Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 207, Hammond, Lake County, 21 February 1912 — Page 8
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CONFESSES
TO MURDER
Rev. Vl'lllam Steele, pastor of the.
Nineteenth Avenue Colored Baptist
church, of Gary. yesterday afternoon confessed to the murder of his wife's
sister, Harriet Thompson. IS years old who he strangled to death In the par
lor of her home at 1647 Madison street.
Monday afternoon.
The text of the confession was not
made public until this morning. To
day Prosecutor Charles Greenwald re ceived It and he at once made prepara
ttons to have the negro minister in
dicted for murder.
In substance the confession, which
was made to Chief Martin and Captain
Newman and which was supplemented by a sworn statement to 1 Coroner Frank Smiti. recites that Steele and the girl had words over the present whereabouts of the former's wife. An
allday quarrel resulted and finally the pair came to blows. 'She, so Steele says, struck him. with a poker, and he
retaliated by choking her. He merely-
meant to scare, he said, and when he
left her on the floor he did not know
she was dead.
Transacted Church Work After Crime. The minister then states that he went out to transact some church business and then becoming alarmed, summoned a doctor. In the meantime the police arrived, he learned for the first time, that he woman was dead. He was then placed under arrest. The funeral of the murdered girl will takeplace from the home of her mother, Mrs. Sarah Jones, 1805 Jefferson street tomorrow. Looking for Second Murderer. As yet the police have obtained no elue as to the whereabouts of Robert, Gordon, whom they accuse of tha murder of John ojhnson. who was slain eight hours after the negro pastor strangled the Thompson girl. It Is believed that he will be located in Chicago. .
NO LAKE COUNTY MEN
OH THESE COMITTEES
TIE,BIREAI', AT ST A TK t'APlT!. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 21. The Marshall-Kor-rresident Club, an organisation of ndiana Democrats that proposes to go to Baltimore and storm the national convention to nominate the Governor for President, has finally announced its organization and the names of Its committee members. The organisation was formed by the Demo-' cratlc state officials, who held a meeting and planned to make it a state wide affair, with "Five Hundred to 'Baltimore." as its motto. J. Fred Hoke, president of the club; Mark Thistlethwaite, secretary to Governor Marshall, is the secretary, and Hugh Dougherty, president of the Marion Trust Company .this city, is the treasurer. The vice presidents are as follows: Henry Seyfrled, Indianapolis; Fr?d Meyer, Lafayette; Guy Colerick, Fort Wayne; Andrew C. Richardt, Evansville Thomas D. McGee. Indianapolis. T'i C ommittee. Executive' committee John J. Nolan,
Evansville; Royal E. Purcell, .Vincennes; Frank E. Payne. Jeffersonville; L. Ert Slack, Franklin; C. C. Matson. Greencastle; John D. Deprez, Shelbyville; Eph Inman, Indianapolis; W. H. Eichorn. Bluffton; Moses Epstein, Frankfort: George R. Durgan, Lafayette; Dr. Marshall T. Shlvely. Marion; Stephen B. Fleming. Fort Wayne; B. F. Deahl, Goshen. Finance committee Judge John W. Spencer, Evansville; James R. Riggs, Sullivan: Charles L Jewett, New Albany; Joseph M. Cravens. Madison; John E. Beggs, Terre Haute: Lon Mull, Manilla: Thomas Taggart, Indianapolis; Daniel F. Mustard, Anderson; Dan C. Reed. Attica; Samuel T. Murdock, Lafayette; Charles A. Edwards. Huntington; Simon J. Straus, Ligionler; M. W. Mix, Misha'waka. Arrangements committee- James H Fry, state oil inspector; Robert E. Springsteen, Indianapolis; Oren S.
Hack, Indianapolis. Transportation committee John E. Hollett. Indianapolis; W. J. Wood, Indianapolis; Alolrh Seldensticker, Indianapolis. Another political item of interest
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comes from Terre Haute, where it is said a lively interest in the boon of Woodrow Wilson for the Democratic
nomination for President has becorn
apparent in the last few days. A bunch of Vigo county Democrats were in this city yesterday and they gave out the word that Vigo count Democrats are taking more kindly to the Wilson boom. Vigo count Is in the hands of the Taggart and Crawford Fairbanks machine, and If the Wilson sentiment i beginning to show over there it is taken to mean that it has the sanction of that element. In fact. It is suspected that Taggart himself will be found In the ranks of the Wilsonites -before the race Is over, and that instead of con
tinuing to work for the nomination of Governor Marshall he may come out in favor of Wilson for president and Marshall fr vice president. This suspicion has grown since Taggart returned from the east a few days atro and begun talking among some of his friends. There has never been a time when the Democrats of Indiana, could be Induced
to believe that Taggart was really in earnest in behalf of the Marshall candidacy, and they have always thought that when tht right time he would slip away from the Governor and go to some other candidate. So if he were to come out for Wilson it would not cause any surprise. It has been the belief that he really favored Governor Harmon for the nomination, but "it Is pointed out now that Harmon has so little chance of landing the nomination that Taggart will be hunting another bandwagon on which he can climb and go ahead with the trip. In this connection it is interesting also to recall the fact that some tim..ago. immediaely after the reorganisation of the Democratic state committee, Crawford Fairbanks, made thstatement in the Denison hotel lobby
that Governor Marshall would not get
a single delegate from Indiana to th
national convention. The news from Vigo county would seern to he directly
In line with that threat on the part of Fairbanks, who is the real dominating
factor in Vigo county Democratic poll tics.
