Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 6, Hammond, Lake County, 24 June 1908 — Page 8

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LAWYERS ASK FOR GHIEFMARTHN'SSCALP Sensation in Gary Because of Alleged ConspiracyMade Against Officer.

MATTER HOT YET BEFORE BOARD Attorney Bretseh Defends Himself In A Hot Interview Over Novel Situation. No little excitement has been caused In Gary over the "conspiracy" charg j that has been made against Chief Martin of the local police force. The contents of the petition which is being circulated among the Gary attorneys became known yesterday afternoon. aiter an attempt had been made to Keep the gist of the complaint secret. The petition which was framed for the officer on the charge refered to. It was thought that the matter woul3 be- presented to the own board his afternoon, but the attorneys who are responsible for the movement were either not prepared or have decided to drop the matter, which seems to be the prevailing opinion at the present time. "When several of those who had signed the paper were questioned in regard to the matter yesterday they absolutely denied any knowledge of it, which fact would indicate that they did not want to carry the matter any further. Lawyers Making Roar. The complaint states that the law firm of Harris & Bretseh were receiving the bulk of the criminal practice, because of the fact that Chief Martin played favorites with them and showed undue partlallity To this is contributed the fact that several of the lawyers have been unable to secure much ofUhe criminal practice of the city. As; far as can be learned there were but five signaures on the petition out of a possible fifty who are now practicing in the city. The straw that seemed to break the camel's back occurred a few days ago when one of the signers secured a case, and the next morning the defendant switched over to Harris & Bretseh. Chief Martin was blamed for change made by the client, the circumstances of which it has since been proved the chief had absolutely no knowledge. , The lawyer, however, drew his own conclusions in the matter and the petition resulted. Don't Take It Seriously. In the case of two or three of those who signed, the circumstances of specific Instances have been explained to the satisfaction of all concerned. It 13 not known, however, what action

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Chief Martin and Attorney J. Glenn Harris appeared before the board this 'afternoon to answer any charges that mignt be prefered. As far as is known the members of the town board do not take the matter seriously. When asked about the matter yesterday Chief Martin stated that he did but that if the matter were carefully investigated he, , personally would be better satisfied. Attorney Clarence Bretseh gave out the following statement last night: "I deny most emphatically the charges made in the petition. A more not care to answer the charges publicly, henest set of men than Chief Martin and the rest of the force never donned a policeman's uniform. Say Statement I Untrue. The statement made that I went the bonds of men who have been arrested, if- untrue, wherever it was a case in which w-e thought it was safe to do so. Any attorney of standing and responsi bility has done the same thing. In regard to the excessive rates which it is charged I have made in loaning money, I would say that this business has been transacted by myself for the Gary Loan company in which firm T have a part interest. The charges made against Chief Martin were particularly surprising because one of the greatest virtues which has been accredited with is honesty. The consensus of opinion is that the whole matter is the result of a misunderstanding, " and that the difficulty is practically settled. URNHAM WAS EXCITED Drunk Fires Two Shots at Himself and Then Gets Up Laughing. Burnham. June 24. (Special.) To hear the shots fired, to see a man fall to the sidewalk, to summon medical aid with the idea that a suicide's life might be saved and then to see the supposed victim Jump to his feet and say: "I just wanted to - fool the boys" was the experience of several people in Burnham yesterday. An old resident of .th fitv -nroo slightly Intoxicated and while walking uuwn ine street, wnippea out a revolver and fired two shots. He was seen by a great, many people who were on the streets at the time and they all thought that he had suicide na u. plunged forward to the sidewalk. When a crowd of sufficient v., gathered around the prostrate form of the man, calls had been sent in for a doctor and an ambulance, the man suddenly lumned un and intnrmat v crowd that it was all a joke. TO DISCUSS SMOKE PREVENTION. Cleveland, O., June 24. The international convention for the prevention of smoke began Its annual convention in Cleveland today, with smoke inspectors in attendance from many cities of the United States and Canada. The asso ciation will be in session three days.

