Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 27, Hammond, Lake County, 20 July 1908 — Page 1
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11 CHILD DESERTION
Richly Dressed Woman Left Babe on Church Door Step
and Then Escaped in a
Waiting Automobile; Po
lice Puzzled at Action.
CHURCH GOERS ARE
STARTLED BY CRY
Young People of St. Joseph's Catholic
Church Find Richly Dressed Eal
Last Night and Police Are Unable
to Account for the Strange Oc
currence.
Hammond's Beautiful Michigan Central Depot Thrown Open Today
HANDSOME STATION
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IS THROWN OPEN . y Michigan Central Officials Hand Out Bouquets and Cigars to Passengers.
OFFICIALS HIGHLY GRATIFIED
WASHEE-WASHEE
IS ARRESTED TODAY
A three-week-oId baby girl, elad In
beautiful white dresJien evidently evl
dently carefully made by the loving hand of Home antlclpatlve mother and wrapped In a orenm colored shawl wa
found In the doorway of St. Jonepn
church by Annie Myem. age 14. Clara Kmmerllutc. age IK. F.dward Boney and
Kilward el Beccnro.
People who live in the vicinity of the
church saw two women who were splendidly dressed walk down Russell street and pass the church. It was
learned later that tKry had asked little Joe Bohline. who was playing in the
neighborhood if that was not the Catholic church. "The two women walked back to the church, the elder went inside first and was followed by the younger woman who had a baby in her arms. They were in the church for several minutes when the older woman was seen to appear' at the doorway and walk down the street alone.' " In a few minutes the younger woman was seen to leave the church in great haste without the baby. She hurried down the street and soon joined the geman who had preceededher. It was not long Annie Myers and Clara Emmerling came down the steps of the church followed by Edward Konev and Edward Pel Beccaro. The girls at once saw the little bundle on the steps and wero attracted by a baby's cry. TRIES TO qi'IET BABY. One of them picked up the little baby c:ncri,t to ouiet its cries. It was
taken to he outer door of the church and there Mrs. Lizzie Powell, who lives across the street, had the girls bring the baby until the police could be noticed. The officers were slow in arriving and so the two women had no difficulty in escaping. One of the neighbors of Mrs. Powell who saw two strangely acting acting women get into an automobile is of the belief that they were the ones who left the baby at the church. The description of the two women, who were seen by Mrs. Towell and several of their neighbors, was as follows: The first woman was tall and well dressed in black. She had a large black hat which was surmounted with black ostrich plumes. She was about 34 or 35 years old. WORE MERRY WIDOW II AT. The other woman was younger and was of medium build. She wore a light brown suit and white shirt waist. She wore a large Merry Widow hat with Mowers on it.
The women went to the corner and
according to the testimoney of some people who believe they saw them, they got on an East Chicago car No.
327, although the conductor says that j he does not remember seeing them. The p'oli-ce are as inclined to believe th.' story that the women left the city in an automobile as they are to believe that they went away on an East Chicago car. There is great mystery surrounding the case and the fact that two women, unveiled, would dare to dispose of a child in such a public place with dozens of people in the church and others coming and going all the time seems re- . markable. There can also be no question that the women were of the higher class. The manner in which they dressed and tin tr gt neral appearance made it apparent to everybody who saw them that they were above the ordinary. The fact that they did not know the location of the Catholic church and were compelled to ask the Bohling boy is taken as an indication that they were from Chicago. The child was taken to St. Margaret's
hospital where the sisters were finally induced to take care of it until some one could be induced to adopt it and rear it. This makes two children which the sisters of St. Francis have been compelled to take care of. About three months ago an unknown woman was taken very sick on the street. She was taken to the hospital and while there a child was born to her. Afer the child was about three weeks old the mother suddenly left the hospital and that was the last that was eeen of her.
Eifles Father's Cash Drawer and Gets Far Away From Home With It.
TOO AMERICAN TO SUIT DAD
MIS SALE A BIG HIT VEXED QUESTION IS
SETTLED AT LAST
State Street Merchant Prince Finds His JulySale a Great Success.
George Lee Kin Is Arrested By Hammond Police This Morning and Jailed Here.
