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Show VILLAGE STIRRED BY RIFLE FUG Intense Excitement Prevails Before Mine Battle Trial is Resumed WILLIAMSON. W. Va, Jan. m Federal soldiers nnd a heavy force of deputy sheriffs were hurried into the mountains, surrounding Williamson, early today at the sound of rifle firing. fir-ing. Careful seanh failed to reveal the presence of the riflemen. There ' were no casualties, but there were widely circulated rumors that bullet-; 1 had fallen In one section of the cit Intense excitement provalled for u time, hut the presence of Colonel Herman Her-man Hall and a company of the 19th United States Infantl served to calm the fear of those who professed to j believe that an attempt would bo made to rescue the 21 men on trial here arrested tor the Sdatewan shoot- lng. The excitement had died down and ! the details of soldiers mud-besput-tcred and weary, had returned to their quarters here when Judge R, D Itul-ley Itul-ley opened the fourth day of the trial. In the courthouse were 200 additional addi-tional veniremen ready for e.xomlna-tlon e.xomlna-tlon Eighteen tentative jurymen who had spent yesterday In tho court house In chargv of a deputy sheriff without permission to eco relatives or friends, were in the Jury box. Two of them. H. K. Cantrel!, a school tea her of Nolan, was excured on the plea that hc was related to on of the defendants, defend-ants, and Barley J Davis, a Williamson William-son merchant, because of his kinship with a former defendant, against whom the Indictment is not to be pressed. The 21 men, wlio are facmu prosecution prose-cution for their alleged participation in the Btatewan fight were brighter and more cheerful than at any time since tho trial begun. |