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FINDING OF COFFINS South Chicago Undertaker Talks Guardedly Over Grewsome Discovery'. TS' SKOLLS M GQFFINS Police Work on Mystery With Good Prospect of the Solution Today. Mystery surround) tbe finding of two coffins and presumably pieces of an infant's skull or skulls, adjoining 0037 Commercial avenue, which Is the undertaking rooms of James E. Brown. They were unearthed Monday afternoon by workmen who were excavating for the three-story building now being erected for Henry Gross. William W. Myers, 10057 Avenue M, and Jacob Miller, 105OS Ewlng avenue, dag up -the grewsome relics, who later notified the police, and the contents, with the coffins, were removed to the South Chicago police station, where they were locked in the station safe. The coffins and skulls were viewed at the station by a number of curious spectators. When the fact became known it caused no little comment through the city, for the simple reason that Mr. Brown is well known and has been in business in South Chicago for the last eight years, and when the reports became circulated it caused a great many of his friends to make inquiries as to the authenticity of the rumors. Admits Coffins Discarded. Mr. Brown was interviewed by a Times representative yesterday and the facts, as near as they could be elicited, are as follows: First. Mr. Brown admitted that two coffins had been discarded some years ago and had been thrown under the sidewalk which he utilizes as a shed and coal bin. Second. Following the time that the coffins were thrown into the shed (so he says) the bodies of two infants were brought to his establishment within a period of six or eight weeks. Whatever became of, the two almost decomposed bodies, he declared, was beyond his knowledge. There, it eeems, is where the mystery lies. Third. The bodies of the babies were found. One was found in a badly decomposed condition near the lake at Windsor Park, the . other, a stillborn baby, was brought to his place of business by the police, from where they received it is unknown. Both of these

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bodies were held at the undertaking establishment for some time pending police investigation, and Mr. Brown states that he does not know what disposition was ever made of the bodies. He says that they might have been disposed of by his assistants and they might not have been. When asked if it was possible that his assistants might have buried them under the sidewalk in his shed, he admitted that they might have done so, but did not think it probable. Ills assistants, during his eight years in South Chicago, were Thomas Herson and John McCauly, both of whom are no longer connected with the concern, nor are they in South Chicago. Herson left three or four years ago for Ohio,,where he now conducting a business of his own. McCauley, the last man In the employ of Mr. Brown, left about a year ago. It is not known where he went. Difficulty Facts Are Obtained. While the above are the actual facts in the matter, yet it was with difficulty that they were ascertained. Both the police and workmen in the vicinity who are constructing the new building, made ail possible efforts to suppress the matter and It was only through the tact and Ingenuity of The Times representatives that the details were dug up. After the ambulance physician at the police station had examined the skulls and pronounced them as such, one of the workmen on the building had the nerve to say that it was not skulls but was cocoanut shells that were found. DEFY III POLICE FIGHT A wagonload of police from the east police station In South Chicago were rushed to Ilegewisch and the police reserves were ordered to hold themselves ready for emergency service early today when the foreman of the clew of 300 men laying tracks at One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street and Commercial avenue defied the police. They declared that they would lay their tracks In the city alleys despite the order to desist until a permit was secured. Police Rushed to Scene. Policeman John Stanler ordered the work stopped when the men appeared on the scene early today. He was told to "jump in the lake." Further defiant protests preceded an order to the workmen to start the track laying. A call was sent to the east side station and Sergeant Mulligan was soon on the way with eight policemen. Both Aldermen representing the ward were away at the time and in their absence Mulligan declared that the work would be stopped until some decision could be arrived at as to the extend of the company's privilege to use the public thoroughfares for track laying. Defy Police Orders. A clash was expected momentarily as the railroad men were defiant and declared that the extension of the line would go on unimpeded, even if it were necessary to defy the whole police force of the town

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MEMBER0F CULT? Mrs. Mary Hunter Declared to Have Fasted Now for Fourteen Days. DEATH OF MEMBER AT ZION Chief Al Walker, Formerly Hammond, Again in the Lime Light. of Al 'Walker, ex-chief of police of Hammond, has again sprung into prominence while chief of police of Zion City. Chief Walker is trying to fathem the mysteries and find the adherents of the "starvation cult".. Incidentally the death of Mrs. Laura Jane Thompson, of Zion City, who died last Thursday after a fast of forty-one days, has created a police vigilance from Burnham through South Chicago to Zion City. In Burnham, Mrs. Mary Hunter, wife of Judge Hunter, is said to be a member of the cult which believes in fasting forty days. Mrs. Hunter is said to be in her fourteenth day of fasting. She refuses to take food and declares that the vision of heavenly things grows clearer the thinner she gets. Leader is lUlsslns. Adam Thompson, the husband of Laura Thompson is the head of the cult and is missing. He was last traced to South Chicago. Thompson was traced, with the aid of the Chicago detective bureaus and South Chicago Chicago police, to the home of his sister, Mrs. Mary Anderson, 9034 Erie avenue. But he left the place before the officers arrived. Yesterday he tried to get into communication with cult brothers in Zion City by telephone, but failed. He wrote the following letter to Ella Funk, the nurse he employed to care for his wife while she was fasting. The letter read: "Be of good cheer. Trust in God. I am within the faith. Send my mail to 9034 Erie avenue, South Chicago. I will write you from time to time." May Arrest Whole Cult. Chief of Police Walker declared early today that it might be necessary to arrest every person connected with the strange religious order to the end that no repetition of the starving death might follow. "If any such arrests on a large scale are made today they will me in the interests of the public policy for the purpose of preventing any more deaths " said Chief Walker. One of the tenants of the cuH nra. scribes that observation of Lent shall be general and religious. The extreme to which the spirit of pennance is car-'

