Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 287, Hammond, Lake County, 22 May 1908 — Page 5

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Friday May 22, 1908.

m cormiiuE to BE REPORTED MISSING Scores of New People Query

LaPorte People Abou

Vs Missing.

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EXPECT MiRAGULOUS RESULTS

Work Will Be Kesaiaed on the Digging Today at the Murder Farm.

Scores of people an over tTie United

States are endeavoring to trace rela

tlves and friends who have disappeared

to the "Port of Missing Men" at La-

Porte. . ,

Perhaps the most Interesting devel

opment resulting from the discovery of the bodies of a dozen or more of the

Gunnesa victims is the revelation of

hundreds of cases of disappearance

which have never been cleared up sat isfactorily.

Mrs. J. H. Keeler, of McKeesport, Pa., has written Coroner Mack that she

believes that her father. John E. Bun

ter, who left his home Nov. 25, 1907, after having talked about marrying a widow in Indiana, came to LaPorte

and is among those put out of the way

by Mrs. Gunness. Still More MUMng.

A woman who came from Chicago,

but refused to give her name to the officers, was here today investigating

the disappearance of John Larson, 2246 Wabash avenue. Chicago. The search

was fruitless, although the woman was confident Mr. Larson came here to see

Mrs. Gunness.

Moyar Darrow has received an unsigned letter from Omaha, Neb., the

writer claiming to have been in LaPorte three times to see Mrs. Gunness and to have met her in Odgen, Utah, on May 4, when she said she was on her way to California to visit Jennie Olsen. Inquiries were received today by the authorities regarding George "W. "Williams of "Wapallopen, Pa., both of dent of . Mount Yeager, Pa., both of whom are understood by . friends to have come to LaPorte in answer to matrimonial advertisements from a rich widow. Both were well to do farmers and neither returned home. On Friday, May 29, Executor Fogle will hold a public sale of the personal property left by Mrs. Gunness. According to the reports that have come In, one of the liveliest days in the case will occur, for museum owners from all over the country are clamoring for the things that will be disposed of at that time. Send In Clews. Mrs. R. J. Clarke of Delta, O., has Wired Prosecutor Smith that she has Information of value to the state, but

he declines to .give the informatior unless she can talk to the prosecutoi personally.

Louis A. Behnker of Mount Vernon.

111., has written State's Attorney Smith that a woman answering Mrs. Gunness' description recently came to that neighborhood with a man said to be her husband and purchased a farm. Thejr refuse to talk of themselves or tell where they came from. The writer

positive that the woman is Mrs.

Gunness.

Deputy Sheriff Anstiss today went to

South Bend and secured possession of the shepherd dog stolen from the Gun

ness farm by South Bend parties who desired the use of the dog for exhibition purposes. No action will be taken against the men.

Sheriff Smutzer this evening finished

the sluicing of the debris in the Gunness house, and tomorrow morning he will resume digging for more supposed victims of the arch murderess. The first place investigated will be un

der the cement floor In the barn, a spot which was very carefully covered by Mrs. Gunness under her personal supervision. The general opinion is that bodies will be found there.

S ICIEIY FOLK

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GET WEARY OF WHIG

Whiting People Decide to

Ignore Street Car Company. Special to The Times

Whiting people tired of waiting for

the Hammond, Whiting & East Chi

cago street car company to do its share in paving One Hundred and Nineteenth street have begun work on the paving this morning without waiting for the

company to proceed.

The plan adopted for the paving, it

the street car company is brought to time, will leave the car tracks far bo-

low grade, leaving the street with a

ditch in it, In which lay the car tracks.

There Is nothing in the company's franchise compelling it to pave its

share of the street, but it is thought that the company can be compelled to raise its bed to the level of the balance

of the street.

One Hundred and Nineteenth street is to be paved with vitrified brick, 16

feet on each side of the car tracks

Contractor N. Nedjl began this morning to put in a curb 18 inches deep along the right of way of the companys tracks, the city in this manner ignoring the street car company entirely

and leaving the company to raise its

own grade at double the expense.

The contract for the laying of the

brick has been let to the Gary Con structlon company.

. HAS IMPEOVED HEADLIGHT.

The Monon has equipped one of its

best passengers engines with the im

proved electric headlight. The engine made its first trip from Indianapolis

to Chicago last night. There are sev

eral improvements to the light, which furnish better light at less cost than

Pyle.

Gary People Subjected to

Vicious Act by Toleston Youths.

A number of the society folk of Gary

who attended the strawoerry-lce cream

social in Toleston last night, at the

residence of J. A- Jones at Martha and Fourth streets, are indignant because

of the fact that a number of rowdies

and loafers of the town assailed the guests with a shower of eggs, which

broke on the women's dressses and

struck many of the men.

Women Bear Bront.

