Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 281, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1920 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Tonight, cold wave; fresh northwest winds. Tomorrow, fair.

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BMTIC FORCES ■WIDENING OF MASS. AVENUE Board of Works Votes to Resurface Ohio-to-Delaware Block. OTHER WORK DECIDED A resolution was adopted today by tbe board of public works to widen and resurface Massachusetts avenue. from Pennsylvania and Ohio streets to Delaware street, providing a sixty-foot roadway Instead of a fiftv-foot roadway. action was taken upon petition of property owners, interested in relieving congestion of traffic in tli! r ii strict. Other resolutions were li ® vise adopted to resurface Massachusetts avenue, from Delaware street, on northeast, to Cornell. thus improving "cbuckhole lane" extending as an artery from downtown. CAPITOL AVEMT, TO BE RESURFACED. The board also favored resurfacing Capitol avenue, from Georgia street to Mobile street. Signatures of property owners iu a compromise agreement for damage claims were presented to the board in settlement of Virginia avenue viaduct pian. Charles G. Dammeyr. Henry <5. lbrameyer and Theodore H. Dammeyer. owners of property at 233 233-237 Virginia avenue, agreed to settle all claims on that property for $13,330. New sidewalks on Illinois street, east aide, from Market street to first alley of Market street, were approved. HdEVALKH TO BE VtrtK TO CONFORM. jFijl • ier action of the board was as folConformation of sidewalks on Borneo street, west side, from Cottage W avenue to Minnesota street: plans ordered for permanent improvement of first alley east of Broadway from Seventeenth I street to Nineteenth street; denitl of permanent improvement of Ohio street I from Gale street to Brookville avenue; | plans ordered for paving of Tliirtv-ninth | street from Park hvenue to Broadway; I .approval of curbing, grading and sidcI walks on Julian avenue front Emerson avenue west to city limits; curbing an t . grading and sidewalks on Bancroft aveMMie front Julian avenue to P., C.. C. St. L. railroad: grading and curbing Railroad street from Bancroft to avenue. Hifl bids were received for sidewalks Tecumseh street from St. t'iair stre.-t Pratt street. was postponed in permanent of Forty third sfree* from street to Central avenue; in of first alley w -st of Me pridian street to first alley north of Eleventh street; in first aliey sooth of Maple toad from Carrollton avenue to first alley east of Guilford avenue. JOINS RACE FOR CIRCUIT JUDGE Chalmer Schlosser Asks Nomination by Democrats. Chnlmer Sehlosser. who was twice the democratic candidate for congress from Marion county, has announced his candidacy for the democratic nomination for judge of the circuit court. He will oppose Edgar D.‘ Brown for the nomination. The four democratic candidates for senator— from Marion county probably will be Charles A. Greathouse. John IV. I Holfxman. Edward B. Kaub and Oren I S. Hack, it was indicated today. Four candidates for senator from Mur ! ion county and one Joint senator are to 1 be nominated. j Tbe joint senatorship probably will go Mather to Hamilton or Hendricks county, f iTbe four democrat! candidates mentioned probably will hav- no opposition. Dr. A. W. Miller is expected to file his declaration of candidacy for the democratic nomination for eororn r He will be opposed by Hey don 'V. Buchanan. nn undertaker. Charles C. Morgan, who is associated with the R. V. Law Motor Company, is a candidate for the democratic nomination for commissioner from the Second district. He will be opposed for the nomination by Frank S. Clark, who heeatne a candidate several -lays ago. Earl* E. McFerren and Edward P. Brennan filed petition today asking that their names be plaeed on the ballots as candidates for the democratic nomination for Marion county prosecutor. Four candidates are now in the race for the nomination for this office. The others are Clay Batchelder and Jacob Steinmetz. Formal eertiih-ntion of the candidacy of Thomas Taggart for the democratic nomination for the United States senate has been tiled with the secretary of state. Blythe Hendricks filed his declaration of candidacy for tbe democratic nomination frr judge of the circuit court. AMERICANS ON RAIDED TRAIN Escape Attack of Mexican Bandits Near Tres Marias. WASHINGTON. April 2.—Several Americans, in-luding the assistant military attache of the American embassy ->*t Mexico City, were on a train on the • Mexico CRy-Cuernavara line, which was attacked by bandits on March ?S. according to a message to the state department today from the American ••tuba ssy at Mexico City. All of the American escaped, the iopssagis stated. Maj. Burr, the assistant militarv attache. was accompanied by his wife. Other Americans on the train were Dr. Florence Hale and a Mr. Hurd. The attack took pla<-e near Tres Marias. Mex. HERMOSILLO. Mex., April 2.-A campaign against the Pelaez rebels in the Tuxpaui region has been opened, with a victory for the Carranza forces, according to a Mexico City dispatch appearing in El Heraldo here today. The first clash occurred at Tatcyncan. It is stated the campaign aims to re cover territory dotted with many Amer-ican-owned oil wells.

