The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-12
BOO GANG" LET LOOSE
THESE MEN WHO VOTE THE DEMO-
CRATIC TICKET RELEASED.
Taggart Votes Saved in Police Court
City Clerks "PardOninE Power"
-s'WOrks" Prisoners Out.

Dan Kinney one of the ringleaders of the
BOO gang" and two of his associates were
practically discharged in Police Court yes
terday on pleas of guilty to riotous conduct,
while fourth good Democrat was prac-
tically pardoned by the city clerk.
Dan Kinney was one of the gang that was
shooting the can" with John Ferriter on
the evening of April q, when Ferriter MUIR
dered Patrolman Ware. He was one of the
witnesses for the defense in the trial at
Martinsville, and did all he could to pre-
vent justice being melted out to the muir
derer. He is considered by the police to be
one of the worst of this notorious gang of
toughs, and il is due to the police to say
that they strenuously objected to the ac-
ton of the Police Court in releasing these
toughs.
Saturday night Kinney, in company with
John Cleaver and Robert O'Neill stormed
the Home brewery after being allowed to
fill themselves with beer. They worked a
confidence game on the night Waterman,
and then, when they were compelled to
show their game, refused to leave the place
and threw stones through the window. They
were arrested by Patrolmen Morgan and
Mathey.
Judge Cox, the regular police judge has
been too busy electioneering during the past
month to attend to his job, and "Cadi'' Bus
kirk has been serving as a substitute. Yes
terday morning, however, the ''Cadi' did
not appear, and Attorney DemSter sat on
the bench. Bronte Aiken, the city prose-
cutting attorney consulted with the attorney
representing the gang and recommended to
the court that the t1nes be made nominal,
and offered to remit the docket fee The
judge made it 81 and costs, which, with the
docket fee RENTED. left only So. The three
men had been out on bond and they were
taken into custody after the finding or the
court-but not for long. They were re-
leased, and it was announced that the nnes
had been stayed.
1t was some time before the city clerk
would allow anybody TO see the papers in
the case, but when pressed, Mr.. Stuck
meyer let the reporters see them, and then
it was learned that Charles Kahl had
stayed the fines.
The police were not slow to express their
opinion that this action was an outrage.
Nobody attempted to disguise the fact that
the men were allowed to go in order that
they might be out &C Jail 10 vote for Tag
CART, Cox and Stuckmeyer After they nave
done this the probability is that they viii
be yanked up and made to serve out the
fines assessed against them.
William Sweeney was fined 81 and costs
on a plea of guilty to a charge of assault
ing his brother. His sister was in court
and delivered him a severe lecture before
the court and attorneys. She called MIN
drunken sot and said he ought to be
ashamed of his existence and declared that
he ought to be in the Workhouse. But clerk
Stuckmeyer did not allow a sure Demo-
cratic vote to go to the workhouse. He ex-
ercised his ''pardoning power and released
the man. The record shows that, Sweeney
stayed his fine, but the law provides that
fine can be stayed only by property
owner.
There was not the wholesale releasing of
prisoners from the workhouse yesterday by
the Democratic police judge that was ex-
pected. The workhouse and the records OF
the release of prisoners are in the hands
of NELL McGroarty, Republican, and this
fact seems to have made the Democratic
police judge wary lest exposure might fol-
low But he did not let the opportunity slip
by to release a few men. Those released
were Lon Kessell, a. man sent there for
drunkenness and whose term would not
have. expired until Oct, Is; John Brown,
drunk, whose term would have expired Oct.
81; George Backward, drawing deadly
weapons. term would have expired Nov 10;
Ira Quackenbush, whose term would have
expired Oct. %. 1t is probable that Judge
Cox made a mistake in the last mentioned
man. He is Republican and will vote for
Harding, although a friend of his, in order
to obtain his release, represented to Cox
that he was a Taggart Republican. Black
ward is a colored Taggart man.