Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 14, Hammond, Lake County, 6 May 1911 — Page 1

LAW TIME WKATHEIU FAIR TODAY AND WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT THE TIMES? TOMORROW; NO CHANGE 1 in TEMPERATURE. VOL. I., NO. 14. MAY 6, 1911. EIGHT PAGES. SATURDAY AND "WEEKLY EDITION.

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ELECTIHM -CHARGED WITH A- WSS fflfil

Young: Girls Bring: Shocking Accu sations Against Prominent Members of Warring Factions

HAMMOND POLICE IN POSSESSION OF CONFESSION, FINNERUN OUT UNDER $3,500 BONDS IN CHICAGO

Sisters of St. Francis Prosecuting the Men Said to Have Lured Girls of Tender Age From Hospital, Where Wifft of One Lay 111 in Ward.

James Finneran, president of the Electrical Work

ers Union No. 571, was arrested in Hammond last night.

by a deputy from the sheriff's office of Cook county on

the charge of ruining 15 - year he assisted in running away

The detailed charges against Finneran are unprintable GIRLS MAKE WRITTEN CONFESSION.

In a written confession Clara Scheppman, 16 years Robert O'Connor and Martin

leaders of the utterly discredited union, are also charg

ed with having attempted Finneran.

ONE ARRESTED f TWO ' ATXARGE.

Finneran is under $3,500 bond, still at liberty, there being no other

made by the girls, and according to which they cannot be reached by the law. The news of Finneran's arrest came like a crash and

tore the last prop from under the structure, which Finneran, O'Con nor and Carmody built for property destruction and soul assas

sination, in the Calumet region where they carried on tteir dastardly

war fare for years. WAYLAID ON WAY TO CHURCH.

The ruination of the two girls by the three pirates of unionism has its counterpart in Faust. Reared in lan atmosphere of religion,

they were waylaid on their way to

gies across the state line into West Hammond, where on one occasion only the trees and the skies above were witnesses to Finneran's fiendish act, when having Evelyn Florin at his mercy, he overpow

ered her, and told her cries were in LURED INTO WINE ROOMS. On another occasion, according to into a wine room into the rear of This statement brought forth another

saloonkeeper had always traveled under a cloak of respectability.

iney told tne police how they were given "pop" to drink here, which

made them "dopey," how Finneran wrestled , with Clara Scheppman for twenty minutes to overpowered her and succeeded, and how Carmody in actions indescriable attempted to accomplish what Finneran had succeeded in on a former occasion. Evelyn Florin is the daughter of a large and poor family which lives in St. Joseph, Mo. She has been in St. Margaret's hospital for the past seven months. Clara Scheppman Is an orphan, 'who has been in St. Margaret's hospital for the past two years. HOW THEY MET THE ELECTRICIANS. - They became acquainted with the electricians when the latter did some wiring at the hospital. About six weeks ago they disappeared from the institution and three weeks ago they were discovered by the Hammond police in Garden, III., a little town near Jollet where they staid with the Scheppman girl's aunt. In the written confession that the girls made at the hospital for the benefit of the chief of police and Attorney F. Reilly, of the firm of Reilly and Hard-, they said they renewed their acquaintance with the electricians during I,ent as they went from the hospital to St. Joseph's church to attend the Lenten services on Wednesday and Friday nights. CONFESSION INVOLVES OTHERS.

