Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 137, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1920 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Unsettled tonight and Tuesday. Probably showers.

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LAWS FAIL AS OFFICIALS CHASE VOTES

SHQRTRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL CACHE FOR NEGRO BOOTLEGGER • Appointment, Made by Phone With Booze Seller, Results in Half Pint Changing Hands for $4.50. SAYS MOST TAXI DRIVERS KNOW HIM Shortridge High School building, best known of all the buildings in Indianapolis’s education system, is the cache of a bootlegger under the conditions permitted to exist by the “good government" administration of Indianapolis. The bootlegger is a negro. * . He mn be reached by telephoning 28-294, new phone, and he answers to the name of Wilson. The telephone book shows that phone No. 28-294 was installed, for Lucius L. Wilson, 625 North Talbott avenue, and the house at that number is part of a brick double. An engagement was made over the telephone to meet Wilson at Pennsylvania and North streets. ,

Wilson inquired of the stranger his name and who sent him. * “He was told that Charles Johnson, a lawyer In the Baldwin block had given him Wilson’s telephone number. “Who's Charles Johnson?" asked Wilson. “I never heard of him.” Wilson’s suspicions were hard to quiet, for he asked several other questions and said: \ * 4 I must be careful for I have been pinched once.** He asked if the stranger had an automobile. When told that his taxi vr as just around the corner, Wilson asked. "Didn’t the taxi driver tell you about me? Almost all the taxi drivers know me and know I put out the booze.” “No, I never asked the driver to get whisky,” was the answer. Then the whisky seeker pulled n roll of bills from his pocket and asked the price of the whisky. “It’s $4.50 a half pint,” declared Wilson eyeing the money. REFUSES TO TAKE A CAXDIAN DIME. Four $1 billls were placed in Wilson’s band and then 50 cents was counted out in silver, but there was a Canadian coin in the lot. Wilson refused it. “That’s marked coin," he explained, “and I don’t want it.” He was handed a paper dollar and: returned 50 cents change. ... Wilson said: “Send your taxi driver with me to get the stuff." wfcsj*- I Thd driver was called, but claimed that while he had been driving a taxi In Indlanapolis for nine years, he never had (Continued on Pie Nine.) RATHER DISMAL THESE DAYS IN THE WEST END ‘Good Government’ Guardians Watchful in Democratic Ward. In marked contrast to the negro district. where the Republican votes are being lined up, and where “everything” is doing, is the famous -west end.” which Is generally credited with being a Democratic ward, and where there is almost “nothing doing.” The west end is abont as lively as a cemetery after midnight. Even “Buck" Collins’ place was closed early. The police have been making so many calls on "Buck”, that some of the bo-Jacks” say the cops are “laying" ou him these days. Perhaps Mr. Collins will line np In the right way politically, and then the Jewett "good government” police force mav find something more Important to do for the good of the community than to visit Mr. Collins’ dry beer “Joint.” There were few places tn the west end where the bright lights were shining at midnight, but at 548 West Washington street a “quiet litttle rhnm game” was in progress. A man who talked semi-English, but who apparently could 6peak excellent Roumanian, attempted to halt the visitor as he made his way rapidly in the direction of the rear of the room. “What you want?” demanded the reception committee. “A cigar, a good cigar,” was the answer, as the visitor looked In the direction of the high cigar counter extending across the rear of the room behind which one of the card games was in progress. The covers had long since been drawn over the pool tables, and the place was being kept open so a few of the boya could play a “little rhum Just for fun.” And there was Louie Brown, big fat happy Louie, playing cards and talking politics and athletics. Louie is the west end political boss for the Republican “good government” ring and Louie is also well known as a promoter of wrestling matches. He almost saw the Jack Dempeey-Billy Mlske prize fight, only he missed his train and didn’t get there. But Louie was happy and congenial and he bought a drink of "almost beer,” and then wanted to know what the visitor was “going to write about the Joint." After a pleasant hour watching Mr. Brown demonstrate that he was a good "rhum” player the visitor wandered to other parts of the west end. West Maryland street was dark. There were no bright lights lu West Pearl street. Three all night restaurants on Washington street were about all the places that were open and they accommodated only a few customers.

WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m', Tuesday, Oct. 10: Unsettled tonight and Tuesday; probably showers; not much change in temperature. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. C a. m..., 61 7 a. m 62 a. m ;. 65 :i a. m 70 :> a. in 74 1 a. ui 76 12 (noon) 78 1 p. m 81 2 p. ni--.-~ 79

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SAYS EVIDENCE PLAIN AGAINST LINGENFELTER ± Parent of One of Victims Declares Actions ‘Sufficient’ to Indict. FINDS COURT LACKING A parent of one of the little girls who was attacked by Itoy Lingenfelter, the man who confessed attacking so many girls he could not remember them all, and was twice freed by the Marion County grand Jury, has written the following “open letter” to tbe public: “The power the enforcement of the law lays in the hands of the prosecuting attorney and the grand Jury and when they take their respective offices they take an oath that they will en'orce the law and that they wtll fully investigate any and all violations of the law. “It certainly seems that there has not been such an Investigation made in the Roy Lingenfelter case, or f such investigation was made for some *Mon not kno ß n ents of The Ifffte girls who were* attacked by this fiend, the prosecutor’s office and the grand Jury have seen fit to disregard everything which has been presented before them and say that there was not sufficient evidence to bring an indictment against this confessed criminal. “I know the evidence which was given to the grand Jury and prosecutor by my little girl relative to Lingenfelter was not hearsay and that any statement made by the prosecutor as to it being hearsay Is false apd has no foundation whatever. AND HERE HE ARKS PERTINENT QUESTION “Is It necessary that one or these little tots should have given life's blood at the hand of this fiend In order that Claris Adams, prosecutor, and the grand Jury should have sufficient evidence to bring an Indictment against Lingenfelter? - “Such is not necessary, as merely the laying on of his hands and enticing tbe little girls away la sufficient to bring an indictment for assault and battery with Intent. “Roy Llngenfelter's attorney has tried to get me and some of the parents of these little glr'.s to sign a ppper requesting the court to turn this fiend loose so that he might Join the navy. “Why should they ask for papers to be signed unless they know by his own confession and also the positive j Identification of him by the little girls ] that he guilty? “I do not think that our government needs men such as him to go on our ships to defend the honor and integrity of a great nation like ours. BAYS COURT HAS GROUNDS FOR ACTION “And again, why should not the Criminal Court take action 0b the suspended sentence which Is of record In our courts? The court lias the authority and power, properly con. Yerred by the statutes, to take such action at any time that Lingenfelter came Into the Jurisdiction of his court. “Why not hrfve him brought before him and cause such suspension to be lifted and pass Judgment on said former sentence for any violation of the suspension thereof? “There should be a further Investigation in this case as there Is something somewhere that Is very wrong and so flagrant a violation of the law should not be passed over so lightly for under such actions of the prosecuting attorney’s office and the grand Jury no little girl Is safe to go on th* streets of our city unaccompanied.

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MORE COMPROMISES On Sept. 19, 1919, the Republican prosecuting attorney tiled a suit for the State of Indiana in the Marlon Circuit Court, No. 315ffi), against Thomas Sterrett, Hyman Younger and Beverly Howard upon a forfeited bond of SI,OOO. On Nov. 1, 1619, the prosecutor's fee was fixed at sls and the case was dismissed at the defendants’ costs. The costs, including the prosecutors fee, were paid on Feb. 3. 1620, 6, 1920, the proseoutor reaSfgßpntry docket No. V>, sugo 31569 fcr^^n. The pinßgtst nothing. The defend-

Entered as Second ciass Matter, July 25, 1914, at Postoftice. Indianapolis, Ind., under act March S, 1879.

This Is a picture of five bottles of liquor purchased at various places where it was offered for sale In Indianapolis last week; in direct violation of both the Indiana and the Federal law. The liquor includes "white mule,” ‘♦raisin "medical whisky*’ and

rpNo 179 P Stegemeier Bros. 17-19 No*h Illinois Street 1 V •

This little ticket speaks for Itself. It Is tbe re-ord of a small bet placed ljU hous* in the heart of th* >!ty where betauf many kinds on many things may be plaqc-d. Os course all this Is Illegal, and of course tbe brasen manner in which tbe betting is conducted makes It obvious that there Is an understanding, tacit or

