Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 155, Hammond, Lake County, 19 December 1911 — Page 8
6 THE TIMES. Tuesday, Pec. 19, 1911.
3.000.000 PIPE ORDER
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The - most optimistic report of the year, for the Lorain Tube Mills, was announced by the Steel Corporation Saturday, when an order for 300 miles of steel pipe was placed with the company. The pipe will be used to carry natural gas from Row Island to CaiKary, Alberta. Canada and will cost
about J3.000.000. For many reasons the local plant wll hav preference over all others when the work is assigned. The local plant, besides being the largest tube mill of. the corporation. Is alos the best situated for shipments to Canada, as the pipe. If made here, could be loaded directly to freighters and shipped by water to Duluth which is at least onethird of th distance to Calgary. As the shipment will fill 2.500 cars when loaded "for rail shipment, the convenience the water route would grive cannot be overestimated. The pipe can also be manufactured at " less expense at Lorain than anywher else. Shipment will begin Jan. 1. 1912. The order; If given to the local plant, will mean the employment of many additional mei. Tubing is the specialty of the Ijorain mills and steel workmen are jubilant over the hi;? order which would keep' the miHs busy for many months. Iorain (O. ) News.
JUDGE RULES AGAINST DEFENSE IN BRIBERY CASE (Continued from Vag 1.)
of the defendant and the equally and almost , frantic efforts of the defense t i again have this testimony excluded from the evidence on the grounds that
it was irrelevant.
Hut aftox an hour's 'argument had been ended1, to which the jury was not
allowed to listen, the court ruled once more that the state had the right to introduce the evidence in this case as ending to show the Inclinations of the
defendant. It was a stunning blow to i the defense. The court also, refused to permit the defense to make the overruled objection to the dictograph put In the record nor would Judge Van Fleet make the state elect which of the two counts on the affidavit it would stand on. Attorney Louis I. Gottlieb was put on the stand and testified that he had drawn up the junk dealer's ordinance at the solicitation of Lee Nowltcki, a Gary Junk dealer. y He said that Mayor Thomas E. Knotts heard him and Gibson talking over the franchise and. heard Gibson say that he wanted $25 for his vote on the ordinance. Knotts and Gottlieb then framed It up to catch Gibson in much the same way that It has been asserted .they were themselves caught by Thomas B. Dean later on. Harry Hall and W. F. . Feuer were let in on the deal and helpe4xto set the trap (or Gibson. ' Four five-dollar bills were perforated with pinholes. In three of them Feuer put five pinholes and on one of them Gottlieb put three pin holes. Gottlieb then paid Gibson the money and he was at once j arrested on a warrant sworn out by Mayor Thomas E. Knotts. This Is the story that was told of the first grafting deal In which Gibson is alleged to have been caught. Then Knotts was a party to the trap-spring
ing deal. Now Knotts and Gibson are in the same boat, with rean as the trap-springer. That Is said to account for the failure of Knotts and Marltn
to appear against Gibson.
But the telling of the story did not
end the matter. There was plenty of
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holes in the money and that after Gibson was arrested and the money had been found In his pocket that he had identified the bill as being the same ones that he hadperforated. Harry Hall testified in a similar manner. It was as this juncture that Knotts and Martin would -bave been called to the stand but they had left the cly and could not be subpoenaed. Then the state iritroueed a subpoena which indicated on the return blank that Alderman Baukus could not be located and had left the state. This mads thre witnesses which apparently had fled because their testimony would have
incriminated the defendant. The three
are Knotts, who had Gibson arrested
Martin, who arrested him, and Baukus
who is said to have made a confession implicating Gibson.
The statement was made by the at
torneys for the state that the criminal case against Gibson is now pending In
the Lake Superior Court. The success of the state in securing the introduction
of the junk dealers ordinance graft case
In evidence caussi a tremendous sensa
tion In Crown Point.'
But this was but one of two import
ant victories for the state. It will ba
remembered that yesterday the defense
put Stenographer Himmelblau on the stand and made it appear that he was a very incompetent stenographer for the purpose of leading th Jury to believe
that the evidence in the dictograph rec
ord might be Incorrect.
To counteract the effect of this the
state plaed court reporter Morris Mc-
Kenzle on the stand. McKenzie testified that when Boone read from the law
book for the purpose of testing Hlmmelblau's ability to take dictation that
he too had attempted to take down
what Boone was reading and that ha was unable to do so. He admitted that
he had missed part of It.
