The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-09-24
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tive. I supposshe VAS no better thai
We are; a goodAeieal the same kind o.
mud. He is a .hrignt fellow. a gooc
detective. His brothers were gooe
fellows, active lin politics. Some o.
them run a saloon. Mike Glenn con
Guided that he. too. would 20 into tn,
saloon business, and retired from the
police force a few DAYS ago. and
opened a saloon in Indiana avenue
he had control OF a kind OF a kins
Joy Lo parlor-a chop-suey joint, In
room In another building close 10 his
saloon. He. however. had rented that
10 a Chinaman. There was some tr0u
BILE there one night and the police
made some interference with the sour
house. The News just simply painted
itxsf all in red and black. because
Mike Glenn had been imposed on, be
cause Mike Glenn's place had been
raided.
Roach was there and Worley was
there and Franklin was there. night
after night. to lend encouragement u
Mike Glenn and 10 add obstruction &c
the police, seeking 10 create disturb
ances and MISUNDERSTANDING. Mr.
Rucker sought u what he now styles
that awful man Nike Glenn and made
arrangements for a meeting with him
and according TO his own planning he
fixed the place in one OF the parks OF
the. city. in the night time. and out
there in the middle OF University park
our prosecutor appeared along near
midnight. dressed in pure white. cut
under the dapple shadows OF the elms
and the naples, 10 meet Nike Glenn
to form a plan 10 help send Joe Bel
10 the %penitentiary. lie met him there
so that nobody but God could hear the
conversatiOn-just the two OF then
alone-and he said 10 Nike Glenn. We
don't want YOU. we DON want the lit
tie fellows. we don't want any OF the
boys low down; We want the big top
notchers; We want 10 send Joe Pei
and Tom Taggart TO the penitentiary
IL would make me the greatest man
In Indiana And then he steps out
from behind the tree and looks around
as though looking for a ghost. as II
some one was hearing. and then he
comes back in among the shrubbery
and tells Glenn. III you will come
across and help us, and swear to Ger
tain things. that Joe Bell directed some
OF these nefarious things that | have
told about. II will put II across.
He said TO him further: You will
be given protection; you will be
granted immunity; We Will m
your case. Yo44can u your saloon
and you can have other privileges. and
The Indianapolis News will protect
you. and II the police bother you. l
am the prosecuting attorney. and you
viii be protected That story is a
part. also. of the history OF this case.
Glenn was to go to zoe Roach's house
the next night, b&t he didn't go.
There was yet some red blood flowing
in his veins. and when daylight
dawnsd aad he looked out over the
world, and began TO think of the prop
osition OF sending Joe Bell TO the
~penitentiary or Tom Taggart TO the
~penitentiary for q bride of even lib
erty aud freedom, and another bribe
OF the privilege OF running a booze
Joint, with its Incidents. and guara
teed protection BY officers OF the law
II did not appeal 10 him. and he told
the story.
= person would almost think when
he hears and knows about the situa
ton OF Rucker out there in the night
time IN the ~shrubhery OF the park.
looking like an ansel OF the Lord
and then as he appeared here before
you. talking about the laws enforce
ment and against corruption. that
such things could not be in this land
of the free.
Were Never All Right.
"Rucker SAYS that counsel sitting
over here regarded Roeder and BUD
Gibson as all right until they came
into court and pleaded guilty. Oh. no,
we did rot. We never dreamed of
them as all right We never claimed
they we're all right. but We knew they
were eve guilty OF q conspiracy with
Tom Taggart or Joe Bell or Sam Per
rott or Fred Barrett, or these others
whom the prosecutor wants to send
10 the penitentiay.
There Is another story back OF this,
before these indictments were re-
turned. AZ a dinner party at the
board OF trade. after the eating was
over and they retired to q private
room, 1t was said that there would be
125 or 12s men indicted. including
Tom Tsggart and Joe Bell and Sam
Perrott and others; that there would
be 1873 OF them. and this speaker ex-
planned: 7 am going 10 do like Judge
Anderson did in the dynamite cases,
and make the bonds high, and the
poer devils will go 10 jail; half of
them or more will have 10 go to jail.
and when they do. and when their
fathers and their mothers and their
wives ONE down begging the court
for clemency. they will come across
with the story So the story was told,
and the man who heard II got in touch
with Mr.. Taggart. He is not so very
friendly In some ways. but he thought
Mr.. Taggart ought to know and be ad.
vised, but he didn't need advice.
And the dirty ~insinuations OF the
prosecutor. II ought to choke the
counse with its wi stencil when he
uttered the insinuation that Bell
sought the nomination of Ed Lyons
81 as TO have the money OF the county
treasury at his disposal. What would
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