Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1910 — A PERTINENT QUESTION. [ARTICLE]

A PERTINENT QUESTION.

Fred Longwell was over to Rensselaer, Monday, to be present at the motion for a rehearing in the case. However, he won his point and Bader will have to go to the penitentiary unless the judge sees sufficient mitigating circumstances in tike 'tsase to give him a suspended sentence, which the people of his home town are working hard to secure. Most of the people seem to think that Bader was only technically guilty and no worse than a few others' connected with the case, in fact he claims that the commissioners! authorized him to make the change in bridge specifications.—Brook Reporter.

Well, if the commissioners authorized the change in specifications in the Milroy tp., bridge, as Bader alleges, did they also also authorize the like scaling down in practically all the other bridges erected by the Winamac Bridge >Co., in Jasper county? This is a question the people would like to find out, and it is evident that there is some unfinished work for a grand jury here in looking into these other bridge contracts.