The People v. Samaras

O11 July 14, 1932, an indictment was returned in the criminal court of Cook county charging Peter Tjenos, Louis Samaras and John Samaras with murder. The indictment consisted of one count, and charged that the assault was made upon the deceased, John Protopapas, by means of arson. It alleges that the defendants Louis Samaras and John Samaras unlawfully murdered the deceased, because, as the indictment says, while they were engaged in the pursuit of a certain felonious intent (arson, in the burning of a certain building,) Protopapas and divers other human beings were in the building, and that…