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Defendants to Appeal to Federal Circuit Tribunal In Chicago_ 4Two years imprisonment m the federal penitentiary and a fine of $2,000 was the punishment meted out yesterday evening by Judge Thomas W. Slick to Dr. Raleigh P. Hale andJames W. Regan, former mayor and chief of police of East Chicago, who six weeks ago wereconvicted in the federal court at Hammond with 1 3 other defendants of a charge of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act.Attorneys for Dr. Hale, Regan and four others today started to prepare appeals to the federal appellate tribunal in Chicago, the documents pertaining to which are returnable within 90 days.Some of the minor defendants •were to be transferred to the county jail today to serve lighter sentences, while others were making preparations to depart for Leavenworth prison in the custody of deputy marshals. Two defendants, both of major importance, still await their sentence.HERE ARE PENALTIES.The penalties awarded by Judge Slick upon the defendants other than Dr. Hal© and Regan were as follows:Martin Zakovich, former head of the police detective division, two years imprisonment and a $500 fine.Patsy Ramey, former detective, two years and $500.Sanford Overall, reputed negro vice chief of the Broadway district, $100 and four months.Grice Chandler, head of the Twin City vice interests among the colored people, two years and $2,000.Eldridge White, henchman of Chandler and Overall, $100 and four months.Tom Thomas, convicted bootlegger, $500 and six months.John Antonion, one time proprietor of the notorious Balkan Hotel, $1,000 and a year and a day in prison.Bertha Popp, alleged liquor dealer and the only woman defendant to be convicted, six months and $1,000.Joe D’Angelo, alleged liquor distributor, six months and $500.Tony Zaleski, prominent bootlegger, $1,000 and a year and a day.Enriqu© Orta, figure in the Indiana Harbor Mexican colony, $500 and six months.SUDOVICH sentence later.Nick Sudovich, for years considered as the king bootlegger of'v..Indiana Harbor, and at present a resident of the Michigan City state prison as a result of conviction for planning the execution of Uron Marovich, will be sentenced at a later date.Phil Cbllenger, the stoic of the conspiracy case, and alleged to be the real representative of the Al Capone mob interests in northern Indiana and a portion of the Chicago district, will be sentenced at a later date pending the completion of an investigation into his career instituted, by Judge Slick as a result of yesterday’s developments in court.Grice Chandler, kl addition to the sentence on conspiracy, pleaded guilty to another indictment charging liquor law violation under the drastic Jones law, and was sentenced to serve two years in jail. Judge Slick specified that these sentences should run consecutively and not concurrently.After a drab day, punctuated only by the ineffective arguments of counsel for new trials or for motions in arrest of judgment, the so-called drama” usually prevalent in such situations arrived with a bang which far exceeded the anticipations of the crowd of curious courtroom spectators. Somewhat in the following sequence. Judge Slick overruled all motions; delivered some enlightening comments from the bench relative to his attitude in the case; declared outright that if filed he w.ould sustain a motion for a new* trial for Collenger; passed sentence on the conspirators, and then the post-climax occurred.THEN CAME SENSATION.Grice Chandler, stunned at a four year rap, made a courtroom confession of graft payments to Collengerand under the biting cross-exmina-, .tion of Judge Slick and District Attorney Loomis, presented a plea for leniency while yet failing to tell all he knew to the court. The ghosts of past killings laid at the door of Chandler crept through the courtroom as Loomis emphasized the formidable reputation of Chandler as an assassin and dive-keeper,Collenger refused to answer, and subsequently refused to take advantage of Judge Slick’s offer to grant him a new trial, preferring- to risk his chances on an appeal.Just prior to the setting of bonds, Dr. Hale made a bitter remark which was overheard by the cOU£t,{Continued on Page Six)
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East Chicago Times
East Chicago, Indiana, US
Tue, Mar 04, 1930
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