Their confession also Involves O'Hara, an electrician and friend of the ring leaders, residing at 148 Dearborn street, in Hammond. He permitted Finneran and Carmody to harbor the girls in his place for some time until they could get out of town. O'Connor, who is now employed on the bridge work on Holiman street, appears in still a darker light, when it is remembered that at this time his wife, who had given birth to a child, lay dying at St. . Margaret's hospital and subsequently did die. It was Finneran, Carmody and O'Connor who were each fined $200 in the Ike circuit court at Crown Point last Tuesday for participating in a riot in Gary last fall. Several years ago Finneran was charged with manslaughter, the case having grown out of afight In which he participated. He knocked his opponent down, the latter strikng his head against tha pavement and dying as a result. CARMODY HAS POLICE RECORD. Carmody has been arrested repeatedly t in labor plots, and the police now have a copy of the San Francisco Examiner of April 27th, in which his picture is shown and his prison number is given at 18,552. Chief Austgen, the two girls and Attorney Reilly went before the Cook county grand jury two weeks ago and presented what evidence they had against the three. Inasmuch as the girls testified that they were assaulted In "West Hammond, Cook county, the charges were preferred against Finneran there. Finneran, Carmody and O'Connor had been to Gary last night. They stabled their horse at Whitaker's livery barn and Finneran was arrested there upon calling for his horse. Clara Scheppman's written statement and a letter from Evelyn Florin's mother are subjoined. Clara Scheppman's expurgated statement is as follows: "We made a practice of going out with James Finneran and Robert O'Con(Contlnued on page 8.)

- old Evelyn Florin, whom

from St. Margaret's hospital. that Evelyn and her friend old, also an inmate, made, Carmody, two of the ring the crimes charged against .li. while Carmody and O'Connor are charge against them than that church, and taken away in bug vain. . 4 the -girls' confession, they were lured Carl Heins' saloon in West Hammond surprise because of the fact that the

PRESENT NEW

, EVIDENCE Kvidence will be presented to the next Cook county grand Jury In which Carmody is to be charged with assist ing in drugging the girls in Heins wineroom, this being evidence which the girls gave Attorney Reilly and Chef Austgen only after the indictment against Finneran had been returned. Should the grand jury return an In dictment Carmody will then be charged with the attempt of the act for which Finneran stands accused. Ground will be broken next Monday for the $25,000 administration building of the Lincoln-Jefferson university, the contract having been awarded to J. H. Mv-t'lay of Hammond last evening. The plans for the building which were drawn by Architects Bump & Berry have been completed for some time and are designed to give at once much needed space to the constantly growing school, as well as make the building one of the most handsome in Hammond. The university has 100-foot frontage on the west side of Hohman street at the corner of Ogden street and just south of the First Presbyterian church. The first building will be erected in the center fifty feet in order to allow for additions on both sides in the course of time. Several months ago the Calumet In stitute of Science and Literature was incorporated at Indianapolis with a capital stock of $200,000, this company being composed of the men at the head of the . Lincoln-Jefferson university. It is In the nature of a holding company for the university, having a greater capitalization than the latter and a wider scope for operation. The Lincoln-Jefferson university has been most successful and is still growg7"T5TrrTne' meli'at the bead saw op-1 portunities to grow still faster and immediately, and. therefore, conceived the idea of selling preferred stock in the Calumet Institute. About $r.0.000 worth of this preferred stock is to be put on the market, and so readily has it taken in the short time that by far more than half of this amount has been disposed of already. The money thus raised Is to be used, first in the erection of t lie administration building, to carry on an advertising campaign of national scope to liquidate on the outstanding bills and thus save the discount and to eliminate the wholetsale of the copyrighted books of the institution, putting their money into a good money-earning proposition. At present the Lincoln-Jefferson university has its headquarters in the Hammond building, the quarters there are by fa too small. It is hoped that the new building will be completed by next fall and ready for occupancy. The building for which ground is to be broken next Sunday is to be two stories in heighth and is to have a basement. For the present this building will afford storage, office and class rooms for the resident class in the department. It will be of brick and stone construction and be 75x50 in length and width. , Nearly all the stock in the Caltfmet Institute, which has been disposed, has been sold in Lake county, where the investors had an opportunity to become personal!- acquainted with the school and Its character. "BESS" GAR8ER TAKE! II FORSPEEDIHG Theatrical Man Is Rudely Treated by Cops and Pictures Will Show It. It. K. Garber, the theatrical magnate, better known in Hammond as "Bess" Garber. came to grief last night when he was halted by Captain Rlmbach for fast driving in his new $6,000 auto. Bess is in the show business on Cottage Grove avenue, near Sixty-third street, where he is doing well. The pictures of "Bess" are to tie reproduced as he speeded through the Hammond business district. These will be thrown" on a screen in the city court before Judge Barnett on the 8th day of May, and In the meantime "Bess" is out on bond, and says he will speed no more. Whether he will use his new motion pictures for his show Is not known. He came out to Hammond yesterday to make a social call on some of his old friends and thought he would give the boys a good time and give them all a ride. Ben Bell, who was one of the occupants of the car. did not seem to think "Bess"' was treated squarely, as Ben said the machine couldn't go more than, eight miles an hour if given a chane. and that the speedometer only registered fix miles an liur.

