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THE WEATHER
Fair and cooler tonight; Friday fair.
vol. xxxm.
BLAST WRECKS X
CONFISCATED BOOZE
IN CITY CARE SHRINKS
AT LEAST 37 QUARTS
OF WHISKY TAKEN IN
WILLIAMS RAID GONE
Figures Given in Testimony at Two Mistrials
Vary Widely—One Makes Total of
Missing Spirits 97 Bottles.
DATE NOT REHEARING CASE
Thirty-seven or more quarts of Whisky, confiscated by the Indianapolis
police force when they arrested \V. D. (Pete) Williams at his home Dec.
30, 1918, disappeared from the custody of the department during the time
it was under George V. Coffin as chief of police.
Asa result of this disappearance the blind tiger case of the State
vs. Williams has never been prosecuted to a judgment, and it is the
opinion expressed by court officials that it never will be prosecuted by
the present administration.
There have been two mistrials in the case, under the prosecution of
William P. Evans, deputy of Claris Adams, and Republican candidate for
prosecuting attorney of Marion County.
The case is not now set for retrial, obviously for the reason that if
it were successfully prosecuted the shortage in the booze would be dis
closed when judgment was rendered.
Examination of records of testimony
in the trials of Williams in Police Court
and Criminal Court and a statement of
Sheriff Robert F. Miller discloses the
fact that at least three cases of the
liquor taken from-Williams - garage on
the night it was discovered by one of
the morals squads is no - accounted for
today.
ONE MAKES MISSING
BOOZE 97 QUARTS.
Par of the testimony would indicate
that | ossibly as much as ninety-seven
quarts are missing.
On Jin. 7, during the trial of Williams
in City Court on the charfes filed at the
time the raid was made on his garage,
Officer Ralph Dean testified, when first
questioned about the amount of liquor
taken that it was "three sacks with
something like 200 quarts in each one."
-He declared the bottles were not
counted, but when pressed by attorneys
for a better description he said there
were “exactly twenty-one cases."
Following Penn. Bruce Hanna, driver
for Williams, who was sentenced for
bringing the liquor in from Cinclhnati,
but who has since died, testified that
there were twenty cases ts Quarts and
one case of half-pints of whisky in the
stock found by the police.
In the same case John Schmidt, a clerk
for the People's Grocery Company of
Cincinnati, who said he had the liqnor
loaded on a truck for Hanna in the Ohio
city, testified theje were only nineteen
cases, consisting of fourteen rases of
quart bottles of “Old Rippey,” one case
of half-pint bottles of the same brand
and four cases of “Old Jordan.”
TWO MISTRIALS IN
CRIMINAL COURT. #
Williams appealed from the finding of
guilty in City Court to Criminal Court*
There he was first tried Nov. 10. 1919,
and a second time Jniy 18 of this jrear,
the jury disagreeing in both instances.
In the first trial in Court,
Officer Dean raised his statement of the
amount of booze from twenty-one to
twenty-four cases.
A review of the statements contained
in the testimony of these three witnesses
In the three trials shows:
Schmidt's statement that there were
nineteen cases or 228 quarts.
Dean and Hanna’s City Court tes
timony about there being “exactly
twenty-one cases” would mean 252
quarts fell *nio the hands of the po
lice.
Dean’s later statement in Criminal
Court that were twenty-four
cases would mean 288 quarts.
Thus, according to the testimony,
there were either 228, 252 or 288 quarts
confiscated.
During the progress of the various
trials, or since Dec. 80. 191?, the con
fiscated liquor, if the law had been fol
lowed, would have been in toe custody of
the police until Williams appealed to
Criminal Court whqn It would have been
turned over to the sheriff.
The final link In the chain of evidence
proving that part of the booze is missing
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianaoplis and vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m.,
Friday, Sept. 17: Fair and cooler to
night; Friday fair.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
6 a. m 62
7 a. m <52
8 a. m.. 66
9 a. m '. 72
10 a. m 75
11 a. m 76
12 (noon) v... 76
1 p. m 77
2 p. m 78
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i* provide*! by Sheriff Milter, who, in the
presence of Deputy United States Marshal
C. E. Whicker, told a representative of
The Daily Times he had received from
the police only either “190 or 16X quarts,
I don’t remember which."
Therefore, if John Schmidt's statement
that Williams’ driver had 228 quarts Is
the correct one, thirty-seven of them must
have disappeared while In the custody of
former Chief Coffin.
If Officer Dean's first statement that
there were twenty-one cases, or 252
quarts, is correct,, then sixty-one quarts
are missing.
