Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 23, Hammond, Lake County, 15 July 1912 — Page 1

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LAKE

TIMES

EVENING

KILLED. TWO HURT II RAILWAY ACCIDENT

THIRTEEN KILLED IN TERRIBLE RAILROAD

WRECK NOT FAR FROM CHICAGO.

Three switchmen. Intent upon a happy holiday Sunday, while walking en the Lake Shore railroad near the canal bridge in Indiana Harbor, were overtaken by a fast passenger train, killing one of their number and injuring another so seriously that he had to be taken to the hospitaL The men were all residents of Hammond and employed by the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad company. They were: JOE ALSOP, back broken and killed outright. CHARLES SCHUMACHER. 355 Sibley street, shoulder dislocated. ROT JACKSON, unharmed. Jackson lives at 357 East Sibley street In Hammond. The police of Cast Chicago failed to learn the address of the other man. but understood he was from Hammond also. Aslop for

merly lived In Indiana Harbor.

The acident happened at 6:50 o'clock

on the Indiana Harbor side of the Lake Shore bascule bridge. The men were

starting on a fishing trip and had only a short distance to go before reaching

their destination. The morning was foggy and the three men engaged in conversation.

failed to hear the approaching train, which was No. 3 and westbound. The engineer could not see them because of the heavy fog and the engine struck Alsop who was walking close beside the track, breaking his back and hurl

ing him against Schumacher's shoulder

Jackson, who was some distance away

from his companion, escaped Injury.

Burns and Median's ambulances were summoned and the body of Alsop was conveyed to the undertaking rooms, while Schumacher was hurried

to St. Margaret's hospital.

SUNDAY FURNISHES

QUOTA

While three Englewood motorcyclists were running along the road a mile east of Hessville, in the vicinity of Brennock's farm, at the rate of sixty miles an hour an automobile crowded one of them from the road. The machine struck an obstruction and was wrecked and the two other machines piled up on top of it. Two men were injured in the accident. One was unconscious for several hours. The Injured are: J. L. GIFT. 509 West Fifty-ninth Street, Chicago; legt broken and badly lacerated. An unknown man who was taken to East Chicago In an unconscious condition and later went into Chicago. Following the accident the one man In the party ;wl was not injured went to the Brenhock farmhouse and asked for assistance in taking the injured men

to East Chicago. The Brennocks took him to the neighboring farm of Louis Ewen, where E wen's motor truck was secured and took both the injured men and the motorcycles to East Chicago. The identity of the automobile driver who crowded the motorcyclists from the road was not learned. That the accident did not result fatally to one of the riders of the motorcycles is a miracle.

swerved his machine to the left,

where the machine went through

fence, over a lawn, around the house through another barb wire fence and

Anally landed in the ditch.

It Is reported that the machine was badly damaged, but the driver escaped with a few scratches. The machine

was a Ford make. No. 9-99-Ind., bu

the police have been unable to learn

the owner's name.

BADLY INJURED

IN AUTO MISHAP

A nasty automobile accident took

place southwest of Hammond yester

day when Lee Atkinson, 2714 Stat

street, Chicago, " was badly injured

near West Pullman when ; returning

1 from the Midlothian links for his em

ployer, A. Arlington, of West Pullman

He drove into a deep ditch, the car

overturned and was wrecked. Atkln

son was taken to a Chicago hospital

in an ambulance, where his lnjurie

were cared for.

COLLIDES WITH HOUSE An unknown automobile driver luckily escaped serious Injuries late

last night when he averted colliding with a house which was being moved on South Hohman street and Ridge road, near Hammond. Evidently the driver of the machine was going at a high rate of speed, as he did not see the building until it was directly In front of him. Striking a red danger lantern which was placed a short distance from the building, the driver

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Thirteen persons were killed and

nearly two score injured in a rear end collision of a mall train and the Overland Limited on the Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy railroad at Western Springs, sixteen miles west of Chi

cago, at 6:30 o'clock yesterday morning.

Tearing through a thtcR veil of fog t seventy miles an hour the seven-

car mail train hurled Itself into the

rear Pullman of the limited. Ten passengers, some sleeping In the rear

died en route to St. Anthony's hospital. Two railway employes were also killed. Fire broke out In the wreckage. Rescuers spurred br the cries of the pinioned men and women pulled scores of the Injured from the path of the flames. George Bronson. engineer on the mall train whose home was at Galesburg, went to his death in his deathdealing engine. The limited train, according to the

car, were killed outright and another conductor, Frank Hughes, was drlv

MURDERER CAUGHT BY TIMES' CLUE

Gary Saloonkeeper to Be Arrested in This Murder Case. Mom Levy, the negro accused of the murder of Robert Davis, another negro. In Gary last Wednesday night vi an captured late last night In the wood loothwmt of the city. Max Bernstein, m Gary saloonkeeper, wtl be arrested today by Chief Martin. The chief says that Bernstein knew that of Lerr! whereabouts and did not divulge the Information to the police.

ing through the fog on schedule time into Western Springs and was stopped

by a red block. On account of the fog

veiled signal It ran more than three hundred yards past the block tower. The conductor got oft the train to learn what the trouble was and had started toward the engine Just as the smash came. He and a passenger, who had also alighted, turned Just In time to see the monster engine plunge through the first sleeper, crumple the second and over turn the third with the last of its energy.

