The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-22
Witness, Arraigned On Con-
tempt of Court Charges,
Makes Grave Accusation.
BUNCH AND HIS CHIEF
ARE UNDER ARREST
Attempts On Lives of Dry
Workers Lead To Indictment
of the Chief Executive-Mc-
Ilvaine Under Charge of
Countenancing the Plots.

Muncie, Ind, June 2t.- Lloyd
Cooley, when arraigned before Judge
Cause on a charge Of contempt OF
court for failing to appear as a wit
ness In the trial of Gene Williams
told Judge Cause that he was taken
out of Muncie by Mayor Bunch IN
the Mayors automobile, and that the
Mayor threatened TO make trouble
for him IL he returned during the trial.
Mayor Rollin Fl. Bunch and Will
liam A. McIlvaine, chief of the Mum
Gle police department. were arrested
on indictments returned by the Della
ware County grand jury. charging
them with completely in the dynamit-
ing of the home of Wilbur Ryman,
special prosecutor. several weeks ago.
Chief McIlvaine was charged with
assault and battery with intent to
kill Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Ryman and
their two children, and Mayor Bunch
Is charged In the Indictment with be-
ing party to the plot to wreck
Ryman's home.
Mayor Bunch was accompanied by
his brother, DR.. Fred Bunch. when
he appeared in the sheriff's office and
surrendered himself about two hours
after McTlvaine was arrested by
Sherirr u Hara-
Calls IT Joke.
From the eagerness. with which I
have been sought in the last few
hours" M@or Bunch said. some
body must have been afraid I would
get away. I have other business to-
attend to than to walt around to be
arrest ever so often on trumpet
UP charges suppose though, that
,.rt, n
it's expensive practical Joking 1t Will
stop"
The technical charges against
Mayor Bunch are assault and battery
with intent to kill Frank Whitney,
placing explosives uniawfully and ex-
ploding dynamite with intent to kill
Wilbur Ryman. He was released I'M
der bonds OF $4,000. on each charge.
His bonds were signed by John III.
Smith and Harry r. Wysor. Smith,
who Is a wealthy manufacturer, is the
father of DR.. Xene Y. Smith. the Po-
lice Commissioner. under indictment
on charge of conspiring with Mayor
Bunch and others TO solicit and ac-
cept brides.
The arrest of Chief McIlvaine fol-
lows his arrest on two previous In
dictments charging him with assault
and battery with intent to kill Frank
whitney, and with placing dynamite
under the home of Wilbur Ryman.
He is under $4,000 bond on each of
the three indictments.
Chief McIlvaine already was under
an indictment Jointly with Mayor
Bunch and other city officials charg-
ing him with conspiracy to solicit
brides.
Frank Whitney II the dry leader
who was so seriously injured II was
thought he would die when he was
attacked on the sidewalk in front OF
police station several weeks ago after
ne had been arrested on a charge of
carrying concealed weapons. It Is
alleged that Chief McIlvaine and his
officers at headquarters countenanced
the attack on Whitney.
House Dynnmfted.
Wilbur Ryman In the special dep
uty prosecuting attorney who has
been active in prosecuting the So
called public office graft cases. Sew
eral weeks ago dynamite was ex-
ploded beneath his house. which was
damaeed badly,
Edward Quick. policeman. who is
charged by some OF Whitney's
friends with having held Whitney
w
says he was trying to protect Whit
ney from assailants. also WAS arrested
on an indictment charging him with
assault with intent to murder Whit
ney and also was placed under bond
Of $4,000.
Sheriff Albert O'Hara said he has
SIX or eight other warrants to serve
on indictments returned by the grand
jury, and further arrests are ex-
pected soon. Chief Mc1lvaine's bonds
were supplied by Richard McGauley,
former brewery agent, and George
Phibbs, a former saioonkeeper. Quick
bond was signed by Harry r. Wysor,
business man. All the arrests were
made by Sheriff O'Hara personally.
All the indictments made public are
signed by Wilbur Ryman as special
prosecutor, and 1t Is said j. Frank
Mann, prosecuting attorney. re-
fused to sign the indictments. saying
he had not been legally removed in
the case. Mann also contended, it is
said, that any indictments signed by
any other person than himself with
out his permission. are Illegal. Judge
Frank Ellis, who appointed Ryman
as special prosecutor. held that Mann
is not qualified to act in these cases
az his own office was under investi-
cation because of his employment OF
Gene Williams as deputy prosecutor
Attack On whitney.
The attack on Whitney was made
March 80. The dynamiting of the
Ryman home occurred on the night
of March 20. while Mr.. and Mrs
Ryman and their two children were
asleep. The family was in the front
part of the house and escaped injury.
the dynamite being exploded at a
rear corner.
Characterizinz the charges against
them as absurd. McIlvaine and Quick
pointed out that in the attack on
Whitney, Quick suffered severe
blow on the head. and that his cloth
ing was slashed by knife when he
was attempting to protect Whitney.
Anybody who has known me at
any time during my SIXTY years of rest
dence here knows am just as
capable OF committing crimes like
this as two-year- old baby would
be-" McIlvaine said. Eff 1t were not
for the gravity Of the charges and tho
fact that some people believe every
thing they hear. I should regard the
thing as joke"
Mr.. Ryman expressed displeasure
over McTiva1n0a arrest before others