Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1912 — BADER TWINS PRESENT PETITION TO GOVERNOR. [ARTICLE]

BADER TWINS PRESENT PETITION TO GOVERNOR.

Many Winamac Citizens Signed Petition for Parole of Clinton L. Bader _ —Action Deferred.

The 16-year-old twin daughters of Clinton L. Bader, who was convicted in the Jasper county circuit for presenting a false claim to the board of commissioners, and sentenced to the penitentiary, where he is now serving, personally went to Governor Marshall with their petition asking the release of their father. They were accompanied by John L. Burton, of Winamac, who discussed the petition before the parole board, urging Bader’s release. Governor Marshall said to the board. “I do not believe* Bader could be punished more should he be confined 1,000 years. He could suffer no more than he did at the time of his conviction.”

While the petition was being considered the two girls sat in the room and wept bitterly when they learned of the hardships of prison life. Thier mother suffered a stroke of paralysis after their father was imprisoned and is now a patient in a Chicago hospital. The board took no action on the petition, holding it over until today. The governor himself appeared with the girls before the board and asked that the petition be considered carefully. He suggested that a member of the board be sent out to make investigation of the merits of the petition, for his release. It was brought out at the hearing that'Bader was a member of the state legislature as a democrat In 1905 and that he has many prominent political friends in the 1c party at this time.