Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 89, Hammond, Lake County, 4 October 1921 — Page 1

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TAKEN SUDDENL THE WEATHER fair nnl rnnllnuril root tonlgM wTCh front; Mcilnemtn; fnlr with rising teinperuture. PellTt-red by Carriers la Kammoat and W. Hammond 50r pi month oa itreets una news stand 3p per copji VOL. XV, NO. 89. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1921. HAMMOND, INDIANA ;ALL A

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Speakers Pile lip All Kinds Of Charges Against Present Administration ED. SIMON'S 14 POINTS Ed. Simon, mayoralty candidate, announced his platform at the democrat rally last night. 1. To devote my time to the city of Hammond. m 2. In every Instance the rights of the patrons of public utilities will be enforced. 3. Five cent loop street car service. 4. Dangerous railroad crossings properly protected f safety gates. 5. Open Carroll street as entering wedge to force removal of the Erie railroad yards. 6. Passage of zotng ordinance to keep Industries out of residential districts. 7. Establishment of an annual clean-up day. 8. First class 'baseball diamonds and tennis courts kept in tip top shape ?. Rebuild the Lake Front park. 10. Launch campaigns for making Calumet river navigable and elevating the railroads. 11. Early submission of the question of amalgamation to The voters, taking precaution to protect the municipal owned waterworks. 12. Commission form of government. 13. Opposed to puritanical blue laws, but clean out hell hole on I'lurnmer avenue. II. "Will not appoint anyone ni city payroll w lio is ir the employ of h public service corporation. Simenized voters filled the "rphe'.m theater from the ba-i. wall of :-e staet. to the top rim of th; gallery List night at the formal opening of the city campaign of the democrats: party. An overflow crowd milled m the lobby uml along the sidewalk until driven home by the cold. The streets for blocks were lined with automobiles bearing the banners of Kd. pinion and other democratic, candidates. The mass meeting at the theater had been advertised by a parade of approximately "10 automobiles which, owing to the exigencies of the myraid railroads had been broken into three sections. There was some red tire and a good deal of shouting. Here ai-d there pedestrians shivering' in the first i-h.il. of approaching- winter stopped to rend the frosty air with a Simonizcd cheer. THXT WEBE ALL THESE The curtain at t'-e theater rse on the flower of Hammond democracy from Fat Riley, the venerable war horse of the roin-H nd former mayor, to PHI fichulto, the srranpv ruinr.ilmanir iandtdate. Harry Htrii-kland, past craiio commander of the Knights Templar of Indiana, associated with Kd Simon in the stat legislature, was the only guest and speaker frm out. of town. lie came from his home at Greenfield to testify to Simon's efficiency as a Mate leeisla tor. The city's most distinguished democrat, Judge Joseph I bach, was hairman. A male quartette strode forth from the ulnp? and merited their v.u.-es tn close harmony- Four years ago the ""ttlzen's party began its victorious campaign in similar manner, with a male quartette. MARTIN SPEAKS Frank Martin, chairman of the den o. cratic cifv central committee, ppoi-.e briefly ar.d declared thf campaign otfically and formally tiptm. He blamed the present mayor for the failure or, city officers to enforce city law s and j charged the administration with extravagance. He. said that Mayor Hrown had inspired a bill to create a third ' taxing unit in the i.-Hj , but that it was fortunately killed by the governor Je attacked ti e .school ciy for erect in ir 'shacks" instead of buildings to house th.e pupils. He said that Frown's cam- ' pai.cn is being conducted by seventy- ! five workers n.-eix iiisr $. and $5 a day tor their services. In polling the voters ni a house to house canvas these workers inquire into the religious b, lief of each Individual, he said. (Con'lnm I -m pa:;e two.) NEW JURORS FOR iL COURT TSPECIAL TO THE TIMES! I'KOWN POINT, Ind., Oct. J -Juiois for the criminal court for the term be -ginning October 4 have been drawn as fol ! o ws : Walter Neat, 372 1 Conn. ?t , Gary. O. P. Wit ldermuth. 62S Wash, s: , Gary. Albert J. Papke, 1211 Roosevelt ?t.. Gary. ('has. Leiupreeht. Hammond. K. A. Bates. East Chicago. Thos. Jlend-rson, Hebron, I;. No, . Paul Henning, Route No. 2 C. Point. Jacob Kramer, Hobart. Fred Hayden, Crown Point. Joe Miller, Crown Point. Hhomas J. O'Connor, Crown Point. James M. Judge, Crown Foint.

