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Show MINERS' WIVES ARE WITNESSES Women Tell Congressional Committee of Being Kicked and Beaten by Deputies. Hancock, Mich.. Fob. 23. Wives of striking copper miners testified before the congressional Investigating committee com-mittee that they had been kicked and beaten by deputy sheriffs and otherwise other-wise mistreated by soldiers without cause. Mrs. Boris Fodar, charged that on July 30 last, Undcr-Shcriff Heikklla grabbed her by the hair and dragged her Into the yard at her home at Kear-sarge. Kear-sarge. She said deputies and soldiers sol-diers were searching for her husband and the under-sheriff attacked her when she refused to toll where ho was. One soldier Jiit her with his gun, she said, and two others fired BbotB into the door of the kitchen. Mrs. Erzi Pihara, Hungarian womN an, said she was kicked in the ribs nnd beaten by deputies at Mohawk, on September 10, then was taken handcuffed to Eagle river and lodged In jail where she was kept for one day. She did not know what she was charged with, but said she was not found guilty. On cross-examination, Mrs. Pihara testified she and three other women were arrested for picketing and interfering inter-fering with non-union men. |