Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1915 — Mayor Bell, of Indianapolis, To Go On Trial September 7. [ARTICLE]

Mayor Bell, of Indianapolis, To Go On Trial September 7.

After overruling the motion to quash the indictments against Thomas Taggart, Mayor Joseph E. Bell and more than a hundred others charged with election frauds, Special Judge W. H. Eichom set the trial of Mayor Bell for Sept. 7th. Mr. Taggart wanted his case tried as soon as possible, but the prosecution decided to put the mayor’s case ahead. The trial of Bud Gibson, who also is charged with election irregularities is set for August 30, and the prosecution did not wish to have two trials on hand at the same time. In rendering his decision on the motion to quash, Judge Eichom held that five points of the indictments were insufficient. He decided, however, that the defendants should be tried on the forty-three remaining counts. Buy your threshing coal of Hamilton & Kellner.