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YOU HEAR THAT EPvIE eastbound high class freight has inereasecrheavUy within the last month. FRANK XOWAK of the First Natlknai bank is off today for month's vacation in California. YOU'VE probably noticed that the j girls are digging their heavier bloom-j ers out of the moth balls. LAKE COUNTY had 141 deaths from tuberculosis in 1920. That means; Ss.l out of every 100,000 population. THE beer seized at Michigan Cit Irom the ship "Fill Eddy" tested three per cent kick. It was dumped into the lake. ONLY about half a dozen of the city's 124 jitney drivers can be found on the streets real early these frosty mornings. HERB YVHEATOX'S right shoulder is higher than the left. He has been giving the oath to candidates for naturalization. FRACTIOUS That's the auto driven by J. E. Howell. 107 Fark Place. Car runs away and snaps light pole at Cal umet and Locust avenues. STEAL everything but the push-button. Thieves ransacked the room ot J. II. Clayton in Rex Hotel, $8 State st. ''lotb.es valued at $150 taken. WORK on ave.) road h St lev, the the Dan Frown (Sheffield progressing nicely. Ra urveyor, says th.e inspec tor is the best he ever saw worn. LK. ALVA U'lUN'G will have a new backfivld in the game next week. His line was strong and the baokliclU weak, he said, after returning from Detroit. W. F. RRTDGK, city engineer, was right in the front row at the demo nice ting last night. There were at least twenty-five Frown workers on the main floor. APPLICATIONS for naturalization to bae been heard by Judge Hardy on v '1 dnesday and Tliu'siia;, ''U be continued until the March term of the fcu. peri or court. TKii millionaire v, ir.g of the eratie party of Hammond was i'b-te last night at the iuil. l.H.wney was there, but where cl. Fitzgerald? ilcmoincoiw H. P. w as J . MOOXSHIXE means loss ot sunshine. Tom Czagny, S52 Kaitimore ave. Sets SO days .jail sentence and line of $100 and coats. Police found mash and still in his home. C. Y". SMITH, salesmanager of the .Straube C'o., has been looking for a ilat in Hammond for s'x months. T must have a celler with a strong lock on the door he says. SAM FOSTLEWAITE is harpy. Sam s proprietor of the Yellow Tax! Co.. ! and the eoid weather hts boomed busi- j ness,. for th The open ' fiekle pub jitnejs are toy cold I ! I'LIiT NAIL'S, long connected the, culinary department ,,f the ter (Jarden restaurant tf 'lib-ate bee,, engaged by the llammoud restaurant as head chef. will rri n . ha.Ilote, JL LI V WALKER, a Inch 'il, is quarantine, i at her h A'allace lioad with dipbthe school me in 'js: ia. There ider iuar- " 011 iy 1 a.'-ee ot m-r cases ill mime tn the lty at present. I I. MANN, Calumet avenu minier 1 11 te 11 1,, ,.s iv,t- tile benefit of Chj. .: , j tgen and other sportsme,, that S.itur ! lav he bagged 2,'! squirrels in the u lid- ! etitesK southeast, of rrown Point. j ROY Mcf'OOL has his bowling alleys id billiard tables going- again after be: n g out of business on account of re modeling the Hohifati block. "St:i; R" Hand-.- is in. His right-hand man. THOSJ. E. MEEK, former manager of th.e Ilarntnoiitl Cuuntrv Club has resumed as superintendent of the Col umbia Club of Iiidiananolis. which r,r.sitioji he has held since leaving this city. XI W concrete pavement on Itimbach ave., in est Hammond, should be a "treat job. Three inspectors, re n resent - mg city, county and state, have a hard titiw- keeping out of the way of the h orscs. JOY-KIIiERS discovering they had stolen auto belonging to best criminal lawyer in county, abandoned Attorney W. J. MeAlecr's car after driving it from Fayette and Hohman streets to Condit street. THE west end of Ridge Road in Hobart township, a two mile strip, is completed. It has been rebuilt with asphaltio macadam over the old base'. The United Construction Co. did the work for $50.ono. BILL O'BRIEN and Steve Jabalonski are peeved today. Ed. Simon refused to let them head the parade with the "Green Line" bus. "You'd 1e stopping the procession to fill that old radiator every block," Sjirion told them. PARKING space for baby buggies. Its valuable spaV. says Art Kight. as scores of mothers and babies crowd I'e Luxe movie house to view picture of maternal love. Lobby of theater looks like ante-chamber at baby show. JUDGE THEODORE KLOTZ and Henry Gabler, labor leader and financier, are attending a carnival of the 'ding trades at South Rend. Rot' men are scheduled to speak there Wednesday evening. South Bend papers piise note.

