Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 135, Hammond, Lake County, 5 November 1912 — Page 1
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Twin Assault of Bull Moosers and Democrats on the County Ticket Makes Battle for County Ticket a Hard Fight.
The vote in the city of HammunJ will be the largest that has ever been cast in the history of the city. The fine fall weather in the morning promoted ear-, ly voting, which mails it easier to get out the vote in the afternoon. The republicans were opt imistie over the prospects for electing the county ticket, ami in view of the fact that they are doubtful of the election of President Taft they are in good spirits. The fight resolves itself into a desperate defense of the county ticket from the assaults of both the democrats and the bull rnoosers. Huth sides, with a few exceptions, have fought a clean, decent fight, and there will be fewer sore spots than in any recent election. Congressman E. P. Crumpacker has a hard tight on in view of the activities of the bull rnoosers and the democrats, both of whom have attacked him, but this morning he predicted his election by a greatly reduced majority. The fact that Laporte county was taken out of the Tenth district by the democrats at the last session of the legislature is all that gives Crumpacker a fighting chance. Peterson, with the help of democratic organizations in Iaporte and Michigan City, carried Import county by COO majority at the last election. This county has been added to the
Thirteenth district, so that it strength- j SCeneS
ens l rumpacker by that much. Then, too, there are three counties in the district in which the bull rnoosers did not put a county ticket in the field. The republicans are confident that they will carry most of the rest of the county ticket. In fact, the fine -weather and the large vote they considered to be in their favor. The vote on the state ticket is a question of doubt. Rcveridge is expected to be fairly strong and this will operate, as in other Instances, to aid in the election of the democrat.
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SENSATIONS YET TO BE UNFOLDED
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With Noted Election in 1908; All Is Serene and Not Even a Special Policeman Is Found Necessary.
Kiection day dawned quiet and order
ly in Gary today and those who expected to see, a repetition of the bloody 'scents of l!Kn and 1 ft lu when riots.
In Hammond there 1 great activity brawls, and clashes between police and
on the part of the democrats. They commandeered a large number of automobiles and have been taking great pains to get out the vote. The democrats have a better organization. The republicans have had a good organization ever since F. Richard S-haaf, Jr., built it up, and the 1?2 model Is as good as that which did the work two years ago.
CO. STOCKHOLDERS HAVE ANNUAL MEETING Directors Felicitate Officers on Success of Banking Institution.
deputy sheriffs, deaths and broken heads were the order saw a peaceful citizenship going to the polls. The new registration law had a good deal to do with the quietness but there was more discretion observed among those clothed with polb-e and political powers for many prominent Gai-yites wore arrested two years ago for election iregularities. Pemocrats. republican and hull moos'? men were active bright and early and there was r.o friction reported in any part of the citj'. Police In Reserve. Hearing word that Sheriff Grant might send deputies into the city the, story was a canard Chief Martin hur
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COUNCIL WON'T MEET TONIGHT
The voters were up betimes in Indiana Harbor and Kast Chicago this morning, and from most of the precincts the report was that the vote was coming in fast. No disorder was reported up to noon today and the outlook seemed most flattering for the republican ticket. The weather was of a good republican brand ami this fa'.t seemed a bit discouraging to some of the representatives of other parties, if any discouragement was needed to complete the gloom.
The town outside the election are j dead as a door nail today. Politics and j the probable outcome are the only sub-! jeets discussed, but there seems a dis- j position to take the matter calmly all S around. There was no council meeting last night, presumably on account of the Interest taken in politics, most of, the C'lunciimen being in attendance at j the various political meetings throughout the city, or di-cussing the situation with groups in the shelter of the places! where men most do congregate, or on the street corners. The election commissioners were ear- j
ly at their posts this morning prepared to open up on schedule time, and evervthing was s! ip-shnpe before half the
Mrs. Lillian Eicketts of South Bend Drinks Coffee on Wabash Train and Disappears;
Crown Point, Ind., Nov. 5. (Special to The Times.)
I Harry Moose, former city clerk of Gary, the state's
S principal witness in the notorious Gary graft cases, con- ! victed of perjury out of his own mouth, a fugitive from
justice for months and not expected to live a year, lias
! made full confession of his crimes, given himself up to
Thomas E. Dean, of dictograph fame, and is now safely imprisoned in the bastile at Crown Point.
