Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 50, Hammond, Lake County, 15 August 1912 — Page 8

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THE TIMES.

Thursday, August 15, 1912.

SEARCH FOR THE CHILD

Extstance without the baby had been

Fear Entertained in Gary That Five Year Old Alice Grubba Has Been Mur

dered and Body Buried in

the Swamps.

The Gary police are now beginning to fear that five -year-old Alice Grubba. who disappeared last Saturday after

noon, has been murdered, and they hare accordingly began to search the f tv am p s between Gary and Tolleston j

for tier hody. Chier Martin yesterday afternoon detailed Detectives Jurlc and Shonskl on the case and gave them strict Instructions to keep at-it until they locate the girl dead or alve. Capt. Newman who is oft on furlough, volunteered to assist In the search, and under his direction the Gary I .and company swamps are being scoured. - The little git is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gubba, 1121 Jefferson street. They are Croatian folks. Alice was last seen last Saturday afternoon playing near the Ivanich saloon In Eleventh avenue. Theories that the little one was kidnaped by a boarder who liked the child .were brushed aside when the police . located the man In Question. He denies aU knowledge of the child's whereabouts. Possibilities that the little one was kidnaped by a gypsy ares also scouted. A police description of the missing child follows: "Five years old, heavy for her age, dark complexion, brown hair, grey eyes; dressed In blue gingham petticoat, had no shoes, stocking orhat. Speaks Croatln and someEnirlish. Right arm paralyzed."

difficult enough but with it, it ceased

to be possible. No one wanted her to work for them with a baby to hamper .

her activities and she knew of no other

way out of it. t-

That Is the way the police look at the case. Not an officer who has seen the woman, but who pities more than condemns her, horrible as was her crime. A pathetic testimonial to the fact that the mother was not totally without the instincts of moherhood Is presented In the baptismal record which the police have secured which proves that the woman cared enough to have her baby baptised in the faith of her fathers. The department has as yet been unable to secure information regarding where her home was In Gary and whence she came to that city. The

woman Is incoherent. Dr. Sauer who j has observed the woman Finer her Incarceration is Inclined to believe that ehe is not-insane. He !s of the belief that desperation brought on by pover

ty was the cause of her act and that '

ow her remorse is genuine and only '

tural. !

The Infanticide was taken yesterday to Crown Point in AV. 15. Van Home's' machine ,to be held for trial in the Superior court.

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Riley this morning.

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Hundreds of citizens Including business men, workmen and Idlers, flocked to the police station, and it was necessary at last for the desk sergeant to detail a couple of officers to keep the

crowd out of the station. While no

threats were made, the police did not know when and attempt at violence

might develop, as feeling ran high, and the officers did not care to take

chances on a possible demonstration

' . . " " e. .c.,v... t,on and teU hu suspicions to Sergeant cation bureau has been communicated i . , . . . . , . ... , . .'Barker. The latter sent him back to with and considers the arrest of,... . . . , . : the spot where the Incident occurred

visit to Indiana Harbor by himself and is expected during the day to look over

men pick-pockets and went out of his

; way enough to step into the police sta-

WOMAN CONFESSES HER GUILT (Continued from Page l.t

was brought up and taken to Burns end McGuan's undertaking establishment to-be la'd out. Even the officers. Inured as they are to heart rending spectacles, and "Johnnie" McGuan of similar experience, "could "not keep" the tears from their eyes aa the little body was tenderly placed within the ambulance la waiting. The body is one of unusual beauty. The mother, in fact, although her face has been hardened by poverty ' and privation, and although bearing the unmistakable Impress of woeful-Ignorance, looks as though she might have