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WANTS COURT TO GET BACK SLOT MACHINE LOSSES John Kow alkow ski is a slot machine, fiend. In the presence of the cast iron demon he is powerless. One evening he slutted off $300 in dimes arid Quarters into the unfathomed depths of one of the contraptions and not one dollar did it spew hack from his greedy jaws. After the last two-bit piece had rattled down the iron throat, John was convinced that the game was crooked. So, through his attorney. E. G. Sproat, he filed suit for SFiOO in the Hammond superior court against Vasile Tarniteo. proprietor of the prohibition saloon in which the machine was located.

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he 'ii "Lueky" Cole, . Leved to have been the colored man who shot down Julius Guntht r, plain clothes man o! the Gary police force a week ago las; night, is in custody of the Chicago police. Gary police were nidified of the capture shortly before noon today an 1 Capt. Vodicka started at one for Chicago to bring the prisoner to Gaiy. Immediately alter the murder Gary police instituted one of the most comprehensive man hunls in the hislory oi the department. The city iiml surroundinsr country were .MMan-d but trace of the man could be found. It w;is li iiriud that Cole liad check' d a trunk t ( 'hicago the day of the killing and "!ro ig., police w.re notified. Tin y waitci a w ! fore the trunk was claimed at a Chicago station but Hp: ir patience was rewarded this morning. (.'ok was taken com -pletely by surprise. , evidently thinking that Gary had given up the chase. CORONER ORDERS SUSPECT HELD IN MYSTERY MURDE SPELIAL TO THE TiMF.S! flOWN POINT, 1ml., Oct. 4 Or Monday al'erji concluded the on Coroner W F. llouk. evidence in the case ' (lien .i Friday c ileum The u le h;' come j h a e a lies who was shot a week as1 night under ver mysteriou coroner ordered .foim s been tn jail pendinfit f the inquest h-.M and pi tl iminary heaving S' m 1 1 : 1 he out -h.. V'efori Judge John Bulin at 7 o'clock tonig-oi Smith is unable to explain hi; activm on the night of the ntivd-i and circumstances point to the fact that h know.s 111 about th-- k.Ming than hi can In admit .o-eoiabng to remarks that h' has made an I suspicious a" tioiis of is. The hearing before Judge le rlm will de(.-ide Whether he wi'l h..lHl ovei to the eriminal ourt or not. sjmitb still prottsts bis imvu'iiee. CLI 1CAL Lit IS ANNEXED BY SUMMERS Seventeen years ago Uda , VerraSimmers, mana gcr-owner of the Summers' Pharmacy, op.Miod a little hole in the wail drug store on Hohman st.. just arms tic- street t l oin hi.e present locution. Starting in a small and humhie way with neither ! t k nor porter he was proud to be the si.de p.. sr.. -sop of an institution worth S S.'.i'JU including .-t'Ck. gi'vel will and fixtures. Today he haw a drug store second to none in Lake county and the most complete and -up to date store (,f its Kind in Northern Indiana. cmp!oitig some twenty-four people and worth man times tiie amount of his original inv estment. His success can largely 'oe contributed to the fact, that each year lie has tried to add some impoitant feature to his' business that would be a conveni ence to his patrons and to make a better drug store for the people f this j region. 1 Today Mr. Summers is both pleased f and proud io announce another stej j forward and another convenience arid ' (Continue.! on page live. IF WIFE DIDN'T CARE, SHOULD THE POLICE WORRY? When the Gary police made a hurried caii to the south side one night late last week to investigate a shooting scrape, among- some colored people' they expected to find blood-shed. The report received at the police station was that a colored man had shot and injured his wife. "No, sah' ma husband never did shoot me," said the colored woman. "Some one they all trying to fool y'u that's shure, yes sah." It was learned later that the woman had a bullet hole through the calf of her leg. No arrests were made.