New Secretary Biffs Loafing

WASHINGTON. April 2.—The old saying, “Anew broom sweeps clean,” is being exemplified by Judge John Barton Payne, the new secretary of the interior. WhMe walking through one of ithe corridors of the interior department building today be noticed ■wo messengers seated before a Boor.

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Pinching This Man a Man's Size Job OKALAHOMA CITY, April 2.—" Pinching” Donald MacGregor here was a mansired Job. The cop who did the deed could walk under MacGregor's outstretched arm without doffing his helmet. Mac came gracefully. He is six feet nine inches tall and weighs 5(50 pounds. He runs a carnival. Steamer in Distress Off Western Coast SEATTLE. Wash.. April 2.—The motor ship Libby Maine is In distress iu a wild sea off .'ape Flattery, according to a wireless call from the vessel here. The lives of twenty-five members of the crew were believed in danger. Carranza Will Yield to Legitimate Choice SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 2.—“1 am prepared to deliver the office of chief executive of Mexico over to whoever is legitimately elected president.” This statement is accredited to Carranza in a press dispatch from Mexico City, appearing in LaPrenza today. The dispatch also reported Carranza as saying the government will use the iron hand to suppress election disorders.” Does a ‘Jesse James’ and Receives Bullet ST. LOUIS, Mo.. April 2.—William Jaggie. 27. tore a page from Jhe life of Jessie James here today and proceeded to put it into execution. Jaggie seriously injured one man. and was shot by a policeman after raiding a livery stable, holding up two women and terrorizing one section of the city. Police Here, Seek Connersville Boy The Indianapolis police today were asked to search for George Critter. 10. who disappeared from bis home in Uonnersville. Ind.. March 13. Mrs. Lonnie Fritter, mother of George, said be starred for Uushville to see his brother, who Is ill in a hospital. He has not been seen by his relatives sin.-e leaving Connersville. McAdoo to Quit as ‘Movie’ Attorney NEW YORK, April 2.—William G. Me Adoo. former secretary of tbe treasury, has taken steps to sever his connection with the United Artists, movie stars, whom he represented as attorney. !t was learned from an authoritative source today. The United Artist* Include Charlie Chaplin. Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pick ford and David Griffith. Ship, Ablaze Off Cuba, Sends SOS NEW YORK, April 2.—The United State* Shipping Board s'eamer Eastern King. 2,315 tons, was afire off Saga La Grande. Cuba, and needed help, accord ing to a wireless forwarded !o the na val communications office here today from Key West Fla. The Lake Bedford was standing by. pumping water on the burning vessel, the message said. Hospital Must Pay for Use of Brain MILWAUKEE. April 2.—The value of a dead husband's brain was fixed at $2.00(1 today by Mrs. Mary Grzegorzesewski in her suit against the eounty hospital. She claims surgeons removed the brain and refused to replace it. Her husband died of brain paralysis. His brain was used for clinical for the purpose of medical science, county surgeons said. Lake Victim Found Frozen in Iceberg MARQUETTE. Mich.. April 2.—Frozen in an iceberg which had drifted ashore, the body of William J. Reilly, assistant engineer of the steamer John Owen, wbieh sank in a Lake Superior storm last November, was found by coast guards near Crisp Point, Mich., today. A life preserver was around the body, which is tbe only one of the 111 fated crew which has been recovered.

N. Y. Plans to Kill Socialists Politically ALBANY. X. V., April 2. Legislation to bar the socialist party from official recognition as a political organization was to be introduced in the lower house of the state legislature here today. The legislation was recommended by the committee which investigated the five socialists who were expelled from the assembly yesterday. One bill would disqualify any orgnni zaf ion for a place on the ballot which admits aliens and minors to membership. Constables Limited to Township Trials When constables arrest on sight for misdemeanor without a warrant it is illegal to take the accused beyond the township for trial, according to an opinion submitted to the Hoosior Motor club today by William K. Reiley, attorney. The opinion was submitted to an swer questions which have arisen as a result of the arrest of motorists by con stables from Irvington justice of the peace courts. An arrest of itself does not confer jurisdiction, Briley said.

