Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1911 — BADER IS NOW INCARCERATED [ARTICLE]

BADER IS NOW INCARCERATED

Winimac Bridge Grafter Taken to Michigan City Yesterday IS ENTITLED TO NO RESPITE And When He Failed to Deliver Himself Over to the Sheriff the Governor Revokes Parole and Remands Him to Sheriff’s Custody. Sheriff Hoover went to Michigan City yesterday morning, where at about noon C. L. Bader, the convicted Winamac bridge grafter, was to meet him and be taken *to the State’s Prison to begin his sentence of two to fourteen years for bridge grafting in Jasper county. The action of the sheriff was based on the following letter received from Governor Marshall Saturday: GREETING z WHEREAS, upon the 18th day of March, 1910, I issued a parole to one Clinton L, Bader pending his appeal to the Supreme Court of Indiana from the judgment of the Jasper Circuit Court, sentencing him to the Indiana State Prison, and upon the condition that if said judgment was confirmed, imprisonment should date from the time of his actual incarceration in said prison; and ' WHERAS, the Supreme Court of Indiana has confirmed said decision; NOW THEREFORE, I, Thomas R. Marshall, Governor of the State of Indiana, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the Constitution of said State, do hereby reyoke said parole and remand said Bader to the custody of the sheriff of Jasper County, Indiana, by him to be conveyed and delivered over to the Warden of the Indiana State Prison. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hav hereunto set my hand and caused to, be affixed the GREAT SEAL of 'the State of Indiana, at the Capital in the City of Indianapolis, this 18th day of May, A. D., 1911? A S THOMAS R. MARHSALL, (Seal) By the Governor: r L. G. ' Ellingham, ? ’ ' Secretary of State. Friday’s Cincinnati Enquirer, in a dispatch from Indianapolis said: Governor Marshall today sent a letter to Clinton L. Bader, former president of the Winamac Bridge company, convicted of presenting a false claim to Jasper county, the verdict of the jury having been sustained by the Supreme couft, calling his attention to • thsa/cbnditions of the parole. Bader will be compelled to begin his sentence in the state prison. The Governor paroled him pending appeal. A Winamac paper mentioned the receipt of t<he letter from the Governor to Mr. Bader and said that Bader would go to Michigan City sometime between the 20th and 25th of June, at she “end of his sixty day parole,” and deliver himself over to the warden to begin. his sentence. But it seems the governor took the same view as The Democrat, that Bader was entitled to no sixty day respite in which to file a motion for a rehearing after the sentence of the lower court had been affirmed, our Washington street contemporary and Abe Halleck to the contrary notwithstanding. Hence his letter to Bader and official notice to the sheriff of this county. After receiving the notice from the governor Sheriff Hoover called up Mr. Bader by phone and told him' about it, and he was asked to report -here Sunday. Bader wanted to consult his attorneys, thinking still that he had until the latter part of next month to begin his sentence. Attorney George A. Williams was over in Illinois and could not be reached, but Bader called attorney Abe Halleck and after a talk with him and the sheriff getting some legal advice, it was agreed that Mr. Bader’s plea that he be given Monday to arrange his business affairs and meet the sheriff at Michigan City yesterday be granted. _ The original mittimus, issued by the circuit court here, was not turned over by ex-sheriff Shirer, but on inquiry of him he found the paper and turned it over to Sheriff Hoover. In a case of this kind it is really not nec-

essary for the sheriff to go after rhe prisoner, it being the duty of the bondsmen to turn him over to the sheriff, and as Bader did not seem to want to come to Rensselaer and the action of the governor in holding contrary to ’has attorneys regarding and further parole after the case had been affirmed coming as a surprise to him, he was allowed until yesterday to report to the sheriff at Michigan City. The sentence is from two to fourteen years, but with good behavior he will be released in two years, the expiration of the minimum sentence. In fact, we are told that Mr, Halleck has intimated tha,t petitions for his parole will be circulated at once and it is hoped to get him released in a short time. Whether this can be accomplished or not remains to be seen. Perhaps it is simply held out to Mr. Bader as a hope for speedy release without expectation of its being realized.