Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1910 — BADER REFUSED A NEW TRIAL [ARTICLE]

BADER REFUSED A NEW TRIAL

And Will Bi Taken To Penitentiary In a Few Dajs. COURT RULING k SURPRISE, As It Was G«nerally Believed From Intimations Dropped ■ That a New Trial Would fee Granted <— Defendant ✓ Much Cast Down Over Court’s Ruling. That “the way of the transgressor is hard,” was demonstrated very forcibly in the case of the State of Indiana vs. C. L. Bader, superintendent and general manager of the Winamac Bridge Co., of graft in the construction of a 70 foot iron bridge across the Howe ditch in Milroy township, the particulars of which are familiar to our readers. The court is said to have intimated that he would grant a new trial on defendant’s motion, but after painstaking care in looking up court decisions, he reached the conclusion Monday noon that there were no good legal grounds for granting a new. trial, and when the matter was taken up about 5 p.m.,Monday the motions were over-ruled and the defendant sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary at Michigan City for from two to fourteen years, and the prisoner remanded to the custody of the sheriff to carry out the orders of the court. Accordingly Mr. Bader is now in the custody of the sheriff, but will not be taken away for a few days. He is not confined in jail, but is allowed about the sheriff’s office and the court house, pending his removal to Michigan City. While there is much sympathy felt here for Mr. Bader, on account of his having stood so highly in his home county heretofore, his crippled condition—one arm being off at the wrist—his quiet, unassuming manner, family, etc., there can be no one who heard the evidence in the case who doubts for a moment that he is at least technically guilty, and had it not been for the severe penalty prescribed for offenses of this kind, the jury that tried him would not have been thirty minutes in reaching their decision. It’s hard to see such a man as C. L. Bader go to the penitentiary, but a man who has had the training and advantages that he has, and then goes wrong, is really not as much to be pitied as the poor devil who has grown up uneducated and among surroundings which were calculated to make him ignorant of right and wrong. Mr. Bader has our sincere sympathy, as has every person who transgresses the law ■ of the land and must be punished by confinement in prison.