Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1911 — BADER CASES GO OVER. [ARTICLE]

BADER CASES GO OVER.

Defense In Alleged Bridge Graft Cases Asks for Continuance. On motion pf defendant’s local atttorney, Geo<. A. Williams, the half dozen alleged bridge graft cases against C; L. Bader, the Winamac bridge man, have been continued to the next term of court, when they will probably be continued again uiitil September. Prosecutor J Longwell is not anxious tp put the taxpayers to the expense of a trial in these cases while the appeal of Mr. Bader on a similar case in which he was found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary is pending in the supreme court, but a dirty fling at him by the local graft defender paper be-

cause he was. unable to attend coujrt here last term on account of ithe critical condition of his mother and the sickness of one of his children, made Prosecutor Longwell feel that if a continuance was granted again in these cases the overtures should come from the defense, and he stated that the state was ready to go" ahead and try them. As the defense is apparently not very anxious for an immediate trial, it then asked for a continuance, to which Mr. Longwell" consented. * It is scarcely probable that a decision will be had from the supreme court in the case pending there before next fall, and, unless Mr. Bader becomes anxious to go to trial in these cases they will very likely not be tried until - after the decision of the higher court in the appealed conviction. case.