The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-04-12
CoNsP|RATORs
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Surrat, westenders, three months and
$40
The following were given three
months and $40: John Kamey. Thomas
Handley. Lester Hull. Frank Lock
wood, Thomas McCarty, Charles Pat
ten. e. Silvers, Harry Barker, Jesse
Powell. Charles Miller. Harry More
buck, George Prince and Freck Riker.
Don Adams, saloonist, Nick Burton
saloonist and Gambler William Doyle
were let off with / day and 500 fine
each.
Suspended sentences were announc-
ed for Hinky Dink Tierny. Bartender
Godfrey and Bartender Gosnell.
Sixty days in Jail and fines Of 81:
Leroy Grisham, Lecoe Baker, Henry
Bennett, Maurice Chase, John W.
Clark. William Crank. Paul Dennis.
John Daley, Edward Ellington, Joe
Cannon, Frank Graney, George
Harris. Earl Hardness, William He'd
ley, Harry Pittman, William Hughes,
William Leon, Thomas Kelly. Albert
Mast, Arthur Steward, William Moore,
Dan Patterson, Harry Knowlton. Otto
Pritchard, Harry Riddle, Robert
Slough, Otto Trappler.
Makeup OF Defendants.
Assembled with Mayor Roberts to-
day in the Federal court room were
lis co-conspirators, either self-confess-
ed or convicted, who constituted prob
ably the most Heterogeneous collection
of humanity ever arraigned for SEN
tence In Federal court room at one
time. Besides the mayor Of city of
$4,000 population, there were six other
important officials of Terre Haute and
Vigo county; eighteen other officials
and former officials and city en-
ployes; fifteen saloonkeepers; seven
teen bartenders; six gamblers; three
"gangsters" two pugilists; ten men
of various occupations, and twenty-six
habitues of the notorious west end"
and Taylorville districts.
Among the former greater lights in
the affairs of Terre Haute were Chief
of Police John E. Holler and his assist
ant, John F. Nugent.
Eighty-nine of the prisoners entered
pleas of guilty to the four counts OF
the federal indictment. The remain
ing twenty-seven fought their cases to
a finish which ended in conviction.
Some eighty of the first named group
aided the government with their testi-
mony without promise of immunity or
leniency on the part Of District Attor-
ney Daley.
Matching Of. Plot.
The Terre Haute conspiracy case,
which will go down in history as the
first instance where the federal gov
eminent asserted its jurisdiction in
a local election where the selection
of a congressman and United States
senator was partially at stake, really
had a small beginning According to
the contentious of District Attorney
Daley who spun the web of evidence
around the 116 accused men. 1t had
its incipiency in a conversation be-
tween Dom Roberts and then Chief
of Police Holler in which Roberts sug-
gested that Holler "get ready for the
false registration. The conspiracy
drew more and more men into 1t until
it became widespread. The develop
ment, through acts Of the participants,
as testified to in court may be summed
up as follows:
Dom NJ. Roberts, as mayor, admin
istering the city government and as
chairman of the Democratic county
committee. was declared the ring
leader. Following his conversation
with Chief Holler, he directed nearly
every subsequent move. He told
Assistant Chief Nugent to collect a
$4,000 "slush fund.-" gave instructions
to election inspectors to fool voters;
ordered the arrest of Progressive
election inspectors; coerced saloon
keepers to do crooked work in the
"red light" district: directed the theft
of the election in Taylorville, and did
innumerable other wrongful deeds.
HoIIer's Work.
John Edward Holler, as chief of
police, prepared $500 false registra-
tons; directed the building of deten-
ton cells for opposition workers who
were arrested on trumped-up charges;
helped line up saloon men and re-
peaters; organized false registration
board, composed mostly of city en-
ployes, who wrote the registration
cards at his direction; placed the COM
pleted false registration work in the
custody OF Elmer E. Talbot. then city
controller
John F. Nugent, former assistant to
Holler, accepted orders from Roberts;
acknowledged he was directed to col
lect the big "slush" fund; helped make
up the false registrations; directed
crooked work; superintendent the ar
rest of progressive workers; brought
Patrolman Lloyd Roberts into the con-
spiracy; directed him to haul repeat
ers in city autom obiles.
Hilton Redman joined in the crook
ed work by supplying falst registra-
ton blanks; actively participated in
smuggling opposition workers.; held up
returns election night to insure his
fathers election as circuit court judge.
Brown as Paymaster.
Frank (Buster) Brown was the first
saloonkeeper brought into the con-
spiracy. He testified that Roberts
told him if he did not join in the
crooked work his saloon in the ten
derloin" and roadhouse would be
closed up. He acted as "paymaster'
in the notorious bloody sixth ward,
buying 600 votes at 81 the vote.
Frank Hess, saloonkeeper in the red
light neighborhood, was directed by
Roberts to register 200 men from his
notorious Midway" saloon where but
three legal voters lived. He got 1000
out of five candidates, 5000 Of which
reached Roberts, he swore
John Hines, salOonkeeper in the red
light district, claimed he was dragged