Max Mason. Case No. 6785. Case Indictment Record. August 1921.

Type of event: Incarcerations

Location: Stillwater; Washington County; Minnesota; United States

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Document type: Gov't Record(s)

Document subtype: Indictment Record

Documents: Max Mason. Case No. 6785. Case Indictment Record. August 1921.

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Minnesota State Prison (Stillwater, Minn.) [Stillwater State Prison].
Max Mason: Case No. 6785.
Commitment Papers.
Case no. 6785, August 1921.
Indictment Record.

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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
MAX MASON

I N D 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 19th day of July 1920.

J. P. JOHNSON Clerk.

By W. R. Wasson

Deputy


Warren E. Greene
County Attorney.

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


THE STATE OF MINNESOTA )
:
VS. : ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
:
MAX MASON )

Max Mason is

ACCUSED by the Grand Jury of the county of St. Louis, Minnesota, by this indictment of the crime of Rape, committed as follows, to-wit: the said Max Mason, on the fourteenth day of June, A. D. 1920, at the City of Duluth, 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 Max Mason; 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 here, 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 19th day of July, A. D. 1920.
W. J. McCabe
Foreman of the Grand Jury
Witnesses examined before the Grand Jury:
Dr. David Graham
Irene Tusken
James T. Sullivan
John Murphy
A. G. Fiskett
Amanda Tusken
P. B. Sullivan
W. A. Coventry