Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-26
sUPT. OF HEREIN MINE
 CHARGED WITH MURDER

Herrin. Ills. June 25 (By the A. P0- .. K Mcdowell, the one-Iegged superin- tendent of the Southern Illinois Coal company's strip mine half way between Herrin and Marion, Ills., was the only man charged with murder by the coro- ners jury, which concluded it's investi- gations tonight.
 The non-union men, the coroner's jury decided, came to their death "by gunshot- wounds at the hands of parties to this jury unknown" as the result of activ- ties on the part of officials of the wreck ed Lester nine
 The remaining verdicts, twenty in all, stated that each individual came to his death by gun shot wounds at the hands of persons unknown
 No additional information concerning the identity of the sixteen unknown dead was unearthed during the course of thu inquiry, which. took the jury to the local hospital and into the rooms oi wounded non-nnion men | Allen Findlev. wounded time-keeper for the Southern Illinois Goal company, now in the Herrin hospital. gave the l jury the information on which it based the verdict Of murder returned against Mcdowell. the dead superintendent.
 Mcdowell and I were standing on the l edge of the pit when he asked me, as he pointed to dark object in tho nearby woods, Is that 8 man." quoted Find ley.
 No, I replied" he continued. Out he ] fired and the man threw his hands in the air and fell. McDowell was a good shot,
 l Colonel Hunter. in a statement to two representatives of The Associated Press, ; tonight reiterated his declaration that on Monday last in a telephone conversa- l with fha o5 Of nois, he stated definitely that he did not believe that the local authorities were either able or inclined to handle the sit l uation here and that he recommended troops be sent to Herrin.
 They" said Colonel Hunter without 1 specifying who they were, they cant pass the buck to me-
 1 The verdict of the jury, according to the coroner, "Bilf' McCowen and the foreman of the coroners jury, Joe Bar l ringer, represents the united sentiment Thursday, and the events leading up to it."
 I The coroner's investigation got under way early this afternoon and adjourned to permit the jurors to attend funeral services for Joe Pichovich, 22-year-old Hungarian union miner slain in the skir- mish Wednesday, which preceded the massacre of nOn-unfOn men Thursday morning, June P. It resumed delibera- tions late this afternoon.
 The first witness heard was William A. Thornton, Marion, Ills. policeman
 You don't know who did the shooting do you?" asked Coroner William Nj. Cc- 1 Cowen.
 "No, sir" replied the witness. q don't know anything about it.
 I That was the substance of his testi- 1 mony and of those who followed him. Colonel Samuel R. Hunter, Illinois National Guard. was the next witness. 1 Colonel Hunter told of being held ur by mine guards and taken to Mine Super intendent McDoweH of the strip mine oi the Southern Illinois Coal company lasi
 Sunday night Colonel Hunter testified
 that he urged McDowell to confine the
 activities of his guards to the mine prop erty and that he also urged that tflest sentries walk their posts without arms
 McDowell agreed to carry out thes'
 suggestions. Colonel Hunter said in hi!
 testimony.
 A member of the jury asked Colone
 Hunter: 'Is it true. Colonel, that the;
 had machine guns meunted?"
 'I searched the mine property thre
 times and failed to find any, Coione , Hunter replied. Ut was suggested t Major General Milton J. Foreman tha l the miners had mistaken riht angle sec l tions of pipe, used for pumping, for ma
 chine guns. This suggestion came iron { Colonel Hunter"