The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-22
SIX PERSONS ARE INDICTED For Rioting in Spring
 field. GRAND JURY GRINDING AWAY. Investigation of Mob Violence Has
 Only Begun.
 --e- Small Towns of the County continue To Be Danger Points--Nesroes Are Warned to Leave
 BuRsIo, Ills.
LAND JURY GRINDING AWAY

Springfield. Ill. Aug. 2O--six more alleged riot leaders have been caught in the grand jury net here.
 The inquisiterial body tonight return ed indictments against six persons. the documents chargI ngtwenty separate offenses All were predicatcd upon the trouble tt Loper@ restaurant and were identical with those charged against Kate Howard in the indictments re- turned yesterday
 The jury has as yet confined its work to lnvestisating tho riot at Loper's except in the case of Abraham Isays mer. who was indicted for murder yes- terday in connection with the lynching of William Donegan last Saturday.
 we have only made fair start" !" said Assastant States Attorney Wines tonight with the character of evid- ence that Is coming in and the seeming determination of the grand jury to rid the community of the lawless element. aheresis every chance that half hum cred or more indictments will be re- turned within the next ten days"
 The persons indicted today are;
 Ernest Humphrey. huckster; Rudolph Bredmever. mechanic; John schienle. grocery clerk: William Sutton. cannan: 1: Herbert Carey, blacksmith. and one other man whose identity was kept secret at the order Of Judge Creighton because he is reported to have lied from Sprinrfleld. Humphrey. Schienle. Bred meyer and the fugitive were each in- dicted four times for malicious mis- chief and riot. Carey and sutton were made the subject of two indictments f4h Fatad Judge Creighton fixed the bail at s2.- 900 for each indictment
 Loper TestifieH.
 Among the witnesses before the grand jury today was Harry Loper He had testified at the coroner's inquest yesterday that he had little recoliep- tion Of the identity of members of thA mob who destrokea his establlsnnie ent '. int it was stated tonight that he mada irnnortant revelations to the grand fury. 1t was thought for a time tc- s5av that the coroner's jury which had haen atfemptfng to fix responsibility for tha death of Louis Johnson, wbe was killed in the Loper riot, would ma it's work in vain. Coroner Woodrun discovered that no autopsy has been made on the body and the cause was con iectural, one version being that Johnson fell into the basement ano broke his neck.
 m order to clear this doubt. the cor oner and A doctor went to Mechanlcs- burg. where the body had been puEieo' erhunned the body and performed ar autopsy. which showed that he had bean shot through the throat Dr. frank R. Wheeler presented this con- cIusIon to the coroner's jury tonight. IIe .srt,fse6 that an undertaken had sawed m tha wound that it was ir1s nossible to determine whether the but- tet entered from the front or back sSs cave ,t as his opinion that John. sa, vras shot in the back because the urouna there was cleaner.
 The jury returned an open VeI1le. s giving the cause of death as gunsnos wound after Roy Wilson nad tesu.les that he and Johnson had been pushed snto inc basement of the restaurant by Inc crowd. Wilson asserted that arter thev fell down the stairway he heard two shots and it was then that ne Iost track of Johnson. He made ms way eo tha street and then learned that Jonn- son had been killed. .l.n
 Loper's version of the happenlnBs - - 4ha basement included an admissfon tbet be had shot through the door u1ban the mob was storming the base n,ant but he said that he had aimed high and that the bullets had gone through the upper panels. The barten- der was also in the basement, he said wilson asserted that the shots were fired before the doors were broken in. He also said that the shooting was done by a person who wore a white waist
 The small towns of the county con. tinue to be danger spots. At Buffalo. a village seventy-fve miles from here the following notice has been posted at the interurban trolley line station
 nAu niggers wanted out of town by Monday, f2 a. m. sharp
 It was signed by Buffalo sharp shooters"
 City Guarded.
 The city was guarded tonight by deputv sheriffs and police. the 7th infantry held in reserve. Colonel Mo- riarity split his command into small units and distributed these about the citv in the vicinity of the danger spots. It has been the original plan to hold the entire regiment in camp. but Col onel Moriarity explained to the sheriff that quicket assistance could be rem dered if the troops were posted at the strategic points. The, usual de- tails of "Shafter cavalry" were held in reserve at the arsenal and jail. There was a decrease in the number of refugees at the arsenal tonight. The negroes were told that the proper time to re-esta bltsh themSelVes Tn LHeIE homes was while the troops are still here and this argument prevailed in many cases.
 "But none of the blacks went to their homes with smiling faces. There was fear in their hearts, and anxiety marked their features. In their homes few lights were shown after nightfaII. absolute quiet and dark ness being depended upon to deceive night providers as to the presence of the families. One of the refugees at the arsenal was a woman whose white skin betrayed only faint traces of ne- gro blood. She was accompanied by a fair-haired boy about years old.
 ''I suppose that am foolish to come here" she said, 'out I should go crazy if I tried to sleep at home. I am not even sure that my neighbors suspect me of having negro blood in my veins. We have not mingled with the negroes heretofore. and have kept aloof from the whites. but my husband is away, and I could not dare to think of hav- ing our home invaded by rowdies who might kill our boy, so I have thrown of the mask and come here. We are going to move away from this place