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Show ILL RESUME IIIMALS Three Sons of Preacher to Face Court in Coal Town CHARLES TOWN. W. Va.. Aug. I (By u. V ) Preparation for tho resumption re-sumption of tho famous Charles Town mine trlala aro under way today. John Wllburn. eon of tho Rev. Jamea K. Wll. burn, recently convicted of murder In tho aecond degree In connection with the armed march on Logan, facoa trlaj August 7. Two ther sons are alao to go to trial. One of them. Frank, la now In )al here. The Wllburna, father and sons, are alleged to have been In tho party of forty or fifty armed men which met and killed Deputy Sheriff John Oore and two of hla aldea. - Gore had mistaken tha party for frlenSa, according to Prosecuting Attorney At-torney John C'hafln of Logan county. The union men demanded the password which was In vogue among the miners at that time. 8(111 thinking tho men belonged to tha state aide. Gore replied. "Amen," and fell with a bullet in hla heart. While Judre R D. Bailey, In Wll-llameon. Wll-llameon. Mingo county, recently nollied caaet Involving aeveral offlrlala and mem here of tha United Mine Workers of America, thesa had nothing to do with the Charles Town trials. Tha rear of Walter Allen, charged with treason, will be taken up after tha Wllburn trial. Allen la a union official of Iry Branch, Kanawha county He lnllreed to be one uXJhe. rhterToYslc "the "general" of the march. |