THE BUNGALOW AGAIN IS OPEN FOR PATRONAGE The Bungalow is open again! The lights are dancing once more ovet :be smooth waters of the canal, the long silent piano is trembling with th* rhythm of Jazz, the glasses are tinkling and tbe taxis are coming, hurrah! Whether this lease of life for the famous old roadhouse will include a repetition of the ilay when a sergeant and two policemen In uniform were detailed lay the chief of police, to keep order at the open bar after midnight, remains to be seen. It is understood that the property, once made famous by the partnership of a well-known gambler and a city official in Us operation, Is now In the control of the superior court and In the bands of a < receiver as a result of a suit brought on behalf of the daughter of a former proprietor, who was coerced into ,surrendering It to “men who could run It.” Lewd women, whbe and black, frequent the place, the glaring lights of automobiles fall on the Joyriders who atop there and the donees are as merry as ever. If liquor Is desired the taxi drivers on the levee will take care of the thirsty visitor' before he starts for the bungalow. Tom Wilson had Just hit Indianapolis, coming from Houston, Texas, aud he had a Job as a taxi driver. "Take me out to the Bungalow." ordered the fare, nnd then “how about some whisky before we start?" “That's easy," answered Tom. “Y’ou go across the street to Stegerneler’s restaurant and there you’ll find half n dozen bootleggers waiting to take care of you.” "What’s It worth?” “They charge $5 for a half pint, but It’s fine, for It is the real thing. It’s bottled In bond. I’ll wait for you,” snid the taxi driver. The visitor handed Tom a $5 bill, suy(Contlnued on Page Four.)

DAVIS TALKS on DECENCY Democratic candidate for Prosecuting Attorney tells why and under what conditions he seeks the support of Marion County voters.

ant3 were relieved from the embarrassment of a judgment and the prosecutor got his fee. The defendant, Beverly Howard, is a First ward negro politician, who, on Aug. 21, 1919, appealed a chargo of keep-, lng a gambling houso from the (Tty Court to the Marlon Criminal Court, where he was not tried until July 23, 1920, eleven months later. This may throw some light upon what the Republican prosecutor meant when he said that the Judgments for $2,000 against “Pop” Leppert upon forfeited bonds given in blind tiger oases, were compromised for S6OO in the “customary manner.” * PAUL G. DAVIS.

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Liquor Bought Openly and Without Question

Here’s Evidence of Open Gambling

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1920.

whisky bottled tn bond. One member of the staff of the Times, who has worked at the police station for so long that he Is personally known go practically every bootlegger tn Indianapolis, purchased nil this liquor. • The bootleggers were not afrutft to

otherwise, that th* plae* will not b molested. Liqitor-and f*w>Winr so hand In hand, Ona of the bottles shown in the other picture on this page wss purchased la the same neighborhood and It Is a fact that prohibition officers have heretofore been notified of the open operations of bootleggers at this place.

FINDS PLACES WHERE WOMEN ‘CHEAT A BIT’ Booze Can Be Purchased Along With Other Entertainment. “Guard yourself boy," warned a bartender of a soft drink Joint In the Last Court street neighborhood, "if they think yoa have money they will prat) your hat and tear your clothes.” The reporter Wandered eastwsrd nnd wns halted ui Liberty and Court street by a woman of the under world, who hat been arrested a number of ttmea. Fifty feet east of Liberty street, on Court street, the reporter wns stopped again, this time by a negro woman. •Man, you don’t have to worry. Everything is all right In this part of town; only so few know it that it la Just a little quiet,” and the woman of the Htnyts passed on when the reporter refused her Invitation to accompany her. On the north side of Court street. Just before reaching Noble street, the reporter saw a woman standing lu the front yard of a house, which in the old days wns a notorious resort. The woman called to him; “Hello, dear. Go around to the side cioor." The woman met him nt the door and Invited him In. The reporter asked If she had any whisky to sell. “I am not selling whisky,’’ said the Inmate of the place, "but. you can get all the whisky you want In this part of town if you find some of the boys who are selling It." “Come back again and bring some of your friends.” sb Invited. Stopping In at 25 North Bast street, a dry beer snloon, the roporter met some old friends and some new friends. The new ones were unusually sociable, and one of them gave a wink and pointed to a rear room.

