Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-27 | Page 2 | Union Leader Kills Man in Strike Zone

r 4 uNIoN lEADER i KILLS MAN AN IN 1 I 1 STRIKE ZONE Wounds Woman at Rally Rat Ral I ly Iy Mine Situation L 1 Grows Tense 4 By Ut T Tren a z PITTSBURGH July 27 The 27 The min cers' cers strike paralyzing the bituminous coal oal Industry In western vanla anla West Vest Virginia and Ohio grew tense today todar with the tile slaying by a n Bunion official of a man who had threatened his life lIle and the woundIng wounding wound wound- ing of a woman at a strike rally I t Accosted by a mat man who said he heI was sent to kill him Patrick T. T FaI Fagan Fagan Fa- Fa I gan president of district No 5 United Unit Unit- ed cd Mine Workers of America grappled grappled grap grap- I pled with his assailant wrested a l from him hun and shot snot him to death The shooting occurred on th the front lawn awn of residence here A Aman Aman man maII who was with Fagans Fagan's assailant was as captured by police a short time when he threatened a taxi driver COMPANION NION MUM IUlI I The me unidentified b body dj of the slain j man man was was was' removed to the morgue I I His companion lodged In lit the county j jail jaU on a technical charge refused to toI I talk except to say that his name was wast t Edward Snyder that he is a miner i I and Tand that his home Is in Fleming Kyi Ky i i Fagan was arrested Detectives I I quoted the union leader as saying 1 he had Just finished a lunch with i his family shortly aft after r midnight when his front doorbell rang I v He was accosted by a man who pointed a pistol at him and cried 1 i I am from district 19 Kentucky I and I have e been sent hex hero to get i you ou Fagan grappled with the man and they rolled from the porch to the I lawn a wn i As they rc regained their feet Fagan Fa- Fa gan wrested the gun from his assailant assailant assail- assail ant and fired three times The man crumpled to the grass dead v THREATENS DRIVER Meanwhile Fagan said the second secondi i man who had leaped into the thc taxicab taxicab taxi taxi- cab cab was threatening the driver when police arrived j Fagan long affiliated with the J United Mine Workers of America 4 has been a prominent figure both in 1 strike and d in recent friction between I his organization and the National Miners' Miners union S I I Mrs Martha Stanley attending a aI West est Virginia miners' miners meeting near I the he Imperial Colliery company's 1 Plant lant at Burnwell W. W Va was wounded by a bullet fired from the fringe of the crowd Dock Pack assistant mine foreman foreman foreman fore- fore man man arrested a short time later told I police poUce he was assisting a n. man who livas was being beaten that he fired three threet t L I shots and that Mrs Stanley was wasI wounded accidentally I S o United Mine Workers' Workers leaders here hereS S refused to comment on the demonS demonstration demon demon- S against ar John L. L Lewis InS in international international in- in S president at West FrankS Frankfort Frank Frank- S fort Zort HI yesterday