Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1919 — Wets Riot at West Hammond. [ARTICLE]

Wets Riot at West Hammond.

Hammond, June 27. —Two West Hammond, 111., policemen were nearly beaten to death by riotous Indlanaians whom they had arrested. The authorities there have asked the Cook county sheriff for deputies to aid in subduing Hammond, Gary and East Chicago denizens, who have invaded the wet territory to get liquor until the country grows dry. While attempting to arrest three disorderly Hoosiers, John O’Donnell, a Gary workman, is said to have headed a crowd of millmen who .tore clubs from Officers Kulcyk and Wojowlskl, beat them into insensibility and stabbed them with knives. The millmen then escaped.