The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-01
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lice, taken to headquarters, and then
herded in a body over to the court
before Dearth.
"He told us he was going to take
our papers away from us and that
we couldn't sell them any more and
that if he caught us selling them
he'd have us brought in again and
put on prohibation.
so then he lets us all go to the
sheriff's office and they takes our
names and we go out. 1 goes right
back to the Post-Democrat office and
gets eleven more papers. 1 lost
three the first time.
Hand on Hip
81 went out on the street and Il
big policeman-he was this Ira Pit
tenger-starts after me. And l starts
running and he chases me around
the block. Finally he yelled to me
to stop and ! saw him put his hand
back on his gun and believe me 1
stopped.
well when lie got up to me he
says to me:
YOU'D have felt funny if I'd
shot your hind end Off, wouldn't
you?'"
''And said guessed I would.
The Policeman Ashamed
"And he started to take me down.
He said: Wen go down the alley.
I'm ashamed to be seen taking you
down the street. You're kinda young
to be starting in getting taken down.
$50 he takes me back up to Judge
Dearth's court and they take my pa
pers away again. They took me into
the sheriff's Office and somebody
asked me Why didn't you run kid?'
and / says l did but when this cop
here put his hand on his gun
stopped
You're a damned little liar" the
cop said and strikes me in the face.
''Well they told me to stay around
there then and my grandfather, who
was with me. and me stayed around
lItIG III dOOul licill Nlll HULL
Finally we started to go over to
the elevator and some man, 1 don't
know who he was, started out to-
wards my grandfather and starts
an argument and finally he says to
my grandfather:
"I've had enough of your lip.
Shut up or I'll bust you one
"And my grandfather says:
Bust ahead. I've cen looking TO
get busted every time I'm in this
court
Committee Applauds
The committee, urged the boy to
tell all his story and joined specta-
tors several times in applauding him.
Once a committeeman asked him if
he had sold any more papers.
You bet" he replied, his red
hair fairly bristIing. II sold $50
papers last Saturday and 1 made a
profit of 1915"
That's 1915 more than you
made" said Representative John
Scott, Lake County, who filed the i'm
parchment charge, to Chairman j.
Glenn Harris of the committee.
Scott, who questioned the wit
nesses for the committee, elected
from Clell Maple, white-haired Nun
Gle manufacturer who is interested
in really cleaning up the city, the in
formation that Judge Dearth once
started~after the sheriff; that he said
he would get, a grand jury which
would do what he wanted done.
Maple said that the judge told him
he would have to appoint a special
prosecutor as Van Ogle, then prose
cutor, would not do the things he
wanted done. The court named viii
bur Ryman special prosecutor. Both
these men now are defending Judge
Dearth.
Fourteen counts were charged
against the sheriff by the court, but
the judge later changed his mind and
nothing ever came of them.
Prosecutor Defles Judge
Prosecutor Davis described how
Dearth came into his office Feb. Il
and asked for an affidavit charging
George Dale with criminal libel.
Il suggested 10 the judge that thai
! would be good time to talk over
some things l wanted to discuss will
him and he said I could discuss what
ever wanted to with him.
II then talked about his jury
commissioners. Once of the frs
things I ran into when became
prosecutor was this jury condition
l didn't think it was right and
told the judge so. told him plainl,
that thought his jury commission
ers were crooked. He said he didn'
! think that they were.
II said to him. They are either
crooked or you are pretty dumb.
1.-THE judge answered: I'm NJ
dumber than YOU
Crooked Commissioners
ST told him: 1 can show you tina
they have been crooked twenty-five
times since the first of this year ant
1 asked him that il 1 could prov
that would he discharge them.
He said he didn't know abou
that.
Il told him 1 would come in