Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-10-12
ALL WILL BE TRIED
The Grand Jury of Pittsburg
Returns True indictments
FOR TREASON AND MURDER
Against the Leaders of the Strikers-The
Pinkcrtons anc Mill Owncrs-Con-
tents of the Bills.

PITTsBURG, Pa, Oct. 1.-THE grand
jury today returned true bills in the
treason cases against the Homestead
strikers, and also IN the murder, con-
spiracy aud aggravated riot cases
against the Carnegie officials and Pink
erton detectives. Chief Justice PaXsou
of the supreme court occupied the
bench with Judge Kennedy. When
the grand jury filed in there was
large number of spectators present.
The indictments for treason involve
thirty-one defendants. Hugh O'Don-
nell, John q. Luckie, David Lynch,
Thomas j. Crawford, Henry Bayard,
t. w. Brown, George Colgan, John
Coyle, Jack Clifford and Dennis NJ.
Cush, are among the most prominent.
The charges of murder against II. c.
Frick and other Carnegie officials are
for the killing of George w. Rutter,
John K. Morris, Joseph Sotak and
sllas Wayne, whose deaths resulted
from the riot. The true bills are
against II. c. Frick, f. I. Lovejoy.
Robert Piukerton, William Pinkerton,
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The Conspiracy Cases.
In the conspiracy cases III. C. Frick,
George Lauder, II. NJ. Carry, Leish-
man, Otis, Lovejoy, l.. c. Phillips,
Childs, j. A. Potter, J. F. Dovey,
Mcconnell, the PiDkertons, Cooper,
Beddel, Frederick Primer, Burt and
Hinde are the defendants. In the ag-
gravated riot cases true bills are re-
turned against Frick, Curry, Leishman,
LovejoY, l.. c. Phipps, Dovey, McCon-
nell, Cooper, Beddel, Primer, Burt and
Hlnde.
The indictment against III. c. Frick
and others IN the murder cases are
separate, making four IN all. The
prosecutor IN the murder caseg Is Hugh
Ross, against whom are charges for
murder, treason, conspiracy and agra
waited riot. The Indictment against the
Carnegie officials IN the conspiracy
cases is lengthy document, compris-
ing ten type written pages. Among
other things it sets forth concerning
IL. c. Frick and the others named Is
the following:
Contents OF the Bills.
That they did unlawfully, falsely
and malciously conspire, combine,
confederate and agree together to di-
minish wages, prices and compensation
of labor of diverse persons employed
bv the Carnegie Steel company. limited,
then and there close up their steel
manufactury and cease work and ope-
rations therein and thereupon TO con-
vey and caused TO be sent 200 men and
upwards, armed with guns, revolvers,
pistols, knives and other deadly weap-
ons. TO overawe, intImIdate and frlghtsn
diverse persons in the said township of
Mifilln, who were lhen lately employed
by the sald Carnegie Steel company,
To invade the SAID township of Mitilin
and t. attack the ssid persons who were
then lately before employed. and to
shoot OFT and discharge the ssid guns
and other deadly weapons against the
bodies Of the said persons VINO were
then lately before employed 10y the
said Carnegie steel company, limited. Z"
"In regard to the fight on the morning
of the sixth the bill says the defendants
"did counsel aud advice the shooting" "
The bill IN the aggravated rot cases
against the Carnegie officials differs
very little from that IN the conspiracy
action except that u specifies that, IN
pursuance to the alleged conspiracy
the alleged unlawful and rlotous acts
were committed.