Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23
SIX MORE INDICTED
Charged With Leading Riots
in Springfield.
FIFTY OTHERS EXPECTED
Assistant United States Attorney
Wines on the Job.
GRAND JURY NOT TAGGING
Troops Will Remain Throughout
This Week and Perhaps Longer.
Everything Is Quiet.

This Week and Perhaps Longer.
Everything Is Quiet.
SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,, August 22.-Six
more alleged riot leaders have been
caught in the grand jury net here. Ihe
inquisitorial body has returned 1ndlct-
ments against six persons. the documents
charging twenty separate offenses. All
were predicated upon the trouble at
Lopers restaurant and were identical
with those charged against Kate Howard
in the indictments returned Thursday.
The jury has as yet confined its work to
investigating the riot at Loper's except
in the case of Abraham Raymer. who was
indicted in connection with the lynohing
of William Donigan last Saturday.
I'VE have only made q fair start" says
Assistant States Attorney Wines. with
the character Of evidence that is coming
in and the seeming determination of the
grand jury to rid the community Of the
lawless element there is every chance
that half hundred or more indictments
will be returned within the next ten
days.
Ernst Humphrey, huckster; Rudolph
Bredemeyer. mechanic; John Schiende.
Grocery clerk; William Sutton, cabman
Herbert Carey, blacksmith. and one other
man whose identity was kept secret at
the order Of Judge Creighton because he
is understood to have fed from Spring
field. Humphrey, Schienle, Bredemeyer
and the fugitive were each indicted four
times for malicious mischief and riot.
Carey and Sutton were made the subject
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being charged. Judge Creighton fixed the
ball at 5000 for each indictment.
Many Kinds Of Assault.
The latest batch of accusations includes
five indictments against Thomas Marshall
and twelve other negroes. whom he Is
accused of having led in a murderous as
sault upon William Bowe chief clerk of
the county treasurer's office.
Bowe has been lowering between life
and death for week.
The negroes are charged with having
committed assault. with intent to kill,
upon Bowe. In addition. they are ac-
cused of assault with deadly weapons
upon John Waiting, a white citizen, who
was shot at 14th and Mason streets in
the Friday night riot last week. Three
plain cases of assault and battery. regis
tered on the complaint of citizens who
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negroes, were also recorded.
The other indictments returned today
are against whites. and are based upon
the destruction and looting OF Lopers
section of the city. Three of these are
for alleged burglary and larceny. two for
the destruction or enacement or the es-
tablishment or the building in which 1t
was situated and the remainder merely
for riot.
This was the third successive day on
which the grand jury had returned in
dictments against the alleged rioters and
their leaders. Thus far. however. only
one person, Abraham Raymer, stands &C
cused Of murder. he having been charged
with completely in the lynching OF William
Donegan.
Some Not Yet Caught.
About thirty-five men are in Jail await
ing the disposition of their cases by the
grand jury. Several of those indicted to-
day have not been apprehended as yet,
and their names were suppressed at the
order Of Judge Creighton Of the circuit
court, who issued bench warrants for
their arrest.
Civil Law Adequate.
The citizens realize that the civil law is
working expeditiously and smoothly to
bring the persons responsible for the re-
indictments already returned by the grand
jury and all except one of the eight per-
sons formally charged with murder. riot,
destruction of property or malicious mis-
chief in custody, there is a feeling abroad
that retribution is about to overtake the
rowdy element of the community. For a
time there was a fear that the states at
torney despite his earnest efforts, would
fail in proving criminal charges against
the rioters. This was due largely to lax
or half-hearted methods used by previous
trials had, in fact, become a synonym
for weak prosecutions and light sentences.
The evident intent Of the present au-
thorities, county, city and state, to change
this condition has aroused new civic
spirit here. The prosecuting forces are
backed by the full strength Of the COM
mercial and professional associations of
the city and aided by the revelations
which individual citizens are making. If
this does not result in successful trials
the authorities will be bitterly disap-
pointed.
Lots of Evidence.
1--WE have an efficient grand jury and
have secured the strongest kind of evil
dence for the riot trials said Assistant
United States Attorney Wines before he
entered the grand jury room. "All we
shall need further will be trial before
Jurors determined to see that the letter
as we'll as the spirit of the law is en-
forced
The smaller details Of the eth Infantry
which were scattered about the city
Thursday night as reserves for the sher-
IFS force Of deputies were called back
to the camp on the statehouse grounds at
daybreak. The stations at which two
companies had been posted were made
more or less permanent by the addition
of camp stoves and mess tents. These
are in the far northern corner Of the city,
and the arrangement was adopted for the
purpose of saving the men hike of
two miles daily.
No intimation of the regiments release
from duty has been given as yet. 1t is
the understanding of the officers, how
ever, that the command will be kept here
until we'll into next week if not longer.
No chance for a revival of the mob spirit
is to be given, and it is thought it will
be effectually quenched- by the time the
grand jury has finished returning indict-
ments.
PRIEST SAVES LIFE.