Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1892 — CHARGED WITH TREASON. [ARTICLE]

CHARGED WITH TREASON.

... A groat sensation was produced at Homestead Friday, by the arrest for treason of a number of tho members of the ad. vlsory committee of the strikers. The charge sets forth that Hugh O’Donnell Thor. J. Crawford, John McLuckie and thirty others, all members of the strikers’ advisory committee have committed treason. It states that tho defendants, who are Inhabitants and residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, did ordain, prepare and levy war against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the end that tho Constitution, laws and authority wore defied, resisted and subverted; and that the said defendants on July 1, with hundreds of others, armed and arrayed in warlike manner—that is to say. with guns, revolvers, cannons, swords, knives and clubs—did unlawfully, maliciously and traitorously assemble lu the borough of Homestead and then and there, with force and arms, did falsely and traitorously and In hostile and warlike manner array themselros In insurrection and rebellion against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, contrary to the duties of allegiance and fidelity of the said defendants. This is the first time in the history o the State that any resident has been charged with treason against the Commonwealth. and ibe outcome of the cases will be watched with Interest. The penalty, which was formerly death, is twelve years’ imprisonment In the penitentiary.