Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 54, Hammond, Lake County, 26 August 1912 — Page 1

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HAMMOND, INDIANA, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1912.

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SHOCKING

ACCIDENT TO

MOTORISTS

Double Riding on Motor

cycle May Cause Fatality, When Machine Sets Fire to Young Woman Riding

Between Gary and Ham mond With Youth.

Double riding on motorcycles which has been the cauee "of so many accidents In this region and the abolition ofwb,lch by municipal ordinances was urged la Tbb Ttmks a few days ago was responsible for the Injury by Hie of a young man and woman who narrowly escaped being burned to death at six o'clock Saturday night. The accident occurred in the "West "Ninth avenue road between Hammond and Gary and had it not been for the nearness of a Gary and Interurban car, the passengers of which gave assistance to the couple the young woman might have haoii burned to death. As It is her con

dition Is critical but the attending surgeon believes that her life will be

SaMalnn Fearful Burma. The burned: ETHEL SMITH. 19 years old. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith. Ninth avenue and Swift street, Caldwell's ninth addition. West Gary: fearfully burned about body and limbs: removed to her home.

ROY ROBERTS, II years old, driver of the motorcycle; burned In trying to assist Miss Smith; removed to Smith

- home for treatment; later was able to go to his own home and today was able to go to work at the Gary steel

plant.

Miss Smith was not on the seat but was riding on the tank on the forward end of the machine when a snort flame

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DOITF WILLING TO COOPERATE

A Part Of The Infamous "Whiskey" Row in West Hammond 1 1

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POLICE GET , fcv-M MARKET

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, "WJy ' lncilW l rWjAi2ir" r ' A market 'commission-working- un1 PhPf m Kfi' A l L wllnY' r an 0,:(3inaru-'e which is to contain V. Jfe'E'idr'' W ill III U Y irf liXJl(k I 1 the features of. othr city markets SaEH I 111 I it' I yIA VteaS V J which have been pronounced a success

MAN CRUSHED TO DEATH 'NEATH AUTO

Daughter Injured But Husband Escapes In Shocking Accident Between Hobart and Valpo. n

(Special to Tm Tiukb.) Valparaiso, Ind., Aug. 26. Mrs. C. W. Lutz, 7416 Drexel boulevard, Chicago died here yesterday afternoon at the Christian hospital as the result of fatal injuries which she received in an automobile accident. , The machine In which her husband, and their ten year old daughter Ethel, were rlding turned turtle and plunged Into the tl'.trh near Pierce's mill between Hobart and Valparaiso. . Hl'SBAND IS SAVED. Mr. Lutx who was at the steering wheel lost control of the machine and as the auto made the fatal leap he was

hurled out of harm's way, while his

wife and daughter were caught under

the touring car. The girt escaped with a few bruises, but the mother was fatally injured, having suffered a fracture of the pelvis and other internal injuries. FARMER HELPS THEM. Andrew Reidley a farmer near the scene of the accident ran to the assistance of the stricken family, and helped to remove them to the Christian Hospital here. Dr. lioring was summoned to give medical assistance, but desplts prompt attention, the woman . died - at 4:30. She was brought to the hospital at two o'clock. WERE OBf VISIT TO RELATIVES. The auto is said to have been going quite fast at the time the accident occurred. The body of Mrs. Lutz was removed to Chlesgo today for burial, while her daughter was released from the hospital yesterday evening. The Luts' had come to Valparaiso to spend the day with relatives here.

PACKER GIVES

Coroner Frank Smith of Lake County In Gary this morning stated his position regarding the exhuming of the body of Esther Harrison for the purposes of a pathological examination. He said: "I am willing to cooperate with Coroner Hoffman of Cook county to the fullest extent. If he discovers in his examination of the Messmaker ease and his Investigation of the Harrison girl's case that there Is sufficient reason for exhuming the body of Esther Harrison, I will order the body exhumed. Has Authority To Do So. "I may order the body of Miss Harrison exhumed on my own account. Z

have the authority to do so. But I will , await developments. When the coroner of Cook county makes his report in the Messmaker case then I will decide whether or not I will exhume the body of Miss Harrison." The report that the body of Miss Harrison had been stolen from the cemetery to prevent an examination is believed to be untrue. Those who have investigated the case say that they are almost certain that the mark on an hypodermic needle will be found on her body. John Huber, who runs a saloon at

