Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-06
HARTMAN CASE
TO GO TO JURY
BY 6 O'CLOCK
Continued From Page one.)

He laid great stress on the 1acC that
Hartman, while a candidate for city
judge, was associating with men who
turned out to be burglars and thieves,
and insisted that he was "tarred with the
same brush"
He made little reference Of Francis,
seemingly not caring to depend too
muh upon the evidence OF the confess
ing burglar, but insisted it had been fully
substantiated in it's important points by
| other witnesses.
Mr.. Holmes wasted no time in his argu-
ment in placing the blame for the prose-
cution at the door Of the Indianapolis
/ News.
At am at a loss to know, from the re-
marks Of the assistant prosecutor" he
said, whether this man is being tried
for receiving stolen goods, for being a
criminal lawyer or for not being accept
| able to the indianapolis News. Gentle
men, the reason he is on trial here is
because he was a candidate for city
; judge against the wishes Of that news
paper.
RECEIVING CAPE
KNOWINGLY QUESTION.
THE real question here to be decided
is whether Mr.. Hartman received fur
cape knowing 1t was stolen, not wheth-
| er he went to Dayton, Ohio, with Fran
els and Kunkle, or If he measures up
! to your standards of a city judge or
dared to be q candidate for the office
Of city judge.
THE dog at the end Of the horn listen
| ing to his masters voice. that is this
! prosecution. 1t was brought at the d.
rection Of that perfidious newspaper.
He next turned his attention to tho
circumstances Of Blodgett's trip TO Louis
vile and the Francis confession"
Il have been going to 1ails for twenty
FIVE years to interview prisoners and
never yet have I had prisoner brought
into the Office of a board of safety to
interview at my leisure, and that Is
what they did for Blodgett at Louisville.
Newspaper reporters visiting 1ails to~in-
terview prisoners usually are not ac-
corded the courtesies that would be ex-
tended the President Of the United States.
DECLARES THERE WAS
DEAL OF SOME SORT.
There was a deal Of some sort in this
matter at Louisville and the cards were
dealt from the north side Of Washing
ton street, west OF Meridian" (the News
Office is located in this block. This deal
kept a warrant, gotten out by DR.. Kat
terhenry, whose home Francis robbed,
from Icing served on Francis when he
came here to testify.
"The influence of that paper, the In
dianapolis News, did that and 1 think
tina: so far as Chairman Burlingame Of
the Louisville board Of safety, Captain
De Forester OF the detective department
and Frank Francis are concerned that
this deal was one OF profit for them.
| When Detective Frank Elvaine came to
Indianapolis to see Hsrtman's attorneys
last November he came here, believe.
to FEE II they had any definite knowledge
Of where this money came from and the
details OF It, in order that he might go
back TO Louisville and make them split
with him.
u charge that this prosecution was
brought about at the behest Of Indian
apolis News and that 1t is a political
prosecution. II was brought because
Hartman dared disagree with Its DEGREES,
because he became q candidate without
its consent. But he was only a pawn
In the game to get Lew Shank. That is
why package was laid on Burlingnmes
desk by Blodgett. why Francis was taken
to De Forester's Office. why De Forester
told Francis there Is Il lot in this and
only US TO split It between
POLICE SCORED
by ATTORNEY.
The indianapolis polio were not spared
by Mr. Holmes. After attacking the tes-
tlmony OF Detective William Rugenstein
and the discrepancies between his tosti-
mony at the mandamus suit in October
and in the present trial, Mr.. Holmes
said. referring to attempts made by the
State to show Rugeustein was working
only on automobile theft cases and not
on bootlegging cases:
"In this community the police depart
ment considers 1t more important to ar
rest bootleggers than a burglar or a
murderer Every day we read of doors
being broken down and floors ripped up
and half pints and larger quantities Of
liquor being found. but you never heard
of a policeman beating down a door or
digging up a floor to catch a burglar.
In his address to the jury Assistant
Prosecutor Miller NspOke Of Francis as
suffering from tuberculosis and said he
doubted II he would live a year. This
drew ire from Holmes who said, in his
talk:
This man Francis, this king of burg
lars, made q deal at Louisville whereby
he was to be prosecuted for forgery and
not for burglary on condition that he
come TO indianapolis and testify here. !
never saw any law that says a man shall
be tried for burglary unless he Is suffer
ing from tuberculosis or that warrant
shall be served on him for burglary I'M
less he has the disease.
AGREES FRANCIS
Is "SOME LIAR"
"In one respect believe Blodgett told
the truth and that was when he said he
believed Francis was the biggest liar In
the world. Certainly you would not con-
Wet man on the testimony Of an arch
criminal who had been granted immunity
by the authorities Of kentucky and Indi-
ana. And this prosecution has produced
no evidence from any source except from
Francis and his wife that Hartman had
any knowledge that these goods were
stolen"
Assistant Prosecutor Miller apologized
at the start OF his address for Francis.
"The State holds no brief for Francis"
h cold "TTo Ia had man. a thief ana
burglar for many years. We admit all
t. Dut we have corroborated the
testimony given by him to a point where
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