The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-16

provide sufficient funds in the 1927
budget for street work. The Sin
sanitary and filthy condition of the
city market also is cited.
Absence of Buser from his Office
for 'long periods" in which he is
promoting the business of said
newspaper; acceptance of bid for
the repairing instead Of rebuilding
of the Morris st. bridge; failure of
the mayor and others to account
for the monies Of a certain police
and firemens pension fund placed
in their hands; payments of sala-
ries by Buser beyond the sum which
the budget allows for, also are
charged.
The eighth section of the charges
cites several alleged unlawful acts.
Where Police Are
It charges that Duvall unlawful
ly employs Detective Arthur Reeves
as his chauffeur and Police Lieu
tenant Arthur Magee as a messen-
ger and Office man, and unlawfully
uses for private purposes one or
more of the city automobiles.
1t alleges that Duvall permitted
and approved installation of a rail-
road switch to the Van Ness Com
pauy plant, $40 Dorman ST., with
out consent of council; unlawfully
ordered city employees to vote for
certain candidates at the 1926 cleo
ton; discharged and caused to re-
sign Frank Lingenfelter as city en-
gineer when Lingenfelter insisted
on accepting the lowest bid for the
Pleasant Run interceptor sewer in
stead of a higher bid, and signed
the segregation ordinance to ad-
vance his political ends when he
knew and had been advised it was
unconstitutional.
1t charges that within the last
three weeks, Duvall, upon hearing
certain councilmen were preparing
impeachment proceedings, attempt
ed to intimidate the councilmen to
drop them by threatening to dis
charge certain friends of the coun-
cilmen holding city positions.
Fuckers Suit Involved
The ninth charge involves for.
Iner Corporation Counsel Alvah j.
Fuckers suit to collect 100000
Barrett law fund interest from for
mer city treasurers. Of this the
suit sought $1500,000, more or less,
from Duvall, the section states.
1t charges that Duvall forced
Rucker to resign in order to pre-
vent successful prosecution of the
suit and failed to cause the sue
ceeding corporation counsel to
prosecute the suit in an effort to
hinder the plaintiffs, one of which
was Councilman Edgar Raub, from
carrying the suit forward
The tenth allegation is that Bu-
Ser, required by law to report to
council whether or not the city
treasurer has accounted for all city
sums received, failed to report that
the treasurer had been keeping
Barrett law fund interest for his
personal use.
Barrett Law Fund
The eleventh charge also bears on
the Barrett law fund interest situ-
alton charging Buser has failed to
keep account of the Barrett law fund
interest received by the treasurer.
This, it charges, has lost the city
$4,000. Buser's purpose, 1t says,
was to keep secret the amount of in
terest alleged to have been pocketed
by Duvall when he was treasurer in
1924 and 1925.
The twelfth count alleges that
Buser has failed to purchase new
public improvement bonds to offset
the interest on old bonds and that
therefore the city has lost large
sums of interest.
The thirteenth goes into the mer-
ger of the Merchants Heat and Light
Company and the Indianapolis
Light and Heat Company into the
Indianapolis Power and Light Com
pany.
Rucker was discharged as corpora
ton counsel just in time to prevent
him from filing q suit to enjoin the
public service commission from au-
thorizing the merger with issuance
of $48,000,000 worth of securities,
$30,000,000 more than was represent
ed by the value of the light COM
panies, it charges.
The fourteenth and last count
charges:
That Duvall and Buser conspired