Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 273, Hammond, Lake County, 7 May 1908 — Page 3

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Thursday, May 7, 1908. Curious Crowds Watcking Digging for tlie Dead on the Gunness Farm.

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CALENDAR OF SPORTS FOR THE "WEEK. &

THURSDAY. Xevr York State baseball league opens Its season. AVleonln State league opens Its season. Olympic swimming trials Canada at Montreal. for FRIDAY. Interstate athletic field iioton Ronee, 1-a. meet (Two - days). SATURDAY. Pacific coast Olympic trials a: Berkley Oval, California. Jack (Twin- Sullivan vs. Stanley Ketchei, 35 rounds at Colma, Cal. Intercollegiate shooting cliam- v pionships at Boston. Illinois-Wisconsin dual track meet at Madison, Wis. Iloat race of Columbia university and aval academy at Annapolis. Tri-State luterscholastic athletic meet at Keoknk, la. Interscholastic tennis championships at Princeton university. Pennsylvania - Cornell dual track meet at Philadelphia. Pennsylvania-Princeton baseball game at Philadelphia. Cornell-Harvard baseball game 4 at Ithaca, X. Y. jiay Stanley Ketchei vs. Jack "Twin" Sullivan, 33 rounds at San Francisco. May 12 Kid Farmer Vs. Jack Morgan, 10 rounds at Peoria. May 12 Al Kauffman vs. Joe Grim, 6 rounds at Oakland. May 12 Aarella Herrera vs. Willie Fitigerald, 12 rounds at Boston. May 14 Joe Gans vs. Rudolph Unholz, 20 rounds at San Francisco. May 19 Sam I.angford vs. Joe Jeanette, 12 rounds at Boston. Iny 30 Freddie Welsh vs. Phil Brock, 20 rounds at Los Angeles. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Pet. .733 .693 .588 .556 .471 .417 .389 .187 A3IERICAX LEAGUE. W. L Pet. .632 .600 .588 .556 .500 .421 .353 .333 Philadelphia Cleveland .. New York . St. Louis.. ( htcago Boston Washington .Detroit 12 7 6 7 8 8 11 11 10 . 9 .10 .10 . 8 . 8 . 6 . 5 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. Pet. .722 .632 .632 .625 .600 .353 .263 .157 Indianapolis Columbus . . Milwaukee Toledo .... . Louisville Kansas City St. Paul . . . Minneapolis 13 12 12 10 12 6 . . . . 5 3 I I 6 8 11 14 15 CENTRAL LEAGUE. AV. L Pet. .875 .778 .667 .556 .455 .364 .125 .125 Fort Wayne . Dayton Grand Rapids South Bend . ... 7 7 8 5 6 1 2 4 4 6 7 7 7 vansville Terre Haute 4 Zanesville 1 Wheeling 1 THREE "I" LEAGUE. V. L Pet. 1,000 .750 .750 .600 .500 .250 .250 .000 Decatur 2 Peoria 3 Rock Island 3 Cedar Rapids 2 Dubuque 2 Clinton 1 Bloomington 1 tpringfleld 0 0 1 1 2 2 3 3 2 RESULTS YESTERDAY. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Pittsburg, 5; Chicago. 2. All other games postponed. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Boston, 4; New York, 0. All other games postponed. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Minneapolis, 1; Louisville, 0 (twelve Innings). - St. Paul, 4; Indianapolis, 7. Milwaukee, 3; Toledo, 1. Kansas City-Columbus, rain. THREE "I" LEAGUE. All games postponed; rain. CENTRAL LEAGUE. Dayton, 10; Wheeling, 0. South Bend, 4; Terre Haute, 3. Fort Wayne, 1; Evansville, 0. Grand Rapids-Zanesville, rain. ; CUBS NOT GOOD "MUDDERS." Pittsburg, Pa., May 6. The Pirates were the best mud horses this after noon and easily galloped away with a 5 to 2 victory over the Cubs. Lundgren was In the saddle and the poor race was due to his bad ride. If there could be anything wilder than Lundgren, no one knows where it could be. He made a March hare look like a professor of economics. He gave seven bases on balls, anL added to this, when hits were needed the Buc caneer oaismen tooK to him like a "co-ed" takes to Browning. NAPS PICK UP AND GO. The Cleveland ball players left Chi cago yesterday afternoon for Detroit two hours and a half before they were carded to meet the White Sox on the South Side grounds. Of course, the game was called off for the same old story rain, wet grounds and cold President Comiskey notified Manager Lajoie at 11:30 o'clock that there would be no game, and the Naps packed up and hiked for Detroit, where they will play a postponed game with the Tigers today. ARCHERS WILL OPEN. SEASON Chicago archers will hold their first weekly contest of the season,' if the weather permits, at the Washington iark range next Saturday afternoon.

