“Mr. Burkinshaw. Did you hear Bailey or any official of the county instruct the cit zens of Williamson to remain in readiness? Mr. Maynard. This last May?

Mr. Burkinshaw. Yes.

Mr. Maynard. Yes; Tony Ware told me to go out and hunt up some men and get them there to the courthouse, that Judge Bailey said if they didn’t quit shooting the Kentucky side across there, he would send us up there to maintain peace. I went out and gathered up, I expect, about 100 men and brought them hack to the courthouse door, colored fellows and .white fellows and all. They was setting all around there, then they got squabbling among themselves and quit.

Senator Shortkidge. When was that?

Mr. Maynard. In May.”

Reference Data:

West Virginia Coal Fields: Hearings Before the Committee on Education and Labor US Senate, Vol. 1, by US Congress, Senate and Committee on Education and Labor, 1921, page 66