The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-15
LOVELY BUNCH
Of DRINKS
Twelve "Paralytics" AT
raigned Before Judge
Mcmahon.
ALL GIBSON PRODUCTS
Culprits Representing One Days
Haul at the Yards, Fills a
Large Sized Wagon.

wagon load of drunks was hauled
into Hammond yesterday from the Glib
son Yards and after spending a night
on the soft spots in the cement floor,
of the JAIL the aggregation was lined
up before Judge Mcmahon this morning
In the city court.
1t was a heterogeneous crowd with
serio- comic features In it's makeup.
Judge McMahon had difficulty in up
holding the dignity of the court in the
small space that was left him after the
men with the enlarged craniums were
made room for. They sat in two long
and dismal rows to his left The rest
OF the court room was occupied by the
officers who had made the arrests, and
by the prosecuting attorney, D. e.
Boone
A few interested parties, attracted by
the quantity, rather than the quality
of the prisoners, halted and looked in
as the men were arraigned, and the
question guilty or not guilty?" pro-
pounded.
All Admit the Charge.
There was not a man of them who
had the effrontery to deny the charge.
and the answers to the questions were
! as varied In their character as the
prisoners themselves. Some had note
Of defiance, some sounded bored and
/ some were sullen. One or two con-
tanned a suggestion of appeal.
When the fines We're assessed, the
men cheered up visibly and began to
/ take a clumsy inventory of their as
SETS Some were broke and others were
more fortunate. having a meagre bal
ance left from their weeks wages.
| After the dead broke" contingent had
made the necessary touch, it was dis
covesed that there was enough money
in the crowd to pay the fines for six,
while the remaining six were sent to
| Jail. The fines amounted to 81 and
costs.
Joseph Bender of Chicago was pos
sessed with 50 and was 10th to part
with any Of it, preferring to go to
jail. He told the court that he had
worked hard for the money and meant
to spend it on his four motherless
children on whom he had had time to
reflect since the arrest.
Judge Mcmahon and Prosecuting At
torney Boone relented and the case
was dismissed. Mr.. Boone preferring to
lose his fees rather than to deprive
the children of what should have been
theirs had their father thought about
them before he had put himself in the
condition which occasiOned his arrest.
A young man who was in town this
morning having been summoned from
Gibson as a witness in an assault anG
battery case yesterday told of the life
there on payday.
Scenes Beggar Description.
I could not begin to describe the
terrible scenes in some of the smoky
dingy little saloons in Gibson. I some
times think that they are an annex tt
hell itself Drunken and brawling mer
stand in tiers before the bar waiting
their turns to drink. The bartender
attention is often called by throwing
heavy glass at him. Some body
thinks the glass was aimed at him
and a chair goes in the air and land:
on some unfortunate. A fight is OF
and everybody fights. the result being
the survival of the fittest
Those who were brought in yester
day were George Calmond, Mike Film
A. Releske William Herbst, Mike Lenk
, hart. JOS Bender. Fred Russell, c. W
, Mexican Humpfre Donnehue. Pat Kel
ley Mike Galligan. James Hawes, Johl
+ Hauson, Thos. Molloy and Franl
, Schausa