Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1911 — NET IS TIGHTENING ABOUT GARY OFFICERS. [ARTICLE]

NET IS TIGHTENING ABOUT GARY OFFICERS.

Prosecutor Signs Affidavits —Thinks Evidence Sufficient to Convict Cduncilmen. Gary, Ind., Sept. 11.-»-“I am certain the evidence against Councilmen Walter Gibson, Dominick Szymanski, John Slemasko and Anthony Baukus, and Bolice Szymanski, son of the councilman, is dead open and shut,” said Prosecutor Charles Greenwald today, after he approved all of his affidavits. ‘‘The money with their signatures is said to be in a safety deposit box in Chicago and the name of every man who received money to be on a slip in the drawer. The records, it is said, show that at the conference in the hotel, Dean wanted to pay the money, but they thought they would not take any chances whatever.” ‘‘l think we had better go to Chicago,” suggested one. "Perfectly satisfactory to me,” Dean is said to have replied, and on Aug. 24, the. day before the franchise was passed in the council, the party is alleged to have gone to Chicago, where Mr. Dean obtained the safety deposit boxes, introducing Councilman Walter Gibson at the bank as his partner in business in Gary. <* The SSOO of each man is said to have been placed in a separate box, with a slip identifying him. The boxes are not to be opened except in the presence of both Dean and the man to whom the box was rented. It is believed, however, that an officer of the law will be in the party that observes the opening.