W. L. Chicago 11- 4 Pittsburg 9 4 New York 10 7 Boston 10 8 Philadelphia 8 9 Cincinnati 5 7 Brooklyn 7 11 St. Louis 3 13

The men will shoot at the American round and the women at the Columbia range. The contests end thel ast Saturday in October. Dr. Edward B. Weston of this city is president of the National Archery association with which the local marksmen are affiliated. MISCELLANEOUS BALL GAMES. At Princeton, N. J. Princeton, 16; Syracuse, 1. At Iowa City, Iowa Nebraska, 5; Iowa, 2. . , At Shenandoah, Iowa Nebraska Indians, 8; Shenandoah, 1. At Knoxville, Tenn. Tennessee, 12; Cumberland, 8. At Hanover, N. H. Holy Cross, 4; Dartmouth, 0. At Amherst, Mass. Amherst, 5; Lafayette, 2. At Providence, R. I. Yale, 2; Brown,

one. At Lewiston, Me. University of Maine, 4; Bates, 2. At Brunswick, Mo. Bowdoin, 5; Colby, 3. At Andover, Mass. Harvard, 1911, 2; Phillips Andover, (called in twelfth on account of darkness).

tiPACKIE SIGNS WITH NELSON.

Milwaukee, Wis., May 6. While in the city today for the Neil-Wolgast battle Packie McFarland of Chicago signed articles to meet Battling Nelson in a ten round contest before the Badger Athletic club on May 22 or 25. Nelson has already given his promise to sign, so it now only remains for the principals to post their forfeits. The weight Is set for 133 pounds at 3 o'clock. UNHOLZ PLANS FOR THE FUTURE That Rudolph Unholz is leaving no stone unturned in preparation for his twenty round battle May 14 with Joe Gans at San Francisco for the lightweight championship Is evident from the tone of a letter written a Chicago man by the battling Boer. Rudy is determined to be in the "pink" for this mill and is confident of his ability to wrest the crown from the Baltimore veteran. Unholz has already mapped out his plans for the future, and victory over Gans means a round of easy money with 'travel in Europe and bunches of profitable theatrical engagements for the rugged little Teuton. FRANZIE NELL BEATEN. Milwaukee, May 6. Ad Wolgast received the verdict over Frankie Nell in their bout here tonight after ten rounds of fast fighting. Neil strove desperately to hold off his opponent, but could not stand the rushing and swinging tactics of Wolgast. The latter fought hard from the tap of the gong and Neil at se- iral stages seemed in danger. A big crowd attended fronv Chicago. Wolgast was favorite in the betting and received considerable play. Neil was decidedly shaky at the close. CLUBMEN APPLAUD GLOVE BOUT. Joe Choynskl and Mike Memsic, a brother of the lightweight who fights as George Memsic, and Jimmy Burns, gave a fast three round sparring exhibition in the windup of the enter tainment at the Illinois Athletic club gymnasium. The bout was friendly throughout and made a hit with the members. LIGHTB0DY OUT OF DUAL MEET. James Lightbody, the maroon long distance runner, will not compete in the dual track meet between the University of Chicago and the C. A. A. Saturday at Marshall field. The former champion, who has been ineligible for intercollegiate competition for the past two years, was expected to take part in the noncollegiate event, but the university faculty yesterday ruled that he would be ineligible for the meet, as he is still down in his studies. EDWARDS' HORSE BEATEN. London, May 6. Derby "form" sus tained a severe shock today, when August Belmont's cost, Norman III. won the classic Two Thousand Guineas stake at Newmarket, with Perrier, the king's horse and choice in the Derby, hopelessly In the rear. Sir Archibald and White Eagle, who have held the post favorites in England's turf classic at various times throughout the win ter, were respictively second and third. WHITING TEAM GETS GAMES. The M. A. A. baseball team of Whiting will play the Methodist team at Englewood Saturday afternoon at Englewood. This team is the class of Rev. Jesse Hickman's, who was formerly pastor at Whiting. STANDARDS WANT GAMES. Whiting, Ind., May 7. Sporting Editor, Times: The Standards of Whiting have organized for the season and would like to arrange games with all teams averaging from 18 to 20 years of age. The Standards are one of the fastest semi-pro teams around Chicago. The lineup i3 as follows: W. Langohr, If; F. Crohen, ss; J. Kinaan, 1st base; Mr. Blastic, pitcher; J. Farley, 2b; E. Bailey, cf; C. Moore, rf; F. Ryan, 3b; A. Scott, mascot. For games address J. P. Parker, Whiting, Ind. WISCONSIN LEAGUE PLAYS BALL. Freeport, 111., May 7. The Wisconsin league, one of the strongest of the minor baseball organizations in this part of the country, started its playing season today with Fond du Lac at La Crosse, Wausau at Rockford, Osh kosh at Madison, and. Green Bay at Freeport. Cruelty and Fear. Cruelty and fear shake hands to gether. Balzac -r

