The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-11-30
Wagon Loads of Wet Goods
Are Hauled From the For
eign Quarter Where the
Boarding Houses Sold
Liquor to Boarders.
WILD SCENES PULLED
OFF IN SHACkLAND
Owners in Their Dismay Hurled Cases
of Beer Into the Calumet River
Whiskey Jugs Are Hidden In
Closets and Under Beds, But to No
Avail.

Chief of Police Joseph Martin and
four other txaicers of the Gary police
force swooped down upon the keepers
of eight blind pigs, about o'clock
Saturday afternoon. and after arrest
ing the boarding house keepers, loaded
two wagons with bottled beer and
whiskey and brought them to the sta
ton The police last Saturday after
noon confined their efforts to the for
eign district just off Virginia street ON
the Calumet river, near the steel mills.
The raid was a complete surprise to
the foreigners and was wholly unex-
pected.
4 am going to put every one Of
these keepers of blind pigs out of bust
ness" said Chief Martin after the raid
to a TIMES reporter. I'VE certainly did
good work today and a few more raids
will wipe these Illicit keepers out OF
business. In several of the shacks we
found one or two cases of beer.
hardly think these men ought to be
prosecuted but If we allow them to
have two cases of beer they would only
order that amount each time. 1 think
from now on we will have very little
trouble, but we will keep up these
raids until the blind pigs are ousted
from Gary"
The following are the foreigners ar
rested:
In the Tolls.
SHACK .. PETE NITCHICH-Foui
cases of beer; one jug whiskey.
SHACK 6, TONY UROvICH-Thret
jugs of whiskey.
SHACK 5. ELI LICHOvICH-Fiv
cases of beer and four jugs of whiskey
SHACK 3, FRANK KUSKECH-Eight
cases of beer and five jugs of whiskey
SHACK 1O3. ELI NEGAROvICH-
Three cases Of beer, one keg of whiskey
and one jug of whiskey.
SHACK 1O6, NICK POZNOvICH-Fiv
cases of beer and three jugs of whiskey
Chief Martin on last Friday Learned
that the boarding bosses down in thu
North Virginia street district wer'
selling beer without license. Brew
cry wagons were watched as they. un
loaded the beer al the shacks. Sat
urday afternoon Chief Martin secured
two big wagons and with the fou
other officers he made a raid on tn
foreign settlement
Search warrants were read and
thorough search was made of tn
houses and premises. Officers arme
with lanterns, searched under beds
pried open cellar doors to the under
ground passages. In some cases the.
were successful in locating the liquors
Not satisfied with this the officer
searched under wood piles. in house
and sheds, in in nearly every case the
obtained results.
Throw Liquor Into River.
There was a wild scramble farthe
down the line of shacks to hide tn
cases of beer. Some of the foreigner
were successful in breaking the bottle
and jugs and in one case a foreigne
threw three cases of beer in the rive
On the roof of one of the shacks tn
officers found fifty empty jugs all line
up in a row. A search of the premise
failed to reveal any unlicensed good
on the place.
Great crowds of foreigners stood i
the street and watched the raid of til
police. They crowded around til
wagons and at times the officers ha
trouble in keeping them at a distanc
They were always on the alert for a
attack, but none occurred.
The blind pig cases of the foreigner
who were arrested last week, wel
scheduled to come up for trial tn
morning. Prosecutor D. E. Boone wi
have charge of the cases