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...week, after Lieut. Governor Van Orman had informed the portly one that he had been found innocent of high improprieties. The margin of innocence was two votes. A majority of the Senators voted guilty but two-thirds were needed to convict. The portly one was Circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth of Muncie, against whom the weekly Post-Democrat of his home town had loudly protested for alleged jury-packing and interference with freedom of the press (TIME, April...
Editor George R. Dale of the Post-Democrat fared worse. A fugitive from indictment for criminally libeling Judge Dearth, by saying that His Honor's maladministration of justice was morally responsible for a pair of murders, Editor Dale had been abiding across the state line, in Ohio. But last week his daughter fell ill. He went home, was jailed. A synopsis of future chapters in Indiana's biggest excitement in months, at the bottom of which lies war between the friends and foes of Prohibition, will doubtless include further encounters between an outrageously outspoken journalist and a spokesman...
Goaded to an extreme, Judge Dearth haled Editor Dale to his court for criminal libel. Editor Dale refused to go, left the management of his sheet in Mrs. Dale's hands and fled to Ohio. Judge...
...Dearth sentenced him for contempt of Judge Dearth's court. Editor Dale admitted his private but not his legal contempt. He escaped extradition from Ohio and appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court for freedom to return to Muncie...
...Muncie weekly continued to rub salt in His Honor's wounds. Typical salt was an inference by Editor Dale that the reason Judge Dearth's daughter ran away from home might be, not mental derangement, but moral. The girl was later found dead in a river. But Judge Dearth, irate and mortified, had meantime over-exerted his powers by arresting newsboys, confiscating their Post-Democrats and forbidding them to sell any more. The howl that Editor Dale was able to put up over this and other "Dearth scandals" persuaded the board of managers of the Indiana House...