Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1919 — SEVENTEEN NEGROES INDICTED [ARTICLE]

SEVENTEEN NEGROES INDICTED

As Result of Race Riot Invcstigation in Chicago. Chicago, August s.—Seventeen negroes were charged with rioting and tmturder in indictments voted yesterday by a special grand jury investigating race riots which for five days last week held the south side of Chicago in a reign of terror. The indictments will be returned before Judge Robert E. Crowe in the criminal court today. While city, county and state authorities combined in seeking causes that led t<*> the rioting in an endeavor to fix responsibility, 6,000 state troops, 3,000 policemen and 1,000 deputies continued to patrol the negro quarter.