Following the acquittal of six more defendants charged with murder in connection with the Herrin massacre last summer, the court (at Marion, 111.) announced that all the indictments against the untried defendants would be quashed. This virtually marks the end of the Herrin episode.
An official statement from the Attorney General's office declared that " the prosecution is reluctantly obliged to admit justice cannot be obtained in Williamson county. No impartial jury can be obtained to try the men responsible. Witnesses, reliable and trustworthy, at great risk of personal violence, have courageously...
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