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worked the lever on the voting ma

il chine for the reason that I believed 1 the operating of the lever by everyone I that came in would jar the machine out of order. I never .heard any protest against my doins this."

At one point when Montgomery said he was not aware of any false registrations, Dailey asked, "Then they put something over on you?" The witness said they did if there were any false xegistrations. a Montgomery denied that he had ever pushed Noble Wilson away from the polling place, and when he was asked about Ophoff he said, "Can say truth fully that I ,do not know him." Some of the spectators tittered, and Judge

Anderson rapped for order.

J| Williams' Testimony. D. J. Williams said that he kntw Montgomery aatd that he knew him to bear a good reputation. He said he saw him instruot voters and show them how to vote. He said that he did not

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see Montgomery attempt to coerce or

intimidate any voter. He said Montgomery would show the voter how to L, arrange his ticket and then would ask him if he verted and would then turn the lever. He said he never heard an one protest against Montgomery's doing this. Dailey asked Williams if he was not a sudden convert to Rob^erfs' cause. He said he did not know he was a sudden "convert." He he had spoken for the republican

I *t and the next week spoke for By ©democratic ticket. He said Roberts RCi him $10 for making the speeches.

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'ie was a member of the board

by id heard no one complain of MontTjf.omery's actions at the polls. & f) Intensive Voting. •*. Working in relays of two, one turnJj ing the keys to vote ihe democratic *1 ticket and the other pulling the lever if of the voting machine to register the vote, the members of the Taylorville election board ran up a total of some 171 votes on November 3 for the demo-

cratic ticket before they were taken in

custody

by Sheriff Dennis Shea after

they had driven from the polls the special officers sent by Judge Cox to

I arrest them for violating his restraining order. This was the story told by Joe Jeffers in the election case Friday, S and it was corroborated by the other members of the board. Earl JefEers, democratic judge: David Hanna, inspector Bert Tosser, progressive clerk

Ed Merrit, democratic clerk, and Charles Yeakle, progressive judge. They didn't vote the democratic ticket straight, however, for it seems that the members of the board "had it in" for Bob Anderson, who was the democratic candidate for constable in Sugar Creek township, and they scratched him with every vote. All of them, however, didn't vote for his opponents, and he managed to pull through, ac. jrding to one of the witnesses.

The work of pulling the lever didn't devolve altogether on the regular members of the board, for Joe Jeffers testitied that he relieved them at intervals, saying that he must have voted from 25 to 40 times himself, while his brother, Dean, who was election sheriff, found time between slugging regularly appointed progressive officials who wanted to serve, and officers of Judge Cox's court, to run up a few Votes himself. No voters were allowed to enter the voting place while this was going on, and thus possibly interfere with their carefully laid plans. Earl Jeffers was in charge of the cards from which

the names were taken to be written on

sthe

list o? voters, and as he would read off a dozen or so names to be thus written.'he would transfer them from one pocket to another, that they n^ight j. be kept separate.

Joe Jeffers, who has become a kind of a popular hero from the amount of interest he has aroused around the federal building, told a fairly straightforward story, although there were some discrepancies in his story as compared with the testimony of other witnesses on the stand. For instance, he said that when he returned to Taylorville from Terre Haute about 2 o'clock he found Judge Cox's special officers had arrested the members of the election board and were starting to take them to the city in automobiles. He said that he went to the telephone, which is in the crematory building at the head of .the long incline that runs from the grade to the building, about 100 feet, and there telephoned to Chief Holler, who told him he had better report to Mayor Roberts to find out what to do. He phoned the mayor at democratic headquarters, and the mayor, according to his statement, told him to knock the officers in the head and drive them

away.

Then followed the

ault on Charles N. Albin and George Klatte, and the driving away of rihe special force.

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An Eventful Day.

While he was telephoning to police and democratic headquarters the officers from Judge Cox's court are supposed to have been peacefully waiting in their machines for Joe to come down and shoot 'em up. Numerous witnesses had testified that when Joe came back from Terre Haute and found his election board in custody he pulled his gun from his pocket, tried the trigger to see if it was working and declaring with an oatH that he would "kill the -first that got in his way,"' started after Wm. Morgan, one of the special officers, striking him with his right first while he shoved his gun into the man's body and drove him down the grade. Mrs. Minta Morgan, wife of the officer, testified to this

Thursday afternoon, and David Hanna, the inspector, told practically the same story Friday, as did Dr. Ernest Mattox, on Thursday.