If Officer Dean's statement in Criminal
Court that he believed there were twenty
four cases, or 2SB quarts, is the true one,
then ninefy-aeven quarts are missing.
COAL PRIORITY
RELIEF SOUGHT
Indiana. Ohio and Michigan
Consider Action.
COLUMBUS. Ohio, Sept. 16—Members
of Indiana and Michigan coal cominis
sions and the Indiana and Ohio utilities
commission, will decided within five days
whether concerted acton will be taken
to ask the interstate commerce commis
sion for freedom from present coal pri
ority orders.
This was decided upon at the close
of the coal shortage conference here
late Wednesday, caUed by the o>hU>
Utilities Commission, and attended by
Indiana and Michigan representatives,
together with representatives of rail
roads, coal operators and consumers.
According to statements and statistics
presented during the conference domestic
coal consumers in all three States face a
serious coal shortage this winter unless
present priority orders, favoring ship
ment of coal to the lakes and New
England, are modified to Insure coal for
domestic use.
F>. F. Nigh, secretary of the Michlgan-
Ohlo-Indiana Coal Association, Bald a
survey of dealers in the three' States
shows that Michigan domestic consum
ers have 32 per cent of their winter
supply In their bins, Indiana consumers
23V 2 per rent and Ohio consumers I6MI
per cent.
Ordinarily at this time of year, he
said, 65 per cent of the supply should
be in consumers' bins.
INDIANA MEN
AT CONFERENCE
Indiana was represented at the confer
ence by Glen VanAuken, a member of the
Public Service Commission; Jesse E.
Esehbaeh, chief examiner of the State
Board of Accounts and head of the State
Fuel and Food Commission, land W. D.
Farmer of the Board of Accounts.
Mr. VanAuken said the situation was
gone over in detail and that the Ohio
commission asked the Indiana commis
sion to cooperate with it in asking the
Interstate Commerce Commission for a
modification of its priority orders.
Mr. VanAuken said a transcript of the
statements made at the Ohio conference
will be sent to the Indiana commission
and that some action may be taken in
about two weeks.
COX FAVORS U. S.
EDUCATION IDEA
Would Not Destroy Effect of
Local Control, He Says.
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—Gov. James M.
Cox favors the development of a na
tional educational policy without de
struction of the effectiveness of local
control, he told the National Educa
tional Association In a letter made pub
lic here today.
Cox was asked by the association's
■legislation committee to explain his po
sition on educational matters, particular
ly the bill now before Congress providing
for a secretary of education, compensa
tion and other matters. Governor Cox
said :
“I am giving serious thought to the
necessity of reorganization in the ex
ecutive departments of the Federal Gov
ernment. I shall certainly favor the
effective administration of affairs relatiiig
directly to all matters of human wel
fare, including education.”
Poles Claim Capture
of 3,000 Bolshevists
LONDON, Sept. 16.—The Polish com
munique. received 'from Warsaw today,
said Polish troops took 3,000 prisoners,
and occupied Kovel, crossing the River
Bug In the Sokal sector, it claimed,
the Poles occupied Tartakov.
Entered Ss Second Class Matter, July 26, 1914 at
frostofflce, Indianapolis, Ind.. under act March 18/9.
Dare They?
The Daily Times has in its pos
session a corroborated statement
as to the disposition of the whisky
in the Williams case, which is not
accounted for by the records of
the city and county officials.
r This information will be will
ingly imparted to the members of
the board of safety, the Marion
County grand Jury, the Federal
authorities interested in the en
forcement of the prohibition law,
or the attaches of the office of the
prosecutor of Marion County.
This information indicates that
the missing whisky was trans
ferred from bottles into jugs and i
taken from the police station,
with the full knowledge, and un
der the Instructions of a man
whose official duty it was to pre
vent its disappearance.
Eventually the full story of how
certain favored individuals in In
dianapolis have been able to cir
cumvent the prohibition law,
through the very agencies that
were presumed to be enforcing it,
will be made public.
The question today is whether
the “good government" adminis
tration of the city and county is
interested in law enforcement
that involves itself.
MOVE TO HURRY
CITY PROJECTS
Autos for Fire Department
and Market Plans Heard.
Steps necessary in the complete motor- j
ization of the'fire department and irn
provement of the city market will be
pushed to the point where the projects
will be in the hands of the eity council !
to accept or reject as quickly as pos
sible, city officials said today, follow
ing a conference of the board of public
safety, the council. Mayor Charles W.
Jewett and others iBSt night.