George I,ee Kin in a slant eyed Oriental, an might be Imagined from his name, and although he is faced with a charge of cranil larceny and In a prisoner on his way back to Fort Wayne, he Is about ns cheerful a "Chink" as eonld be found In a dozen states. Lee Kin is the son of a hard working Chinese laundryman in Fort Wayne. As the proceeds from his week's wash
ings, Lee Kin's father had about $50 in
the cash drawer. He Learned a Lot of Things. As might be judged from his nonchalant manner the "washee washee" business did not agree with the young
Chinaman. Lee Kin was brought to this country when he was so young that he does not remember much about his arrival here. He learned the English language so that he speaks it with but little of the "pigeon" in it, and along with the language he learned a great many more
things that are characteristically American. Among them ws the proclivity for spending money and when he found that he could not earn the wherewithall fast enough to supply his every day needs he proceeded to rifle the cash register. His father discovered that both his money and his son were missing at the same time and the police were noti
fied. The chief of police at Fort Wayne telegraphed the Hammond police to look out for Lee Kin on the train which arrives here from the east at 8:1" on the Xickle Plate. Taken to Fort Wayne. He was arrested and taken to the
Hammond police station Sunday and was taken to Fort Wayne today on the Xickle plate by Officer Leeds of that
city. This is the fourth case where China
men have been picked up in Hammond
by the local officers. Two of the cases
were smuggelrs and the other was the
case of a Chinese porter who " stole
$1,600 from his employer In Indian
apolis. When the porter was arrested by the officer he smiled and his only
comment was, "I bet they telephoned ahead."
The July Clearance safe, which has been going on for some time at the big store of E. C. Minas & Co., on State street, is proving a great success. Mr. Minas is following his custom of placing his regular stock on sale at greatly reduced prices in order to dispose
of it and make room for the new stock which is coming in this fall. One thing which is proving very attractive to the patrons of this store.'is the prfit sharing plan which was inaugurated some time ago. By this plan the purchaser of $25 worth of goods is given 5 per cent of the profits and is permitted to take it out in premiums
which are now on display in the pre-1
mium room in the store. How He Can Sell So Cheaply. Mr. Minas says that he is enabled to make this reduction for the reason that he is the owner of his own store and does not have to pay rent. Since his new elevator has been put in, the second and third floors of his store are
much more easily reached, and the business has increased accordingly. The plan of the State street merchants to make that thoroughfare a
South Hohman Street Property Owners Want to Hurry Pavement.
OGDEN ST. GETS A VARIETY
FOOT POLLED OFF LEG
Shocking Accident Befalls
Chicago Man Here Yesterday.
First Train From New Station Goes
East at 7:58 This Morning and Takes Big Crowd.'
FARMER'S
FAMILY IS INJURED
Board of Public Works Is Rejoiced to Get South Hohman Street Off Its Hands.
The board of public works this morning took official action on the wishes of the Soouth Hohman street property owners and ordered the city engineer to prepare plans and specifications for the paving of the street with asphalt macadam, a pavement that is used on some of the thoroughfares in Chicago and other cities. This decision on the part of the South Hohman streeet property owners to have their highway dressed with this material is the result of squabbles which have lasted many weeks and dur-
"great white way" has done a great ing which almost all kinds of pavedeal to attract trade in that direction ; ments have been proposed. The board and, of course, the big store on that ! of public works rescinded the brick
An accident, as painful as can be imagined, occurred yesterday evening about 8:30 at the Fayette street crossing when the left foot of Frank Hodges, a Chicago man, dangling from the platform of a Monon excursion, caught in a switch frog and pulled the foot from
the socket, leaving it encased in the shoe lying beside the track where a little boy found it later. The man was rushed to St. Margaret's hospital in Emmerling's ambulance. It was learned that he is a Philadelphia
man working in Chicago and living at
84 Point street.
He had made the excursion to Cedar Lake and came safely to Hammond. At
this point the story differs. 1 His cousin, M. E. Eldridge of Chi cago, was in Hammond today.
He says that he spent the morning investigating the accident and that as
he learns his cousin was pushed from a crowded platform on the excursion
train.
Hanging on to the platform he
dragged along with the slowly moving train until his foot caught in the frog
and was jerked from the socket.
Another story is to the effect that Hodges had stepped off the train on
his own accord and that his foot was
caught in the switch frog while he at ttempted to board the train.
A bouquet for eac;i or the patrons of the road till inttrnluR was the delicate little fnvor which made the raany frlends of the Michigan Ccntrnl railroad all the more enthusiastic over what the road Is dolus for this city In the way of (tciieral improvements and more particularly what it has done iu
protldiiiK Itself with a splendid Hammond depot. As a result of the fact that the men who called at thedepot were provided with cigars and the women with flowers, hat, made one railroad corporation nearer the people than it has even been before and with the depot an ac'.uality and the parking of the railroad's right of way all the way from the old depot to Oakley avenue, one of the ceriainilles of the immediate future, there is little wonder that every
one feels friendly toward the Michigan
Central.
