Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1915 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. v ■ OBJECT TO IMMVITY PLAN. Bondsmen Assert Trustee, Said to Have Confessed, Must Face Criminal Charge l . < Brazil, Ind., March 10.—George M, Ray and Orville M. Hendricks of Indianapolis, charged with presenting fraudulent claims against Jackson township, ('lay county, were released under $5,000 bond yesterday, after being confined in Jail hero since Friday night. Clarence C. Shipp of Indianapolis, who faces the same cnarge, already had obtained bond. A surety company provided bond for Ray this morning and in the afternoon an agent for another company camo here from Indianapolis ' and procured the release of Hendricks. Attorneys for four of the bondsmen of James A. Muncie, former trustee of Jackson township, assert that a criminal charge will be filed against Muncie, although he is said to have been promised immunity by the state board of accounts. Tho bondsmen also have objected to being represented by the same attorney as will appear for Muncie and probably will engage their own counsel. Ray, Hendrick and Snipp will be arraigned March 17, when the trial dates will be set. Prosecutor John W. Baumunk said he had much additional evidence which would not be made public until the trial. New affidavits will bo filed against the Indianapolis men, it is said. In the first affidavits Ray is accused of giving Muncie a bribe of S2OO, but in the joint affidavit against Snipp and Hendricks the amount of the alleged bribe is not set nut. It is to correct this defect that the new affidavits are to be filed. Prosecutor Baumunk admits that his investigation will involve an architect and others and that the investigation is going beyond Jackson township. The grand jury is to be called within a short time.