“What are you men doing here?” 'he secretary inquired. "We are here for emergencies,” one of them replied. “Well, get to work: we don’t want any emergencies here.” Judge Payne remarked, and he promptly bad them transfered to a part of the building where they could do real messenger service.

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IRISH PROTEST BILL DRAWN BY LLOYD GEORGE Gives Three-Fourths of Nation, to Anarchy, Say Dublin Newspapers. RESENT PRESS CHARGES DUBLIN, April 2.—The apparent as sured success of Prime Minister Lloyd George’s new home rule bill and charges in the London press that Thomas MacOurtain, lord mayor of Cork, recently assassinated, was killed by the Sinn Fein, aroused a storm of protest here today against British rule in Ireland. Newspapers were unanimous in their attack upon the prime minister's new plan for home rule. “The bill surrenders three-fourths of Ireland to anarchy and plants a cancer In the very heart of the empire,'' the Irish Times declared. Tbe charge that Mac Curtain was killed by the Sinn Fein, of which he was a member, was denied by Arthur Griffiths, acting president of the organization. He said: "The charge is the foulest libel on tht Irish patriotic and nationalist movement since the publication of the infamous Ptggott forgeries. ''MacCurtain wns murdered by Ireland’s enemies, but although England's assassins may strike down the individual Sinn Fein leaders all England’s power can not assaslnate the Irish nation.” One hundred armed men raided the residence of the high sheriff of Galway Wednesday night, demanding certain land reforms. When the sheriff refused they dragged him toward a lake, threatening drowning. He capitulated.

PASSAGE OF HILL HELD CERTAINTY 1 LONDON. April 2.—The government has passed its last obstacles in efforts to ssure pa.-sage of Prime Minister Lloyd George's new bill for home ml** In Ire land, officials close to the prime minister said today. They quoted the prime minister as expressing complete satisfaction with the parliamentary situation and believing I nal passage of bis bill was certain. Kverybody was astonished at the ease with which the prime minister disposed of Asquith and Lord Cecil, whose opposition the coalitionists had "feared most," one official declared. It was the opinion in political circles that Asquith as leader of Die opposition party had failed In his efforts to break the ranks of the coalitionists even with Lord Cecil's co operation. The failure of the opposition was at tributed to the fact they attacked the bill destructively rather than constructively. LABOR TEMPLE HAS NEW SITE Deal Closed for Four-Story Building on W. Pearl St. The Liectrical Workers' Labor Tern pie association closed a deal with George .1. Marott today by which the iissocia tlnn acquired th** building at 33 11 West Pearl street, the grouud floor of which kii< formerly occupied by the lloffbrau saloon and restaurant. The i>nhiilenition involved was $73,000. All bunding trails unions 'ln the city will oe accommodated hi the new Luhor temple. which will be remodeled throughout. tither union locals doubtless will be admitted to the building later. Inability to get anew leas.* *>n the building tit 1.". h West Washington street, hii*>wii as tin* Labor temple, caused the L’bor organizations to begin seeking a new building or building site before the outbreak of the war. Phi us were retarded by the war The Washington Hall Realty Company, which owns tile West Washington street property, is planning a hotel building on the site. Tim new labor temple is four stories high and offers ample floor space for the anticipated needs of the association. Separate meeting rooms and offices will be arranged for the twenty-live or thirty locals represented in the association and ctubrooms win In* equipped. According to present plans the official newspaper of the association will have quarters in the building. GIRL TRIES DEATH TO A VO/D COURT Mother Sobs anti IHomes Husband for Near-Tragedy. Despondent because her father charged her with being Incorrigible, Grace Morris, 13. a telephone operator, today drank poison at Iter home, 1237 Koosevelt avenue. She will recover, attendants at the City hospital sa.v. (trace was in juvenile court yesterday on an affidavit tiled by her father. Ora Morris. She is the oldest of seven children. "They tried to ruin her character,” Mrs. Morris sobbed as she held the child in her arms waiting for the arnhllance to take her away. (•race spoke bitterly of officers of the Juvenile court. "They said men buy my clothes,” she gasped. “It’s not true, for I work and earn my clothes.” HI SHANK HI.AMKI) FOB GIRL’S ACT. Mrs. Morris, who soon expects another little one, told a pitiable story. She placed the blame for her daughter's act on liei husband. Mrs Morris accused Morris of neglecting his family. She said she hail struggled many years to keep the bouse going and care for ner children. On Feb. 23. 1919. Morris! was in juvenile court charged with neglecting his family, the records show. Judge l.ahr at that time withheld judgment following the father's promise to do better. Morris is employed as a mechanic by the General Service Motor Company, Illinois and Walnut streets. STOVE WITHOIT IT RE IN WINTER. Mrs. Morris said there was no Are in the stoves at her home most of the time during the winter. “It’s a wonder all of the children are not dead,” she remarked. She said Morris had not given her $1 a week with which to buy food until two weeks ago, when the juvenile court Issued another order to him. Morris makes s3l a week and $1 an hour for extra work doing automobile repairing, she claims. "Grace takes my part in the arguments and that's why he's hail these charges filed against her,” Mrs. Morris stated. The other six Morris children are Irma 12- Roger 10. L'na

