Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 184, Hammond, Lake County, 6 January 1913 — Page 1

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KATJUlirc TESTIW10WY IS WAIVED

USE NOVEL

Man Who billed Joseph Artin by Means of Air Hose Excused from Taking Witness Stand; Inquest Continued.

Anticipating a prosecution for his client on the charge of manslaughter, Attorney W. J. McAIeer last Saturday at the coroner's Inquest, growing out of the Standard Steel Car Works alr hose- tragedy I last week, asked thai John Katara, who is being held for the death of Joseph Artln, be excused from testifying at this time. Inasmuch as the attorney asked for a constitutional right, his request was granted, but Deputy Coroner E. M. Shanklin, who conducted the inquest, caused to be read into the record a confession that Kataras had made-to Deputy Prosecutor Ralph Ross earlier in thie day. , The inquest was continued until this afternoon at which time it Is expected the remaining witnesses to

be examined will have been found. In the meantime the defendant is being , kept in Jail. The 18-year-old victim who absolved Kataras of any blame or his fatal injuri-ss, was buried yesterSay afternoon at Ouk Hill cemetery. , Deputy Prosecutor Ross, In speaking of the case, said that Artin's absolution does not limit the action of the state. If the coroner's inquest, or the prosecutor's own efforts develop sufficient evidence, Kataras will be held to the grand jury. Kataras' confession to the deputy prosecutor Is apparently a frank statement of the facts. He spoke of the friendly relation that existed between Tnitn and his young helper, and said thai the latter had been teasing him at the time of the accident by "kinking" the sir hose and-in this way shutting off

the .ir rr.m ntarl'y. He said that -f nji.ui.' i!.'d .i.is ov ihe nlr hose come'Traver to Artin than four or six " Inches,': and that the accident happened when tbs laA approached -him -in a playjful manner, and he made a pass at him with the hose. ; i Dr. Gromai Tentlflea Dr. H. C Groman, the company physician for the Standard Steel Car em- : ployes, testified at the inquest, and related in detail the cftrtdition in which he founds the boy. He said that the bowels had been punctured in innumerable places and that the whole abdomen was greatly extended by the air in it, so much so that it felt as tight as

THREATS OF DEATH FOR STOTESBURYS MAY END LAVISH AND EXPENSIVE BALLS

a drum, married.

Kataras Is 27 years old and is

JUDGE VAN FLEET - ABLE TO SIT UP

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ROB VICTIl

Hammond Introduced to New ' Top" System by Holdups; Whirl Subject About Until Dazen; Then Frisk Him.

A new method of robbery has been put Into practice in Hammond. Whirling their victim round and round like a top until he was blinded by dizziness, tw .holdup men early Saturday evening succeeded iriN dragging P. E. Stewart of 31 Sibley street into an alley, where they robbed hira of a pocketbook containing $35 in bills. They then fled and have not been seen since. The novel holdup occurred in .the mouth of the alley, just off Hohman street, between Sibley and State streets. t Following the nervy operation, the police were notified, but a search failed to reveal any clues of the pair. One of the men is thought to be a Hammond boy, and the police hope to get him In

the toils before long. y. When Mr. Stewart left his home ear

ly Saturday night, he had a pocketbook I

containing J36. On his way to do some shopping Mr. Stewart stopped at Mat Boney's buffet, on Hohman street, where he sat down in a booth occupied by two young men. Although Stewart does not remember ever seeing the two fellows before, they mentioned his name and started a- conversation. Thinking they were friendly, Stewart ordered a driak,: ana as he pulled out his wallet the two young men watched him slip off a dollar bill. After replacing the money, the -young man Bitting next to' Stewart slipped his hand into Stewart's pocket, but the effort failed, as Ktewart drew away. As he ; was about to ask the fellow what, he-meant, the pair got nn end left the place. A bt - rr.ff-ia-te-fYtrwart-i-too-

lett, intending to go to Mueller's hardwarestore. '-.A-he stepped out oE -thes ooor, he was accosted by-the two yoijag' men. ''who 'vised . the" peculiar ""topi" method above described in extracting the money from his pocket. In his dizzy condition Stewart was drawn into the alley, where the robbers succeeded in picking his pocket, .'."" Still 'dazed, Stewart thought somebody was playing a joke on him, and not until' he saw the young men run

down Sibley street was he aware thai he had actually been robbed. Stewart then went back into the buffet, and upon notifying the bartender, the police were called.. The face of one of the young "men was "familiar to the bar-, tender .and may help in leading to the arrest of the thieves.

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Mr. and Hrs. Hmrf T. Steteabary (tafcea at Palia Bcaea, Via.).

