Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1917 — GLEANED FROM EXCHANGES [ARTICLE]

GLEANED FROM EXCHANGES

The Redpath Chautauqua closed its session at Covington Saturday. The local guarantors were obliged to make up less than SIOO, and no contract was made for next season. The war department at Washington announced. Sunday that Gunner Sergeant Earl C. Nicholas of Monticello had qualified for appointment as second lieutenant in the marine corps. Samuel V. perrott, former chief of police of Indianapolis, and Herman F. Adam, former city .sealer, a co-defendant, who were found guilty recently of conspiring to corrupt the election of 1914, were '■ sentenced to four and two and a i half years, respectively, in the fed- , eral prison at Atlanta by Judge ! Ferdinand A. Geiger at Indianapolis Monday. Perrott was granted a thirty-day stay of execution because of his physical condition. Perrott was also fined SI,OOO and Adam SSOO. Roy A. Pope, former captain of police; Lee Stringer, former city detective; Wayland E. Sanders and Mortimer G. Hulse. 1 convicted with Mr. Perrott and Mr.

Adam, were each sentenced tri serve six months in the Marion county jail and were fined SSO each. Mayor Joseph E. Bell and twenty-seven others filed demurrers attacking the indictment.