Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1916 — PROSECTTOR AFTER ROSELAWN TRUSTEE [ARTICLE]

PROSECTTOR AFTER ROSELAWN TRUSTEE

Dr. C. M. Rice and Others Charged With Intoxication and Cases Called at Kentland. * Deputy Prosecutor Sands made a .trip to Roselawn last week and pro-. cured affidavits against Dr. C. M. Rice, the trustee of Lincoln township, Newton county, charging him with intoxication and also against Jack Brown and Reuben Gundy. Brown is charged with intoxication and Gundy, who is a former trustee, with driving an automobile while under the ihfluence of liquor. Brown pleaded guilty at Kentalnd Monday but Rice and Gundy entered negative • pleas and their cases were set for trial Thursday of next week. Dr. Rice is the practicing physician at Roselawn and was. elected township trustee on the democratic ticket at the election of 1914. The specific charge against him is,, that he appeared at the Roselawn school house in an intoxicated condition. - Other affidavits alleging that he is frequently intoxicated are said to have been procured. It is also reported that an effort has been started with the state medical society to have his license canceled because of alleged intoxication. The specific charge against Gundy ,is that he was intoxicated when driving his automobile, having as passengers school children whom he< hauls under contract to the Roselawn schools. Prosecutor Sands has also been investigating an alleged irregularity in the securing of the contract by Gundy to haul the school children, it being stated to him that Rice had employed Gundy at $4 per day when others had offered to haul the children for very much less. As stated above, both Rice and Gundy deny their guilt and are planning to fight conviction when the cases are called.