The series of lavlsli entertainments planned by 2rav Bdward T. S totes bury, wife of a partner of J. Plerpont Morgan, may be brougnt to a udden end &s the result of numerous letters received by Mr. and Mrs. Ktoteabury, some of tnem going so far as to make threats against th lives of the well-known financier and his wife If tbey do not cease spending smalt fortune on their magnificent dances and dlnaerc. Mrs. Stoteebury had planned to give a series of six balls that would outdo anything ever before attempted Is Philadelphia. She has rtven two of them. .

IRAPPED & KILLED OH ERIE

(Special to Tub Times.) Crown Point, Ind., Jan. 6. A tragic accident happened on the Eric railroad on Saturday afternoon whereby a br&kf man, by the name of John Wolf lost his; life. -.-..Wolf .who makes the run on the daily local between Huntington and Chicago fell from the tender of the enprine and was knocked between a- box

car and the rear end of the teTMier,;ais-

tafnins internal injuries from Which he died about two. nours later. Wolf Is about 40 years of ag-o and Is said to be

married and have a family living at Huntington. The remains were taken to Geisen's morgue where the inquest was held and will be shipped away for burial today- " " " '

Superior Court Judge Van Fleet has recovered from his illness.sufficiently to be able to sit up a, portion of the time, according to reports from his home in South Bend. Elkhart Truth. ?

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g. x r. post has its Hew: officers Ex-Mayor ; Patrick Reilley , - Musters in a New -" Staff.

THE OLD MAN'S HERE

Well, you can bet your lastytael if yeu have any Chinese chink rattling around in your jeans, that old man Winter has arrived. He not only came in breathing hard, but spitting all over everything like the rough-neck he is. Streets were frozen over a half inch of snow and walking next to impossible in the Calumet region today. Telegraph, telephone and trolley wires suffered, and many minor.accidents occurred. Snow and colder, is the forecast. Hurry! hurry! hurry! look up the snow shovel and don't fuss about having the lawn mower geared up. Tried to get a minute's interview with O. M.. Winter this morning and what he said sounded like a saw snagging a knot in a piece of hickory cord wood.

BIG STEP

At Unprotected Monon

Grade Crossing, One of the

Most Dangerous in City, Switch Engine Collides

With Summers Auto.

Three Hammond men, one of them Verne Summers, proprietor of Summers' Pharmacy i In the loop district, could

never come nearer being hurled into

eternity than .they were early last Saturday morning -when, the automobile in

which they were ridins was- struck by a switch engine' just out of the Monon

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The accident was, marked, by . one unique, incident, the absolute self-possession and presence of mind had by Jlri .Summers r To this alone may be

attributed the fact that the men are

today abie to, tell the tale.

SUMMERS HAD HIS SERVE. i Mr. Summers .with his two brothers-in-law, the Schreiber boys were on their way home from thestorev It was near midnight and as the auto went east off Hohman street ,-to .the road skirting the fouth part of Oak Hill cemetery, the- unprotected Monea rrM

srene of more trtr.i sue 'lfsgd was In

SKiHT A BLACK OXE. "The night was pitch dark and as the machine approached the crossing Mr.

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FURTHER CRIPPLED Theatre Party May Come to Sad EndAs Result of Street Car ColUsion.

JURIST AND WIPE WHO - WERE IN AUTO WRECK

Judye and Mrt. George H. Lewis.

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Slippery . Streets Will Furnish Cause for 111 Treat- ' ,' inent of Horses. . :

The unlooked for slippery streets and

the sudden change - from latu fall to regalajs. winter weather-within the past twentyrfour hours has swamped the horseshoers with -work all over the region. ' t' ' ' i :' ". ' At 7:30 this-.morning most shops had enoiigh work' ori hand -to last tjiem the whole day, and scores of teamsters had to- be turneaway. .The probabilities are that , this ;. rush will continue for two ,or, three days. .: In the meantime many of the .horse owners' will have to

Griffith Board ; Ratines the Building of Turner Boulevard;' Link in Proposed County Highway to Cedar Lake.

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VAUDEVILLE STAR WEDS BOOKING AGENT Ethel Sherwin Secretly Mar- . ried to Glen C. Burt at Crown Point.

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Ir. William B. Craig, dean of the Indiana Veterinary college, is enjoying his liberty uncter heavy ball, an Indiana grarrf Jury ha-ring "recently Indicted him for the murder of Dr. Helens Knabs, at tier apartments in Indianapolis on the night of Oct. 23. 1811. At the time of Dr. Knabe'a death the police made an investigation and cams to the conclusion that the woman had committed suicide. Ths Indictment a few days ago . came as the result of an investigation carried on by a private (detective r.gency.