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m 1 TOR! Enormous Losses In Membership Reported During the last Year BY MILDRED MORRIS STAFF CORRESPONDENT 1. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. N. SERVICE Hard Hit by the industrial depression the American Federation of Labor faces what is declared to be the worst crisis in it3 history. The organization whien has gloried in supremacy over the labor movement of the world has suffered enormous losses in inembersip, it was learned today. According to reliable sources, between 1,000,000 and 1,500,000 members have dropped from its rolls since thbeginning of the ytar. At the peak o' its strength the organization had approximately 4,000,000 members and at the first of the year claimed to be well on the way to the five million mark. DK.M" BKI'OUTS. Although the affairs of the federation have reached such a serious stag, that its plight has become talk in labor circles here, officials, while admitting "big losses" as a result of the unprecedented unemployment conditions, deny the number of member.' dropped comes anywhere near the 1,- !"".'. 0i0 mars. According to "inside" information, the financial stringency of the federation is such that it has been necessary to "furlough" all the paid organizes with l'f w- exceptions. An official today declared "it is usual at this time of tin year to lay 1. l'f or furloug most of the organizers." The same official optimistically predicted the. federation "will emerge fromtlje storm strongc than ever." Internal d isensi-! manifested ry Go- resignation rt Daniel J. To bin president of the International Teamsters union, as a member of the executive council, is also causing much talkin labor circbs. Tobin's detection is regarded as a heavy blow to the Gompers forces as be and another influential labor leader are credited with "saving' Jumpers in the federation's last eb -tion. It has never been admitted in official circles of the federation thn Tjbin resigned. CARPENTERS NOW REM TO WORK AT SI AN Wl e elopments m the carpenter-con-factor controveisey took on a new male yesterday w iv 11 r present at 1 1 0 the local carpenters' union offeree .0 accept $1 an hour with the provis " that the extra ten cents an hour ! iiiiind' d by the craftsmen be set asb.b n local -bank pending the acceptanc. r reject ion of the Land is dcci-vion b Chicago unions. The offer was made to officials of -o' ib'vviey Brothers of Chicago, build of the Hammond High School annex. 'We are willing and anxious to ac1 ii.esc,. 1... the cai-peiit "is demands. .vill met their provisions. We want union carpenter on thi work. They ue the best nun procurable and v need them. e cannot, however, a- , epi Un it- .iffer w ithout the approval f the Building Trades Emplojcs Association. So far the association has refused to acknowledge the advances of the union," said an officer of the Rowiey company this morning. K. E. Cole, ."( erctary ef the Buildina Tiad'P Employers Association, said the 1 .infractors wi'd stand pat. "Nothing short of complete agreement of the l.andis decision will satisfy us," he lid today. "It is not so much the q-ucs-: 'on of wages as the very important via use in the Iandis treaty permitting use of a!! materials, except prison made whether of union or non-union manufacture. This clause the unions decline u, admit. They want to dniiima.to and dictate." Non-union plasterers are now- working on the school annex. The whole job will he ready for pla.'fering next week. What position the union plasterers, blumbers and painters will take is a matter of conjecture. SAVES MAN FRDM DEATH Jumping to avoid ir.stant death, Fred Hickman, a mechanic for the Buiek Auto Sales Company. escaped serious injury when the truck he was driving was struck and completely demolished by a north bound Monon passenger train at the Detroit st. crossing in Hammond at 7:30 this morning. Mr. Hickman was taking the truck, which belonged to the Clumet Coal & Supply Company, to th Buick garage for repairs. His view of the approaching flyer was obstructed by a string of freiglit cars, say police.

