Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1910 — What a Winamac Paper has To Say of Bader’s Parole. [ARTICLE]

What a Winamac Paper has To Say of Bader’s Parole.

Winamac Republican. The whole community was relieved Saturday noon when the word was received in Winamac that Gov. Marshall had taken a hand in the spite suit filed against the Winamac Bridge Co., by a rival company, and had paroled C. L. Bader, who was under sentence, having been found technically guilty of a violation of a state law. Gov. Marshall issued a parole until the matter can be heard and determined by the supreme court. Atty. M. M. Hathaway and Dr. George W. Thompson went to Indianapolis to lay the matter before Governor Marshall, who on the showing of the facts in the case, was glad to grant the request they made. At first the governor insisted oh taking evidence tn the matter, and questions and answers were taken down by a short-hand reporter. In the meantime the governor was reading, the report of the case in the Winamac newspapers and learning of the unity of public sentiment in Winamac and Pulaski county. After reading these newspapers he stopped the taking of evidence and said he was satisfied, and would grant a parole. He requested however that a formal petition be presented to him for filing. This was prepared by Atty. Hathaway and Dr. Thompson upon their return home. Dr. Thompson says. the petition was freely signed by everybody l , to whom is was submitted, except Joseph Hepp, who refused to sign it.

Mr. Bader will resume his work as business manager of the bridge company. The people of Winamac and Pulasti county will always have a warm place in their hearts for one L. P. Shirer, sheriff of Jasper county. Mr. Shirer is a big man in every sense of the word—he weighs 260 pounds—and has a big heart in proportion to his size. “There are some unpleasant duties connected with the sheriff’s office,” said he, to the Republican editor Thursday evening, “but the errand that brings me to Winamac is the most painful I have ever had to perform.” Mr. Shirer’s courtesy and kindness to Mr. Bader, while Mr. Bader under the court’s ruling was a prisoner -under sentence, was the most considerate and most kind, and is appreciated by the whole people of Pulaski county as it must be by all who know anything about the circumstances, or whose heats beat with love and consideration for their fellow men. When Mr. Shirer returned Sunday to his home in Rensselaer, he left in Winamac many who will be his life Jong friends. Atty. M. M. Hathaway is confident that the supreme court will reverse the decision of the court.