South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-18
MOTHER REFUSES
TO Be SHAKEN IN
HER FIRST STORY
Tells Assistant Chief That it
Was His Voice on
Telephone.

When confronted Monday by Asst
Chief of Police Cassidy and Sergt.
Benjamin H. Roberts. the gamblers
aged mother who Friday night re-
vealed conditions in South Bends
underworld and told OF unsuccess-
full appeals TO the police authorizes.
repeated her story.
A visit TO the aged mothers home
was made at the suggestion OF the
assistant chief Monday. The party
was composed IF Asst. Chief Cas-
siday Sergt- Roberts. Pros. Atty.
samuel P. Schwartz, and newspaper
men.
In her story to Pros. Schwartz
Friday night the mother said that
she had called the assistant chief
on the telephone regarding the
Booster club which she said was a
gambling house on S. Michigan St,
and that the assistant chief had re-
ferred her 10 Sergt. Roberts.
Mother Confronts Cassidy.
Asst. Chief Cassidy Monday de-
MED that he had ever had a tele-
phone conversation with the mother.
When she was visited at her home
Monday, the mother told Asst. Chief
Cassidy that she had talked 10 him
over the telephone. and that the
voice that had answered over the
telephone was Cassidy's voice, that
she had known him for years, and
n at she recognized IL Monday as
the one that had answered her at
the time she had made her appeal
regarding the Booster club.
Sergt Roberts admitted Monday
that he had talked to the mother.
but he said that ii was much more
than 80 days ago. He said that on
the night in question he was told
By Capt. James Z. Schock to call
yhe assistant chief a the station. He
SSsaid that he called there but that
scassidy was not in. He said that
Detective James Cutting told him
that he could give him the message,
that il was for him TO call a num-
Der. Sergt. Roberts says that he
called the number and made an
appointment TO meet the gambler
mother at Michigan ST. and Wash
ington av. He said that when the
gamblers mother met him there she
wanted him 10 go 10 the Booster
club and get $3.50 she said her son
had lost there.
Sergt. Roberts said that the
mother told him that she had been
TO the Booster club and that the
owner wanted to give her 500 and
that she wanted $3.50. Roberts said
he told her that he did not know
whether her son had lost any money
or not, and that he could not get
il for her.
Dispute With Mother.
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home Monday a dispute arose be-
tween the mother and Sergt. Rob
erts as TO whether Roberts had told
Der that the assistant chief had sent
him. Roberts said that he did not
mention the assistant chiefs name
and the mother said that he did.
Sergt Roberts became angry and
left the house.
The assistant chief failed to in
duce the mother to change from her
original story that she had talked
TO him over the telephone on the
night she wanted someone to obtain
for her the money she said her son
had lost at the Booster club. The
mother remained positive that she
had talked TO the assistant chief
She said that Chief OF Police Kline
Lad answered the telephone when
she called TOT the assistant cnleI,
and when IL was found that he was
not there, the chief wanted TO know
if he could not answer her ques-
tions.
The mother said that she told
Chief Kline that she wanted TO talk
70 Mr.. Cassidy, and that the chief
said that he would have Mr.. Cassidy
call her The mother says that
later Mr.. Cassidy called her and
that he then referred her TO Sergt.
Roberts.