South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-01
Dist. Atty. DALEY Likely to Be-
.5gIn Address to Jury in Terre
Haute Mems Trial This Aft
Z, ern0n.
CALL few WITNESSES
/ IN ROBERTS DEFENSE
Failure of Accused Mayor to
Take Stand Causes DiSap-
pointment $4,000 SIush
Fund Denied in Assertion.


INDIANAPOLIS, April THAT
Mayor Dom NJ. Roberts and his
cOdefendants in the Terre Haute cleo
tion conspiracy trial Will soon know
their fate became evident today.
The government examined % wit
nesses in rebuttal this forenoon, the
most important being handwriting eX-
perts. The names of Mayor Roberts
and several of the other defendants
again figured in the trial.
Dist Atty. Daley probably will be-
gin his argument for the government
late today and il is expected the case
will go to the jury Saturday.
William IL. Kyser, auditor at the
Deming hotel, Terre Haute, was the
first rebuttal witness sprung by the
government today. lie denied the
statementof William Crockett, super
intendent of the crematory and the
defendant, that he instructed Crockett
TO operate the lever on election day.
| Kyser was inspector in the seventh
ward, but did not act when the re-
straining order of Judge Cox was
| served on him.
Handwriting Expert Testi6es.
H $ Wood, handwriting expert,
who figured prominently as a witness
/ in the nationwide dynamite consplr-
acy case, Identified the handwriting or
John Massehnk, inspector OF weights.
and George Ehrenhardt, member oI
public works board, who were alleged
| bv the government to have written
| sales registration applications
Alonzo Helmick testified that Crock-
EFT told him he would pay him q
double amount of his expense money
election day.
that Mayor Roberts told him that
crockett would handle the money In
| his precinct and that Crockett ac-
knowIedged he had money 10 use
there. 1,--,...
took his place at the Votlng lnachlhS
lever and operated it regardless oil
Ready Tor RebuttaI Witnesses.
! Following the abrupt resting of the
defense in the trial OF the rs Ierre
| Haute politicians charged with CON
spiracy TO corrupt the November
elections, Dist. Atty. Daley was pre-
pared today To examine some % VII
| nesses in rebuttal in federal court
here.
The sudden ending of the defense
and the decision not to allow Mayor
Dom NJ. Roberts to take the witness
| stand came late Tuesday after lnet-
| fectual attempts of the defense at
/ torneys to prove matters held not rel
evant to the case by Judge Anderson
! ATTY. Finley Il. Mount representing
| Arthur ellis. had expected to take up
considerable time in the defense Oh
his client but he closed without put
ting ellis on the stand and Judge
! Anderson was forced to suspend court
| temporarily while Atty. A. 9. Stanley
was summoned and arranged TO call
additional witnesses which ne had
contemplated.
FnF~
was called Saturday morning and
fewer than 100 witnesses testified on
/ thai side Twelve of these were de-
fenGants.
! In addition 10 furnishing many sur
prises the trial has been disappont-
Inent in some respects. Not only dld
Roberts fail to testify, but compara-
lively few witnesses were placed on
the stard for him. Except by asser-
ton there was no denial of the alleged
$4,000 ''slush' fundIWhich Asst. Chief
of Police Holler said he collected for
Roberts and many ther of the al
legations OF the government concern
ing Roberts alleged connection with
the saloon bosses. his orders TO arrest
opposition workers and his rejection
Of crooked workers, Hilton Redman,
son of Judge Redman. introd ed but
a few witnesses in his behal
Charges Against SheI e
| Many serious charges al were
made by the government against
Sheriff Shea, including the charge
, that he paid money all election day
, for votes in O'DOnnell's saloon. re-
2 fused TO carry out orders Of Judge
? Cox, as sheriff and framed up an as
: sauit OF "A progressive worker. Judge
! Smith il was alleged, helped in the
| fraudulent registration and voting
and had used his power as police
} Judge to force many of the west end
? saloon hangers-On to testify falsely
2 for him. Maurice Walsh, II was al
/ legged. paid out $4,000 of the slr' a.
fuuC.
2 Only one witness testified for O'Don-
= nell. Saloonkeeper.
Il Among the last witnesses for the
| defense was Alex Actzel, alias Steel
who Genied he attempted TO influence
Wass Grozz and other witnesses. on
which charge he is under $4,000 bond.
He admitted pulling young foreign
. er up 10 the voting place, but said
: the boy was afraid and he was just
encouraging him. He also denied
: that he Influenced boys under legal
age toSVote and other charges stand
5 ing against him.
[ George Ehrenhardt member of the
board of works. was recalled for
? cross-eNamination by Dist. Atty. Dali
ey who produced two letters signed
. by Fhrenhardt which the latter ad-
= mitted were written 10 contractors
l asking them 10 purchase supplies from
e thu Vig9 Washed Sand and Gravel Co.
Il OF which he was formerly manage
Z while ne was a member OF the board
Of public works.