First Train at 7:SS. This morning at 7:5S the first train
stonned at the new depot. There was
not much ado about it.
did not forget and run on to the old
station, lie just slacked up and stopped in front of the new building.
Everybody felt good inwardly and outwardly and there wasn't any wine spilt
christening the new structure either.
I. E. Dickenson, the agent of the
road and the man whom the people of Hammond are inclined to with the se-
uring of the improvement, but who
modestly gives the railroad company all of the praise, was plainly proud of the
new statiou.
He was unmistakably enthusiastic
over and and those who have wendei their way to the old depot down at the
end of Morton Court for many a yiar.
caught that enthusiasm in a hurry and
it is safe to say that by noon today
it had spread all over town and everybody knows that the Michigan Central has moved.
All Are Enthnslastlc. And the railrod officials themselves
Flying Touring Car Collides With Buggy Near Stalbaum's Yesterday and Three People Are Hurt Through Auto Racing.
street, has felt the resultant increase in business. The activity of Mr. Minas along with that of other merchants who have large department stores in this city, is doing a great deal to make Hammond the
retail center of the region.
pavement action and this throws out metropolitan block and producers of which have been trying hard to get their brick in Hammond. Two Kinds for Ogden Street. The east half of Ogden street from Hohman street to the Monon railroad
Mr. Minas is an extensive advertiser I will also he paved with asphalt ma-
and is but one of the men who have
found the medium of The Times indispensible in securing business from all of the territory from which he could
reasonably expect patronage.
FIND I0J00BS OPEN Hammond Police Warn Business Men About a Too Common Practice.
FIFTY COWBOYS HERE
Real Punchers Accompany
Fellows on Wager to White House.
STORY WAS A CANARD
Report That There "Was Explosion at the Powder Mills is Denied.
(Special to The Times.) Aetna, Ind., July 20. The report cir-
I culated all over the county this morn
ing that there was an explosion in the mills of the Aetna Powder works is a mystery to the offiials of the company who deny tl at there was any explosion at the works. The superintendent said this morning: I eannot begin to fathom how those stories start. We know nothing; of it. I would give n good deal of money to know who starts the reports." East Chicago, Ind., July 20. (Special.) The report of a terrific explosion was heard here last night from the East and it seemed to come from the direction if the powder mills at Aetna. The source of the noise Is a mystery.
Xotwlthstanidng the fact that the tailoring establishment Of Morelli & Co., which is located on South Hohman street, was recently broken into and robbed of several suits and a couple of
suit cases, the police last evening found the front door of the establishment unlocked at 1 o'clock and made a report of the fact at the station. The door of the Colonial theater was
also found open and was closed by the police. About the only stealing that could be done in the theater, however, would be to steal a few empty seats and so there was not much danger of burglary there. The police suggest in the interest of the local business men that they be more careful in locking up their places of business and such instances as were discovered last night are a direct invitattion to thieves.
cadam, the property owners having presented a petition to this effect. The property owners on the street having remonsrated against the Westrumite pavement, proposed for this street by the board of public works, that body
rescinded that action to give way to Fifty cowpunchers. the real fellows
wishes of the property owners. The yesterday came as far as the west city
property owners along Ogden street, j limits of Hammond to accompany their
from Hohman street to the state line, two other cowboys who started out
(desire to have their end of the street ! from Chicago to Xew York yesterday
paved wih vitrified brick and the city on their ponies.
engineer was Instructed to draw up Following in an automobile Jim plans and specifications accordingly I O'Leary, who is responsible for the big
vuue a aeiegatton rrom both streets trip.
were present to await the action of the Two Cheyenne cowboys, mounted on board. bronco ponies, dashed out of the gates
Work Is Delayed. of Lna Park yesterday afternoon
The rescinding of the board's action 'swung their, steeds south into Halsted
regarding the South Hohman street j street and riding past a cheering
pavement means that the board mustithrong that lined the sidewalks, be
readvertise for bids which will takejgan their long gallop to Xew York
another three weeks, and if there is a hitch then the prospects are that the
Menus Much To Jim I.eary.
If the ride is made in ten days it will
OTRER AUTO MISHAPS TAKE PLACnESTEROAY Dolton Lawyer Steers Car Into Calumet River In Order to Avoid Injury to People and His Story Is Decided Contrast to Eye Witnesses of the Accident.
