Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-15
INQUIRY BRINGS
105 INDICTMENTS
slxrY-EleHr TRUE BILLS RE-
TURNED AS RESULT OF EAST
ST. LOUIS RIOTS.
MEMBERS OF POLICE
FORCE HELD FOR MURDER
Charges Against Defendants Include
Murder, Arson, Conspiracy and Riot
ing and Assault to Murder-War-
rants Served on Twelve a. Soon as
Grand Jury Report Is Made.

Belleville, Ill.,, Aug. 15.--Sixty- eight
Indictments against los persons, the
charges including murder, arson, con-
spiracy, rioting, and assault to murder,
were returned last night by the grand
jury which has been investigating the
race riots in East ST. Louis, July l to 5.
A special report accompanying the
Indictment goes into the history of tho
riots and gives what is believed to have
been conditions causing it, recommend
ing remedies.
follows:
Nine indictments, naming thirty two
defendants, on charges of murder.
Eleven, charging conspiracy. against
sixty -four defendants.
Five, charging arson, against twenty
seven defendants.
Thirteen, charging rioting, against
sixty nine defendants.
Twenty-three, charging assault to
murder, against sixty three defendants
Two. charging burglary, against four
defendants.
One, charging malicious mischief,
against four defendants.
One, charging arson for the purpbse
of defrauding, against one defendant.
Serve Warrants on Twelve.
Warrants issued on the indictments
last night were served on one white
man and eleven negroes.
Richard Brockway, a claim agent for
the East st. Louis and Suburban Rail-
way, charged with conspiracy, was ar
rested in East ST. Louis and ken 70
the Jail at Belleville on his request that
he be permitted to apply for a writ Of
habeas corpus.
The following negroes, in the Jail at
BeIleville. where they have been prts-
oners on coroners mittimuses since the
riots, were served with warrants charg-
ing murder, the offense alleged being
the fatal shooting of Detective Ser
geant Samuel Coppidge and Detective
Frank Wadley at Tenth and Bond
streets on the night of July 1; Fayette
Parker, Othaniel Peoples. Charles Fos-
ter and Marshall Alexander.
Other Negroes Arrested.
Other negroes arrested and placed in
Jail are Ben Smotherman, Matt Hayes.
George Roberts, Thomas Tackett, Guy
Moore and Robert A. Hughes.
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cult Court of ST. Clair county, before
whom the report was made, announced
that the question of bond for any per-
sons arrested last night would not be
discussed until today.
Attorney General Edward F. Brun-
dage of Illinois, under whom the inves-
tigation has been conducted. arrived in
Belleville, and few hours afterward
the grand jury, which has been in ses-
sion month, appeared before Judge
Crow and made its report.
Police Are Indicted.
It Is known that Cornelius Hickey,
lieutenant Of police of East st. Louis,
who was on duty as head of the de-
partment the night the scores OF whites
and blacks battled one another to death
in the terrible slaughter. is one OF the
men held for conspiracy. Six other
police officers of East st. Louis are
named for conspiracy, and some for
other alleged crimes in connection with
the riots.
Nine of the men against whom Brun-
dage viii direct the whole power of the
legal machinery of Illinois in the effort
to convict them. are charged with muir
der in addition to several other crimes,