Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 198, Hammond, Lake County, 8 February 1907 — Page 5

Friday, Feb. 8, 1007.

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Indianapolis, Feb. 8. Evidence tending to show that President A. M. Sweeney and Vic President Samuel Quinn, of the State Life Insurance com

pany, received 51:0,000 each for voting

for the purchase of a thirteen-story

oEce building in tills city several years

ago -was brought out in the investigation being conducted by the state auditor iuto the affairs of that insurance company. W. E. Mick, a real estate

agent of this city, who consummated the office building deal, gave the al

leged detalia in his testimony. Both

Sweeney and QuJnn, before adjourn

ment, arose and positively declared that the statements of Mick were false.

Organized Labor Bill Called. Indianapolis, Feb. 8. The American

Federation of Labor's child-labor bill.

the most important provision of which

was that seeking to prevent the em

ployment of children at night, , was

killed in the house. After friends of thr measure had failed to table an amendment excepting factories from the night work provision, the author.

Kleckner, of Cass county, moved to btrike out the enacting clause of his

own bill. This motion carried.

Doings of the Legislature. In the senate YVickwire's bill to make

common carriers liable for accident to employes, even if the persons Injured

were partly negligent, was defeated.

Tyndall's bill to legalize the issuance of free gravel road bonds was passed.

The house passed Farnas bill requiring

railroads to carry free 3 TO pounds of

baggage.

Smiley X. Chambers Seriously 111. Indianapolis, Feb. 8. Smiley N.

Chambers, one of the prominent attor

neys of tills city, is seriously ill at his

home, in North Alabama street, as the

result of a cerebral hemorrhage. Sev

eral physicians were called, and constant attendance was given Chambers, but his condition was pronounced very serious, and rapidly growing worse. Big Money in It for Indiana. Indianapolis, Fehv 8. The Wabash Railroad company has filed with the secretary of state in this city a certificate of increase in capital stock of the milroatl company. The increase amounts to $C.G.fi00.O0O, and consists of $."0,000,000 in common and $10,000,0730 In preferred stock, of $100 par value a share of each. The check accompanying the certificate is for $GG,-fOO.

Painted as a Base and Vile Betrayer of Innocence.

Girl of 16 Lured to Her Ituin, After Her Mother Had Been Induced to Leave Her Unguarded with a "Wolf.

New York. Feb. 8. Mrs. Harry K. Thaw has told her story. To save the life of her husband, charged with murder, she bared to the world the innermost secrets of her soul a portrayal for which a sanctuary were a more fitting place than the crowded, gaping court room. It was the same story she told Harry Thaw in Paris in 1JK)3,

when he had asked her to become his-

wife the confession of one Mho felt there was an insurmountable barrier to her ever becoming the bride of the

man she loved. In the big witness! chair she appeared, but a slip of a girl 1 and she told the pitiful story of her eventful young life in a frank, girlish way. Marvelous Display of Courage. When tears came unbidden to her ryes and slowly trickled their way down scarlet cheeks she strove in vain to keep them back. Though the lump in her throat at times seemed about to smother her she forced the words from trembling Hps, and by a marvelous display of courage, which took her willingly to her staggering ordeal, she shook off a depression which once threatened to become an absolute collapse. Y'on the Throng's Sympathy. As she unfolded the narrative of her girlhood, and told the early struggles of herself and her mother to keep body and soul together; of how gaunt poverty stood ever at the door, and how she finally was able to earn a livelihood by posing for photographers and

artists, she won the murmured sympathy of the throng which filed every available space in the big court room.

cheek a were pale at first, but mounted crimson when she was told to give all the details of her experience with the man who fell a victim to her hnsband's pistol. His whole frame shaking, Harry Thaw sat with his head buried in his hands, a handkerchief covering the

yes. Where the defendant sits he is all but shielded from the Jury. P.ent over the table as he sobbed he could not be seen at all. Thus Thaw sat for many minutes and when he finally lifted his head his even were red and swollen. Even if they could have seen the Jurors would have had no eyes for the prisoner. They were intent on the witness. Mrs. Thaw was still on the stand, her direct examination uncompleted, when the day was done. Once during the afternoon she Mas excused for an hour while Lawyer Frederick Longfellow Mas sworn to fix the date of certain letters written to him by Harry ThaM- subsequent to the revelations Mis- Nesbit had made to him in Paris. The girl had identified the writing, but tbe court held that the date must also become a matter of competent evidence.