1NTERURBAN

BRINGS

MACHINES ARE SMASHED

Edward Kletnschmldt, while driving an automobile owned by Captain Shlnabarger of the Gary fire department yesterday afternoon at 3:30, on the Ridge road near Black Oak, collided with another machine standing by the roadside. The front wheels of both cars locked and they were both thrown Into the ditch. No one was Injured. The Gary car was badly damaged, however, and was taken to the Xlmetz gararge at Black Oak. The names of the people In the other car could not be learned.

DROVES TO HUB Markets do Big Business, and G. & S. Is Booked for Prosperity.

(Special to Thb Times.) Crown Point. Ind.. July 15. Crown Point had ' touch of what the new lnturtxrbah Ilri Is going to do for it a

soon as the regular one hour schedule

and reduced fares are put Into effect. The business section of town was crowded with strangers Intent on see

ing the city. All spent more or less money and disproved the theory f

some of the pessimists and knockers

that the line would take trade out of

the city instead of bringing it in.

Many of the visitors were from Gary

proper, they coming in search of eggs.

berries and fresh farm produce. It i

up to Crown Point merchants to cater to this class of trade and It will be

worth their while to offer Inducements until the same is firmly established. ,

HOD

ROAD WILL

Lowell, Merrillville, Cedar Lake and Other Lake County Cities Are to Be

Connected With Gary, and

Hammond.

INDIANA WOMAN SOUGHT BY HER AGED PARENTS

Death in Tolleston. Otto, the Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. William Brown, Fourth street and Borman boulevard, died yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon with Interment at the Tolleston cemetery.

SHBS SUCCESSFUL PAINTER OF SCENES

MATCH GOLF AT THE COUNTRY CLUB

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Charles Barry Jr. Makes 9 Holes in 55 in the First Match of Season.

Mss Irene Kendrlck. Miss Irene Kendrlck. of Richmond. Vs., enjoys the distinction of being; the first woman scene painter in this country. She made her debut In this field several years ago during the first production, of the dramatisation of "St. Elmo" at the Academy of Music in Richmond. Harry Turbevtlle. an experienced scene painter, had been employed to do the work, but failed at the last minute by reason of blood poisoning in his hand. Miss Kendrick. who was then his pupil, undertook the Job and succeeded. In order to accomplish her work. Miss Kendrick has to perch herself on the "paint bridge" a winging frame about four feet wide suspended In the "flies' fully forty , feet afrov tb average stuf.

Twenty-two Hammond people participated in the first match golf

that has been played on the Hammond J ountry club grounds. The best score J was made by Charles Barry, Jr., a for- j mer resident of Hammond. He made the nine holes In 56, which Is considered a very good score for the Hammond course. O. C. Tracy played a good game, getting two holes In less than . bogey. ' I It is the plan of those who are inter- ' ested In golf to hold a handicap match contest next Saturday. This has not

been definitely decided, but will probably be the program. In the meantime the interest In the game is growing. The game is gaining

new recruits every day and everybody

who plays is enthusiastic over it. The

following are the teams that played last Saturday and the results:

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Lowell. Cedar Lake. Merrillville and other Lake county points are to be

hooked up with Gary and Crown Point

by another lnterurban line. Incorporation papers for which are. now being prepared and which will be filed with the secretary of state within the next few days. The Gary. Merrillville & Southern lnterurban company Is tho name of the latest venture. It will have a capital of $100,000 and its promoters eventually expect to build to Indianapolis, via Lafayette. Castlemaa Is Preaideat. Officers have been elected as follows:

I'resiaent AL is. (Jastleman, real estate, Gary. Vice president Joseph Shillo. farmer. Merrillville. Secretary Martin G. Gill, real estate, Gary. Treasurer Ernest Walters, farmer, Merrillville. Already Has a praachlse. Nichols Fagen, a Turkey Creek real (Continued on Page 8.) "

RESORT KEEPERS ARE

TRIED BEFORE JUSTICE

One Accused Gets Off Scot-

free and Others Will Be Tried Tomorrow.

