The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-24
Sentence of Councilman
Slated for Saturday by
Judge Davis.
APPEAL TO BE TAKEN
Convicted Man Free on
Bond: DOrSett Next
on Trial.

ImpeaCnemnt Oh CITY Councilman
Boynton J. Moore, found guilty
Friday afternoon by a Criminal
Court jury of soliciting and accept
ing a bribe, by the Marion County
grand jury was being considered
today.
Prosecutors said nothing will be
done until Special Judge Paul G.
Davis formally sentences Moore
next Saturday.
The conviction carried two to
fourteen years in the State prison
and a maximum fine of $1,000 and
rules that the defendant will be
"disfranchised and rendered in
capable of holding any Office of
trust or profit for any determinate
period"
Attorneys for Moore are planning
to resist custer moves on the ground
that the appeal which will be taken
to the Supreme Court stays execu-
ton Of the entire judgment.
Base Hope on Appeal
The questions that probably will
be raised in the Moore case are ex-
pected to parallel those subsequent
to the conviction of former Mayor
John l.. Duvall, when he contended
he was in office, regardless of the
conviction, because his case was
appealed to the Supreme Court.
The city council has the power
n I111flnonh h1ft
indicated no action will be taken.
Five other councilmen are under
indictment on similar charges.
Moore is at liberty today on the
bond which was in effect prior to
the trial. An appeal bond will be
set next Saturday, when sentence
is passed and other details regard
ing the appeal will be attended to.
Dorset Next on Trial
Walter r. DorSett will be the first
of the other councilman facing in
dlctment, to go to trial. His trial
is set for April in Criminal Court
the other four to follow.
The others facing trial arc Otis
E. Bartholomew, Millard w. Fergu-
son, Austin H. Todd and Claude T..
Negley. Moore also faces four other
indictments and one is pending
against Moore's real estate partner,
Martin Frankfort.
Inc sentence is mandatory upon
conviction, while the amount Of the
fine may be set by the court when
formal sentence is passed
The jurys verdict was read short
ly before o'clock Friday to p
crowded courtroom, twenty minutes
after the jury started its delibera-
tions.
Moore heard the verdict without
flinching, maintaing the immobile
expression that has marked his ap-
pearance in court throughout the
trial, which started March Is.
Sister Is at Side
At his side was his sister, Mrs. Ray
Seibert, whose husband figured
prominently in the trial testimony
as the messenger who brought $500
of the bribe money to q group Of
councilmen. A woman came to the
courtroom as the verdict was read.
She ran up to Moore and sobbed,
"Boynton, oh Boynton"
Mrs. Moore and their two chill
dren were not in the courtroom.
They had been with Moore through
out the trial until the verdict was
read. 1t was said they had started
home and could not BE summoned
in time for the formal reading Of the
verdict.
OF the three corruption probe
trials Prosecutor William H. Remy
has handled two have been verdicts
of guilty returned in a few minutes.
The other conviction was that of
Mayor John L. Duvall, whose testi-
mony aided the State in its charges
against Moore this time.
The third trial was that Of Gov
ernor Jackson, who was freed on
a technicality, by using the statute
of limitations as a defense.
The States case against Moore
was built around the charge that
l4C oNOCPOCN plOO A4OlI 0OIll q. OOI-
lins, then city purchasing agent,
last August. to influence his vote
on impeachment proceedings against
Mayor Duvall. Remy was aided by
Special Assistant Emsley w. John
son.
Moore's attorneys, Ira M. Holmes
and Henry H. Winkler, tried to
prove an alibi that Moore was out