The man was drunk. The reporter had hopes of getting a drink of something with a kick ltd It. In the rear room the stranger offered him a drink of red hair tonic. The reporter told him be preferred “mule.’’ “Put a nickel in (he pluno, boys,” i woman's voice ordered us the visitor entered Billy Butler’s dry beer place at 19 North Liberty street. “Who's going to buy a drink?” chimed in the same woman, who declared site was the "shimmy queen.” “The fellow who called this stuff ‘near beer* was near sighted.” remarked one of the visitors. “Billy, what’s the chance of ceding a little liquor?” “You know I am hot put‘tng out any," explained Mr. Butler, nnd then in a low voice, "but I can arrange It." Have you seen Boots?” asked Riitler, turning to a negro lounging on a chair ueai the piano. | "H( was down to the pool room a while | ago, but I don’t know wbro he is now," the negro said. | •"Have you seen Charley Thomas?" i asked the proprietor, i “No,” answered the loafer, and the vis; I itor gave a dime to the woman who j wanted to keep the piano going, "I'll try to get 'Boots’ on the phone,” Raid Butler and he dlaied a number and | ordered one bottle. I Soon a dark brown skinned negro appeared and ißutler tipped the visitor It | was time to go to the rear room, j The liquor was red in color and looked j good. Boots said the prlw was $3.50 for a 1 half pint. (Continued on Page Pour.)

sell It to him. They did not even question his motive in purchasing It. They are so thoroughly satisfied with the lmpotency of the administration of law in Indianapolis that they do not care who kuows they sell liquor Illegally.

HIRAM JOHNSON CALLS WATSON ARCH BETRAYER Win. D. Hedrick Makes Letters From Californian Public at Batesville. AIRS CHICAGO MEETING Ily Klnff (Vrrespondrnt. BATESVILLE. Ind., t>ct. 18.—One of the sensations of the campaign was sprung here today when William D. Hedrick of Indianapolis, former Proi gressive leader and close friend of Senj ator Hiram W. Johnson, rea'V two letter* from the Californian in which he blfterly arraigned Senator James E. Wat sou. Republican candidate for reelection to the Lulled States Senate from Indiana. , Mr. Hedrick, who has refused to'follow the lead of Senator Johnson and Sen- j ator Harding In "" Tapping" the League j of Nations, Is stomping the state for the Democratic national aryl State tickets. \ He produced the letters during the course of au address here in company With Dr. Csrletnn B. McCulloch, Democratic nominee for Governor. Tho letters from the t'altfornta Senator were 4ir***d to Carl B£fc, retary of the Indiana public service commission. One was written July 1, 1930. and thA other July 9, 1920. They deal lnrgely with events that j transpired at the Republican national; convention In Chicago. It is noticeable that Senator Johnaon Interprets the Republican national form as having taken a “stand against the league, even with reservatiobs, and the Democratic party frankly is for it." 1 MOTE MANAGER FOR SENATOR’S C AMPAIGN. The first letter to Mr. Mote, who was ono of the campaign managers for tbo Senator during the Indiana primary last spring. Is as follows: You know without my telling yon, T lain sure,-how much I appreciate all ! you did for me during the recent campaign. I feel under a debt o*f oblige- ; tlon to you that I can never repay. I ! From the bottom of my heart, I thank you. 1 received, day-before yesterday, the copy of your letter sent to the Indianapolis "Star.” I am anxious to get 1 publicity on u statement concerning a part of your Indiana delegation. I want ; to make clear to your people that a delegation of Jim Watson’s pledged speI clfleally to a particular candidate, who 1 arc endeavoring to stab that candidate 1 In the back, are as guilty of betrayal ns men tvho, lu the first Instance, break their faith. I want to make plain to i your people, too, what an outrage t was with the vote polled in your State, that a delegation should be sent really In opposition to your people. j You will remember that Wood had i 85,000 votes, 1 had 80,000. Lowden 38,000 , and Harding 30,000. Your delegates, ’with a few exceptions, rep r esented not i the 165,000 of Wood uud myself, but the r, 000 of Lowden and llardlng and finally the 30,000 of Harding alone. I The cyniesl contempt of men like Wat(Continued on I'age Nine.) HALF PINT OF ‘MULE’ $3.25 AT 38 W. TENTH ST. It s no great trick to get “white mule” | whisky if you have the price and occasionally, they say, you cart get riOtl whisky, bearing the T’nlted States stamp, showing It was bottled lu bond, providing Moss likes your appearance, and they ain’t sold out.” Moss 1b a negro who works as a bartender at 38 West St. Clair street, which is a dry beer saloon and poolroom (Continued on Page Five.)