The five members of the council pres
ent expressed themselves as being In
favor of the two projects, administration
leaders declared.
Anti-administration members of the
council, however, declared that while
they are In favor of the two forward
steps, they did not go on record as belli*
entirely in favor of what the adminis
tration officials will do. f
FINAL APPROVAL
DEPENDS ON "CONDUCT."
Final approval of the projects depends
to a great extent upon how the admin
lstration leaders conduct themselves In
taking the preliminary steps on the lm
provements “anti”'councilraen indicated.
The board of safety has been dis
cussing both problems for almost two
years, with the net result that the only
positive step taken served to antagonize
the council to such an extent that antt
admlnlstrntion members let It be known
that they would ruthlessly alay any
ordinance fer the motorization of the
fire department which might come be
fore them as long as certain conditions
existed.
It was In an attempt to smooth out
this trouble that the board of safety
sought the conference.
President A. L. Taggart and Felix T. ;
McWhlrtor of the board: Councllmen j
Louis W. Carneflx. Jagob P. Brown. Ot- j
to B. Pettljohn, Jesse E. Miller and Will- j
iam B. l’eake. the mayor, Corporation I
Counsel Samuel Ashby, City Comptroller 1
Robert 11. Bryson, l'urchusing Agent
Dwight S. Ritter, Assistant City Attor
ney Harry E. Yockey and George Wil
liams, executive secretary to the board,
attended.
It was in May that the board.of safe
ty took the first real step toward fire
department motorization, when Purchas
ing Agent Ritter asked a number of fire
apparatus companies to submit prices on
the equipment which it was proposed to
purchase.
The companies responded with formal
bids of merely price lists.
MOTOR EQUIPMENT
WOULD COST *442,887.
The purchasing agent, it Is said, opened
these ss he would any other mail mat
ter that, comes to his office, with tin
result that some council members raised
the old objection that Mr. Ritter was
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PAIN SUFFERED
BY MACSWINEY
Lord Mayor Weak and Com
pletely W T orn Out.
LONDON, Sept. 16.—Terence Mac*
Swlney, Sinn Fein lord mayor of Cork,
was in great pain when he began the
thirty-fifth day of'his hunger strike in
the Brlxton jail infirmary.
His condition was officially reported
“unchanged" at 4 o’clock.
MacSwiney was still conscious.
He spent a restless night, but dozed
at Intervals.
Friends who visited MacSwiney at noon
said he was weak and completely worn
out.
WANT MRS. MACSWINEY
TO TELL OF SITUATION
NEW YORK. Sept. 10.—Mrs. Muriel
MacSwiney, wife of the hunger striker,
may be invited to come to this country
to testify as to conditions in Ireland, ac
cording to plans being made today for
organization of a committee of one hun
dred to investigate the Irish situation.
It was announced the committee will
Include W. R. Hearse, Senator Ashurst,
Oswald -Garrison VUlard, editor of The
Nation; William Allen White, Governor
Frazier of North Dakota and Dudley
Field Malone.
Jttfrtattß Jlailn Sit w%
INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16; 1920.
CITY AUTO BILL
IS HIGHER THAN
PUBLIC KNOWS
Expense Is Not Covered by
§102,700 Garage Fund, as
Many Believe.
TOTAL IS NEAR $127,000
The city of Indianapolis owns and
maintains for tbe use of its employes
and officials thirty-seven passenger
ear?, according to a statement made by
Mark Miller of the hoard of public
works on request of The Dally Times.
Mr. Miller says:
There are thirty-seven passenger cars
of the following makes, towlt:
Overland, 12; Ford, 11; Maxwell, 4;
Nash, 4: Buick, 2; Cole, 2; Lexington, 1;
Dodge, 1.
CARS ARE LOANED
RACK AND FORTH.
For the purpose of system and to fix
responsibility, certain cars are nssignefl
to the several departments. When the
requirements of a given department, ex
ceed the number of ears assigned, unused
cars assigned to other departments are
loaned to meet the emergency of the de
partment requiring more than its assign
ment. This plan makes possible the
greatest efficiency with the least possible
number of cars.
The distribution In the assignment of
the ears between the several departments
is as follows:
Building inspection department, four
cars.
(la me well inspector, one ear.
Board of safety, one ear. '
Street commissioners' department, five
cars.
Street cleaning and ash hauling depart
incuts. together, six eara.
Engineering department, seven cars.
Municipal garage department, one car.
Garbage collection department, oue car.
of works, oue car.
Mayor, one car.
Dark board, two ears.
Recreation department, two ears.
Hoard of health, three cars.