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1920.

Wind Plays First Aid RushingJSaster Hats He looked proud and contented. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the ladles casting admiring glances. it was his Easter chapeau that attracted them, he thought. There was something about him he actually liked himself. Up Washington street be marched. • He was giving everybody a treat. Nothing selfish about him. But he forgot about "whirligig corner,” Meridian and Washington. Zip! Ilis hat started for the monument. An ill wind spoils many an Easter, Conference Takes Up Dock Strike WASHINGTON. April 2.lyouis F. Post, acting secretary of labor, today opened a joint mediation conference of steamship managers and striking longshoremen. Last Penny Paper in Country Passes LOS ANGELES, April 2. Said to be the last newspaper in the United States to raise its subscription price above t cent, tbe Los Angeles Record, which for twenty-five years has sold for 1 ceuL an pounced that beginning Monday the price of the paper will be 2 cents. J Michigan Men Given War Crosses \\ \SHINGTON, April 2 -The war department today announced awards of distinguished service crosses to the following: Lieut. Albert M Smith, Three Rivers, Mich.; Sergt. Georg*- Comstock. 1251 Brooklyn avenue, Detroit, Mich., and Uorp. Clement A. Grobbell, Warren, Mich. PRICES CHEER NEWS. Butter down t cent to liOftl(s7 cents a pound, wholesale. Union* due for drop next Acek, whole salere sav. Gloom News. Leaf lettuce 2 cent# a pound higher tip to 1 stir 20 cents, wholesale Spinach 25 tents a bushel higher, sell Ing at $3, whole-ale. Have You Lost $10? Here, Stop Crowding Hoi D. Ridenour of Vincennes. Ind.. says this l true story. v Hell prove tt by giving a perfectly good $1(1 bill to the rightful owner. While sitting In an automobile In front of the Hotel Kevprln, he noticed a piece of green paper flying through the air. He grabbed it. and it was a $lO bill. The owner hasn't 10-en found. U. S. Agents Probe Alcohol Dealers NEW YORK, April 2. A federal clean up probe of tbe 7.5*t0 firms holding special permits to handle non beverage alcohol for commercial purposes, has been started by prohibition agents, It was announced today. Similar investigations will follow throughout the east. James Sbcvltn. In charge of the probe, declared that fifty ]teens.-* were revoked when It was found that the firms were misusing alcohol in their possession. Army to Try 4 Men for Camp Murder WASHINGTON, April 2 The war department today declined to deliver to the civil authorities of Columbia. S. C . First Lieutenant Tbalbert I'.. Fowler. Corporal I'd mu lid Maston and Privates Itoy Janusz and Roy E. Sanders, all of the Fortyeighth infantry, stationed at Camp Jack son. S. in connection with the death of William S. Chaplin. It is alleged that these men were mein hers of a patrol party that on Jan. 111, 1920, fired a rifle shot at an escaping prisoner and killed Chaplin. The war department has ordered the men to be brought before a court martial. Contributions Swell Lee Stringer Fund “Here's a dollar I wish I could send a hundred.’’ This little note was pinned on a dollar bill sent to tlm Lee Stringer fund today. It came from "Peg" Hamilton, a char inter in the "levee dlslrlet” of the city When the bright lights burned here. And 'Peg’s” sentiment is expressed in many other letters carrying contributions to the wife and four children of the railroad detective killed while doing his duty., Detective Sergeant. George Winkler an nounced today that detectives among themselves had collected $1(0 for the fund. Contributions should be sent to Winkler at police headquarters.

Girls, Before You Vote--! WHAT’LL THEY GIVE YOU INSTEAD OF STOGIES?

