Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1911 — TEMPORARY PAROLE GIVEN TO CLINTON L. BADER. [ARTICLE]

TEMPORARY PAROLE GIVEN TO CLINTON L. BADER.

Allowed to Go to His Home UuatCivil Action at Winamac. ’ “ —" — ,r Governor Marshall has granted a temporary parole to C. L. Bader, who began a prison sentence at Michigan City last May for fraudulently claiming money for public contracts, in ■order that Bader might testify in a civil suit s now on trial at Winamac, where Bader formerly was president of the now defunct Winamac Bridge Company. The parole was issued at the request of an attorney in the case, who represented to the Governor that Bader’s testimony was necessary complete the evidence. The Governor, in sending the temporary parole to Warden Fogarty of, the State prison, left the matter of guard for the prisoner to the warden, suggesting, however, that if the warden ■ thought Bader could tie trusted without a guard, to permit him to go unattended. Fogarty reported to the Governor that he did. not think a guard necessary. Bader | will remain in Winamac until he has' completed his evidence. He spent Thanksgiving with his family. The, Governor said the temporary release of a prisoner to enable him to appear as h witness was regular, and followed in all cases by the Governor, unless there -were excellent reasons for acting otherwise. an attorney asks for the presence of a prisoner as a witness. I believe It is the duty of the Governor to let him have hin?/’ said the Governor. “The matter of a guard is wholly up to the warden, who" is supposed to know his prisoners and to know whether any one of them eair be trusted to go unattended.” \ '