Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1911 — PROSECUTOR WAS ANGRY; WROTE TO GOVERNOR. [ARTICLE]

PROSECUTOR WAS ANGRY; WROTE TO GOVERNOR.

I Freai Marshall Speech. i ■' V'/-■ ''' f-S' f Hammond, IM” Sept Ift.-Martin J.' Smith, of Crown Point, deputy word letter to Governor Marshall, in answer to 4h* fofoqr’s order to invesning in violation of the law at Cedar Lake, told the Governor, indirecUy, to keep his hands out of Lake county, and that this county was no worse than other places in the state. He quoted from the Governor’s comthe law class graduates four years ago when he ggM: statute books, nothing is jaw unless It Is backed up by the sentiment of the people of tof community.” In the light of this Deputy Smith daid: - “I can understand why liquor law Violations, gambling, prise fighting and prostitution exist in the city of of the'dome of the State House. lean understand why liquor law violations and gambling exist at West Baden and French Lick. I san understand why gambling, pool selling and 'bookmaking flourish op the Indiana shores of the Ohio River. X can understand why liquor law violations and gambling exist in Michigan. City, within the shadow of the Stgte Penitentiary.” The letter was accompanied by an affidavit from Guy Surprise, Governor Marshall’s informant, that he Ifod made no complaint to either the prosecutor or the” sheriff’s office previous to complaining, to Governor Marshall.