Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-26
BIG FEAR BACK
OF FRANTIC TRY
FOR CLEMENCY
Sapers Show Political Ripples
Stirred Up Here Reach
to Washington.
MUST BUY HIS SILENCE

MUST BUY HIS SILENCE
The source, the strength and the
motives back Of the long, long fight
of the bipartisan political machine of
indianapolis to save Dennis ]. Bush.
political crook, gambler and convict
from serving a sentence on the penal
farm stands revealed today as re-
suit of the transfer OF papers per
taIning to Bush's plea for clemency
from the office of the Governor OF
Indiana to the office Of the State
board of pardons and paroles.
These papers disclose that among
those good government" officials of
this community who were concerned
in attempting to relieve the convict
Bush from paying the penalty of vi
cious assault on a citizen in his own
home were the following;
UNITED STATES SENATOR
HARRY S. NEW.
MAYOR CHARLES w. JEWETT.
RALPH A. LEMCkE, Republican
county chairman and treasurer of
Marion County.
ROBERT r. MILLER, former sher-
if Of Marion County, who is now un-
der Indictment in the Criminal Court.
j soHN w. CASTOR, recorder of
Marion County.
RICHARD V..sIPE, clerk of Marion
County.
LEO K. FEsLER, auditor Of Mar
ion County.
ADOLPH sEIDENSTIcKER, mem
Der Of the State board of pardons and
paroles under Governor Goodrich,
who is q candidate for reappoint-
ment
THOMAS A. Riley, member of
the Jewett board of works and city
clerk in the administration when
Bush was street commissioner.
JOHN w. HOFFMAN, counsel
for the Indianapolis News and one of
the lawyers who helped to induce
Bush to turn States evidence against
members of the Bell administration.
ALVAH J. RUCKER, prosecuting
attorney, who convicted Bush and
later nolled nineteen indictments
against Bush with the consent OF
James A. Collins, Judge of the Crimi-
&@kaI Court, after Bush had given
Rucker testimony on which Rucker
failed to convict a single member of
the Bell administration.
JAMES &. DEERY, counsel for
Bush when he was convicted of
operating a gambling game in Indi-
annapolis and city judge during the
period when Bush was padding the
pay rolls of the city of Indianapolis.
ERNEST L. KINGsTONE, vice
chairman of the Republican city
committee.
2. r. HOOKER.
n. c. ATKINS.
CHARLES E. HENDERSON,
With the exception of the last
three named in this list, all the petit
TONERS for the release Of Bush are
members of the bipartisan political
machine which Is now attempting to
control the primaries.
ONLY MAYOR JEWETT's
SIGNATURE LACKING.
OF these, the only one whose sig
nature is not attached to letters writ
ten in the interest of Bush is Mayor
Jewett. A memoranda Of a message
IN which he is reputed to have told
Governor Goodrich that everything
was all right and Bush should be pa.
roled is among the papers, but is
>8Aepudiated by Jewett.
- How and why this group of bipar.
an politicians worked to keep
q fdsh from going to the penal farm is
Easily CLEANED from the story of his
<nviction.
Bush, as street commissioner OF
indianapolis, had on the city pay roll
as dog pound employees" the notori
Gus Bob Walters, "stick-up," and
Dolph Staub, who married the keeper
of a resort in indianapolis.
These two men, under the instruc
tions of Bush, went to the home oi
Ralph Richman, a deputy fire mar
shal. one Sunday evening in company
with another city employe named
Jones. One Of them held Mrs. Rich.