Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1911 — RELEASED TOO EARLY. [ARTICLE]

RELEASED TOO EARLY.

Bader’s Presence at Winamac Not Desired Till Monday.—Explanation by Governor. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 2. The correspondence in the office! of the Governor concerning the release of C. L. Bader, of Winamac, from the state prison in order that he might appear at home to testify in two cases in which he is wanted as a wit-' ness does not dislose that any! time was set for the release of the prisoner under the temporary parole by the Governor. Warden Fogarty, of the state prison, it was said at the Gov-! ernor's office, evidently took the' Governor to mean that Bader was to be released on receipt of. the executive order? The fact! that Bader was thus enabled to spend Thanksgiving with his family at home was a coincidence, the Governor said. The request for the presence of Bader at the trial of the cases came from attorney Burson of Winamac. In Burson’s letter to the Governor it was set out that Bader’s presence was desired on December 4 and 5. ■ On receipt of the Burson letter Governor'Marshall wrote to Warden Fogarty, directing that Bader be released for the purpose desired, with or without guard, as the warden thought best. Nothing was said of the dates when Bader was wanted. This, the Governor said, was an oversight. “I did not have Thanksgiving in mind when I wrote the warden,” the Governor said. “I wrote the letter last Tuesday, and thought that Bader was to be released only for the trial.” . It was said at the office of the Governor that the wording of the letter to the warden was such that Mr. Fogarty might take it for granted the Governor intended Bader to be released on receipt of the temporary parole, but the Governor contended he meant only that Bader should be released to be in Winamac at tne time he was wanted as a witness. He said that because of the conditions of the case, he must assume all blame, if any attached, for Bader’s having been permitted to go home five days before he was wanted as a witness. Bader was formerly president of the Winamac Bridge Company, now defunct, and was sentenced to the state prison last May on a finding of guilty on a charge of presenting a false claim for money to the commissioners of Jasper county. Attention was called to his case largely because after a finding of guilty in the lower court, sentence was suspended by the Governor, pending the result of an appeal to the supreme court. The cas6s in which Bader is wanted to testify are two brought against the old bridge, company. Prior to the request that Bader be released to appear, depositions had been taken from him at the prison for use in the case.—lndianapolis News. < A new subscription, remember, counts 3,000 votes for each year. If for five years, 15,000 votes; a renewal counts 1,500 votes for each year renewed. -_1 ' J Sale bills printed while you wait at The Democrat office ■