Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1910 — JUDGE FINED SHERIFF $100 FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT. [ARTICLE]

JUDGE FINED SHERIFF $100 FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT.

For Not Having Conducted Bader to The Penitentiary at Onfce Judge The failure of Sheriff Louis P. Shirer to conduct Clinton L. Bader to the penitentiary after the sentence waß passed on the latter for bridge graft resulted this Monday morning in Judge C. W. Hanley imposing on Sheriff Shirer a fine of SIOO for contempt of court. The sentence was passed on Bader on Monday evening, March 7th, and the court ordered the sheriff to carry out the sentence by taking the convicted man to the penitentiary. The next day it is understood the sheriff was Instructed to wait a day or two until the court heard from some investigations that had been instituted about other bridges that Bader’s company had built in Jaspfer county. On Wednesday evening the court ordered the clerk to make out committment papers and this was done but the sheriff could not start until the next morning, when he took Bader to his home In Winamac, where he was to be given a chance to straighten some business affairs and bid his family farewell. The sheriff was of the opinion that the court acquised in the action and that he had under the law five days from Wednesday in which to carry out the instructions of the court. The sheriff remained In Winamac until Sunday afternoon, during which time Bader’s attorneys and friends busied themselves in getting Governor Marshall to intervene. On Sunday a letter reached the sheriff bearing the signature of Governor Marshall and ordering him not to conduct Bader to the penitentiary but to release him pending a decision by him as to whether or not he would grant a parole until the case could be heard on appeal to the supreme court. On Sunday evening the sheriff and Mr. Bader and his two daughters came to Rensselaer in an automobile and after consulting his attorney George A. Williams, Mr. Bader returned to Winamac. Within a few days a parole was granted by the governor until such time as the supreme court could rule on the appeal. The court by fining the sheriff ruled that he had overstepped his rights in allowing Bader to remain at Winamac while his friends were at work in his behalf. After the sentence was passed by the court Sheriff Shirer’s attorneys, G. A. Williams and Frank Foltz, gave notice of an appeal from his decision and no bond was required.