IT IS A MOST REMARKABLE DOCUMENT.
The confession made by Moose is the most remarkable criminal document in police annals. It involves some of the most prominent men in Gary. It involves men in other Calumet region cities who are known the
full length and breadth of Lake County. It deals with Moose's life in the : penitentiary and exposes his full history. It tells of chapters in the past
i lives of men who thought they were a sealed book. It delves into tha
Drucrcred i history of the famous Gary grafting cases and handles them without gleves.
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Remark- i the rankest perjury. It lifts the veil from the letting of some of Gary s I most notorious municinal contracts. It details the inside history of some
able Hunt Through Cities of the Calumet Region by; political transactions that will make some people gasp. It is a sordid tale
a i-r j. i. e t i- m ti-r.1. I told by a man with one foot m the grave. Agents of Department of Justice; Traced to Porter ! T , mTT,Trr, mmr- A.nTT
Race Track and Hammond.
The stockholders of the Iake County Savings & Trust Co. met last evening; and elected the following directors: Pete- YV. Meyn. A. M. Turner. W. C. I-ielnian. John N. Beckman. Joseph D.
Friedman. The ballots were distributed all over
the streets of Hammond and were done under the cover of darkness. The trick
its not believed to have very much inI fiuence.
Another election trick that is being On account of .-lection the city coun- SPneraiiy condemned is the circulation ci! will not meet this evening, the coun- of a lptter by Frank Malloy asking all cil postponing their regular meet ing ; Cat holies and brother Forres tors to until two weeks from tonight. At their lvote for him because of church reasons not regular meeting there will be a I,,,, to ignore other considerations. number of important matters coining; up with considerable business to dis- j JJQARD HAS
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That one J. B. Jordan met his wife, Lillian Kicketts, on a train going from South Kend to Fort Wayne, invited her to share his lunch, gave her a cup of coffee, drugged it and then kidnaped her, was the charge made by Ernest Ricketts, formerly an automobile manufacturer, real estate dealer and brother of Thomas Kicketts, the Hammond contractor, made to Deputy Prosecutor Ralph Koss in Hammond last night. a hi;mahk.ih.h hint. The incident happened three months ago and discloses a remarkable hunt in Toledo and Ann Arbor, Michigan City, Iaporte, Hammond and other cities of the Calumet region. Mrs. Hicketts was traveling on the Wabash railway. I evelopmen ts recently -it rned show that after becoming acquainted with her but a few minutes when he offered her some toffee he had secured in a lunch from
AVhat is denounced by those at both tn brakeman. It is charged that the republican and democratic headquarter s 1 coffee was drugged. was the circulating of a large number j UK 1'tlD THK FAKKS. I of sample ballots split so as to give the ; when the train stopped at Fort republicans the majority of the office ! "Wayne Mrs. Kicketts did not get off. but marking Rarnio A .Carter. Edward j -vhen the conductor came through the Simon, (Jeorga W. Jones and Jacob I rar to collect the fares after the train
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MOTHER'S INFLUENCE BRINGS ABOUT CONFESSION.
j The confession rnade by Harry Moose who as is well-known i: the o!?- ! sju-ing of a splendid family was mtde solely through the infiiu-b.ee of It ia :;ged and lieart broken mother who has pleaded and prayed with him ever ! since he became involved in the machinations of Gary's municipal history in the past few years. It w is she who at South Bend induced her wayward hut still beloved boy to go before Samuel Parker, the special representative of the state's attorney's office appointed by Governor Thomas 11. Marshall during the Gary bribery trials and make his confession. Moose iVnies that any one else but his mother is responsible for the confession. He is heart sick and weary of being knocked from pillar to post and expects without the solicitation of any .symoathy to receive his sentence and go to Michigan City penitentiary to surfer for his crime.
