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Show I CHARGED WITH I inns g ft Arrest of Alleged Night Rider fi I Band in Camas Prairie Coun- 1 1 SENSATION EXPECTED I H WHEN THE TRIALS BEGIN I K 'Seven Men Named in the Indict- S ments Found in Federal Btfttfi Special to The Tribune. BE BOISE, Tda., June 9. Charged with, wSttf. terrorir.inp the settlers in the Camas; Mall Prairie country in south central Idaho i jjwflY h-" the "so of Kentucky niiiht rider tac BSBg tics, and conspiring to defraud the gov- Wag eminent of its lands, Charles N. .John- HBt son, E. C. Griswold. Harry 3IeAdams H i larvin. Ottis "Wilsey, .lerry Hcrpie, nD? .Tames and E. Koy Hanford. all en- IHgi rrvmen on the Prairie, ;ere placed un- Hj; der arrest iodav bv Deputy United HHHf States Marshal Hodeius, arrniRned be- URi fore United States "Commissioner Bax- UM'r ter at Soldier and released on $1500 HHj'1 .cash bonds each. WMfl Although indicted by a federal grand MH3 .ir.v ' this city last spring the dc- HKi fendanls wore, not taken into rustodv Mils until deputies could quietly lay their IK .plans to effect their arrest, which was Hra .successfully accomplished, all seven of EEfn the nipht riders submitting when they Baft -realized that resistance was useless. HKy Their trial, it is claimed by government HRM officials, will be one of tho most sensa- Wwj tinnal ever held in Idaho. Hb One Killing Resulted. HI' When Joseph K. Vatight shot and .killed 1). V. Emmons .just outside of the postollice at Soldier, tho facts sur- utfi rounding tho tactics followed by the NHj -night riders became known. Emmons ffiW vrns in sympathy with them. Vnught BBB vras not, and they mwrrelcd. At the rSh hearing Vanght declared that it was BBflf not uncommon for the riders to mask HB 'and travel in bands over t.ho Prairie HJV threatening lo tar and feather entry- HJK men. This fact accounted for the my's- BH ierious disappearance of setters, the Warn sudden departure of ranchers who, fear- HH inc for their lives, hurriedly left the HH Prairie and for the screams' that had HB -been heard in the dead of night, but Hjtt discussed only in private. The1 federal jHff sccrpt agents followed up the story told HR ,bv Vaught, who was acquitted oi the HJ charge of murder at his preliminary H' hearing. They plncod n volume of evn- H denco in the "hands of the district at- Hl torncy. He presented it to the grand HB .iury and tho secret indictments an- HH nounced today were the result. HH Charged in Indictments. 6n The first to indictments name HB James and E. Roy Hanford as the de- BB fendants. Tt is alleged in the true HJ bills that the 1 fan fords conspired to HE unlawfully, feloniously, conspire, com-bine. com-bine. confederate, injure, oppress, HHfl threaten and resort (o unlawful means NuH to force one Thomas Wright, a settler BE on the Prairie, to abandon his contest KS against a certain entry held by one H Katherine M, Hanford, formerly Rathe-- BE1 fine M. Burns. The cntefit was tiled JBW December 21, 1910. Not satisfied with IBB riding to the Wright place and threat- BS ening the entryman. the defendants are W said to have written threatening letters SB The letters class Wright's conduct, hS as contempf.ihle, unprincipled, morally Bft anf financially dishonorable, and the Qffi defendants and their friends declared BJBj they proposed to help Mrs. Hanford fin The second true bill against the Han- BJH fords charges them with intimidating HH one Dee M. Story on October 22, 1910, Hfll anl attempting to defraud him of his JB right, and entry. (BH nc tn'r indictment is against John- HBB son et al., including ' Grcswold, Mc- jBB Adams. Wilsey and Herpie. They are indicted on three counts charging them Mra with threats' to intimidata and riding JJh over the prairie to threaten and torture i&Hjjf 'entn-men. some of whom are named in iSM no indictment as Joseph K. Vaught gflflg and Albert T. Lick. |