The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-01
BEFORE JUDGE BAKER
PRISONERS WHO CAUSED THE JAIL,
dUTINY ARE ON TRIAL.
They Have Local Warrants Out for
Them-CiviI Cases Dis
posed OF.

Harry Church, r. A. Williams James
Bowling and Charles Howard were tried by
a jury yesterday before Judge Baker in the
United States District Court for robbing the
Lebanon postoffice Several witnesses were
examined, and it Is probable that the trial
will extend well into to-day. Church and
Williams showed abundant signs of the
punishment they received after their at
tempt to escape from the Jail. Their heads
and faces were plastered and bandaged
and they looked most forlorn. Church, Will
liams and Howard planned to make trir
to Chicago from here, stopping off at sew
eral towns the way. They stopped at
Lebanon, where. it is said, they committed
several small robberies, and being joined by
Bowling decided to loot the postotice. They
secured a sack Of mail containing about
$1,000 in pension drafts, other valuable pa
per and a small amount of cash. They de-
stroyed the paper and made their way to
Lafayette, where they were arrested after a
desperate fight The history of all ofthese
men is pretty we'll known to the police.
Harry Church, while a fireman on the In
dianapolis division of the Pennsylvania road,
attempted to rob store on Clifford avenue
with two other men. For this he went to
the penitentiary for three years. When he
returned he professed that he would live
straight, but the police have reason to be-
lieve that he instead went into the hold
up" business.
r. A. Williams is of wealthy, respectable
parents, Of Rochester, N. Y. His real name
is Harry Warner. He was convicted here
Of burglary and went to the penitentiary,
and afterward to the Jeffersonville Re-
formatory He showed symptoms of con-
sumption, was paroled and sent home. It
was said that he had gone South when a
search was afterward made for him, and the
authorities of the Reformatory did not know
where he was until they read in the papers
Of the affair at the Jail. An officer of the
Reformatory is here trying to secure him.
Joe Bowling is light colored negro of
this city, who has served several terms in
the workhouse He is known as a pick
pocket, and his right name is Joe Davis.
Charles Howard is from New Castle and
the name he gives is not his own. Little of
his history is known.
Yesterday morning Judge Baker sentenced
Albert Kahl to two years in the peniten-
tiary at hard labor and fined him $780, He
himself as pension agent and securing
money from persons ito get their pensions
raised" His right name IS .Adolph Itgen,
and he is a graduate of Columbia College
and Heidelberg. His parents came from
Bremen and he was born at Buffalo He
was released from the New Jersey peniten-
tiary last August. He was arrested at
Evansville for having worked the pension
agent game on four women, and though he
has been in Jail here for four months, he
stood up before Judge Baker yesterday a
trim and dapper looking gentleman, with no
appearance of criminal
William Bradshaw, a boy from Spencer
county, was sentenced yesterday in the
Federal Court to one year in the peniten-
tiary and $40 fine. He went to Evansville,
and while drunk attempted to pass a coun-
terfeit silver dollar and was arrested.