader Is in the county coun-ty jail hern. Another recent decision of the supreme court barred Judge 11 illy er from presiding at future strike trials. Fred W. Clark said he would appear at the sheriff's office and arrange a bond, he added: This step did not come as a surprise sur-prise to me, for my friends have been coming to me with rumors of threatened threat-ened action of some sort on the part of the attorney general's office. It is simply one more step in the reign of attempt ed terrorism a nd prosecution prosecu-tion inaugurated by the attorney general gen-eral In the strike cases. As to the outcome 1 have no fear whatever. |