Purchasing department, one ear.
Sanitation department, one ear.
According to the State Board of Ac
counts the maintenance of automobiles
for the use of public officials is not
sanctioned by law, and repeated efforts
to have the Legislature provtdo for the
ownership and maintenance of these
automobiles have failed.
At TOK FOR OFFIC lAL*
18 I OMMON I’RAC T ICE.
The practice of p ividing automobiles
at public expense f r public official* la,
however, a genera, one, and whether
Illegal or not, there are unquestionable
advantages therein.
'the interest of the taxpayer lies In the
use to which these automobiles are put
and In tfie cost of the service rendered
No definite figure* on the maintenance
of these thirty-sewn automobiles *.* ob
tainable, but some Intimations of the
amount of the taxpayers' money that
is spent for the transportation of city
officials and employes may be obtained
by a study of such statistics as are
available.
Al! of the thirty-sevon iis*enger car*
ns well at part of the trucks and other
equipment used in ash hauling and street
cleaning la presumed lo be kept at the
municipal garage.
The expense* of the garage are kept
with an intricate system In charge of
Herbert .1. Wasson, superintendent.
The city budget for this year allows
$82,300.50 for the repair, maintenance
and salaries at the garage.
The budget for 1621 appropriates $102,-
700 for this purpose, which is $30,330..V0
wore -than tat year.
But the hove figures do not, by any
means, re >e*cnt all that the city will
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TAGGART POINTS
U. S. HOME NEEDS
Overseas Policies Will Be
Worked Out, He Says.
Tho administration of the Government
is Just ns important In the campaign as
international policies, Thomas Taggart,
Democratic nominee for United States
Senator, told employes of the E. C. M-
Uns Company in a speech at the com
pany’s plant at noon today.
“The average tnxpayer, I find. Is tak
ing a lively Interest In the cost of 1:1s
Government and In the uso or misuse of
the money taken from his pocket by 1 tin
tax man,” Mr. Taggart said.
“The taxpayer belevcs our policies
overseas will be satisfactory worked out
by responsible, sworn, constitutional
agencies, In accord with the true mean
ing of the American Ideal of stability,
service and honorable peace—peace with
out repudiation or abandonment of onr
comrade nations of the war period.
“Placing responsibility for our national
destiny and security squarely upon
those who must assume that burden,
and demanding from their sworn con
stitutional servants the sound nnd pa
triotic solution of world problems, the
taxpayers properly may turn to the
closer and more Immediate issue of the
budget system in the transaction of pub
lic business.; to the application of sound
business methods to all governmental
operations, and to tho elimination of
waste and extravagance in spending the
Government’s Income.
“If the taxpayer will think of the pub
lic money, not as ‘revenue’ to be spent,
but as ’taxes’ to be invested In his behalf,
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HEARS APPEALS
FROM CITY COURT
Judge Collins Sustains Find
ings in 2 ‘Tiger’ Cases.
A number of cases appealed from the
City Court to the Criminal Court were
being heard today by Judge James A.
Collins.
Paul Haworth, who was fined SIOO
and sentenced to thirty days in the
City Court on a blind tiger charge, was
given the same fine and sentence In the
Court.
Judge Collins sustained the City
Court in the case of E. Emricb, charged
with operating a blind tiger, by fining
him SIOO and sentencing him to thirty
days on the Indiana State Farm.
Frank Andreas laid Gus Pole, both
charged with operating blind tigers,
pleaded guilty and the court withheld
judgment until Oct. 13, because the men
stated that they had small farms and
were the only ones who could take care
of the crops.
A number of blind tiger cases were con
tinued as was the case of Fred Heler,
who will be tried next Tuesday.
P. MORGAN’S OFFICE
Auto ‘Borrowers*
' Protest Condition
of City*s Streets
Even the "borrowers" of automobiles
who attempt to ride over the Indian
apolis streets are complaining to the
city administration about the condition
of the streets.
The following note was found In an
automobile stolen from v Ray B. Freeman,
4135 Carlson avenue, and abandoned at
Meridian anti Pearl streets:
To the Indianapolis Police Force:
Thanking yon kindly for the use
of your city car we will depart for
Chicago, as we were only passing
through your city. Wc enjoyed the
ride very’ much with the exception
of your stjreef* which *re in a very
had condition. We will *ee yon on
our return trip. IJIIK BOYS.
The car was stolen from Market and
Illinois streets.
A coat and tools In the automobile were
not disturbed.
The gasoline tank was empty *nd the
lights were left burning.
