Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 172, Hammond, Lake County, 10 January 1912 — Page 8

THE' TIMES. "NYednesdav, Jan. 10, 1912.

WEBSTER INQUIRY . CENTERS NOW IN GARY

Piecing together the threads of in

formation which are being: discovered In , out of the way places, detectives yesterday continued to weave around Ir. Harry Klgin Webster a net of evidence showing that lie murdered Mrs. F. E. Mize at Chicago in 1905. Inquiry Krarkra Gary. Last night the inquiry extended to Gary when efforts were made to locate Mrs. Sarah Duke, agister of the late Mrs. Wilson. Mrs. Duke sometimes makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Acker, u39 Jackson street, but is now in Xew York. iMrs. Wilson was with Mrs. Mize the day the shooting occurred. The police now believe

that it was Mrs. Wilson, who was the

intended victim of the murderer's bullet, and that Mrs. Mize. stepping in front of her to shield her, was shot and killed instaod

r novice in crime, the police have always suspected that something akin to an amour was really responsible for the crime. ' - . Thinka U'fMtr the Man. IJeutenant .Joseph Thomas of the, Hyde Park police station, yesterdav as-

! serted his belief that Dr. Webster is

the man, and it is believed that the detectives who went to Oregon are primed with more Information than the police liaveNhus far divulged. Mrs. Letitia Moulton, 1508 Kast Fiftyfifth street, at whose home Dr. Webster was rooming at the time of the murder, and who furnished the police with the original clue connecting Dr. Webster with the crime, yesterday reiterated her former statements. "If Dr. Webster did not do it." said she. "why do you suppose he disposed of the- gray suit and cap which an-

Mm, Wltaon Mow Dead. swered the description of the clothing .

Chicago detectives last night went to worn by the murderer?

Oregon. 111., and today are to question

Dr. Webster regarding the mysterious

I am sorry now that I did not tell

the police of my suspicions at the time,

murder committed within a block of the . but murder is a horrible thing and it

Del Prado hotel. --must.be awfu to be accusedof it. I likewise a house-to-house search is j knew that Dr. Webster was a favorite .being made' of the section of the city with a number of women, but not until in which Dr. Webster lived when Mrs. ' he confessed the murder of his wife Mize met her death in the hope of find- j could I fully realize the facUthat he

ing some one who knew both Dr. Web

ster and the murdered woman. j A dispatch received last night announced? the. death in 1909 of Mr. Gef. Wilson of Las Crnees. N. M., thus removing one all important witness. Mrs. J Wilson was walking along Washing- i ton avenue with Mrs. Mize when the murder occurred. . ' i Though Mrs. Wilson fainted when the ' shot was fired, she later declared that she could identify the murderer, but , suspicion apparently did not attach to 4 the right man and Mrs. Wilson finally , left Chicago. Her husband died In 1910, in California, so that even the informa

tion which he may have had regarding the mutual friends of Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Mize, is lost. According to the story told by Mrs. Wilson at the time of the murder, she and Mrs. Mize were walking along the

street and a strange man suddenly

spoke to Mrs. Mixe and almost immediately afterward shot and killed her. Though believed at first to have been

the deed of a highwayman who was a j came to Chicago.

may have murdered this other woman. ' Now I know that it was quite probable." Attorney Scoff at Charge. . Dr. Webster's attorneys ' yesterday scoffed at the idea that their client was connected with the murder of Mrs. Mize. and James K. Callahan said: "This is merely another efTort of the police to cover up their negligence in failing to capture the murderer of Mrs. Mize." '

Sheriff Delaney of Ogle county, who now has Dr. Webster in custody, yesterday informed Inspector Hunt and Lieutenant Thomas, he Will be asked several questions which they do not believe he can answer truthfully without an admission of guilt. At. his home last night Mr. Acker, who is a Broadway merchant, stated that his relative, Mrs. Duke, Is now in Xew York. He said that her sister, Mrs. Wilson, first met Mrs. Mize in that city and that, becoming good friends, they were together much when they

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committee to arrange for the national ,n,s places of residence.

convention. He Is chairman of the I The business men of Hammond are

subcommittee. 'I rejoicing with those of East Chicago

Mr. New. also denounced .another .over the great victory for the region

story that has been told, and that waslfor the suburban service on the Lake

the story to the effect that at the recent meeting of the republican state committee he suggetaed that Chairman Lee ought to be removed from office.