Judge Frank Greed of the West Ham

mond Justice court yesterday . found Henry Foss of .West, .Hammond r not guflty-'ef running a resort. This' fol

lowed the arrest of Foss several days

ago by the West Hammond police.

It is said that there was no direct evidence that Foss ran the resort from which a number of inmates were taken. The place was in charge of a woman. She Is said to have rented the second floor from Foss. The evidence

was that she packed up her belongings

and to have left the city. So by shift

lng the responsibility on her Foss" li

cense was saved.

The fact that a resort was run in

J the building and that under the law he

Is responsible for the preservation of

order was overlooked. It was hoped

that by convicting Foss of this charge that he could be deprived of his license

and forced to leave town.

Similar cases will be brought up be-

J fore Judge Wlttenburg of Burnham I next Thursday. They involve a man by

the name of Bills and also the notori

ous Con Talty, who has been a fixture in West Hammond for years. Whether or not Wlttenburg will take a different view of the situation remains to be seen. Girls and men have been arrested in all of these resorts. In some cases they have been found guilty and in others they have pleaded guilty to frequenting a disorderly place. And yet in spite of these facts the keepers of these saloons cannot be convicted on the charge of running disorderly places. It is a strange condition of affairs. ,

Officer Charles McElfresh of the Gary police department who used to

have considerable experience browsing around in the swamps and fastnesses of Arkansas penetrated into the marsh

and woods southwest of the city last night. When he came back he brought

with him Levy Moses, the negro, want

ed by the police for the murder of Robert Davis in Gary last Wednesday

night. The first genuine clue to Levy's whereabouts was furnished by Thb

Ttmes last week.

How He Got Him. McElfresh captured his man as he

was returning to his retreat in the

wods at 10:30 o'clock last night. The

policeman was hidden by some bushes

and as Levy came creeping through the underbrush he covered him with his revolver and told him that he was under arrest.

VERIFIES TIMES STORY. As was stated in Tm Trams last Thursday. Levy Is the negro who went to Black Oak last Thursday morning and who went to the saloon of B. F. Scheldt and telephoned Bernstein to call a negress to the phone. The black man got scared and left before the call was finished, stated Mrs. Scheldt to a Times reporter. Mrs. Scheldt notified this office. Since the shooting Levy had been employed In Hobart, coming: to Gary late at night.

To Chief Martin the negro denied that be had shot Davis but later he admitted that he did but that the gun went off accidentally. Howerer, eri' dence secured by the police, so they say indicates that the killing was pre

meditated. Saloon la Case. A new angle in the case came tip to day when the police declared that they had learned that Max Bernstein, a saloonkeeper at .1416 Broadway, had known of Levy's whereabouts after the shooting and did not tell the police. "Bernstein will be arrested today as an accessory before the fact for murder," declared the chief in no uncertain terms this morning. "I want to know what kind of people we have In Gary when they do not help out the police la cases like this."

dog owes TO

BEPROSECUTED Besides Neglecting to Muzzle Dogs They Also Fail to Pay Dog Tax.

THIRD PARTY Hi LAKE JGD INACTIVE Everybody Raiting to See What the Other' Feliow Will Do,

One hundred North township dog About all that is needed to develop owners -ar in danger of prosecution r a third party In Lake county is the because of their failure to pay the, word from the Indianapolis organiza-

'taxes on their dogs. ; tlon. Hammond is the only city In which

Trustee John C. Becker is making: up there seems to be no third party sentia list of delinquents today which he ment. .

PROSPERITY? WELL, HERE'S SOME MORE.

expects to turn over to th prosecutor, the defendants will have to settle In the courts. Although the law does not require it. Trustee Becker sent to successive notices to the dog owners, warning them against their delinquency. Many heeded the warning, but in the neighborhood of 100 have thus far Ignored the notices. These wholesale prosecutions are an annual affair, and few of the delinquent dog owners escape once their case Is taken Into court. There they are compelled to pay the license and in addition

l are charged with the court costs, which

may run up from $5 to 10.

For the first time in the history of the Panhandle shops at Logansport they will be operated with a full force of men ten hours a day during July and August. In past years the force and working hours have been reduced during these two months and usually only a few men were employed. Not only has a notice been posted that the shops would be operated by full force, but the heads of the different departments have been Instructed to hire additional ' men. With grain moving within a week or two the road will be very busy taking care of the traffic

Cox's Team. Cox T Meyn ......... 2 Mott 0 Gauthier 0 Gersbach ...... 1 Parry 0 Dr. Groman ... 0 Johnson 2 Barry 1 R. Groman .... 1 Totals 14

Turner's Team. Turner 0 Anderson ..... 0 Wilson : 3 McElroy 1 W. Conkey .... 0 Tracy 7 Crawford 6 Johnston 0 Smith 0 W. B. Conkey. . 0 Totals 17

The belief that their daughter, rMs. Mary L. Rogers, had heard the call of the city and left her home, led Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Doughty, an aged ' couple living near Rushville, Ind., to appeal to the Chicago police yesterday for assistance in locating her. Mrs. Rogers Is 34 years old and a widow. According to her parents she left Rushville

j on the night of July 4 with two girls J from Connersvllle, Ind. - They wore

traced to Indianapolis, where they stopped at a hotel under assumed names. Mrs. Rogers pawned a ring, it was learned, to buy a ticket to Chicago.

