John Doe, et al. Case File No. 5734. June-August 1920.

Type of event: Legal Proceedings

Location: Saint Louis County; Minnesota; United States

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Document type: Gov't Record(s)

Document subtype: Indictment Record

Documents: John Doe, et al. Case File No. 5734. June-August 1920.

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Minnesota. District Court (Saint Louis County).
Indictment Records.
Volume P [F?], January 1920 – September 1946.
Selected pages 43-88: Selected case nos. 5675-5735, June-August 1920.
Case no. 5734: John Doe, et al.

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INDICTMENT RECORD.
5734
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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,
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,


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: 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 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 John Doe, whose true name is unknown, Richard Roe, whose true name is unknown,
ENDORSEMENTS

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

INDICTMENT

“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 __19th__ day of __July__ 1920

__J. P. JOHNSON____________
Clerk.
By __W. R. Wasson___________
Deputy.
__Warren E. Greene___________
County Attorney.


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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 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 this 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 and diverse other instruments to the Grand Jury unknown, and by taking from the said building and by assaulting 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 5th 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. Berson,
Robert Denda,
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