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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday November 5, 1921
Keeney and Mooney Locked Up in Kanawha County Jail
From The Washington Post of November 3, 1921:
MINE LEADERS FREED, REARRESTED; JAILED
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Keeney and Mooney, Held in Mingo Case,
Now Face Logan Charges.
Charleston, W. Va., Nov. 4. (By the Associated Press).-President C. F. Keeney and Secretary Fred Mooney, of District 17, United Mine Workers of America, were brought here today from Williamson, W. Va., where they were earlier released from the county jail on $10,000 bail each. Later they were taken to the Kanawha county jail on charges connected with the march of armed men last August from Marmet to Madison.
Keeney and Mooney were indicted several months ago in connection with the industrial strife in Mingo county and have been in jail at Williamson since that time.
They also were indicted in this county and in Logan county in connection with the armed march. The indictments in Kanawha allege conspiracy and insurrection under the “red men’s act.” Prosecuting Attorney Burdett today set Novemer 28 as the tentative date for their trial.
Williamson, W. Va., Nov. 4.-C. F. Keeney and Fred Mooney, indicted in Mingo county in connection with the killing of two men during the recent disorders, were released from county jail here early today on $10,000 bond each. As soon as the bonds were executed deputies from Kanawha arrested them on charges in connection with the march of armed men from that county through Boone county in August. After the Kanawha capiases had been served, Keeney and Mooney were started for Charleston.
When the Kanawha deputies appeared late last night, accompanied by attorneys for the union leaders, they found only a clerk in the sheriff’s office. Sheriff A. C,. Pinson and Maj. Tom B. Davis, assistant adjutant general, Gov. Morgan’s personal representative in the martial law district, were in Logan, W. Va.
The attorneys produced an opinion by the Sate attorney general, holding that Logan warrants for the arrest of Keeney and Mooney, issued October 15 in connection with the armed march, were null and void because they had not been served within the stipulated time.
The sheriff’s clerk then communicated with Sheriff Pinson, Maj. Davis and Logan county officials by telephone and finally, with the sanction of the sheriff, the major, and the Logan authorities, the Kanawha warrants were served.
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[Photograph added.]
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SOURCES
Quote Fred Mooney, Mingo Co Gunthugs, UMWJ p15, Dec 1, 1920
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2hg5AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.RA23-PA14
The Washington Post
(Washington, District of Columbia)
-Nov 3, 1921
https://www.newspapers.com/image/31541575/
IMAGE
UMW D17, Mooney Keeney, Lbtr p9, Aug 1921
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1920/08/v3n08-w29-aug-1920-liberator.pdf
See also:
West Virginia Miners March Trials 1921-1922
Nov 3, 1921-Buffalo Labor Journal-UMW District 29 Convention, at Beckley WV, Denounces Government by Gunthug
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88507465/nov-3-1921-buffalo-labor-journal-umw-d/
WV Legislation: “Red Men”
http://www.wvlegislature.gov/wvcode/chapterentire.cfm?chap=61&art=6§ion=7
Struggle in the Coal Fields
The Autobiography of Fred Mooney
-ed by J. W. Hess
West Virginia University Library, 1967
(pages 101-110, Mooney describes the filth and brutality within the Kanawha County jail.)
https://books.google.com/books?id=nE3tAAAAMAAJ
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