Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 62, Hammond, Lake County, 9 September 1912 — Page 8
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CUSTOM TAILORING AT REASONABLE PRICES. Just received a full line of Fall and Winter Samples in all shades for Men's Tailor Made Suits. Call and look them over.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TO UNDERGO NEW TEST WHEN MURDERER TAKES DEATH CHAIR
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THE ONLY WAY to keep scenes is to Kodak them with an EASTMAN. $1.00 and up. L. Cox & Co. .'C Ilohman Street, HAMMONn IXDIAXA
Artistic Tailoring It is our aim to produce the highest type of garments, the most excellently tailored, tht most perfect fitting clothes. Every stitch on our 6uits is done in Hammond, and we use th finest woolens and the best trimmings. We never allow a suit to leave our shop until it fits -rerfectly. Our Fall and Winter stock is here. We are enthustistic about them. So will you be wtavn you see them. We can please you. Young Men's Tailors 61 STATE STREET
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Bertram O. Spencer. When Bertram G. Spencer, on of the most remarkab) criminals of scent years, gos to h'.s death in Massachusetts during the week of September 15 In the electric chair. Christian Science will be put to a new and startling test. Spencer, with but a few more days to live. Is convinced that, through Christian Science, electrocution will be attended by neither phynlcal nor mental suffering. Criminologists have characterised Spencer as the living prototype of the strange character which Stevenson gave to fiction in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." A faithful shipping cleric by day. at night be became a murderous burglar. His last criminal act was the murder of Miss Martha B. Blackstone, a member of one of Springfield's oldest families.
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BUILT FOR BUSINESS will be any bicycle that we repair. Our . repairmen are experts, understanding every part of every make of bicycle, so that the wheel will be even stronger, easier running and better than before. We supply all parts, too. When you haveany biOcycle or motorcycle trouble bring it to us. We make it right.
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HARLEY-DAVIDSON AGENCY ISO Sibley Street. Phone 353 Hammond, Ind.
TERRIBLE FATE OF CHILD UNCOVERED
CHIEF WOULD GIVE REWARD FOR SLAYER
'If I eonld afford It I would Kindly offer reward for the rapture of the murderer of little Mary (rnhtm.' -Chief Martin of the tiary police. The police have Information that nay lend to an arrrnl today. The murder of the t.rubba girl la the alith murder In tiary stnee July 10. Four nefcroea were murdered, one unknown white man ty autoIxtN, and the rhtld victim make up the record.
if th rank and rough vegetation which! towers over a man's hrad it would be
impoBsible for a child of even twelve :
years old to make its way throush the
morass. The point where the remains
were found in about a quarter of a mile
distant from the nearest street point and entrance is only to be gained after
beatinsr down the dense Jungle-like
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E. CHICAGO SCHOOL ATTENDANCE GROWS Nearly Three Hundred More Pupils Are Registered This Year.
Bleaching Remains of Five Year Old Mary Grubba of Gary Found in Deep Swamp.
I Gary'a most atrocious murder came -mother was to light yesterday when the bleached skull of her
bones of little four-year-old Mary hair as
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THEATRE "The House of Silent Dramas." Tuesday, Sept. 10th
shown the hair-covered child. Phe identified the
that of the babe's. Care was
iGrubba were found In the heart of an , taken not to let her fct too near the
almost impassable swamp at Four- box containing the bones as it was I teenth avenue and Jackson street. feared that the shock would have fatal
The child, who has been missing since effects.