the prisoners. The latter are absolutely reticent offering no defense nor

apologies, but merely stating they are from Chicago. Of course it was pay day at the Inland. It always is-swhen the check forgers get out to play their little game. John Borney was passing the saloon of Max Salmon when he noticed a man emerging from the p'ace wearing a cap. Barney had walked quickly and had passed the big swarm of workers who were pouring out of the Inland at that hour. He noticed the man who was Just then coming out of the Salmon saloon, for the reason that he removed a cap from his head, replaced It by a hat and spoke In a low tone to a number of companions who had evidently been waiting for him. "There they come," indicating the workmen from the mill whose vanguard was just then appearing a short distance back. Something in the tone

ana the remark and the actiori, krbused

In company with Officer Rajehfhetz. Only one of the men remained and he was point, out by Barney.' Officer Rajchlnets asked htm where he ' lived andwas given the address of 4032 Michigan avenue. Tlje officer knew enough about Indiana Harbor to know there was no such number. His next question was as to the man s occupation. He was told by the stranger that he had been employed for three weeks at the Inland mill as a core-maker. This was mistake No. 2, Officer Rajchlnetz being or the opinion that there were no coremakers employed at the Inland. In any event the circumstances warranted the officer in arresting the stranger and he took him to the station. He gave the name of Edward Crooks. A search of his personal effects showed a gOTidly bankroll and a bundle of Inland checks that would choke a horse. The checks were all for sums of fifty dollars and over and were made out to "machinists," "bricklayers" and other high-priced mechanicssaf ter the

manner of the Inland company, so that

Barney's suspicious. He believed theeach one meant a good haul If cashed.

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RADLOFF MURDER TRIAL IS ON (Continued from Page one) steel works. Mrs. Ttadeloffs second husband, and Mrs. Fred Schrepser, her sister, with whom the Stokers resided with In Gary and whose husband met a violent death In Hammond on June 25. Mrs. Schrepser has Just settled with the Standard Steel car works, so the prosecuting attorney states, tor $500 to relieve the company of all further responsibility regarding the death of her husband. Mrs. Radeloff, who Is a - striking brunette of 22 was the wife of George Radeloff, an electrical engineer. They had .trouble and she left her husband and came to Gary to live with the Schrepsers at their home in Jefferson street near Eighth avenue. Here she met Henry Stoker, a boarder there. Police say that the Schrepsers made a match so It wasn't very long until Henry and Mathilda were married. Then visions of her first husband arose and one day Mrs. Stoker told her husband that she must go to Cincinnati to see relatives. She went there, mad an appointment with George, her legal husband, to met her In a park on the .night of April 4. There he was shot, , dying a few days later. She snys she-

killed him In self-defense. Mrs. Rade-loff-Stoker quietly skipped out aijd went back to GaTy where the local po lice arrested her. ' The state will endeavor to show that Mrs. Radeloff-Stoker left Gary for Cincinnati for the sole purpose of get-

Officer Bajchinetx was Immediately was subdued and the officers led their

detailed in company with John Lazaar to watch for other members of the gang. They went down Michigan avenue as far as the Auditorium. At Barney Cohen's place they encountered two men who they suspected of being

prisoners to the station. They were booked under the names of Charles Swanson and George Church. A search of their belonging revealed 11,000 worth of checks and ' $103 In cash on

the person of Church, who also carried

another stack of checks aggregating about $1,000 was disclosed. In the meantime Sergeant Barker

had scraped up a few bona nde Inland j " '"

ind one of these he sent to- Detective Ixjuls Eisner or the uary po111 .1 . . . . t

gether with a bogus check to each oil"" uiucui . " r.ii..."-" the business houses where the men i at Clncinnti.

most their

from the Inland were for the Dart In the habit of cashing

checks. Thus the story of the big haul made by the police was quickly circulated throughout Indiana Harbor and It was not long before practically the entire city knew of It. A man came into Ed O'Donnel's plaice, the Metropole, soon after the arrests' had been made, and asked Mr. O'Donnell what" the excitement was over. "They are arresting some fellows over here," he said. "They seem to be crooks of some sort." Just a moment before the advent of this customer, a stranger had come to the bar and asked permission to cann a check and also to leave a grip that he carried. At hearing of the arrests he gathered up his suit case and without waiting for the cash on his .check, lit out of the place and took a car which happened to be waiting on the corner just then, and was ?one. It Is believed by the police that this man was a member of the gang of forgers. One of the latter entered the Ben

