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' fend -their property and their lives against the attacks of oppressors. The legal battle is not one between the state of Colorado and Lawson, with the death of Nemo as the point of dispute. There s no pretense that Lawson actually shot Nemo. It is charged that he was 'the nominal leader of a large body of strikers, some of whom are suspected of hav ing shot Nemo djuring one of the many strike, "battles. Through their hired attorneys the coal companies and. the influence back of them mean to get the last pound of flesh from the men who fought them to a finish in the recent strike. The desire is not to convict the man who shot Nemo but the man in command of the Ludlow tent colony. . Lawson was one of the three strike leaders received by Jolm D. Rocke feller, Jr., in his office a Wall st dur ing the industrial relations commis sion hearings. The trial of the labor leader fol lows three or four others in several counties of the state. It comes im mediately after the two trials neces sary Jto convict Louis Zancannelli of killing George W. Belcher, a Baldwin Felts detective, who was under a $10,000 bond on a murder charge at the time he was shot on the main street of this city in November, 1913. The case of Walter Belk, another Baldwin-Felts' detective, free under bond on a murder charge, was con tinued and those of four miners dis missed to clear the ground to reach Lawson. The manner in which the prosecu tion of these cases is being pushed shows what a great effort is being made to fan the smoldering embers of the labor war. The fact that $100, 000 of the $100,000,000 Rockefeller foundation fund is being spent in this state cannot prevent expression of the grave dissatisfaction felt at the conduct of these cases. The first trial of Zancannelli was before Judge Granby a Hillyer. Hill- J yer had just been appointed by Gov. Carlson to assume an additional" judgeship created by the legislature early in its recent session. The chair man of the senate judiciary commit tee having this bill in charge was Charles Hayden, the Rockefeller at torney at Walsenburg, the county seat of Huerfano county. The bill was denounced by the () press as a scheme to give the Rocke feller interests a district judge who would go to any limit to satisfy the demands of those who wanted to show the world by legal results that the Colorado coal barons were right and the miners wrong. Before his appointment Hillyer was an attorney for the coal companies. He made speeches during the cam paign, according to affidavits present ed by Hawkins at Zancannelli's first trial, denouncing the strikers as out laws undeserving of any mercy at the hands of the state. These affidavits, made to show why another judge should be calTed to preside at the trial, were ignored by Judge Hillyer, who proceededto try the case himself. Ruling after ruling wa$ made against' the attorneys for the defense which astonished even the spectators. Yet in spite.o'f this the jury disagreed, voting 8 tof4 for acquittal. The sec ond trial followed at once. The county commissioners are re quired by law to certify 300 names as jurors. After only 30 of these had been exhausted it was suggested by Northcutt, who loomed large for the prosecution fix this case too, that the judge summoned an open venire from the streets. This was done, against the protest of the lawyers for the defense, and a V jury was finally selected which had three members who were mine guards and a fourth who was a coal company doctor. It was brought out in the evidence that Zancannelli had been in the union less than three weeks at the time Belcher was killed. He had not had time to acquire hatred enough to J