Joe Jeffers was on the stand perhaps longer than any other witness in the entire trial. He displayed none of the braggadocia with which he has i'een clothed by newspaper stories, and

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DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

MISS MINMK MAKTIN',

Word was received here of the (teatli of Miss Minnie Martin of ImlltuiHpolifl after a lingering illness of tuberculosis. The remains will be brought tc Terre Haute and taken to the home ot Mr. and Mrs. W. S\ Bidnian, 1029 South Tentli street, where the funeral wtil be held. The deceased is survived oy two sisters. Mrs, Freeiand, of Palestine, 111., and Jane Martin, of Indianapolis, a brother, Ira Martin, and trio father, who iB in the soldiers' home. The funeral arrangements will be announced later.

MAHY P. HOVSTOX.

Miss J:arv P. Houston. 2 years 1 1. daup-hter «f Mr.

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Mrs. illiatu

Houston, died Saturday morning at 7 o'clock at the home, 164- Plum street. Death resulted after two weeks' suffering from burns received front falling into a pan of scald tug water. The deceased is survived bv a tlve-year-old sister, besides the parents. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the residence. The burial will be made at Highland lnwn cemetery.

THOMAS CAHlt.l..

Word was received heer of the death of Thomas 1a Cahill at his home In Los Angeles, Cal. The deceased was formerlv a resident of Terre Haute.

GKORGK ADAMS.

By Special Correspondent. ALLENDALE, 111., March 27.—George Adams, 82 years old, a pioneer restdent of Allendale, died here yesterday of pneumonia. He was one of the rnojt highly respected citizens of this community. He is survived by two sons., Fran, of this place, and J. W. Adams, of Indianapolis, and five daughters, Mrs. W. F. Courter, of this place: Mrs. I*. L. Courter, Mrs. Delia Wright anil Mrs. W. D. Seibert, of Mt. Carniel, Hi., ana Miss Ruth Adams of this plact, who lived with her father and who is also dangerously ill of pneumonia. The funeral will take place Sunday.

MRS. MARIAH HOXDERICK.

By Special Correspondent. MARSHALL, 111., March 27.—Mrs. Mariah Honderick of East Plum, years old, died Thursday at S p. in., after a long illness. She leaves a husband, M. Honderick, two sons, Adam of Indianapolis and Abie of Marshall, one daugther, Mrs. Anna Junker, ot Marshall, three sisters and four brothers Rev. E. M. Pierson of East St. Louis was called to preach the funeial. which was held at the U. B. church to-

MRS. MARY' STAFFORD.

By Special Correspondent. PARTS. 111., March 27.—Mrs. Mary Stafford, 90 years old, died Friday morning at her home in Hunter township. The deceased was a native or Kentuckv and is survived by four children, Ezekiel. Walter B. and Mrs. Julia David of Hunter township and John Stafford of Vigo county.

MRS. WILLIAM HAIXKS.

By Special Correspondent. BLOOMFIELD, Ind., March 27.—Mrs. William Haines, 75 years old, died at her home Friday morning after a few weeks' illness. She is survived by her husband and three children, Mrs. b. t. Coen, of Salt Lake City, Mrs. John Miller, of Shawnee. Okla., and Georga Haines of Bloomfleld.

MRS. JOHN TAYLOR.

By Special Correspondent. PARIS, 111., March 27.—The funeral of Mrs. John Taylor was held Friday morning at 11 o'clock at the Dunlap church. Interment was made at Dunlap cemetery. The deceased is survived by seven children.

WILLIAM H. RILEY.

By Special Correspondent. VINCENN'ES, Ind., March 27.—William H. Rllev, 82 years old, is dead at his home near Oaktown. He is survived bv two sons, Roy and David, and a daughter. Miss Mary Riley, all of Idaho.

seemed as mild mannered a man as ever slugged a court officer attempting to arrest him or ghoot up an election precinct to scare his opponents away. He lounged in the witness chair with his right knee over his left, and his clasped hands enclosed his knee the greater portion of the time. He threw his coat back to display his police star which he still wears despite the fact, as he testified, that he hasn't drawn any salary as such since the 2d of November, the district attorney asking him to make the showing. He used fairly good grammar throughout, although he occasionally would say "I seen him." He is possessed of a- spirit of humor that was manifested several times in his answers to questions. Once the district attorney asked him hia politics. Jeffers' eye twinkled as he replied:

Who Jeffers Exempted.