PLANS ALL SET
FOR REUNIONS
OF'BOYS OF ’6l
Eighty-Eight Gatherings of
Various Organizations
Are Scheduled.
VAN IS ENTERING CITY
Arrangements had been completed to
day for the holding of eighty-eight re
unions of various Civil War organisa
tions In Indianapolis next week in con
nection with the annual national encamp
ment of the Grand Army of the Republic.
The encampment opens Sunday and
more than 100 veterans already have ar
rived In the city.
Twenty three Indiana organisations
which saw service in'the Civil War have
arranged for retiulons, It was announced
by E, S Shumaker, chairman of the re
union* committee.
In addition to the plana of the eighty
eight organisation*. It l* believed many
other reunions will be held. •*
Most of the reunions will be held Tuen
day. although several will be held
Wednesday and Thursday
Indianapolis rapidly Is taking on holi
day attire for the encampment.
Streets wili be gaily decorated in the
business district and a request has been
made by the decorations committee that
every resident display the flag on his
homo during the week
If the request la heeded members of
the committee believe the city will be
decorated more ojab sretely than eve*,
before.
DANIEL M. HALL
AT CI.AYI'OOL HOTEL.
Daniel M. Hall, commander-in chief oN
the Grand Army, with headquarters in
Columbus, Ohio, arrived !n the efty and
took up headquarter* at the Clay pool
Hotel.
The Claypool will be the national
headquarter* for the Grand Army, the
Woman's Relief Corps and the National
Association of Army Nurse*.
Robert W, Mcßride, commander of the
Department of Indiana of the Grand
Army, wtll preside at the auniwl camp
fire of the army at Tomlinson Hall Tues
day night, it was announced.
Addresses will be made by Ell Tor
rance, Orlando A. Somers. Leo Kassieur
and David F. Puglt, all past commanders
in-chief of the G. A. R.
All of the sessions of the Grand Array
win bo held in Tomlinson Hail.
The sessions of the Woman's Relief
Corps will* be held In the Central Avenue
M. E. Church: the Ladles of the G. A. R.
In the assembly room, of the Masonic
Temple; the sessions of the Sons of Vet
erans In the assembly room at the Hotel
Sovertu; the sessions of the Sons of Vet
erans' Auxiliary in the Eagles' lodge
room, 43 West Vermont street; the Na
tional Association of Civil War Nurses
at the Claypool Hotel: the sessions of
the National Alliance, Daughter# of Vet
erans, In the Senate chamber at the
statehouse; the nesstons of the Union ex
i’rlsoners of War in the House of Rep
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Old Times—Eh? Huh?
A meeting f Socialists at Nlutecnth
slreet and College avenue was inter-
j — —r"" 1 i rupted when a
I ~ I shower of over
ripe tomatoes and
other vegetables
descended.
■yw y. \y The vegetables
jSj were thrown by
” 7 boys on the roofs
of nearb J' bulld-
Harvey A. Bins
mons, candidate for Congress, nud Mm.
Pert ha Dullard spoke at the meeting:.
Street Car Company
Is Sued for $40,000
Damages aggregating $40,000 were
asked of the Indianapolis Street Itall
ay Company today In two suits filed
in the Superior Court by George A.
Neelj’ and Sarah It. Neely for aliegea
Injuries sustained when a street car
hit them on March 17, 1930, at Shelby
street and Lo Grande avenue.
Otto E. Wente and Theodore H. Went®
tiled a suit in Superior Court, room A 4,
against George M. Baldwin asking for
♦he dissolution of the partnership of the
Baldwin Trucking Company.
The plaintiffs claim they have be**n
denied the right to know, what money
Is being expended by Baldwin.
MORE BOULEVARD
LIGHTS IN SIGHT
Park Board Also Authorizes
Thoroughfare Repairs.
A decision to order the Merchants Heat
and Light Company to put ir. boulevard
lights along a number of parkways next
spring was reached and authority given
for the surfacing of several sections of
boulevard was granted by the board of
park commissioners today.
The boulevards to be lighted aye Capi
tol ave.me, from Sixteenth street to Fal
creek; Pleasant run, North drive, from
Emerson avenue to Arlington avenue;
Brookslde parkway, North drive, from
Brookside avenue to Jefferson avenue.
As hi y experiment the board granted
the Emulsified Asphalt Company permis
sion to lay asphalt on Fall Creek boule
vard, North drive, from Pennsylvania
to Talbott street, and on the South drive
from Meridian to Pennsylvania street,
and from the Capitol avenue bridge to
a point one-half block east
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THOMPSON MEN
ARE LEADING IN
ILLINOIS VOTE
Heavy Returns From Chicago
Shovje Up Mayor’s
Favorites.