, With . ex-Mayor Patrick Keilley to muster them in. the. ne officers for the W. R. Calking" O. .A. .It., post, were in-i stalled last Saturday evening at'a public meeting fn tire Jefferson club rooms. The! officers for'the ensuing year are as: follows: ' , - Commander V. M. Elliott. ' ' - " ' Senior vice commander E. P. Mathews. ' . ' ' . Junior vice commander F. A. Robinson. i ' ' Adjutant E. Clark Johnson. Officer of the day: E.- C. Weeks.. ; Quartermaster George Post. . Patriotic instructor John A. Keller. Sergeant E. Clark Johnson.

Chaplain I. G. Pollard. Guard E H. Hard. Colonel LeGrand T Meyer, one of the

state officers of the Sons of Veterans, i get along as.-best they can

as . part of the program, delivered an i It is in time like, these that the memaddress, which was very fitting for the :. bers of the Humane society .will find occasion and which was received by the J frequent .examples ,pf parses improperveterans., I ly shod,, hitched to "ioadSvbeyond .their '. - 1 r" ' '",, f power to pull. l-'requently ' a driver PENSI0N3 AS AN Intakes, 'no. discrimination', putting on

i jui as ueavy luaus as inougn me roaua

j were good pr , his animals 'well "shod." i Officers of'the Humane society said this

morning that they would be on the lookout f or just such cases. '. Blocks Crossing; Arrested. On a warrant sworn , out ' by S. - JP. Swetts, charging obstructing a public

.highway, J. Griffin, a conductor on the E., J. & E., j was arrested yesterday by Constable Ray Phelps, the case being set for trial before Judg-? Prest yesterday afternoon. The complaint reads that Grlffi nheld his train on the crossing for nearly an hour, Mr. Swetts and his family being unable to . get across the tracks during that time. The offense was committed at the E., J. & E. railroad crossing at Scherervllle.

OLD AGE AID

(Special to The Times.) Griffith, Ind., Jan. 6. A splendid highway from Lske Michigan, Indiana Harbor, to Cedar .Iake, about twenty-

-- Z'y -"f"'- j father of her marriage to Burt, she improved after the rastapproved style, j mereiy told Mm of the time and place, with possiblyian interurban street rail- j Miss Sherwin plans to continue her road connecting with the Gary-Crown I tour in vaudeville' as "The Girl With a Point. v - , , . J Smile. -"With her husband she is at The town board ofsGrlffith held their i the Hotel Grant, Chicago. .', regular meeting 'Satufday' evening ! Miss Sherwin was5 In -the Junior class when the question of Turner boulevard a Shortridgo High school In Indiancame up for final settlement. The apolls in 1906.

board was unanimous In tts decision I to put through the street, - although threatened witii-enMijinou damage suits j by railroad companies, who claim they j

will be injured by the building of the highway, and by-private interests, including the Burns and Clough estates. ; , -Amk S(M00t Get $30. An amusipgj feature of the controversy "is the- large 'sums asked and the , (Continued on Page 7.

(Special to THB Times.) Crown . Point, r Iijd., .Jan. - 6. Miss Ethel Sherwin, vaudeville actress and daughter of Chauncey D. Sherwin of Goshen, formerly of Indianapolis and of Shelbyville, and field examiner for the state board oi accounts, was married secretly at Cro'hsn Point, Jan. 2, to

her booking ajrent, -Glenn C. Burt of)

Chicago. Friends learned of the mar

riage today. But is a Vaudeville performer. Miss Sherwin when 20 years

Old leu me paai-oi .nanny.rianKy. i-. , , TtrU'i'--,' n.-,.Ua and was booked for a vaudeville tour ACClCient at W mting JteSUlbS

by Burt. In the letter notifying her ,

BOY RUHS INTO AUTO; BADLY CUT

An automobile accident - which brought a, sudden and almost tragio ending- to a theater party, in Chicago, resulted In serious injuries to Judge George II. Lewis and hurts to his wife and two other prominent women of East Chicago. It is feared that Judge Lewis may lose entirely the power "Of locomotion should his injuries proye permanent. .j. 1 1 : On Way Home rrom Theatre. The theater party V.jras made up of Judge Lewis and his wife. James P. Lewis and wife and Mrs. Frank Williams in one motor car. and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Williams, Mr. and Mrs. George Clapper and Frank Williams in another car. They were on their way

from their homes in East Chlcngo to a loop theater Saturday night when the accident happened. . Struck By Trolley Car.: " Both cars were running .' north n Michigan avenue at moderate speed, with the one in which Judge Lewis was riding "slightly lnadvatsc. when they

slowed up at Forty-third street at sight . of a trolley car approaching from the wssiX'TItiCsips'. , - yed.v . andlatllifmtofcaTor the , street,;vthe df iversi ibelie-vtng the motorman of the trolley had slowed up for them to cross. But the trolley car jumped ahead and the Lewis automo- .- bile and the etreet car came into violent collision in the middle of the cross

ing. The second motor car was stopped within a fe winches of the trolley car.

