U.S.A. STRIKE MURDERS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 243, 27 September 1922, Page 5

U.S.A. STRIKE MURDERS.

HERRIN ASSASSINS IN COURT. RINGLEADERS REFUSED BAIL. New York, At Marion, Illinois, 41 men indicted for murder in various degrees in connection with the Herrin massacre were arraigned. Thirty-three were released on bonds varying from 5000 to 20,000 dollars and eight were held without bond. Two others indicted for murder have not yet been apprehended. The men to whom bail wafe refused wore designated by the grand jury as the ringleaders. Only one is of foreign birth, the others belonging to old American families. The townsmen of the indicted men supplied bail in those cases where it was granted, the total being more than 3,000,000 dollars. A union official canvassed all business men. declaring that now was the time for them to show whether tney were for or against the union. The prosecuting attorney asked that the trial- begin on October Ist. but the union lawyers moved to have the trial set down for February on the ground that more than 500 witnesses must lie collected. A considerable number of the 214 men indicted on various charges have not .yet surrendered themselves, but the union has promised that all will give themselves up.—(A. and N.Z.)