Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 149, Hammond, Lake County, 22 November 1912 — Page 1

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SISTER FUSTRATES PLOT TO KIDNAP 15 YEAR OLD EIRE

Men, Said to Be West Hammond Resort Keepers, Seize Victim in Street and Rescuer Stops Auto; West Hammond Youth Jailed.

Wrst Hammond is irnln in the limelight. A bold attempt to kidnap Xlcollata, Vacaro. it 15-yoar-oUl Italian girl, from in front of I'ht home, at 445 West C'ak street, in Chicago today was frustrated by the wit of her sister, Euiaia, 22 years old. When lh.' two men, whom the police rharsc are West Hammond resort keepers, seized the younser girl, and forced her into a waiting taxleab her sister ran in front of the machine, and stood there, compelling- the chauffeur to stop. The younser girl struggled with her would-be abductors and managed to escape from the taxirab. She ran down the street. scrfamin.se, followed by her sist er. Alarmed by the escape of the girl. th two men deserted the automobile

SPEAKS AT Y.M.C.A. DINNER TONIGHT

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Indiana Harbor Man Crawls Half Block After Being Hurt.

Crawling painfully on his hands and knees, after having lain unconscious for some time under his automobile which turned turtle In Drurnmond street near 13Sth. Indiana Harbor, John Newel of the firm of Newell Bros, cement contractors, last evening-, made his way to the home of Fred Hascall half a block from the scene of the accident, and although almost fainting from the effort he managed to reach the door and knock feebly. Inmates of the house answered the summons and were shocked at finding- a man, apparently dying on their door step. The Injured contractor was carriod into the house and cared for until Burns and McGuan's ambulance arrived to take him to bis home which is at

Sensational Elopement to Crown Point Develops Shameless Act of Cheap Sport, Who Passes Self as Son of Railroad Magnate.

Dr. Peter Roberts. Fifteen thousand recent immigrants in North America are today engaged In the study of the English language, and principally through the effort and Ideas of Dr. Feter Roberts, known in the Touns Men's Christian association as immigration secretary. Dr. Roberts is a characteristically genial Welshman, which is a significant statement; for It was primarily because of his own difficulty In being able to

twist his tongue around English words ! that he evolved the present system' known as Roberts' English teaching j method for foreigners. At the busl- j ness men's dinner tonight he will dis- :

cuss this phase of association work and tel lof the results which have been accomplished In the effort to assimilate the foreigners. Dr. Roberts was formerly a Congregational minister.

WHO IS HUSBAND 0? AIM EE GIVINS?

Aimeo V. Givins, wealthy divorcee, was married to somebody at Crown Point, Ind., at 1:30 a. ru. Thursday by Judge Nicholson. She said Ilie bridegroom wns Ednnril II. Kirkman, son of Marshall M. Ktrkmaii. frtner vice president of Hie Nrhveitern Itnllrond. Marshall 1. Klrkmnu says hia son's iiajne is WHIlnm It., not Ednard II nnd that on the night of the nililnieht marrlnKr Wllliaai n. remained at home tn Kvanston. "I never heard of Mm. Givins, ay -Villlnm II. Kirkmaa. He also Identified the picture of "Khvrd II." as that of William Ilnrhm, a former chauffeur for the Klrkman. And that's where the case stands at this writing.

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OFFICIAL REFUSES TO CONFIRM STORY

It is reported that Fred Friedley Is to be made chief of deputies; under Sheriff Henry Whitaker. Whitaker refuses to confirm this report, however. Friedley was County Chairman Chas. Johnson's righthand man and his work was largely responsible for the success of the republican county ticket. His friends will be pleased If he is able to land some plum that will be acceptable to him. Should he take the position of chief deputy, which he is reported to be considering, be will make a valuable man for Whitaker.

MOOSE WITS TO S TARTSE N TEN C E Self-Confessed Perjurer Is Kept Under Close Guard in Jail.

(Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., Nov. 22. Harry Moose, the convicted Gary perjurer and bribe-taker will be taken to Michigan city as soon as possible to begin the serving of the sentence Imposed upon htm in Judge McMahan's court on Wednesday afternoon. Moose is anxious to go, he seeming to be badly scared now and impressed with the idea that his life is worth, very little outside of the protecting walls of jail or prison. Moose is kept closely guarded, this being done at his own instigation, and in view of the past experience in which the former city clerk of Gary the officials think the idea a a srood one and no one is allowed Jo

j see Moose, now will be until he is out

of Sheriff Grant's keeping, safely confined at Michigan City.

