Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 328, Hammond, Lake County, 12 June 1922 — Page 5
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tIE DETECTOR Science Plays Part in Unusual Mystery In San Francisco
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(BY ELLIS H. MARTIN) . STATF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO. June- U Science Had today cleared Henry Wakens f suspicion of connection wltixOvls wife's murder. The- 'lie. detector scientifically known as the pbygmomnomometer or blood pressure machine proclaim that be told the truth, concerning: her death. Returning: from a, day's outing: last Sunday evening; an automobile containing: thres bandits crowded the Wlikens car to the curb. One of the bandits flourished a revolver and WUkens gave him 1300 In one hundred dollar bills. The and It. Wivkens said. attempted to take ring- from his wife's hands and he reached for a gun to protect her the bandit fired but Mrs. Wilkens Hung herself In front f her husband and died instantly. Their six year old son corroborated thi story. Then the police learned that Mrs. Wilkens had filed a suit for separate maintanee charring: cruel treatment and that while Wilkens claimed the bandit car was of a certain make, other witnesses declared It to be another. And finally Wilkens failed to recognise a suspect despite the fact witnesses said, the man, an ex-convict, had worked for Wilkens several months. To ascertain whether wilkens was telling: the truth he was subjected to the lie 'detector test. The machine, a formidable looking: affair with charts to record the emot:ens, through the medium of the
blood the heart and the respiration, was attached to his person. He submitted willing-ly to the test and after a series of questions designed to ;t Kim at ease was asked: "Did you know in advance anytVng about the holdup?" "No,'' came the steady answer ar4 the recording: stylus recorded only a normal flutter. "The truth," tr observers whispered. "Did you hire any persons to comr.i'.t t;.is murder?" he was asked. Asin came the firm answer "No" and a grain the recording: stylus indi".ted he had told the truth. He admitted he had known Walter Castor, the ex-convict, five or six months but declared he hadno agreement with the Castor brothers regarding: the murder. The test was conducted by Dr. John A. Larson, Berkeley police department criminologist, who invented the "lie detector" and Chief of Police Daniel O'Brien. Both expressed satisfaction today with the test and their belief that Wilkens had told the truth.
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I stranger with the intention of die- ) ging up the body to determine whether it was a caso of suicide 01 .mrder. He was to be accompanied y newspaper men, it is said. Accoding to the information. Dr. .Springer is an authority on.deter-
u-.ining theories in such cases and it is believed that important developments in the mystery are near at hand.
HAMMOND BOYS. STEAL SPEEDER Henry Komlnski, of 01 Johnson st. Hammond, one ofthrea Hammond lads picked up by a train crew on the South Shore Blectric, near Michigan City after they had placed a speeder oil the track and were heading towards Gary at a lively clip, was turned over to the Gary police yesterday. The two other boys made their getaway. Toung Kominskl gave thei'r names as Stanley Grigorchi, Henry st. ,and John Kulie, Go&tlin st.
FALLS DOWN STAIRS; INJURED A. W. Adwais. 208 Ellsworth St.. ToCleston, was severely injured an.! removed to the Mercy hospital yesterday as a result of accidentally
falling , down the srtair-way of his
home.
MOTORCYCLE-AUTO
VICTIM DIES
Sam Koschak, injured in a motorcycle-Auto collision on Twenty-First-avenue near the River Bridge last Friday night, died of his In
juries at the Mercy hospital at five
o'clock this morning.
VHEN you see a man walking down the shady side of the street.
carrying his hat in one hand and
his toupee in the other, you know its hot, don't you? We'll say you do.
CRIMINAL COURT CASE SETTINGS
SPECIAL TO THE T!MES1 CROWN rCJNT, Ind., June 12. In the "Criminal court of "Lake county. W. O. Thomas, deputy prosecuting attorney, has made thess settings for the week of June 12, 1982: MOXDAY, JtE 13 2559 State vs. Frank Gurmwiei (G-urniwics). 24S6 State vs. Joseph Rolla. TUESDAY, JVXE 13 2554 State v. Lee Jt Henry and Joe Jackson. 2547 State vs. Oliver Finch, 2532 State vs. Jack E. Ellison. WTCDXESDAT, JCSE 14 2436 State vs. Gedrge Muscovlch. 243" State vs. Eli Kckich. 2448 State vs. Costa Dimoff. 2531 State vs. Robei t Padgett and John C. White. THURSDAY, JUNE 15 2519 State vs. Herman Fishman. 2520 State vs. Marica Grahovac. 252) State vs. John Holom.
