Evening star., 1922-09-08
HUNT MENlNDcTED
IN MINE MASSACRE
First of SO Charged With
Murder Taken IS Minutes
After Grand Jury Reports.
NINE HELD FOR HANGING
Six Others Charged With Shooting
Howard Hoffman to Death
in Cemetery.
NINE HELD FOR HANGING
BY the Assecia ted Press

ny the Associated fress.
MARION. H.. September s.-With
four additional men in Jail here today
charged with murder. Sheriff Melvin
Thaxton and his special deputies were
out searching for the rest of the thirty
eight indicted yesterday in the true bills
returned in the grand jury's partial re-,
port on the Herrin mine war.
With Otis Clark of Goresville, the first
man indicted and arrested, the four new
prisoners are:
Leva Mann, miner of Herrin. Charles
Rogers, miner of Herrin; Philip Fon-
tanetta. miner OF Marion. and James
Brown, a negro deputy sheriff of Coip,
a small mining settlement northwest of
Herrin.
Less than Is minutes after the indict-
ments had been read in open court
Sheriff Thaxton was returning to the
county jail with the frs, prisoner. Fon-
tanetta The three others were brought
by the deputies late in the evening.
Wholesale Action Surprise.
Marion residents were unaware of the
wholesale issuance of indictments, as
only a few were In court when the grand
July WIS Tcdu LpdiS PdPCio
that reached the city this morning
brought the first general Information OF
the indictments.
The first Indictment made known
yesterday charged six men with the
killing of Howard Hoffman of Hunt
ington. Ind. one Of the employees OF
the Lester strip mine, who escaped
the massacre at the barbed wire In
the woods, but who were overtaken
and brought back to the cemetery.
where Ave were shot down. LeYa
Mann is in this group.
Nine men were named in connection
with the hanging Of Robert ]. Ander-
son of Sparta, Mich. This bill hal
two counts.
Twenty-seven were made co-defnnd =.
ants In the third bill charging then
with murder in connection with tn
death of John Shoemaker of Charles
ton, Ill: Charles Rogers. Fontanet'
and James Brown. negro deputy sh"
iff. and Otis Clark are named in IL
bill.
Victim Father of Fhree.
Shoemaker was a son of MAY"
Shoemaker OF Charleston. III. a
the father of three small chifdrs'
He was a brother-i1.law of W.
Lester, owner Of the Inflated str
mine, and was acting as assistar
superintendent at the time of the mas
sacre.
Hubert Walker. who was also naHneG
in the third bill. is alone charged il.
the fourth Indictment with the kill
ing of shoemaker
More indictments will be issued, i
was stated by Attorney General f. j.
Brundage, in charge of the granu
jury investigation. These. it is un-
derstood, will be for larceny and
perjury. Following the massacre at
the strip mine much of the equip
ment was stolen and some of the
stolen equipment has been recovered:
Indictments for perjury. it was said.
will be based on the testimony of
some witnesses given before the
grand jury.
30 Action Against Unarmed Men.
Assistant United States Attorney
General c.. W. Middlekadf made
known yesterday that no indictments
would be issued against those MEM
bers Of the mob who were not armed
and who are known not to have in
cited any attacks on the employees OF
the mine. II is understood that every
precaution has been taken to prevent
actual participants of the riot to ap-
pear before the grand jury as wit
themselves immune from prosecution
on any charge growing out OF the
investigation.
The four prisoners who We're
brought in last night. like Clark after
his arrest, remained silent and de-
clired to make any statement.