Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 200, Hammond, Lake County, 11 February 1910 — Page 3

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PREDICT KNOTTS' IMPEACHMENT (Continued from Page L

th remonstrance law, made the entire township saloonlese, but Mayor Knotts allowed the saloonsto continue In business Just the same "as If they operated under license. The liquor interests contested the acts of the jfemonstrants on the ground of irregularity, and Judge Tuthlll, at Valparaiso, decided that, although there were some Irregularities n obtaining the names for the remonstrance, there were enough legal signatures to make the remonstrance valid. "The blind tigers of Gary continued to do business Just the same, and they became so notorious, both before the election of Mr. Knotts as mayor of the new city of Gary, and afterward, that the law and order people proposed to have an investigation before the Lake county grand jury. "The fact that the grand jury was to take up the, blind tiger cases In Garyreached that city and a number of witnesses from Gary came to Crown Point and testified before the grand jury. One of these witnesses, it is understood, was Mayor Knotts himself, and, though it is not known definitely at this time whether or not he was Interrogated as to the existence of blind tigers ,in his town, it is generally understood that he knew the grand Jury was making an Investigation .of the existence of these places. - KXOTTS SUSPENDS SENTENCES. The charge is made, and it. is probable that after the articles of impeachment are filed there will be testimony to support the charge, that Mr. Knotts, or some of his police, or close friends, rounded up these law violators, and the suggestion was made to them that they appear before Mayor Knotts as city judge and plead guilty to operating these places in violation of the law, and that they would be fined, but the jail sentence, which is mandatory under the- law, would be suspended. Under this arrangement twenty-eight of the keepers of these places were fined $50 and costs each and sentenced to thirty days in Jall, the minimum punishment under the law. The $50 fines were'paid, but Mayor Knotts suspended the jail sentence and each defendant was paroled under the charge of the chief of police. "The law requires that when a convicted person has his sentence suspend-

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ed that he be paroled in custody of some person designated by- the court. So at the' present time twenty-eight blind tigec operators in Gary are practically the wards of the chief of police. Attorneys Mathews and Bruce, of the Anti-Saloon league, demanded, . that Knotts issue a mittimus and send these defendants to Jail. Knotts refused to do so on the ground that he had authority, to suspend sentence; that his jurisdiction in such cases la' concurrent with that of circuit and superior courts. WHAT STATE' EXPECTS TO SHOW. "Attorneys Bruce and Mathews expect to be able to show that not one of these' defendants was --arrested on a warrant, fcut they were notified either by members of -the police force or the friends of Mr. Knotts, or by telephone to come to the city hall, and when they got there they discovered that they were expected to 'plead guilty to violating the blind tiger law, and that the 'Big Smo'ke on the Reservation,' Thomas E. Knotts, 1 nhls capacity as city as E. Knotts, In his capacity as city to jail, as the laws says they must under such" convictions ( "Regardless of what Mayor Knotts did, the grand jury took, up the no-, torious violations of tne law in Gary. The grand Jury had a great deal of business on hand, and to aid Prosecutor Charles E. Green wald, Judge McMahan made this order: " "'And It appearing to -the court that it is necessary that" an assistant to the prosecuting attorney be appointed for the purpose of aiding in the work of the grand Jury, It is now by the court -ordered that Otto J. Bruce be, and he Is hereby appointed assistant prosecuting attorney to assist the prosecuting attorney Irr ., and for ., the thirty-first , judicial circuit of Indiana In the matters which may come before said grand jury, "and now comes Otto J. Brucei in "open court, and -is duly sworn as such assistant prosecuting attorney.'' "" - -"" ' . j ' ."V," '1 ' ITORTY-FOra. INDICTMENTS.' "The grand jury returned ; fortj-four indictments against the keepers of blind tigers and open saloons in Gary, and a large number of these were men to whom ''immunity baths' had been given them by Mayor Knotts, acting as city Judge. Sheriff Grant has arrested the following: John Bennett, Mathew McBride, Martin Bennett," Otto Matthies, Louis Baxter, Philip Casner and Helen Shaw, Steve Jursa, John Bilkovic, John Bonic, Nick Michollc, John Presiac, Morris Goldman, August Ambos, Joseph Galik, J. W. McKee, Peter Pisarsci and "Walter Fabianski, Kolman Sikora, J. . Benjamin Klein, Max Bernstein, Frank Zawadski, Frank Carey, Jacob Smith and Benjamin Smith, Anton Cremer, Paul Vidb, Jacob Labovich,, John . Krewis,' Charles Watson (druggist),. and - Tom . Margrames. Among those indicted is 'a man who occupied the basement of a building own.ed by Mayor Knotts, - in which he is sail to-iave'oi-aducted a blind tiger, run - a pokep game and operated an opl-, um den. .',". "It is expected1 when these impeachment proceedings are tried some very sensational testimony will be offered showing the workings of the Inner circle In the city affairs of Gary. A large number of ' witnesses will be subpoenaed, and several prominent attorneys will take part. r ' "Judge McMahan notified all of tire indicted saloon men of Gary to appear in his court Friday morning and arrange for trial. W. J. McAleer of Hammond, who represents most of the defendants, has prepared affidavits for a change of venue from Judge McMahan and some other judge will be appointed to conduct the trials."