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blau gave such testimony that Gibson was convicted. A few days ago Himelblau made an affidavit in Chicago that he faked the evidence at the quest of Dean, and on Saturday he gave his deposition along the line of his affidavit. It Is the intention to use the deposition in . the defense of Thomas E. Knotts, mayor of Gary, who Is also under Indictment.
Perjury la One Cue or the Mher. It is a self-evident fact that Himelblau either perjured himself in giving his testimony against Gibson or In making the affidavit against Gibson or in making the affidavit and the law abiding citizens of Iake county are determined that he shall not escape from his crime. There are many reasons why the lsw-ablding citizens of Ijake county are determined that the reign of crime shall torn to an end. They realize that, leaving the moral question out entirely, the way things are going a? Gary and East Chicago, Is. doing th"? county damage In a financial way.
Taxation is high.' There are many real estate propositions that need financial
backing that can not be obtained. Im
provement bonds are discounted heavl
ly and the discounts are charged
against the property holders when the
contractors make their bids. Fraaefclse Gl"a Awiy.
Franchises for public utilities are
given away. The public contracts are
not let to the lowest and best bidders,
but to favorites, who charge exobitant
prices for their work. The charge Is made, too, that when business enter
prises are offered at Gary and East
.Chicago certain people must be "seen.'
and that there is a system of addition
division and silence entering into al
big business enterprses. The result of it all Is that the tax payers are getting
the worst of it.
And, besides, there is a large ele
ment In Lake county that is not pleas
ed wlth4he epithets bestowed on them
because of the graft proposition hand!
ed by a few people in both cities.
"Grafters from Lake county,' a phrase
that Is heard over the state, does no
apply to the majority of Lake county
people by any means. It is Just
bunch of politicians that has brought
this odium on the county of Lake and that Is why the Commercial Club and
the decent element of Gary is working hard to remove the) stain. Many New Industries. Lake county is forging ahead wonderfully In spite o fthe handicap placed on it by the so-called grafters. In addition to the great plant of .the Illinois Steel Company. whleTi is the steel trust and the big cement plant at Bufnngton, the following plants are soon to be established and put In operation In the northern part of Lake county: The Baldwin Locomotive Works, the International Smelter Company, the Buckeye Malleable Company, the McClintlck & Marshall plant, the Gold
smith Detlnnlng Company, the American Tin Plate Company, the American Bridge Company, the American Locotlvo Works, the Taylor Chain Works, the Illinois Car and Equipment Com
pany, the Illinois Bolt and Nut Com
pany, the Inland Nut and Bolt Company
and many others are in prospect. The Standard Oil Company has purchased
$5i,000 worth of land and will make improvements on its great refinery at
Whitingf. Big Plants In Hammond.
Here in Hammond are the following
plants: The William Ahlborn Construe
ion Company, the Alliance Elevator
ompany, the Frank S. Betz Company.
the Calumet pickle works, the W. B.
onkey Company, the Federal Cement
Tile Company, the FItzhugh-Luther
Company, the Grasselll Chemical Corn-
any, the Hammond machine and fore
works, the HirschSiein Company, the
enterprise Bed Company, the North -
rn Indiana Gas and Electric Company,
he , North Star iron works, the Ham-
monld Brewing Company, the Hammond Distilling Company, the Ham
mond boiler works, the Reid. Murdock
Co., the Slplex Railway Appliance ompany the Standard Steel Car Com
pany, the Stewart Machinery Manu
facturing Company, the Straube Piano
Company, the United States Metal and
Refining Company, the Western Grain1
Products Company, the Hammond Glue
Company, the Preble Machinery Manu
facturing Company, the Railway-
equipment Company, the Illinois Car
and Equipment Company. - the Champion Potato Machinery Company, the
.Tones Dishwasher Company,., ths
Schrleber Potato Machinery Company,
he Liberty Cow Milker Company, the lammond Pure Ice Company, and the
Standard Manufacturing Company. And Hammond is traveling along the road
of progress with the rest of the county.
Plan to Decrease Kspeniaea. There Is a desire -n the part of th?
people of Lake county to have all the cities made Into one big municipality. That would cut down expenses, do
away with a lot of city officers, de
crease the rate of taxation and would
stop a lot of grafting said to be going on in various parts of the county. But every movement along that line is
fought by persons who are benefited
by keeping things Just as they are now.
days of abstinence througtiovit the year, with the exception of all Fridays, Ash Wednesday, Wednesday and Saturday of ..holy week and the eve of Christmas. TThose who avail themselves of this dispensation are not allowed to eat fish and flesh at the saint meal, and they are exhorted to perform such other act of mortification, such as reciting additional prayer (the rosary, for example), abstaining from intoxicating drinks, from the uae of tobacco."