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PRETTY ARMY GIRL WILL BECOME , BRIDE OF A LIEUTENANT SOON

&?-JVU33 LUCY Miss Lucy Lee Gauard, daughter be married to Lieutenant Victor L. COMSS (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, lnd., Slay 6. An interesting session of the county commissioners la promised for this afternoon or Monday moriing, Avhen the question of John Hillman's refusal to sign the viewers' report favoring cobble stone on certain roads in Lake county will' come up. I Ilillman Is the only man of the viewers who : persist en and -consistently. feprcsPrrtVd tWwln'i1bt tte people in tbis matter of opposing the use of cobble stone on the country roads of the county. Evry effort has been made by those who have a corner on the visible supply of cobble stone to Induce him to recede from his position, but he has refused . to do so. There is considerable question as to AGIST ft ST. CLOSIUG Hammond Police Commissioner Comes Out Square-, ly Against Proposition. William Thompson, one of the leading citizens on the north side and at present a member of the Hammond police commission, js positively opposed to the closing of Jolinson .street. He informed City Attorney John Gavit yesterday that he could secure a j petition signed by 3 00 persons whose names do not appear on the remonstrance which was recently filed in court. Gavit informed him that it is not necessarily thf number of remonstrators. but the arguments they have to back up their remonstrance that is important. Thompson stands ready at any time to secure a brand new petition with 100 names on if if it Is necessary. CHAMBERLAIN HYDE IS UNDER CHARGES Chas. H. Hyde, city chamberlain of New York, has been indicted for bribery for accepting $13,000 from the Carnegie Trust Co., in return for coercing Joseph G. Robin to make a loan of $138,00-0 to the Carnegie bank. He has resigned.

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1 ILL GAUARD o of Colonel Gauard, of Ft. Myer, will Foster on May 31. ISIIOf! TODAY what effect Hillman's failure to sign this report will have. Some say that the viewers' report will not be legal without Hillman's signature. - The boldness with which the "cobble stone people have been attempting to force their product upon Iaka oounty is one of the marvels of those wlio are close to the situation.- - The county commissioners 'will wind up the saloon license business this afternoon.'TTurlng the present scsslm "148 saloon licenses have been renewed, 47 have been transferred and 12 or 15 have been refused. . A number of road matters were attended to and the contracts for some small culverts were. let. The Knglehart roads, 3, 2, and 3, were let yesterday. Other road matters will come up this afternoon. BASEBALL SEASON TO open !'i hmmond Big Doings at H. A. A. Park When Crown Point Fans Ccme to Tpwn. Tomorrow will be one of the biggest days tiiat Hammond has ever seen among the baseball fans, when Crown Point will line up against the H. A. A. team at the 11. A. A. grounds tomorrow afternoon at the local opening game in the Northern Indiana Baseball. League. In the morning a large delegation will meet the Crown Point players at the 10:05 Krie and will escort them to the grounds. ' Crown Point will send up a big crowd to help bring home the laurels to the county seat. The game will be called at 3:15 sharp and Mayor Smalley lias been selected to pitch the first ball of the season. Manager Ketehel is giving his team a good workout this afternoon and thinks his men in the best of shape, and is confident of victory tomorrow, as he has one of the strongest lineups of any team ever seen in Hammond. John K. McGarry has donated a large loving cup which will be presented to the team winning the pennant for three years. The learn that wins the flag year will keep the cup for the ensuing season until some other team wins. JOINT INSTITUTE MEETS TODAY The last teachers Institute of North and Calumet townships and the towns of Griffith, Highlands and Munster is being held today in the high school building at Hammond. The program is generally a Kiley program. Among the subjects are: I,ife and Works of James Whitcomb P.iley, by F. W. Tove. A visit to Riley, by J. W. Hough. Readings from Riley, by the Misses Iaura Iennertz and Constance Gustafson. Sent to Lcgansport. The remains of William Murphy will be shipped to Logansport, Jnd.. from Lansing tomorrow morning on the 11:17 Pennsylvania train. At Logansport funeral services and Interment will take place. ... Mr. Murphy is survived by a brother. George I). Murphy, . who lives at 523 Oakley avenue. .The body will be. taken to I.anying by carriage, leaving the iioiifc at 9 a. m.

