Arthur Pelcher. Case File No. 5686. 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: Arthur Pelcher. Case File No. 5686. 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. 5686: Arthur Pelcher.

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INDICTMENT RECORD.
5686
The District Court for the County of St. Louis and State of Minnesota.

THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.
vs. ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
Arthur Pelcher

Arthur Pelcher is
ACCUSED by the Grand Jury of the County of St. Louis, Minnesota, by this indictment of the crime of Murder in the First Degree.
to-wit:
Committed as follows: The said Arthur Pelcher, on the fifteenth day of June, A.D. 1920, at the City of Duluth, in the County of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, with a premeditated design to effect the death of one Isaac McGhie, a human being, did wrongfully, unlawfully, willfully and feloniously kill the said Isaac McGhie by then and there strangling the said Isaac McGhie with a rope, which said killing of him, the said Isaac McGhie, by him, the said Arthur Pelcher, was then and there without excuse, justification or authority of law.
ENDORSEMENTS

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

THE STATE OF MINNESOTA
vs.
Arthur Pelcher

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 __1st__ day of __July__ 1920

__J. P. JOHNSON____________
Clerk.
By __J. S. Moody_____________
Deputy.
__Warren E. Greene___________
County Attorney.
Dated at Duluth, in the County of St. Louis and State of Minnesota,
On this 29th day of June, A.D. 1920.

Witnesses examined before the Grand Jury:
Constant Walker
John Murphy
A. G. Pickett _W. J. McCabe_______________
James McAuliffe Foreman of Grand Jury.
A. J. Carson
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 29th day of June 1920, against Arthur Pelcher and presented to the Court in open Court by the Foreman of the Grand Jury, and filed on 1st day of July 1920, and that the same is a true and correct copy thereof.
__J. P. JOHNSON_______________Clerk.
By __M. M. Kruse_______________Deputy.