The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-01
Leslie Starts
War TO Finish
ON BONDSMEN
Governor Turns Heavy Guns
on Ring at Conference
With Judges.
MOVE TO COURTHOUSE
All JuristS Eventually to
Quit Their Quarters in
Police Station.

Governor Harry G. Leslie closed
the 1929 period of his adminiStra-
ton by launching war against
professional bondsmen and shyster
lawyers.
His stand against this clique was
announced at a conference of Jndi-
annapolis municipal judges in his
office Tuesday afternoon. He called
/ the judges in to tell them that
Judge Clifton R. Cameron would be
reappointed to the municipal bench
for a four-year term, starting to-
day, and asked their cooperation in
putting down malpractice and secret
connections among police, jailers,
bondsmen and client-hunting at
torneyS.
First step was to shift jurisdiction
Of the judges. This is only in the
power Of the judges themselves I'M
der the law creating the municipal
court.
Judges Are Placed
It was decided that Cameron and
Judge Paul G. Wetter will take the
civil benches at the courthouse and
Judges Dan v. White and Thomas
E. Garvin the criminal benches at
the police station.
This arrangement is to be for the
next sixty days, when the Governor
again will confer with the judges.
In the interim, the Governor de-
clared. attempt will be made to get
the Marion county commissioners to
provide courtroomS for all municipal
judges at the courthouse, entirely
away from the police station.
Another step will be to provide
the court with bailiff, so that
judges will no longer be called out
at night to approve bonds.
The probation department, under
Scion Vial, also will be shifted away
from police headquarters.
Hits at Bondsmen
II want to break up this scandal
GUS business of the professional
bondsman," Governor Leslie declared
following the conference.
"If Marion county commissioners
will cooperate with me, as they
have assured they will, we can make
it impossible for any secret under
standing to be carried on among
turkeys, bondsmen and shyster
lawyers"
Judge Cameron is Democrat,
graduate of De Paw university and
member of the Indianapolis Bar
Association. He was appointed to
the bench by former Governor Ed
Jackson.
The Governor also announced ap-
pointments to the Chicago worlds
fair commission, battle flag COM
mission and the state board of
registration and examination OF
engineers.
George AIDE, famed author and
humorist of Brook, is chairman of
the fair commission. He Is a close
personal friend Of the Governor
since Leslie's first days at Purdue
university.
Ball on Commission
Members are Frank G. Ball,
Muncie manufacturer; e. J. Baker,
state fair board secretary; A. Muir
ray Turner, Hammond; william II.
O'Brien, Lawrencehurg; William Al
pen, Valparaiso; Charles 0. Graf
ton, Muncie; Mrs. Mary @. Burnett,
Indianapolis, and Jerry Mugiva1,
Peru.
The commission viii represent the
state at the Chicago fair and CO.
operate in worlds fair plans.
Lynn o. Knowlton of Indian
apolis was appointed to the usex-
pred term of the late Frank T.
Strayer on the Indiana battle fiag
commission.
r. v. Achatz Of Aurora and z. r.
Smith Of Indianapolis were appoint
ed to the engineering board. They
succeed Howard M. Stradling Of In
dianapolis and Harry M. Bell Of
TnpanSr0rt