_FARMERVILLE, La. “UPD. |
~The’ slavery ‘peonage law ..

has - Tarely been’ used since
Civil War days, but the FBI.

~_ says: Connie. Ray... Alford.- -;

broke: it ‘by keeping | illegal
Mexican ‘aliens on his rural
farm: : in: a shackles.

- and locks.” me

Alford. who i is : seeking 1 re-

_ election as a police j juror,.is
accused. of concealing nine.
aliens, ‘forcing | them to work

off a $250 debt he incurred

by bringing them: to his farm.

“Bvidence . ‘seized ‘against.

him: ‘included’ an. eight-foot- :

square’.metal cage officials -

delieve-was-used-to- -contain--
some of the aliens.

‘Assistant U.S.: ‘Attorney

A.M... Stroud II said the: -

case is’ ‘unusual because the
state’s. slavery peonage
statute has rarely been used ~
since slavery ‘was abolished.

: during the Civil War. _

- Alford,. 40, of Truxno,
La., was charged last
week . with both slavery and ©
peonage and nine counts of .
concealing... illegal aliens,
then was released on $50,000
bond... He ‘could be im-—
prisoned up to 55 years ang.
fined up to $18,000.

- convicted on all counts.

A federal. indictment
accused Alford ‘of con-
cealing the nine Mexican’
nationals: on his farm and
holding two of them “by the
‘fise-.of chains, shackles,

- locks ‘atidby’ the use of other

threats and intimidations” to.

forée them to work off a debt ;

he claimed they owed him. .

Justice Department
sources in Washington said
Alford allegedly paid $250 in-

ation costs to bring
the aliens to his farm — after
they slipped across the
border this summer — and
was having them work off.
the debt for cheap wages.

Interviewed before his
arrest, Alford denied
wrongdoing and said the
charges might be politically
motivated. He is running for
Union Parish Police Jury,
the. county government
body.

FBI agent Jim Burke said
two Mexicans seized on
Alfords farm were found in a
small bunkhouse with heat
and fans, and wére not
chained. Sources in
Washington said the aliens
told agents of the chaining
incident.

The cage was placed on a
post office dock in Monroe,
La., but Alford said he never
used it for the aliens.

Swimming
pool stocked
with trout

DENISON, Iowa (UPI) - City
officials will reopen the

municipal swimming pool
Saturday - for fishermen.

The pool will be stocked
with trout and officials plan
to charge anglers $1 an hour
to try their luck against the
fish. The trout-fishing idea
was proposed when
municipal authorities were
looking for ways to use the
pool in the off-—-season.

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