MAYOR KNOTTS ON MYSTERIOUS VISIT Mayor Thomas E. Knott sand G. M. Semmes, a well known real estate man, left yesterday, for Duluth, Minn., it is eald. Just what there is to the visit is not known. Harry Moose spent considerable time in Puluth and detectives of T. B. Dean's staff were also in the vicinity.

SI nSCRIIlE FOR Til E TIMES.

T. B. DEAN IN CAPITAL?

Detective T. B. Dean, who has been spending a good deal of time at Crown Point, was scheduled to be in Indianapolis today for a conference with Gov. Marshall. Mr. Dean etated to Gary friends that he would confer with the governor today.

MRS. CRAVENS A FORMER GARYITE Mrs. Grace Green Cravens, wife of Attorney Lincoln V. Cravens of Hammond, who was shot yesterday by her stepson, Frank Cravens, Is well-known in Gary. While in Gary the then Mrs. Green was connected with the Northern Indiana Improvement company in the Reynolds building as a stenographer.

Crown Foint. Ind., Nov. 22. The secret is out. Judge Nicholson did not marry Aimee Givins to Eddie Kirkman. Mrs. Aimee Givins, divorced wife of Robert S. Givins. son of a millionaire real estate dealer, went to the detective bureau in Chicago last night and asked for the arrest of Edward Boehm, a chauffeur, whom she married at Crown Point, Ind., under the Impression that he was Edward P.. Klrkman. She later discovered that he was employed by Marshall M. Kirkman. Evanston millionaire. Mrs. Givins declared that the man had married her and then deserted her. She was told to return this morning and swear out a warrant for his arrest.

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Rudolph Dickstein Is Painfully Hurt at East Chicago.

Rudolph Dickstein of the firm of Adeinan and Dickstein. proprietors of the Commercial saloon in Chicago avenue, was badly burned a few days ago by an explosion of alcohol. The Commercial saloon is equipped with gasoilne lamps, which are lighted by means of an alcohol torch. Dickstein was lighting these lamps when the alcohol in his torch apparently pave out. Ho took a gallon can in which there was a small quantity of alcohol and started to pour some of the fluid into the torch. Either the flame

nad not Deen entirely extinguished, or

the heat of the metal was sufficient

to ignite the Inflammable, stuff. In any event there was a flash, the stream of

alcohol Dickstein was pouring from

the can Into the torch carried the flame to the can, and the vapor in the almost

empty can exploded. The saloon keeper's left hand was apinfully burned,

and his clothing on hts left side was

burned off, the flame badly burning the

flesh in a patch as large as Mr. Dick-

steln's two hands.

Fortunately the burn was not deep enough to require skin-grafting and the injured man is able to be up and

about, although still in considerable

pain from the burns.

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(Special to The Times.) Whiting, Ind., Nov. 22. Three men were seriously Injured and one of them probably fataiiv injured here yesterday afternoon, when a scaffold upon which they were working: collapsed, plunging them to the ground twenty feet below. The men were placing sidings on the rssidence of AVIIliam Fuss, on Cleveland avenue, the accident reported be

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he injured are:

HENRY GOEBEL. Cleveland ave..

Whiting, contractor; suffering from severe bruises and broken arm.

XFEIU.S FREIDERISCH. carpenter.

East Side; severely bruised on chest and internally injured; removed to his home. CHARLES WELSH, carpenter, 119th st.. Whiting; not expected to live, suffering from bruises, internal injuries and a broken back; taken to the Presbyterian hospital, Chicago. The accident occurred yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock while Mr. Goebei was instructing the two carpenters about putting on the sidings. The three men were all standing near the center of the scaffold, he scaffold bent with their weight, the boards snapping In the center, hurling them twenty feet below. Bruised and semi-conscious and soon reached the injured men who were removed to a nearby house. Three doctors worked on the Injured men and it was found that Welsh suffered a hroken back. He was rushed to the Presbyterian hospital, Chicago, where little hopes are given for his recovery. A large knot in the runway of the scaffold is reported to have been the cause of the scaffold breaking In two. The 'other two victims are reported getting along as well as can be expected.

