The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-02

st. Louis. Dec. Ia special to the Re
public from Carlinville. H.. says: The
Nirden riot grand jury made its final re-
Port tc Judge Il. 3. Shirley at $50 this
J Sevening. Judge Shirley came down from
Springfield where he was holding court,
and held a short half-hour session to re-
ceive this report.
The grand jury dealt pertinently with
the affan as far as it was able to ascer-
tain, and returned true bills against the
principal participants in the tragedy OF
Oct. i at Nirden.
Ten indictments, involving fifty-four
persons, Were returned. Against John X.
Tanner. governor OF Illinois. there are
three counts for palpable omission of duty
and maifeasar<s in office. Fred w. Lu-
ldns. general manager of the Chicago
Nirden Coal company, is charged with
manSlaughter oil two counts. With Lu-
kins, mis- deputies. Frank Wilder. j. +.
Sickles and J. II. Smith, are indicted for
the killing of Joseph Gitterele, Mount
Olive miner Sixteen Thiele guards are
In the Indictments against Governor
Tanner the complaining witnesses are
John Graham, Will Miechell William
Wilson. Clarence Ross and Charles Stew
art employees of the Chicago-Virden
Coal company. They testified that they
were intimidated and prevented from per-
forming their legitimate employment by
an armed body of men, numbering 1880,
who unlawfully and felOniously were as
SenDl6Q In ' NlrOen- lQaL the governor uaU
been notified by the sheriff OF Macoupln
county that no protection was to be had
from the county and was earnestly i'm
poruned for state assistance.
Judge Shirley hxed Governor Tanners
bond 1T $500
A }. Roberts, the foreman of the grand
jury, who was also foreman OF the coro-
nors jury. is a Nirden police magistrate.
BE was strongly opposed to indicung
Governor Tanner
Ia each of the Indictments against Gov
ernor Tanner, the omission Of duty was
jdentical-failure and refusal to respond
to the caN of Sheriff Davenport Of this
county for military aid in supprsssing the
riotous demonstrations of Nirden coal
The indictments were, in brief as fol-
lows:
CD Failure and refusal to send troops
~ aid the sheriff III checking the actions
oE> thousand or more men. who We're
preventing cert ain persons from entering
on their duties in the service of the Chi
cago-N Nirden Coal Mining company.
(2) Failure and refusal to send troops on
the call OF the sheriff TO prevent the same
men from doing bodily violence to the
same would-be employees.
(3) Failure and refusal TO send troops to
aid the sheriff in preventing The same
rioters frolS conspiring and combining
TO 90 injury to the woGld-be employees.
TANNER INDIFFERENT.
Springfield, H., Dec. 1.-When Governor
Tanner was informed this evening of the
received the news with Indifference and
manifested no interest in the particulars
He was asked for an expression in re-
gard to the matter. but declined to talk
about it, simply saying that he did not
consider it worth while TO discuss the sub
ject
Attorney General Akin was asked to
give mis- opinion regarding the legal effect
of the action in view of the supposed
fact that the chief executive of a state
cannot be proceeded against in that way
ment returned but he declined to say
anything about the matter further than
that he had not previously heard of the
action taken by the grand jury and was
not aware that such action was contem-
plated.
This is not the first time a governor of
Illinois has been indicted. 1t is but a few
years since Ex-Governor Altgeld was in
dicted in Champaign county as one of the
trustees Of the University of Illinois. eX-
officio because the so+cailed flag law
was not observed at the university but
nothing ever came Of the Indictment.
which was soon afterwards dismissed.