Louis Dondino. Case No. 6614. Indictment Record. February 1921.
Type of event: Incarcerations
Location: Stillwater; Washington County; Minnesota; United States
Document date:
Document type: Gov't Record(s)
Document subtype: Indictment Record
Documents: Louis Dondino. Case No. 6614. Indictment Record. February 1921.
Citation:
Minnesota State Prison (Stillwater, Minn.) [Stillwater State Prison].
Louis Dondino: Case No. 6614.
Commitment Papers.
Case no. 6614, February 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
:
LOUIS DONDINO )
Louis Dondino 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 Louis Dondino, John Doe, Richard Roe, and divers other person 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 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 therefrom and from
said custody, and of assaulting and killing the said Isaac McGhie, Elmer Jackson
and Eli Clayton, the said Louis Dondino did then and there wrongfully,
unlawfully, willfully, feloniously and riotously instigate, promote and aid the
said John Doe, Richard Roe, and said divers other person to the number of three
and more, then and there present and
State of Minnesota vs. Louis Dondino
Instigating a Riot
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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 the
said other public 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 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 an 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 30th day of June, A. D. 1920.
W. J. McCabe
Foreman of the Grand Jury
Witnesses examined before the Grand Jury:
John C. Brown
J. N. Nystrom
Oscar Olson
Herbert J. O’Brien
James
McAuliffe
Paul Albinson
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THE DISTRICT COURT
For the County of
St. Louis and
State of Minnesota
ELEVENTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT
The State of Minnesota
VS.
Louis Dondino
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 13th day of July 1920.
J. P. Johnson
Clerk.
By W. R. Wasson
Deputy
Warren E. Greene
County
Attorney.