Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1915 — DETECTIVE MAKES STATEMENT. [ARTICLE]

DETECTIVE MAKES STATEMENT.

Says There Is Evidence Ample to Convict Perpetrators. New York, December 29.—Norman T. Bailey, chief of William J. Burns’ international detective agency secret service, and for many years the head of the Pinkerton bank service department, says that the Burns agency has, since the election, been working its secret service operatives continuously in Indiana and in certain Illinois congressional districts, among them Uncle Joe Cannon’s, seeking out evidence and proofs of .wholesale election frauds. While he would not say who employed the Burns agency to do the work, whether the Uniteu States government or any of its departments, he intimated indirectly that it was either a combination of private individuals or an organization, possibly republicans of the reformer style. He says that ample evidence' has been found not only in Indianapolis but also in Terre Haute and in Evansville and- other small Indiana cities to senu the perpetrators to the government prisons. He indicate the convictions would not be of the uninffuential but among—leading politicians of both states. He did not mention Donn M. • Roberts, mayor of Terre Haute, when pressed on the subject ' but said more than 200 prominent' ( men were involved.