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Hellraisers Journal – Monday April 18, 1921
Olympia, Washington – State Supreme Court Rules Against Centralia Defendants
From Oregon’s La Grande Evening Observer of April 14, 1921:
I. W. W. MUST SERVE TERM
———-OLYMPIA, Wash., Apr. 14.-The state supreme court today upheld the conviction of seven of the alleged I. W. W. members convicted of second degree murder in connection with the Centralia armistice day killings. The court refused to grant a new trial. the men will be transferred from the Montesano county jail to the state prison to begin serving their sentence of from twenty-five to forty years.
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[Emphasis and photograph added.]
From The Liberator of April 1921:
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SOURCES
Quote Wesley Everest, Chaplin Part 15
https://www.iww.org/history/library/Chaplin/centralia-conspiracy/15
La Grande Evening Observer
(La Grande, Oregon)
-Apr 14, 1921
https://www.newspapers.com/image/97066736/
The Liberator
(New York, New York)
-Apr 1921, page 8
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1921/04/v04n04-w37-apr-1921-liberator.pdf
IMAGES
Centralia Trial, IWW Convicted, Spk Chc p1, Feb 7, 1920
-Names WA Sp Crt Apr 1921 p 407
https://www.newspapers.com/image/562031885/
Note: Names taken from:
Washington Reports…Supreme Court of Washington, Volume 115, 1922
https://books.google.com/books?id=XW8tAQAAMAAJ
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=XW8tAQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA407
See also:
Tag: Centralia Armistice Day Conspiracy of 1919
https://weneverforget.org/tag/centralia-armistice-day-conspiracy-of-1919/
IWW The Centralia Conspiracy by Ralph Chaplin, AD, BDB p3, May 11, 1920
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045085/1920-05-11/ed-1/seq-3/
The Centralia Conspiracy
-by Ralph Chaplin
Seattle WA, 1920
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044019248947&view=2up&seq=6
The Centralia Conspiracy
The Truth about the Armistice Day Tragedy
-by Ralph Chaplin
General Defense Committee, 1924
https://books.google.com/books?id=llVSAQAAMAAJ
Was it Murder?:
The Truth about Centralia
-by Walker C. Smith
Northwest District Defense Committee, 1922
https://books.google.com/books?id=rCQ3AQAAMAAJ
The Centralia Tragedy of 1919
Elmer Smith and the Wobblies
by Tom Copeland
University of Washington Press, Jul 1, 2011
(search: “april 1921 the court upheld”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=K8cKidBft4cC
Britt Smith, et al. vs. the State of Washington, Volumes 1 & 2
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003903808
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