McKenzie was then interrogated as
an expert witness on the question as to whether or not it was harder for Hlmtnelblau to take down a conversation or
what Boone was reading.
McKenzie stated frankly that it would be easier to take down a conversation for the reason that smaller words are used and the stenographer is more familiar with the words tit are used In ordinary conversation. McKeTiBle stated that he had been a. court reporter for nine years. After-this the defense seemed de
moralized. The state closed its case
with the understanding that if Mayor Knotts or Chief Martin could be subpoenaed in the meantime that they
would have the right to put them on the stand.
Following the completion of the In
troduction of evidence for the state
Attorney D. E. Boone for the defense
made his opening statement. He said that the defense intended to show that Dean has falsified as to the ,-day and hour that, certain events took place.
Boone also indicated that the defense would have the evidence to support their contention that when Dean ;"ok Gibson to the office of the Michigan Avenue Trust Company that he took
him there to show him some papers and
that Gibson did not know that any
bribe money had been placed there.
It Is significant that, In his opening
address Bootie did not make any ref
erence to the United States Steel com
pany, which seems to indicate that the defense had abandoned the effort to
connect that -company with the prose
cutlon pf this case. ,
The defense then resumed its tactics
of attempting to discredit Dean rather
than prove Qibson Innocent. A. H.
Cooper of Louisville testified that he
had come from Louisville at the solid
tatlon of a detective to testify against
Dean and that he had been promised
pay for his trouble.
J. W. Clements, an attorney in Louis
ville -.testified that" Dean's reputation
for truth, veracity and morality were
not good. When asked if he knew Dean he said that he did not know him per
sonally, but that he had heard a great
deal about him.
There was another evening session
last night and it lasted until 8:30. At this time the defense stated that it wanted time to talk over some matters with its client, and the trial of the
case ended for the day.
The trial of the case was resumed
again this morning. In an effort to off
set the tback of yesterday, in which the fact that Gibson-is nw' under bond In another grafting deal, was brought out, the defense put Homer Stanton on
the stand and attempted to prove that the arrest of Gibson on the charge of
receiving a $20 bribe was a frameup.
Stanton testified that Lee Nowlck!
had told him that lie had borrowed
the money from Gibson and that he
was simply paying it back, An affi
davit signed by Nowickl seemed to bear
out this contention.
However, the affair took on a differ
ent appearance when the state was able
to prove that a man by the name of
Schmidt has beaten Nowickl into in sensibility before he had been compell ed to sign the affidavit. Gibson, himself, took the stand a 11:30 p.- m.
It is doubtful whether any witness In the Lake superior court was ever
put through a more savage cross-ex
amination than was Dean yesterday
afternoon. His motives were Impugn
ed and his honesty attacked. Dean created somewhat of a diversion when
he testified that he had registered a
the Lexington hotel in Chicago as J. J,
Jones because he had been advised to
do so after a conference with Governor
Thomas IC Marshall and W. F. Hodges
He was under the impression at tha
time, he declares, that he was being
followed by United States Steel de
tectlves.
Dean denied Boone s question that
he traveled around with any exconvicts, and said' he was not In the secret service at present. He said he had received $2,000 from Gary men to help him in the prosecution of these cases. Dean's statement that he had come to
Gary.Aiot penniless but with $35,000 in
person, caused some of the Gary
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his person, caused some of
men present to sigh and wonder if there was that much money in the whole world.. The Involving of Gibson In other bribery charges was one of evident interest to the Jury.
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ser Is smart. He has been talking witn the boys and says your measure is go
ing through, and when he Is satisfied on this point he will vote for It sure.
Denn He knows I have you and the
other three votes down there. That Is
four. Mike Walsh makes five and Feuer makes six. If Rowley votes for me that will make seven. I have not talked to Rowley personally, but I hear
from two different good sources that he is with me. I must see him tomorrow if he has gotten "home. He has said the steel company did not want it, so he probably would vote for me. You
know Walter is a man of his own
mind. He voted against that Geist
matter.
Gibnon That- is right, and he Is
smart, too. He is an engineer.
Dean Yes, and he is determined, too,
He shows it in his head. Damn If he
don't. Now, getting down to my mat
ter, you have a full understanding with Baukus, haven't you?
