Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1915 — Blames Roberts. [ARTICLE]

Blames Roberts.

John F. Nugent, Terre Haute chief of police, has taken the Witness stand in the fraud trials being held at Indianapolis. It. his statements he said that Mayor Roberts had directed the collection of the election funds from the saloonkeepers and that this money was used to swell the registration records and to debauch the election. He also stated that the night before the election Roberts gave him S2OO to purchase votes with. Joe Jeffers will probably take the stand today and more startling accounts of the election will probably be told by him.