Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-05-24 | Page 1 | Dozen Are Indicted for Fatal Beating

Dozen Are Indicted for Fatal Beating Manslaughter and Conspiracy to Do Bodily Injury Are Charges Against Union Men. CHICAGO. May 88. The grand Jury today to-day indicted twelve men In connection with the death of Charles Carlstrom, the member of the Carriage-Makers" union who filed as the result of the heating he received at the hands of thucs. hired by the officials of the union, according to their own statements. The Indicted men are George Miller, formerly preslelent of the union, Henry Ne-uman, secretary; Charles J Casey, business agent; six members of the exee-u- il v mmlttee ef the union, and Charles lillhoolcy, Marcus Looney and Edward Felley the three men who were hired by the officials uf thi union to beat men who did not go on strike- or took the strikers" strik-ers" places. Death Due to Pneumonia. The indictments charge manslaughter and conspiracy to commit great bodily horm. the autopsy having shown that the death of Carlstrom was due directly to pneumonia. The physicians declared that the disease was probably the result of injuries in-juries he received but It wo still the direct di-rect cause of death, and the men could not, therefore, be charged with murder.