Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1911 — GRAFT INDICTMENTS. [ARTICLE]

GRAFT INDICTMENTS.

East Chicago Mayor and Others Under Charges of Vice Protection. The Lake Superior court grand jury returned 30 indictments Friday, after an investigation lasting four weeks into the charges of graft and corruption in East Chicago and Indiana Harbor. • Among the bills are ones against Mayor A. G. Schlieker, of East Chicago; Albert Lewis, his chief of police; Walter Spencer, city clerk of East Chicago, and Julius Friedman, alleged graft collector, who is said to have stood at the head of the combine -which issued protective vice tariff. The indictments are the sensation of the hour in Lake county. It is charged that $25,000 a year has been levied on resorts and gamblers for immunity from arrest.Mayor Schleiker and Geo. F. Meyers of Rensselaer are the only republican mayors in the Tenth district. . - '