LOWDEN RESPONSE SLOW
CHICAGO, Sept. 18.—Admitting defeat,
William B. McKinley, Lowden candidate
for United Statdft Senator at Wednesday’s
Illinois primary, today sent a telegram
to Frank L. Smith, his rival oil the slate
backed by William Hale Thompson, con
gratulating him.
CHICAGO, Sept. 16.—Candidates, backed
by Mayor William Hale Thompson for
Republican State and national offices,
again led today In latest returns from
yesterday's State primary.
The Thompson candidates swelled their
total By heavy returns from Chicago,
where the slate apparently won in a
landslide.
Returns from the State where candi
dates backed by Gov. Frank O. Lowden
expected to overcome the Chicago lead;
have so far failed to give substantial
gains. v
Returns from 3,2*8 precincts out of
5,747 for the Republican senatorial nomi
nation gave Frank L. Smith 204,166; Wil
liam B. McKinley, 180.078.
Smith, a Thompson man, was leading
in Chicago by about 65,000 votes, with
•iO 2 precincts missing. *
McKinley bad a lead of approximately
40.000 In the State.
BURKE CLOSE SECOND
TO WALKER.
Robert E. Burke, Democratic candidate
for United Staten Senator, ws* soil run
ning a close race with i’eter Waller.
For Governor, Len Small, a Thompson
i candidate, was leading Lieut. Gov.
> Oglesby, backed, by Lowden by about
| 30.000 votes, w t#i 306 precincts report
, lug.
The vote: Ogleeby, 176,536; Small.
< 2J 1,448.
Oglesby was leading Small by ap
j proxlmately 40,000 in the State, bkt was
; 70.0U0 behind in Chicago.
James Hamilton Lewis, Democratic
candidate for the gubernatorial nomina
i Uon. was leading O'Hara, former Ilcu
' tenant governor.
The race between Robert Emmet Burke
and Peter A. Waller for the Democratic
nomination for United States Senator
was exceptionally dose.
The vote In 1,019 preclncfk, of which
eighty-eight were in Cook County, was:
Burke, 21,646; Waller. 21.583.
The Thompson victory in Chicago de
feated three Incumbent Congressmen,
candidates for renoralnatian.
They were Niels Juul,' William Wilson
and Ckrl B, Chlcdblom.
"Uncle I* *" Cannon, candidate for re
nomiu-tlou to Congress for the twenty
. first time, apparently has defeated his
I opponent.
> MacCiay Hoyne, Democratic candidate
for State's attorney in Cook County, was
, defeated Tor renotninatlon by Michael
Igoe by a plurality of 35,000. .
Judge Robert Crowe, a Thompson can
didate, was choaen by the Republicans
j for State's attorney.
The vote was slow in coming in on the
' results of the race for Congressmen-at-
I large.
W. E. Mason and Richard Yates, the
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Exercise With Dice?
Norman Riley's negro "athletic club"
has been raided again.
The clubroom. situated in the rear of
a shoe-shining parlor at 532 Indiana ave
raided twice, and
Y*' ” on those OC'H-
KwUsjL \V slons the police
wBRCr charge the “tub
letes ' were shoot
*sß) lug craps,’ but the
k—negroes explainer!
u.jpQy 1 they were playing
Vyj/JF 1 checkers and
k-'a f H pounding the
punchlng-bag, and
! the court dismissed the charges.
On those occasions the negroes could
| not explain how the dice happened to
be on the floor of Mr. Riley's “athletic
dub.”
When the police raided tlie "athletic
| club” yesterday they arrested Riley on
I charges of keeping a gambling liouso
and eleven other negroes on charges of
visiting a gambling house and gaining.
All were released on bonds signed by
Edward (Chip) Lewis, negro Repub
i Dean political worker, and proprietor of
i a notorious roadhouse on Prospect street,
i southeast of the city.
Say St. Louis Wants
Man on Coin Charge
Clara I>. Maxon, 37. 915 Eastern ave
nue, was arrested today by detectives
and charged with being • fugitive from
justice and with vagrancy.
The police say Maxon la wanted in
St’ Louis for the embezzlement of SI,OOO.
Big Smoke Causes Stir
When smoke poured from the windows
of the third floor of the building oc
cupied by the Advance-Rumely Thrash
ing Machine Company, Capitol avenue
and George street, someone sent In a
fire alarm.
Firemen from nU the downtown de
partments fespondeu.