FOUR FINED, BUT FIFTH ESCAPES Charge Against Don Webster for Driving Over Fire Hose ‘Dismissed.’ Don Webster, 3629 Graceland avenue, came into City Court twice last week*to answer to n charge of violating a city ordinance, although the charge against him had been dismissed last month. He nnd four others were arrested about midnight Sept. 2, for driving over a tire hose when the Capitol Lumber Yards burned. The four others wero fined In tho City Court. Webster's case was continued until Sept. 4, then to Sept. 15, then to Sept. 23, then to Oct. 15, then to Oct. 16. When Webster came to the City Court Oct. 16 he found that Ralph Spann, deputy prosecutor under Claris Adams, bad caused the affidavit against him to be marked, “Dismissed on motion of the State.” on Sept. 25. The offense was a violation of a city ordinance and is presumed to be prosecuted by the elty attorney In the name of the city of Indianapolis, The deputy prosecutor, representing the State, had no legal right to dismiss It. But “what’s a little law between friends?'* 4

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STEGEMEIER’S HEADQUARTERS FOR BOLDGANG Bootleggers and Gamblers Ply Their Trade Unmolested. VISITOR BUYS BOOZE Stegetneler Brothers' restaurant and dry beer saloon, 17-19 North Illinois street, in the heart of the old levee district, is headquarters for a gang of unmolested bootleggers and gamblers. The betting boards (four large blackboards) are in the front part of the dry beer saloon and thousands of dollars are wagered on the election and on football games and other athletic contests. The betting business is so big that books printed especially for the purpose are used to record bets and the receipts torn from these books bear the name of Stegemeler nnd are given to the gamblers who place a bet, or who cover some wager already on the boards. After placing a bet on a football game and seeing hundreds of dollars wagered oil ttnwelection, a visitor heard a bootIcggerdiscusslng the sale of whisky. Ills voice was not low and could be heard by any person standing within ten feet c-f him. M j have Jut split a bottle of good whisky,” began the bootlegger, a neatly dressed, heavy-set man, “and I told the fellow who bought the half bottle that I I did not like to split the bottle as It would be hard to sell tbe other Ualf of : the whiskey. “You see, when I sell whisky I eoll the real thing with the Government stamp across It. "When I split one I break the stamp and the next fellow thinks he Isn’t geti ting real whisky. ABKB ONI.V COR * MONTH*) LIKE LAST S. “I have been bootlegging for more than two years and If I can have Just six months more like the last two months—well, I wouldn’t usk anything more. "However, business was good before. It was a little more than a year ago when I was furnishing whisky for the bell boys of a first-class hotel, and I charged them $25 a quart. "I wouldn't put It out for less. Say. I bet those bell hops stung the guests In that hotel for that whisky. “Y'ou see. for three weeks there was little whisky coming Into Indianapolis a* that time and I was getting most of It. "My whisky was being brought in by a railroad man and my source of supply wss uninterrupted.” The vinttow asked him what he wanted for the other hslf bottle of whisky and -we* informs* the -pet*** was JCV; * ‘‘i'll meet you in the wash room,” said th booiWggsr. Three men beside* the bootlegger and visiter vrere In the toilet, but the sale was made nnd the visitor handed toe whisky dealer a $lO bill and received $5 In change and the bottle half filled with whlaky. The bottle bore the label "Medallion whisky, sour mash, bottled under supervision of the United States Internal Revenue Department by The Old "76” Distilling Company, distillers, Klngntown, Sixth district. Kentucky.” WARNING APPEARS ON OPPOSITE SIDE. On the other side of the bottle appeared a "warning.” "These spirits were taxpald at the nonbeverago rate for medicinal purposes. Sale or use for other purposes wlli subject the seller or user to very heavy penalties.” The whisky bottled in bond Government stamp bore tbo dates: "Made In the spring of 1916, bottled in the fall of 1920.” Each night, in front of the Stegemeler restaurant, a number of men gather and loaf, occasionally entering the restau"nSUt to buy food. A number of these men have been arrested during the last few months and some have been convicted of gambling, but none is ever arrested while in the vicinity of the levee district. PoMce officers walk past them paying them no attention. It wns to one of this group that a taxi driver went and soon returned bringing with him a bottle of whisky. Th plnec quiets down, however, after midnight for these men, many of them known ,to tbo police as gamblers, get Into automobiles gnd ride away. Where they go only those on the inside know. “You see, we change the place each night," said one of the men, a known gambler, “and then the police can’t get wise,”

