Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1915 — Decline to Aid State. [ARTICLE]

Decline to Aid State.

The county council at Muncie in a special session, refused to grant an appropriation of SI,OOO asked to pay the expenses of a prosecutor and state witnesses in the cases against the indicted city and, county officials* The action of the county was a blow to the people who have been instrumental in the grand jury investigation which resulted in the arrest of Mayor Bunch and other officials. Prosecutor Frank Mann announced that he would be called as a witness by the defense but would not take any part for the state in the prosecution of the four leading men but would aid in the prosecution of ‘the rest of the officials indicted.