Then it was discovered the smoke
was coming fyom a tractor that was
being demonstrated on tho third floor
of the building.
FAMILY DEAD;
DOCTOR IS HELD
Bodies of Wife and Daughter
Found on Lawn.
WHITEHALL, Mich., S'pt 16.—Dr. C.
W. Sedgwick, 34, practicing physician ot"
Whitehall, is held in the, county jail
at Muskegon while authorities are in
vestigating the death of Mrs. Sedgewiek
and her daughter.
The bodies of Mrs. Sedgewiek and lit
tle daughter were found early ti&day on
the lawn in front of tbeir home Jiere.
who discovered tha Vodiet
also found Dr. Sedgewiek In bed in a
dazed condition.
He refused to talk of the tragedy
when taket). to the Muskegon jail.
Dr. jjldgewlck and his family came
here fr<fa West Virginia & year ago.
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24 KILLED, HUNDREDS
OF OTHERS HURT BY
GIGANTIC EXPLOSION
Wagonload of Dynamite for Use in Construc
tion Work Believed to Have
Let Go.'
PANIC FOLLOWS AND ’CHANGES CLOSE
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—The terrific explosion which wrecked the bank
building of J. P. Morgan &. Cos., menaced the United States sub-treasury
with destruction* killed at least twenty-four persons and injured more tHin
200 others, was the result of a bomb plot, according to officials of the police
department and the district attorney’s office late today.
The officials declared they had obtained enough evidence to justify
this theory and that they would make a vigorous Investigation along that
line.
NEW YORK. Sept. 16.—At least twenty-four persons were killed and
hundreds of others were injured and the offices of J. P. Morgan & Cos. were
wrecked by a gigantic explosion at Wall and Broad strets in the heart of
the financial district at noon today.
The origin was believed to have been a wagonlOad of dynamite on its
way through Wall street to the excavation site of the new Stock Exchange
building on the southeast corner of Broad and Wall streets.
An automobile is said to have crashed into the vehicle carrying the ex
plosive just as it was between the Morgan offices and the United States
Subtreasury, where millions of dollars’ worth of government funds and
bullion are stored.
United States troops were rushed to the scene to guard the sub
treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank.
Business was brought to a standstill througlwyit the financial district.
The Stock Exchange and Curb Market closed down.
Sensational reports of a bomb plot threw bankers and brokers into a
panic.
Suspend Trading
NEW YORK. Sept. IS. —Trading in
all the various exchanges in the
financial district was suspended this
afternoon on account of the Morgan
explosion.
All the members of. the Cotton Ex
change fled from the building.
The following announcement was
made at the Stock Exchange:
“The stock clearing corporation di
rects that there wtll be no clearing
sheet tonight. Notice regarding day
clearing branch operations will be
Issued later in the day—H. 8. Matin,
Assistant Secretory."
Conspiracy , Says
Former Official
of Gotham Police
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—A former
high official of New York’e police de
partment, who refused to be quoted,
at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon, after
an Investigation of the scene of the
explosion at the J. P. Morgan of
fice#. declared It was the result of
a conspiracy.
“The explosion was caused by a
time-bomb in a wagonload ot nitro
glycerine, set to go off at exactly 12
o’clock,” he declared.
"This wagonload of explosive was
purposely set off directly In front of
the Morgan offices.”
Mayor Hylan to
Ask Reward Offer
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—Mayor Hy
lan announced this afternoon that he
would ask the board of eettmates to
offer a SIO,OOO reward for Information
leading to the identity of the per
sons responsible for this afternoon's
explosion If tha authorities decided
that u bomb had caused it.
The police officials on the scene
have not given up the theory that a
time-bomb had been placed In front
of the Morgan hank.
. -ss
U. S, Agents
Scent Plot
WASHINGTON. Sept. 10.—Depart
ment of Justice officials aald all their
reports so far Indicate the New York
explosion was the result of a plot.
, They said they were unable to be
lieve It was due to a wagon load of
explosives colliding with an automo
bile.
The militStry intelligence is cooper
ating In the Investigation, it was said,
Indicating that there may be an in
ternationaf angle to it.
May Ask Tax Suit
Hearing Next Week
Because of a sudden attack of illness,
Judge Linu Hay of Superior Court,
Room 3, this u>>rning adjourned court
for the remainder of the day.
Attorney’s Intimated that Judge Hay
will be asked to hear the tax Injunction
suit in which the farmers of Washing
ton township seek to enjoin the county
treasurer and members of the Indiana
State Tax Board, from collecting the
horizoiffal increases under the Tuthill-
Klper act, next week.
