South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-18
So Declares Frank Hess, Terre
Haute SaIOOnkeeper, Who
Was Designated as Roberts
Right-Hand Man.
CLOSED SALOON WHEN
OWNER REFUSED FUNDS
Liquor Dealer Says He Quit
Business Because the Police
Were Hostile = One Man
Voted Nineteen Times.

INDIANAPOLIS. March lS.-Mayor
Dom Roberts apporuoned the number
OF registrations hc wished returned
from each precinct in Tert1 Haute
ana told Frank Hess saloon keeper
he wanted to help 10 see he got them.
Hess testified in the Torre Haute cleo
tion fraud cases I'M Judge Anderson's
federal court today.
In precinct y. sixth ward. Roberts
wanted 500 Vutes-about twice the
number of voters, d. was testified
Hess. owner of notorious saloon IA
TerTe Haute. was designated 8s Rob
erts' right hand man." and was
charged with Offering Wes Godfrey
government witness $500 90 skip o.
Mexico after the grand jury inNeSu-
cation was inaugurated. Hess then
became "A government witness Ills
wife also testified that she aided her
husband I'M making false registrations.
Among the prominent features OF
tOdays proceedings were that Jack
Hines, saloonkeeper- politician. said
ROBBERS ordered him 60 work on regis
tration: that Maurice Walsh. demo
cratic committee treasurer. gave him
Slo0, that 900 votes were bought iN
one precinct and that he was ordered
20 work or close his saloon.
Hines Resume stand.
Hines resumed the stand an The
opening OF today session Roberts
told him. he testified. that precinct a.
sixth ward. should stand $50 ot 500
votes.
Hines swore that Roberts told him
o. get them from Frank Hess ALr-
rays and Evans saloons.
Were there 100 cor 500 votes in
that precinct asked Dist. Atty
DALEY.
wen. there are between i5p and
500 votes there replied Hines Jack
\ugent assistant chief OF police totu
Hines 90 send the fellows from hls
saloon 10 city hall for registration
work. testified the witness Ills bar
tender. Harley FraZee. lait oil. He-
cause he could make NOR, money
working al registration
Hines sWOre that Judge Thomas q. .
smith and two others made oui regis
tration applications for about -" col
ored fellows.
Hilton Redmau chief ioller ami
Asst. CHIEF NuGent all asked me O."
make false registration from mN
saloon" Hines testified. declaring he
made no false registration Hc also
swore that Judge Smith on electinn-
dav would look over the shoulder of
Mrs StimsOn. sufragist leader. ana
watch her take name from her poll
book write 10 ON slip ane hand IL 10
some one 10 be voted
Gard System Failure.
The card system" of paying voters.
giving each repeater card worth s l.
proved failure. the cnterpTlslng re-
peaters cashing bogus cards.
DO YOU know how manN votes were
bought iu that precinct" asked
DALEY.
We'll Buster Harms said ht spent
$500 and he surely must have huugNt
.. In of trrf los rtff
ON cross examination Hines admit
ted that two years before there were
600 registrations from the same pre-
cinct An effort was made tp dis
credit Hines testimony hE enueaNor-
ing to secure au admission from hin1
thta he had been arrested manr times
for association with di~reputahie
women.
Hines stated he had been Roberts
confidential men for siA wears.
Did Dom Roberts ever refuse 20
let YOU do his dirty. dishonest work
because you associated with had
women g" Dauey asked objection sue
tanned.
"Have you ever been arrested for
violating the liquor laws since Rob
eTts became mayor
NO"
Conditions pretty loose
As loose as you nant Them. re-
Piled Hines
William II. Doerner. clerk ~ the
Terre Haute safety board. now holdine
office under restraining order against
Roberts. swore thaf Roberts ordered
him 10 put Joe Jeffer~ pu thc police
poyrol and give him TWO months
salary.
Closed saloon. Let Othcr~ Run.
Because ne refused tD contribute
funds TO the democratic parts for
campaign purposes. August Bake
meyer. d saloon keeper 90 IeIre
Haute. testified that the ciry aurhori-
ties compelled his saloon to remain
closed while other liquor establish
meutS were allowed go run. fe sWnre
that chief OF Police Holler telepRonet
10 come go police headquarters
the night before election. where De-
found Asst Chief john F. Nuefnf,
ton. EakemeEer refused 90 come
through and was Instructed E." Aftp
his place closed an da> and o. hustle
votes 10 the polls. bakemetr 90 "e-
cided to get out of the saloon business
ne said. because The policeman ca -
beat was hostile
The defense attempted cora cross sN-
animation to show that t1e friru,ns
were due 90 e. personal dlucrrnct bee
tween The policeman aua batculeNtr
It also developed fhaf hilton T.. ited-
man. one OF the defendants borrowed
500 from RakemeNer anU that t-ll Dr.
Redman his father. attempted to hor-
row $3.50 from Eakemcyer without
success.