Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1910 — JUDGE DARROCH TO SIT [ARTICLE]

JUDGE DARROCH TO SIT

In the Joint Bridge Graft Cases Against Bader, et al. The state case against C. L. Bader, superintendent and general manager of the Winamac Bridge Co., and John F. Pettet, Fred Way mire and Charles T. Denham, county commissioners, charging them with changing the figures in the bid on the Milroy tp., bid from 51,240 to $1,400 —the construction of which bridge was proven in court to have been scaled down 35 to 40 per cent below specifications and for which Bader was convicted and sentenced to an indeterminate sentence of from two to fourteen years in the penitentiary, which conviction is now pending on appeal in the supreme court —is set for trial here the third Monday of the present term, Sept. 26. A change of venue was asked for by Mr. Bader, from the court,' and Judge Darroch of Kentland was appointed to sit as special judge. The commissioners and Bader are charged jointly with having changed the figures in this bid as first filed and as read off at the time of opening the bids by Commissioner Denham, from 51,240 to $1,400, or a raise of $l6O over the original bid. The case is likely to attract considerable attention from the taxpayers of the countv.