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Show DEATH MARCH I I ACCUSED WILL SQUEAL, BELIEF i f I Heirin Men Indicted Will Turn State's Evidence, I Official Says JURY HARD AT WORK Signs of Panic on Faces of Witnesses as They Depart MARlo.V. Ills.. Aug 30. (By the Assodut.-d Presq Attorney General Brumlaj'c of Illinois this afternoon, state-il he believed number of persons per-sons to be Indicted by the special grand Jury Investigating the Herein Massacre would turn states evidence.' Twenty-two persons were kllb-d ii the mine war June 21 and '2.2. Nam"- of several hundred persons alleged participants in the Herrin massacre, In w.iieh 22 persons were' killed, have been furnished the special; 3runl jii' y Inv . ;;.iUnt; tLe mine wai.j ir w is P arhed t d m In order to suv.- time, Attorney Gen- eral MiddlekaUff, who Is assisting In ih" Investigation, Interviews witnesses before the) eni r the grand Jury room I LErtTKR 1 LEADS Attorney G6heral Brundago of ii-llnols, ii-llnols, is receiving stacks of anon-t anon-t inous letters daily, giving him new) leads, and containing names of suk- gCStcd WlttaeSfl',s and of men alleged! to have been in the "death march."! Names of witnesses are no longer being mnu- public. Tins action was! taken on advieo of State s Attorney liclos Duty, who declared witnesses, would Ie. e the county through fe,, if their Identity became known M(.n ol PANI4 The witnesses appear nervous aE I they wait in the corridor outside the..! I jury room, and when they emerge 1 ( from the grand Jury room, signs of ! panic- are In their luces. One witness Tuesday refused to tes , I tlfy. and he was to be called before j the Investigating body again today i 'Should he continue in his refusal he! I will be charged with contempt It was I i said. Other Witnesses have suffered a ' I complete 08S of mcmoijr It was -i 1 A large number of federal secret service operative? are here some t o i I Btlfy, and others to Investigate tes-' j timor.y oo |