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a full realization of the fact that the

city is for three days to be the hotbed of Young Men's Christian Association workers, ideas and enthusiasm. THE FIRST IN ITS HISTORY. For the first time in its history Hammond is invaded by leaders in Y. M. C. A. thought, men whose zeal for the cause vitalizes their very existence, real burning live wires, men who do things and are things. Heaven has been kind with its weather, the city is full of enthusiasm the convention is on.

THE MAIN EVENT TOMliHT. With the stage set, the lines memorized, the chorus drilled, the scene shifters in place, the principal actors in the wings and the lights in readiness for the touch of the electric button, the business men's dinner which in Indiana each year is the "tour de force" of the Young Men's Christian Association convention awaits only the assembling of the audience in Masonic Temple tonight at 6 o'clock. The custain raiser will consist of a reception by the local general committee given to 200 association delegates from every

nook and cranny of the state as well as to an equal number of business and professional men of this city and surrounding cities of northern Indiana. DR. ROBERTS ARRIVES. Dr. Peter Roberts, Immigration Sec retary of the international committee, who will present the topic: "Practical Work for Foreigners," arrived in tha city this morning in time to participate in the noon-day shop meetings held at the W. B. Conkey and the Simplex plants. State Secretary E. E. Stacy, of Indianapolis, who is serving his twenty-third year as the executive head of the Indiana work, took up hia quarters at the Carleton hotel last evening. Tonight he will present an illustrated lecture on "Indiana's New Buildings and Activities," showing tha growth of the association movement In this state from almost nothing tea years ago to an institution which today values its buildings and other real estate at more than $2,000,000. MONON PRESIDENT TO SPEAK. Fairfax Harrison, president of ths Monon railroad, who will deliver the principal address at the dinner on the subject: "Are We Ready For Industrial Cooperation?" will arrive in Hammond from Chicago late this afternoon and be met at the station by a committee o ocal business men. A few delegates came in by the night (Continued on Page 4.)

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The Young Men's Christian association building in Kokonio is known among Y. M. C. A. building experts as one of the most perfectly planned Ftructur?s of its size and type in the I'nited States. It has a frontage of 58 feet and a depth of 124 feet, nnd cost, including equipment, $125,000. The two upper stories are devoted to dormitories for young men, there being 53 rooms lor sleeping purposes.

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work at th Standard Steei Car plant last week owinjr to the disastrous fire in the power house of th factory has been put"!y.-k to work again, the power plant having been sufficiently restored to give employment to all. W. 1). Wehh said this morning that new men w--re hing taken on everyday, and that conditions at. the plant were so good that not only the old force had been put back at full time again, but, that additional men were being taken.

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Upsetting all of the calculations of the Chicago police, Chief of Police Peter Austgen of Hammond has what appears to be conclusive evidence that "Handsome Jack" Rot ttt rs, the murderer of Mrs. Emma Kraft in the Saratoga hotel In Chicago. Nov. 13. was In Hammond on the following Monday. He came Into Hammond at about noon. He ate dinner at Hotel Majestic and sat at the same table and directly opposite Dr. J. T. Clark of this city. The doctor says he seemed very nervous and eyed him suspiciously . all during the meal. The Identification was made possible by pictures of the man that have been printed In the Chicago papers re-

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,I(1V RiDF.KS! If your gaxuline runs iut you will he happy If yon hme some tMOV SCO! T SCR P with you. McHle-S. Tob. Co. A dv.

Prof. Perry G. Holden. j Officials of the International Har1 vester company recently announced ' the establishment of an agricultural I service bureau on a broader scale I than heretofore attempted by prli vate corporations.

Prof. Perry G. Holden. formerly a dean In the Iowa State Agricultural college known as an authority oa corn, has been made head of the bureau. It Is understood the Harvester company has set aside $1,000,000 for this workProf, Holden has done much for Iowa and la known as the fcturbanlc of the cornfield. Hia work from now on will be nationwide.

ii!MGf!D IS k GREAT SHOW TOWN Hammond is some show town. East night while the Bijou theatre was being packed three times by people who

came to see the moving pictures of

Hammond, the Orphcum theatre played to 2.000 people. In the meantime the 3-cent theatres were being packed. Tlie attraction at the Orpheum was the "Honeymoon Trail." The show is a tabloid production of the famous musical comedy. There are twenty pei.ple on the cast and it. is superbly staged. The show is just a interesting as the $1.50 company, nly not so elaborate. It is one of the !,e..i tabloid musical comedies that has ever been seen in Hammond. It 1 one of the few successes in abridged shows. The people of Hammond were delighted with the pictures of themselves at the P.ijou. They were remarkably clear. The chief interest, d' course, lies in seeing oneself in moving pictures. Saturday night the boys are going to be given a chance to see burlesque again. P.ur!e;ue does not seem to make the hit it used to. Either men are becoming more decent or their wives are having more influence with them. The Parisian I'.eauties are to be seen at the Hammond thatre. On Sunday the "Common Itw," Robert Chambers' book dramatized, is to be seen at the Hammond theatre. The seat sale indicates that this show will do a big business.

