Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1911 — GARY ALDERMAN CONVICTED [ARTICLE]

GARY ALDERMAN CONVICTED

Crown Point Jury Holds W. E. Gibson Guilty of Bribery. Crdwn Point, Ind., Dec 22. Aiderman Walter E Gibson of Gary was found guilty by a jury here. • Grown Point. Ind., Dec. 22.—Closing arguments in the trial of Aiderman Walter Gibson of Gary, Ind., on bribery charges were heard by the jury before Judge Van Fleet. Assistant State’s Attorney W. F. Hodges made the first argument for the state He dwelt principally on the dictagraph evidence of conservations between Gibson and T. B. Dean, complaining witness, as proof that the defendant aiderman accepted a bribe to vote for the heating plant franchise asked by Dean. Attorney Samuel Parker, acting for Governor Marshall, made the closing address. Mr. Parker, in addition to asking for a conviction, made a plea for the “rejuvenation of the city of Gary on a better moral basis.”