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John Hammerberg. Case File No. 5721. June-August 1920.

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John Hammerberg.  Case File No. 5721.  June-August 1920.

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INDICTMENT RECORD.
5721
The District Court for the County of St. Louis and State of Minnesota.

THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.
vs. ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
John Hammerberg

John Hammerberg is
ACCUSED by the Grand Jury of the County of St. Louis, Minnesota, by this indictment of the crime of Murder in the First Degree,
to-wit:
Committed as follows: The said John Hammerberg, on the fifteenth day of June, A.D. 1920, at the City of Duluth, in the County of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, with a premeditated design to effect the death of one Isaac McGhie, a human being, did wrongfully, unlawfully, willfully and feloniously kill the said Isaac McGhie by then and there strangling the said Isaac McGhie with a rope, which said killing of him, the said Isaac McGhie, by him the said John Hammerberg, was then and there without excuse, justification or authority of law.
ENDORSEMENTS

THE DISTRICT COURT
For the County of St. Louis and State of Minnesota.
ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

THE STATE OF MINNESOTA
vs.
John Hammerberg

INDICTMENT

“A TRUE BILL”

W. J. McCabe________________
Foreman of the Grand Jury.

Presented to the Court in open Court by the Foreman of the Grand Jury, in the presence of the Grand Jury and filed with the Clerk this __1st__ day of __July__ 1920

__J. P. JOHNSON____________
Clerk.
By __W. R. Wasson___________
Deputy.
__Warren E. Greene___________
County Attorney.
Contrary to the form of the Statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the State of Minnesota.
Dated at Duluth, in the County of St. Louis and State of Minnesota,
On this 1st day of July, A.D. 1920.

Witnesses examined before the Grand Jury:
Dr. David Graham
Leslie Smith
James McAuliffe _W. J. McCabe_______________
Paul Albinson Foreman of Grand Jury.
STATE OF MINNESOTA. DISTRICT COURT ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
COUNTY OF ST. LOUIS.

I HEREBY CERTIFY That I have compared the foregoing with the original indictment, and also the endorsements, therein found by the Grand Jury of said County on the 1st day of July 1920, against John Hammerberg and presented to the Court in open Court by the Foreman of the Grand Jury, and filed on 1st day of July 1920, and that the same is a true and correct copy thereof.
__J. P. JOHNSON_______________Clerk.
By __W. F. W. Hale_____________Deputy.

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