Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1910 — Page 1

No. 48.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Miss Queen Perry, of Lebanon, is visiting friends here. For this week only, two packages of Self-Rising Pancake Flour for 15c. JOHN EGER. I Bruce Hunt, a farmer residing near Monon, fell from a load of hay last Monday and was killed. $ • Now is the time for Country Sorghum. 65 cents a gallon. JOHN EGER. We are filling, in again with new staple spring goods and will sell them at cost to help sell other goods. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Albert Swing, of Francesville, was here this morning. He has rented his Gillam township farm to William Widener. - * * ____________ We. will continue a short time to give you the greatest values ever offered on everything. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Mrs. Ij'rank Bruner, who is working in Lafayette, visited her mother, Mrs. Chaß. Stanley, and daughter Maude, here today. As we are obliged to open our store again, we will,offer greater values than ever, to stock at once for the final sale. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. S. R. Nichols had a load of hogs, 67 head on the Chicago market today and secured the top price, $9.57% per hundred. This is probably the highest price ever paid for a load of hogs shipped out of Jasper county.

WEATHER FORECAST. Unsettled. • Rain or snow in north portion tonight or Saturday. Rising temperature.

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Household Goods for Sale. As we are going to move away, we will sell at private dale, the following articleß:—l square piano; 1 base burner; 1 couch; 1 dining table; 1 extension table; dining chairs and rockers; 1 kitchen cabinet; 1 clothes hamper; washing machine and .wringer; bed and commode; springs and mattress; 2 stands. ED HOPKINS, N. Cullen St. Some excellent Limberger Cheese, 50c the 2 pound brick. HOME GROCERY. We had buyers from Chicago to Philadelphia, Pa., but rather than give it away to them, we have decided to give it to our customers. / CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Sam Finney, one of the leading members of the Chicago Board of Trade, was here a short time yesterday looking after his local branch of the business. From heiA he went to Goodland and Fowler. ‘

Arthur Gilbert, of Fowler and his divorced wife, Mrs. Eva Gilbert, of Monon, have been reunited in marriage. The groom is now in business for himself "and is said to be doing well. Mj;s. Felix French, and daughter, who are visiting here from Hutchinson Kansas, are making their first visit pack to their old home in six years. They are visiting Mrs. French’s lister, Mrs. Thos. Lamson, and her brother, Jeff Smith. C. B. Wells was in from Barkley township yesterday and subscribed for the Republican for his sons Simeon and Morton, who after working a year at Minot, N. Dak., have rented a farm and commenced farming for themg! selves. Mr. Wells expects to .visit them in July or August.

The fB-nx>nths-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Alter, of Union township, is quite sick with membranous croup, which is about the same thing as diphtheria. The family physician administered anti-toxin yesterday evening and it is thought the little one will recover, Mrs. George Morehead and daughter, Rosa, of North Vernon, Jennings county, are visiting the family of H. C. ,Nevill. Miss Rosa will accompany Mrs. A L. Morehead on her return to her home at Linion, Colo. Ellery Morehead. a brother of Al, who has been in Union for several years, will start back there in a day or two after a visit of a month with relatives here, at Remington and in Jennings county. Otto Anderspn reports that his brother, A. C. Anderson, has tha yellow Jaundice and has been quite sick at his home for Several days. . He had expected to go tlf ough to North Dakota with Otto’s household goods while Otto accompanied his family but the doctor thinks this would not be safe for him to undertake and be will probably start as soon as he feels sufflc* iehtly well to undertake the trip. Toby Wood will accompany Qtto and John Tanner wkll go at the same time. They have now decided to load their effects at Ade, Newton county, instead of at Brook and to start March Bth.

JIMMT 1, 1897, u Bacond-oluß mall matter, at tSTport-offlo. at luumlui, maUna, uiuUr th« act of March 3, 187*.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1910.