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August 10 from the home of her father, Joseph Grubba, 1105 Jefferson street, was the object of a state-wide search, and only a few weeks ago the Gary police thoroughly searched the swamp where the sun-bleached skeleton was found. rarnllela f . Y. Murder. That the litle one met her death st the hands of a degenerate is the opinion of Chief Martin and Capt. Newman. A striking parallel between the death of the Gary child and that of nine-year old. Jula Connors in New York several weeks ago at the hands at Nathan Phwartz is pointed out. The crime is also similar to the murder In 1907 at Gary of little Klele Schroeder, who was assaulted and murdered by William Gagle, now in the state prison. A Ghastly Find. The remains if little Mary were discovered about half past three o'clock yesterday afternoon by Thomas Kraeiep who lives near the old Gary-Toleston boundary line. Frailer was carrying his son's dinner to the sewer cranes nearby. He usually traversed the swamp and yesterday he took a short cut and in so doing stumbled Into the little open space where the body lay. At first he saw the skull. Then, nearby was the skeleton. Flesh was only on one foot and the fingers of one hand. The only clothing was the fragments of a litle undershirt on the upper part of the body. Spots on it Indicate blood stains and a miscroscopic examination will be made to determine their nature. Following his ghastly discovery Frailer hurried out of the swamp and going to the nearest rhone rang up oplice headquarters. Capt. Newman and Detective Mucklnn hastened to the marsh -and M-ere guided to the death spot by thoir informant. IMneWverjr Kept (Inlet.
News of the discovery of the child's remains were kept as quiet as possible by the police as they feared a demonstration " among the foreigners. The bones were hurried to the MarshallDanctilovich undertaking parlors at Seventh avenue and Washington street. No information as to the find was conveyed to the Grubbas but later on the father was notified. Sad Scene t Moracue. News of the discovery of the child's remains were kept as quite as possible by the police as they feared a demonstration among the foreigners. The bones were hurried to the MarshillDanculovich undertaking parlors at Seventh avenue and Washington street. No information as to the find was coneyed to the Grubas but later on the father was notified. Sad Scene At Morgue. Today the mother was told and accompanied by her husband and a band of weeping neighbors they went up to the morgue. Ia the back room the
It is the theory of the police that the child was picked up by her slayers and that they entered the marsh. Because
Superintendent E. N. Canine of the East Chicago schools today announced that the increase in attendance as evidenced by the close of the first week of the fall term was even greater than he had looked for. Friday's total enrollment showed an attendance of 269 more than the corresponding Frlda last year, while the first day's attendance was only 150 more than the first day in 1911. Tomorrow will take place the garden products show and the attendant entertainment, at the Lincoln school. The flowers and vegetables to be entered in competition will be brought to the school tomorrow and disposed tlon and judging purposes. All of the money taken in by the entertainment, from the admission fee of ten cents, will be applied to prizes for the children, it being the intention to make Jl the maximum and 50 cents the minimum, although the amount of the prizes will be. governed by the amount taken in at the door. The Judges appointed by the commercial club of Indiana Harbor and East Chicago and by the East Chicago club to decide on the winners of the prlzee offered by those organizations were out Saturday in Indiana Harbor and Oklahoma and will finish their tour of Inspection today. There have been no entries from East Chicago. Superintendent Canine did not know whethr It was the Intention of the Judges to look over the gardens In East Chicago and take them Into account in spite of the absence of entries, or not.
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No. 3327-29 BLOCK AVENUE, PHONE 658 R INDIANA HARBOR
Headquarters for School Books and School Supplies FOUNTAIN PENS, 14-K, 59 CENTS EACH Waterman, Wirt, Swan, Rapid Writer, Furney and Conklin, all guaranteed Fountains Pens, $1.00 to $6.00. Prangs Four Color Paints, 15 cents each. School Tablets at Special Prices, Quality Considered. SUMMERS PHARMACY Prescription Specialists HOHMAN STREET NEAR STATE Telephones 1420-1421-28
SIX WEEKS TO SWELTER If you buy high shoes economize. Buy oxfords at our prices and be comfortable. $4.00 Oxfords, now. .$2.95 3.50 Oxfords, now. . 2.65 3.00 Oxfords ,now. . 2.25 2.50 Oxfords, now.. 2.00 Children's White Shoes Cut J1.50 White Canvas Button.. JFJ 2.no White Canvas Button. . J 2.50 White Buck Button... gc1.50 2-Strap White Canvas. . QQ See Our Women's Comfort Shoes, our special at QQ Ortt & Towle 169 State Street
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Our long experience of fourteen years in the restaurant business has taught us that the public likes a fine, tender, thick and juicy steak properly served. You will like our regular meals and quick lunches. Try One of Our Steaks. THE MAINE RESTAURANT Open All Night BEREOLOS BROS., Props. 544 Hohman Street
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