Awaiting His Fate. Harry Moose is now in the Crown Point jail awaiting sentence. He has confessed that he perjured himself, but declares that he swore to u deliberate lie in i.ietroit when a prominent ilnry contractor forced him at the (.oint of an ugly revolver to perjure nimself. This confession, as Is now well known, knocked the plops out of the state's t'.isn when the state of Indiana, through ilovernot- Marshall,
was prosecuting city officials of Gary for bribery, at Valparaiso and Crown Again In. Limelight
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'Marshall has one at Indianapolis and the oth.r is in the hands of Special Prosecutor Samuel Parker at South Pend. The document lays bare Moose's life, his very soul. It uses the knife and tars off scars. It reveals his penitentiary record in Ohio, when hewas imprisoned when but a lad for housebreaking. 1 I -n V s oltiHal life as none knew better and more intimately than the former city clerk is minutely d'-alt with.
Weis, David T. Emery, Julian II. Youche cial meeting may be c alled next wet.Tv.
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Tiie great majority of the stock was represented at the meeting. No changes were made in the directorate, and the of timers of the bank were congratulated by the stockholders on the splendid showing they made during the year just patt. Following the adjournment of the meeting of the stockholders the directors met and re-elected the old officers for the coming year. The lection resulted as follows: Peter W. Meyn, president; Joseph V. Weis, vice president; W. C. Re I man. secretary-treasurer, and David T. Emery, assistant secretaryt reasurer. The directors in turn felicitated the officers of the organization on the ependid success of the bank during the past .year.
A MEETING
Toe city market also had a deserted appearance this morning, being postponed on account of (-'.cation.
had started, Jordan h-id the money ready to Toledo for both of them. The trainmen noticed that Mrs. Ricketts looked sleepy rwid was manifestly under the influence of some drug. When the train reached Toledo Jordan helped her off the train on the trak side instead of on the platform. IP- almost had to carry her off. The couple went to some place unknown. HT TO ANN ARHOR. On S'-pt. 30 they were traced to the Park hotel In Toledo, registering as Mr. and Mrs. J. ! Jordan of Philadelphia. They were next traced to Ann Arbor, Mich., where they stopped at
Switchman Home.
William Schneider. 146 State. Pine street. Hammond, who had his foot taken off at the Kirk railroad yaids at (iary on Oct. was removed to his home, in Hammond yesterday, where he is reported getting along nicely. Schneider Is employed at the Kirk yards as a switchman and following the accident was taken to the Illinois Steel company's hospital.
Quiet for Police. The evening ber'ore election proves to be a quiet one for the Hammond police;, not a report of importance coming in
nd only one lone drunk being picked j body add re
The meeting of the board of directors ' of the Hammond Chamber of Com-' morro at the rooms of that organiza- , tion last night was one of the most!
enthusiastic tnat i.as r.een held m a long time. Among the things that were accomplished were the following; 1. Referred the matter of street il
lumination to the committees on muni- i dozen coupons for
cipal affairs and parks and boulevards. W. P.. ("onkc-y is the chairman of the
latter, while Judge Dawrenee Becker is the chairman of the former. .2. Employed J. D. Brusel to act as secretary of the club, and agreed to pay him for a certain amount of service each day. 3. Took a membership in the national organiza tion of commercial clubs. The traveling representative of that
cd the board members last
The Agent Was O. K. An agent representing the Morrison Photograph company of Chicago came t the conclusion last Saturday that the Hammond police were suspicious of collectors and agents. The agent, going to the residence 0f Mrs. Hakcr, -. Alice street, offered Mrs. Raker a
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Tbounnndn of rhrtvera denier I up. This being his first offense he was j night
they believe I'SIOJi SCOl'T SCRAP in released by the order of Chief Aust-j 4. Placed the rooms of the club at the
the fineftt. Why Khouldn't It bef Man. gen. Last month's arrest sheet shows j disposal of the delegates to the state ufartured from eholcent leaf grown. that all records were broken, over 1 00 j convention of the Y. M. C. A., which is Adr. I arrests being rnade on various charges, to meet in Hammond this month
firm, Mrs. Raker notilied the police, who were hot on his trail. Innocent that he was being trailed by a. number of detectives, the agent worked from house to house, and not until Monday did he learn that he was suspected of being a fake agent. He then made facts plain that he was not a fake agent, but represented a firm capitalized in the round sum of $1,000,000. and that he was doing a bone-fide business in Hammond, while Mrs. Baker, who reported the matter to the police. vas forced to admit that she was wrong in her conclusions
Lillian Ricketts. the Allenel hotel. lb re hotel employed noted that the woman lived almost in a stupor. Next they were true cd to Pent on Hi tier, where Human registered at tlu- Hotel lietitni as J. 11. Redding and wife of Fort Wayne, leaving on the morning of net. 3. The woman, according to t stint on y of the hotel help, cited Stupid ami sleepy and h..d to be ltd mound. AT MK IIMJW ITY. The. couple next s-howod up in Michigan City, w'rorc they we re seen waiting for an electric err to t ike- them ' (Continue..! on Pa-Te s ) QUIET AT HUB. (Special to th-: Tnrnj. Crown Point. Ind., Mov. i,. -The election here to-iac is qnie-t, very little- of th old-time inteiest aid etj t h u s ir, s in being displayed by Cm- voter. The poll will I"- considerably lighter than even the registration poll, trie chief oau v being that the former is especially busy at present and the average citizen is too busy and i no l tYere-n t to sp-md
much time loiteric-:-? around the t-. cotton booths.