"I never made any such suggestion," he said. "I never thought of such a thing. I did- not want him removed. This story was not true."

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Shore loop will serve to distribute the workingmen all over the district. It ir.tans that Hammond, Whiting and Indiana Harbor will all profit by large Increases In Its population. It makes It certain that Kast Chicago will within a year be the largest city in the entiro region and that North township will remain the lndustrialhub of. the Calumet district and be the Jiret dry in Incitna in five years. ,

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FITZSIMMONS DEFIES WIFE; "SHE CAN GO." New York, Jan. 9. If Julia May Gifford, wife of Bob Fltzsimmons, has really placed the ex-champion pugilist on probation not to drink any more intoxicating beveragos, a.s Milwaukee dispatches sayshe has, then all is over between them and the divorce mill may start. "If he said she was through wjith me forever If I didn't reform," said Bob, "I am through with her forever. The whole trouble was that t had one highball when her folks were visiting a.t my farm ait Dunellen, N. J. I tried to patch up that one highball affair, but It was no use. I'm through. I don't care where she le."

H DENIES THAI HE I EVER OPPOSED BEVER1DGE j

-TrtBS Bl'HKAU, AT STATE CAPITA I Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 10. Harry S. New rays emphatically that he never told any one that if former Senator Beveridge was a candidate for dele-gate-at-large to the republican national convention he would oppose him. A 6tory to that effect has been going the rounds, and it even got into some of the neuspapers, but Capt. New denies It vigorously. . "I am a candidate for delegate-at-Iarge." he said. "I don't know whether

Mr. Beveridge is a candidate or not. I have heard several men mentioned for delegate-at-large, but I don't know who will be elected. If I am elected I will be glad of it. If I a.m defeated I w-ill take my defeat like a true republican and, let It go at that. But I am not fighting Beveridge. I never fought Beveridge. I waus for him for everything he went after. He is not a candidate for office this year that I know of. What I am doing to help reorganize the state committee In this state is being done along the lines that I re-

j gard as for the good of th party, re1 gardless of what others think 4-bout it." Mr. New has made it plain that he will not be a candidate for re-election as national committeeman from Indiana, lie w-ill retire-from that office at the end of his oresent. term, which will

close with the adjournment of the com-J

ing national convention. The gossip is that James P.; Goodrich will be New'a successor as national committeeman. This seems to be a foregone conclusion. In fact, no other name has been mentioned for the place thus far, and It looks like Goodrich will have a walkaway. The story that caused Mr. New to give out a denial was one published a few days ago and part of which read as follows: "In regard to Mr. Lee's fight for the chairmanship and his anti-Taft statement given out at Washington some time 'ago, an interesting story has come out. It is said that some time before Lee went to Washington to give out his statement about Taft representatives of former Senator Beveridge canvassed the state and Mr. Beveridge was told that the situation was such that Mr. Lee could be elected. "Soon after these reports were made, it is said, Mr. Beveridge made a trip to Oyster Ba There is no definite statement as to just what was said there, but as the story goes the former sena-

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tor, as soon as he returned to Indiana, viited certain men known to be friendly to the LaFollette boom and tried to call them off in other words, to get them to cease Vushing the LaFollette movement. He was unsuccessful in this, it is ?aid, and then he called on certain other influential republicans. "It is said that Harry S. New, former chairman of the national republican committee, was present at the latter -conference. Those there put before New the proposition to re-elect Beverldge's Hjan, Lee as state chairman. It

was urged on New that he would never

get anything at the hands of the republicans who have j always opposed

Beveridge in politics,' tisid that, therefore, he. had Just as well get into the game and aid in bringing about the re

election of Lee.

"New'a reply to all of these eugges-

tions Is said "to have been emphatic.

