The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-14
AFTER THE SCALP
Or JUDGE LINDSEY
Grand Jury Will Investigate Activity
of Some People to Gust
Juvenile Judge.

limited Press Leased Wire Seryice.]
DENVER, Colo, March 13.-"The
beast has been stirred from its lair
was the declaration Of Judge Ben b.
Lindsey tonight as he prepared to
push his fight against interests seek
| ing to GUST him as head of the juven-
| lie court here through legislation
which would abolish his court.
With the 'antf-Lindsey" bills now
the center, it appeared tonight that
grand jury probes and continued in
vestigation by the legislature might
develop a legislative scandal of start
ling proportions.
Attorney Rush and the legislative
investigating committee are now con-
fronted with mass of contradictory
statements and admissions of perjury.
Judge Lindsey has demanded the ar
rest of three men, one a state official
and one woman, head Of an organiZa-
ton recognized as out ito get" Lind
sey. 1t is known that Representative
W. w. Rowland was handed a pack
age of money on the floor of the low
er house of the legislature by mes
senger boy, but who sent the money.
remains a complete mystery.
Judge Lindsey charged that the
four persons whose arrests he seeks,
cons PRED to obtain an affidavit from
a boy making charges against him
which were admittedly false and
which the boy later acknowledged
were untrue.
The time is ripe to expose the
whole conspiracy which has existed
against me- said Judge Lindsey to.
night II am going to show how cor
porations, through tools in public
service, have fought me. One man
in question holds a state office to
which he was appointed by man
who is head of the Mine Owners as
ISOLATION.
Theodore Roosevelt will be sum-
moned as one of my witnesses, as
was in Oyster Bay at the time the
act charged to me in the false affi-
davit is said to have taken place. The
told he would become famous. Other
children have admitted they also
signed affidavits against me-"
This is not the first attempt that
has been made to legislate Judge
Lindaey out of office, but he de-
clared the interests opposed to him
were not only showing their boldness
and the extent to which they will go.
Representative Rowland, in his latest
explanation of the money received
said it came from DR.. Mary e. Bates
organizer of the Woman's Protective
| league, an anti-Lindsey organization
| 1t was to be paid to private detec
| tive for shadowing the Judge, by
George Waterman. Howland's business
associate. Waterman, who admitted
that the first story he told OF the
money was untrue, declared in an In
teryiew this afternoon that Rowland
latest statement was equally false.
/ DR.. Bates swore Howland's version
Of the money transfer was true. Car
Gibson, a messenger boy, who deliv
cred the money package. contradictee
both Dr. Bates and Howlanu. He
said the package was given to him BY
a man In a town town office building
Both Waterman and Rowland have
been summoned to appear before the
grand jury Monday. The house com
mittee will also push its Investigation
with the prospects, members declare
that the probe will steadily increase
in scope and proportions never sus
peeted. when Rowland first explained
he got the money In payment for
hog"