Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1907 — FREED, BUT NOT ACQUITTED. [ARTICLE]

FREED, BUT NOT ACQUITTED.

The reports sent out from Winamac last week to the metroplitan republican papers regarding the acquittal of Garl W. Riddick, editor of the Winamac Republican and secretary of the republican state committe, who was arrested recently on the charge of perjury in making an affidavit for mortgage exemption, seem to have been very misleading. The facts are that Judge Nye, republican, quashed the affidavit on the grounds that the county reoorder, before whom the affidavit for exemption was made, had no porter to administer oaths in such cases, although he has in certain other matters, and the case therefore did not oome to trial at all. It is said that the records show that Riddick had no mortgage on his property at the time the affidavit was made, and this would have been disoloeed bad the case oome to trial. Prosecutor Reed has taken an appeal to the supreme court from Judge Nye’s ruling.