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. Five Cubs and one White ; Sox were absolved from all suspicion of -intending to Join the holdout fraternity yesterday by the announcement of the receipt of their autographed contracts. President Murphy of the Cubs opened a stack of mail en his return from New Orleans, and at the conclusion of that task forwarded . to "President Lynch of the National league for approval the contracts of Clarence Beaumont, Frank Schulte, Zeezee Hagerman, Johnny Kane; and W. S. Davidson. In President Clmisky's mall was a signed document from John. Beall, making him a member of the White Sox family. None of the half dozen players- named is a stranget to Chicago rooters. Davidson Is, perhaps, the nearest to one, and he Is a Chicagoan himself. He was obtained from the Lincoln club of the Western league last fall, and reported for duty, playing in several games before the season ended. He made a good impression in the outfield. Davidson has played semi-pro baseoall here, but has been In professional ranks for five years, two of them with ,the Fort Dodge team of the old Iowa state league and the last three with Lincoln. He batted .295, and fielded well up among the gardeners last year. Beall also is known in local semi-pro circles, having played with the Logan Squares, from which team he was picked up by Comiskey last" spring. He made the California trip with the Sox, and was left at Los Angeles for the polishing process. The work was done so well that Beall is expected to make a strong- bid forth fist basing job .on the south side this year. He batted third in the Pacific coast league, with an average of .289 in 181 games. He is wintering in a suburb of Washington, D. C, and reports himself "feeling fine."

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BOWLERS HAVE A LARGEJTRY LIST Lists Closed Last Night for A. B. C. Event at . Detroit.

Detroit, Mich., Feb. 11. Entries to the tenth annual bowling tournament of the American Bowling Congress, which opens here Feb. 27. closed last night, midnight being set as the latest hour at which bowlers can get their entries accepted, letters postmarked later than that hour being scheduled for rejection by Secretary Abe Langtry. ; The Milwaukee man Issued his flal guess, on the total number of entries when he ventured the assertion that 380 five-man clubs would be In the big meet. Langtry has always been about 10 per cent under the final size of the list in his predictions, and the local officials are betting on over 400. ' Special railroad rates ta Detroit will be available every day the big meet is running, the A. B. C. having gained that concession for the first time in Its history. Guesses made last night by close students of the local situation placed the probable number of Chicago teams in the big meet at close to seventy, the predictions ranging all the way from fifty to the higher figure. One alley keeper claimed to have a list of sixtyeight clubs sure to go. but his figures generally were discredited. "With the teams from nearby points counted it is thought the state of Illinois will show up with nearly eight five-men teams in the big meet. Chicago sent fifty-three clubs to Milwaukee in 1905, the largest number of local clubs which has even taken part In a big meet.

