Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1919 — WAS CERTAINLY IN BAD TASTE [ARTICLE]

WAS CERTAINLY IN BAD TASTE

For Governor Goodrich -to Bring Parolled Man to Lafayette. In speaking of the action of Governor Goodrich’s visit to the Lafayette soldiers’ home last week with his chauffeur, Clyde Horn, the convicted murderer of Peter Mataxis of Lafayette, and who was recently parolled after serving about one year of his life Imprisonment, the Tippecanoe County Democrat says: Governor Goodrich, In bringing Clyde 'Horn, convicted murderer, to Lafayette, to the very scene of his crime, and flaunting him openly and defiantly In the faces of the court, the officers and the Jurors who, after hearing the evidence, all voted on the first ballot to find him guilty and who sentenced him to the penitentiary for life less than two years ago, and In the race of Judge Haywood, who after hearing Horn’s plea for a new trial indignantly refused the same, giving as one reason that the plea of self defense was not borne out in the least by the facts since the bullet that killed Horn’s victim entered his back, clearly a cowardly assassination —In bringing back

this convicted murderer and accompanying him here and turning him loose upon our streets to roam at will for over night—in giving him $lO and telling Horn he neec not "show up ’til morning” (which Horn stated the governor did) lr doing these startling and unexplainable things Governor Goodricl has done more in this commo nif to set a premium upon crime thai has all the criminals that ever op crated their illegal schemes here Horn claimed to a local pollc officer that Warden Fogarty of th' lortfiern penitentiary, called bin nto his office, gave him a ticket V 'ndihnapolis and money and tolr 'lm to report to the governor, vent all right,” said Horn, "an< ”m driving the governor over tin tate. We (meaning himself, f •onvicted murderer, and the gov 'rnor) are going to several place n this state and then I am goto; vlth him south for the winter.” Evidently the governor feels tha t is no crime to kill a Greek shoe ■hiner and makes not only a travel ng companion, but a hero as well >ut of a man convicted of th-, 'rime of shooting another In th< >ack. The evidence against Horn wa 1 o overwhelming that when the jurook the case, on the first ballot he 12 men voted “guilty” and • najorlty of them stood for electro •utlon. . I should not be surprised a nore murders here. If after vork on the part of the official nd the expenditure of much o he public’s money a killer Js final!' rought to justice and sent t' •risen for life, the governor 1; wo years from the time of th' ■rime tours the state with him 1? 'is (the governor's automobile vhat reason can you assign so mulshing a man who kills another The spectacle was extremely dis -ustlng and an insult to this com nunity.