Show INDICTED FOR PEONAGE Prominent Farmers Put up r. r Bond Each Each Re Re Released ML I leased From From- Prison I Cape eau Ghan Mo o. o June Junc 22 Two T o Two In Indictments each containing four forty ol Cort c counts were Returned at noon today 1 by byI l I tile tio grand jury y Investigating the thc evidence ovid evi ovi- d dence In In the time peonage cases Charles Charlos M. M Smith sr Er Charles Charlos s M. M Smith jr James lI B. B Smith Rex Smith and the lie 1 tenants and emptores on their farm arm Fields William Woods s Floyd Flod Woods Benjamin Stone and V Yo Lee Leo Rodgers were name named in both in indictments In- In as s found violating the lie peonage peonage peon peon- 1 age and civic rJ rights clauses of or the tho federal fed fed- ate oral eral statutes statutes Each Ech Indictment represents i the evidence given by a negro or 1 other person on claiming to know leow of or slave lave conditions on 01 the time Smith farm conditions Time The maximum penalty for each offense of- of r fens Is a sentence of ten yeas yea's years In the time Government GO penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth Leav- Leav i r lan Kan and a tine line o of The lliO rie men were released on 1000 bond each cacho They hc will wi be lie tried at the thc I regular term of or court September 11 1 J. J |