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je --Y f I2rf QutiiJedkel&drnM LA PORTE HORROR MYSTERY DEEPENS. (Continued 'from page one.) and wept like a child.- His older daughter tried to console him. Coroner Mack advised that Miss Olson's sister should see the body later after it is placed in a coffin.. Arrangements for an inquest unon the body of Jennie Olson will be made at once by the coroner and the father will then arrange for the burial. A telephonic inquiry at Highlands that Olson has been living on a small farm east of Highlands for some time. Recently he secured a position in Chicago and left the farm every Monday morning to go to work, returning Saturday night. Olson has four children and the neighbors report that he lost one some time during the winter. No one seemed to know of the recent death of his daughter Jennie in LaPorte or of the discovery and identification of her body in the Gunness house of death. The latest sensation which has developed as a result of the investigation that is being carried on by Sheriff Smutzer was the discovery of four more bodies which were dug up in shallow graves at the Gunness farm house yesterday. The terrible total now reaches thirteen and the people of LaPorte and in fact the entire country stand aghast as the fearful crimes of Mrs. Gunness are revealed and the mystery of the many murders becomes even more difficult of solution. The. day's developments pointed to the conclusion that Mrs. Gunness ran a fence of clearing house for corpses for a band of Chicago criminals organized into a murder trust. Trunk From Chicago. , This belief is supported by evidence that many heavy trunks, some idon bound and others tightly corded, were shipped to Mrs. Gunness from Chicago. Nine of these mysterious trunks i reached her farm house in 1906. Invariably she had them carried to her home by night. Once an expressman started to remove tne ropes rrom a trunk. Mrs. Gunness became . excited, shoved him away and told him to mind his own business. She never permitted ..the expressmen to carry the trunks into the house. They left them on the porch. Several days after the arrival, the trunks were given to Joseph Maxson, a hired man, to chop Into kindling. He declared all the trunks were stained Inside. He knows now these stains were blood. Mayor Lemuel Rarrow of La Porte declared today he had received secret evidence that Mrs. Gunness in disposing of bodies was acting as the agent for a Chicago matrimonial bureau. Mrs. Gunness is known to have advertised constantly in papers at a distance for a wealthy husband. ; Chief Schuettler telegraphed that he has put his best detectives to work upon the Chicago end of the mystery. He has decided to dig up the cellar of 620 Alma street, the house in which Mrs. Gunness lived with her first husband, Mads Sorenson. Cement Floor to be Removed. The floor of this basement, according to advices from Chicago, was of cement, but was wavy and broken, as if it had been tampered with. The police thing the murderess may have buried her earliest victims here. Sheriff Albert Smutzer said he believed at least twenty-five bodies would be unearthed on the Gunness premises before the investigation ended. He kept a force of laborers all day digging up the garden and yard. The cement floor of the cellar of the wrecked house also will be dug Up. This floor was put In by Mrs. Gunness two years ago. It is believed it was intended to seal finally many tragic secrets. Bluebeard Hall Bared. The delvers among the ruins of the Gunness home today bared the room in which the murderess Is believed to have cut up the bodies, of her victims. It has been named the "chamber of horrors" and "Bluebeard hall." It is a basement room with cement floor, windowless, and with only one door opening at the top of a narrow stairway, the secrecy of this underground chamber, the woman, it is believed, worked, by lamplight at her ghoulish task of. sawing up and dismembering the corpses of those she had murdered. That Mrs. Gunness has not fled and