He Informed them flraft that he was for

Taft and that he wotild remain for Taft until the finish. It is said he also told them he was opposed to Lee and Beveridge, too. a.nd that If Beveridge sought

to be a delegate to the national convention he would get out and make a fight

against him. '

"Soon after this conference Lee made his trip to Washington and gave out

the interview In which he said Taft could not. carry Indiana. Since it has been said that former Senator Beveridge is not having apything to do with politics in Indiana, this story is regarded as rather interesting by republicans. "Lee was made state chairman two years ago, when Beveridge had control of the state committee, but the friends of the former senator have been saylfig of late that he was taking no part In politics and have continued to say this even since the Lee statement was given out. "The stateemnt was made by a close friend of Senator Beveridge that he and Roosevelt' were the best of friends and that any report ' that "they had had . a misunderstanding when Roosevelt was in Indiana during the last campaign speaking-for Beveridge ws untrue. This same friend said that Taft had

done a lot of things that were.not.of the kind to make Beveridge feel kindly, toward the president. "In this same connection,' Lee in the last few days has become a pronounced Roosevelt . man. lie says there is no doubt Roosevelt will be nominated for the presidency, and agrees with word which comes from certain-sources In Washington that - President1 Taft will

get out of the race before many state conventions have been held.", - When Mr. New read the above clipping he said all of that part arraying him against Beveridge was untrue. In regard to the rest of it he said: "Prior to Mr. Lee glvinjg out his statement at Washington some republicans came to me, saying they represented Mr Beveridge. They asked me

to Join them in re-electing Mr. Lee as state chairman. I told them I would not do It. . I did not refuse on account of Mr. Beveridge. I refused because I did not regard Mr. Lee as a big enough man for the place. I explained to them that the coming campaign would be a hard fought battle, and that I felt that the republican party,, should have a

chairman who was big enough and good

enough politician to wage the battle for the party. I did not regard Mr. Iee as such a man and told them so. Then they suggested that Mr. Beveridge name three men, Mr. Fairbanks name three and that I name three, and that

these nine men select a chairman of

the state committee. I declined to listen to that proposition, also. I told them that it was for the conamittee to elect

its own chairman. I tpld them that I

thought the committee ought to be Comnrwiert of mn wTio would he fiillv

able to take care of the campaign, and

that I would not Join in any scheme to elect a state chairman by drawing a

name out of a hat. That is the truth

about that conference. I told them that

tfce state chairman ought to be a man

not under: the dominating Influence of

"S "n, ncmcr ii. lie xveriuise or

Tany one else." .

Mr. New -will go to Chicago Friday

for a meeting on Saturday of the sub

committee appointed -by the":, national

site so that it would present a good appearance to the officials who were expected to come for a second inspection

of the site. j The offlials came and . were pleased ! with the location. Its wonderful shijjping advantages, the facility with which j the people of this locality have been , able to build homes for workingmen, 1 the accessibility o the Chicago labor j market and the Indiana coal fields, its j

proximity to the uary, Indiana Harbor j and South Chicago steel producing dis-l tricts all weighed heavily in favor of

its selection. First Rumor Last Night. But such tremendous influence had been brought to bear in favor of the Chicago site, the apparent futility of a comparatively new district like this competing With Chcago for a giant industry made it hard to believe that Calumet could win. . Finally Calumet seemed to be winning:. The rumor spread over LaSalle stret last night that the location "at Calumet had been decided upon. It was only a rumor, however, and could not be confirmed. At noon today the glad news came and not only will North township b made richer by millions by the de

cision of this great corporation to build

a gigantic plant here, but property values will acend, new business districts will be laid out,, new resjdential districts will develop and the great prairie, which a few years ago was unsettled will become one of the greatest

hives of Industry !n the world.

It should be remembered that The

Times was the first paper in the region

to give the intimation that this big

plant , would locate in the Calumet re

gion. In bold type on the first page

the news was given out to the public that it might expect to see one of the

greatest indusiies In he world located In its midst. As it stated in the article any premature publication of the details might have hurt the deal. When the fact Is known that the proposed plant of the Baldwin Locomotive works will employ as many men as the Indiana Stpel company arGary, some idea of the importance of this to the city of East Chicago and the region in general may be appreciated. What Is equally important is the fact that these men are all high grade mechanics and there are very few of io "day laborer" type which has a tendency to make all mill towns undesirable

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