The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-30
Cluett. Peabody & Co.. Makers
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they leased the premises to others
who did run the games.
These suits attracted much atten-
ton all over the state and country be-
cause of the prominence of Taggart in
public life. But Attorney General
Bingham has concluded that all that
could be accomplished by the suits
has been accomplished, and that they
ought to be dismissed if it can be
done on the right basis. He says that
the gambling at these two places has
been entirely broken up and that
there has been no gambling at either
place since the suits were filed. II
the suits were pushed to a final de-
termination, he says, it would only
mean that the Taggart's hotel COM
pany and the West Baden hotel COM
pany would be put out of business and
the corporations dissolved. This
would mean the sale of the property
at receivers sales. The property of
the two hotel companies is estimated
to be worth something like 100000.
Bingham says if such a sale were
held there would be nothing to pre-
vent the present owners of the stock
from buying in the property and form
ing new company. Then they would
go right ahead with the business as
though nothing had happened, al
though the operation of making the
change would be expensive.
What Bingham's Plan Is.
Bingham's plan now is to have a
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junction to prevent either company
from ever permitting gambling on it's
premises. When this is done then
Bingham will dismiss the cases
against the two hotel companies.
When this first became known that
Bingham had such plan in mind
some persons regarded it as an effort
on his part to get the governor to in
struct him to dismiss the cases and
thus put the governor in a hole in the
eyes of the law ard order people Of
the state. But Bingham denied any
such a purpose, ard announced that
so far as the attorney generals office
is concerned he is willing to assume
full responsibility for whatever it may
do in the matter. He also announced
that he has called the conference for
next week to consider the matter.
The reason Judge Hadley is called
into the conference is that he was the
assistant attorney general under Mr..
Miller and had much to do with the
preparation and filing of the suits.
The proposed injunctions would pre-
vent the two big hotel companies from
allowing gambling on their property,
but, of course. they would not be able
to keep gambling houses from existing
in other hotels and buildings in both
French Lick and West Baden. In
fact, there has been nearly as much
gambling at both places since the
raids were made as before, but it has
been carried on in other buildings that
were not owned by either of the hotel
companies. But it has been carried
on by individuals and not by incorpor-
ated companies, and, of course, the
state is not able to reach them unless
the authorities of Orange county do
their duty.
If anything results from the confer
ence next week it will have to be by
agreement between the state and the
defendants and it is believed here that
this will not be a very difficult matter
to arrange. If the suits are dismissed
it will mean the end of one Of the
most sensational bits of litigation that
has been started in Indiana in many
years.