The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26

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Their cases will be set for trial later.
Carnefix's permit to handle alcohol
was revoked by Bert c. Morgan, Fed
eral prohibition director for Indiana
last June after Federal agents had re-
ported irregularities in alcohol records
at Carnefix's store. Joseph T. Stokes
surrended his permit after hearing
had been set by Morgan.
DR.. William B. Hartsock. 126 W.
Thirty Second ST., indicted on charges
Of selling narcotics Illegally entered
a plea of not guilty. His arrest last
spring followed the death of Cornelius
Shea from what police said was an
overdose Of narcotics.
Sentences This Afternoon
Pleas of more than $50 defendants
named in indictments and tnforrna-
tons were received by Judge Ander-
son at the morning session, and
afternoon adjournment he began dis
posing of cases where pleas Of guilty
were entered.
Fully one-half of the 108 defendants
in the Ft Wayne liquor cases en-
tered pleas OF guilty. Unlike the
Gary case which was tried last March
no general charge of conspiracy was
made against the defendants and no
FIT Wayne or Allen County officials
were named iIr the indictments.
Norton Admits Guilt
In all cases of importance except
that Of the T. NJ Norton Brewing
Company of anderson pleas Of not
guilty were entered. William J. Nor
ton, president of the company, plead
ed guilty both for himself and his
company on charges of violating pro-
hibit1on laws. The indictments in
this case were the result Of raids on
the brewery by Federal agents dur
Ing the summer and the discovery Of
large quantities Of real beer.
In the only large liquor conspiracy
case involving Indianapolis defend
ants pleas of not guilty were entered
by Peter Pacini, 4257 Guilford Ave.
Eunzio La Rose, $50 n. fremont ST..
and Joseph La Rosa, 909 s. New
Jersey ST., charged with being ring
leaders in the conspiracy. Other de-
PENDANTS to plead in the same case
were, dward Dean, Gus Wink. Frank
Clutter and William Haskell, not
guilty. and Harry Ice and Louis
Kaiser, guilty.
Edgar F. Hiatt. president of the
Dickinson Trust Company Of Rich
mond. charged with violation of ma
tional banking laws, entered plea Of
not guilty. The same plea was en-
tered by James B. Weddle of Law
-renceburg, charged with attempting
to bribe a guard at distillery ware
house at Lawrenceburg to permit the
place to be robbed of whisky.
Mayors Prisoners Present
Jacob Fortish and Joseph Hango.
both of Chicago. arrested by Mayor
Shank and a squad of police on
charges of bringing large quantity
of alcohol from Chicago to Indianapo-
lis as the result of Mrs. Joseph-T.
Hogue, wife of the city controller,
overhearing a telephone conversation
between the men pleaded guilty.
Joseph Sadker, also of Chicago, in
dicted in the same case pleaded not
guilty.
When the list of defendants was
read by Judge Anderson it became
known that Floyd Fitzsimmons. Michi-
gan City fight promoter, had been In
dicted on charges Of failure to pay
admission taxes on admission tickets
to boxing exhibitions staged by him.
Linus P. Meredith reported that his
men had been unable to find Fitzsim-
mons to serve a capias on him.
aMtrimonial agencies proved the
downfall of four Vincennes women,
Alice Potter. Mary Roach, Margaret
Beasley and Matilda Sigler. They
ali admitted they had violated the
postal laws by conducting fake agen-
cies and pleaded guilty,
On the same charge Charles j. Ad- |
ans and his wife Jennie NJ. Adams
Of Anderson, pleaded guilty. They |
are said to have defrauded residents !
Of all parts of the country out Of !
large sums of money. Federal off, |
cials say they operate at different |
times in Anderson, Newcastle, Hunt
ngton and other Indiana cities.
AS usual. violation of liquor laws I
accounted for a majority of the de- |
fendants OF the 2S5 named in in
iictments and information, 176 were