BADER FOUND GUILTY IN BRIDGE GRAFT CASE

Head of Winamac Company Convicted of Presenting False Bill to the County Commissioners.

FACED WITH PEH. SEHTENCE Evidence Showed Bridge to be Almost 7 Tons of Metal Short and Otherwise Cheapened In Construction. Clinton L. Bader, head of the Winamac bridge company, was adjudged guilty by the Jury which had heard the evidence and argument in the case charging him with presenting a false claim' tp the county in the matter of the construction of the bridge over the Ho'we ditch in- Milroy township. The jury returned a sealed verdict which was opened this Friday morning at 9 o’clock after the Jury had been out all night. - The verdict carries with' it a penitentiary sentence of from 2 to 14 years and the possibility of a fine amount-. ing to SI,OOO.

The defendant was represented by Attorney George A. Williams, while the state was represented by Prosecuting Attorney, Fred Longwell, of Brook. After the verdict had been read, Attorney Williams verified it by asking each of the jurymen if it was his verdict and after each had answered in the affirmative, he consulted momentarily with his client, and then made a motidn for a new trial. The argument for the new trial will be made within a day or two and in the meantime the defendant has been placed in the custody of the sheriff. The verdict was not much of a surprise. The uncontroverted evidence which showed the bridge to be cheapened in construction and to be short in weight of steel almost seven tons, proved conclusively that the county was being defrauded and while the •knowledge and intention of the defendant to engage in fraud, was not clearly shown, the fact that the bridge had been’cheapened to the amount of $438 could scarcely escape the knowledge of the contractor. Mr. Longwell presented the States case very ably. After verifying the contract and the specificat ens, he inti oducted expert tesLuony. to show that the bridge did pot come up to the requirements. The bridge is what is called a hign truss steel bridge, w'th a 70-foot span and a 16-foot roadway. The specifications required that riveis be used in the construction. The testimony showed that in respect *tc If gth and width only did the bridge conform to requirements, that it was short in weight *of steel used in its construction to the weight of 13,885 pounds or almost seven tons, that bolts had been used instead of rivets, that there was a cheapening in the wopd used for the driveway and that almost every part of the bridge frame was less than called for by the specifications. It was shown that the raw metal used in bridge construction is worth about $1.30 per hundred pounds, that the freight per hundred pounds would be 20 cents and that the cost of having the raw material made into bridge parts would be 75 cents per hundred pounds, thus making the material laid down worth $2.25 per hundred. As 13,885 pounds had been saved it represented a saving' to the contractor of $312.41. It was also shoWn that to have erected the bridge as called soy would have required labor amountint to SIOO more than was used in the bridge that was constructed. It was then shown that there was a curtailing of wood parts amounting to $26. Thus a total of $438.41 had been saved in the construction and consequently the bridge was far inferior to the specifications and a? a whole 40 per cent weaker than it would have been had it con-

