Show I SLAVES HELD HE D ON 1 MISSOURI FARM Serious Charge Is Preferred Against Wealthy Owners of Big Ranch NEGROES KEPT PRISONERS M. M 1 South Smith mill and Suit Son Accused of I Holding ing Black Laborers in ill Guarded Stockade SI St Louis louls Mo ro June Jimno 13 Charles Charl Charles s M M. Smith and amid his son Charles M. M jr jl o of Mo In who surrendered eti to Deputy United States Marshall l Nail in n St St. Louis Wednesday when they thy learned earned that warrants charging them with peonage had been heen Issued say there Is no ito foundation for or the time charges against them The Tho Smiths are arc Carmels Carmel's farm farm- irs era whose whoso wealth Is estimated at nearly The Timi accusation against them t is that they hey have hn brought negroes from the tIme So South th to work worl on un their farms and amid have held them prisoners In iii a stock stock- ado ade anti and prevented them from frau communicating com coin with tho time outside world I ld om on Bill Bonds II I The Time father and anti son were wem released on In bonds of each and amid will be bc taken to Capo Cape Girardeau for ary hearing Th Thursday urs ay Wednesday United States Mar Marshal Morsey forsey antI and Deputies Williams and antI N lid arrested James K g. Smith a rela rela- tive U of the time St. St Louis prisoners on their f farm um near Sll eslon Warrants kro krow are also out for Cor r Smith William w oo n Woods s Charles Smith Joseph WashIngton Wash Wash- Ington Jeff Fields and arul William Stone Tuo wo Negroes I TIme he were vere issued on comno com com- plaint of C J John hn 1 and nry Stokes blokes no negroes who said they escaped from ron time lIw acre 00 lc farm tann of or lie Sn Smiths and r came CamO to SU St Louis rhey worn wont to District Attorney Dyer Iyer anti told l him l mt they fort forty other othel negroes iB two women whose had d them were werl vet e said hold that b h by the Smiths lh They y they were kept In n. n stock stock- ado atJe M t by men with 9 amid n that o received no nu for work W pay r their Treated 11 a a S Irl Prisoners They lint thal two ago agol Charles M. M I. I l Sn Smith ft Jr Jr- went to Momon Mom Memo anti hired thirty negroes oes to work worl on Oh n the lie farm arm The They were to set get N 1 SO a Hoard board day w with and hoard foard their or 2 3 a Ia day without work was to b. b be to m clear a tract of her swamp swami amid at al They the hl allege farm that thal ss when tile arrived thc they Were Wele treated nN as S prisoners anti and wC re nut miot ol to tu receive ri or om tend letters tot and amid that the llio 1103 dim dill not lIot 1 Stok told the tho theIr ther Ja pay reg regularly arly attorney that 1103 were antI beaten lIlt elus The women wo- wo men muon lie sal saId were ware forc forced ilo work VOrk nn anti tu to tb In n I. I were not nol 4 to com coin who takemi might have hav S them aWa away from time the camp |