Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-01-08
.VIOLATORS FIND
KEY TO FREEDOM
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several times, there is none in which
the defendant is appealing from fines
only.
The purpose Of the appeal is clearly
shown TO be the avoidance of Jail SEN
fences duly imposed in city court.
m these cases are defendants who are
not innocent persons who have fallen
but well known police court characters
with whom the police have had repeat
ed experience and whom they have tried
repeatedly, and, so far in vain to place
in prison where they would not be
source OF constant trouble to the author
tiles,
COLLINS GAVE GRACE
TO WILLIAM sOWDER.
An example among the gamblers whose
appeal Judge Collins failed to dispose of
is William SOwder, otherwise known as
Bill Souders, who operates the gambling
joint within a stones throw of the city
hall, to which Mayor Jewett once re
ferred as one of the things he expected
bis police force to abolish.
Sowder, as he appears in Criminal
Court has been repeatedly arrested and
Is now under a sentence from city court
which he is evading through the grace
of Judge Collins.
among tHe DIluu Tiger cases are Two
against Nero RobaR, foreigner" whose
second and third city court convictions
reached Criminal Court on the same day,
Sept 90.
Judge Collins has frequently boasted OF
the support given him politically by the
foreign element in the city.
He did not make a single entry on the
docket against Robaf in the period be-
tween SEPT. % and Jan. ]. although there
were many days in Criminal Court on
which these two cases could have been
settled
Two other blind tiger cases made
notable by the judges failure to hear
them are the appeals of Seeman Cook,
on second conviction in city court. which
was docketed April and the case Of
Joseph Stubcr, docketed June Il.
Cook asked for jury trial May and
Collins did nothing with the case
Stuber's record shows that no entry
was made after the case was docketed
June H.
TWENTY-THREE CASES
UNDIsPOsED OF.
The twenty-three blind tiger convic-
lions that should have been acted on by
Criminal Court in 1920 are as follows:
JOS. STUBER-Operating blind tiger; ;
500 and thirty days. May .. Max Sal
eted, June IL. No. 5O925
SEEMAN COOK Operating blind
tiger; 500 and thirty days April 8.
Charles Cook. bondsman. Criminal
Court Docketed April 7. No. 3079S. Only
entry Is: Asks for jury trial on May /.
TOM Operating blind tiger:
500 and thirty days, June IA p. J.
Shaneff, bondsman. Criminal Court
Docketed. June %. No. 51001. Makes
motion for trial by jury on Sept. 10.
KATE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS blind
tiger; 500 and thirty days, July %7.
James Ermston. bondsman. Criminal
Court-Docketed July .. No. 5000,
Trial by jury on Oct. u. Jury disagreed.
tom Operating blind tiger.
Criminal Court-Docketed July IS. No.
51O64 Only entry is that defendant asks
for jury trial on Sept %. special
venire OF twenty five men ordered to re
port Sept. IS No further entry.
DAN MORRISON $780, Operating blind
tiger; 800 and thirty days. Sept. -
cash bond Criminal Court-Docketed
Oct. IL No. 1920 On Nov. % evidence
heard In part by court. Continued.
JAMES JORDAN - Operating blind
tiger; $500 and eighty days, Sept. IS.
Nick c. Hartzos. bondsmGn. Criminal
Court-Docketed Sept. 2s. No. 1928.
Change of venue granted on Nov. q.
Frank s. Roby appointed special judge.
LESTER ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS blind
tiger: 500 and forty days, Sept. ,.
(Bondsman's name not given) Criminal
Court -Docketed Sept. 3. No. 5115O. Evil