Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-29
INVESTIGATE.
Special Grand Jury Will Probe Depor.
tation of Charles Meyer.

Calumet. Mich, Dec. 2S.-The deporta-
ton of Charles II. Meyer, president of
the Western Federation of Miners and
leader of the copper miners strike, who
was escorted from Hancock Friday night
after being shot and dubbed will be in
vestigated by the special grand jury when
it resumes its sessions next Tuesday.
Sheriff Cruise Saturday began an in
quiry into the facts of Meyers departure
in response to kilograms from Gov. Fer
ris and George Nieolls, the special prose-
cutor in charge of the grand jury. Both
requested him to make full statement
of the result of his Investigations.
News of the circumstances of Meyers
departure did not become generally
known in the strike region until Meyer
had reached Green Bay, Wis, today and
told of his injuries
Warrants were served Saturday on the
business manager and dozen or more
employees of Socialist newspaper in
Hancock, the charge being Conspiracy
to publish misstatements calculated to
incite riot"
The warrants were sworn under the
statutes relating to felony and the men
were held in bonds of $1,000 each The
complaints were made by Sheriff Cruise
and were a sequel to an extra published
Friday in which charges of grave mis-
conduct were made against some deputy
sheriffs and others who tried to assist
victims of the Christmas eve disaster.
The article, according to translators. ac-
eused the rescuers of smuggling mothers
| and fathers who tried to reach the hall
when their children We're dead or in peril,
and used the Filming equivalent of muir
der" in its description of the disaster.
John Moumavari. business manager of
| the paper, was taken from the editorial
room after the paper had gone to press
Saturday. Two members of the editorial
| staff were taken from their desks, and a
service was made on a dozen others as
they We're found on the streets in the
| evening. Their cases will be considered
by the special grand jury.
limitations from union sources that
the grand jury was "hand-picked" and
packed" against their cause were denied
in official circles
Among the members of the jury is Ed
gar Bye, chauffeur for James Mac
| Naughton, general manager of the Calu-
Met & Hecla Mining Co. Two superin-
4 tendents of stamp mills, few mechanics
and a number of merchants made up the
rest of the membership No mine man
ayers or other executive officers of the
| corporations are on the list.
| Local officers of the Western Fedora
| ton of Miners announced Saturday that
several members of the kidnapping
expedition had been recognized and that
! affidavits as to their identity had been
! obtained from residents of Hancock. II
was generally believed that these sworn
statements would be made the basis of
warrants for arrest.
| The exciting events of the last "a hours
| left the strike situation unchanged. Mine
managers reported daily accessions" to
their non-union working forces and those
statements were as promptly denied by
| union officers.
The mine managers said that no fresh
peace proposals had come from President
Meyer preceding his departure. They
held a long meeting in Houghton Satur-
day, but said that no plan for ending the
strike was mentioned.