South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-09-08
.INDICTMENTSAR
RETURNED AFTER
LENGTHY PROBE
Grand Jury Returns True Bills
in Connection With Bloody
Mine Massacre.
SHERIFFS SEEK MEN
Strikers and Sympathizers to
Face Court Trial as Re
suit of Killings.

MARION. III. Sept. 7.-(By a.
P)-The special grand Jury investi-
eating the Herrin massacre late this
afternoon returned thirty eight
more indictments all for murder.
The first indictments accuse SIX
men for the Staying Of Howard Hon
man. OF Huntington, Ind. in the
Herrin cemetery. He was one or the
six captives who escaped the mas
sacre at the barbed wire fence IN the
timber. They were recaptured and
led back TO the cemetery where they
were shot down. one OF them lived
and the other ave died. The men
named in this true bill are Peter HI
Ter, Clarence Rogers, Leva Mein,
Joseph Carneghi, Percy Hall and
Bert Grace.
The second indictment names nine
men in connection with the hanging
or Robert J. Anderson. Sparta, Mich,
and the Southern Illinois strip mine.
His body was riddIed with bullets al
ter he had been hanged. In the in
dictment there are two counts, one
charging the shooting and the other
the hanging. The men accused are
Nava Cannady. Herbert Rushing.
Clyde Lee. James Galligan, Bert
Grace, Dallas McCree. Otis Maynard.
Joseph Rhodes and William Stanley.
Ihe third indictment concerns the
Staying OF John shoemaker He and
Is other nOn-union mine employees
who had surrendered under a flag OF
truce were killed at the barbed wire
fence IN the timber near the power
house. In this indictment twenty
eight men were made co-defendauts
Five OF them are named In other
true bills. The accused men are
I John Kelly. Hubert Walker. James
! (Dad) Norris, Roy Pennington, liar
w Perduem, Charles Rogers. John
Rushing, Dallas McCree, Otis May
nard. Alvin Stewart, Joe Murray,
Campbell Lively. Wesley McPharon.
Frank Adams Alvin LOlless. Floyd
Stokes, George Anderson, Fred Nc
Cough, Fred Trayelsted. Phillip Fan
tanetta, Tom Weeks. James Brown
(colOred deputy sheriff. Otis Clark,
Lee Howard, Tony , Louis
COrbett and Bert Grace.
The fourth indictment Is for the
Staying Of John Shoemaker and
charges Hubert Walker with COM
hitting the staying. He Is the only
one named on that indictment.
Otis CLARK Also Indicted.
Otis Clark. the first one 20 DO IN
dicted and the first one 70 be arrest
ed. now held IN the county jail Is
also charged with the murder OF
Shoemaker In the indictments re-
turned today.
Hohmans body was shipped %
Indiana and never was buried IN the
pOtters' field at Herrin.
Anderson was alleged BY the
miners at the time OF tho massacre
10 have fired q machine gun and ne
was hanged for that
Shoemaker was the father OF three
young children and was a brother
in-law Of W. j. Lester. owner OF the
strip mine. He was acting as assist
ant superintendent at the time OF the
massacre he was a civil engineer.
university graduate and son OF the
mayor OF Charleston. H.
According 10 the testimony OF one
Of the massacre victims who escaped.
Shoemakers body was subjected TO
many .ndignities and one final shot
was fred into the body 20 make sure
he was dead.
Many Of those indicted are miners.
bat few are engaged in other occu-
pations Special deputy sherins are
now ont arrestfng the men who were
indicted today