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that the body found in the fire with her three children was her own, is the belief of Coroner Mack and Prosecuting Attorney Smith tonight. Though they had some doubt before, the story told by Joseph Maxon regarding the receipt of a letter by Mrs. Gunness the Monday before the fire indicates that the modern Lucretia Borgia was driven desperate and hopeless by the fear that her murderous rec ord was to be exposed. Mystery Grows Deeper. To attempt to weave into one fact all the threads and theories " of LaPorte's multi-murder mystery, would at this time be trying for the impossible. Sheriff Alfred Smutzer, who must lead in the efforts to solve the problems surrounding the destroyed "house of horrors," sees no rift in the clouds, although he and Prosecutor Smith have worked almost incessantly for thirty-six hours to find one single "if" or "and" that would throw light on the deepest mystery northern Indiana has known. La Porte is filled with newspaper men and private detectives, each striving for a line on the solution of the problems. Nephew Talks of Woman. John. Larson, of 992 Francisco avenue, Chicago, told today of the life of Mrs. Gunness, his aunt. "My aunt was born in Trondhjem, Norway, where she still has a sister and brother living. Her maiden name was Belle Paulsen. She was foriyeight years old and came to this country twenty-six years ago. My mother is her sister. "My aunt had a weakness for adopt ing children. She was a queer woman and there was estrangement in the family with her for about fifteen years. When first she met people she was cordial. Later she would appear indifferent to them. She was married at the age of twenty-four to Max Sorensen. He died suddenly after eating supper, His wife found him dead in a room upstairs. This was in Austin, Ill.. There were rumors that Sorensen was poisoned. I understand the body was exhumed, but nothing was done otherwise. Maxon Tells Story. "I was sent to the postoffice by Mrs. Gunness on the Monday before the fire," said Maxon. "That is the only time I was ever sent there for the mail. I got several letters. I took them out to the place and gave them to Mrs. Gunness. She opened one of them and a look of terror spread over her face when she read it. She muttered something about a man coming to investigate the disappearance of his brother. She grew hysterical and I heard her say: "They are coming here to look for Halgelein. They are going to find out what became of him." "All that day she was in a state of nervous frenzy and the result was the fire which destroyed her home and burned up herself and her children." NEW CASES FILED IN CIRCUIT COURT . Crown Point, Ind., May 7. (Special.) The following new cases have been filed in the Lake circuit court: 7972. Henry A. Paine vs. F. M. Savage, whose true Christian name is unknown. Attachment. 7973. Wilbur Ritchey vs. Anton H. Tpper, William C. Harrington and Stephen F. Parker, doing business under the firm name and style of Harrington & Parker. Civil. 7974. Henry B. "Downey vs. John Peterson. Civil. t Figures on University Attendance. In Germany one man In 213 goes to a university, in Scotland one in 520, in the United States one in 2,000 and in England one in 5,000.