2522 State vs. John Antoss. 2523 State vs. Alex Saitanovitz. 2525 Stats vs. Stella Frankowski. 2656 Stats vs. Sam Coffroo and Gladys CofTroo. FRIDAY, JUXE 16 2557 State vs. Ed Junior. 2558 State vs. Ed Junior. 261 State vs. Julia Hamekow.
GARY NEWS ,
275 ILLINOIS CARS THERE
That Illinois autoists take advantage of Lake county's fine system of
roads and Sunday outings is shown
in a report made by Officer Conroy to Chief of Police Forbis of the Gary police yesterday. Officer Conroy who was placed in charge of the monster parking space at the new Gary-Miller beach, kept tab on the hundreds of autos parking in the afternoon. He states that
there were 237 Illinois cars, 260 Indiana, one from Virginia afid one from Michigan stopped at the park.
COLORED MAN HELD Neill Mclntyre, (colored), Chi
cago, was arrested by Officer Schmidt of the Gary police department last night for practicing medicine without a license. According to the
police, Mclntyre was peddling some
medicine which he had manufactured himself.
EXPECT NEW
CLEWS TODAY Authorities expected the development of new clews in solving the identity of the charred body of a murdered man at Waverly Beach last week, when It was reported that the body which was buried on the spot because of its condition would be exhumed. While Coroner H. O. Selpel of Valparaiso stated to a Times reporter last night that he. knew nothing of it. the reporter gained the information that Dr. Springer of the coroner's office of Chicago had started for the grave of the
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DO YOU frANT PET O'L PLESIOSAURUS? YES? WELL, HE MAKES 'EM BY DOZENS
onught in a trap. Yon will sit st'll v.'htn this steno pasfes the s::reen ' vcau?e it is so renlirtic you hariiiy ;rov what tlie resuUs will e even if you'.?top and think that you aro at a picture ho.
Strpct ibfji-(?ng Is inorfase in I.ond-on
greatly on the
Two Irish-Americans, one cf whom had never seen Erin !?fore, wore rcprfeseiitiTipr the United vtfites at n convention in Dub!;n. "Fifty-three years ago," ceiiireJ
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Herbert AL Dawley, maker of prehistoric animals. Herbert M. Dawley makes dinosaurs, plesioaauri or any one of a hundred other prehistoric animals. But he also patents nis animal products. That's why he is suing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for alleged infringement of patent rights. Dawley contends that Doyle, by showing a motion picture which includes photos of Dawiey's creations, is infringing on his rights and asks that he be restrained from Ehowmg "The Lost World."
lege campus. at Poughkeepsie as guests of the college. Fifty members of this year's senior cai3s will remain to act as hostesses, to the girls who are members of the National League of Girls' Clubs. Their twelfth biennial convention w-lll be held during the week.
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Lucy Jeanne Pries
NEW YORK, June 12. The youngest family that ever left Ellis Island to cross the continent four children from Germany orphaned by the war the other day .began the last lapi of their 7,000 mile Journey from their native country to San Francisco. The oldest child is 12 years old. They have been adopted by & California woman.
The subway hat snatcher is the latest and quickest worker among us. Men fortunate enough to have brand new and expensive Panama hats this season have been their chief victims. The subway windows are usually open and Just as the train is pulling out of a station, a hand darts in at a window in front of which sits the Panama-hatted one, grabs the hat, and ths train pulls the bereft man out of all hopes of catching the thief.