Disregarding all rules of the publl
The engineer j 1-lghway, going at an enormous speed,
and spilling the family of Peter Klekert Into a ditch south of Hammond, four occupants of a biK read automobile who had caused the accident continued on their way without stopping to see what had become of their victims. The accident to Peter Kickert and Us family who live at Highlands, happ ned yesterday morning about 11:30
while the parents and their two daughters, Alice and Josephine, were on their way to Lansing to attend church there. COIMSIOX A SAVAGE ONE. Near Stallbaum's corner Kickert
turned the corner to go toward Lansing when from the opposite direction cama a big red touring car marked 111. No. No. 70. - Its speed was bo high and the turn so short that a collision could not be
avoided and the Kickert family were
were in the
had ac
complished turned on full speed and hurried away from the scene of tha accident. The car was going at ths rate of 50 miles an hour. Hl'GfiY MAS DEMOLISHED. The buggy was demolished in the collision- and the horse ran away. All four occupants were thrown into the
are enthusiastic over the new depot. J.
a. ua.., wie ithe victims
-i, I..It frmi TW.; n w . -.j
trolt, came to Hammond just ii size
up things and enjoy the rather unusual
spectacle of a whole city enthusiastic
ally congratulating a railroad because
it had decided to do the right .hlng by it.
L. T. Crane, the ticket agent of 'he
road, was busy all morning gett'rg et
WEALTHY FARMER DIES AT HIS HOME, NEAR CITY. Jacob Rakker Taken 111 With Kidney Trouble and Dies Suddenly. Jacob Bakker, one of the wealthy farmers living on the Ridge road, died
pavement will he killed for this year, mean $10,000 to James O'Leary and the
as the work will last until winter, ' cowboys will each receive a purse of should it begin within a month. j $1,000. O'Leary's wager has bt'en covThe reports for the Field avenue and ered by a stockyards horse dealer. The Merrill avenue sections, A and B, and j contestants are John Gabriel, known Ash street local sewers were filed and I in Cheyenne as the "Kid" and Charles
the city engineer was instructed to pre pare the primary assessment roles.
The board has taken the paving of
Motzer, more familiarly termed "Square Button Charlie." Mr. Gabriel and Motzfr, to make the trip In the prescribed
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tied in his new office and the desire to;1'" 'ie more or loss nruisea up. buy tickets on the opening day seemed j Piter Kickert broke one of his fingers
to possess the patrons of thr roaJ tolnne one Josephine, one ot the daugh-
such a degree that thev bought out l-,!s mjui-u mi eiuow. urs. ivicKert
of the ten ride Gary tickets there w ere too. was scratched up. in the offices. S'heriff Fred Carter, the police al All of the things necessary to the I Hammond, Jim Gill ;it Hobart find the
transaction of the passenger business of j Valparaiso authorities were at once
the road were taken to the new depot j notified to be cm t:ie lookout for a early this morning but the freight of-jbig red touring car marked "111. 70" fices remain in the old building. j containing four men. New Brick Freight House. I The automobile registration office in It is understood, unofficially, that the Chicago was notified that such a maold depot at the intersection of the! chine was wanted in Indiana and it tracks and Morton Court, is to be torn i was found that a Chicago car owne.i down and that a fine new brick freight'by Walter R. Smith, a jeweler living house is to be built in its place wl-.'ch'.at "929 State street, had a car which will have capacity enough to handle alljbore the lett-ring "111. 70." the Hammond business for years to) w, HOTHSt IIII.I) OY SCENE, come. About live minutes after the accident The new freight building will be aMr anri jlrP Unthschild of Hammond credit to the town just as is everything i oamP ny ttlo s..onp 0f the accident in that the Michigan Central railroad has ;tneir electric runabout. They the indone of late and the east end of the,jurf(1 rPOpie an the assistance that was building is to be devoted to the general I possible under the circumstances, and offices of the. freight department. j Mr. Rothschild took it upon himself to Mr. Dickinson Is making an effort to notify the authorities.
..ae me v... The report of the accident
park extend ail tne way 10 ni sneei and if the property owners will all ... to ntfi.Qllv Kid rnici tn pp.
""' ' "..., ;the reckless drvin lieve the railroad of the responsibility t , -
of building a concrete walk on the!
nortli side of Plummer avenue, the park 1 ...5 11 ,i nflniiliKirll v lO Vl 1 1 1 1 t I
' 1 passing the automobiles on the roads,
Yfllier 1 Hila ritimt i ......... f l I. fact Ilia! the rM
. ... , less driving and speciallv such a show, crossing mans shanty, which was lo- , r , , , oft nf lll-lirecding as was exhibited cated at the Oakley avenue crossing i .. . yesterdav when the occupants in the
Das Iteeil it-iji,ntrvi i' vnv Is more attractive to the eye and so
Muenich court under advisement urtil ! number of ten days, will have to go
100 miles every twenty-four
Julv 24.