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i-U. 4 A FIERCE STORM SWEEPS REGION Northeaster Fastens Cities - of Calumet District in GraspOUTDOOR WORK IS SUSPENDED No Prospect in Sight for Fair Spring Weather, Says the Ice Man. WEATHER FOR FRIDAY. Partly cloudy tonight with possibly light frost. Northeant winds. Continued cool. Wrapped in sheets of flying rain that cut like knives, the Calumet region lay prostrate today at-the mercy of a savage northeaster. It is surprising that the Flying Rollers, or some other religious fanatics do not begin the building of an ark to save the unbelieving many In Hammond and sister cities from the forty days and forty nights downpour of rain. Fierce Weather For May. Ever since the news of the disaster caused by hurricanes in the south was published broadcast over the land, the weather has ' been stormy. It has rained almost continually and at time the winds have been so high that considerable damage has been done. The weather man promises bad weather for "tomorrow but the people of this locality have come to regard the prophesies of the head of the meteorological department In Chicago : as of rather doubtful reliability. The prospects are that stormy weather will continue today indefinite ly, if the weather eye counts for anything, and it will be some time before the people of Hammond and the Calumet region will not get another sight of old Sol. Farmers and fruit men are on the anxious seat lest a heavy frost follow the rain. Spring Floods and Freshets. There has been a heavier precipitation so far this year than at this time last year and some of the Indiana river cities are again experiencing trouble with spring floods and freshets. So far : there have been no serious frosts and the rain is not believed to have caused any damage to the crops. The continued wet and cloudy weather has prevented the cold from affecting the vegetation and there are indications of good crops. Pedestrianism was almost impossible today and woe be to the unfortunate unfortunate member of the fair sex who had to venture out. Great .damage was done to wires all over the region, the electric light wires suffering the worst. Business out doors and building was at a standstill and the wise man stayed Inside today. Opportunity Always with Us. Higher things remain to be done than have yet been accomplished. God and his universe still wait upon each individual soul, offering opportunity. Bishop Spalding.

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Ml lEBMi RENTS GEH'L OFFICE Will Occupy Store Room in Brennan Block Early Next Week. The Gary and Interurban have leased the store room in the Brennen block and will occupy it early next week. The room will h Rri fnr th. oi f tickets, as a waiting room and as the office of the general superintendent of the line. W. C. Phillips. It Is thought that they will make this place the gen- j eral offices of the line for the present at least.

The action of the company In renting UP to the necessity in the situation and the building at the present time re- an appreciation of their importance. H moves all doubt that they Intend to op- thought it urgent that congress be eserate cars within a week. The author- Pecially petitioned to set aside a standities say that the cars will be tried out in5 appropriation for the improvement on the line this week but will probably of rivers and natural waterways,' so not be in operation before Monday. The tnat when improvements were made cars were due to arrive in the city thisitney could be arrived at without so

morning and may be run this afternoon. Tickets 8 for 25 Centa. Tickets can be purchased for transportation at the office of the company at the rate of eight for 25 cents which is slightly over 3 cents apice. In time to come the room in the Brennen block will also be used as a waiting room but will not be necessary at the present time. The remainder of the store, formerly occupied by Stanley Sulentlch, the foreigner who is now in jail at Crown Point, will be used as an agency In various lines for foreigners by the local groceryman, M. M. Duchlch, who expects to take advantage of the opportunities thrown away by Salentlch. The section of the store to be occupied by the Gary and Interurban was formerly used by Judge A. C. 'Huber, who is now selling out his store and newspaper business and will move to his new quarters In the Goodman block, corner Seventh and Massachusetts streets Monday. In his new location he will confine his business to justice work. First Requisite. It is Hxe gentle mind that makes the gentleman. French Proverb.

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