Judge Is Worst Injured. Judge Lewis, who had lost the use of one of his legs and walked with the aid of crutches, was sitting on the front

seat of theTeading automobile, and was thrown through the heavy glass windshield ,by the ' f oice of the cossision. The three women oirthe rear seat were thrown forward against the back of the I front seat and . fell stunned and bruised to the floor of the automobile. James P.'. Lewis saved himself from serious injury by clinging to the wheel. Judge Lewis Helpless. . v The other members of the party in the second motor car quickly formed, a relief corps. The women were asslted " (Continued on page " INVOLVED m KNABE 5

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Three big corporations. Western Union f Telegraph company ; and Bell Telephone company, have sent official announcements to Hammond of their plans. of benefits for- disability due to accidents or sickness, of insurance and of pension. Nearly 200,000 men and women who are now giving their best years to the "telephone and telegraph service of the country will henceforth be assured of assistance in the exigencies of life, for which all'are not able to provide, and will also be assured of a provision for their declining years.;

A. CLEAN PAPER. FIT FOR TOUR CHILDREN TO READ IS THE TIMES. V .

RECEIVES NEWS OF GRANDMOTHER'S END " - " -i , Mrs. A. B. Carrlgun, 126 Doty street, received the sad news of the' death of

he" rgrandmother, Mrs, William Leggy: this morning. Death occurred at the ! family residence at Waldron, 111. Yes- j

terday Mrs. carrigan returned to Hammond from Waldron, where she had been caring forher grandmother,, leaving her apparently much better. L, puring her absence Mrs. Legg suffered a relapse, passing away at 1:30 o'clock this morning. . - . , Mr. and Mrs. Carrigan left for Waldron, 111., ihis morning, where funeral services will be held Wednesday. . Interment will be made at the -Waldron cemetery. v

THERE ARE MORE THAN, THREE TIMES MORE TIMES CIRCULATED EVERT DAPT THAN ALL THE OTHER DAILY PAPERS IN LAKE COUNTT PUT TOGETHER.

HE -WANTED SOME - SPiRITSH 10IIA

Disgusting Spectacle Witnessed in Hammond. Drug i. Store Sunday Night. A scene that shocked a good many

! people in a Hammond drug store- last

night,', when, two... members , of. the "Sweetest Girl in Paris" company, who had evidently come to grief, came into the drug store. The young man with his hat badly dented, , his awry and ,a ' face .flushed with liquor; snouted out as he wentTup to the drug clerk.'"Gimme dose aromatic spiritsh 'monnia for a good big drunk, you know." , The young woman, who was with him," evidently thought it was a great joke, for she said, "Yes, make it pretty strong for a big head and laughed loudly. Those in the store turned away from the spectacle disgusted and , shocked. The young fellow and his escort, for she was doing the escorting, rolled out of the store and staggered down the street, to the theatre. . It wasn't an edifying scene.

in Injury to Whiting - Child.

. , (Special to Thb Times.) Whiting, Ind., Jan. 6. Quite a serious auto accident took place in Whiting on Saturday afternoon, when the five year old son of John Klen of Schrage avenue was struck by an Overland touring car. . In the machine were Muriel Boyer and Dr. E. L Dewey, both of Whiting. Boyer is employed as a demonstrator

for George 11. Lewis, agent for the k.

Overland car at East Chicago. It was while demonstrating with the car, .that the accident- occurred. He was enroute to Whiting from East Chicago, the car being driven by Dr. Dewey.' At Schrago avenue they-were going in the street car tracks directly in'Jaack of a street car. "At 12lst street "the little fellow was waiting for the car to pass and not seeing the approaching machine ran directly onto it. ; The. child was hit by the fender and thrown to the ground. The, auto was shopped at opce and the occupant-a plcl?-' ed the child up, put him in the auto adn hurried him to Dr. Dewey's office in the Schrage, bulldingw A hasty examination' showed the victim to. have suffered a scalp wound which required insert seven stitches. The child was later taken , home and yesterday .'was doing nicely. Dr. Dewey in speaking of the accident said they were traveling not more then ten miles an hour when the accident took place, and It was impossible to have avoided it. as the boy ran, directly into the auto, i

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. - Aloua M. Rsicsdale. There was much surprise in Inaianapolia when Alonzo M. P.agsdale, undertaker of that city, was indicted by the grand Jury recently on a charge of helping to destroy evidence against the-murderer of Dr. Helens Knabe, the well-known woman physician whose mysterious fleath occurred on October 23, 1911. Hagsdale is C4. is prominent Sn business and professional circles, and has a wife and five children. He is out oasw J1Q.0OO baiL

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