What little tokens of friendship may be substituted for the campaign cigar of infamy now that women are to be reckoned with by party candidates ? Patriots desirous of serving their country in official capacities must prepare to face tilts perplexing problem after the primaries. Miss Gladys McCain, stenographer in the governor's office, who has had ample opportunity for observing the state’s political “talent.” in its goings, comings and beseechings, sutrt today that bowers should prove efficacious. CAN’T BE SWAYED WITH GIFTS. “Os course, I think women are too conscientious to be swayed by any sort of gifts,” said Miss McCain. “And I don’t think that sort of campaigning will lie popular when women vote, but some candidates may have old-fashioned notions and I think any woman would appreciate the thoughtfulness shown by tile giving of a flower.

JAIL GRAFT KNOWN TO OFFICIALS , COUNTY AND CITY , SA YS WITNESS

JAIL FOULNESS EXPOSED IN 1919 BY THE TIMES Sheriff’s Plea That He Did Not Know Shown by Records as False. PRISONERS BEGGED HELP Sheriff Robert F. Miller, as well as the general public of Indianapolis, was advised on Aug. 22. 1910, of the intolerable food conditions that existed at the eounty jail, and the belated plea which Mr. ■ Miller and others are now making be fore Judge Anderson and through the : columns of The Indianapolis News that ! "no one knew anything about them” are as false as the samples of food shown in federal court were foul. The Indiana Dally Times not only publicly and prominently called attention to the fact that, prisoners were starving iu (he county Jail in August. 1919, but a representative of The Times went personally to Mr. Miller and gave 1 him Information that had come to this newspaper directly from the Jail. Mr. Miller told the reporter who called on him that tbe stories about the food nt the Jail were all coming •‘from lot of soreheads.” He said be had investigated and the complaints were not worthy of attention. Tbrn be launehed Into a long explanation of bow he had been able to get ;> tos*of beans cheap for use In feed it tar prisoners. Subsequent developments in federal court have proved that Mr. Miller did not right conditions to which his per sonal attention was directed by The Times, and that such conditions as were first exposed by this newspaper were allowed to continue until the federal court began Its Investigation of them. Mr. MllDr Is now pleading that he “did not know of them." James A Col llns. Judge of Ihe criminal court, whose attention was called to tbe conditions at tbe Jail at the same time that Mr. Miller was Informed of them, now says that the only Information he had concerning the Jail was w hat was embodied in grand Jury reports and these reports termed the conditions excellent. Cl ILT COVERED HI NEW SIMI'KR. The Indianapolis News, sponsor for Miller and Collins, now Ingeniously attempts to defend these two officials in their official neglect and henrtlessness with the following statement; “Month after month these things xvent on. and no one knew anything about them. The grand Jury investigate*! evert six mouths, and found nothing wrong The sheriff says that he nvr suspected anything." Rut If the*** three agencies, the sheriff, the Judge and the News had not been so busy protecting the derelicts In tbe county government they could, any one of them, have established. s did The Times, in August, 1919, the truth eon tallied Iu this letter, which was published In full on Aug 22, 1919: "Editor The Times We are again tailing to your attention the fact that we are hungry. “We, the prisoners of the Marlon county tail, wish to say frankly, we are hungry! “Gentlemen, we also wish to ssr we think It's your duty as citizens of this county to Intercede for us. “We are not all murderers although we are prisoners. “We feel that we are still human. t lED WITH SOt l* M RAPED OFF FLOOR. /‘Consider, sir. that this Is tio joke.; nothing too evil can he said of a prison j even when conducted on tbe very highest scale. "Today the cooks while engaged In setting inr table spilled our stew or slunignlllon on the floor In the mtln corridor; the mess spattered completely oxer the stairs and on the floor, also I around cuspidors. “The food was scraped up and then j set on our table for us to eat. “Klndlv have n heart, editor; we are farced to remain In here because of thenbeing no grand jury to try us and w<s are asking you ns our only niewns o* communicating with the people. “We are human, although charged xvith more or less heinous crimes; some are innocent. "We wish to thank you for your sketch in a black tflieef, but it. was so really insignificant tt hardly received attention at all. “A negro was confined here with ns the other day for n period of three days without either food or drink; his breach of rules we do not know. “We also wish to say that this being Sunday we receive only two meals and since 7 o'clock this morning have had nothing and expect nothing to eat be cause wo refused to eat food wiped from the floor. "There was no effort made to help us. except to give us a solution of one part syrup and three parts water. “We think In view of the circumstances m* should be allowed more and better food than we receive. “Anyway three ounces of bread, three ounces of kidney beans nnd two ounces of meat, Is that a meal? ‘‘The beans are cooked in the coarsest way. "The syrup is diluted with water, the coffee, according to the advice of a for(Contlnued on Page Twelve.)

