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Show TRIAL CAUSES TENSE INTEREST Alabama National Guards Will Be Tried for Lynching Striker staff Special. MI It Ml N ill AM. Ala., Ian 29. Ninei youns members of the national guard I will o to trial for their Uvea In the little town of Hamilton, Ala,. Jan. SI. charged with an nc; "In violation of; icver dut.x ow ed by a soldier to his I country! the lynching of Wiljiam Balrd, striking union coal miner. Interest In this trial Is more tense j than In anyvhuh has been beloro the courts of Alabama It follows these1 ents: Dec. ii .lames Morris, private. 'o. j ,M Alabama National Guard, shot to death bj William Maud. Doe Balrd surrendered on ad- j vice of relatives, after evading his pu.r-; suers. 1 Jan. lo--Ualrd taken front prison at J as pci .Ma., by masked men and bis. boils liddled with bullets two miles from the prison. Jan 19 Nine guardsmen Indicted i Jan. " i Accused men arraigned TheSe events huvc Increased the ten-1 sion in the coal miners' strike in Ala-, bams to the snapping point, ami officials offi-cials are speed! ;i; Justice to liaye the Balrd affair dime with before soine- 'thhiK worse occurs. The accused men are. Sergeant Robert tuicaster, sou', of a railroad man. Sergeant Glenn L. Stephens. S2, par-1 ents dead. J Coiporal Joseph Key. 1'-'. son of a. : merchant. I Corporal James franklin. IS, son of a farmer. i Corporal M.inh I :. Svxtoii, IS, son of i I an engineer. I COrporal E Speed, is. son of si farmer Private William ilambx. is. son ol a m!JI operator. Private Roy Ration, l'J liigler i-:. Richardaon, i v The homes of all are m Tuscaloosa, Ala.. Whore Co. M was recruited. Two, are veterans of the Warld War. Ser-' fceant Stephens and Serjeant Lancas-' Iter. now i i II iPPl mii Co. M was sent to the Jasper coal: strike district follow inif the assassina-l ,tion of Leon M Adlcr, a coul operator.! Shortly after the company was as-1 I ' i dnt there. Private James, Morris killed John Northcutt, 0 Strik-j jinp miner whom he had urrestod. llej said his gun accidentally went off. and i : nt a foliow soldier for help. While the soldier was SesjjMng assistance. assist-ance. Morris was slain by Balrd, who I -,,se. in f 1 1 ii an essert. declaring lie' shot Morris in self-defense. Batrd fled Into the lillla ui" North Mabuma, but later Surrendered and on the night of Jan. 12 made a full statement of i the case. . I Karly on Jan. 13 niaalrsd men ap- J ipeared at the Jasper prison, overpdw-j ,erod tlio jailor, carried Ltalrd off In an automobile and two miles ,rvi; fired, 28 bullets Into Ids body. The automobile was tracked from I the prlsbn to the garage of Leahe West. West confessed, naming the nine Indicted National Guardsmen as the ! men who hud taken Balrd from the jail. Clyde Springer, a member of Op. m. also gave information regarding the j ppeoationi of his fellow soldiers. SeU ' ther he nor West has been Indicted |