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Andy Had Learned A Lot About American Customs

Andy Kvasny, 55, was making headway in his application for citizenship before Judge Keiter this morning when his memory failed him. He had told the naturalization examiner that he was fifty-live years of age, had been in America thirty years, in East Chicago twenty-six years and had four children. He seemed to be getting on swimmingly. He only knew the name of the mayor of East Chicago but he had committed the names of each councilman to memory. He spoke of the governor n that familiar fashion of old acquaintances as though it were a daily occurence: "Hello, Andy;'' "Hello Gov." MY ALL S.KT. Andy knew all about the constitution including the eighteenth amendment. He was familiar with the methods of state and national legislation. He had crammed for the test. The examiner was about to dismiss him as eligible for citizenship when as an after thought, he asked-. Car On Line; Chief Splits Up Justice Inasmuch as the freight car robbeu y two Hegewisch boys was partly in the state of Illinois and partly In the state of Indiana. Chief Ben Strong of the I. H. B. special agents office decided to divide justice likewise and after having captured the youths he oas determined to turn one of them ivit to the juvenile authorities of Cook 'oimty while the other will be bound over to the Lake county, Indiana, criminal court on a charge of grand larceny. This Solomon-like Judgment was secnd in importance only to the vicious .ight which the mother of the younger u the two boys put up to save her mi, When detectives Norsey and Powell of Chief Strong's- office arrived it the home of George Do-bda, aged 16. n Hegewisch they were met by the mother of the lad. Sergeant Tom Dooly of the Hegewisch police who arrived t few moments after the special agnts was the first of the three men at ticked. He received a painful bite in he arm. The infuriated mother in grappling with Dooley sank her teeth 'hrojgh his coat sleeve of heavy matrial and inflicted a laceration that lad to be treated by a physician. The letectives finally over-powered her and Hue off the son. Nick Pes-zczek, aged 12 years, who L-iped the younger man rob a freight ar of several hundred sacks, will be ound over to Judge Smith's court at 'row n Point. Chief Strong said todav. TRIED EOR DEATH INTERNATIONAL NEWS SLRVKtJ TUIN FALLS. Idaho, Oct. 4. Alone hehind three chairs at which sit her counsel, her face drawn from the trying days, her lips colorless, her eyes searching faces of witnesses and .-s, Mrs. Lyda Southard, allegHl Man Bluebeard, is hearing today the -stimeny by which her guilt or inno-i.-ind, Edward V. Meyer, is to lie cb--c. nee of murdering her fourth bustermined. Her mother, nerves .battered bf the cjirly days of the trial, is ill at home. Her husband, fifth man to whom she has been bound in wedlock, and her 'aithful father, are barred from the courtroom by order providing for the separation of w itnesse.--. There n. hand to clasp hers in the long grind of the days. "The state will prove beyond shadow of doubt that hers was criminal hand which administered the the the poison to Edward V. Meyer; that the act was for the purpose of collecting life insurance and acquiring his estaU under the will be made a few davs prior to the murder." Thus Prosecuting Attorney Frank L. Stephen, in his opening statement, defined the Issues, and with the first witness introduced lroug.it before court and jury the contention of the state that the poison administered had been obtained from fly paper. SMILEY CHILD DIES IN OREGON Little Jcanctte Smiley, the eight-year old daughter cf Mr. and Mrs. Carl Smiley of Portland, Oregon, paused away last Friday at the home of her parents, following a long illness f. diphtheria. Mr. Smiley is the -son of Mrs. Viola Smiley of Hammond and lived here for a numiber oy years, where he has a great many friends who will be sorry to learn of this bereavement. FEDERAL MEN IN LAFAYETTE RAIDS Gus Simon and Ed. Bcrwangcr of the porhibition forces in the northern end of the state raided ten "soft drink " parlors at Lafayette on Saturday night. They found the town wide open, par ticularly so as regards gambling. Bert Morgan, state director of prohibition enforcement, directxl the raids in person. A truck load of contrabrand wet goods was removed.