“Candy would do with the giddy younger girls, but flow’ers are so expressive of clean and noble thoughts." A politician of long experience, who is credited with marvelous sagacity in campaign matters, sai.l he was a bit dubious about the (Tores and candy Idea. OBJECTS TO IDEA OF CARRYING FLOWERS. “I don't like that, picture of a candidate circulating among the electors with a basket of flowers on one arm aud his pockets full of chocolates,” said he. “Tt would look like an unwarranted paradox for a man to be dispensing fragrance on one hand and passing out. stink bomb stogies on the other, and still a candidate’s got to remember ibe menfolks. “Perhaps some little gift of greeting suitable for both men and women may be doped out before the fall campaign -something like cheese- . straw* or hard-boiled eggs."

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They Knew It Long Ago - bo formed a sociallil cabinet m Kuo had been overthrown i™ PRislraiAO °7 MINGEI Ilf LETTER Hjs provF"9& Yable. County Jail Initiates Say Orderjf X, Food Spilled on Floor Is for removal ' The Merchants Vintendent of Fed Them. pzu y ~as authorized® lie Insane of- water heating l prepared by foot fts living la Pleading hnogwy. out the ansder Mr prces&Lf AtwerlnuT to the the copJtl today eent g\ I U a reiOltAfe coinrmidTbe Times In aeason Ste ct *HR r r 9 ..they axhJMW eteps be taken to provSe Wer'orders of \jury #g g tWwdsd cleaner food sor 4 #HL> % ’ miasloa boida tbe 1 letter follow, a tuMar Wmsial- rate, either iarrtam ration from tbe Jail, pffbjltied Inf The whenever-4t is ttuM lot*d Tlmeija abort time which tbe change. M*' contWlsalooers. prtnorSV askad aakaritlzene humanely r,te £, aet!cV Arter iB effort to get and agate wbf\.bt* can live de- ""l bHIJ S W * r f *W Dr Hvde. so \inmgulllon” which had been r * ,chln 8 *'4 V” 8 of ar rpltled on tbe dirty floore of the cor- r “* c\ %* aomo ae- rjdet f the Jgll la related in tbe ap* ,** * w ** , etter . vldlng better^ 'Editor Tbe Times- We are again cal/ v/vr s Y log' o your attention tbe fact that we are hungry We, the prlaonera of the . , M Marlon county Jail, wlab to say frankly " e ■ Wf hungry ' hT’, \ JTtirm -We alao wtsb to aiy we * n “ ““ r J mL 8 - wln yonr duty as a citizen of tbie coußy 10 !rtercede for uo M,n- WK-RZ STILL HUMAN. Mr**** sat. "We are not all wl we feeL^l^ The foregoing is a reproduction of a part of the first page of The Indiana Dally Times of Aug. 22, 1919. It is irrefutable evidence that the intolerable conditions which existed at the county jail when Judge Anderson started his investigation were known to the responsible authorities seven months ago, when this newspaper first called public attention to the fact that prisoners were starving in the Marion county jail. District Attorney Frederick Van Nuys read the story printed in The Times on Aug. 22. 1919. in federal court today during the investigation into Jail conditions “And yet these officials say these conditions were unknown to them,” said the district attorney.

‘Honest Bob, ’ in Jail Poker Words, ‘Sitting Pat ’ on Primary Race Sheriff Robert F. Miller ia still undecided whether he will withdraw from the rat* for the republican nomination for sheriff. “I am sitting pat now,” he said today. “I have not made up my mind what I will do. "1 have several days after the filing close in which to withdraw if I decide to do so.”

Yesterday he declared he would notj xvithdra w. The quoted statement was made by I Sheriff Miller In the federal courtroom during a re.-ess in tbe hearing in which further details of ihe county jail S'-au dal were being revealed. Mr. Miller was seated beside his attorney, Charles Wlltale. who w.ts orn ployed by the republican administration a* assistant prose-utor tu the Haag trial and paid $1.5(10 for his service*. ABANDONED TO UOt KT'S MERCY. N Other party members were conspicuous by their absence. Pile courtroom xvss crowded, out there was not among the crowd n s-ngle one of those many persons who .ire lways willing to help a fellow repub.i an in dtslrcss. It appeared that Miller's friends who were so active in his behalf when lie was known as a "good government" candidate, have abandoned blut to tlie mercy of the court. At the present time, George Snyder, nn anti-Jewett republican, is tbe only other candidate for the republican nomination for sheriff. Tiie time for filing declarations of candidacy closes tomorrow BRIEF TIME FOR WITHDRAWAL. Candidates who have filed declarations of their candidacy may withdraw within a period not later than twenty days before the primary. Under these circumstances it is pogßi hie that Mr. Miller will withdraw after

Prison Scandal May Bring Quiz of State Board of Charities Investigation of the state board of charities’ supervision over penal Institutions throughout the state may result from the expose of the Marion county Jail, showing existence of grossly flagrant conditions of which the state board apparently had no knowledge, it was learned today.

