South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-04-27

cause Abe Frank. manager of the
Oliver hotel. prominent member Of
the Chamber OF Commerce. the
Country club. the Interstate Fair as
ISOLATION, etc. mas refused 10 be
blackmailed into lending his name
and purchase some stock ia John
/ TalbOts Bohemian Dat" fashioned
sheep growing industry. Frank, like
a great many other men have been.
is made the object OF a vicious at
! tack in a recent pink sheet sup
| plement to the owl" the black
/ mailers very personal organ. The
1 attack does not stop with Mr.. Frank,
/ but hits at everything with which
he is connected. the Chamber Of
/ Commerce especially being victim
( lied by his wrath.
IL is eXpedient now and then to
! explain TO South Bend who John
/ Talbot is: what the owl is-that
newcomers may know the character
of the crook. and how TO appreciate
/ his explosions. People here for
years do not need be told AS the
| town grows the newcomers do not
| know the chances they are taking
| by the presence here Of so notorious
a scOundrel, who i'm days agone Is
reputed to have furnished the brains
| for post Office robberies. safe-crack-
} ers. silk thieves. in fact. the entire
| old Lake Shore gang" at one time
notorious for its criminal operations
! in these parts. His shyster practice
/ as a lawyer In such capacities. re-
| suited in his disbsrment a number
| of years ago, incident TO a case in
which he should have been, and If
recalled correctly was. a prisoner at
! the bar-Or soon became one. Only
recently he was convicted in the
| United States court at Indianapolis
Of using the mails 10 promote arson.
violence, or murder, by publications
similar TO his attack upon Mr..
| Frank, upon whom he had served
/ advance notice OF an intention.
which is a pet phrase with him, n
run him out of town
GETS REVENGE ON PARK
BOARD MEMBER.
Nor did he stop with Frank. in
this instance. ". W. Ridenour. of
have incurred the i'll will Of the
ghoul of Owldom. somehow, and
| even TalbOt's former supreme sec
! rotary, George d. Beroth, who quit
him as having enough about the
time he published the above men
| toned articles for which he was con
victed, comes i'm for a slur. Riden-
1 our is a member OF the city park
I board, and recently declined TO take
! stock in Talbot's alleged" sheep in
] Gustry. additionally Objecting TO
! pasturing the muttOns in the city
! parks Ostensibly il is all on ac-
| count Of the Chamber of Commerce,
as the pink sheet" puts it. which
he moves, just as though he expect
ed to be heard. to have abolished
this Notwithstanding that in spite of
! the. rest there seems to be one South
Bend man in the Chamber. whom
he dearly and affectionally loves. II
| is Archibald G. Graham. former re
! publican boss who moved the court
! at Rochester some eighteen months
| ago TO reestablish him as a member
of the legal aternity-somewhat
we suppose in payment for a politi
| cal debtZand whom he character
ICES as a prominent attorney,
winding about his head a halo for
! fistics.
His eulogy to Mr.. Graham, with
out naming him other than as a
| prominent attorney" was indicted
for much the same reason, appar-
| emily, as the attack on Frank. Rid
enOur and BerOth. but driven at The
/ NewsTimes editor; indicted too,
I without mentioning Mr. Graham
| mental or moral status at the time
Of the episode very small mole
hill which he seeks TO magnify into
a mountain. The News-Times has
never, up TO the present, thought
very much of the Graham affair in
question, charging it more particu
! larly TO John BarleycOrn who for the
( moment had Mr.. Graham in tow.
but since his friend has turned the
thing about face. OF so nearly so, TO
Graham's glory, instead Of his de-
| served shame, the truth Of il will
! serve to illustrate the lying rascal
ity, in similarity, of the slurs and
SANDER hurled at Messrs. Frank
I Ridenour and Beroth. 1t is notice
able, too, as We are informed. that it
is much the same story as Graham
himself has been handing out
rather fiambOyantly. in apparent
( approval of his drunken scuffe-
and hence ne should have no objec-
ton 10 the facts being brought out.
He has been given q chance 20 deny
/ the prevarication, or correct it. il
| ne wished TO do so. but evidently
| under the thumb of the blackmailer,
/ he has not dared.
EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED
| AT THE WASHINGTON.
The truth, and nothing but the
/ truth. Of the whole matter is that
/ Graham walked. or staggered. into
the Washington restaurant, some
! three weeks ago. He was in com
pany with Philip Goetz. At a table
near the rear OF the restaurant sat
! the editor Of this paper, Judge
Chester r. Montgomery. Of the SUI
periOr court, John Kuespert former
( chief Of detectives under the Keller
administration, and a gentleman
/ from Cleveland Graham brushed
up TO this table, and through a foul
breath. significant Of a multiplied