"Can't Get Justice"

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 testified to what they beheld on that fatal day, only to be impeached by witnesses who plainly were interested in the defense and who clearly were testifying falsely."

The request that the remaining indictments be nullified was made by Delos Duty, State's attorney for Williamson county, after A. W. Kerr, chief counsel for the United Mine Workers, had demanded that the rest of the defendants be immediately tried.

" I am not going to try any more of these cases," said Mr. Duty. " Right or wrong does not make any difference ! "