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John Johnson. Case File No. 5693. June-August 1920.
Type of event: Legal Proceedings
Location: Saint Louis County; Minnesota; United States
Document date:
Document type: Gov't Record(s)
Document subtype: Indictment Record
Documents: John Johnson. Case File No. 5693. June-August 1920.
Citation:
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. 5693: John Johnson.
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INDICTMENT RECORD.
5693
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The District Court for the County of St. Louis and State of
Minnesota.
THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. vs. ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT John Johnson John Johnson is ACCUSED by the Grand Jury of the County of St. Louis, Minnesota, by this indictment of the crime of Instigating a Riot, to-wit:
Committed as follows: The said
John Johnson, John Doe, Richard Doe and diverse other persons to
the number of three and more, whose true names are to this Grand Jury 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, for the purpose of obstructing one
Oscar Olson, a public police officer of the said City of Duluth and State of
Minnesota, and diverse 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 duty of protecting from damage
and destruction the said property and building, 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 there from and from
said custody, and of assaulting and killing the said Isaac McGhie, Elmer Jackson
and Eli Clayton, the said John Johnson did then and there wrongfully,
unlawfully, willfully, feloniously ad riotously instigate, promote and aid the
said John Doe, Richard Roe, and said diverse other persons to the number of
three and more, then and there present and participating in said assembly, to a
disturbance of the public peace by the use of force and violence to certain
other persons and property, to-wit: to the said Oscar Olson and said diverse
other police officers, to the said Isaac McGhie, Elmer Jackson and Eli Clayton,
and to the said property of the City of Duluth; and the said John Doe, Richard
Roe, and said diverse other persons to the number of three and more so
assembled and so instigated, promoted and aided, did then and there disturb the
public peace by use of force and violence to certain other persons and property,
by then there striking and hitting the said Oscar Olson and the said other
public police officers with bricks, stones, sticks, streams of water, and
diverse 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.
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ENDORSEMENTS
THE DISTRICT COURT For the County of St. Louis and State of Minnesota. ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT THE STATE OF MINNESOTA vs. John Johnson 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 __13th__ day of __July__ 1920 __J. P. JOHNSON____________ Clerk.
By __W. R. Wasson___________
Deputy.
__Warren E. Greene___________
County Attorney.
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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 the County of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, On this 1st day of July, A.D. 1920. Witnesses examined before the Grand Jury: W. F. LaShells _W. J. McCabe_______________ Foreman of Grand Jury. |
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STATE OF MINNESOTA. DISTRICT COURT ELEVENTH
JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
COUNTY OF ST. LOUIS. I HEREBY CERTIFY That I have compared the foregoing with the original indictment, and also the endorsements, therein found by the Grand Jury of said County on the 1st day of July 1920, against John Johnson and presented to the Court in open Court by the Foreman of the Grand Jury, and filed on 13th day of July 1920, and that the same is a true and correct copy thereof. __J. P.
JOHNSON_______________Clerk.
By __M. M. Kruse _____________Deputy. |