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"Who is1 the president of the United States." Andy was stumped. He studied the ceiling, the carpet, the walls and gazed through the windows into the heavens, searching for an answer. He twirled the waxed ends of his moustache and pulled his nose. HE PEEPED The court was looking at the examiner. The examiner was looking at his papers. It was Andy's chance. He rammed his hands in a pocket, peered at a paper, shoved the paper back arid wh ou t. e d : "Meester Harding." Judge Reiter laughed. Out of the corner of his eye he had een Andy cheating. "It's ail right, he's admitted," said the court. "He seems to want to be a citizen." "He's been trying for years." -said one of Andy's witnesses. "He'il be happy now."

Victim Of Paralysis f J 3 ; -'.' 1 X i ..v ..v.. rr . .11 ni.i: w M,i i:n 1. iiAuui. 'Bulletins (BULLETIN) I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE HULL, England, Oct. 4. Weakness in the transverse girders of the dirigible ZR-2 had been revealed long before the fatal flight when two score British and American air sailors were killed, the coroner declared today in summarizing testimony given at the inquest. Weakness in the transverse girders had been shown in tests in May. said the coroner. He based his declarations upon evidence introduced from experts in the form of depositions. (BULLETIN) r ;m RNATiONAL NEWS SERVICE OMAHA. Neb., Oct. 4. With authorities maintaining utmost secrecy as to the exact nature of the charges ot the number of men involved, developments in Omaha's "billion dollar financial scandal" were awaited ith keeneft interest today. Arrest of eight well-known business men already has caused a sensation here. I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! DUBLIN Oct. 4 Sinn Fein Ireland is ready today either for war or peace. Preparations are methodically under way in both directions. While the cabinet members, headed by Eamonn de Valera. self-styled president of the Irish Republic, are working out the details of the program which the Sinn Fein envoys will present to the peace parley in Londin next week, the military wing of the organization is training the Irish republican army and keeping up its morale for operations in the field. CHICAGO. Oct. 4. Mystery surrounding the death by hanging of Samuel Buffington, 14-year-old high school student, whose body was found Sunday in a closet in his home, remained unsolved today while officials continued their investigations. Mrs. Charles F. Pinkham, mother of the boy, her husband and her 10-year-old son. Hugh, were taken to the State's attorney's- office at midnight and questioned. At an early hour today they still were being held in the prosecutor's office. MEETING LAKE COUNTY BAR There will be an important meeting of the Lske County liar Association tomorrow- Wednesday morning at 9:'0 o'clock in Uoom 1. Out it 'House. J. H. FF.TTEK'. lOFF, Pre. 10-i-l CHARLES II DYER, Secy.

