Leonard Farmer

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Kentucky
Support
Labor Organizing National Miners Union
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Biography

Leonard Farmer was an active National Miners' Union member, a National Miners' Union member, arrested for the Christmas Day 1931 shooting of Deputy Sheriff Virgil Sizemore while distributing leaflets calling a general strike, and charged with murder in the Harlan–Bell County, Kentucky coal war.

Case

Charges: Charged with murder in the death of a deputy sheriff.
Arrested: Dec 25, 1931
Sentence: Held facing murder charges in the Kentucky coal war. Charges as recorded: Charged with murder in the death of a deputy sheriff during the Harlan coal war.
Convicted: Held on murder charges, 1932

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