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...last chapter of the Herrin coal massacre of a year ago appears to have been written...
...brief was submitted in reply to a request of the Commission for specified charges. It enumerated twelve cases of violence on a large scale in the bituminous fields since January, 1919, including the Herrin and Mingo County disasters...
Following the acquittal of six more defendants charged with murder in connection with the Herrin massacre last summer, the court (at Marion, 111.) announced that all the indictments against the untried defendants would be quashed. This virtually marks the end of the Herrin episode...
After a recess of eleven days, the trial at Marion, Ill., of Hugh Willis, State Executive Board member of the United Mine Workers, and five others charged with murder in connection with the Herrin riots, was resumed...
According to evidence given by various citizens of Herrin and Marion, Willis personally led the striking union miners who looted local hardware stores for rifles and ammunition, attacked the non-union mineworkers, and massacred nearly all who surrendered...