Volume 17 , Issue 11

Terre Haute Men Convicted 1915

According to The Daily Ardmoreite dated 6 April 1915, this was the story in Indiana: "Terre Haute Men Convicted." 27 defendants, including Mayor Roberts, were found guilty with sentences next Monday. The court would pass sentence on the 27 convicted as well as the eighty-nine who entered pleas of guilty.

Indainapolis, Indiana, April 6 (1915) -- All of the twenty-seven defendants, including Mayor Roberts, in the Terre Haute election fraud cases, were found guilty by a jury in the federal court here today.

The court announced that sentences would be passed Monday on those convicted today and also on the eighty-nine who pleaded guilty.
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