Company Overseer and Wife Arrested Following Shooting of Three Textile Strikers, June 9, 1926

Bloodshed in a Textile Strike. . . Three Wounded by Shots Fired into Crowd of Strikers at Augusta, Fa.

Augusta, Ga., June 9—Three persons, two women and a man, were wounded here late today when an unknown person fired into a gathering of striking textile workers.

A.R. Gossett, overseer of the Sibley Manufacturing Company, and his wife have been arrested in connection with the shooting.

The wounded were: Miss Almetta Morris, Miss Ollie E, Baird, and J.E. Sidel, Sibley mill operatives. One shot was fired, the bullet striking the three persons and inflicting flesh wounds, none of which were considered serious.

From page 4 of The Concord Daily Tribune, June 10, 1926

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