Hellraisers Journal – Monday October 7, 1912 Lake Charles, Louisiana – Nine of Grabow Defendents Will Be Tried Together
From the New Orleans Times-Democrat of October 6, 1912:
SEVERANCE IS GRANTED ———- Nine of Grabow Defendants To Be Heard Together. ———-
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Special to The Times-Democrat.
Group of Fifty-Eight Prisoners Held at Lake Charles in Connection with the Grabow Riot. The First Trial is Set for Monday.
Lake Charles, La., Oct. 5-After hearing the motion argued for more than an hour this afeternoon, Judge Overton rendered a deciaion granting the motion for severance in the Grabow riot murder cases, asked for by the district attorney. Accordingly the nine men named in the motion will be placed on trial Monday morning [October 7th]…..
The nine men who will be placed on trial Monday are: A. L. Emerson, president of the Brotherhood of Timber Workers; Jack Payne, alias Charles Gibbon, Louis Brown, Ed Lehman, Edgar Holingsworth, John Hilton, Doc Havens, F. E. Ezell and W. A. Chatman.
It is conceded that these are the men against whom the State has the striongest case…..
