Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-03-17 | Page 6 | Money Came Easy at Terre Haute on Election

MONEY CAME EASY AT TERRE iff HAUTE iL l r. r ON El ElECTION Officer at Polls Pinched by Sheriff and Guns Taken From Him S SLUSH SLOSH OSH FUND DETAILS Various Amounts Contributed Contributed Con Con- by Gamblers an and Saloon Men INDIANAPOLIS Ind March 17 Contributions to the so-called so slush fund and the defense In tho the present case were described b by saloon Baloon and gambling proprietors In the trial of the Terre Terro J Haute Hauto Il te election fraud ca case c today Before the tho gaming hoU o keepers keepers keep keep- ers rs were ere called died Frank T. T Drake a Progressive e election sheriff In precinct B of ot the Seventh ward waid told of his ar ar- rest at the polls b by Dennis Shea skier sher sheriff iff lit and a defendant We e c had some trouble about voUn voting foreigners testified Drake and I ob object objected objected ob- ob d' d to voting men who v did not have o their citizenship papers About 3 o'clock Shea and three others came camo to the tho polls took my m guns uns uns struck me me called me mo vile names threatened threatened m my life and locked me mf up Phillip Pop Burns Burn testified he conducted a little game same of or chance over oel a rc restaurant conducted by William Doyle Dole one of oC the tho tw twenty eight elf nt-elf ht men on trial He said Do Doyle le was his partner He said together the they gave gae for registration and for th the election and that he gave aye Eli Ell H. H Redman another another another an an- other defendant He testified Redman said he would pay it back Albert and James Shea who ho conduct the Shea Brothers saloon loon and am gambling house testified the they pail paid 00 OO for registration reg reg- on for the election and that Tames James gave vc to Mayor Don M M. Roberts for defense at the present trial Tames James also testified that he ho loaned Eli Ell H. H Redman Re man and e gave him another another an nn- other Ho said h he had ne er collected collected collected col col- col- col an any part of oC the loan On crow cros examination the defense at attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted to show that tho the OO was as given Iven b by rhea Shea hea to Roberts In behalf of oC John another defendant and anda a n law brother of or the Shea Shei brothers