Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-10-20 | Page 33 | Four Acquitted of Abduction

tOUR Of ABDUCTION CONC CONCORD RD N. N C. C Oct act 19 A Ano- Ano ci ted After Pres-After After forty five minutes' minutes deliberation n a C county jury this thi afternoon acquitted tI the o four lour men on trial h hero he re reon on charges growing out o of the kidnap kidnap- ing inand an and flogging of Ben Wells Well British British Brit Bit ish communist textile organizer Tho The jury reached Its Hs decision t on n the tho fifth ballot ballot and ropo reported ted to Judge 1 A. A M M Stack Stacie that 0 O. a. a G. G ad Carl Car Holloway Dewey Dee Carver Calver and Horace Hornce Lane Iane all of or Castonia were not guilty of t taking Wells and md two tV-o other front from a Ii Yearning oon house and beating bealing Wells elis al st a spot snot nea near near Concord Concord Concord Con Con- cord almost fifty m miles dint distant The Tho abduction of the men fol tol followed icil lowed tho the formation of nn mob In on th tho night of ot Sept September 9 which staged a n. demonstration and nd Invaded d labor r headquarters In Bessemer City and Charlotte Trial of ot tho f tour four ur men was begun Thursday and was ivas as featured by the the- fact that they presented almost fifty witnesses In establishing their alibis All Al four denied guilt gulit the evidence for or or- three of or them be being being be be- ing 11 presented e en e yesterday iA Mud And nd the thel l fourth 1 th Horace Ian Lane this mb morning g. Lane Lape tc testified he was was' acting as a special deputy deput- on the night of Sep Sep- te ber 9 In South following follow v. ing ng ng up Information that labor Jabor organizers organizers or or- or were planning a n demon demon- Ue He 1 presented as Ids his alibi nUb 1 witnesses a deputy sheriff Sherlf a n. mill superintendent and nd South in residents J I