If you have an infinitesimal fraction of ownership In & lion, does that give you a right to take his picture? Such Is one of the moot questions of our city Just now. The
ordinance prohibits the taking of
photographs in any public park of
the city without a special permit. The ordinance is Ignored by the po
lice, however, except In the- case of Bronx Zoolqgtcal park. Anyone entering there must check their camera at the gate. Now several pho
tographing citizens of our metrop
olis are protesting. The taxpayers
own the animals, don't they? Well,
then, haven't they a rightwto go and take a simple little photograph of their possessions? But it seems not.
The graduates of the Institute of Musical Art threw aside academic seriousness the other night and pave one of the snappiest revues of the season as a part of their commencement week f estfvities. "Jazz
la Carte" it was called, and it
burlesqued pretty nearly everything serious, in the music world. The students proved what might be inter-' esting to musical comedy managers that understanding of music, technique and above all lovely, well trained voices can be Just as valuable in putting over that sort of thing as on the concertor grand opera stage.
struggle between a man and a wolf Known as the "man of a thousand faces," Chaney sure has an opportunity in "The Trap," to shew at
least nine hundred and ninety-nine , browed of the lot.
and we would have been pleased in spite of the warm weather to have
waited through te or fifteen more reels for a glimpse of the thousandth, countenance, so well does he put these facial expressions over. "The Trap" has a moment of intense excitement and interest in a realistic scene of a life or dat
one, "I left Ireland without a
penny, in my pockets."
The audience was greatly affect
ed, and the other speaker decided r.ot to be outdone.
"Until last week." he declared.
"I had never set foot in the land
cf my birth."
r ive villains, with gyves upon.
their wrists, sat in durance vile.
"It is strange," said wo, "that you five stalwart scoundrels, nfter
robbing the bank and maltreating
all persons who sought to stay you.
should have allowed yourselves to
be kr.ocked down and hog-tied by a lone cripple equipped with naught
but a crabtree cudgel.
"Alas, sir, replied the most low-
"Our lack of
forethought was our undoing. We
expected to encounter only the; usual heavily armed posse, whi''i could not run and capture a lost gopling. Instead, we met this lame
lad with a club, who meant busi
ness and had no desire to show olr. Of course, we did not know how to
comport ourselves.
It nwver occurred to William S
Dunn, taxi chauffeur, that taxicabs
get hungry, too. So -It was considerable of a shock to him the other day, to come out of arestaurant where he had gone for a quick lunch, and find his taxi missing from the spot where he had left it. As he was unfolding his tale of trouble to the patrolman on the beat, the taxi was discovered half way in and half way cut of a coffee hoaae- at 112 West Forty-fourth street, farther down the block. LUC!" JEANNE PPJCE.
The Natural Barrier Between HAMMOND and EAST CHICAGO Which Has Existed for More Than 40 Years, is Going to be Removed SATURDAY, JUNE 24th; 1922
LON CHANEY AT THE DeLUXE Judging from the- approval afford
ed Lon Chaney by the audience in his latest snectaoular production, "The j
Trap" now showing at the DeLuxe
Wednesday night will be too soon to close this dramatic thunderbolt.
Lon Chaney, greatest of all char
acter actors of tne sarver screen.
carries the best part we have ever seen him in and this includes even
The Night Rose'' that many Ham
mond' people were so pieasea wnn a month or so ago.
Of course It had to come! And
now that it's here, it is certainly
effective on the. stage. The radium painted frock! One of the choruses of "Good Morning, Dearie" appears
now with bits of radium over the costumes, and flashes about most intriguingly on a darkened stags.
Wills are not always solemn.
Frederick E. Castle of Newark, whose will was probated the other day, wrote in these words, and none others:
All my earthly goods I havs In s tors. To my dear wife I leave for evermore, I freely give no limit do I fix. This is my will and she the. executrix."
One thousand girls fgrom factories and shops in New York, will ppend one week on the Vassar Col-
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Get out from under the idea that all you can do is grin at the heat and bear it. You don't bear it! It lowers vitality, saps energy, ruins dispositions! If you will look at it squarely, you will realize that it is just as unwise as it is uncomfortable to let the heat have its way with you; and you will also realize that it is unnecessary, as well.
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