Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1919 — 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 Localities- . » TWO YEARS AND $2,000 FINE For Muncie Mayor and Prosecutor —ssoo Fine for Jacks. Rollin iH. Bunch, mayor of Muncie, and Horace G. Murphy, prosecuting attorney of Delaware county, found guilty Nov. 11 of conspiracy to use the mails to defraud, were sentenced by Judge A. B. Anderson in federal court Tuesday to two years’ imprisonment in the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., and fined $2,000 each. Chauncey Stillson, part owner of the Grand hotel at Muncie, also found guilty in the Muncie fraud case, was sentenced to 18 months in the federal prison and fined SI,OOO. Murphy, Bunch, Stlllson and Edward Quirk, Samuel Hetsler, Elmer .Gentry and Edgar Siler, also sentenced, ‘filed motions for new trials but Judge Anderson overruled these motions. Motions In arrest of judgment also were overruled by the judge. t Penitentiary and jail _ sentences and fines only were imposed on other defendants who pleaded guilty or were found guilty of complicity in the fraudulent land deals and “fake” prize fights through which 21 victims were buncoed out of $145,000 during one year in which the gang operated with headquarters at Muncie. Others of the defendants found guilty by the jury, were sentenced as follows: Quirk, detective on. the Muncie police force, finea SSOO and costs. Elmer Gentry, part owner of the Grand hotel, Muncie, sentenced to one year and one day in the federal prison and fined SSOO. Marion T. Jadks, Monon, fined SSOO and costs. Edgar Daniel Siler, wrestler, #lndianapolis, six months in the Marion county jail and fined SIOO. Samuel Hetsler, alias Sam Howard, Toledo, three months in the Marion county jail and fined S3OO. Bunch, Murphy, Gentry and Chauncey Stlllson will be out on bond pending an appeal of their ca’ses to the circuit court of appeals, it was announced.,