Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-12
The Pittsburg Grand Jury
Gets In It's Work.
Chief Justice PaxsOn's Instruc-
tiOns Carried Out.
True Bills Found Against the Home
stead Strike Leaders.
The Carnegie Officials and Pinkertons
Also Indicted-Treason, Murder
and Conspiracy are the
Crimes Charged.
By the Associated Press.

pJ thO AosOtldtCI Icbo
PrrrsBURG, Pa, Oct. 1.-THE granc
jury sitting on the treason cases against
the Homestead strikers, and the murder
and conspiracy charges against H. G.
Frick and various other officials OF the
Carnegie Steel company and the Pink
erton detectives, this afternoon brought
in true bills in all the cases. Chief Jus.
tice Paxson of the supreme court OF the
state and Judge Kennedy OF the county
courts occupied the bench when the jury
entered the court room.
The bills against Hugh O'Donnell and
others for treason include 81 defendants
Hugh O'Donnell, John McLuckie, David
Lynch, Thomas j. Crawford, Harry
Bsyne, Elmer E. Bail, Henry Bayard, J.
w. Brown, George Champeno, Isaac
Critchelow, Miller Colgan, John Coyle,
Jack Clifford, Dennis M. Cush. William
Nj. Coneghy, Michael Cummings, Will
lam Combs, John Dierkin, Patrick Fa-
gan, W. H. Caches, Matthew Harris,
Reed Kennedy, John Miller, o. S. Sea.
right, John Murray, w. H. Thompson,
Martin Murray, Hugh Ross, W. T. Rob-
erts, George Reilands and George w.
Sarver.
The indictments for murder are for
killing George w. Rutter, John E.
Morris, Joseph Sotak and Silas Vain,
all strikers, and include II. G. Frick,
chairman of the company;F F. T. F. Love-
Joy, secretary; j. A. Potter, superin-
tendent; j. G. A. Lehman, vice chair
man w. E. Corey, assistant superin-
tendent; Nevin Mcconnell and James
Dovey, mill bosses. and Robert Pinker-
ton, William Pinkerton, G. w. Biddell,
w. II. Burt, John Cooper and f. w.
Hinde, Of the Pinkerton detective
agency.
Bills for conspiracy embrace all those
charged with murder, with the addition
of George E. Tander, H. McCurry, Otis
Childs and L. @. Phipps, OF the steel
company, and Fred W. Primer, a de-
tective.
Those charged with aggravated riot
are: H. @. Frick, III. McCurry, J. G.
A. Lehman, F. T. F. Lovejoy, L. G.
Phipps, j. s. Dovey, Nevin Mcconnell
John Cooper, @. w. Biddell, Fred
Primer, W. H. Burt and f. w. Hinde.
The true bill in the treason cases sets
forth at great length that the defendants
and other persons, names unknown, to
the number of 1000 and upwards, armed
and arrayed in warlike manner, did
"feloniously and traitorously join and
assemble themselves together, and then
and there did dispose themselves against
the said commonwealth OF Pennsylvania,
and did ordain, prepare and levy war
against said commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania, to the end that the constitution,
laws and authority might be, and were,
defed, resisted and subverted by the
said defendants and their armed allies,
contrary to the duty of allegiance and
fidelity of said defendants; to the evil
example of all others in like cases of.
tending, contrary to the form of the act
of the general assembly in such case
made and provided, against the peace
and dignity of the commonwealth OF
Pennsylvania"
The indictment against the Carnegie
officials for murder reads, as in the case
of Silas VAIN "That said defendants
on the 9th day of July, 1892, with force
and arms, did make assault on Silas
Vain, and feloniously, maliciously and
OF their malice aforethought, did kill
and murder, against the peace and dig
nifty of the commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania."
The Indictment against Frick and his
associates for conspiracy sets forth,
among other things, that "the said de.
PENDANTS did unlawfully, falsely and
maliciously conspire, combine, federate
and agree together to depress, lower
lessen and diminish wages, or the price
and compensation of the labor OF divers
persons employed by the Carnegie Steel
company, limited, to then and there
close up the steel mandatory and cease
work and operations therein, and there
upon convey and caused to be
sent 200 men and upwards, armed
with guns, etc., to overawe, intim
idate and frighten divers persons in sale
township of Hifflin, who were there
lately before employed by said Carnegie
Steel company; to invade said township
Of Hiff1in and to attack and shoot of
and discharge said deadly weapon,
! against said persons lately employed by
said Carnegie Steel company, limited.
| In regard to the fight on the mornin,
of July 9Th, the bill says the defendant
did counsel and advise the shooting.
The grand jury's action did not cause
much excitement among the public gen
orally, and the defendants themselve
took it quite coolly. The Carnegie off
cials, however, declined to be inter
viewed on the subject of the charges.
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