VOTING MACHINES ARE PRACTICALLY ASSURED.
County Commissioner Krlnblll Delighted at Prospect of Experiment. A dozen to fifteen voting machines are practically assured for Lake county as an experiment, said Commissioner O. A. Krlnblll to a Times reporter today. At the session of the county commissioners and the county council last Saturday the question of voting machines was brought up. There Is still a feeling against put-
yesterday noon at his home surrounded ' ting them into every precinct at once, by his relatives and friends. jbut their worth has been proven and Bakker, who is 57 years old, suffered ,ln order that some of the Lake county with a chronic kidney trouble was last jvoters may get a trial with them at week laken ill very suddenly and died -least a few will be installed, suddenly. He leaves a wife and seven j "They are a money saver to the children of which two are married. i county and while we can't put them The funeral has been arranged fori into every precinct for next fall, it is next Thursday afternoon. Services at! safe to say that Hammond. Gary, East the house will take place at one oclock 1 Chicago. Whiting and Indiana Harbor and will be followed by church ser- jand also the communities in the other vices at the First Reformed church at ends of the county will have some on two o'clock. trial.
about hours.
KILLED AT MILLER TODAY BY LAKE SHORE TRAIN.
Hoadmaster Charles Daus Is Slain fly a Passenger Train.
Miller. July 20. (Special) Charles Daus, assistant roadmaster of the Chicago and Lake Shore railroad, was killed here This afternoon on the Lake Shore tracks.
As Assistant
Daus. who lives in Laporte, has a division from Laporte to Pine station. Daus, who is 4n years old, is well known in Whiting, being the mother-in-law of Mrs. Sophia Wuestenfeld. He leaves a wife and three children.
report of the accident spread
fast through the neighborhood and indignation was at a high pitch owing to
The aerident ot
yesterday is not the first of its kind. The farmers of I.nke county have settled themselves int'i the Inevitable ot
but they do strenuously object to reck
car continued on their journey without
offering any assistance.
the improvement In the appearance of
the city goes on. j H X III M CHIE INTO UIVEIt. J. S. Hall and Charles W. Mercer, the In direct contrast to action t the Detroit Officials of the road, called at 'people In the red car yesterday was the office of The Times and said they; that of W. F. Propper of Dolton, ar. appreciated the friendliness of The ' attorney practicing in Chicago, but Times toward their road. They com-Well known in Hammond, plimented this paper for the treatment! To avoid striking a surrey In whih given tile Michigan Central improvea woman and six children were riding, ments and seemed to think they hadjjir. Propper ran his automobile down ; been very well treated by the people of ; thirty-foot embankment into the Cal
umet river yesterd:
Hammond in general.
The Hammond depot has been de- i Mrs. Propper was in the hack seat scribed so many times that is it up- l0f the auto and the eightecn-months necessary to go Into detail in suggest- ,0ld baby, Mabrl. was sitting beside hei ing to such railroads as the Krie. M')-jfather on the front seat. They an pot
non and Wabash just what it lias taken j out alive and unhurt, but it was a inc. Roadmaster Charles I to bring about the entente cordial !tr. 1 chance that they wouid be killed
between the Lake Shore and .Michigan rr fatally hurt when they wfnt ovei Central railroads and the people of 'the bank at a speed of about fifteer. Hammond. I miles an hour. A Substantial ISutldinK. I The woman in t':e surrey, for whom The Michigan Central depot is con- Mr. Propper risk' d his own life and
BOY' REPORTED MISSING. John Hummel, ged 15 years, is reported t" be missing from his home at 6318 Lincoln street. Chicago. The Hammond police have been notified to be on the lookout for him. The is of medium iieighth and had light hair.
structed of brick and stone on a heavy concrete foundtion. It is heated with steam and has all of the modern conveniences in the toilet rooms and lavatories. The platforms are of brick curbed with concrete and are commodious. There is space left so that an express wagon can back up to the baggage room and there is a carriage entrance to the depot on Plummer avenue.
the lives of l is wife and fluid, drovs on calmly without so much as turning her head to see what had become ol the car and its three occupants. BAIIY'S TOE STOP CAR. If it had not been for the fact thai Mabel's nimble bare toes had just pu!l ed out the switchlock of the automo. bile, shutting off the power, the biq (Continued on pige 5.J
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