Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-05-23
STRONG SENTIMENT
For The Investigation Of
Doodle 'Rumors.
CHARGES NOT YET PROVEN.
Four Members Of the Haverhill Alder.
manic Board Are Indicted.

SALEM. Mass, May 23-Essex oounty's
grand jury yesterday returned indict-
msnts In the so-called "Haverhill Doodle
casss" Indictments were issued on three
counts jointly against Fred M. Smith
of Boston and Charles A.. Klmball of
Hsvsrhill, and Aldermen Fred II. Cate.
William II. Ham, George o. Tlton and
Hadley II. Hoyt OF Hsverhill. for con-
spiripg TO obtain brides for certain alder
men In connection with the granting of
liquor licenses of the first and fourth
classes.
There Is also an indictment In four
counts against George o. Tilton for coun-
selling William s. Merriman and Thomas
v. Carroll to bribo others than himself.
and an indictment In one count against
Hadley ii. Hoyt for requesting q bribe Of
one Charles s. Leighton.
Fred II. Cate, william II. Ham. George
o. Tilton and Hsdley II. Hoyt all pleaded
mot guilty" to the several charges. Fred
NJ. Smith and Charles A. Kim mball were
not arraigned.
Bail was fixed at $500 on the Joint In
dictment for each, on the separate indict-
ment against Hoyt at 5000, and on the
separate indictment against Tilton at
$500
The district attorney announced that
there was separate indictment against
Thomas II. Mcdonald In four counts for
bribing Hadlsy H. Hoyt, and asked thai
the amount of bail be fixed in that case.
The court placed the amount at 5000.
Fred M. Smith, charged with con.
spiracy TO obtain bribes for certain Haver-
hill aldermen, came into court and
pleaded not guilty. and was bailed in
s2500
Not . Case of Persecution.
HAvERHlLI, Mass, May 23-The Ga
zette gives an exhaustive st ory of the
hearing and of the causes which led up to
the indictment, and says;
The investigation had its origin in no
soreness existing among dissatisfied APP
plicants, nor among any sore faction of
the city government, as has been stated,
but was the result of popular sentiment
that the charges which were currently
aud fearlessly made about the city should
be proved or disproved and that the In
nocence or guilt of the aldermen and all
concerned should be esta hlished. The
persecution Of no one has been asked by
anybody.
Only the truth las been required thus
lar, huu III tue present bJduuluB Oi INC
case the indictments are not accepted by
the pu bile as proof OF the guilt of the
parties called upon to answer to the
charges. But realizing that but one side
OF the story has been heard. and that
only partially, the people ask that the
investigation just begun be continued
until not one thread of the great tissue Of
report and rumor which has defaced the
fair name of II ,verhill for the past two
months be left untouched
To stiii Disgrace It.
The men who have been indicted have
been reputable citizens of Haverhill, and
the charges against them have by no
means been proven as yet The voice OF
the people has been heard this year for
the first time. The indications of cor
ruption have appeared with enough of
substantial backing to demand official in
vestigation.
The people have demanded that their
public servants must be not only free
from guilt, but free from suspicion, and
as they declined to throw from them
selves the cloak of suspicion, a public
sentiment that could not be withstood
was aroused and this Investigation under
the direction of the district attorney was
the result.