"I've got no political connections now. I was a democrat election day." Another time he was asked how many registrations his board made on registration day, and he answered, "All we could get a hold of." Askeu wny he didn't arrest Harvey Day in order to get rid of him as progressive Juage, he smiled as he said. "I thought I could handle him without that." The evidence showed that Joe told Day that it was hardly proper for him to try to serve as a progressive judge after he had acted as a republican watcher during registration, and Day said, "All right, if I haven't got any right'here I don't want to make any trouble." Day went to a lawyer who told him he had a right to serve and he went back to make a demand for his place, but when Dean Jeffers told him to "git" he "got."

Joe blamed Mayor Roberts for inspiring him to all the deeds that were perpetrated at Taylcrville, oeginnmg with the illegal registration and winding up with the assault on the special officers and the shooting up of the place in true wild west fashion. He said Roberts first proposed it to him a month or two before registration, at a meeting at democratic headquarters. Roberts also suggested the organization of an election and registration board at Taylorville that could be handled, expressing the sentiment, according to Joe, "that don't want any one on the board that I can't buy." After his talk with Roberts about the false registrations at Taylorville the mayor sent him to Holler and Nugent for further Instructions, and they handled the matter for him after that, although he testified that he saw Roberts every day or so from that time on until election. Roberts told him to get rid of Bill House on the election board, and the plan was to get House into a fight, or have him run into a boy with his bicycle which would justify his arrest, when he could be thrown into the detention cell and kept there until too late to act as a member of the board.

The Flight of House.

Earl Jeffers and John Gaddis, the Marshall boy, chased House on his hi•cle Monday afternoon before elv"_rder to provoke a. flghtty at and ..

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cape, and then the plot wan hatched to arrest him at night and throw hiin into the detention cell, to be kept there until after the election board had organized. Jeff era himself, ho said, arrested both Ramsey Ouess and House and threw them Into the cell, although he admitted that he knew at the time that they hud done nothing to warrant their arrest. He also planned the arrest of Hob Anderson after he had been assaulted by "Rlackie" Sullivan, Anderson, although a democrat and a candidate on the township ticket, evidently being out of sympathy with Jeffers and his methods. He also instigated the arrest of the other Anderson and Richard Hackney for tampering with the voting machine at Taylorville, an offense which has been Investigated by the present grand jury at Terre Haute and found to be without foundation. These are the men whom Sheriff Shea told in the detention cell that he was going to take before Judge Anderson, with whom he declared he said he had "fixed it" to punish for their crime.

Roberts also advised Jeffers to pay no attention to Judge Cox's restraining order, Jeffers said, but to get rid of House and Day in spite of the order. If any one interfered with his hoard he said Roberts told him he should knock them in the head. The United States government had nothing to do with the election, Roberts told him, and if any one pretended to be a marshal it was sure to be some Terre Haute man and he was to be treated in the same way as the others. He advised him, however, Jeffers said, that if any of Denny Shea's men came after them they were to surrender and go with them. They believed this, evidently, for when Shea appeared himself to arrest them after Judge Cox's deputies had been driven away they went with him peaceably. One of the Taylorville witnesses of the day said that Shea told them "he hated to it. but Cox was pretty heavy after him and he would have to take them with him."

Shot at Their Feet.

Describing his assault on Charles Albir., Joe said Albtn was "down half the time and up half the time between the crematory and the grade," but he used his fist principally on Albin, although he said he may have struck him once with a club. He emptied his gun shooting to scare the special officers. He didn't try to hit them, he said, but shot at their feet. Probably twenty shots were fired during this scene, he said, the other members of the board joining with him In ttie fusilade. He also said that Roberts told him how to manipulate the voting machines so a man who was "not voting right" might be led to think he had voted when he had not. Jeffers said Roberts told him that the lever could be raised up about one-third of the way and then dropped back, when the keys would fail to register, but would click the same as if they had.

Jeffers told how he Wad tried to resign his office as river patrolman one time and threw his star into Roberts' lap, but it was returned to lvm in a short time by Nugent, and he continued to act. Roberts paid him $90 a month out of his own pocket the first three months he acted as a special policeman, but afterwards Roberts made him a river patrolman and placed his name on the police pay roll, where it continued, he said, until after October.