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Thousands of Friends of Jurist Stunned By Sad Intelligence The bench in Room 2 of the superior court is draped in black. The jury box that was filled yesterday with men seeking citizenship is vacant. The halls of the house of justice are eilent. Court has adjourned in the midst of its busiest term. Judge Walter T. Hardy is dead. The Lake county bench and bar is in mourning. HIS PATOaRZ OSK Judge Hardy walked from his courtroom at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon in good spirits. He had been engaged throughout the day in the work that he liked the best, the making of American citizens by naturalization. His last official act was to grant citizenship to three young men who had served in the army of the United States in France. It had delighted him to extend the hand of fellowship to these deserving men. Three times, climbing the stairs from the clerk's oil ice. to his court room, lie u.d faltered and rested, but although i'h; sicaily weak he was mentally aleri.. TALKED Or 2XEBCXSE The day's work done his mind was occupied for a few minutes by thought

it his failing health. Stopping in the reporter's room on the ground floor, b talked with Mike Wagner about a system of physical exercise which he planned taking up In the near future. Th conversation finished he leTt the room, turning at the door to say, "Good bye, Mike." Mike Wagner is the reporter in Room -. He had been associated with Judge Hardy for the past year. "That's a funny thing," he said to Harry Folk, anotber reporter. "The judge generally says 'Good night' or "Well, Fm going hmp.' Did you notice how he said 'Good bye, Mike?' " Wagner and Folk had often discussed the question of hi3 failing health with Judge Hardy. FBEPAKJCS rOX LODQE. When he reached his home at 81 Detroit St., Judge Hardy settled himself to read the commandry ritual of th Masonic offler in preparation for the lodge meeting at which he was to hav presided last night. He was the commander. ' At about half past five o'clock b called to his wife and asked her t bring him a drink of water. He said lis was not feeling well. IND CVMLX QUICKLY When Mrs. Hardy came with ths -water he bad toppled over. Dr. W. I". How at, the family, physician was called, and found Judge Hardy suffering from a stroke of paraylsts. At S:08 o'clock the patient died without havlnr spoken. Mrs. Hardy, the physician, and a number of intimate friends were present at the time of death. The news spread rapidly. Scores of attorneys as well as other business and professional men who had seen JudHardy during the day could hardly L Heve the report. COUNTY MOTKITS Lake county today is in sorrow at 1 ; vloss. Judge V. S. Reiter. Room 1, superior court, said this morning: "Walter Hardywas a loyal American and a splendid itizen. He was a man of ability and his work was marked by hts slncent He was very conscientious and was no way ed by anything except what h thought was the right. He abhoi.-o anything tainted by un-Amerlcanism." rVNEKAZ. THURSDAY Attorney John Morthland. loo:, barge of the arrangements for the fun eral which is to be held Thursda Morthland and Hardy were cronies. Another Intimate friend was John Spingeon, formerly reporter in Hardy's coup. Since Spurgeon has been 111, Judge HarJ has been with him nearly every dn.c. Judge Hardy -was very fond of lie young attorneys. He oftvi tooke 1 praise of Edwin l ricdrich and F,ern.ire Gavit. His greatest pride wa the w m i of naturalization. He was always I 1 the applicant and if the foreigner slmv -ed a disposition to study American history and its form of government, JudgHardy would overlook his mistakes r. speaking the language. Walter T. Hardy was born In Carroll county. May 24, ik'ji, the sou of Dacr H. and Angelina Hardy. At tor imtshtiithe common school near his noive, I. entered Wabash e-.liego, where he com pleted the sophom-uo y ;ar. :i lS2 be I'egan his studies a t Ken: College ct Law, Chicago, whe o ho graduated Jo 1S33. He was ad :.i' 1 1 e 1 to the bar ... Delphi, Ind.. and practiced liw 11: thit city until iOOT when l.e came to Hammond. In 1014 he wis eltite.i one .! the three judges of the. Lake cjunty superior court and was re-electd Ion years li.ter. He was a member of the sttte M. J county bar associations, a repubbca'i. and a Mason and on; li e"-. He married Bertha M. DcMuth, of Chicago. Before his election to the bench. Judge Hardy was a partner of John F Reilley. The body will lie in state at th First Presbyterian church ail da Thursday. HARNESS THIEF IS SENT TO PEN SPLCUL TO THE TiMESl CROWN POINT, Jnd.. Oct. 4. --Edward L. Kemmel was found guilty of petit larceny In the criminal court on Monday and received a sentence -of 1 to 14 years in the penitentiary. Kemmel who had be. n working on the Sam P. Wards farm at Ross stole a set of harness from his employer. Kcmmil says his home is in Missouri-