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TELLS A G It E W SO M E STOHY

HE SLICED OFF AS EAR

Did

It with a Red-IIot Poker, and Now the Injured Man Wants $2,000 Damages.

FrankfOTt, Ind., Feb. 8. A few days ago at Mlddlefork, Joseph Whiteman and Martin V. Unger, well-known farmers, engaged in a dispute relative to what Professor Christy, of Purdue university, had said concerning the cultivation of corn. The lie was passed between the men and Whiteman seizing a red-hot stove poker struck Unger over the head, cutting off the left ear and Inflicting other painful and serious injuries. In the circuit court here Unger has filed a suit for damages against Whiteman, asking $2,000 for personal injuries. Unger wag in the hospital here for several days and filed the action In court as soon as he was able to leave the institution. Whiteman, at his trial, was fined $0 and costs for assault and battery. The men have alwavs been the best of friends.

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DfPanw Gets an Estate. Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 8. By the will of Milton Durham, a graduate of DePauw university more than half a century ago, all his estate of $00,000 wil! go to a permanent endowment fund for the current expenses of the institution on the death of his widow. He and his wife had been closely associated personally with DePauw for many years. Fair To Be Open at Night. Indianapolis, Feb. 8. If the state board of agriculture can obtain sufficient electric current from the lines of the street railway company a number of new Ideas M ill be carried out at the state fair next September. The fair will be open at night tbe horticultural, agricultural and art building? and grounds being lighted. Vandertmrg County "Dead Broke." Evansville, Ind., Feb. S. Because cf

the shortage of John Walker, until re

cently treasurer of the city of Evansville and Vanderburg county, the financial affairs of the county are at low ebb, and, in the words of one of the

county officials, "the county is dead

broke." Can Always Bnst a Will. Kokomo, Ind., Feb. S. A jury pet aside the Deffenbaugh will here on the plea of insanity brought by children not mentioned in the instrument. The testator bequeathed $40,0(30 to the Sweedenborg church. The church gave notice of aDDeal.

If True It Stamps White, as a Villain of Villains. Then came the relation of the M-reck of that girlhood at 1G years of age.

It was the story of her meeting with

Stanford White, the story of the sump

tuous studio apartment, whose dingy

exterior gave no hint of the luxurious furnishings within; of a velvet covered swing in which one could swing un

til slippered toes crashed through the paper of a Japanese parasol swung

from the ceiling, the story of a glass

of champagne, of black, whirling sen

sations, and of mirrored bed room

Mills. In short, she told all the story

"Don't scream so. It is all over. It

is all right."

"And this was Stanford White?"

The question came from Delphin M

Delmas, now conducting the defense of

Harry Thaw. "Yes, sir."

The stillness of the croM-d which was big, bustling, shoving and snarling over some especially coveted seat when

court convened, was its own tillute

to the effect of the girl's story. She told of her arrival at New York, of her

life here and eventually the acceptance by her mother of the thrice-refused invitation of a girl of the theater to meet

some of her friends at luncheon. Tha girl's mother told Evelyn's mother that they were people in New York society, and perfectly proper, else she would not have let her girl go with them. "When she came for me in the hansom," said the witness, "I remember hoping we were going to the Waldorf. I had heard so much about it and Minted so to go there. But the hansom stopped in front of a dingy looking building in West Twenty -fourth street, and I M as told to get out. Mother had dressed me. My skirts were just to my shoe-tops then." This was in August, 1901. "He was a big and fat and ugly man I remember him meeting us at the head of three flights of stairs," she continued. 'Tie gave me presents, and my mother let me go to other parties. Then he said my mother should visit some friends in Pittsburg. She said she could not leave me. lie said it would be all right; that he would look after me. Finally she went Then came an invitation to a party, but no one else w-as there' just two. 'They all seem to have turned us down', he paid. After we had dined and I wanted to go home he said I hadn't seen all of the apartment, and we w ent to the bed room with the mirrors all over the walls." THAW IS TERRIBLY MOVED

