The morning call., 1894-08-13
FREEDOM AT HAND
The Sacramento Strikers
Going Home.
THEIR BAIL Is REDUCED
From Five Thousand Dollars to
Five Hundred.
PREFERENCE TO MARRIED MEN.
The Federal Grand Jury Making
Haste SlowIy-Fifty Indictments
Will Probably Be Found.

The cells occupied by the Sacramento
strikers in the County Jail and the Ala
media prison will be empty before the close
of the week. and the prisoners who have
fed at the Sheriff's table will be back in the
bosom of their families. The strikers
charged with obstructing the mail and
conspiring to interfere with interstate
commerce when arrested were required to
give bail in the sum of $4,000 each or linger
in Jail until their cases had been disposed
of by the Federal Grand Jury. Greenlaw
and Badmer, who were charged with re-
bellon, were required to furnish $4,000
bail.
Neither the INSTRUCTORS of the mail nor
the rebels could obtain the money, and
they had few friends 10 the city. They
had abandoned all hope of freedom for the
present and were trying hard to think that
life IN jail was not so black as 1t had been
painted when relief came.
Grove L.. johnson, the Sacramento law
yer, who is up to his whiskers in the Mar
tin case, strolled into the County Jail last
Friday and heard the prisoners tale of
woe. He did not tell them that excessive
bail had been required in their cases, but
when he left them he FASTENED to the
chambers of Judge Morrow in the Federal
building and offered prayer in their be-
half. The Judge consented to reduce the
bail of the married men from $4,000 TO
$500 and the bail Of the unmarried to
$1,000.
Two of the strikers gave the reduced
bail at once and went to their homes yes
terday. The rebels expect to return to
Sacramento tomorrow. They denOunce
their incarceration on such a serious charge
as an outrage, and deplore the fact that
they are unable to obtain redress.
"One Of the men who was arrested with
US" said Greenlaw yesterday, called the
driver OF a mail-wagon a scaD. He was
charged with obstructing the mail and in
fering with interstate commerce. l called
three men scabs-whlch they were-and
was arrested and charged with rebellion
against the Government of the United
States. It's wonder TO me that they
have not charged the men who killed en-
gines with murder"
The trial of the strikers in the United
States District Court will commence on
September l. They will Droba bly, be de-
Tended by Grove l.. johnson and a. L.,
Hart. The men are confident that no jury
will convict them of the crimes with which
they have been charged.
The Federal Grand Jury Is growing
weary Of the burden laid upon it by the
strike. Sixteen indictments have been
found, and there will be at least fifty be-
fore its labors end. The complaints that
have been Investigated were against San
Jose strikers. The Sacramento cases will
be finished his week, and the Jury will
then decide what is to be done with the
accused of Oakland, Dunsmuir and Red
Bluff.
Assistant United States Attorney Knight,
who prepared the evidence against the
Sacramento strikers, will endeavor to have
all the cases tried at the same time. II
this is lot done the United States District
Court will be clogged with strike cases
until the holidays, as several witnesses
will have To be examined in each.