Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1898 — Bulger Got Off Easy. [ARTICLE]

Bulger Got Off Easy.

The ease of Frank Bulger, the shover of the queer, was to have come up Monday, in Judge Baker’s court, at Indianapolis. But Judge Reynolds, of Monticello, who was expected to defend him, did not appear, the case waited until Tuesday morning. No attorney then appearing. Bulger withdrew his plea of not guilty, and entered one of guilty instead. The prosecuting attorney represented to the judge that Bulger was, in all probability, only a tool of a much abler confederate, and the judge let him off with the very light punishment of six months in the work house.

It now developes that The Republican’s statement of last week, that Bulger had plead guilty, when his case first came up, wrs correct. But later some of his friends around Monticello claimed to have secured Judge Reynolds to defend him, and Bulger accordingly withdrew his first plea of guilty, and made that of not guilty; but the parties who claimed to have hired Reynolds, evidently did not put up the cash, and Bulger was left to make another change of plea. Tho witnesses from here were kept until the case was disposed of, Tuesday morning, and were then dismissed without having been called upon to testify. The case of Amick, of Idaville, Bulger's supposed confederate, was continued until next term.