On cross examination Jeffers said he had first been employed as special policeman by the mayor during his trial in the Circuit Court at Terre Haute. One time, while he was being paid by Roberts personally, the mayor had taken his salary to him in person while Jeffers was sick in bed at his home in Taylorville. Questioned as to who was present at democratic headquarters when Roberts first broached the padding of the registration boofcs at Taylorville he could only recall the names of Eddie Driscoll and Richard Knuckey. He said he had been a committeeman from Taylorville for three or four years and Stanley waited to krfow how it was that he knew so few of the other members of the county committee. He said he just didn't know them, although he attended about all of the meetings of ttie committee. Judge Anderson asked him just before he went off the stand what he got out of the work at Taylorville. He replied that he got nothing out of it himself, but "just did it to hold his job."

Jeffers has had a checkered career, according to his statements. He wa3 born in Clay county thirty-nine years ago, has been a boatman and a fisherman, made balloon ascensions and was a parachute jumper, farmed several years and was a cowboy in Texas. Around the federal building he showed a number of the attaches the hole in his trousers just at the left knee where a shot from Clarence Collins' revolver passed through without touching his skin the time Collins shot up the "Red Onion" saloon at First and Eagle and hit Harley Elliott, the policeman. Jeffers told the listeners that he would have shot Collins at the time but his gun was on the wrong side of his trousers and he knew if he reached after it Collins, who had the drop on him, would have killed him. He has a wholesome regard for Collins and said he had no doubt Collins would have shot him that time but for the fact that the man knew he had such a big family of children.

Didn't Mind His Wife.

David Hanna, the inspector, said that he knew nothing about voting machines and the one they used might have been upside down and he wouldn't have known the difference. He said that when they got ready to open the polls election morning Joe JefTers very anxious to have everything "on the square," and all those present were invited to come in and look at the machine and see that everything was all right. Hanna, whose grand father is said to have been a supreme judge of Indiana, said that if he had paid attention to his wife he would never have gotten into trouble, for she didn't want, him to serve. He was one member of the board that wasn't promised any pay by Nugent, but Joe told him during the day that if Redman should be elected there "was $25 on the side for him." There have been few occurrences referred to during the trial in which Hilton Redman's name has not been mentioned, but the onty mention during the Taylorville examination was that by Hanna, who said Redman met him -U the end of the bridge, the night before election and took him to the court house to be sworn in and to get his supplies, aftMr which he was taken

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back to the west end of the bridge in a machine. Bert Tosser, another member of the Taylorville board, said that while he was acting th,ere he was out of the Indiana reformatory on parole, having been sent there on a charge of grand larceny.

Lex Droit's Story.

Lex Droit, who was brought by writ of habeas corpus from the "Vigo county jail to testify, told a story that Representative Stanley found it hard to believe, and he repeated several times his question. "Do you mean to tell me? etc." Droit said he had been arrested for associating and fined by City Judge Smith without being given a trial or without any evidence having been heard against him. "While he was standing in line after the adjournment of court, he said, Smith called him over to the bench and told him that if he would find out for Smith what Jack Hines had testified to about him (Smith) before the federal granci juryhe would suspend the sentence against him. Droit promised to do so and was released. He made no effort, he said, to find out from Hines what he had testified to, and later he had been arrested and thrown Into jail about February 12. with charges preferred against him for associating, drunkenness, carrying concealed weapons and assault and battery with intent to commit murder, and had lain in jail since then without being brought to trial on either of the charges. He said lie bad been taken from jail the only time on writ of habeas corpus to appear in court here. "Do you mean to tell me," said Stanley, "that you were fined $10 and costs as you have said, and given ten day.5 in jail on the charge you have stated without any witnesses a.ppeu.ring against you, and without going through the form of a trial." "Yes, sir," said the witness. "Do you mean to tell me thai you were thrown into jail with all these charges you have named against you and have been there ever since without being given a hearing on any of them?" "T have." said Droit, and he had to smile as he said it. He was excused from the stand without further questioning.

The Governor Called.

Governor Samuel Ralston was one of the last, witnesses of the day for the government, and was called to tell of the appearance of Donn M. Roberts, Prosecutor Richard A. Werneke and Eli H. Redman before him on the afternoon of November A, the day following election, to a-sk that a commission be issued to Redman as judge of the "Vigo Circuit Court. After stating that he had been governor since January 13, 1313, he was asked if he knew Eli H. Redman. "Ts (hat Judge Redman?" he asked.

