Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1912 — WILL ASK PAROLE OF BADER. [ARTICLE]

WILL ASK PAROLE OF BADER.

Twin Daughters of Bridge Grafter Circulating Petition to Governor. A dispatch from Winamac in Saturday evening’s Indianapolis News states that the twin daughters of C. L. Bader, the Winamac bridge grafter convicted in the Jasper circuit court at the February term. 1910, and given an indeterminate, sentence of two to fourteen years in the state prison, are circulating a petition for the parole of their father and that same will be presented by them in person to Gp.-er-nor Marshall this week. The dispatch states that the petition is being signed by many. It will be remembered that immediately after Bader’s conviction Gov. Marshall granted a parole pending an appeal-, to the supreme court, and that the higher court affirmed about a year later the conviction and he was then taken to prison. He has therefore served but little more than a year of the minimum sentence. The girls were here to secure signatures to the petition, which, among other things, stated that Mr. Bader was unfairly dealt with, in the trial. Judge Hanley declined to sign the petition, as did the jurors here who heard the case, so far as we have been able to learn. They were here Friday afternoon and again Sunday. There are six other indictments pending on the criminal docket of Jasper county against'' Bader for graft in other bridges as shown by an expert examination of the bridges by Prof. Smith of Purdue, and The Democrat understands that these will not be dismissed until the minimupr sentence has been served. What Governor Marshall will do in the matter of recommending the parole remains to be seen.