This deplorable act caused conster

nation among the guests, who were enjoying to the fullest, the hospitality

and entertainment furnished by the

hosts during the evening. The boys

and young men who are responsible for their miserable effort to have a little

'fun," came upon a merry crowd with

out warning and hurled eggs into their

midst. For a minute they flew in every direction and the ! women ran for shelter behind every conceivable

object.

Egg Thrower Are Known.

The men dispersed the crowd of

young degenerates, but none of them were caught. Several dresses of the women were almost ruined by the eggs,

all of which happened to be fresh. The

barefaced deviltry of the act has

caused much discussion in the city as to what ought to be done with those

who were responsible for It.

In speaking of the matter this af

ternoon, the Gary Justice of the peace.

H. A. Townsley, stated that he knew

who the parties were who hurled the

eggs. "If this crowd of rowdies," said

Judge Townsley, "can't be controlled,

and use better sense and Judgment than

that, some of them will be Bent to

Jail."

"COLOIHJLOSED UP

Gary Cafe Man Gets in too

Deep and His Concern is Shut Up.

The Colonia, one of the finest res

taurants In Gary, and which was sup

posed to be getting the bulk of the

best trade in the new steel city, closed

its doors this morning, and an investl

gation reveals the fact that there are many bills unpaid at the grocery stores

and the help will all be minus thei last week's wages.

The Colonia was owned and managed

by Fred Colognla. The cafe was op ened first and apparently was a grea success. It was one of the most mod

em and up-to-date places in the city and seemed to enjoy a liberal patronage., -

When the manager opened a branch

cafe In the vicinity of the Lake Shore depot it was looked upon as a further evidence of prosperity. This morning

the true condition of affairs was re

vealed and both places were closed.

It is understood that the branch res

taurant was the cause of the failure, and that it was the money which Mr. Colognia was compelled to sink Into

it that caused the embarrassment.

CORONER ATTEMPTS TO SOLVE MYSTERY

Postmortem Indicates That

Holmes May Have Been Strangled.

EXPECT A LARGE

Crown Point, Ind., May 22. (Special.)

Great preparations are being made to

entertain the big crowd which usually

attends the county high school meet, at the fair grounds. It is said that the Erie will run a special train at night to take passengers to the north

end of the county. If the weather is favorable a big crowd is expected and it will be a case of "splitting hairs" between Hammond and Crown Point

for first honors, as our athletes will try and make a better showing than

was made last Saturday. Well, let

the best team win, and all honor to

them, even if they've won a dozen times

before. One thing is certain, Crown

Point won't throw away any of her points to the other schools in an effort

to down Hammond, as has been inti

mated In one of the papers recently.

Time was when this might have been

the case, but the meets have been pro

ductlve of one good thing and that is

the effort to decide the events on the

points of true sportsmanship and not

on sectional partiality.

STEEL WORKER HURT

Indiana Harbor, May 22. (Special.) Marclne Small, one of the chargers at

the open hearth mill at Indiana Har

bor, was quite seriously hurt last night

while at his work. Small was crushed

in the body and two of his ribs were

broken, besides other bodily injuries that were given him. Small lives on Elm street and is a married man with

a family.

POLICE HAVE NO

JURISDICTION THERE,

The case of Frank Bierwagon, which

was tried all day yesterday before

jury in Judge Huber's court, at Gary,

was aismisseu. j.ne aeienaant was

tried for carrying concealed weapons

The case was Important because of the

iact inai ii was xouna mat a person is not guilty of the offense .if the

weapon is not taken outside of his own

property, where the police have no jurisdiction. In an eloquent plea to the Jury Attorney Fetterer based his plea upon this point and the Jury returned their verdict of not guilty. Prosecutor Charles Flagg and Attorney Clarence

Bretsch appeared in the prosecution.

DID MAN LURE VICTIM?

Police Advance Theory That Cries,'

For Help Were Death Trap.

theory that thia waa the cause of his death."

"If the man waa robbed, he was prob

ably aragged into the alley and the

pockets rifled after death had occurred. While that deductlouiwould be the result of the superficial examination of

the head It, of course, does not cover the case. Further examination may be

disclose other conditions shat actual

murder had been committed.

Coroner Hoffman adjourned the In

quest until May 29, to permit a thorr

ough Investigation. Wheeler, who was

arrested in the vicinity of the alley between Wabash avenue and State street Just off Adams street, was taken to the

station under the pretense that he was

being taken to the hospital. He went along quietly until he was taken in

hand by station officers and turned

over to Dr. C Delamere Hall who

dressed his wounds.

The postmortem examination of the

body of C. P. Holmes, whose body was found early yesterday morning in an alley In the very heart of the business

district of Chicago, revealed the means which were employed in committing

the murder.

Evidence that the man was seized

from behind and dragged into the alley

and chocked to death as the robbers, a woman aiding them, searched for his

valuables, was discovered by the cor oner's physicians.

Artley Wheeler, a negro, who had a

fresh and unexplained bullet wound In

one hand, was found at State street and Jackson boulevard, by Detective

Manderson, was arrested. He was taken to the Harrison street police sta

tion where he failed to give an account

of himself.

