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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday November 26, 1913
City Jail, Trinidad, Colorado – Striking Miner Zancanelli Confesses
From the Trinidad Chronicle News of November 25, 1913:
Wednesday November 26, 1913 – Trinidad City Jail, Colorado
-Louis Zancanelli Confesses to Killing Baldwin-Felts Gunthug George Belcher
Louis Zancanelli, who was arrested at the scene the night that George Belcher was shot and killed, has confessed. Also, according to General Chase, Zancanelli has named several union officers and organizers as part of a conspiracy to assassinate Belcher. Organizers Anthony B. McGarry and Sam Carter were named as having offered payment to Zancanelli, as well as Adolph Germer, who, it is claimed, arranged the assassination.
Arrest warrants have been issued for McGarry and Carter, but the two men cannot be found. Germer, who is in charge of U. M. W. operations in Walsenburg, has not yet been arrested, but scores of other striking miners have been arrested without warrants and are being held, many of them, incommunicado. Ed Doyle, Secretary-Treasurer of District 15, was seized by the militia on Monday, and Bob Uhlich, head of the miners’ office in Trinidad, was arrested on Tuesday. Uhlich was charged with being a “dangerous agitator,” and was ordered held indefinitely.
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote John Lawson 1913,
-after October 17th Death Special attack on Forbes Tent Colony,
Beshoar p74
https://archive.org/details/outofdepths0000unse/page/74/mode/1up?q=bandanna
The Chronicle News
(Trinidad, Colorado)
-Nov 25, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90051521/1913-11-25/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90051521/1913-11-25/ed-1/seq-6/
Buried Unsung
Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre
-by Zeese Papanikolas
U of Nebraska Press, 1991
https://archive.org/details/buriedunsungloui0000papa/mode/1up?view=theater
https://archive.org/details/buriedunsungloui0000papa/mode/1up?view=theater&q=zancanelli
Out of the Depths
The Story of John R. Lawson, A Labor Leader
-Barron B. Beshoar
Colorado Labor Historical Committee
of the Denver Area Labor Federation, 1942
https://archive.org/details/outofdepths0000unse
https://archive.org/details/outofdepths0000unse/page/96/mode/2up?q=zancanelli
See also:
Tag: Louis Zancanelli
https://weneverforget.org/tag/louis-zancanelli/
Tag: Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1913-1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/colorado-coalfield-strike-of-1913-1914/
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