Jimmy Esson and Raoul de Rouen should be one of the best contests of the season. They are the tallest and strongest men that could be brought together at this time outside of the real championship contenders, and as each Is looking for rr. ore and better matches In the immediate future the conflict should be stirring. Jimmy Esson, the giant Scot, who came to this country to tackle Frank Gotch, will get one bf the stlffest workOuts he has had In this ctmntry when he tackles Con O'Kelly . tonight at the Empire theater on the west side. The contest will be a handicap, Esson agreeing to throw the burly Irishman in a certain length of time, probably thirty minutes. That O'Kelly will make a desperate fight to foil the Scet is apparent from the method Con has adopnj of training for the struggle. O'Kelly has an ambition to beconSs a great fighter and Is using the wrestling game as a means of attaining his end. Tie is one of the roughest and toughest men. in the business and knows enough about the catch-as-catch-can to evtend the best of them. Tonight's bill will be a big double affair, as Jack Leon, known as the "Russian iGant," will be given a chance to show his mettle in a finish bout with Art King, a newcomer among the heavyweights.

(iELSOtl 111 POOR FORM

Rapid Change in Condition of Champion Causes Alarm in Camp.

, San Francisco, Feb. 11. Jack Robinson, Nelson's manager, expressed alarm today when word reached him that the durable Dane was down to 134 pounds, and he Immediately issued an ukase to cut out the medicine ball for a while and ease off on sparring. Nelson laughed at Robinson's fears and said he felt strong as ever. .. Fight fans are saying this looks like another case ot Joe Gans before he lost his championship ta Nelson. Gans lost weight rapidly. It may be that the constant training which Nelson has been doing is cutting in on his constitution. Gans never discovered until he got in the ring that, his old-time speed and strength had disappeared, and this symptom of rapidly losing weight may mean. that same thing for Nelson. The public believes in the Battler, however, and has made him a 10 to 7 favorite over Ad Wolgast. Pittsburg, Feb.' 11. The Natipnal Sporting club of. Pittsburg has virtually made arrangements to bring Nelson or Wolgast here and put either one of the fighters against the winner of the Madole-Dunn bout, to be held at New Castle next week. The local boys realize the importance of their coming battle and are training hard for vic-

SALT LAKE CITY ON MAP AGAIN Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 11. The business men of this olty and state have rallied to the support of "Tex" Rickard. This -was RIekard's declaration following a conference with officials of the Salt air Beach company, with which he has a contract to stage the Jeffries-Johnson bouU It Is stated an attempt will be made to buy out Gleason. The proposition may be submitted to him today, but the sum to be offered Is not mentioned.

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Spauldirig to Take Picked Team to South America in Fall.

Cincinnati, O., Feb. 11. Acting for A. G. . Spaulding and under 'his direction, Frank A. Bancroft, business manager of the Reds, now is figuring the expenses, route and date for a tour" of South America, which will be taken next fall by an "All American" team under the direct supervision of Bancroft. At the close of the season the team is to be picked by Mr. Spaulding and Mr. Bancroft and will leave in a short time thereafter for South America. Mr. Bancroft says untojd opportunities are offered by the trip and that they will visit Buenos Ayres, Rio de Janeiro; Montevideo, and other capitals 'and Important cities in that country. He saes they i will have enough games to keep them busy the greater part of the fall and winter. t "Understand, we are not trying to put bull fighting out of business," said Bancroft today. "We simply want to give them real baseball In the way. 'she' ought to be played. I don't think they ;are totally Ignorant about the game there, but fel sure we will get enough star players to make the trip to trim some of those chaps in South .America." LANGFORD ANeTtONY ROSS ARE MATCHED Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 11. The National Sporting club .of Pittsburg yesterday

afternoon closed with Sam Langford and Tony Ross to fight six rounds In Pittsburg March 3. The deal has been on for weeks and was closed today by wire with Los Angeles. "Ross Is one of the five men in the country whom the police of Pittsburg think good enough to go into the ring with Langford, the others being Johnson, Jeffries, Ketchel and Papke. Director of Public Safety John Morin some time ago refused to permit Montana Jack Sullivan and Langford to

fight in Pittsburg, saying Sullivan was no match for the colored man. In naming the five, however, Morin evidently had no idea that Flynn would make such a showing against Langford, else, he admits tonight, he would have Included Flynn among those who could fight Langford. THERE'S A CEA3TCB . THAT TOO OUGHT NOT TO POSTPONE THAT SHOPPING" ANT. LONGER. READ THE TIMES' AOS A1V' SEE IF THIS U HOT SO.

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