Carl John Alfred Hammerberg. Case No. 5148. Indictment Record. January 1921.
Type of event: Incarcerations
Location: St. Cloud; Stearns County; Minnesota; United States
Document date:
Document type: Gov't Record(s)
Document subtype: Indictment Record
Documents: Carl John Alfred Hammerberg. Case No. 5148. Indictment Record. January 1921.
Citation:
Minnesota State Reformatory for Men [St. Cloud State Reformatory].
Carl John Alfred Hammerberg: Case No. 5148
Commitment Papers.
Case no. 5148, January 1921.
Indictment Record.
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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 HAMMERBERG )
John Hammerberg
is
ACCUSED by the Grand Jury of the County of St. Louis, Minnesota, by this
indictment of the crime of Instigating a Riot, committed as follows, to wit: the
said John Hammerberg, John Doe, Richard Roe, and divers 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 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 person, to-wit: on Isaac McGhie, Elmer Jackson and 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 Hammerberg did then and there wrongfully,
unlawfully, willfully, feloniously and riotously instigate, promote and aid the
said John Doe, Richard Roe, and said divers 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 divers 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
divers other person 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 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 the 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 an divers 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 29th day of June, A. D. 1920.
W. J. McCabe
Foreman of the Grand Jury
Witnesses examined before the Grand Jury:
John C. Brown
Lester
Smith
James McAuliffe
Paul Albinson
5723
THE DISTRICT
COURT
For the County of St. Louis and
State of
Minnesota
ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
THE STATE OF
MINNESOTA
VS.
JOHN HAMMERBERG
I N D I C T M
E N T
“ 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 14th day of July
1920.
J. P. Johnson
Clerk
By W. R.
Wasson
Deputy
Warren E. Greene
County
Attorney.