formed to the specified plans. The evidence of shortage was' not denied by the defense, but it was Admitted that the shortage existed, although Mr. Bader said in his testimony that he did not know the extent of the shortage. The defense introduced character Witnesses to prove the standing of the defendant in Winamac and these showed him to be of the highest standing in his home town. Mr. Bader testified that he was unable to get the kind of material called for in the specifications in time to complete the bridge by June Ist, when the contract called for its completion and that he thought the completion at that time urgent and informed the commissioners in April that he could not procure, the required material and that he was informed that he must erect a “good bridge.” He said it was with this understanding that he used a lighter material that was procurable. The bridge was completed on or about June Bth. At the May term of the commissioners $l,lOO had been allowed the contractor and at the July term he presented a claim fors3oo, the balance of the contract price. Mr. Bader was not present at that meeting of the commissioners and it was at that time that Wallace Marshall of the Lafayette Bridge Co., told the commissioners that he knew the bridge was Ar short of requirements and would be willing to testify before the grand Jury for the purpose of, having Bader indicted. Bader’s claim was not allowed in July, but in September it was allowed after a cut of SIOO had been made and he was- allowed $25 extra for an alleged change in the specifications thdt required a different backing or web support. Thus, he was allowed $225 instead of S3OO. * Charles Kelly, engineer for the Winamac Bridge Co., who had drawn up the specifications and . made the blue prints for this bridge, testified that in April Bader had told him that he could not get the required material and asked him if he had material of a lighter mold that would answer. Kelley did not deny the correctness of the state’s witness about the amoiyit of shortage. The county commissioners, John F. Pettit, Fred Waymire and Chas. T. Denham, all testified. Pettit and Waymire did not remember that Baker had told them in April that the bridge would be short of the specifications, but thought it was in June that he had told them. Mr. Denham thought it might have been as early as April when this statement was made by Bader. They were all of the impression, however, that the cheapening was of much less Importance and that it was not enough to amount to much. The cut in the allowance in September was made to cover the shortage. Bader professed Ignorance of the weight and measurements of steel, and his strongest defense was that he did not know the extent that the bridge failed to conform to the specifications. In summing up the trial it is evident from the testimony that the bridge was cheapened in the sum of almost $450, that Bader presented a bill for the full amount and that the shortage was at the expense of the tax payer? of Jasper county. Mr. Bader is a one armed man. He is a democrat in politics and prior to the election of Curtis D. Meeker, a few years ago, represented the WhltePulaski district In the state legislature. He is superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday school at Winamac, and has been identified with the anti-saioon movement In his home county. He is a man of pleasing address .and those who know, him best will be much surprised to find that the

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evidence was so strong against him. Mr. Bader took the verdict feelingly. He was plainly moved by the adverse finding of the jury. If the case is appealed and the finding of this court sustained Bader will be compelled to serve a term of from 2 to 14 years in the penitentiary.

AGED CITIZEN DIES SUDDENLY AT HIS HOME.

Joseph Yeoman, a Resident of Jasper County Since 1844, Ylctim of Paralysis of the Heart. Joseph Yeoman, an old and highly respected resident of Jasper county, died at about 1:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon at his home in the northwest part of Rensselaer. Mr. Yeoman had been in frail health all winter but had been somewhat improved the past six weeks. This morning he put in his time reading and gave no evidence of not feeling very well until dinner time when he said that he did not feel like he wanted anything to eat. His wife and daughter Mattie, his son-in-law John Rush and Mrs. Yeoman’s brother R M. Moore, were all in the house and after they had finished their dinner Mr. Yeoman got up from his chait and went to the bedroom, returning a minute later as though to resume his reading. Just as he reached his chair he fell and the family realized at once that he had been overcome by an attack of heart failure. The family physician was hastily summoned and found that the aged gentleman had passed away.

Deceased would have been 84 years of age the 2d of next September. He had been a resident of. Jasper county since 1844, having lived for many years in Newton township before he retired from the farm and took up his residence in Rensselaer. He leaves a widow and four children besides numerous other relatives. The children are, Mis? Mattie, Who lived at home, Robert and Reuben Yeoman, and Mrs. John Rush, all of Newton township. The funeral arrangements have notbeen made. I have bought Mrs. Imes’ stamping outfit and will be prepared to do all kinds of stamping. I have a line of embroidery floss.

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Washington's Birthday Celedrated By the Womans' Relief Corps.

The Womans’ Relief Corps at their hall Tuesday evening fittingly celebrated the 178th anniversary of the birth of Georgo Washington. The hall was decorated with flags and the favors were little hatchets presented by Mcsdames Rhus and Childers, who at tho close of a very entertaining"' program sorved a bountiful supper in honor of Mrs. Ella Hopkins, who will shortly remove to Washington. T*he program consisted of music, short talks by the members, and declamations and readings by the little folks. Little Miss Harper’s readings were especially fine and enjoyed by all piesent. I , Try a pound of our Mixed Sample Tea, 25 cents a pound.

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