Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-30
PENSIONS ARE URGED|ADM|T SELLING VOTE
De GraW Would Retire Super Dozen More Confessions
animated Employees. Court at West Union
OUTLINES WORK OF YEAR INDICTMENTS NO. 1917
Saving As Investigation
sisant Postmaster General Three Months.
STAR ROUTES DISCONTINUED MAN OF "a IS DIsFRANCHIsyD
Two More Ministers
Matter Handled in Voters Left in One School
Letter District
Dozen More Confessions il
Court at West Union.
INDICTMENTS NO. 1917
Investigation May Continue for Two
or Three Months.
MAN OF "a IS DISFRANCHIsyD
Two More Ministers on List-No
Voters Left in One School
District.

WEST UNION. Ohio. December 3O-A
| dozen men. when Judge Blair opened
court today. tramped into the courtroom
and without the least evidence of shame
confessed that they had sold their votes
for trif1ng sums.
Seventy-three true bills. the smallest
days work for long while. were report
ed by the grand jury today, bringing the
total idictments up to 1.O71. OF this num-
Der. 81 already have pleaded guilty.
Forty men, unlimited and as yet unin-
dicted, have come to the courthouse to
enter pleas of guilty, not knowing wheth-
err or not the grand jury had reported
their names and not wishing to take any
chance at appearing to be in the least
dilatory. They simply wished to clear
their skirts.
Judge Blair said today that the investi-
cation would continue and that it may
be two or three months before it is con-
cluded. Although the county will have
new prosecutor in the person Of Frank
Shively the first of the year. it was an
nOunced that the present corps of attor-
neys would continue in charge of the in
vestisation. few men. knowing that the
court has the goods on them, have left
the county. If they are caught it is ex-
pected it will go hard with them.
Why They Plead Guilty.
why are you men so willing to rush
to the courthouse to plead guilty. was
asked of one of the vote sellers.
There are two reasons" was the an
swer. I'm the first place We know the
court has the goods on us. In the Sec
ond place. We know Judge Blair; that he
is man of his word. II he says we will
get immunity, we know we will get it.
10.
fore
Judge Blair has adopted a uniform
scale in dealing with those who plead
guilty. He assesses fine of $25 and i'm
mediately suspends $50 of the fine, to be
held over the head of the accused for any
future offense. He also hands out a six
month wOrkhouse sentence, which also is
suspended. The third section of the pen
atty of the court is a fve-year disfran-
chisement, which is absolute.
All in District DISTINGUISHED.
1t has been discovered that not a single
voter will be left in one school district
in Jefferson township. which includes the
town of Wamsleyville. Every male citi-
zen has been indicted, but none has been
arrested.
Two more ministers both residents Of
Green township, have been indicted. The
court officials decline to give out their
names One young man COH1eSScO thdl
he sold out to his own father and re-
ceived $40 for his vote. Mrs. Sallie Inflow
of PEBBLES pleaded guilty to selling the
vote of her son John. She said she was
separated from her husband and was very
poor and could not resist taking the
money when it was offered to her. She
was fined S1O which was RENTED. The
son was fined S. and costs and disfran-
chised for five years. A prominent bust
ness man of PEBBLES bought the vote
The woman's husband, it was learned,
also had sold his vote.
The oldest voter in the county, a man
Of eighty-four, has been DISTINGUISHED.
and he SAYS that he expects never to vote
again. Many persons were deprived OF
their Christmas shopping money on &C
count Of being fined, and many are plac-
ing chattel mortgages on their furniture
to raise the money with which to pay
their fines.