Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1909 — HENRY MARSHALL ACQUITTED. [ARTICLE]

HENRY MARSHALL ACQUITTED.

Former Republican District Chairman Declared Innocent of Street Paving Frauds. ■; Henry W. Marshall of Lafayette, president of the Western Construction Co., and former republican chairman of this congressional district, was acquitted Saturday of the charges of fraud in several indictments returned by the Manon county grand jury in connection with the street paving frauds in Indianapolis, for which Harry Bruhaugh, who was employed by the said company to secure the contract with the city and have one-half the net profits thereof, is now serving sentence in the Michigan City prison for padding the figures of the actual work done, thus defrauding the city of several thousand dollars. The evidence against Marshall was not of a direct nature, it being more on the fa?t that his company profited by the frauds than anything else. The trial lasted some five weeks and Mr. Marshall was defended by several of the best lawyers in the state.