Ccires From Cleveland. Moose whs brought from Cleveland, ii'nio, on an Krie train to Crown Point ' this morning. He had given himself up there to Thomas U. Dean voluntarily and without any effort on bean's part. In fact. Moose sent for Dean
to accompany him to Crown Point, life- a life where he might give himself up to wr,., i;r,i t
Sheriff Thomas (.Irani. The sheriff was at the Krie depot to meet the two men and took Moose in custody. He was taken immediately to jail and refused to ask for b. .e.df-mcn. Ho wished it distinctly
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thy, but wanted to meet his fate like a man.
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The pe-rjui y pm t of ti e confession will bring into th-.' limed ght some of Gary's best known and most influential men. They ;.r t.i-red with ,i soi ry-ioe lving stick. Moose declares that he kjs paid $ I, unci l y th.se me n and their agent- after he had been foni !lil to commit perjury er die. Kve-ry effort was m::iie to have him
test that he Could p.; ci o;o-r ph si ea l! y a n-l
brought to tic- edo ed' tr,e grave. No details are spared ii. the confessiun, it is said. R '. e-i.i t it r s revaluing the Inner official life of (iary. municipal contract lettng are brought out
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Moose a Wreck. j Moose is a mental and I wreck. He is a shadow of
mtr self. Kmaeiatod and wasted, he i is a pitiful example of the man who t burns H;.v candle of life at both ends. . His lite since he made his Hammond confession ami left Gary has
been one of high lights and shadows. Detroit, Duluth, Sup-rior, St. Louis, Chicago and Cleveland has been his haunting p'jees. It was rrom Superior, Wis., a town which is to Duluth what Lorain is to Klyrla, Ohio, what West Hammond was to Hammond, that friends of j
Moose wrote The Tl.uss that the excity clerk was dying and that he wanted to confess for enough money to give- him decent burial. When efforts were made to locate Moose, however, he seemed to have been swallowed up. Two Copies of Confession. Only indirectly is it possible to tell of the ejst (,f Moose's confession. Only the future will reveal its contents.
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instruct his s-po. ial pro. c.m Parker, to proceed with t n
of tiie famous bribery trais th4 'S'dti'.el y no jue-st:oii of. t i
ported that he has already e'.-Tie so, and the next few days viil undoubtedly vvitne-ss ii' w -and star tiir.jr il 1-ipnu-nts in this one- of the- mo.st sensata.nal criminal p re.aseeaj ' : - 'ns in tho n a tion - w id e. Dean's Prophetic Interview. The worelM of Thoma Ii. lenn on the
i li-th of Inst pril. niter the bottom had j been punched out of tbe uraft pronc--I cutionw, a read lu the reett tif today's
revelntton nre elee-l-li-,1 1 - f ntert-mtine. In nn Interview tlth a rl tmeM reprewentnti.r then ! r. Dean unysi "I feel thnt it emld be n n;te of money nil nl n.i l-.le- time to proofed further itli thi-ne- rnsi-t In the face of the fae-t thnt our imeNeH nre cmtlnufillr being hnieillt-d nnil g--tten nimy lth by i lot of grnftlug pillli-
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