The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
SEVENTY GIVEN
PRISON TERMS
IN U. S. COURT
Majority of 265 Before
Judge BaItzeII Charged
With Booze 0ffenSeS.

Swinging through a record break
ing federal court arraignment in six
hours, Judge Robert c. Baltzell
Thursday sentenced seventy Of 265
persons who faced him on federal
grand jury charges, ma jority Ct
them booze law counts.
Headlining the arraignment list
came the alleged Muncie liquor con-
spiracy, involving Mayor George r.
Dale and Police Chief Frank F.
Massey.
Ten of the thirteen defendants in
the Muncic case offered pleas of not
guilty, one pleading guilty, and one
man being fugitive One defend
ant, Fred Kubeck, was too i'll TO
appear.
Not guilty pleas were made by
Dale, Massey, Dan Davis, Fred Ellis,
Ernest Flatters, Kenneth Horstman
Raymond Hoover, Harry Nelson,
Albert Parkhurst and Ray Powell.
The fugitive is Chauncey Stilson,
alleged red light car" of Muncie,
who Is believed to have left tbs
midwest.
The guilty plea was entered by
Corbett Johnson, who, supporters
Of Dale claim, is a government
plant is the case.
Melletfs Name Disclosed
Second in Importance to the
Muncie case was the alleged An
derson liquor conspiracy case. in
volVing twenty EIGHT men, AS the
arraignment list was read, the name
Of Mayor Jesse H. Mellett of An
derson was revealed as one of the
accused conspirators. Mellett is
seriously i'll in the Methodist hos
pital and has not been informed of
his indictment.
Not guilty pleas in the Anderson
case we're made by Albert Abel,
Edna Boyer, Earl Hoel, Louis La
velle, Ulysses Grant Lawson, John
owens. Ora Raines, Ralph Rich,
Alvin Riggs, Anderson police chief;
Raymond Ross, John Stinson, Rex
Whitehead and Otto Whitehead.
Guilty pleas we're made by John
Bronnenberg. Joe Galassi, Blake
Gwynn. Roscoe Hartman, Lew
Lewellyn, Joe Melcher Jr., Closer
Riggsby, Russell Riggsby, Bert Stin-
son and Robert Thrawley.
Date for the Anderson trial was
set for May II by Baltzell, and for
the Muncie trial May 16.
City Leggers Admit Guilt
One of the features of the ar
raignment came late Thursday as
Baltzell was sentencing Indianap-
oils persons who had pleaded guilty
TO liquor violations.
Russell Hyatt and Lester Holmes,
alleged west side hoodlums, were
arraigned and pleaded guilty to
liquor transportation.
These men," charged George r.
Jeffrey, United States district at
torney, were caught by city police
with seventeen cases of Log Cabin
whisky in their car, 204 pints They
we're pinched after a two-mile chase.
When the police got them, Hyatt
had a As pistol and Holmes was
holding a rifle in his hand.
THE case was brought up in
municipal court with these men
charged With almost everything.
One by one all the charges were dis
missed but the one for reckless driv-
ing. Then the police handed the
case over to the government"
Draw Three-Year Terms
You are bootleggers," Baltzen
charged. while sometimes l can
forgive a bootlegger, 1 can't forgive
any man with a gun. You had
those guns to kill anybody who in
terfered with you. Three years
each in the Leavenworth peniten-
tiary."
The four men indicted in the al
legged Antlers Towne Club nuisance
case, Robert Griffith, Lloyd Tur-
pin, William VIM and William
Potter, all pleaded not guilty and
trial was set for May 8.
John j. Mcnamara. once in
volved in the Los Angeles Times
bombing case, moved to suppress
evidence. He is charged with OPP
Grating a still at his home in Fort
vile. Baltzell set trial for March 26,
Guilty Pleas Bring Term
Persons from the Indianapolis di-
vision pleading guilty to booze
charges and their sentences:
James c. Christian. sixty days; Elwood
Taylor. Negro, one day: Sebastian Pala-
mara. year and a day; Donald Brown.
six months. suspended; Thomas Coger
Negro. six months: Thomas Tsitscoff
thirty days Arthur McDermott, four
months; Henry Genoia thirty DAYS:
Charles Frank. six months; Walter Ed
dingtou. six months. suspended Ralph j.
Collier. ninety DAYS Nicholas Charles four
months; Arthur Skidmore, fifteen months:
Ralph Metzger. two years; Basil Corrie six
months. suSpended James H. Lester. two
wears; John G. Farley and Homer S. TiSon
six months suspended and Gene Hinton.
six months.
Freeman Wright was sentenced for
three years on q narcotic charge.
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