South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-20
OCTOBER % 1870.
THE ZIMMER-DAMBACHER CASE.

Efforts of thinner and Dambacher TO recover tho
liquor brought in by them from Chcago-bringrs
suit against sheria Duck who holds it under court
orders.-for which ofense they have been twice
convicted. once in the federal and in the sp-
oerior court bids fair to add another scurriious
.hapter TO that already long drawn out controversy
To the credit Of Pros. Samuel p Schwartz. who TO
bring Justice out Of the case all and get ans
action mad 10 swear ont the warrants against the
two men himself while the police sought to side
step f. and who has prosecuted - quite single hand
cd all the way through. he has always eventually
won out despite the delays invoked by perifoggns
lawyers and incident this suit against Sheriff
Duck we anticipate another victory awaiting him.
Conviction Of thinner and Dambacher in the SUI
peror court the other day might have ended this
case the sentence 10 be imposed once fulfilled but
q course what the Of that 1903 cases of liq
uor want is the liquor. There we're rumors in
arous circles even among certain relig.o-poHtcal
ssntlemen. that Pros schwartz would never try the
thinner and Dambacher case or if he did then
only perfunctoriIy. wanting 10 get beaten so that
the liquor could be passed back to its owners II
gossip that seems to have shot in the air. Pros
Schwartz tried the and tried vigorously, and
having gotten the evidence himself instead of de-
readinz upon the police. he had the evidence with
which to convict and obtained conviction.
That is one Of the differences between trying
where you have the evidence 10 convict with
and where you haven't. the latter being the draw
back in the police court. and well in the circuit
and superior courts where the police have be de-
pended upon-turning liquor into water and
in the thinner Dambacher case conviction was OBJ
tanned under the state law even after sentence had
been served on a conviction from the same set of
facts IN the federal court We repeat that Pros
Schwartz is 10 be congratulated Deflers from city
hall circles. and the circles Of its hangers-on and
OF booueggers gamblers etc. generally, including
religio-poIitcal henchmen who never conceive
OF anything good coming out of a democratic prose
cutor's Office are welcome to all the consolation
they can get out Of that conviction.
And we anticipate that they may be welcome TO
all the consolation they get out OF the suit to
recover the lquor-though Of course. that is sub
jeot not. as yet open to comment We merely wish
to mention in passing q post-verdict remark of one
or the parties IN interest criticsng the attorneys
for the defense for not taking a change Of venue
and putting the case OF until after the first of tho
year Being rock-ribbed republican fuu Of
thusiasyn he assumed that OF course Floyd o. Jei-
son was to be elected prosecutor. and said: we
could either have gotten the case dismissed have
gotten an acquittaI-vhich you can take which
ever way you ike.
Apparently the vice elements expect an easy time
n Mr JeIison Is elected; whether throush some
sort OF oonnIvance or because his inferior legal
ability we do not presume 10 say.