DIED. GRACE E. CRAVENS, wife of Lincoln V. Cravens, Nov. 21, 112, t 430 p. m. Kuneral Saturday, Nov. 23rd, 1012, at late residence, 5-4 S Bant State Mreet. Kuneral and Interment absolutelyprivate. FFRANK V. CRAVENS, son of Lincoln V. Cravens, Nov. 21, 1912, at 4i30 p. m. Funeral Saturday, Nov. 23rd, 1012, at late residence, 54S East State street. Funeral and Interment absolutely private. All but the final chapter in yesterday's tragedy in the home of L. V. Cravens, the well-known Hammond attorney, is written. Mrs. Cravens died yesterday afternoon at 4:30 p. m. and Frank Cravens died at 10 this morning. The funeral of both will be held tomorrow and then the sad story will be closed. It was with considerable relief that the community heard of the death of Frank Cravens, whose insane frenzywas responsible for the death of a splendid woman and himself. It was freely admitted that it was far better that he Should die than to entail further suffering and sorrow by his relatives and friends. There is no further light on the motive for the shooting. A number of incidental matters have come to light, but none of them have an important bearing on the case. Preparations that were being made to gather evidence for possible use in the trial of the young man were dropped this morning when reports from the hospital indicated that he could not survive more than a few hours. The passing out of the two victims of this deplorable aqair was typical of both. Mrs. Grace Cravens died with a smile on her lips breathing forgiveness to her stepson, who so relentlessly cut her down. There was no hatred, no malice, no thought of revenge. She died as she had lived. The young man steadfastly refused to make a statement regarding his act. He refused to talk to his father. A young lady friend. Miss Hirdle Muenich,

called at the hospital this morning and asked him If he was not sorry because of his act and he said empirically, "No." Officer George Hanlon went to the . hospital this morning to get a state- , ment from him,' and he was met with a scowl and Indignantly ordered to leave the room. He said he wanted to be left alone to die. : All of these things point to the conelusion that was reached in The Times yesterady that the young man was dej ranged at the time the shooting took j place. j Deputy Coroner E. M. Shanklln today has possession of the gun with which the two people were removed from the world. It is a vicious looking magazine gun of bluo steel. It is a Colt, 3.8 caliber and carried nnie shells I in the magazine. It fires the shots inI dividually or pumps them out In rapid succession automatically. The date has not been set for the inquest. There are a number of reports current regarding the affair, most of which are unfounded. One of the more plausible ones is that Cravens expected to leave for South America when the shooting, In fit or frenzied anger, ended the plan. ; Friends of Attorney Lincoln V. Cravens today volunteered help ami sympathy in the hour of greatest need. He was taken in hand by a host of friends, were anxious to do what they could to relieve the weight of his sorrow.

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HUNTER'S BODY FOUND IN LAKE Weighted Down With HeavyShells for Shooting. I.aporte, Ind, Nov. 22. Wrapped In a long, heavy overcoat which he had worn the morning h went out hunting hist week, and weighted down with several pounds of shells, in a hunting coat, the body of Paul Albrecht was today taken from out of Pine lake. It was the end of a search which lasted from Thursday until today, and the party was about to give up when the hooks grabbed the body. Albrecht Is little known here, and It Is probable that the socialists will take charge of his funeral, as be was an active member of th-Mr party.

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Dr. Clarence A. Barbour. I Jr. Clara nee A. Barbour, traveling secretary of the international committee of the Y. M. C. A., opened the state convention in Hammond with an address in the Methodist chuoh auditorium and is on the program for several other appearances, chief of which will be at the men's mass meeting Sunday afternoon in the Hammond opera house. Dr. Harbour was ordained a minister of the Baptist denomination and has been in international work for several years. He was a powerful factor in the. Men and Religion Forward movement and is compared oratorlcally with John Ft. Mott, the dean of Tiling Men's Christian association speakers.

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