Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-10


admitted it. but insisted the liquor be-
longed 70 Smith
The court then ordered him arrested
on the Clinton liquor case and deferred
sentence in the first case for the time
being.
FOUR RELEASED
SHOW GLADSESS.
A big celebration was staged by The
four young men indicted with Burnett
when Judge Anderson let them all 20
with technical sentence OF one day in
Jail All had been in the Marion County
Jail for six months. They We're Vernon
Jones and Garrett Osborne. negroes, and
Frank VOLTA and James HILL
As soon as they were freed they ran
Gut in the corridors and went whooning
up and down the long hallway like
bunch Of schooihoys.
am through" one Of them shouted.
ITS me for good job and the straight
and narrow from new on / sure am OF
this bootleg2ing business
The four had a narrow escape from
serious charge Of train rohbfnS in Hi
nols Last November they were given
hearing on removal proceedings before
Judge Anderson on charges of having
robbed an Illinois Central mail train
hear Champaign. H.. shortly afscr midi
night. Nov. ., 1921, following pitched
battle.
The charges were based on the finding
Of the body of Steve Ferguson. one of
their party. In eIump Of bushes near
Rockville He had been Killed bv i rife
or revolver bullet. Near the place Y IS
found the lock from one Of the regis
tered mail pouches stolen from the
robbed mail train.
GETTING MULE
FOR ELECTION DAY.
The defendants admitted they vera IN
their way to Clinton to get some white
mule for ection day here. They SAID
ferguson had been killed when they
stopped to aid 4 big automobile waicE
was in the ditch and some one IN the
other Ger Lad shot him. They nsda
dttense IN the train robbery charge, but
Judge Anderson ordered them hslG ftr
violation of the liquor laws
Three residents of Terre Haute, James
Knuckey. formerly Waterman at the G.
& E. l. freight house in that city; viii
liam Jensen. proprietor Of a poolroom.
and Charles V. Davis entered pleas of
guilty OF being implicated in the theft
of 100000 cigarettes from the freight
Apuse. hnuckey took part in the theft,
lille the other two purchased the stolen
goods Knuekey was given g two year
sentence while the other men so of with
eighteen months.
Sentences Of eighteen months we're I'M
posed OF Clyde @. Combs Jacon 4.
Keibler. Harry billiard AMI Noble F. Sci
lers. members Of q Monon railroad crew,
who stole a case Of shoes from \ freight
train. Sellers is from West Clinton and
the other mex are from Bloomiug ton. All
admitted their guilt, but passed the
buck as TO which one was the tnsti-
gator OF the theft. The only point On
which the four could a2ree was that the
train was headed south and that the
theft occurred near Salem. Judge An
derson decided all were equally guilty.
SCRUGGS GIVEN
FoUR-YEAR SENTENCE.
George E Scruggs was given a four
year sentence for stealing a mail pouch
at EIkhart in January. Dan Ingram.
negro. implicated in the same Atari
was let off with one year and one day
Scruggs' wife is now in Jail at Jack
son. Mich. in connection with the theft
At the time Of the crime Scrnggs was
on parole from the Federal Prison at
Leavenworth. Kan where he had been
sent for stealing from an interstate
shipment of freight.
Arthur Nun. Claude Demmitt and Ray
Armstrong, all Of kokomo, were SEN
fenced to eighteen months each fer theft
of twenty our automobile tires from n
box car at kakomo
Ed Stanifer and William II Moore.
both Of She1burn, admitted connection
with the transportation Of a stolen an
tomobile from Illinois 10 this State aad
were given eighteen months each.
Russell Moore, H. Of Catlin, who raised
- 5o-cent money order to $3.50 and
Anght a suit Of clothes from Scare
Roebuck & Co Of Chicago with II, was
told TO go home and behave himself in
the future
FOUR MONTHS FOR
WATCH SELLER.
Four months In Jail was the sentence
imposed on Raymond L Harrison of
Evansville who admitted he had sold
watches by mail order and sent fraudu-
lent guarantees with them.
Marcus r. Connelley OF North Vernon,
who said he had taken employment as
paint salesman and then collected COM
missions on fictitious orders, was given
six months In Jail.
Judge Anderson announced that all prison
sentences wouid be served n the Federal
Prison ut Atlanta, Ga- instead Of at
Leavenworth. Kan He had been making
All sentences TO. Ieavenworth. hut re-
cefved request from the Department Of
Justice at Washington yesterday Ia send
all prisoners tn Atlanta Until about
wear ago This had been the custom here
for several years But AT that time the
Atlanta Prison became filed to capacity
and Indiana prisoners Were then ordered
to Leavenworth.