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Show LABOR LEADER IS CLEARED OF MURDER John B. 'Lawson, Convicted in Famous "Battle of Ludlow" Case, Freed by Supreme Court. DTOTVER, June 4. John R. I.awson, former labor leader, convicted May 3, 1915, of murder In the first degree in connection with the death of John Nimmo, a deputy sheriff. In the Colorado coal strike disorders, today Is a free man as a result of supreme court action in sustaining a confession of error filed I by thf attorney general's office. The court held that Lawson's petition for a change of judge In his trial, which began April 21, 1915, should have been granted, and that this was sufficient to set aside th result of the trial, without considering another error mentioned in the confession. confes-sion. It did not remand the case for retrial re-trial and Lawson's prosecution is at an end. Lawson was indicted with a number of others for participation in the so-called so-called "battle of Ludlow," in which Nimmo Nim-mo was fatally wounded, the charges being be-ing of a conspiracy nature. |