Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1908 — REFUSE TALBOT SEPARATE TRIAL [ARTICLE]

REFUSE TALBOT SEPARATE TRIAL

Be Host Stand or Fall With Muvor Darrow. PROSECUTION IS UPBELD Laporte Mayor and Bouth Band Attorney Will Be Co-Defendanta When the Case Again Comet Up In the Lower Court—Latest Ruling Is In Accordance With Claims That All Along Have Been Advanced In Disbarment Proceedings. Laporte, lnd., Dec. 15.—The Indiana appellate court, which Friday denied the petition of the prosecuting committee for a re-hearing of the disbarment proceedings against Mayor Lemuel Darrow of Laporte, and Attorney John W. Talbot of South Bend, who were found'guilty of conspiracy and subornation of perjury, the decision being later reversed by the appellate court, has denied the petition of Attorney Talbot for a re-hearing for “himself, separately and alone.” Attorney Talbot contended that the original action was illegally instituted, that the Laporte circuit court had no Jurisdiction over him, because he lived in South Bend, which is in St. Joseph country; that he should have been granted a separate trial and the request of the prosecuting committee for a change of venue from St. Joseph county to Elkhart county, after the defendants had taken the case from Laporte county to St. Joseph county should have been denied. In the ruling against Talbot, the ap- 1 pollate court upheld the prosecuting! committee in each of these contentions. As a result Talbot will have to stand re-trial with Mayor Darrow, when the case is returned to the lower court.