Goldman saloon and offered a check

crooks and told them they were under a big Colts six-shooter, while on f risk- I for $52 but this was not cashed, some arrest. One of them showed fight, but I ing Swanhon a haul of $72 In cash and one giving the bartender the wink that

Radeloff Jury Vlalta M order Scene.. A Cincinnati dispatch reads: The Jufors who will try Mrs. Mathilda Radeloff on the first degree charge , of murdering her husband, visited, the scene of shooting, at the little bridge over West Fork Creek, near the C, H. and D. Railroad, In South Cummlnsville, Tuesday morning. The trip was made to the scene In an omnibus, the Jury being accompanied by Attorney Louis B. Sawyer, representing Mrs. Radeloff: County Prosecutor Thomas Pogue and Assistant Prosecutor Carl Jacobs, Bailiff Henry Kleemeyer and Deputy Clerk "Dick" Zeldler. The place where the shooting occur red is a desolate and dismal spot, some distance from any habitation, and it la claimed that because of the locality Mrs. Radeloff always carried a revolverwhen she went out at night. The shooting occurred on the night of April 4. The trial will begin tomorrow morning before Judge Cromwell. The state Is expected to consume tw days with its testimony, and it is probable that Mrs. Radeloff will not go on the stand in her own defense before Monday.

had her share of comeliness, otherwise' attired and under different clrcuni-; tanoas. I was driven to drown my baby by ,

the Devil." moaned the Woman In making her confession. "I was poor, too poor to take care of myself and of It, and something told me to put it out of the way. Oh God! tq think that I did such a thing. My poer baby!" All mornlng.ihe police labored with her to get her ft confess 'or give them

search for the body of the baby, which 1 E3

they were thoroughly convinced was dead. The -mother told a number of conflicting stories, of how she had disposed of the little one.. First she maintained that she had given it to a woman at the depot. Next she said she had given It to a farmer. It was not until Sergeant Barker shdwed her a picture of his little baby and asked her if she would not rather hers would be burled in a nice green lot with trees and flowers, than o remain where it was, that she. broke down and shrieked out her confession. , . i After that for hours she rocked her body back and forth and hid her fa on her arm as she sat upon a'bench In the police station, sobbing and weeping piteously and begging to be taken

to her child. She was not present wheiyl

me uuuj wmb recoverea, tne police

having their hands full in keeping her from throwing herself from the pier

into the lake when she showed them

the spot where she had drowned her

baby. - She had been told however of

the recovery of the body

At aDout four o'clock she was taken to Burns and McGuan's morgue in an automobile, Sergeant Barker and Offi

cer Lazaar accompanying her. She was led into the room in which the little

still form lay and a pitiful scene ensued. She begged for a' kiss and the officers taking pity upon her distress permitted her to stoop beside the bier and tenderly kiss the little brow and

cheek. It Was only by main force that! she was led away. . For the most part however, her grief was not demonstrative. She wept quietly to herself and shunned the eye of all. She hid her face constantly. The woman was clothed In the garb of the meanest peasant class. It seems doubtful that' she can ever write her own name. She is unable to speak a word of English and the horror of her crime Is modified somewhat by all these considerations.- That she Is woefully poor there seems little doubt and the police are inclined to believe - her story of abandonment by her husband which she says occcurred eight months ago. Friendless and without knowledge of how to obtain work, and rendered desperate by want she had sought the only means she knew of to solve, the problem. The bitter lesson that "has come to many a hopeless mother under like conditions, that child - which should be her - greatest blessing and Joy, was an unsurmount-

fcble incumbrance to her very existence. I

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