It Is understood similar suits will be
filed before Judge Hay for every town
ship in the county with the exception of
Center township.
Speaking Dates for
Taggart Announced
Speaking dates for Thomas Taggart,
Democratic nominee for United States
Senator, and Benjamin Bosse, Democratic
State chairman, were announced today
by the State Speakers’ Bureau rs follows:
Sept. 20—Huntington and! Jasper.
Sept. 21—Indianapolis.
Sept. 28—Anderson, Muncie, Hartford
City and Bluffton.
Sept. 29 —Portland, Geneva, Berne and
Decatur.
Sept. 36—Huntington and various parts
of Huntington County.
HAYB AT LA PORTE FRIDAY.
CHICAGO, Sept. 16—Will Hays, chair
max of the Republican national com
mkßee. will speak at Laporte, Ind., Frl
djfy, it was announced at national Re
publican headquarters here today.
no. no.
If the explosion was caused by an
anarchist's bomb, which was intended to
destroy the life of J. Plerpont Morgan,
it was a futile enterprise because Mor
gan is In Europe.
AT LEAST SEVEN KILLED
IN BANKING HOUSE.
It was estimated that the damage to
Morgan's bank would be between $300,-
000 and $600,000.
It is also stated that office employes
practically all sustained Injuries of some
sort and that more than a dozen were
badly hurt, while as many as seven were
killed.
The bomb proof netting behind the
windows of the Morgan office on the
Wall street side was twisted and bent,
but It la believed 'to have saved live*.
AH available doctors, nurses and am
bulances, including army surgeons, am
bulances and Red Cross nurses, were
rushed to the scene.
A number of the injured died in the
Broad street hospital.
Pandemonium reigued throughout ail
lower New York. An immense crowd of
lens of thousands of persons jammed the
narrow streets in the financial zone.
Scores of policer reserves had to fight
the crowd hack' to open the way for am
bulances and fire trucks.
Tho Hanover exchange of the New York
telephone system, which serves the finan
cial district, was put out of commission
by the blast, adding to the confusion.
MOUNTAIN OF DEBRIS
THROWN UP IN STREET.
A mountainous pile of debrie was
thrown up lu front of the wrecked Mor
gan building.
Three disemboweled ca'-r asses of
horses and the wrecks of half a dozen
automobiles cluttered the corner of
and Wall streets.
Police Commissioner Enright rushed to
the scene.and took persoual charge of the
army of policemen.
After a superficial investigation the po
lice commissioner said he believed a
wagonload of dynamite caused the blast.
Mayor Hylan dashed to the .scene in
his automobile to give such aid as he
could.
Within twenty minutes after the ex
plosion, fifteen bodies had been recovered.
Some were badly mangled.
They were quickly removed for identi
fication.
Later the death list increased.
Muny young women stenographers, who
were on their way to lunch, were caught
in the hurricane of debris thrown up by
the explosion.
Many were hurt, others were hurled
from their feet; others fainted from
fright.
The dead were carried across the
street and laid out upon steps of the
United States snb-treasury.
ESTIMATED 200 TO
300 INJURED.
In front of the Sub-treasury building
was a pool of blood and part of a straw
hat, all that was left of some luckless
pedestrian who had been blown te hits.
So far as could be learned the only
member of the Morgan firm who was’
on the scene was Thomas W. Lamont.
He was In his private office dictating
letters and talking with a business caller
when the detonation occurred.
Junius Spencer Morgan, son of J. I\
Morgan, was cut in the hands by fiying
glass.
The police estimated from 200 to 300
persons had been more or less.injured.
Most of them were pedestrians. Many
of them suffered injuries so slight that
they were able to go home or to offices
where they are employed for treatment.
Word reached here at 1:30 p. m. that
William .J Flynn, chief of the United
States Secret Service, was speeding to
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OPEN LETTER
TO WILILAM F. EVANS,
Republican Candidate for Prose
cutor.
Dear Bill—You are still a deputy
prosecutor, even though a candidate
for office. If you wish to do some
thing that would indicate yon have
any of the qualifications for prose
cutor, you might take hold of the
cage of- tho disappearance of the
whisky seized In the Pete Williams
case and finish 16.
The public will not overlook the
fact that you prosecuted this case
unsuccessfully In Criminal Court.
Unless you do something to indi
cate an interest in law enforcement
before this election the natural con
clusion will be that as & prosecutor
you will function no better than
as a deputy.
And do not make the mistake of
believing that the people of this
community do not want the liquor
laws enforced.