Under the law the state board of chari-a ties is required to "Investigate the whole system of public charities and correctional Institutions of the state, examining into the condition and management thereof, especially of prisons. Jails, infirmaries, public hospitals and asylums." Divers statutes passed since the creation of the state board in 18811 have given the hoard supervision over all plans, improvements, new buildings and the gen- ! oral conduct of penal and eleemosynary institutions. The state board of charities was operated in 1010 at a cost of $115,055.56. of which a considerable sum was spent for traveling expenses of the secretary ot the board, Amos W. Butler, who attended a number of charities conferences in distant cities for the purpose of studying methods for the administration of charity. Mr. Butler’s monthly salary voucher is drawn for Failure of the board to make known improper conditions in the Marion county jail was explained by Mr. Butler on the ground that the board’s chief function is to exercise supervision over state institutions and that facilities for inspecting and examining county and other local institutions are limited. “The board has always taken the stand that the old fee system of the sheriffs' offices was wrong,” Mid Mr. Butler. “We have also recommended that a law be passed to prevent incarceration of insane persons in penal institutions.’’ The last printed report of the board dealt with the fiscal year ending Sept. 30. 1018. The Increased cost of printing has caused the board to desist from includirg inspection reports on local institu-

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See What Miller Rakes in, Too! The job of sheriff of Marion eounty, which Robert F. Miller was elected til hold for two years, provides lucrative employment. During the rear 1919 Miller's stale fees were s4.':.(>7S f TV. according to figures of the state board of accounts. His salary is $13,000 a year. In addition District Attorney Van Nuys declares Miller made a profit of $5.500 io tiie rear on the feeding of federal prisoners. Out of this total amount of money received the sheriff pays for feeding prisoners and for deputy hire. Politicians have loug estimated that the job of sheriff was worth from $20,000 to $30,000 a year.

the time for filing closes, leaving the nomination to an anti Jewett candidate. The only way In which this can be prevented if Mr. Miller decides to withdraw. Is for another candidate to file his declaration before tomorrow evening. When the democrats of Marion county found that Frank X. O'Brien, who w;is candidate for judge of the juvenile court, had a Imd record, they immediately called a meeting and took legal steps to remove him from tbe ballot.

tions In his annual report, he said. It was tile duty of J. A. Brown, su pervisor of field inspection, to report on conditions in the Marion county jail, according to Mr. Butler. Two committees of the board pass on conditions in county Jails. They are the committee on penal and reformatory institutions, of which Deraarcua C. Brown Is chairman and John 11. Holliday aud Rev. William J. Sayrea are members, and the committee on local institutions, of which Rev. Sayres Is chairman and Mr. Brown is a member. Mr. Butler said thnt several complaints concerning conditions in the Marion eonnty jail hnve been received ar his office in the last month. This information was not made public until after United States District Attorney Frederick VanNuys made an attack on the state board of charities In federal court yesterday. Mr. Butler did not indicate that he had taken any action on the compaints. Mr. VanNuys declared that about all the board of charities seemed to do “is to attend conventions, pass resolutions and draw their salaries.” Members of the state hoard of charities are: Demnreus C. Brown, senior member; Rt. Rev. Francis H. Gavisk, John H. Holliday, Dr. Mary A. Spink of Indianapolis: Rev. William J. Sayres, Muncie, and Gov. Goodrich. The governor is president of the board by virtue of bis office as chief executive of the state. The staff of the> board, members of which may be called on for explanations of the hoard's activities, arc: Greeley, John A. Brown, L. H. M&iken, M. Ellen George and Rhodn M. w Iding

