Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 89, Hammond, Lake County, 2 October 1911 — Page 1

WEATHER. , UNSETTLED TODAY AND TUESDAY, WITH SHOWERS. '

VOL. YL, NO. 89. What Did Judge Vernon Van Fleet Mean When He Said That Some of Bribery Cases May Never Get in Court for Trial? DATA ON GARY BRIBERY CASES The llnt of the Gary bribery eased wfll be trld dnrlnc the first part of out month la Valparaiso. City Engineer Wllllston Trill be the first to face the Jury. Of the foqr canes to be tried at Valparaiso' Mayor Knotts will go oa trial last. Attorneys for the state are satis fied that trials are to be held In Porter coaaty. Judge Van Fleet's statement on the bench that It Is quite probable that some of the eases will never come to trial causes some speculation. It will be some time in November before the curtain rings up in the Gary bribery trials. That means that the hearings of the first batch of cases is from five to six weeks away. Four of the defendants, City Engineer Williston, Councilman Bowser, ex-Works Commissioner Nyhoff and Mayor Knotts, having demanded and secured a change of venue from the county, will be tried in Valparaiso in the order mentioned. The other defendants, Eolice Szymanski, Councilmen Baukus, Gibson, Siymanski and Simiasko, will have their hearing 'trt-Lake county, but not until the Porter county end of the graft drama Is staged and through mlttr-- r What Did the Judge Mean? When Special Judge Van Fleet sitting at Crown Point on Saturday stated (Continued on page S.) Lake county although a big railroad center is not being affected by the walkout of twenty-five thousand men on the Illinois Central and the Harriman lines. The nearest place to Lake county where the strike is being felt is at the Burnside shops of the Illinois Central road. Thus far the trouble Is confled to the Harriman and I. C. lines. The lines running through Lake county are either independent or affiliated with the New York Central system or as it is also known the Vanderbilt system.' Gibson . is the Lake county headquarters for the New York central lines, and there it was said this morning, that no effects of the Harrian and I. C. road troubles were being felt. Four young fellows were sentenced to Jeffersonville by Judge Johannes Kopelke this morning. Nick Katana adn Miak Toese were charged with stealing a box of shoes from Israel Bruzowski. The shoes were valued at 33. The young men were each sentenced to from one to fourteen years, were fined $5 and costs and disfranchised for five years. Clements Mejeral, charged with breaking into the store of Steve Kaan, 'was sentenced to Jeffersonville from one to fourteen years and was disfranchised for five years. He also fined $5 and costs. Harry Reeves was arrested for stealing a suit of clothes and a watch and chain from Edward Filan, and upon being arraigned before Judge Johannes Kopelke, was sentenced to from one to fourteen years in the penitentiary, fined f5 and costs and disfranchised for five years. The plan of having criminals bound oyer to the grand jury before the lawyers can get to them in the county Jail is said to be productive Of results In 1 that they plead guilty instead of putting up a fight in court.

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The body of the young woman found recently In the Gary harbor slip ts not that cf Mrs. Bessie Webster as was believed at one time. Dr. Homer Elgin Webster, or ''Harry E. Webster," yesterday dispelled the mystery surrounding the murder of his wife, Bessie Kent Webster, by the simple statement that he was her murderer. Ho said he had taken her to a boyhood playground; a lonely ravine ilear Dixon, III. and stabbed her to death,- Moreover, he said he was guilty of bigamy. He had taken two wives within a week. While the police were searching for him" Saturday night, he was at a downtown hotel with his first wife, who was Ignorant not only of the killing of her rival, but also that he had ever existed. He gave but one reason for the murder. HIs'second wife continued to annoy and embarass him. and her death seemed to be the only solution of his difficulties. Webster also was in love with an elrter sister of the woman he murdered. It is said. The sister Is Kathertne Kent, divorced wife of a man named Newberger, - . John P. Stanner, a brother-in-law of Bessie Kent Webster, is said to have admitted Webster's infatuation for the sister. :.f ' ,- - . ! . v '

