Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1911 — ALL DUE TO POLITICS. [ARTICLE]

ALL DUE TO POLITICS.

Attorney Knotts Declares Gary Case is a Deep Laid Political ’ Conspiracy. Valparaiso is full of Gary men today attending the trial of Mayor Knotts, Chief of Police Martin and other Gary city officials on the charge of conspiracy, up to a late hour this afternoon the attorneys in the case continued their statements to the jurv as ) what they expect to prove for the state and the defense. For the defense A. F. Knotts of Hammond made a sensational address to the jury today. He asserted that the criminal proceedings instituted against Mayor Knotts and Chief Martin of. Gary were the result pf a political plot and that the evidence which would be introduced by the state to make a case against these men would be found to be perjured testimony. Attorney Knotts called particular attention to the fact that the prosecution had been unable to get a single lawyer in Valparaiso to appear for the prosecution, and it was because every lawyer and every •reputable citizen of Porter county was satisfied that the whole proceeding against the Gary city officials was a deep laid political conspiracy that had its origin in Lake county and that it would not stand the searchlight of investigation. There was a good deal of gossip today that some of the evidence which would be introduced by. the prosecution would be of a sensational nature, but this talk seems to have had its origin from the talk of those who are behind the prosecution. Up to this time the prosecution has carefully concealed the names of the witnesses by whom it hopes to establish the charges of conspiracy. —Gary Post.