The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-08-28
RICHARD S|EBERT
WILL FIGHT CASE
in Places of Business Are
Shocking and Inspectors Declare
That They Will Come Back Here
to Get After Other Who Violate the.
Law.

Frank Tucker, of the state departs
ment of pure food inspection, was.
pleased to have bagged some big game
last night when Frank Eschenbach and
william Norman pleaded guilty to the
charges of running unsanitary places
for the production of food and were
fined $21.60 each.
Mr.. Tucker said this noon. Il want
to warn the milkmen. bakers, grocers,
meat men and confectioners that I am
going to come back to Hammond in the
near fture and if l find that they they
have not improved their places of busi-
ness along the lines which re-
quired by statute they may expect to
find themselves in court"
siebert VIII Fight Case.
Richard Siebert, who was arrested on
on similar charge, did not plead guilty
last night. He asked for continu-
ance and has decided to fight the case.
Mr.. Siebert defies the inspectors to find
him guilty and threatens to sue THE
TIMES for damages for publishing the
story of the warrants.
Mr. Tucker said that if the people
of Hammond could look into some of
not doubt for one minute that the law
should step in and compel these men
to clean up.
In Richard Sieberts bakery, both
Mr.. Tucker and City Health officer w.
D. Weis said that they found unsani-
tary conditions.
Conditions Were Unsanitary.
In Eschenbach's bakery there was a
nf sta floor
of the bakery where slop and surface
water accumulated. He said that the
shop was full of flies. There must
have been millions of them" said Mr..
Tucker" and to think that these flies
had access to manure piles and privy
vaults and are then allowed to swarm
into a bakery with the filth and dis
ease that has accumulated on their
feet.
In the case of William Norman, the
dairyman, who lives at iii Sheffield
avenue, the north side milkman. decided
to come up and plead guilty. All of the
cases were filed in Judge Prests court
for the reason that Judge Mcmahon is
in politics. according to Mr.. Tucker.
In Justification of this move Mr.. Tuck
er pointed to the time when forty nine
cases involving the violation of the
pure food law were thrown out OF
court.
Urges Local Ispector.
Mr. Tucker said this noon: Il can
not urge too strongly upon the peo-
pie of Hammond the Importance of hav-
ing local pure food inspector who
shall be free of politics and will act
as Justly and as decsively as the po-
lice who uphold other laws in Ham,
mond."
Il am ready to show the citizens of
Hammond where such an inspector who
was properly trained for the work and
who would be fearless in his fight
against filth could save the people Of
Hammond enough in drug and doctor
bills to pay his salary several times
over.
THE secretary of the city board Of
health cannot afford to do all the work
that would be required of such an Of
ficer on a salary of 800 year and the
only way to handle the matter is for
the city council to create the office OF
city pure food inspector"
| Mr.. Tucker then told of the import
ance of protecting the city against dis
eased meats from outside sources. He
said that he had known Of farmers who
would sell chickens. which had died
with cholera, in the city market.
Tells Revolving Conditions.
He told of farmers who would sell
cows which were suffering from tuber-
culosis and lumpy jaw to meat men
who would Kill them and sell them for
beef He not only told of these and
other cases too revolving for public
print, but he gave names and dates to
Isubstantiate what he had to say.
Mr. Tucker viii come back to Ham,
lrnond in the near future and if he does
mot find things in better condition,
there will be the dozens of food pro-
lducers in the courts.