Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-03-31
u. S. PAYS SHERIFF
FAT PRISON FEES
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Miller for his dereliction in the conduct
OF the county jail whenever he desires
to do so, simply by making other ar
engagements for the care of federal pris-
oners.
Whenever he does this the sheriff wilt
lose a profit of approximately 40 cents
a day on each prisoner, which is now
accruing 70 the fund with which Miller
expected to make his race for renomi
nation and election.
The action of Judge Anderson in this
investigation recalls the investigation
which he made of the jail Dec. %. 1912.
when he learned that Bob Sloan, a fed
cral prisoner, had been taken from the
Jail to Judge Collins court and hat
there received a sentence to run Soon
currently" with the sentence be was
serving from the federal court.
The following extracts of the report
OF that proceeding appeared in This
Times on that date:
"In addition to telling Sheriff Dodson
and Sheriff-elect Robert Miller, who was
present as a spectator, that II they
couldn't do it he would show them how
TO run a Jail, the judge served notice on
the city and county officials Of a number
of other Indiana cities 20 the effect that
if they kept on cOvertly blocking the
action of federal authorities they would
get up before the bar of this court,
where no political pull and no power on
earth will help them out"
ECHOS OF INQUIRY
INTO JAIL AFFAIRS.
The session of court, which was con-
vened for the specific purpose of going
into criminal court affairs as regards in
reference with federal court affairs. was
opened with Al verbal report by L. Ert
Slack on the result of his INVESTIGATION
of the Sloan case, and Alvah J. Rucker.
their prosecuting attorney, was grilled
by the court for the manner in which the
criminal court was conducted under
Judge Collins.
Why, can it be possible that, when
a man is sentenced down there, he really
does go TO jail?' asked the judge with
evident sarcasm.
prosecutor Rucker gravely responded
Yes, it does happen
"'Why, of course, il was mere farce.
that sentence Of Sloans, the judge de-
cl&red.
I'm other words. the judge # the
criminal court sat IN there, and you
knew, and he knew, that thirty days in
jail under an arrangement of that kind
was a mere farce. mere farce
Turning to Marshal Storen. the court
asked # it wasn't true that the federal
court always waited until state court SEN
fences had expired before it took up
cases against state court prisoners. Mr.
Storen said it was.
"'Of course continued the jurist, we
never attempt to interfere with your
court and he went on at length to show
just how serious a breach Of comfy the
criminal court had committed.
~ haven't any objection, said Judge
Anderson later, except as q citizen, to
the criminal court being a mere puppet
show, but and the judges face grew
stern and his voice cutting, when they
attempt to interfere with this court, it's
4 different matter
It's difficult to convince, exceedingly
difficult to convince people that ninety
dag jail sentence means ninety days
They try to. get themselves made
TRUSTEES, or to get out to go home and
see their families, or work political pulls.
" but I'll show them that ninety days
is ninety days.
Later he asserted: This man is
notorious criminal, and you know it, and
Judge Collins knows it, and yet he gets
special faVors,' and still later, and for
the criminal court of this county, through
the manipulations of the prosecuting at
torney and the defendants attorney, to
arrange to take this man out of Jail and
over to the courthouse and get him
phonye sentence"