Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1911 — GOVERNOR IN GARY PROBE [ARTICLE]

GOVERNOR IN GARY PROBE

Promises to Appoint Noted Criminal Lawyer to Handle Case. Gary, Indi, Sept. 22.—Governor Marshall will take a hand in the prosecution of the graft charges involving Mayor Thomas E. Knotts and other officials of Gary. A special prosecutor will be named by the governor to assist the Lake county authorities in the probing of the graft scandal. It is rumored that Emery B. Sellers, a noted criminal lawyer of Monticello, Ind., had been retained! by the governor to prosecute the defendants.