The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
BAKER ORDERS
AIDS NOT TO
HELP TIMES
Reporters Must Get No
Assistance in Looking
at Records.

assistance IN Looking
at Records.
Continued From Page One
Times reporters. and that he want
ed the reporter to understand that.
He made clear that his stand
would not prevent Times reporters
from looking at records, out that
the reporters would receive no as
sistance from court attaches.
A bailiff. who had been asked for
a record after Judge Baker issued
his instructors, refused to produce
IL.
Where do you find the appeal
cases?' the reporter asked.
You heard the judges instruc-
tons the baili1 responded.
Refuses to Watch Him
The reporter started looking
through the files.
L am not very familiar with
where you keep the records" the
reporter commented.
We will not be responsible for
any records that are missing, said
a bailif
The reporter asked Judge Bakers
stenOgrapher. Miss Hazel Meadows.
to watch him while he examined the
files TO find the papers.
Miss Meadows refused.
None of the reproductions Of pa
pers IN connection with the Barker
case which were printed in The
Times yesterday was obtained in
Judge Bakers court.
Attachment Found i'm Easement
During the investigation of the
case a Times reporter had asked
to see the documents in the
case. He was permitted to examine
such papers as were available. The
contempt of court attachment is
sued out Of Judge Bakers court
upon which Lee Barker was arrested
and held for 20 days was found in
the basement of the Marion County
Jail, as was the release bearing the
name Frank P Baker" and mi
tailed j. A. B"
Charles Steger. Judge Bakers
court clerk, examined the court
order book, at the request of
Times reporter. and said no orders
were entered therein directing the
arrest or release of Lee Barker.
As he emerged yesterday from a
conference with Detective Chief
Fred Simon at police headquarters,
Judge Baker was asked by another
Times reporter for details of the
conference.
You are all right and so are some
of the other boys on The Times. but
if The Times wants any news from
me, they'll have to get it from the
newspapers Judge Baker said.
Probe Fixing Charges
Meanwhile city detectives ana
Criminal Court investigators are in
veStigating charges of the payment
of money to fix the charges
against Miss PolSgrOve.
Harry E. Trimble. 421 East 9th-st,
a profession bondsman. was arrest
ed by Detectives Emmett McCor-
mick and Edward Glenn in cOnnec-
ton with the investigation of the
Polsgrove case.
Judge Baker will conduct a hear
ing Monday on the case OF Miss
POlsgrOve and Mr.. Trimble.
Mr. Trimble was taken into GUS
tody on a vagrancy charge. Miss
Polsgrove also was charged with
yagrancy.
ManSIaughter Is Charge
Miss PolSgrove was on trial on
charges of involuntary manslaughter
in connection with the fatal auto
injuries of Walter GeisendOrf on
the National road near Ben Davis
July %, 1884.
Miss Polsgrove said her sister
Mrs. Helen Ross, gave 5000 to Mr.
Trimble.
According to Miss POlSgrove, Guy
Smerage gave Mr.. Trimble $295 in
weekly payments.
Meanwhile The Times learned
that Lee P. Barker, who had been
sought by Criminal Court inveStiga-
tors for commitment under the 1926
liquor law conviction, had operated
a liquor store in the building S44
Fl Wayne-av.
Persons in the neighbOrhOOd said
his name had been painted in large
letters on the door of the store.
Further evidence indicating that
Dell Barker was in indianapolis in
1888. while Criminal Court inveSti-
gators were looking for him, was
found in Indianapolis police records.
He was complaining witness follow
ing a brawl in a rOoming house.
Municipal Judge Dewey Myers
this morning overruled an applica
ton by Lawrence A. Shaw. attorney
for Mr.. Trimble, to reduce his $4,000
bail
Il do not want my court used as
a clearing house for other peoples
troubles" Judge Myers declared,
but. in the circumstances. I will
not reduce the bail"
The case was continued until May
at the request of police.
Mr.. Shaw said the vagrancy
charge was lodged against his client
only to permit him to be ques-
toned. which, he said. had been
done by eight policemen.
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