The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-24
WITNESSES TELL
OF Jury TANG[E
IN MUNC|E COURT
Prospective Members Called
by Phone, Deputy Sheriff
Says.

Jury lists identified as being IN
the hand writing of Judge Clarence
w. Dearth of the Delaware CIRCUIT
Court; women jurors in a liquor case
all of whom were members OF Inc
VIZ. G. =, u. and the Anti-Saioon
League; jurors summoned by tele-
phone with approval of Dearth, VINO
stated it was legal according to ao-
vices of Anti-Saloon League Attor'
nev E. A. Miles and map showing
the tWenty-foot lot the judge deedeo
his Jury commissioner, Jacob CaVa-
naugh. making him freeholder, were
the highlights of the testimony IN the
Dearth impeachment case in the IN
diana Senate Wednesday afternoon.
Deputy Sheriff Thomas Enloe was
the principal witness to these 1acts.
His testimony was offered by the
State to prove that Dearth illegally
controlled selection of jury members.
Questioned by Representative Har-
rison. EnIoe told of summoning nu-
merous jurors over the phone from
lists in the sheriff's office and also
of taking names out of the telephone
directory. The lists consisted most
w of women, he testified.
GLOW many such name lists was
there in the office?" Harrison asked.
Twelve or fourteen" said Enloe.
Two other deputies made calls
also, he said. :,
He then testified that he asked
. Judge Dearth while on the bench re-
garding the ACCESSIBILITY of phoning
for jurors.
tits all right" the judge said. Mr..
Miles of the Anti-saloon League told
me that it was legal" Enloe eX-
planned.
Ordered Some
He also testified that Dearth or
dered he and Clark to summon VIII
bur Norris and Roe Dorton as Ju-
rors, and that he heard the judge
tell the sheriff to always send Clark
cut with the summons.
Clark was fired from the sheriff's
force a week or two ago, he de-
clared. The jury lists and other
testimony was regarding facts that
occurred in 1926, None have been
phoned for lately, according to En-
loe.
Telephone for Jurors
EnIoe told the senator's that the
Jury list system of summoning by
telephone was in use for only about
three months after he came on the
force in January, 1926. Asked by SEN
ator Carl NJ. Gray Oem), Peters
burg, why change was made he
said:
'WeIl, we quit using the lists when
we realized what was going on"
1t developed through later ques-
tioning by Senator Anderson Ket-
chum Dem.), Greensburg, that real
izasion came when they found that
bill of the women called for the jury
in liquor case belonged to the w.
C. T. u, and the Anti-Saloon League.
w. C. r. us Prominent
attorney Thomas Miller was de-
Tending in the liquor case and when
he asked if any of the twelve of fiji
teen women drawn for the jury be-
longed to the Womens' Christian
Temperance Union Of the Anti,
Saloon League they all admitted that
they did," Enloe explained. Miller
was angry and it really didn't look
just right to me either"
'.Hew soon after this event did you
discontinue to use the jury list?"
he was asked.
Immediately" came the prompt
reply.
After that the judge 'bawled us
out" several times because he didn't
approve of the jurors being brought
in under the new system, Enloe con-
tinued. The system, he explained,
was to go down and summon per-
sons off the street for the petit jury.
Complaint was general and not
direct at any particular juror, he de-
clared.,
ibid the judge seem to favor any
particular law?" Ketchum inquired.
"Well, no. but he did seem to be
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