NEW NEWSPAPER

QUARTER MILLION BEHIND IT

That a brand new newspaper for the Calumet re

gion, with $250,000 back of it is to be started shortly, is the story that comes from Chicago. The paper, it is de

clared, will be published in Gary and will be either independent or democratic in politics. The men behind

the venture are experienced newspaper men, and it is understood that they have been at work forming a stock

company, including moneyed men of the region, for over a year. Every effort was made to keep the plans secret.

HOB. IP -10 It's up to the electrical workers of local 571 to show cause why the painters should in the future, participate in a sympathetic strike. This is said to have been a sentiment expressed at a meeting of the painters local last night, while others of the craft went farther and said it would be followed in the future. Had it been known, at the meeting last night that the president of 571, James Finneran, had been indicted and arrested on a charge which, if proven, will discredit him and his labor pirates forever in this region, some other action would have been taken, judging from the expressions of union painters today. "Why should we sympathize with them any longer when they themselves don't know what they are striking for," said one union painter today who stands for decency and order. "By that I do not mean that we will work on jobs where non-union lathers or plasterers have been employed, but as far as I am concerned the electrician will have t show ua in the; JEuture where theyare- in -the right." ' , The past record of Finneran, Carmody and O'Connor is so. rank and odious that the stinkpot which the Cook county grand jtry opened with the Indictment of Finneran would have been unnecessary to bring about a break with the electricians and the other unions all along the line. Public sentiment is practically crystalized In favor of the contractors for refusing to deal with the electrical organization, which has for years stood for everything that is dirty underhanded and despicable in unionism. Contractor J. I.t. McClay, who 'has been bearing the brunt of the attacks, said this morning that his work was moving along smoothly. In the railroad situation everything was quiet today. From Gibson it was reported that enough men are at work in the maintenance of way department to keep things in moving order. The strike of the maintenance of way men has jiot spread any and the strikers have been supplanted by other laborers and section foremen. Arizona Concern With Indiana Offices at Gary Is Limited by Secretary of State and Conforms to the Indiana Law. IKS IllHKAl. Indianapolis. Indr., May 6. Herman I Conter, deputy secretary of state, was compelled to use his official "blue pencil" on the application oi Mississippi Valley Fixture Company A . i tnv QrlmilnT1 tn nnpratft the of in thic . 1 1 a on1 tx-Vipti he hati romnleted his work the powers of the corporation in Indiana had been restricted to the mere dealing in fixtures for various kinds of business rooms. As the application was tiled, it proposed to give the concern ail the rights that are granted to corporations of all sorts formed under the Indiana law. Under that law, corporations may be formed to do any one of about thirty things, but such an organization may not do more than any one of the thirty. ho Arizona concern elected to come Into the state under Paragraph 15 tit the law, which provides for the organization of concerns for buying and selling merchandise and conducting mercantile operations and to manufacture such articles of merchandise as

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CHARTER ' PETITION EXC1DED

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