The body of Holmes was found In the

alley of Lyon & Healey's music store

Chief of Police Shippy, who detailed a

score of detectives o nthe case, and who

took charge of the Investigation, de

clared that Holmes was murdered.

From information he received he was of

the opinion that Holmes was lured to the alley's mouth by the screams of a woman accomplice, of the murderers. That a murder of such character could take place in the very heart of the business district at any time of

the day or night, caused the police j

officials a great shock, and strenuous efforts were made to clear up the mystery. The murdered victim was 55 years old and lived at 6447 Monroe avenue, Parkside. He was purchasing agent for the Commonwealth Edison Electric company and had considerable money and jewelry In his possession just before his death. The body had been stripped of both when found. O. W. Lewke and Ludwig Hektoen, coroner physicians, held the postmortem examination. They opened the brain cavity and made a careful exomination of the skull, which showed no evidence of a fracture. "We could account for the discoloration of the face," the physician said in a statement, "by the fall the man must have had. if he had been the vic

tim of apoplexy. The absence or a fracture of the skull would lead to the

HEW FIGHT STARTED HGflliTjiLOOHfl

Foreign Saloonkeepers Will

Bear Brunt of Battle Next Wednesday.

TEST CASE TO BE HADE

COllEUEIT

EXERCISES HELD

Hessville Will be the Scene of School Event This . Year.

Chief of Police lawler Will Be the Complaining Witness Against the Saloonmen.

The North township corrrmencement which will be held at Hessville in Gorman's hall, Friday, May 29. will be one

of the best that have been 'held in re-,

cent years.

There will be graduates from thei

Saxony, Hessville, Highlands and Munster schools and the event is one that all

Whiting, Ind., May 22. Tom CeraJcwskl has been selected from the Whiting saloonkeepers to bear the brunt of the new fight that has been begun on the saloonkeepers of Whitin. A warrant was served on him yesterday, for his arrest for violating the Sunday closing law and he furnlshvd bond for his appearance when the csc comes to trial before Mayor Smith of Whiting, next Wednesday or Thursday. Warrants were sworn out for the arrest of 19 other saloonkeepers, but nothing will be done In their cases . until tho Cerejewskl case has been disposed of .

While the Indiana Anti-Saloon league has created the sentiment against the saloons in Whiting, Chief of Police Patrick Lawler, will nevertheless ap-

Lpear as the complaining witness against

of the residents along the ridge are

looking forward to with great interest, j the saloonkeeper. Mayor Smith having The custom - of having speakers,,! ordered the arrest, in .order to prove which was lnagurated by F. Richard", conclusively to the anti-saloon league

Schaaf at the beginning of his administration, will be followed out and Superintendent F. F. Helghway and F. Richard Schaaf will make addresses.. Saxony' Girl Valedictorian. This is the fourth year that this practice has been carried out and it makes the program interesting for 'both young and old. Rica Jarnecke of Sax-, ony will be valedictorian. The class motto is "Perservereaice

Brings Success." The class flower la the

Jack rose and the class colors are red and goM. . The names of those who

will graduate are as follows:

Grace Gorman, Rica Jarnecko, Dick Klootwyk, Albert Kooy. John Eckler, Arthur Olsen, George Slocum, Lillian.

Robblna, Myrtle Zyp.

The teachers In the various schoolsi

are: Anna Newell, Laura Newcomb, Olga Kaske, Elizabeth Brumm, Etta Henderson, H. S. Daugherty, F. W. T r tto A y m s CI V vn( Vi A nnah manr

Ruby Wilson, Cora van Bodergraven,

Open to Debate. Quoth the married philosopner, wiui an introspective smile: "I think my wife is an angel. She -thlnk3 I am a brute. Possibly both of us may be mistaken." Illustrated Sunday Magazine.

that he Is ready to enforce the law despite the league's failure to convict Noeller and Kollar last week when they were arrested three weeks ago. Since the anti-saloon league failed to get results in these two cases, more pressure has been brought upon Mayor Smith for more arrests and . consequently he has ordered the arrests, picking out the .victim against whom there was the strongest evidence. Should the leagues fail again this time Mayor Smith is satisfied that he has lived up to the oath of his office. The strongest agitators against the saloons are Rev. M. C. Wright of the Methodist church, H. G. Muffltt H. C. Furgusoti, John Keller and Arthur Carey, employes In the Standard Oil company's

office.

The saloonkeepers for whom war

rants were sworn out are Tom Cerajewskl. Otto Bauer, Michael Harr. Abe

Goldsmith, George Collins, A. II. Southwell, Harry Kilcullen. John Klein. Geo.

Yuhasz, Anton Noeller, ex-Councilman Robert Gordon, Andrew Barran, John Kollar, Thomas McHale and Frank Sacher. The trial of the case Is somewhat delayed owing to Attorney John A. Gavit's work In the Circuit court which will not be finished until the middle of next week.

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