Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1915 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. MORE BOND REQUIRED. Several Members of Terre Haute Gang Rearested for Tampering With Wtinesses. The Terre Haute gang of political freebooters now on trial in the federal court in Indianapolis, were plainly told a few days ago by Judge Anderson that there was such a thing as law in this country and that they must observe it while on trial. He placed Mayor Donn M. Roberts, Sheriff Shea, Alexander Aczel and Judge Thomas Smith, of the city court of Terre Haute, under $5,000 bonds each, Wednesday, on the charge of tampering with witnesses, and in default of bond all were sent to jail, where they spent Wednesday night, but were released Thursday on bonds' furnished by some of their friends. The disclosures of political rottenness in Terre Haute are growing worse all of the time as the trial proceeds, and the admissions of the men indicted has already convicted them in the eyes of the public. It was brought out Thursday that Thomas Taggart and a Terre Haute distiller indemnified the surety company that went on Roberts’ and Shea's first bond.