THB TTMICS ALWAYS HAS rOOQNT rOR '.HE INTERESTS OF THB COMMON PEOPLE FOR THB HAM WUQ H.OJUC8 YOB UVDTCk

THERE'S A CHANCE THAT TOO OUGHT NOT TO POSTPOXB THAT "SHOPPING" ANY LONGER. READ THB TIMES AXIS AND IKK IV TH1 IS MOT SO.

LAD WILL RECOVER.

Joseph Grobarac, the seven-year-old West Hammond boy, whose life was nearly despaired of last week owing to a case of tetanus which developed from a mosquito bite. Is today reported to be on the road to recovery. By copious anti-toxin Injection, his physician, Dr. A. A. Toung, has brought the dreaded disease under control, and while the child is not yet out of all danger his chances for recovery today were very good. The rigidity of his body has nearly disappeared and he Is beginning to ask for food. His temperature' is practically normal. The anti-toxin injections will be continued for some time longer.

TWO DIVORCE

WATER SUPPLY

IS SHORTENED Two bad leaks In the Hohman

street water matn were discovered at

the river bridge this morning. It is thought that the lead connecting the pipes gave way owing to the pressure caused either by the settlement of the bridge abutments or by the weight of the pipes, i A leak was found on each side of the bridge. The fact that the new pump Is not yet running eliminates the pressure to be caused by it as a cause for the trouble. .

In Whiting, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor and Gary there Is a movement towards the "Teddy" party. Gallus J. Bader of Whiting said, "I am not a politician, but I have my own views of the present political situation. I am for Roosevelt and I know that there Is a strong Roosevelt sentiment in Whiting. I have not heard, however, of any steps that have been taken to perfect an organisation of such a party in Whiting." Willis E. Roe of East Chicago is one of the leaders of the Roosevelt party movement. "You know that there is a strong sentiment in favor of Roosevelt In East Chicago," said Roe. "and we are waiting only for word from Indianspoils to put a county, district and state ticket in the field. We have been sent blank petition but that Is all." In Gary the sentiment In favor of Roosevelt has always been strong among the employes of the United States Steol orporation. It is said that there would be quite a movement to' wards a third party if one wars to be , organised in this state. In Hammond there is only an occasional Roosevelt supporter unless there are a lot of Roosevelt men who are keeping quiet at the present time. The old parties seem to have the situation well in hand in Hammond.

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CASES BEGU

Two divorce cases were filed in the

Lake superior court this morning. In

one, Charles L Brown seeks a divorce from Alice Brown. This case reveals

a unique situation.

The plaintiff Is only 18 years of age, while the defendant Is 42. It Is alleged In the complaint that the friends of Mrs. Brown Inveigled him into marrying her. The plaintiff asks that the divorce be annuled on the grounds that he was under the contracting age. The couple were married March 24,

1909, and separated April 10, 1909. Incompatibility of temperament is given as the reason for their lot living together. Ora Loomis, who was married to Daniel Looomls nearly 32 years ago,( seeks a divorce from her husband. Drunkenness and non-support are alleged. They have seven children. Fifteen dollars a week for the support of the children is asked. Loomis a painter by trade.

WEDDING OF MISS CROCKER BIG SOCIAL EVENT; $1,000,000 WORTH OF PRESENTS

No News of Missing. . Since leaving Hammond last Friday afternoon nothing more ha been heard from J. Jones, the chiropractor, and Mrs. W. "Warne of Ada street, who are said to have eloped. . As far as is kndwn nothing is being done to locate them. Mr. Warne, however, has taken steps to procure a divorce from his wife. -

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Miss Jennie Crocker end Malcolm D. Whitman

The wedding of Miss Jennie Crocker, of the wealthy California family, to

Malcolm D. Whitman on July 1 will

mated that the presents of the bride will exceed $1,000,000 in value, for she

is connected both by ties of blood

be ne of the big social events of tho i and marriage with some of the rich-

season. Miss Crocker, who is worth est families in the United Statea several millions in her own right, j Whitman Is a resident of New York Is popular in the east as well as inland was formerly a champion tennis the west. It is oonservatlvaly- asU-J player. -