For the first time since the trial began Judge Redman was asked to stand up and be identified, and as he did so the governor said he knew him but was not acquainted with his son. In answer to a series of questions. Governor Ralston said that Redman, Roberts and Werneke had appeared before him on the afternoon of November 4 to request the issuance of a commission to Redman as judge of the Vigo Circuit Court. He said that Redman did not make the request by word of mouth buf: that it was made by Prosecutor Werneke, who did the most of the talking. "1 explained to them that at that time conditions were not proper for the issuiing of a commission. The returns of the canvassing board of Vigo county should have been forwarded by mail to the secretary of state and by him canvassed in my presence before would be warranted in issuing a commission. 1 observed that if the papers were in regular form 1 would not issue a commission at that, time as it would seem .in undue haste at. that early date. I told them 1 had been telephoned to by parties in Terre Haute protesting against the issuing of a commission. I remarked that tl"**e would be no particular vlr-

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tue In such a commission if it had been secured by fraud that it would be only prima facia evidence that Mr. Redman was entitled to the office in the absence of a contest, and would be brushed aside if fraud had taken place at the election." "In your conversation with the gentlemen," asked Representative Stanley. "was it not explained that an injunction was threatened to be issued by Judge Cox against your issuing a commission, and they apprehended that they would be enjoined if you did not Jgsue the commission then?" "They said that,"' Governor Ralston said with a smile, "but I suggested that I was not fearful of it." The governor was then excused, and District Attorney Dailey notified Bert New, legal adviser to the governor, who had also been summoned as a witness, that he was excused as well.

Newspaper Men's Day.

Repeaters have had their day in court during the trial, as have bondsmen for the arrested men, gunmen and others, and Friday was newspaper reporters' day. John Quinn, special writer on the Indianapolis Star, and Everett D. Watkins, state house man on the same paper, were called to tell of the presence at the capital on November

of Roberts', "Werneke and

Redman. Watkins said Mayor Roberts had been unusually proud of the showing made by the democrats of Vigo county In the preceding day's election, and bragged of the fact that Vigo was the only county In the state that had shown a gain over the returns of the preceding election. He said to him, Watkins said, that they had gained a thousand over the figures of two years ago. "Did he tell you how?" District Attorney Dailey asked, and when the witness said "No," everybody laughed. A. C. Duddleston, a Terre Haute newspaper man. was called t'o testify to the assault, that had been n"ade- on him election day at Taylorville by Jess Marshall, who wa3 made a member of the board after Sheriff Shea had taken the other members away. During the morning the assault was told of by several witnesses, and the fact was brought out of Marshall's appointment to a place on the board. VWas it thought." asked the district attorney, "that the assault on the Tribune reporter qualified him to serve on the Taylorville board?" but the witness, Earl Jeffers, said he didn't know.

Robert Ramsey, special agent for the bureau of investigation of the department of justice, was one of the last witnesses of the day." He told of his examination of the false registration blanks that had been identified by the parties who wrote them, and theircomparison with the registration books and the list of voters at the election. He said that of the total false blanks that had been identified,

1,410

had been

found on the registration books I tied by the officials with the county audftor. Comparing these names with those found on the lists of Voters written down at the polls on election day it had been found that in Precincts A, and of the Sixth ward, and Precinct of Sugar Creek, Taylorville, a total of

560

illegal votes had been thus

cast. Two hundred and fifty-seven of these blanks had been identified In Taylorville on which 171 illegal votes had been cast. The next highest number of such votes had been cast in A of the Sixth,

128

and the ne(xt,

registrations at

106.

Precinct of the same ward. Precinct C, of the Sixth, was the only one of the four in which none of the identified false blanks had been found recorded on the registration books, but. investigation showed that of the

illegal

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from the home of Mrs. McGinty.

them had been found on the list of voters of the precinct as having been voted.

Jon Strouse Sick.

The confinement indoors continuously for six hours a day, to which many of the defendants are unaccust

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added to the worry, is telling on some of them. Joe Strouse looks like a real sick man, while Alex Steele is said to have lost, thirty pounds in weight. Steele is still in the custody of the marshal, no attempts having yet been successful in securing bond for him. Except when in court and at lunch his time is spent in jail.

