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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday July 16, 1921
Washington, D. C. – Frank Ingham Before Senate Investigating Committee
From the Washington Evening Star of July 15, 1921:
From Hearings before Senate Committe
-Now Investigating West Virginia Coal Fields
-July 14, 1921, excerpt from testimony of Frank Ingham:
Mr. INGHAM. Then they [McDowell County sheriff’s deputies] drove the car down there between Welch and Hemphill, and there they stopped and they dragged me out of the car, and they took me about 100 yards away from the car and then they began to beat me over the head and back with these iron clubs, and then when they decided that I was dead, when they decided that there was not any life in me, they drew off of me and stood and talked, and Ed Johnson, the sheriff’s deputy , he came back to me and kicked me in the face…He holds the position of deputy sheriff under Sheriff Daniels, and he come back and he kicked me in the face and he robbed my pocket…Well, I had prayed earnestly to God, and I believe that God heard me and that he answered my prayer, and I was conscious all the way. I had $25.07 in my pocketbook, and I also had a receipt from Mr. R. H. Campbell; I had borrowed $100 from him and I had a receipt from him and one from Dr. Hamburger, and my railroad ticket…Ed Johnson [took those things]….I never got anything [back].
And then they went off and they left me lying in the woods, and they went out to the road and they got in their machine and drove back toward Welch, and the automobiles ran out of my hearing. I raised my head up from off of the ground, and I stayed there until I collected strength enough to get out of the road, and then I went out to a little coaling station, I believe they call it the Farm coaling station, I believe they call it that, and an engineer was there and a fireman was there coaling up an engine, and they asked me what was the matter with me and I told them that I had been in the hands of the mob. They asked me what I had been in the hands of the mob for and I told them because I belonged to the union.
[Emphasis added.]
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, Ab Chp III
https://www.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/3
The Evening Star
(Washington, District of Columbia)
-July 15, 1921
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1921-07-15/ed-1/seq-2/
West Virginia Coal Fields, July 14, 1921
-pages 28-29: Testimony, in part, of Frank Ingham, Union Miner
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=EQQ9AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA28
See also:
West Virginia Coal Fields
Hearings Before the Committee on Education and Labor
U.S. Senate, 67th. Congress
-Senator William S. Kenyon of Iowa, Chair
Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor
WDC, 1921
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008610716
https://books.google.com/books?id=EQQ9AAAAYAAJ
July 14, 1921-Testimony of Frank Ingham
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=EQQ9AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA26
Tag: Senate Investigation of West Virginia Coal Fields of 1921
https://weneverforget.org/tag/senate-investigation-of-west-virginia-coal-fields-of-1921/
Tag: Mingo County Coal Miners Strike of 1920-1922
https://weneverforget.org/tag/mingo-county-coal-miners-strike-of-1920-1922/
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Fire in the Hole – Hazel Dickens