Louis Hayes. Case File No. 5700. 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: Louis Hayes. Case File No. 5700. 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. 5700: Louis Hayes.

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INDICTMENT RECORD.
5700
The District Court for the County of St. Louis and State of Minnesota.

THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.
vs. ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
Louis Hayes

Louis Hayes is
ACCUSED by the Grand Jury of the County of St. Louis, Minnesota, by this indictment of the crime of Rape,
to-wit:
Committed as follows: The said Louis Hayes, on the fourteenth day of June, A.D. 1920, at the City of Duluth, in the County of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, did wrongfully, unlawfully, willfully and feloniously have sexual intercourse with one Irene Tusken, against her will and without her consent, the said Irene Tusken being then and there a female of upwards of ten years, to-wit: of the age of eighteen years, and the said Irene Tusken not being then and there the wife of the said Louis Hayes; the resistance of the said Irene Tusken to the said sexual intercourse being then and there forcibly overcome, and being then and there prevented by fear of immediate and great bodily harm which she then and there had reasonable cause to believe would be inflicted upon her.
ENDORSEMENTS

THE DISTRICT COURT
For the County of St. Louis and State of Minnesota.
ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

THE STATE OF MINNESOTA
vs.
Louis Hayes

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.
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 19th day of July, A.D. 1920.

Witnesses examined before the Grand Jury:
Dr. David Graham
Irene Tusken
James T. Sullivan
John Murphy _W. J. McCabe_______________
A. G. Fiskett Foreman of Grand Jury.
Amanda Tusken
P. B. Sullivan
W. A. Coventry
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 19th day of July 1920, against Louis Hayes and presented to the Court in open Court by the Foreman of the Grand Jury, and filed on 19th day of July 1920, and that the same is a true and correct copy thereof.
__J. P. JOHNSON_______________Clerk.
By __M. M. Kruse_______________Deputy.