Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1916 — GETS FARM TERM FOR CONTEMPT [ARTICLE]

GETS FARM TERM FOR CONTEMPT

Muncie Lcv/yr.* Sentenced For Hiding During Graft Trial—Mayor ■— Is Accused. Muncie, Ind., June 16.—For absenting himself from the state during the trial of Gene Williams, former deputy prosecuting attorney, who was convicted last week of conspiracy with Mayor Rollin H. Bunch and police officials to solicit and accept bribes, Thomas V. Miller, a young attorney, was sentenced today to the state farm for sixty days and was fined <>2s. Judge Gause, of Newcastle, trial judge in the Williams case, imposed sentence. Miller declared that on the second day of the Williams trial Williams gave him money to leave the state and that the deputy prosecutor paid his expenses on an extended western trip.