Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — PERROTT AND 5 OTHERS GUILTY [ARTICLE]

PERROTT AND 5 OTHERS GUILTY

Indianapolis Police Chief One of the Accused, Declares Jury. Indianapolis, June 25. —Samuel V. Perrott, chief of the Indianapolis police; Herman Adam, city inspector of weights and measures, and four members of the city police department. were tonight found guilty of a conspiracy to commit fraud in the 1914 registration and election by the verdict of a jurv in the United States district court herp. Frank M. Johnson, patrolman, the seventh defendant on trial, was acquitted. The court fixed July 10 as the date for hearing a motion for a new trial, and all the convicted men were permitted to go on their present bonds of $2,500 to $5,000 until tomorrow, when the question of increasing them will be passed on by the court. The jury’s verdict was reached four hours after it had retired, but it was an hour before it was read in court, awaiting the arrival of the defendants and their counsel. The indictment in the case was based on section 19 of the federal penal Code and charged violation of the civil rights of voters in their prevention from voting and the rights of candidates for federal offices in preventing them from having a fair election. Seven others who were indicted in the case pleaded guilty some time ago. - ,