A voting machine was delivered to the federal building Friday night to be used as evidence for the defendants. It is claimed that the voting machine cannot be worked in the manner several of the inspectors hajve testified that Mayor Roberts instructed them to do and successfully deceive a voter as to having voted when he had not. John Masselink, one of the defendants, who is a practical machinist, was employed by the election commissioners election day to visit precincts in which the machines might get out of order. It is his assertion that it is utterly impossible to work the machines in the way described, by raising the lever a portion of the way and then dropping it back, although Joe Jeffers testified Friday that he tried it and, found it could be.

Mayor's Conclusion*.

Mayor Roberts has steadfastly refused since the trial began to talk for publication, but he remarked today that from the looks of things he had better have stayed at home and at* tended to business rather than campaign for governor. It is known that he is confident of upsetting much of the testimony that has been given against him.

One man of mystery has appeared in the election case, whose identity still remains unsolved, although the government has practically completed its evidence. It is the man who telephoned to the registration board at Taylorville that he had a number of men working for him near the S. I. bridge, who would be unable to regist6r in person, asking if it would be all right to bring their signed applications down to t% placed on the books. He said there were about 86 of them, and "Fatty" Clark, progressive clerk, who was one of the earlier witnesses, talked it over with Harvey Day, and they agreed it would be all right. That night the mysterious man appeared and presented a batch of applications, wrapped in a newspaper, which were laid away and copied into the record the nert day. They were counted, and found to be 119 in number. "Fatty," according to his testimony, was inclined to object to putting them on the record, but Joe Jeffers said he had gfiven his word on it, and it would have to be kept.

No evidence has yet been introduced to establish the identity of this man, and none of the witnesses have appeared to have the slightest idea, as to who he was. Joe Jeffers said Friday that the man's face was familiar to him, but he didn't know his name. When the fact was first brought out it was suggested that It might have been Hilton Redman, but when he stood up for identification "Fatty" said he wasn't the man. The mystery man will go down into history in company •with "The man with the iron mask."

Representative Stanley's Kentucky dialect doesn't often go beyond that soft burr that seems peculiar to those who live close to the southern side of the Mason-Dixon line, but Friday he employed a peculiarly southern expression. Several times during the examination of EJd. Merritt he asked "What did you all do when this happened," and it occurred several times during the time Merritt was on the stand.

Once during the day District Attorney Dailey objected to the form of cross examination Representative Stanley was using, saying that it was not proper. Judge Anderson said, "We will never get through unless we let him ask such questions. Let the witness answer."

Arguing the question as to the right of an insDector to work the voting a§a-

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chine lever, failey said Friday, "If a thousand men should hold a town Aieeting and order the inspector to SM^dle the lever it wouldn't be right aiwl it wouldn't be the law."

County Clerk Joyce didn't say it in that many words but his manner Indicated that he thought the petition accompanying the list of prohibition candidates that Mayor Roberta wanted put on the official ballot was "phoney." There was ample time to get it on the ballot, that he threw it in the waste basket. It is said that the name of Walter Oliphant, at that time democratic trustee of Linton township, was one of the men named for a pface on the prohibition ticket.

The number of exhibits in the case have now reached a total of 65. In this particular the trial is far behind that of the dynamiters with which .it is continually compared. In that case the number of exhibits was over 600.

Earl Jeffers seems to have come nearer getting the $25 promised him4 by Jack Nugent than any other of. the Taylorville board. He received a total of $20 for his day's work. The amounts the different members claim to have received don't tally at all with those Nugent said he gave them.

BURKE TRIAL BATE SET.

NEW YORK March 27.—Announcement, was made today that the trial of John Burke, of Indianapolis, commissary of the Panama canal zone, and two others indicted with him on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States, had been set for May 17, when Major General George W. Goethals, governor of the canal zone, will be in New York.

"BOB" CORNELL ROBBED.

A $500 gold watch and about $8.5fr was taken from Robert Cornell, formerly a Terre Hautean, when three men entered an interurban car near Houston, Tex., and held up the passengers, advices from that city sayMr. Cornell, who at present is advertising manager of the Houston Chro#, icle, was one of two men to lose watch.

HEART ATTACK FATAL.

August J. Brunner, 55 years old. dropped dead Saturday morning in room at the home of Mrs. Burton, at Twenty-sixth street and Harrison avenue.

Dr. J. B. Maguire was called and said heart disease was the cause of death: Brunner was a carpenter and has a sister living on the Lockoort road and several other relatives living in the city.

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