.Knocking the cost of living at the rate of SSJ per knock; has been the avocation of Peter Ega Maletln, a notorious counterfeiter, for;' Bome . years past. But his methods were not legitimate and he is about to suffer the retribution visited upon all alias Jlmmte Valentines other than those who appear on the stage. He is nowbeing held by the Hammond police charged with raising the denomination of bank notes from $10 to $100. He was detected by Joe Sweta. a Columbia avenue saloonkeeper, who was one of his Intended vicitlms. He latter confessed to having passed two of the bills, one on an East Chicago saloonkeeper and the other on a Hegewlsch saloon. The police withhold the names. A Clever Capture. In his capture Chief Austgen's men have accomplished what the secret

service of a hundred cities will envy. '

Maletin has operated successfully in nearly every oitr in the country. His methods are unique and his style of counterfeiting beyond reproach. Mllos ManUch. formerly a partner of Maletin, has already served thirty-two months of a 12-year sentence. Maletin will eventually Join him in retirement. Wtih seven hundred dollars In phony bills Maletin came to Hammond Friday. , H lost two centuries by gambling, destroyed on because it was im

perfect, cashed two and was caught in an attempt to cash the other in East Hammond Saturday evening. One is yet to be accounted for.

How He Did It. By clipping the ciphers from a one

dollar bill and pasting them onto a ten'

spot so as to make the ten read 100,

Maletin has demonstrated the fact that

grafting Is not limited to politics and

Virginia Brooks, Reformer Militant

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DR. HOFFMAN ADMITS IT

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COUNTRY CLUB - INVITES ITS GUESTS

I Surrounding Cities Bidden I to Hammond Country I Club's Dedication.

(Special to The Tiwes.) Chicago, Hi., Aug. 26. Coroner Hoffman Issued a statement this morning in which he says that there are evidences that John Messmaker

was sen inree injections or mor- ! phlne previous to his death. . Dr. Andrew Hoffman admits that he' administered the morphine for the I lnvtatlons to the opening and dedipurpose of superinducing vomiting. ! cation of Hammond's new $100,000 clubThis has led Coroner Hoffman to sus- i houae nd grounds for next Monday pect that Messmaker may have been were sent out thls morning, and in the poisoned. neighborhood of 500 are expected to He has accordingly ordered the take Part ,n thc day's program, which tomach carefully analysed by a mem- begrlnB at 9:80 a- m- nd 'lasts till midber of his staff. The analysis will cost I night Many from Whiting, Gary, Chiconsiderable money, but Coroner Hoff- caKO. Eatt Chicago, Crown Point and man Is convinced that the clrcum-! Indiana Harbor have been invited to stances In the case warrant it.. attend and the affair promises to be Coroner Hoffman also announced to-! one f unusual interest. The golf and

DEVELOPMENTS IN WEST HAMMOND 1. Police raid a number of resorts that failed to close and the inmates are released on bail. 2. George Rosenbaum arrested on a warrant sworn out by Alderman Otto Planer, who charges him with attempting to bribe him with diamonds. 3. Mayor K. M. Woscxynski is indignant because Judge Frank Green released Rosenbaum. on $500 bonds when he was required to furnish $5,000, or ten times as much for practically the same offense. 4. Bee Burke and Con Moore called on Miss Virginia Brooks ana plead with her to let up. on the dives In West Hammond. They claim that the closing of the resorts confiscates their property. 5. Coroner Smith of Gary In an interview in Ths Times says that he will co-operate with Coroner Hoffman of Chicago in the "matter of clearing up the, mystery of three deaths In the West Hammond dives. Dr. A. P. Burris of Janesville, Wis., declares that Miss Brooks, vhom he has never seen, is his ideal.

POLICE IN NEW RAID

VIEWS 01 INDIANA

Washington. Aug. 26. Before departing for Indiana today to enter the campaign, Representative E. D. Crumpacker, the only Republican member of Congress from Indiana, gave to the newspaper men his views1 on the situation and the outlook in Indiana. He made hjso'rpott'n . a regular' Republican plain and declaredf that President Taft had a better chance of carrying Indiana than any other ' of the

presidential nominees.

