The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-05

Pleaded Guilty
Both youths pleaded guilty, Pra-
ter to manslaughter and Cottle TO
being an accessory before the fact.
Judge Collins joined Remy in in.
dieting Indianapolis police for lax
law enforcement.
"If little effort used by police
booze squads in raiding the pri'
waite homes Of innocent individuals
had been put into cleaning up pool
rooms Indianapolis would be better
off today" Judge Collins declared.
Remy orally revealed the con-
tents of statements made TO him
by both Prater and Cottle concern
ing conditions in Indianapolis pool
rooms.
"Prater and Cotter both learned
to drink and gamble and were
started in their career in the pool
ROOM" Remy said. my belief is
that these boys were started on the
wrong track by associating with
men of criminal stamp. Cottle, who
was only Is, at the time of his ars
rest, was able to buy whisky with
out difficulty"
"POOlroOms are a breeding
place for crime, there is no doubt
about it. While kelley pool is be-
ing played and gambling dens are
flourishing above, district patrol
men enter these places, grab their
tobacco and cigarets and leave
without making any arrests or
investigating"
This is some indictment of law
enforcement" Judge Collins said.
I'm view of the statement by Cottle
and the contributing circumstances
1 believe that justice will be served
if. he is sentenced to twelve months
on the Indiana State Farm"
Good Exercise
The judge said he believed exer-
else Cottle would get on the Farm
would do his muscles good after be-
ing penned up in Jail for eleven
months.
when the Legislature twenty
two years ago created the Juvenile
Court of Marion County, first of it's
kind in the world, everyone thought
that youthful crime would be curbed,
but today young criminals between
the ages of 16 and 81 are being
brought into Criminal Court faster
than at any other time in the city's
history" Collins said. "In the last
four years 233 boys between 16 and
81 have Leen sentenced in Criminal
Court to the Indiana State Re
formatory and 200 have been
sentenced to the Indiana State
Farm.
Cottle's parents, who live in Dan
vile, ILL.,, were in court. Cottle lives
with his brother on Deloss st. Mrs
Cottle cried when Remy pictured her
sons brief career in crime.
COttle admitted he had been
drinking shortly before the hold
up. He said he was block away
when Prater fired the shot that
killed Van Devere.
IT was scared" Cottle said. He
admitted that they had planned tC
hold-up the street car and that
Prater had a gun.
= Other Charges
Both youths still have charges OF
robbery pending against them.
Police Chief Herman f. Rikhofi
declared he thought Prosecutor
Remy was wrong in blaming the
police department solely for pool
room conditions.
THE parents are to blame. When
I was a boy was not allowed tc
loaf around pool rooms. You cant
expect the police to bring up other
peoples children" he stated.
Rikhoff said that there was a
standing order for police to watcf
poolrooms for loafers and for minors
He declared district police have toe
much territory to cover. and as &
result cannot watch poolrooms per
haps as closely as they should. He
said with the new forty-eight police
men the city the first of the year
probably would be redistricted into
smaller territories.
Rikhoff said, however, he would
notify his men at the roll call con
corning Remy's scathing denunci
alton and order them to watch pool
rooms closer.
Investigate Attacks
Meanwhile, additional charges
were faced by police.
Claude NJ. Worley, Criminal Court
investigator, on orders Of Remy, was
investigating conduct Of certain pc
licemen for alleged attacks made or
persons they have arrested.
Remy said he had many com
plants. City Judge Dan V. White
Friday continued the case of a
young man who said officers who
arrested him on improper driving
charges, struck him several times
without cause or reason.
The young man said he thought
the officers were drunk. Remy de.
clared several times officers ap-
peared before him in Criminal Court
with liquor on their breathr.