HAAGS’ LIQUOR 23 QUARTS SHY U. S. Marshal, Who Received Booze From Sheriff, Discovers Shrinkage. When Marshal Mark Storon took over from Sheriff Robert Miller the booze that Louis and .Tillius Haag Imported Into Indiana In violation of the Federal laws, he found that twenty-three quarts of J. W. Dant whisky that was seized from (he Hangs wero missing. Cases bearing serial numbers 134,126 and 35,189, which were full when they left the Haag store on January 11, 1918, were not full when the United States marshal seized them. Only one bottle was contained In the two cases. This whisky was originally In the custody of George W. Coffin, whom Mayor Jewett praised as the “best chief of police the city ever had." Then It passed through an illegal nnd fraudulently obtained order to the hands of Sheriff Miller, the same Miller wjjo was indicted following an expose of the Jail scandals. ' Finally, the Unit*d States offtrlals took over that part of this liquor which had been Imported illegally. There still remains legally In the oustoduy of the chief of police a certain quantity of liquor which v/as seized on a search warrant. The law provides that a bearing shall be bad before tile judge who ttiued the search wnrrnnt and the liquor destroyed if it be found to have been held for Illegal purpotv's. Claris Ada ins, prosecutor, more than eighteen months ago, asked Judge Pritchard to continue this hearing. _ Judge Pritchard continued* it and Adaois has ever since Hilled to bring up tiie hearing j No one knows this liquor.

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WHISKY, GAMBLING UNMOLESTED WHILE POLITICIANS WORK Towers That Be,’ in Election Drive, Center Efforts on Putting Evans in as Prosecutor. ADMINISTRATION PETS ARE ACTIVE While State, county and city officials are devoting practically all the time for which the taxpayers pay them toward the election of the Republican national, State and county tickets, law enforcement has become a joke In Indianapolis. Bootlegging is carried on with Shortridge High School as the base of operations. Gamblers gamble and bootleggers sell whisky at a "joint” directly op-, poslte the entrance of the hotel where the Governor of the State makes his home. Bawdy houses are in operation in the old redlight district and women openly solicit on the streets. Negro dives owned and operated by favorite negroes of the city ad- j ministration run craps grames unmolested. Men who confess felonies are permitted to go unindicted by the graiid jury. Bondsmen who forfeit bonds "compromise” with the prosecutor by paying him his fees and a-e not required to pay the forfeited bondß. Indianapolis is today more lax in law enforcement than it has been since the present Republican administration began. The national election is only two weeks ofT. Officials have abandoned any pretense of doing official work. Hundreds of city employes are doing nothing else except political work. County officials are not in their offices but may be found dealing with such notorious election workers as Denny Bush, Shiner Middaugh, Rufe Pago and Chip Lewis. • The police openly admit that they are powerless to make favorites of the administration respect the law.

The whole failure to stop the roost flagrant violations of law that hare been noted in Indianapolis for years can all be traced back to a desperate effort now being mads by all the “powers that be" to put across the Republican ticket. Particularly is the effort centering on

