Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1915 — STATE RESTS CASE AGAINST MAYOR BELL [ARTICLE]

STATE RESTS CASE AGAINST MAYOR BELL

Defense Will Now Begin Evidence to Prove That There Is No Corruption In Capital. After some four weeks of work on the part of the state in the case against Mayor Bell and other defendants of Indianapolis, alleging election frauds, the state rested its case today and now the defense will begin the task of disproving the evidence of the state. Throughout Indiana the evidence has not created much of an impression and there has 'been a lack of interest. Possibly the war has refused to be shoved into the background for an election fraud case, when so many are convinced before the suit was well under way that there was evidence sufficient to convict if the jury was willing to accept it the way the public did. Whether Mayor Bell and his co-de-fendants are convicted or not the effect should be to cause some muchneeded reform in Indianapolis and the decent electors should see to it that future elections are honestly conducted.