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Show iH i! wot 3i ' If Miners Wives I I Are Witnesses Hj f Women Tell Congrettlonal Committee H Of DelnB Kicked and Beaten B, j By Deputies -Mil Hancock, Mich., Fob, 23.-Wlves I f striking copper minors testified B h bcforo the congressional InvestlgM- H ,B conimilteo that they had been HI ' kIckod nna beaten by deputy sheriffs Bjr ond otherwise mistreated by soldiers jHI without can so. HI ' Mrs. HoriB Fodar, charged that on 'ffil'U July 30 last. Undcr-Shcrlff Helkklla H J grabbed her by the hair nd " B3I Bod her Into the yard at her homo flttf ! at Koawago. She said eimtte and .1 soldiers voro searching for her hus Hi and t"' undcr 8horlff attackcd her when sho refused to tell whero ho wn3. One soldier hit her with his gun, sho said,, and two others fired shots Into tho door of tho kitchen. kit-chen. Mrs. Erzl Plhnra, Hungarian woman, wom-an, said she was kicked in tho ribs and beaten by deputies at Mohawk, on September 10, then was taken handcuffed to Eaglo river and lodged in Jail whero she was kopt for one day. Sho did not know what sho was charged with, but said sho was not found guilty. On cross examination, Mrs. Plhara testified sho and thrco other women wero arrested for picketing and Interfering In-terfering with non union men. |