SUTHERLIN, John T - Sheriff indicted - Putnam

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SUTHERLIN, John T - Sheriff indicted

Source: Martinsville, Indiana Reporter Times Sat 2 April 1949 p1

Greencastle, April 2- Th   e Putnam County Grand Jury today returned an indictment in open court accusing the county sheriff, JohN T. Sutherlin of “entering into, and carrying out a conspiracy … to violate the laws of Indiana relating to gambling.” The indictment was one of seven returned today by the Grand Jury after a two weeks’ session but only the charges against the law enforcement official were open. The open indictment named a Greencastle Liquor Store proprietor as an associate of Sheriff Sutherlin in the alleged activities. However names of the other six indicted will not be made public until after their arrest. Some of the remaining indictments are expected to relate to charges of gambling in Putnam County. Sheriff Sutherlin was ordered to appear before Judge John Allee of the Putnam County Circuit Court April 13. The indictment returned against Sheriff Sutherlin alleges he “unlawfully and designedly prostituted the office of Sheriff of Putnam County.”  It charges him “entering into and caryring out a conspiracy to violate the laws of Indiana relating to gambling and by participate in, initiating, and performing such acts with intent, design and purpose of he himself engaging unlawfully in gaming enterprises.”
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