Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-19
CLARIS ADAMS
NEGLECTS DUTY
TO OELECTIONEER
Prosecutor Stumps for G. O. p.
While Lawbreakers Flourish
in Indianapolis.
JEWETTS AWAY ALSO

Instead of remaining in Indianapolis
| and conducting a grand jury investiga-
! ton into the Illicit sale of whisky in
this city as well as the unrestricted
gambling in progress. Claris Adams.
| county prosecutor, today was out of the
city campaigning for the Republicans.
! When inquiry was made at his office
it was announced that Mr.. Adams was
out of the city on lecture tour
I Yesterday afternoon the same answer
was given
No one would volunteer any informa-
| tion regarding q grand jury probe of the
exposure made in the Times yesterday.
Judge James 4. Collins of Criminal
Court failed to instruct the grand jury
regarding its duty to make an inyestiga-
tion into the whisky traffic.
| No statement could be obtained from
Mayor Jewett for the reason that he could
not be found.
He was not at his office yesterday and
has not been there today.
Employees in his office said they did
not know where he was and efforts on
their part to find him were unsuccessful
EDITOR CALLED
| TO CITY COURT.
| With the single exception Of an attempt
to annoy members Of the stan Of the
Times through illegal processes of law,
1
| the Republican administration officials
| took no steps yesterday to bring to ac-
count the open violators Of the law whose
activities were exposed in the Times Of
Monday.
| conference was had in the court
| house shortly after noon, but the subject
| OF the conference appears to have been
, how the officials could prevent further
revelations of their neglect of duty,
rather than how they could proceed to
the enforcement Of the law.
Following this conference an attempt
was made through the City Court to COM
pei member of the Times staff to take
/ over the duties Of the officials and prose-
cute the law violators
When this attempt failed the officials
whose duty It is to make arrests contin-
ued their efforts to re-eIect the ring can
didates and bootieggers, gamblers and
/ Prostitutes were unmolested.
statement that amounts to an admis-
! sion Of inability to enforce the laws of
Indiana against bootlegging, gambling
and prostitution was made yesterday by
( Jerry Kinney, chief of police, following
the publication in the Times of inciaents
OF law violation observed last week
WHAT CHIEF OF
| POLICE HAS TO SAY.
Mr.. Kinney said:
The officers have been instructed to
/ make arrests in all cases of law vio-
lauons, regardless of who it is. This
means giving special attention TO
cases of bootlegging. gambling and,
resorts The captains have been in
structeG 70 have any complaint imme-
dlately Investigated. In some gam
bling houses walls, partitions, and
trick doors have been SO cleverly con-
structed that It is almost impossible
for officers to get sufficient evidence
TO convict unless some one gets on the
inside. and then makes a complaint
1 and IS used as a witness
Mr.. Kinney did not explain what, IL
anything, the police department had
/ done TO prevent law violations in the
places he admits knowing have been SO
! ''cleyerly constructor for that purpose.
1 The police department, of course. has
+ the right Of search, and in the City
Court places have been established as
gambling houses through the ;ntrodue-
! ton of evidence showing that they have
been fitted for that purpose and are fire.
/ quented by known common gamblers.
/ However, such proceedings have not
| been had since the approach of the cleo
/ ton and Chief Kinney's statement shows
4 that no efforts have been made along
| that line recently.
LEAVES ANOTHER
/ MATTER UNEXPLAINED.
! The chief also failed to explain why
/ he had ceased stationlng a policeman ST
the we'll known gambling den conducted
/ by Rufe Page, an administration negro.}
/ 1t was said at the time that the po-
/ liceman who was stationed there was
removed; that instruction had been is
sued for his removal by Mayor Jewett,
10 whom Page had appealed because OF
| the alleged discrimination against his
gambling house.
Members of the Indianapolis school
board have expressed their belief that
thorough investigation should be made
of the practice OF a 5ootlegger in stor-
Ing his supply Of liquor st Shortridge
High School
Such law violations were denounced
as outrageous. one commissioner sug-
gested hearing on the subject before
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