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Show Sheriff Charges Deliberate Delib-erate Plot to Discredit Officials in Connection With Strike Disorders. Says Body of Riot Victim Vic-tim Was Mutilated After Death in Order to j Manufacture Evidence. ' PITTSBURG, Oct. 16. Sheriff William S. Haddock of Allegheny county today .sent to Chairman Kenyon of the senate committee investigating the steel strike, j a letter in which he practically charges that the body of Fannie Sellins, an organizer or-ganizer for the United itine "Workers, who was shot and killed August 2G .at West Xatruna, where there was a strike of iniiiers. had been deliberately mutilated muti-lated after the official autopsy to make it appear she was shot in the back. The death of the woman has attracted much attention, because of charges made by labor union men that she was murdered mur-dered by deputy sheriffs. The coroner's verdict declared she was killed during a riot. The miners charge she was shot to death while protecting children from the sheriff's deputies. The body was exhumed ex-humed last Monday at the instance of a relative and yesterday labor men sent to Chairman Ivenyon an affidavit signed by two physicians averring that there was a gunshot wound in the back. The coroner's coro-ner's finding made no mention of such a wound. Some labor leaders have referred re-ferred to the Sellins case as an example of the alleged methods used by certain corporations to defeat workers who strike for higher wages and better working conditions. The sheriff's letter, after briefly re-cltinp re-cltinp the history of the case, says: SAYS WOUND WAS POST-MORTEM ONE. "The Investigation .conducted by the sheriff, and by the coroner also, leads to the decision that the wound found in Fannie Sellins's back when the body was disinterred Inst Monday, a fter being buried forty-three days, may or may not he a bullet wound, and that, whatever kind of ah injury it is, it was deliberately deliberate-ly indicted after the official autopsy, in the presence of reputable witn esses, to discredit those in authori ty, and for the (Continupd on Page 7, Column 2.) IQE TO PROBERS (Continued From Pago Ono.) j further purpose of furnishing anarchistic, d:ngerouR and revolutionary UKltatora ami organizers propaganda to bo used in tho steel strike against the state and national governments, although tho incident inci-dent is not remotely connected with the .strike. "Your at tent ion is also respectfully called to the methods pursued hy agents of the department of labor and the de-jpartment de-jpartment of juid'oo, who have been and I are conducting investigations into this occurrence. These Invest Igatora came j here at the behest of thee agitators, openly eharghur regularly elected and j lawfully commissioned pence- ofilcers with ! most outrageous conduct, for which there Is not tho slightest foundation, and pur-I pur-I sue their inquiries ny way but impar- tlally. (investigators are i savagely attacked. j "They usually, if not always, seek out the persons making tho charges and leave here with little else than manufactured evidence, and leave behind them a trail of' anarchistic speeches and newspaper publicity with which to inilame the popu-j popu-j lace. "Allegheny county is a district more affected and concerned by the steel strike than any other community in the United States, and in maintaining "peace and order the sheriff is a buffer here between the contestants in this important controversy, contro-versy, in this capacity we have observed tiiat whatever ' unrest and disorder exist here are due entirely to the presence in this community of dishonest, revolutionary revolution-ary and Bolshevik agitators, whose purpose pur-pose is to prey on the unintelligent foreigner for-eigner and goad him into deeds which the American worker will not tolerate." |