Place u Finng l.mr. It. was Representative Crumpacker's

new party, expecting to get in a few shots while the brickbats are coming his way. v( ' In his interview he said: "The situation a,, Indiana, of course. Is greatly-complicated, buf. as it i today, Taft has a much belter chance of getting the electorlal yoH of the ta? than has either Wilson jor , Roosevelt. He rrrtet Indiana '" in 1 8 bjr ."a iHt le more than 10,000 plurality, but had it not been for local issues the prohibition question, particularly he would have won the state by 60,000. , Ordinarily, we know that Indiana is a close

While resort keepers were pleading with Miss Virginia Brooks to let up in

I her crusade on the dives, telling her that her war on the disorderly houses was destroying property values, in- , forming her that his places were all orj derly now and that there was not a i scarlet woman In any of them, the po lice officers of West Hammond were raiding the Colonial hotel. ! They arrested Z. B. Ross and Violet ; Collins, v2-.om they found drinking j there, and placed them both under $100 b:nds. Don Hunt, 3S Plummer avenue, Hammond, was arrested on the j charge of being drunk and disorderly, ' was fined $10 and costs and was sent to ! the county jail owing to his inability to

pay it. .

Chief of Police John Kulczyk arrested p. E. Lennan, a lineman, of Hammond. Kulczyk frays that he was

day that he has appointed Prof. W. S. Haines, of the Columbus memorial laboratories, to make the pathological examination of the body of Miss Esther Harrison, who was buried after a rather sudden death. This is, of course, conditional on the Issuing of an ordeiy Coroner Smith of Gary to fcave the body exhumed.

tennis dedication cup championships will be strongly contested. Five silver cups are to be awarded during the day. The officers, the club and the various committees are active this week in completing the arrangements and realize that they have a tremendous task on their hands to have everything In readiness.

FRED NEWELL GETS FINE APPOINTMENT Hammond Man Is Given a $300 Per Month Job in Canal Zone.

first expression for publication on poli-:"la. Dut laIt s na always has been tics this year, arfd it left no doubt that trong there. . he was going home to take his place "The President Is gsining ' ground on the firing line as an opponent of the' (Continued onPaae 7.)

TO MRS. FINNERAI

' A market "commission working-un-

aer an ordinance which is to contain

the features of other city markets

which have been pronounced a success

are- considered the first steps necessary I

by Mayor Smalley for the opening or the Hammond city market. Accordingly he will introduce at the next- regular council meeting an ordinance which provides for a commission, and which at the name time also lays down the laws and the rulese for the operation of the public exchanges. Mayor Smalley already has in mind two of the commissioners whom he will very likely appoint, although he is not yet ready to make their names public. One of these is said to be a man who is a representative of the consumers, while the other Is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and a business man himself. Speaking of the latter

Mayor Smalley said he had confidence in him, as he was a man that could look at the public market with a broad view despite the fact that he himself Is in business. There is no salary connected with the commission for the beginning, and Mar Smalley will have to rely on men who are willing to give some of their own time for the good work. fut Bar Middleman. Mayor Smalley will suggest to the two men whom he appoints that they appoint the third member of their com.

misinn The -ommission will be sriven I nluncrr nvnr a KlTttv-foot embankment. : Locked In a

a free hand to make the market a sue- I Mrs. Finneran was thrown against the and F. Mahiscak rolled out of

FIGHT LASTS A LONG TO THERE Two Foreigners" in1 Standard District Tear Into Each Other.

Martin Finneran and James Finner- J Tenants of the Standard Steel Car

an returned from Hudson, Mich., where company houses yesterday witnessed they went when word was received of an altercation that may be approprlthe accident to Mrs. Martin, Finneran. ately called a marathon fight. It beMrs. Finneran "wfill recover, but the In- gan In a saloon and edded in the pojuries she received were very,, serious. , lice court, the cause was a mouth orShe was driving a horse when it be- gan valued at 15 cents and the cost came friarhtened at an automobile and a fine fixed at $15.

fierce embrace it. K.eiier

Particulars of Accident

Which Befell Her Are Received in City.

cess, and among other things will be instructed to canvass the truck farmers with a view of inducing them to come into the market. How to regulate the market so as to exclude the middieeman will be one of the problems in drawing up the ordinancee. City Attorney John A. Gavit stated today that he doubted very much whether a clausee could be put into the ordinance' barring peddlers or commission men, owing to Hammond's

abutment of a bridge.