They Were Told Her by Friends ol Stanford White. The letters which eventually were

offered in evidence after much objecting by Jerome, and a flood of argu

ment by opposing counsel during the afternoon sitting of the court, are re

garded as corroborative of Mrs. Thaw's testimony, which she often declared, in response to objections offered from

time to time by the district attorney,

was a repetition of the reasons she had

given Thaw for refusing to become his

wife. The letters Mere written by ThaM- to Longfellow as his attorney. They told of his coming marriage with

Miss Nesbit and of the "row they want

to raise." Disconnected and jerky, jumping from subject to subject, they

nevertheless breathe the love he bore

the girl, and he wanted among other things that provision should be made

that in the event of his death all his

property should go to her.

The letters constantly refer to "that

blackguard who poisoned her as a

girl," and say that her name was falsely connected with two others besides

"that blackguard." In testifying Mrs.

Thaw was not allowed to state the names of certain persons, but by con

sent of counsel for the defense she gave

them In whispers to Jerome "in order," as Delmas said "that the prosecution

may have the fullest possible oppor

tunity to refute any of her statements

If he can." Mrs. ThaM'. resuming, told of how

she came back from Europe a month ahead of ThaM'. During that month friends of Stanford White had told her many stories about the young Iittsburg millionaire, and when he returned

to the United States slie refused to see him except in the presence of a third person. When he asked her why she

acted so she told " the stories. One was that Thaw had put a girl into a bath tub and turned scalding M-ater upon her. Another M as that he was addicted to the use of morphine, and a third declared that he had tied girls to bed posts and beaten them.

DRAMATIC SCENE AT PARIS

Thaw Kisses the Hem of His Sweetheart's Garment. "Tie looked very sad," she said, "and told me they had been making a fool of me. He said he understood why it was done. I afterwards got so many conflicting accounts from the persons who had told me the stories, and I heard their reputations were so bad, that I finally told Mr. Thaw I did not believe the stories. He said: 'You know I have never lied to you' and

he never has." "When I told him the story in Paris,"

she said, "he came to me and picked up the hem of my skirt and kissed it, and said he would always love me. He nearly always called me his angel. We sat together that night until daylight talking the matter over. The effect on Harry was terrible. "Stanford White sent me to school in New Jersey in October, 1902, and early in 1903 I became ill. The doctors came and said an operation was necessary. They told me I was very sick, but did not say what was the matter. Mr. Thaw came to see me, and M-as the last person, except the doctors, whom I saw before being placed under the Influence of an anaesthetic. He had been told it was dangerous for me to talk. So he came in quietly and kneeled down by the bed and kissed my hand and looked at me for a moment and went out v

"When I recovered I found he had made arrangements for my mother to take me abroad to recuperate. It was wiiile we were in Paris on this trip that he proposed to me."

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With Bow etl Head He Hear His ATife's Piteous Recital. Thus the story ran, with ju?t here !nd there an interruption by Delmas to advise the girl to fix the dates of the various happenings, and always t: tell just -what she had told Harry Thaw when he aked her to become his wife. It was through the fart that she had "told everything to Harry"

i that she was permitted under the rules 1 of law to give her story to the jury. Thaw sat pale, but brave-faced beside I his counsel when his wife took the j stand. The two exchanged glances and i the faintest of smiles played about i the firmly set lips of the girl. Her

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Mill Will Go to Michigan. LaCrosse, Wis., Feb. 8. The C. I. Colman Lumber company has sold lta mill in this city to Wickes' Bros., of Saginaw, Mich. The plant will be dismantled and moved to Michigan. This is the last of the large lumbering plants at LaCrosse. The consideration is said to have been $00,000.

Would Be Death to Tips. Washington, Feb. S. The house committee on the District of Columbia has made a favorable report on the Murphy bill, which makes it unlawful

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hotel or eating house in the District of Columbia. Wisconsin Man Nominated. Washington, Feb. 8. The president sent to the senate the noniinataioa for United States marshal for the eastern district cf Wisconsin- the name f n. A. WieU

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