Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1907 — Conspiracy To Disgrace Coble. [ARTICLE]

Conspiracy To Disgrace Coble.

An article was published in the Daily Republican Saturday in reference to Councilman Richard Cuble, of Delphi, that in view of later and more thoro investigation of his case we are satisfied presented ah incorrect condition of the war existing there oetween the saloons and their cohorts on the one hand and the respectable class of citizens on the other. On Tuesday of last week Coble was arrested in Logansport, and was alleged to be in the company of a notorious Delphi woman named Rosie Newbold, and that evening he was brought back to Delphi, by the marshal of that city and on a charge of associating with a woman of bad character was taken before Mayor Cochran for trial, but was released on his own recognizance to appear Friday of this week. By reports sent out from both Delphi and Logansport there seemed no donbt bnt that Coble was guilt and that his efforts to dean up the vice-ridden dty of Ddphi was not very sincere. It now seems that he was at no time in company with the Newbold woman and simply happened to get on the same train that she did on the day they went to Logansport. He was not in conversation with her at the depot, and not in the same coach with here in the train and not in her company in Logansport. The Delphi marshal, acting under the direction of the saloon keepers, had made the affidavit charging Coble with associating and had had the Logansport officers serve it, and they had fonnd the two a few minutes after the train reached Logansport in different parts of the city. The Delphi Citizen newspaper describes the mob that assembled at the depot when Coble was brought back, as composed of saloon keepers, bums, thngs, crooks and pug uglies, representing the vilest of that city’s population and constituting in its entirety the most shameful mob ever congregated in that city, seeking -to disgrace a highly respected and moral citizen* And it is further alleged that Mr. Coble stands prepared to show that the Newbold woman had been of♦soo if she would accomplish the downfall of Coble by having him arrested in her company. The town marshal is alleged to be a party to the plot and to have taken it forgranted that when they went away on the same train that Rosie had accomplished the job. The money to pay her, say Coble and his friends, was to come from the saloon keepers and gamblers, who would continue to do business in old time open style were it not for the ordinance that Coble had passed securing the relating of the saloons. A former Delphi man, now residing in Rensselaer, says he has Known Richard Coble for forty years, and that he is a clean and moral citizen and has enough fight in him to make the conspirators against his good name wish they had never seen him. His friends will stand by him unflinchingly and the upstart of a town marshal will no donbt have to prove his charge against Coble or stand the ooqaeqnQnces of making a false charge against him. If the conspiracy can be shown many others are quite apt to fall into more trouble than they have ever had before.

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