Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-05-17

saded guilty
} Seventy-six of the eighty defendants
appeared in court, thirty seven entering
pleas of not guilty.
Fifty-six other defendants held under
indictments returned by the last grand
jury were brought before the court to
enter pleas, among them being Julius
A. Haag, Louis L. Haag and Herbert l..
Haag, indianapolis druggists, charged
with transporting liquor from Kentucky
TO indianapolis.
| The three Haags were represented by
Attorney Charles w. Miller and entered
pleas of not guilty.
EVANSVILLE MEN
PLEAD NOT GUILTY.
! The following Evansville defendants
pleaded not guilty: Edgar Schmitt chief
/ of police; Herbert Males. sheriff of Van
derburg county: Carl Dreisch, former Sec
retary to Mayor Bosse; Charles Sihler.
manager of the Lottie hotel and former
tcounty clerk and chairman of the re-
publican party in Vanderburg county;
Arthur R. Booth, city councilman; Otto
Klein, Fred Ossenberg, Charles J. Ruhl.
! Harry Heinrich. James Boner, Herman
/ Steinhilber, John Heyns, Ave Lamb, Aba
Klyman. Moses Klyman, Andy Freidla.
Enoch Weiz, William Fuchs, James
Trautwein, William c. "Puss" Meinert,
charged
4 a poker game in the Marion county jail
during the Jail scandal in federal court;
Joseph Barnes, Benjamin F. Roberts.
alias TEX" Roberts; John James, Louis
/ Heberer, Walter Pelz. Charles Sihler,
Frank Diehl. Rube Becker, Charles J.
Klein. Glenn II. Goedde, Sol Cohn. Gill
/ bert Roy. alias Jack Frey; Adam Haus
man, Carl Schulz, Amos D. Riggs. Otto
Durre, Fred Haffendorfer, Charles Smith,
William Morris, alias Butch" Hayhurst.
negro; Sam "Speck'' Campbell. negro;
William Oehlman, Ollie Woodruff. Emil
E. Geiss, William Schoepfin, William s.
/ Perrott. Herbert Evans and Arthur Mack.
/ FORMER L. S. AGENT
ENTERS GUILTY PLEA.
Those pleading guilty were Van Pick
/ erill former liquor dealer Of Henderson,
/ Ky; John W. Miller. formerly a UniteI
( States marshal; Eugene Mckinney, for
merly operator of the Evansville police
/ boat Fauola; Eli Harp, Clarence VIII
/ helm, Richard Pennington. Caulder Nc
Z Coy, Clarence Bullock. Elm E. Kap-
( pier. Harvey Boyd. John Arnold, Cal D.
! Pickerel, David Wolf George Peter,
Harry Brinkman, William Devault,
1 Charles Thompson. Gustav Nuebiing. Err
1 nest Reiger, Abram Cohn, George
Schnsrr Lloyd Buttermore, Cap Jones
( {neGro). William Wimberg, Louis
I Schmitt, Charles Rothscheild, Joseph Kill
/ lian and Philip B!essinger.
/ Omer Taylor, %. and Homer Deering,
/ 20. both of Indianapolis, were each SEN
| fenced to eighteen months imprison
ment in the federal prison at Atlanta,
/ Ca. on their plea of guilty to charge
/ Of transporting a stolen automobile from
Nashville, Tenn, to Indianapolis.
! Allen B. Howison. "a, of Marysville.
( Tenn. confessed to having fraudulently
/ endorsed an army pay check made out
/ to Robert P. Nelson, his roommate at
Valparaiso university.
/ SAID NELSON TOLD
/ HIM TO CASH CHECK.
/ Howison maintained that he had been
authorized to cash the check by Nelson.
/ He said he was formerly a second lieu
tenant In the United States army, hav-
/ ing served with the 107th Engineers of
/ the thirty second division at Scissors,
I Chateau Thierry and the battle of Yer-
/ dun.
/ Howison's father is minister in
/ Marysville, according to his story to the
court
He admitted having other difficulties
! over cashing checks.
! The court delayed sentence.
plea of guilty to a charge Of rob
( bing the mails was entered by Paul
/ Sheehaa. 3421 East Pratt street, a clerk
| in the indianapolis postofiice.
! Sheehan admitted having taken let
! ters containing about $50 in cash from
/ the mails.
According to his story to the court he
was a substitute at the postofice un-
( til Jan. 1, 1915 getting 90 cents per
( hour when he was appointed a regular
clerk at 10 cents per hour.
He told the court his wife was in the
I thz - r.. Ah1rf1
said it was a case of desperation with
him.
His sentence was deferred.
ANOTHER GUILTY
OF MAIL THEFTS.
Booth Hamilton, II, son of Pegs
Hamilton. q hack driver, of this city,
pleaded guilty to having stolen three
letters from the mails containing 50, SIS
and 81
At the time he was acting as special
delivery messenger at the postoffice.
Win H. Trimpe, postmaster at Way
mansville, Ind, admitted having taken
S504.So from the mails and was SEN
fenced to eighteen months in the federal
prison at Atlanta, Ga.
Emma ]. O'RiIey and James O'Riley.
of Laporte, Ind, were each fined s25 ana
costs on a charge of sending obscene let
ters through the mails.
The letters, IL was alleged, were sent
to O'Rileys former wife, Mrs. Mary
Snider.
The last of national cleanup of deal
ers in obscene pictures was made when
Frank Erwin, photographer of Ft
Wayne, Ind. Chastine Johnston, Au-
burn, Ind, and Johnston H. Tower, Peru.
Ind, were arraigned on a charge of yio-
lating the postal laws.
WOMAN FINED FOR
OBSCENE LETTER.
Elimina Barger of Elkhart, Ind. re-
ceived fine of 500 and cost on a charge
of sending obscene letters through the
mails.
She pleaded guilty and informed tho
court that her husband is a prominent
Dox manufacturer in Elkhart.
She admitted having sent a number
of questionable epistles to various resi-
dents of Elkhart.
Eleven defendants alleged to have been
implicated in the operation of a dope
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