Gibson Only partly. Baukus Is all
right, but he is very much in debt. He
owes me a good deal of money. I am on his note for five hundred dollars and I have loaned him money besides. I won't say he would not be fair with me, but one never knows when a man Is In that shape. Dean Well, Walter, that Is news to me. Of course, if you want I will fix It for yon to get your five hundred from me if there is anv daneer of Tnnv
going SOUth. it must not ttn through IN
him. I can fix it all right for you. You have agreed on the amount and It Is a detail as to where and how you get It. Glbaon Yes; that would be better. I don't want this Bolice coming into it. either. It made me sore when he came to me ana tried to go in the matter. I do not want any one like him knowing my business. He came to my place one time on another matter and commenced to tell me what to do, and I up and told him damn straight that
l was not taxing orders from him or any one else and would tend to my own business. Since then he has behaved
himself pretty decent. He has gall
and a lot of it.
Castleman was over to my place this
afternoon.
D What did Castleman fay?
t.lbaon -t.astietnan is pimply crazy.
That ,4s all there is about it. When
we went out to East Gary this after
noon, after leaving you out of the ma
chine, Castleman followed us out there.
The man is simply crazy. He actually
wanted to trade machines out there
and we give him our machine and we
ake his and our driver. I told 'him hy
God that we had as much right to the machine as he did and that when he
wanted the machine to go to the sta
tion and get It like we did, and that
when we had it he could not have it
He stormed, but It did not do him any
good. I told him he might as well for
get all that noise.
Dean Well, by G , he had his nerve
He Is going to be against me all right,
What we will have to do Is to put Bow
ser in the chair Monday night.
Gibson I put him In the chair last
Monday. It was my motion that did it.
Denn Did Baukus tell you what
Castleman said about my matter?
Glbaon No; what did he say? Dean Tony said to me in a nice way
that Castleman wanted a thousand dollars in my matter. That, by God.
a steam plant measure was a big thing. Hell, that -was no way to talk. He did not know how much money there was
in it.
Gibson He Is a damn fool.. Tony
didn't go too far with him, did he?
Dean No, siree. . He just stopped
right there. Castleman just voluntarily came right out and said he wanted a thousand dollars if it had his support. He will just let Castleman go too.
We don't need him. You let me have
a talk with Bowser tomorrow in the
morning. He wants to get in and will work along with us all right. And one thing, what I say to you, keep to yourself.
Gibnon Yes, we must be careful.. It
won't do to have people knowing too
much; In fact, I do not want anybody
knowing my business. It would not be
right. Mike Walsh is a good friend of yours. I was at his place this morning. Oh. that is right. I was talking
to you on the telephone from there.'
Walsh is the best friend I have in town and he tolcl me he -was going to vote
for you. Be careful about Bolice.
That boy is brigTit enough, but he won't do and when he ever gets into the busi
ness he will find out where he has made his mistakes. People won't do his bidding and he will find it out at a time
when he needs held. He thinks he is damn Important. Denn He wanted to know of "me three times what was my idea In dealing with Tony, and 1 toid him I didn't have any idea; that I simply talked with the different councllmen who were to act on the measure and who should know about It. Gibnon-It Is a serious proposition. Denn It is simply one of those things a man should attend to his own business. One thing, sure as hell, that Castleman won't get a thousand dollars of my money. He is too damn strong. He can't put one over me like that. Glbaon I wanfSou to tell me exactly what understanding you have with Baukus as to paying money for us. Deaifc Well. I will tell you again.
Tony and I arranged for five hundred dollars for each of you four boys, and I agreed that I would .put up the money in some satisfactory way as soon as the franchise had the first and second reading. Glbaon I understand that part of it. What I want is to protect myself as to mine. Dean Well, you and I will arrange
that privately, any way to be satisfactory to you and I both. As far astliat fellow Castleman la concerned, he can get up and shout his head off. People will say he is shouting because he can't get a piece of money. Glbaon I was appointed to my position because there was a new. one created. John McFadden and I were in oposltion in the matter. Tom Knotts and I were at outs, but that is pretty well over with now. Dean Mike Walsh is a. nice fellow. When it looked like I would not get the franchise he was the only man in town who would go " Over to the city hall and talk to Tom Knotts. He did this lor me, all right, ail right.
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