LID SLIPS OFF ‘DE AV’NOO' WITH ELECTION NEAR Craps Games Running in Rufe Page’s and Other Notorious Joints. BOOZE PEDDLED OPENLY Rufe Psge, former deputy sheriff under the "good government” administration stood guard personally over the craps game in his place on North Senate avenue Saturday night while about | thirty negroes played “African golf’ on pool tables In The rear of the "Joint” and a lone policeman stuck strictly to the other sido of the street. Rufe was ono‘ of the negroes whom the Republican campaign managers took to Chicago to help nominate General Wood. He has been several times arrested for operating a gambling Joint, and although it la well known that he does do Just, that, Taylor Gronninger, who sometimes pretends to bo an "anti-Jewett” leader, has always succeeded In "springing” Rufe in the police court, where Ralph Spann Is a deputy prosecutor. CREDITED WITH "GETTING” O.IPTATX. Rufo did valiant service for the Republican ring in the last primaries ana shortly thereafter he succeeded in getting the bntttons off Harry Franklin, captain of police, who bad a habit of causing Rnfe’s place to be raided every once in a while. So prominent is Rufe that the line new automobile which the board of works illegally purchased for the personal uso of Mayor Charles W. Jewett has been known to stand In front of ltufe’B for hours at a time. It Is needless to say that Rufe is "strong” for William P. Evans, the deputy of Prosecutor Adams, who desires to succeed Adams. In the last primary he frankly advised William E. Reilley, who opposed Evans, that it Vas no use to expect anything from his precinct, "’cause he had made a deal with Evans.” IVORIES CLICK—NOT POOL BALLS. Saturday night, as usual, the Ivories were clicking in Rufe’s place. In the front room there is a cigar case ,and a dry beer bar and two men and the (Continued on rage Five.)

OPEN LETTER To James A. Collins, judge of the Criminal Court, To Claris Adams, prosecutor of Marlon County, To Charles W. Jewett, mayor of Indianapolis, To Jeremiah Kinney, chief of police, To Charles Orbison, prohibition officer, To the Marion County grand jury: Gentlemen —In less than one week members of the staff of the Indiana Daily Times, without any great effort, obtained legal evidence of repeated violations of the prohibition laws, the gambling laws and the laws of decency in this community. They have demonstrated that bootleggers, gamblers and harlots are plying their unlawful trades in this city while you men who are sworn to enforce the law are indifferent either to the law violations or to their effects on this community. The evidence of law violations obtained by the Times is at your .disposal whenever you show any intention of living up to the oaths of your offices. The testimony of these witnesses is available for the grand jury and together with the liquor purchased as evidence it is “conclusive.” There is an ever-growing belief in this community that you gentlemen who are presumed to enforce the law are either wholly incompetent to do so or DARE NOT ATTEMPT IT. Dare any or all of you proceed against the bootleggers, gamblers and loose women who are making a mockery of the law in Indianapolis? \

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the election of William P. Erans tt> the prosecutor's office. There Is not a notorious bootlegger, gambler or election crook in Indianapolis, who is not openly working for the election of Evans and who does not declare that Evans must be elected. Whether Erans has passed down the word directly that he wHI not interfere with this class of citizens, or -it lias been passed for him by some of tfti political bosses It la a fact that Jj law less element tn In tianapolis ts <i its host to elect Evans tbl* element-do*e TTOt work for VWffll date without a purpose. F Only about a week ago, at the demand of Federal authorities, a squad of poll smen were stationed on the Rockville road to intercept booze runners. BOOTLEGGER’S TRIAL COMYS “AFTER ELECTION.” They caught a carload of booze every hour during the evening and they let two of the booze runners get away from them. One of the two who got away is now waiting the outcome of an appealed case In the criminal court. He was recently notified that his case would not come up until after election. He has been for months selling liquor In the very shadow of the city hall. His habits are known to the police, two of whom have watched him peddta his wares from the car into which other policemen sent bullets on the RockTllle road. The police do not dare arrest him. If he wished, he could tell the grand i Jury of a pre-election promise ? hat will 1 never be officially recorded, but which he does not doubt will be kept to the letter. POLICE, DISGUSTED, HAVE UNDERSTANDING. Police officers themselves have become so disgusted with the manner In which their cases are hampered In the courts whenever an administration* favorite is elected that they have agreed among themselves to “sand In” no more men than they have to. j They are now administering the punishment they think beet when they arrest men whom they know will not be dealt with, as they believe they should b when they reach the courtroom. The Marlon County grand Jury, created by a careful process of elimination of men who do not want to serve, is not cognisant of conditions and no effort is being made to inform it either by the prosecutor’s office or by the “investigator.” In short, the business of electing those among themselves who are candidates and those who have “tied-up” with them has become so all-important In Indianapolis that It is entirely possible for men suen as Roy Lingenfelter to assault more little girls than they can remember and still go unpunished. No one of the authorities has time to punish them. The election Is only two weeks away.