The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-10
CHARGED WITH
MANY GRIMES
Arrest of Alleged Night Rider
Band in Camas Prairie COun-
try, Idaho.
SENSATION EXPECTED
WHEN THE TRIALS BEGIN
Seven Men Named in the Indict-
mentS Found in Federal
Court.
srecla, 20 The Tribune.

Srec'a' 20 The Tribune,
BOISE, Ida. June 9.-Charged with
terrorizing the settlers in the Camas
Prairie country in south central ldaho
BY the use of Kentucky night rider tao
tics. and conspiring to detraud the gov
eminent of It's lands, Charles M. John
son, f. C. Griswold. Harry McAdams
Marvin. Otis Wilsey, Jerry Herpie,
James and T. Roy Hanford all en-
rrvmcn on the Prairie, serc placed un,
der arrest today by Deputy United
States Marshal Hodgips, arraIGned be
fore United States Commissioner Bax-
ter at Soldier and released on $500
cash bonds each.
Although indicted by a federal grand
jury in this city last spring the de-
PENDANTS were not taken I0to custody
until deputies could quietly lay their
plans to effect their arrest. which was
successfully accomplished all seven of
the night riders submitting when they
realized that resistance WAS useless.
Their trial. it is claimed by government
officials. will be one of the most sepsa.
tional ever held in Idaho.
One Killing Resulted
When Joseph *. Naught shot and
killed d. V. Emmons just outside OF the
postoffice at Soldier, the facts sur
rounding the tactics followed by the
night riders became known. Emmons
was IN sympathy with them. Faught
was not. and they quarreled. At the
hearing Faught declared that it was
rot uncommon for the riders to mask
and travel in bands over the Prairie
threatening 10 tar and feather entry
men. This fact accounted for the mys
terious disappearance of settlers. the
sudden departure of ranchers who, fear
ing for their lives, hurriedly left the
Prairie and for the screams that had
been heard in the dead Of night but
discussed only in private. The federal
secret agents followed up the story told
by Naught, who was acquitted of the
charge Of murder AT his preliminary
hearing. They placed n volume of evi-
dence in the hands of the district at
torney He presented il 70 the grand
jury and the secret indictments an
nounced today were the result
Charged in Indictments.
The first two indictments name
James and f. Roy Hanford as the de
PENDANTS. Ii is alleged in the true
bills that the Hsufords conspired to
unlawfullr. feloniously, conspire, com
blne. confederate, inJure, Cypress.
threaten and resort 10 unlawful means
TO force one Thomas Wright, settler
on the Prairie. TO abandon his contest
against certain entry held by one
hS'usTiHe VI, f1dHlOIu, Formerly Maine
rlue NJ. Burns. The contest was filed
December p. 1910. Not satisfied with
riding to the Wright place and threat
ening the entryman. the defendants are
said to have written threatening letters
to him
The letters class Wrights conduct
as contemplate, unprincipled, morally
and financially dishonorable, and the
defendants and their friends declared
they proposed to help Mrs. Hanford
The second true bill against the Han
fords charges them with intimidatine
one Dee NJ. Story on October %, 1910,
and attempting to defraud him of his
right and entry
The third Indictment is against John
son ct al. including Greswold, Nc
Adams, Wilsey and Herpie They are
indicted on three counts charging them
with threats to intimidate and riding
over the prairie to threaten and torture
entrymen, some Of whom are named in
the Indictment as Joseph K. Vaught
and Albert T Lick.