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SHERIFF TOLD HIM TO KEEP EYES CLOSED Miller Had Personal Knowledge of Gambling and Brutality, Says Ex-Guard. OFFERED JOBS AS BRIBE Disclosures to the effect that the graft, robbery and brutality in the Marion county jail were not only known to Sheriff Robert F. Miller, but to other county and city officials as well, were made in federal court today during the investigation of the jail scandal. Inside workings of tbe so-called rojj nty ring were disclosed by William P. Wilson. 441 Pennsylvania avenne, who was formerly a guard in the jail n-der Miller and who said he quit la.. June be-anse he conld’not stand the graft. According to Wilton. Miller had personal knowledge of the poker games, brutality and robbery in the Jail, ana furthermore that he received the lion'* share of graft on federal money. Sheriff Miller made $3,000 per month on feeding prisoners, according to Wilson. The coat of feeding each man per day wa* estimited at 14 ceDts apleca hy Kd Morrow, jailer, who figured tur the sheriff's profit on one occasion, to *how “how chsp he was," Wilson m!0. The guards xxere paid only *IS a week and they protested against such a pittance in the face of the monster "rake off’’ that the sheriff received. BOOZE BROUGHT INTO THE JAIL. Wilson also added that while he was in jail whisky had been brought in to federal prisoners through the window •t:id also in boxes of apples. Wilson said he personally protested L Sheriff Miller concerning the graft existing and was told by the sheriff that h- was talking too much and that the less be saw at the jail the better off he would be. Wilson also admitted he shared in the poker graft which was received and split up among the screws by Ed Morrow. who is uow chief jailer. The sheriff and bis political friends made attempts to influence Wilson and keep hi* mouth shut, he said. bn qolHing (he jnil position. Wilson said he told Miller of the deplorable conditions existing there and wa told that he was on the square and would be taken rare of if kepi hi* month shut. “Miller then took me to the hall." said Wilson, -'where IMM offered a job on an oil uagon. I refused to accept. " “I was then given a job as a fnsHW of prisoners on the road by the count,- commissioners, but l was forced to qnlt beranse I knew too much."

According to Wilson. Joe Fox. ctsrk for the county commissioners, told him that Miller had passed along sh word that he was to he discharged. Wilson told the court that he had re ceived several veiled threata and *va ♦ old to stay away from the federal officers. TELLS OF TALK WITH SHERIFF. During an investigation conducted st tli jail by Mark Storen last September Wilson said that Miller came to him at a garage and fold him he hid better "tell the truth" if railed before the fed oral grand jury. If I do you will go to jail.” was WRson s answer. * " hile working in the jsd Wilson-said that a man named Fred Wilson, depnry sheriff, was working there as a "legal adviser. " and was used to steer prisoners to certain attorneys. The man Wilson was also said to •he close to the sheriff and one of the prime movers in the graft eiementß at (he jail. The witne-s said that on one ocoasion when he attempted to tell Miller of what was going on at the jail Miller said: “I do not want nn, knocking. I know well enough what is going on at the jail.” Wilson said that threats had been made so the effect that "they" would "get him” if h raneed any trouble. TOLD TO KEEP STILL Y “I NfT.E CHARLIE.” He said "Uncle Charlie” to'd hj m to keep still and not talk to tht federal people. "1 intended to come to Judge Anderson hefoie, but was afraid to." he declared. "for I believed they would frame me and send me over." J He said he had been threatened wtthj prison if he talked too much. Jfl After such threats were made raid he wens to Jerry Kinney, chief, to usk for protection and th also saw others, getting little >fi pl| L jS He felt so sure that he would be arrested that he arranged with lawyers tv, get bond, he said, having spoken to Joe Roach and John W. Holtzer about the th rents. When asked by the court how this could be done Wilson said: “It Is easy for them to get you if they are In right politically "Is this man Miller strong politically now?” asked the court. When Wilsou said he was now afraid that policemen would be sent to break up his dairy lunch business at 52 Delaware street, he was informed by .Tudgs Anderson that he was under the protection of the court aud need have nofear| of the “ring." ' SAYS MILLER IGNORED SMUGGLING OF WHISKY. Wilson said that he told Miller of whisky smuggled into the jail aud offered to show him a box of apples In which liquor was concealed, but said the sheriff did not care to 6ee tt.

In speaking of the poker game, he said that all the guards knew about it; that they split the graft among the “screws” and that Jailer Ed Morrow hlmsetf, played cards with the federal prisoners. Wilson also said that while he wn (Continued on Case Twenty.'

Jail Trusty Sent Out to Buy Booze < William P. Wilson, who preeeato6 sensational evidence of graft £rfiad In the Marion eonnty jail daring federal investigation of fhp JaH scandal, said today that a negro state prisoner Acting as trusty was seal out to buy whisky for federal priaoners. “Sent a bootlegger to bay wMalyf*' commented the judge. “Well, they knew how to g* bot it all right." x