Her throat was, lacerated from ear to ear, her arm was broken, a number of teeth were knocked out and she was picked up for dead. Mrs. Fin-

drunk and disorderly. Judge Frank ( proximity to the state line and the inGreen says that the fact was brought I terstate commerce law. out inuhe trial of the case that the I "Our market should give us the benechief of police of West Hammond fired ! fit of the fall produce." said Mayor

Co-

lumbia avenue saloon 'at ; 10 o'clock t yesterday morning. On the street they 'completed a fight that had furnished excitement for the patrons of the

place since 8 o'clock. j It Is claimed by iiti,ii a nrt Admitted bv the nartici-

neran will be confined to the house for ( ts that tw hours were 8pent

a month before she win be aDie to ,c enM)unter. I?oth were badly beatreturn to Hammond. I pn up Flnneran's many friends in Ham-J Badly winded but still game, the

Hfiond and West Hammond were sorry opponents turned on Officers Lute and

to hear of the accident and were glad stelow who went to make the arrests.

that it was not fatal as was first reported.

his revolver at him and hit him In the jaw with a club. He was released upon paying hte court costs. Detectives are said to have demanded

Smalley this morning, "and I hope to see it grow to such an extent that eventually it will become a big substantial-institution. We are getting copiss of the ordinances establishing a market in the various cities, particu-

Through Congressman E. D. Crumr.acker, Fred Newell has received an appointment as an - electrician at the Panama canal at $300 a month. He will leave for the canal zone the early part of the coming month. He expects later to take his wife with him. Newell has been an electrician In Hammond for some time. He learned of the demand for electricians at the canal zone and made application for an appointment. He will have a house and all of the advantages that are enjoyed by the employes of the canal zone. He goes armed with the necessary introductions which will be of great value to him.

the right to search Foss' place in West j liammond. Foss nermitted them to sro

through it and they went away satis- Marly Indiana cities, and from these we fied that the place had been closed. i will take the best ideas for our own. It is said that the resort keepers now I , . admit that Miss Brooks and Mayor K. OT-Ti RTTTTT.T1RS

m. wosczynsKi nave got tne arop on them. They are reported to be looking for a new field of activities. It is said that they had settled upon Burnham when the people of that locality learned of the fact and at once took steps to keep them out.- Miss Brooks was asked to speak before the Burnham citizens who are against the invasion of the dives.

Democratic Meeting. County Chairman John A. Gavit has called a meeting of the democratic precinct chairman of the county for this afternoon in Hammond. The meeting was held In the Jefferson club rooms and was well attended. The next registration and the early campaign program were the principal things that were up for discussion.

ANNUAL MEETING

Crown Point, Ind.. Aug. 26. The Old Settlers' and Historical association of Lake county will hold its annual meeting Wednesdajv Aug. 28, at the Lake county fair grounds at Crown Point. The morning session will open at 10:30 and will be followed by a basket dinner. The program will be resumed in the afternoon. All interested In this association and its work are urged to be present at this meeting and renew old acquaintances and make new friends.

The choicest of all Scrap Chewing Tobacco is UNION SCOUT, manufactured from the pure leaf. Handled by all dealers. Try a package, save tne ticket. See premium lir.

A Sad Death.

A bride of a year died yesterday at St. Margaret's hospital. Her body was shipped today to Omaha, her former home. On the same train went the husband, A. Schoenfelder, a. teacher of violin, who In his heart-broken condition it is feared may become a nervous wreck. Grief, so potent and unusual as to cause the concern of physicians, was shown by the young husband. A newly furnished home in 444 Cedar street has been deserted. In the bed chamber are garments that were made for a little human that never

The police were compelled to beat the mlnto submission. Neither foreigner could be persuaded to drop the fighting attitude -until unconscious. They succeeded In -landing severa effestive blows on the officers.

Attacked by Apoplexy. Mrs. M, Louise Woods, former postmistress of Hammond, suffered a stroke of apoplexy at the residence of her Bister, Mrs. Emma Allen, at Val- ; paraiso yesterday. The attack lasted two hours and was quite serious. Medical assistance was summoned and the patient wa relieved. "Yesterday afternoon and this morning she is reported to be feeling much better.

came. The death of the wife was un-' expected. Mrs. Mary-Schoenfelder had BUmham WOn t Have SLbTO.. many, friends in Hammond. Some of The West Hammond reformers, who them gathered in the Emmerllng un- are dtermined to purify the city, were dertaklng parlors today, where the much gratified to learn today that the body lay. , Burnham authorities to whom license

overtures have been made by the oust

ed divekeepers in West Hammond, ab

solutely refuse to issue any licenses..

W. H. Wlckham, a switchman on the to them or permit any man who has

Switchman Hurt.

E. J. & K. railroad, was painfully-Injured Saturday while making a connection between two sections of a freight. He was taken to the South Chicago hospital, where it was learned that his injuries were not severe. He will recover completely.

lost his license to operate in Burnham. "We would not stand for it one second," said one of the Burnhan official to Thb Times morning.

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