Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-29 | Page 2 | Indiana Mayor Sentenced to Prison Term

MAYOR INDIANA SENTENCED TO rAISON TERM Roswell Johnson Also Is Fined 2000 in Federal I Court for Violation of Cf Liquor Laws J FORMER JUDGE TO SERVE T TIME ME I Year Imposed on Five Others Including Sheriff Sher Sher- iff Two County 1 Prosecutors tors and Attorney INDI INDIANAPOLIS Ind mci April 28 Roswell Johnson n mayor of ot Gary Ind md today was sentenced to serve one year ear and six months in prison and fined 2000 for violation of liquor r Jaws laws In the United States here Io Johnson Johnsn with four fifty other Gary residents was c convicted of conspiracy to violate the prohibition don tion laws Three of ot tho those e indicted were Vere granted new trials William H. H Dunn former city Judge of Gary was sentenced to I serve a a. year and anda n a day in prison and fined 1000 Other sentences Imposed by Judge Gelger were Dwight M. M Kinder Lake county pr prosecutor one year and one day dayan an and 1000 fine I r Clyde Hunter former Lake county prosecutor one ore year andone and andone one day and 1000 fine Blase Lucas Gary attorney one year and fine tine Lewis E. E Barnes former Lake county sheriff one year ear and one day and 10 1000 0 fi fine o e.-o I MOTIONS OF APPEAL FILED BY DEFENDANTS i a INDIANAPOLIS APOLIS April 28 Mo i Mo- Mo Uon tion of ot appeal to the federal feder l district courts courts' of V Chicago a W at today by Mayor Ro Roswell Johnson and seventeen others of ot the tho fifty fifty- two persons denied new trials and sentenced by Judge Geiger Gelger In the Calumet liquor conspiracy cases Included In those who appealed are DwIght Kinder Lake county prosecutor Clyde Hunter former Lake county prosecutor and Lewis E. E Barnes former sheriff Homer Elliott United States district district dis dis- dis- dis attorney declared the motions for appeal were made that the government government gov gov- is ready to fight the case case as long as there is a single defendant defendant defendant defend defend- ant with a show of scrap left