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Mower County Transcript
Austin, Lansing, Mower County, Minnesota
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G. W. Belcher, a Baldwin-Felts detective employed by coal operators in Trinidad, Colo., was shot and killed on the main street. Greek miner Louis Zancanelli is under arrest for the shooting. Belcher had previously shot a United Mine Workers organizer and was under $16,000 bonds. Three other suspects arrested.
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Trinidad, Colo., Nov. 21.—G. W. Belcher, a Baldwin-Felts detective employed by the coal operators, was shot and killed while on the main street here.
Louis Zancanelli, a Greek miner who is believed to have fired the shot, is under arrest.
Belcher, a few days before the strike was declared in the southern coal fields, shot an organizer of the United Mine Workers of America, who came here from Denver, and was under $16,000 bonds. He was one of the detectives called here from the West Virginia strike fields. Three other suspects are under arrest.
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Trinidad, Colo.
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Nov. 21
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g. w. belcher shot and killed; louis zancanelli and three other suspects under arrest
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G. W. Belcher, a Baldwin-Felts detective employed by the coal operators, was shot and killed while on the main street in Trinidad, Colo. Louis Zancanelli, a Greek miner believed to have fired the shot, is under arrest. Belcher had previously shot an organizer of the United Mine Workers of America from Denver a few days before the strike in the southern coal fields and was under $16,000 bonds. He was one of the detectives called from the West Virginia strike fields.