Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1911 — MAY BE BLUFF ABOUT TOM KNOTTS GRAFT CHARGE. [ARTICLE]

MAY BE BLUFF ABOUT TOM KNOTTS GRAFT CHARGE.

\ * Detective Dean Asked by Prosecutor to Produce Substantial Evidence Against Gary Mayor. Gary, Ind., Sept. 10.—“ The evidence has got to be conclusive,” said Charles Greenwald, prosecutor of Lake county, today, In discussing bribery cases, wherein Mayor Thomas E. Knotts, City Engineer C. A. Williston and five aldermen of this city were arrested Friday on charges of having accepted 116,000 for their votes in the passage of the Dean heating franchise. “I am tired of this horse play that has been going on in Lake, county for the past three years,” he continued, “and B. Dean must show me that he *has the goods’ on these men before I will approve the affidavits and push the prosecution. lam npt saying that politics is playing any part in the Dean charges, but Mayor Knotts and other city officials before have been arrested just for political spite work.” The law firm of Hodges & Ridgley, Dean’s attorneys, will submit the preliminary evidence in the ‘cases to Prosecutor Greenwafd tomorrow. The two attorneys tonight refused to state the nature of their evidence but admitted that the dictagraph records would play an important part. T. B. Dean, who brought the charges against the officials and who, it is said, is a private detective, could not be found today, but his attorneys declared he would be ready to present evidence when the cases were called for trial. A search of Dean’s former room in the hotel today failed to reveal any indication that a dictagraph said by Dean to have been his means of getting evidence, had been connected.

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