The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-09-24

goes into court and demands that he
be released and that he be allowed TO
go on his own recpgnizance. The In
dianapolis News printed an article I'm
condemnation OF the acts u the police.
That night Petit Bumped the county.
and has not been heard from since by
either side. We want him. not that
we believe a word he says, but as an
exhibit. that the jury may see the
character Of cattle that the state takes
into its home.
Witness Tried TO skip.
"They speak about Billy Ciauer Of
feriag To bride Election Inspector Lee.
They tell you Clauefmet Lee at some
place one night. Lee. they say. is a
white man. Yes. he, n, but that don't
mean anything for Lee He has no
edge on any other color. He. too. has
served his time In the penitentiary: he.
too. Is one OF the pets OF the prescott
ing attorney: he. roe. IL one OF the
men 10 whom the state OF Indiana has
granted immunity in this court. but
not before the couyt as now consti-
tuted. TO tell some story II be would
against Joe Bell. IAsay they talked
about Billy Clauer attempting TO buy
Inspector Lee to 20 away. offered him
500 a month for six months IL he
would go away some place where they
could not find him. Clauer did not
make that kind OF an offer. Lee was
hunting from man to man and place
TO place, wanting toibreak away. claim
ing he did not understand what he
was plead: g guilty 10, that Rucker
had claimed that they could send him
TO the pcnitentiary. But II he would
plead eui y hey would not have any
thing az 4 him at all. and he said
he thought that was the easiest way
and no expense, and taking no chance.
He not only talked TO Clauer about
money, he talked TO others. He came
TO our Office hunting Porter, the coun-
Gilman, wanting Porter TO get him out
Of town. He rs a married man. He
ven told Bud Gibson and his wife.
Clauer said TO him Yes. II you want
TO go. you be at the station tonight
at midnight and taxi a certain train.
There will be two tickets there, one
for you and one for your wife, and
there will be somebody on the train to
hand you 800. There was no inten-
ton of giving him a cent. but TO watch
TO see what the fellow would do.
What is your guess? True to the
state? oh. no. He goes home and
gathers up his last bits of calico into
a suitcase and he and his wife hike to
the station and go to the ticket Of
fee TO inquire about the tickets TO
beat 10 from town, but no tickets were
there. Nobody wanted him &c 20.
Now. gentlemen of the jury. I said
that this Is a fight for character, a
fight to maintain manhood. a fight to
maintain the integrity of the home. a
fight TO keep the mother. who lives
down ia the eastern part of the state,
in her last declining years, from feel
ing that her boy is a failure. II is a
fight 10 maintain hat manhood that IL
took half a century to build up. II is
a fight for credibility.
+Who is Joe Bell? A farmer boy.
raised On a farm until he was twenty
two years old; worked his way
through school by teaching In the win
ter-time. as some of the rest of us
had TO do, because OF circumstances:
Win q ofACAAdAhf AOuOi aOAt ldlllAls a
graduate from Ann Arbor University:
having to make his own road: hang
ing his own bridges as he went. He
came TO Indianapolis and soon after
ward became assistant city attorney
under Mr.. Taggart, who was then
mayor. but Immediately under the d.
rection Of John w. Kern. the city at
terney. After his term in the city Of
nee was oveE. he and Mr.. Kern occu-
pied the same rooms. under the same
roof. with the same walls about them.
for twelve years and until Mr.. Kern
went to The Senate of. the United
States. No d~ishonorable conduct, gen.
tlemen. No one questions his high
character and integrity. The life that
he has lived ought TO e something
here. In the presence of the jury.
where character In involved. and you
and each OF you said that II hat kind
OF character was shown II would stand
out and weigh In his favor In your
Judgment, in your deliberations in this
case"