REGION HELD SNOW BOUND TODAY fContlnued from P 1.)
Restores Men Vigor
to Vital
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In
Office - In Home
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LENT IS AT ITS
BEGINNING TODAY
(Continued from page one.)
the city the smaller children who had ventured out in the morning were not permitted to go to school In tha afternoon. " i Sixty Mllea an Hour. At noon the temperature was slightly below freezing, but the wind was blowing at the rate of sixty miles an
hour. In the First National Bank
building in Hammond the. force of the wind broke one of the large window plates, giving the blizzard full range In the bank for a short time, until the opening could be temporarily closed. Street. Are Deserted. Walking against the wind was a great difficulty because of the driving snow, which fell like wet sheets. By ten o'clock this morning there were snowbanks four feet deep, and at that time there was no sign of a Jet-up. Business was practically at a standstill. Only people having urgent business ventured out of doors. Hit Hrglon Savagely. The blizzard seemingly struck the
county with equal force at all ends. But at Indiana Harbor, Whiting and
Gary the effects were doubly felt because of the open sweep that the wind
had over the lake. It was a common sight to see people blown off the sidewalks, while little children were practically helpless.
Getting Colder. The railroads have sent out instruc
tions to their employes, urging extra precautions against wrecks due to col-
isions. At times it was Impossible to
see more than two hundred ' feet. Around the corners the wind .whistled
indicating a gale with a speed of sixty
miles. A zero temperature would have made It Impossible to spend much time
out of doors.
The blizzard was all the more re
markable because It came after a few
days of mild weather.
Start In West. Colorado, Kansas and Texas were
snowswept yesterday after the worst
blizzard of the year, according to reports received at the government weather bureau In Washington. Snow from one inch to several feet in depth covers Colorado, and railroad service, especially on lines that cross the mountains, Is being tied up. Following two weeks of summer weather in Texas, the mercury dropped to 12 below zero In some parts of the state. In Dalhart the schools had to be closed.
It is the strong, vital,
manly man
who ha3 the(
courage to U
face all dangers who succeeds in life.
with ashes, as a public sign that they
were penitents and making atonement.
Beginning toBay all "social functions
of prominence will be a thing of the
past for six weeks. If the teachings of
the church are carried out. The peni
tentlal period of lent, which lasts 40 days, was ushered In today. Selfdenials, prayers and fastings are re
quired of members of churches observ
ing lent, although the period of six weeks Is not Intended to be a period
of dullness, but rather a time for dill-
gent cultivation of th soul. Roman
Catholic, Episcopal and Lutheran
churches observe lent, the first day of
which Is known as Ash Wednesday,
and is marked by services of a special
and of an important character.
The following are the regulations
rad in all churches of the Catholic diocese of Fort Wayne Sunday as Issued by Bishop Alerdlng: "In accordance wff,h faculties granted by the Holy See, the following are the regulations for lent for the diocese of Fort Wayne: "1. All the faithful, over twentyone and under sixty years of age, are, unless legitimately dispensed, bound to observe the fast of lent. "2. They are to take only one full meal a day, Sundays excepted. "3. The full meal allowed on fast days should be taken about noon. But If for any gaod reason, the principal meal cannot be taken at noon, it is permitted to take the eolation at noon, and to put off the full meal till evening "4. Both fish and flesh are not to be used at the same time, not even on Sundays. "5. A refreshment, commonly called a collation, Is alowed In the evening. No general rule as to the quantity of food permitted at this time Is or can be made; but the practice of the most regular Christians is never to let it exceed one-fourth of? an ordinary meal. "6. On account of the existence of such custom the churn tolerates the use, of bread, butter, eggs, cheese, milk, and all kinds' of fruit, salads, vegetables and fish at a olation. "7. For the same reason it is permitted to take in the morning some warm liquid as tea coffee, or thin chocolate, with a little milk and a cracker, or a small piece of bread. "8. Necessity and custom have Authorized the use of lard instead of butter in preparing fish, vegetables, etc. "9. By dispensation the use of flesh meat is allowed at any time on Sundays, and once a day on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, excepting the second and last Saturdays of lent. "10. . The following are exempt from the obligation of fasting: Those under twenty-one and those o-er sixty years of age, the sick. . pregnant and nursing women, those who are obliged to labor hard, and all . those who through weakness cannot fast without Injury to their health. "11. Persons dispensed from the obligation of fasting are not bound by the restriction of using meat at only
one meal on days on which Its use Is
granted by dispensation. "12. By virtue of an indult of the
Holy See, granted Feb. 25, 1905, for ten years, we permit workingmen, ami their families, the use of flesh meat once a day and more than once a tlay in the case of those who are dispensed from fasting n all the fast days -and
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