HAMMOND NEEDS FEW MORE POLICE Burglaries Due to Fact That Beats Take "Up "Too" " Much Territory." ' No new clues have been learned by the local police in clearing up some of the recent robberies which have occurred in the past month. The local department has been working hard on the recent robberies, but has been unable to connect with the guilty parties. "One man was arrested last week on suspicion, but we were not able to prove anything against him. said Chief Austgen this morning. "In his clothes were found a razor and a candle and we know he is a thief, but when we do not get them In the act of robbery we canno prosecute them." Some of the robberies have been done by local talent and I think it Is some of the foreigners who are out of work and have to get money some way. They are not professionals, because they will not take anything but what is valuable. A professional thief will take anything he can lay his hands on and will take chances on disposing of It. Chief Austgen said: "The fellows who entered the E. & F. clothing store and other, loop stores were, from Chicago and we will have little chance of getting them. The last we saw or heard of them were on the north side . when they inulred which car they should take for Chicago. 'They were the right fellows, as they had two new suit cases which were stolen.". - "I could , use more men if I could have them." said Chief Austgen, "but the law only allows one officer to thousand population, so what am I go ing to do. "Our city is spread out so that it Is impossible for an officer to watch a territory covering a mile and see ev erything going on. Take the district on the north side whore an officer has to cover and is only able to cover, one street a night. It is easy for a rob berto wait till he roes by and then enter some home. We are up against a mean proposition and we should have more men." . .' PRONOUNCE MAN Z Mathias Gusenburger, 307 East State street, 60 years old, was found insane before Judge Prest this morning and will be taken to Crown Point this noon where he will be held awaiting his ad mittance at Logansport. The Inquest was held, before Judge Prest and Drs., Weis and Buchanan rendered the verdict of insanity, stating that the man was not violent and was curable. Gusenburger is said to have attempted suicide a number of times and he is destructive, wanting to break windows and furniture. He is quiet at times, and . is known to have nOt-spoken a word to anybody in a. month. He has been under treatment at St. Margaret's hospital, but they were unable to help him any.

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AVIATOR MEETS WITH ISHA (Special Huntington, to Thb Times.) Ind.,' Oct. 2. After waiting for several hours for the storm to abate C. P. Rodgers attempt to renew his attempted flight across the continent today. In attempting to get off the ground in the high wind his machine turned turtle. So far as can be learned, he was not hurt, but his machine was wrecked and it will take him several days before the damage can be repaired and he can continue on his jour ney. TAG DAY PLANS MADE BY LADIES Vari-Colored Badges Will Henceforth Be Things of the Past. Hammond's tag day, Saturday, Oct. lith, is not to be marked by the vari colored badges of former years, which showed the amount of money the person tagged had donated.' This was decided upon last week at a conference between Mrs. Will Lash, tag day chairman of the philanthropic committee of the Hammond's Woman's club, and Mrs. I. I. Modjeska, chairman for the Jewish Ladies' Aid society, who have the arrangements in hand. . . The two chairmen for tag day will impress upon the workers not to solicit any contributions from any on the strength of any mutual church affilia tion that the worker and , the person whom she approaches may have, nor to solicit in behalf of any particular cause Other than that for which the two or ganizatlons are pledged; to-wit: to help the needy in general. ; It appears that in former years some of the workers misunderstood the mission in which they worked with the result that there have been misunderstandings. Thus far everything augurs well for the success of the day two weeks hence. By adopting a uniform colored tag and eliminating the amount tag, the chairman hope to obviate a criti cism that has been heard last year. The kind ladles who are willing to work for sweet charity's sake are prof itlng by the experience of former years with the result that they have every reason to expect the support of every person in the community. University Club Meeting. It is expected that there will be a director's meeting of the University club some time this week. President Emery stated today that he would see some of the directors and . that he would arrange for he meeting to suit their convenience.

