Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-17
WHISKY RING
EVIDENCE GOES
TO JURY TODAY
Action Against Nine More Is
Dismissed by Federal
Judge Anderson.
ONLY FIVE REMAINING

ny ring eases Is SCHSuu1Su 10 IS-
ceiye instructions late this afternoon.
Final arguments to the jury began
shortly before noon today
Judge Anderson granted each side an
hour and a half for making the argu-
ments and indications were that the
| o'clock this afternoon.
Judge Anderson instructed the jury to
| find the following FIVE defendants not
| guilty.
Arthur R. Booth, member of the city
council
Carl Dreisoh, city inspector of weights
and measures.
William Morris. alias Butch Hay
hurst, a negro police officer.
Charles Smith, a policeman.
/ EnOch Weir, city detective.
| Four others were also dismissed and
are:
Herbert Males. sheriff of vanderburg
Charles j. RuhI. deputy sheriff under
| Mr. Males
| Carl Schulz. former saloon keeper
Adam Hausman. a former bartender.
! The judge had previously announced
| that he would instruct the Jury
to find Sheriff Males and Ruhl not
| guilty and had previously sustained a
| motion in behalf Of Schultz and Haus-
man.
The courts action took nine cases
| from the jury as the records show that
F, the court instructed the jury to find the
nine defendants not guilty.
| WANTS ONLY GUILTY
/ ONES PUNISHED.
| In ordering the discharge of those de-
/ PENDANTS, Judge Anderson stated that the
/ court desired no innocent man to be Is
/ found guilty and held that the evidence
did not warrant further prosecution
against Booth, Dreisch Morris, Smith
and Weir and the government through
/ District Attorney YanNuys agreed with
the court
The court then stated that the
other five defendants must stand trial
and their cases go to the jury.
Those whose cases go to the jury are:
Police Chief Edgar Schmitt of Evans
Vile
Abe KIyman, former wholesale liquor
dealer at Henderson, Ky.
Moses Klyman, former wholesale
| liquor dealer at Henderson, Ky.
Andy Freddie. captain of police with
rank of assistant chief
Fred ossenberg identified as a "po-
Iitical boss by witnesses.
The jury will only pass upon these
| fixes the punishment upon those pleading
guilty and those found guilty by the
jury.
The whisky rings cases were brought
to a dramatic close when William S
Perrott, one of the members of the al
legged conspiracy, who entered a formal
plea of guilty after the trials started,
asked Judge Anderson for the privilege
to make statement
A nd
the request and Perrott told a story
/ which tended to establish more firmly
the alleged guilt of Police Chief Schmitt
There were four of us who were TO
/ look after and arrest those bringing IN
whisky" testified Perrott Later on
we were put on the off roads and kept
at police headquarters by Chief
Schmitt"
COURT REPRIMANDS
ATTORNEY NANGUS
When Perrott named Chief Schmitt.
attorney Milton Mangus, an attorney for
schmitt, directed remarks to the wit
ness in an apparent attempt to object to
the testimony
Judge Anderson said to Mangus, Take
your seat or there will be one less at
/ torney in this case"
Mangus attempted again to object and
the court ordered Nangus to be seated
rlQhr
make the statement
They called US four into headquarters
and kept us there on the pretense that
/ tips We're coming in said Perrott II
never got any of the tips that men were
coming In with liquor
My partner, Herb Evans, and myself.
were then put on the water works road
and at one time We caught one auto fun
J OF whisky on that road and the next
Z Of ho
| headquarters, got the car as he claimed
that the car was stolen from him and
that he had no knowledge of the liquors.
Continuing, Perrott said 1--WE had
several cases of arreSting people with
loads of whisky, and those defendants
never were tried in the city court and
nothing ever did come of them"
Those were included in the 12S ar
rests that Chief schmitt testified about y
asked Judge Anderson.
Yes, sir" answered Perrott
Perrott, resuming his story, emphat-
ically declared, I'VE (meaning Officers
Trautwein, Fuchs, Evans and Perrott1
worked under the orders of Chief
Schmitt and we knew why we were being
sent to side roads and to watch the Hem
derso ninterurban to get men who were
bringing in a quart or two while the
roads with trucks loaded down with
whisky were coming into the city.
Judge Anderso Uninterrupted Perrett
and said, You mean that you and the
other officers were put on the interurbans
to get the little fellows and not the big
ones?"
Perrott stated that was the truth of the
case.
Perrott explained that he and his
partner, Herbert Evans, obeyed the or
ders of the chief because they knew II
they didn't they would be fred.
PERROTT HAD
FEAR OF JOB.
You were an officer obeying the in
structions of the chief and all the time
you knew that if you objected you
would loose your jobs ?' asked the court
II have a wife to support and I knew
that If l did not do as ordered that off
would go my head" explained Perrott.
Herbert Evans, the partner of Perrott.
asked to be heard and gave similar tes-
timony to that given by Perrott
"One time l told the chief about a tip
l had about man by the name of Reig
who was supposed to be coming into
town With u big load of whisky and the
chief told lis (Perrott and Evans) to go
to the coliseum and stay there.
1--WE did and the chief came over later
to see If we were there" testified Evans.
Edgar Schmitt, chief of police and the
alleged head of the conspiracy and the
chief beneficiary from alleged graft
money for protective purposes took the
witness stand in his own defense.
lie branded as lie every word of evi-
dence submitted against him by governs