ried is taken as a measure of the- believer's ardor. Thus it is that many of the followers of the creed take nothing but water during the forty days of penance. Some in their frenzy deny themselves even this. So is was with the woman who died after fortyone day? of fasting. Teh cult was launched in Cornwall over a century ago.

CHICAGO PRESS CLUB VISITS GARY TODAY. Excursion to Brine Out Newspaper Men From Windy City To Be Entertained. Gary is in for a big write-up today provided she is a good little girl and gives the pencil pushers a good entertainment. The Chicago Press club was scheduled to arrive on the whale back Christopher Columbus this afternoon for an excursion to the new Steel City. The newspaper men will bring their families along and in all 2.000 people ar expected to invade the town this afternoon on a sight seeing trip. The editors, reporters, magazine writers and advertisers and a whole lot of other good fellows who know a piece of news and know how to hand it out, will bring, their own lunches, which they will eat on the steamer. T. E. BELLF0RCHA1RMAN It Is Not Lake County's T. E. Bell However, Let It Be Known. Denver, Colo., June 24. Thomas "E. Bell, former democratic candidate for governor of California, is recelvine ronspicious mention In connection with the pocition of temporary chairman of th approaching democratic national con vention. The committe on Rrranmnt which on Saturday will select some nn to fill this place, is proceedine on thn theory that the temporary chairman snouid be capable of making a keynote speech and of making it In such a man ner as to attract general attention, and Mr. Bell's friends give assurance that he will meet this requirement. His most formidable rival is Congressman Clayton of Alabama and Rnm members of the committee suggest that the ambitions of both may be gratified by making one of the aspirants temporary and the other permanent chair man. It is the intention of th mem bers of the committee, however, to keep their minds open until the time oott.m for making the choice in order to render it possible up to the last moment to obtain the best man for the place. When yon . advertise, you must re member that yon have to reach a class that has the buying: propec!ty. That's the class THE TIMES reacbe. There's some class to that class.

Wednesday, June 24, 1908,

GARY HEALTH OFFICER GETS RAISEJH SALARY Dr. T. B. Templin is Given $500 per Annum by the Town Board. REGULAR BILLS ARE ALLOWED Treasurer's Office Makes Application For Adding Machine; But Can't Get It. With blood In their eyes, and their coats off. the Gary town board waded into the week's business yesterday afternoon with a vengence. There was no matter of great importance to be discussed so that the business which came before the board was Quickly disposed of. The matter of greatest importance was the instructions given the city attorney to draw up an ordinance which compels owners of dogs to muzzle, their dogs during certain parts of the years. This ordinance was adopted because of the plethora of canines that have been brought into the city, by all classes of people. The streets are filled with them at the present timemost of them being ownerless and ex,tiemely dangerous. The police have shot at least a half dozen in the past few days and will continue the crusada during the remainder of the summer. Templin Gets a Raise. The treasurer's office made appllca tion for an adding machine but this was refused by the board on the grounds that there were other things more necessary at the present time. The regular bills were allowed. Tire declaratory resolution for the mvement was also brought before the board and the contract for the work given to the Cain Construction company The salary of Health Officer T. B. Templin was raised from $150 to $300. His work in the past few davs ha ben so strenuous that the board decided that he should receive a ' more substantial renumeratlon. Dr. Templin announced at the board meeting that ho had decided to take legal action against some of the violators of the pure food laws in the city and will probably tak'a It up. He refuses to state, however, what the nature of the proceedings, would be. IOWA KEPUBLICANS MEET. ' . Waterloo, Iowa, June 24. The reT publican state nominating convention was called to order here today. The convention will ratify the ticket named at the recent primary election and adopt a platform of resolutions. A number of the candidates on the state ticket were on hand at the opening of the convention.