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V.. South Lake County Men Are Making Many Sales in High Priced Farm Lands and Many Instances Are Recorded. There is a remarkable amount of speculation in farm lands in the vi cinity of Crown Point and-Lowelt of late, and some great deals are reported. In fact, the people in the central and southern part of the county are said to be farm "land mad and everybody who can spare the money is mak ing investments in farm property. The stories they tell of deals that have been made lately are on a par with the stories that went out of Gary in the palmy days two years ago. Here are a few samples. Two years ago Clark Leary bought a farm from William Hayden for $113 an acre. Ho got . two . bumper crons off from It and then sold it to a man by the name of Meyer for J140 an acre. Ernest Hummell . brought twelve Champaigne ahd-Urbana (111.) men to Crown Point to look at faftn land. They could -not buy anything worth while for less than $125 to $160 an acre. Tom Strickland bought. William Kobelin's 160 acres for $92.50 an acre and Strickland afterwards refused $115 an acre for the same farm. George W. Lawrence is, probably one of the most successful dealers in farm land in Lake county. Lawrence bought 640 acres of farm land for $40 an acre six years ago and recently sold it for $100 an , acre. A man by the name cf Benton mought 320 acres of it and sold it to an Urbana man for $135 an acre. There are other instances in which from $10 to $20 an acre has been made in farm lands in Lake county. There are a large number of deals being made every month, and big profits are reported. No one seems to know where the matter will stop. Van Buren Street Bids. The . board of public works at its session this morning adopted a resolution for the Ven Buren street pavement and asked for bids on the same. Similar action was taken in the matter of the Detroit street sewer. ; The contract for the Benedict avenue pavement was awarded to the Ahlborn Construction company, and on the petition of property owners, Steve Langohr was appointed inspector. Plans and specifications for a local sewer in Atchison aW-enue were adoptThe contract for, the Carroll street walks was awarded to Albert Rose. CLASSIFIED ADVEHTISIXG sells salable property RE.ADILY aa makes 11 GOOD property "saleable.

BISHOP: ALERDING III LAKE COUNTY . - "j High Catholic Dignitary Futs in Busy Day For This Region. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Herman J. Alerding of the Ft. Wayne Roman Catholic diocese yesterday completed his visitations to the various Lake County congregations, and the confirmation of classes in connection, and left for Valparaiso, where he confirmed a class of seventy-five at St. Paul's church. Tho church dignitary arrived in Hammond last Friday evening after having spent the week in the southern part of the county. He appeared in three Hammond congregations yesterday. St. Joseph's St. Casimer's and St. Adelbert's in Robertsdale. Bishop Alerdlng was at St. Joseph's church for the morning service. He said low mass at eight o'clock, and confirmed a class of nearly three hundred in nze nigu mass, wnicn was saia ij y the Rev. Badina. Fred Humpfer and Mrs. Charles Stommel acted as sponsors for the confirmation class. At three o'clock he appeared at St. Casimer'S church on ' Cameron street, where he confirmed as class of one hundred and fifty-five. At seven o'clock in the evening he confirmed a class of eight-five at St. Adelbert's church. Last week he visited' the congregations at Crown Point, Klassville, Scherervllle, Dyer, St. John and Hanovor Center. Wherever he appeared he addressed the congregation, and in all he found much to praise. SOUTH SHORE OFFICIALS QUIT C. E. Palmer, superintendent of the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Railway company, and T. M Childs, superintendent of euipment and motive power of tho same line, have tendered their resignations to accept positions elsewhere. Mr. Palmer leaves the South Shore Oct. 15, and Mr. Childs severs his connection two weeks later. Mr. Palmer resigns to become general superintendent of the Fort Wayne and Northern Indiana Traction company, with headquarters in Fort Wayne. . The new position comes to Mr. Palmer in the way of a promoton, and while his friends . will regret his departure from the city, all will be interested in the success with which he is meeting. Mr. Palmer came here Two years ago and his services with the South Shore have been of value. Michigan City News. W. A. Kill Interested. It is reported that W. A. Hill has purchased a large amount of stock in the Hammond Steel Barrel Co. and that at the first meeting of the . stockholders, which will be held in Hammond in a few days, he will be elected treasurer of the new company. -.... Mr. Hill admitted that he had bought some of the stock of the new company, but said that the amount of his purchase, had been greatly exaggerated. He said that he could have the office of treasurer of the company if he de--sired it. ' . ' CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING will "make" yonr banlnfM enterprise If 4t Is one that ousbt to be "made."

