The District Court for the County of St. Louis and State of Minnesota

THE STATE OF MINNESOTA )
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VS :
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JOHN DOE, WHOSE TRUE NAME IS UNKNOWN, :
RICHARD ROE, WHOSE TRUE NAME IS UNKNOWN, :
JOHN ROE, WHOSE TRUE NAME IS UNKNOWN, :
RICHARD DOE, WHOSE TRUE NAME IS UNKNOWN, : ELEVENTH
JACK ROBINSON, WHOSE TRUE NAME IS UNKNOWN, : JUDICIAL
RICHARD ROBINSON, WHOSE TRUE NAME IS UNKNOWN, : DISTRICT
JOHN OLSON, WHOSE TRUE NAME IS UNKNOWN, :
RICHARD OLOSN, WHOSE TRUE NAME IS UNKNOWN, :
JOHN JOHNSON, WHOSE TRUE NAME IS UNKNOWN, :
RICHARD JOHNSON, WHOSE TRUE NAME IS UNKNOWN, :
PETER DOE, WHOSE TRUE NAME IS UNKNOWN, :
PETER ROE, WHOSE TRUE NAME IS UNKNOWN, )

John Doe, whose true name is unknown, Richard Roe, whose true name is unknown, John Roe, whose true name is unknown, Richard Doe, whose true name is unknown, Jack Robinson, whose true name is unknown, Richard Robinson, whose true name is unknown, John Olson, whose true name is unknown, Richard Olson, whose true name is unknown, John Johnson, whose true name is unknown, Richard Johnson, whose true name is unknown, Peter Doe, whose true name is unknown, Peter Roe, whose true name is unknown, are
ACCUSED by the Grand Jury of the County of St. Louis, Minnesota, by this indictment of the crime of Riot, committed as follows, to wit: the said John Doe, whose true name is unknown, Richard Roe, whose true name is unknown, John Roe, whose true name is unknown, Richard Doe, whose true name is unknown, Jack Robinson, whose true name is unknown, Richard Robinson, whose true name is unknown, John Olson, whose true name is unknown, Richard Olson, whose true name is unknown, John Johnson, whose true name is unknown, Richard Johnson, whose true name is unknown, Peter Doe, whose true name is unknown, Peter Roe, whose true name is unknown, having assembled on the Fifteenth day of June, A. D. 1920, at the City of Duluth, County of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, with divers other persons to the number of three and more, whose true names are to this Grand Jury unknown, for the purpose of obstructing one Oscar Olson, a public police officer of the said City of Duluth and State of Minnesota, and divers other public police officers

State of Minnesota Vs. John Doe, whose true name is unknown,

and others, whose true names are unknown

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of said City and state, whose true names are to this Grand Jury unknown, in the performance of certain of their duties, to-wit: the duty of safeguarding and retaining in their custody certain persons, to-wit: one Isaac McGhie, one Elmer Jackson and one Eli Clayton, which said persons were then and there in the custody of the said police officers and then and there confined in certain property of the City of Duluth, to-wit: in that certain building situated on East Superior Street in the said city, county and state, and commonly known as the Police Headquarters of the City of Duluth, a more particular description of which said property and building is to this Grand Jury unknown, and the said persons being then and there assembled for the further purpose of damaging and destroying said property and of breaking into said building, and of taking therefrom and from said custody, and of assaulting and killing the said Isaac McGhie, Elmer Jackson and Eli Clayton, the said John Doe, whose true name is unknown, Richard Roe, whose true name is unknown, John Roe, whose true name is unknown, Richard Doe, whose true name is unknown, Jack Robinson, whose true name is unknown, Richard Robinson, whose true name is unknown, John Olson, whose true name is unknown, Richard Olson, whose true name is unknown, John Johnson, whose true name is unknown, Richard Johnson, whose true name is unknown, Peter Doe, whose true name is unknown, Peter Roe, whose true name is unknown, did then and there wrongfully, unlawfully, willfully, feloniously and riotously instigate, disturb the public peace by using force and violence to certain other persons and property, by then and there striking and hitting the said Oscar Olson and the said other public police officers with bricks, stones, sticks, streams of water, and divers other weapons, a more particular description of which said weapons is to the Grand Jury unknown, and by directing and throwing against and striking with bricks, stones, sticks, timbers, rails and streams of water the said building, and by battering down and removing the doors of said building with rails, timbers, poles, hammers an divers other instruments to the Grand Jury unknown, and by taking from the said building and by assaulting

State of Minnesota Vs. John Doe, whose true name is unknown,

and others, whose true names are unknown

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and killing the said Isaac McGhie, Elmer Jackson and Eli Clayton, contrary to the form of the Statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the State of Minnesota.
Dated at Duluth, in said County of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, this 6^th day of July, A. D. 1920.

W. J. McCabe

Foreman of the Grand Jury

Witnesses examined before the Grand Jury:
Earl J. Benoit

Earl W. McKenna
Abe M. Berkson
Robert Benda
James McAuliffe

Paul Albinson
John Hammerberg
E. H. Barber
Constant Walker
Thomas Herzog
Robert Donald
A. J. Carson
Oscar Olson
J. N. Nystrom
Fred Mahler
Charles R. Ek
Nels Setterquist
Ira L. Ricketts
Stans Nesgoda
Victor Isaacson
James Webster

5734

THE DISTRICT COURT

For the County of St. Louis and
State of Minnesota

ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT


The State of Minnesota

VS.

John Doe, et al, whose true
names are unknown



I N D I C T M E N T



“A TRUE BILL”

W. J. McCabe
Foreman of the Grand Jury.

Presented to the Court in open Court by the

foreman of the Grand Jury in the presence
of the Grand Jury, and filed with the Clerk
this 19^th day of July 1920.

J. P. Johnson
Clerk.

By W. R. Wasson

Deputy

Warren E. Greene
County Attorney.