Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1915 — TERRE HAUTE MEN RECEIVE TERMS [ARTICLE]

TERRE HAUTE MEN RECEIVE TERMS

Four Plead Guilty to Fraud Charge in Election Cases. JUDGE ANDERSON SENTENCES John F. Nugent Gets Year and Day at the Leavenworth Federal Prison —Hess, Hines and Bruns Given Terms in County Jail. Indianapolis.—John F. Nugent, John Bruns, John Hines and Frank Hess, the four Terre Haute men who pleaded guilty to fraud charges in the Terre Haute election cases and whose sentences have been deferred pending the trials of others indicted ■on the same charge, were sentenced by Judge A. B. Anderson in federal fourt. Nugent was sentenced to a year and a day in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan.; Frank Hess received a sentence of live months in the Marion county jail; John Hines, four months, and John Bruns thirty days. The court chose to dispose of all other cases wherein pleas of guilty had been, entered on arraignment day. To Be Cured by Operation. Evan^yille.—-Teh of the leading surgeons of this city consulted in an endeavor to straighten the twisted limbs of seven-year bld Francis Gigson, who, as a result of an attack of infantile paralysis, is compelled to patter along on all fours like a dog. The doctors determined that by cutting the tendons and drawing his leg into a natural position and keeping it in place with a plaster cast, the boy can soon walk with the aid of braces and crutches. The Gibson boy's case has aroused city-wide interest. Because the boy’s parents are poor, the doctors volunteered their services.

To Free Alleged Bigamist. Kokomo.—The first wife of Charles Tyler, charged with bigamy, told Judge Purdam, when Tyler was arraigned, that she desired tp take back her husband if the judge would release him. Tyler is alleged to have married Georgia Eckman of this city at Wabash last September after deserting his wife iit Muncie. Sitting by the side of her husband, the first wife, to whom he was married in Frankfort four years ago, pleaded for his release. The alleged second wife did not attend the trial. No decision was given. , Miss Hoffman Declines. Bloomington.—Miss Dalphine Hoffman of Indiana university, who was Invited by Henry Ford to make the trip to Europe on the Oscar II with Fords peace party, has decided not to accept the invitation. Miss Hoffman gives as her reason for refusing that there will be some risk to the trip and that as she does not see how she could accomplish anything on such an uncertain proposition, she has decided not to go. Pleads Guilty to Fraud. Fort Wayne.—Sara D. Hanna, president of the Hanna-Breckenridge company of Fort Wayne and of the American Woodworking company of Chicago, pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses and Will be sentenced on Saturday. Hanna was accused of defrauding two Fort Wayne banks and several outside banks out of $170,000 by means of forged checks and “phony” ledgers. Teachers Wanted in lowa. Indianapolis.- Charles A. Greathouse, state superintendent of public instruction, has received an unusual request from G. A. Yoakam, county superintendent of schools at Marengo, la. Yoakam says his county needs many teachers for rural schools, and that there are none to be had. He asks aid from Indiana, and attaches of Greathouse’s office said that an attempt would be made to supply the lowa deficiency.

Alleged Forger Pleads Guilty. Columbus. George Smallwood, twenty-seven, of Indianapolis, who came here from Louisville a fewdays ago, and was arrested after passing an alleged check Oh Policaman Jesse Riddle, pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery and was sentenced from two to fourteen years in the Indiana reformatory. Wets at Kendallville Win. Kendallville. —The local option election here was the hardest-fought i battle in the history of the city, scores of votes being challenged by the drys. A total 8 votes was cast and the majority of 264 votes for the Wets two years ago was reduced to a majority of 23 for the wets. Will Move Gary Church. Gary.—Members of the Roumanian Orthodox Catholic church started to move the edifice from its site in the deserted colony of the late Rev. Edmund Kayser, the murdered pastor of St. John’s Evangelical church. The Roumanian church will be moved two miles. A guard is being maintained over the deserted Kayser parsonage and the church because of threats to destroy the buildings. Several days ago unknown persons destroyed bv fire the dwelling adjoin-