(r.-aelal to Tra T; i.) Whiting, Ind., Oct. 2. A tctsati. kidnaping case came to lixht hr 1 night Theodore P. LesMr or Oa City.; Pa., haa been in Whiting at out wet "J, but none dreamed that he-wa walii 'Z; to get an opportunity to klinap .tt little girla, Dorothy and Ituth, ar and 7 yeare. XAsser pulled oft this stunt yesterday afternoon. " - About two montha ago lire. Leaser and her children came, here from City and have since been at the horn of her-parents, Mr. and ' lira, f Csail Kadw o Schrage avenue. Saturday afternoon Lesser -went to ' tb "K3ow hbm and asked to take the chll'ren to the park. He did not return wit them and when Mrs. Lesser came home from

work in Chicago he investigated, arid TOLL OF AUSTIN FLOOD DIOACTZr; NEWS III ZTZ. T Dead now estimated about 2 30. Bodies recovered, 18. Houses destroyed, 500. Money loss. $5,000,000. State of Pennsylvania to fix blame. . , Governor Tener in personal command of relief. Funeral pyre for bodies of forey victims. Water famine threatened. Vandals will be shot on the spot. MILK WAR MAY BEGIN AT HDD Crown Point Doesn't Fancy Raise: in.- irill'Jr!5c:,-. Little Bit. (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., Oct. 2. Crown Point's dairymen and milk dealers will start on their new schedule of prices

this month and the alleged "milk- j last resort Dean is to be arrested on combine" have printed notices so that j flimy pretext lnthe hope that the very the consumers may be aware of their ( fact of his arrest would Impeach his rules and demands. Milk will be raised testimony before the Jury, one cent per quart from six to seven! According to repeated reports. In a cents and cream also gets a big raise j Gary paper, which is seeking to beskyward. The action of the dealers i3 j fuddle the issues and throw in the eyes meeting with a good deal of protest ' of the people. Dean Is to be arrested befrom the consumer. It being said that 'cause he swore in an affidavit that one or more of the interested parties Mayor Thomas E. Knotts accepted $5.were forced into the combine by threats ' 000 in bribe money three dsys before . of a cut to three cents per quart If j the money is alleged to have' actually they did not accede to their demands. It.been accepted. is also reported that an independent There is' no ' question that Dean did concern will soon be started that will swear that the crime had een commlt-

1 mk at the o)d prlceSi flrst settlng the customers to sign contracts to take milk of them if they can at the old schedule. : . What the outcome wll be of the latest phase in the milk business no one knows, but some interesting developments rare expected in the near future, and as. Is the general rule of things in a price raising or cutting was the populace way to get the benefit of it by being furnished with free milk with a china pitcher thrown in before the matter is adjusted. TOMATOES ARE SPOILING HI FIELD One Lowell Man Gave Away 50 Bushels to Keep Them From Spoiling. v hile people in Hammond are pay-I ing 15 cents a plate for tomatoes in

the restaurants and while the grocers since the men walked out at 10 a. m. are making fancy prices from the" sale Saturday last, A riot developed shortof them, the report comes from Lowell K . , - ' . . . . that W. E. Belshaw, the father of At--ly.b,ore-.1 a",m Outside the shops at torney J. w. Belshaw, gave away 60. Burnside, when strikers and their bushels of fine ripe tomatoes to prevent sympathizers set upon and severely them from, spoiling. ; ?beat a strike" breaker on. bJs way to Hundreds of working men In Ham-' . Bricks were thrown with aemond. East Chicago and Gary would worKV "CKS were , tnrown inn achave been glad to purchase these to- cursey and numerous blows , were matoes in a city market at a moderate struck, and the result was a hurry call price, but owing to the enormous prof- to the police stations at Kensington Jf .ll the jniddieman. and Jhe and South Chicago. Four or five pafact that there are no city market, . - . . - , v where the farmer; can 'deaialrecttr ' rol 'wagons were- Immediately rushed with the consumer, . the cost of living to the scene and one arrest was madev is just as high as if there was a famine ' ' N .; '' : '

In the land, - y-' Those who come from the country districts south of the ;. manufacturing districts of Lake county say that fruit is rotting on the ground because the farmers will not accept the small prices that are offered by the middlemen. THERE'S A - CHANCE THAT YOB OUGHT-NOT TO POSTPONE THAT "SHOPPING ANT LONGER, -READ THE TIMES' ADS AND SEE IF THIS IS NOT SO.

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