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Tar Heel Justice
Lewis, Nell Battle | September 11, 1929 issue

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North Carolina's industrial cause celébre reopened at Charlotte, on August 26, 1929, in the Mecklenburg County Courthouse, after a change of venue from inflamed Gastonia and the lapse of a month during which the passion and prejudice aroused by this case in both camps had had a chance to simmer down. In a packed courtroom, the atmosphere of which was considerably less tense than that of the Gaston court, the sixteen participants in the recent strike at the Loray mills who are accused of conspiracy to murder O.F. Aderholt, Gastonia police chief, went on trial, the thirteen men charged with first-degree murder and the three women with murder in the second degree.

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ACTIONS & defenses; ADERHOLT, O. F.; MURDER; CONSPIRACY; CONDUCT of court proceedings; NORTH Carolina; UNITED States
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