The Washington herald., 1922-09-26
Eighty-six Business Men
Offer Security for AL
legged Rioters.
LIBERTY REFUSED
TO EIGHT OF MEN
Twenty-eight of Seventy
four Indicted Are Still
UnaecOunted For.

MARION. ILL.,. Sept 25.-An un-
mistakable demonstration of the
power of the miners uion in Will
Hanson County and the sympathy
with which the men accused of mur-
der the Herrin riots are held
by a responsible portion of the
community was staged in the court
house here this afternoon, when
thirty five of the defendants were
srraigned and their bonds guaran-
teed by men worth. in the aggre-
gate. $40. 900. 900.
For days committee Of miners,
headed by Mayor A. T. Pace, of Her
rim. a member of the union, has been
making the rounds of the merchants
and bankers seeking sureties fol
the prisoners on. the plea that this
would show who stood with the
union in this trouble The response
today when the defendants were
lined up before Judge d. T. Hart
we'll was impressive.
Eighty-siN men. including most OF
the Herrin business community
stepped forward. They offered bonds
to the extent of s3.OOO.OOO. Some OF
the sureties are worth little; others
are miIIionaires-
Eight Are Refused Bail.
An agreement was reached by the
attorneys. ratified by the court, IN
which eIgkt-men wereSheld. unbRiI-
able. six were given freedom on
$4,000 bonds each. twenty were
bonded at 10000 each and eighteen
at $4,000 each. In addition eleven
are out on bonds at $1,000 on riot
ing charges.
At the show-up in court today
twenty Eight of the seventy-fonr
prrsVos indicted were unaccount4d
for. These include seven indicted
iOr murder. Men known to be m
Marion Ur in this county failed to,
.i:.: iaiH court. 1t is now promised
e.. - attorneys for the miners that
a,i IA. ran be found will be SUR
.r,dered at once The county Sill
.iAlS promise to make more vtgor-
Gus efforts from now on to get the
"absentces" into custody. They
have been allowed to drift in at
their convenience.
The question of the opening of
the trials will he taken up in court
tomorrow. The prosecution viii
move to proceed to trial on oc-
tober L..
October Date Probable.
The defense, 1t is said, will seek
to have the trials put off until Feb
ruary, when the court will have J0H
witnesses TO question. The date
probably will be set for the latter
part of october and special court
set up in Marion. judge Hartw"il
announces that he will preside 1t
the first trial at least
The eight men remanded without
hail are: ISert Grace. James Brown.
I.4va Mann. Philip F"ntanetta. Peter
Miller. Oscar Howard. Otis Clark and
lanes ChiIiers. These were the men
charged by the grand jury to have
been the leaders in the riots. They
were in court today, with the sN-
ceptfon of Howard and Childers-
who have not been apprehended.
There was a family atmosphere
about the whole thing. The sure
ties were brought forward and their
names taken by the judge, who said
it was like taking the census" He
had to call in a stenosrapher to
help him. Many of the prisoners
called them by their first names In
friendly fashion.
..I-ndr a veneer of gloss. peaceful
to the eye. and for an interval OF
weeks giving a sense OF false Sc
curity, the evil spirit Of violence
Iirs hidden like snake at Herrin.
the Daily independent, Ot Murphys-
boro. says in it's issue of saturday.
The Independent has learned au-
rhoritativeIy. if indirect. from oper-
atives set as watch dogs on the coal
belt community during the Brun-
daEe investigation. of secret vote
taken in Herrin mine local 90
mob the jail. The vote was taken
AZ a night meeting. BY a small
majority the proposition to forcibly
deliver the seventy-two prisoners