The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-04
NOW IN BUSINESS
At MICHIGAN CITY
Fred Winter Says He Can Prove
That the Tile in Question Was Not
Stolen, But They Were Taken
With Permission of the Owner
Will Sue for Damages.

The other side of the Winter story,
which appeared in "a Michigan City pa
per, makes 1t apparent that there are
indeed Two sides to a story. According
to Winter story, he has been the vic
tim of a conspiracy and the many
friends who know the Gary contractor
and like Inf mand his partner, Caspar
Schmidt, are hoping that he can prove
that the load of tile inquestiOn was not
stolen but was taken, as he says, with
the permission of the owner.
The Michigan City paper gives the
following version of the Winter story:
What appears to be a malicious plot
| to injure the reputation of Fred Win
| ter and Caspar Schmidt, the promoters
and two of the heavy stockholders in
the Excelsior Granite Brick company
now erecting a plant east of the city,
has materialized in an action brought
against Mr.. Winter in Lake county by
Victor Falkenau of the Falkenau Con
struction company of Chicago, a con-
Germ which erected many of the resi-
dences in Gary for the United States
Steel company.
The action against Mr.. Winter is in
the nature of a charge of larceny, il
being alleged in the affidavit filed BY
the Falkenau company that Messrs
Winter and Schmidt appropriated roof
ing tile of the value of $500 to theil
own use in Gary On Wednesday Mr.
Winter was taken into custody in Chi
cago and compelled to spend the nigh
! in Jail, being refused bail until the fol
lowing day
No Effort to Arrest Schmidt.
| In the case of Mr.. Schmidt no efTor
has been made to take him into Gus
tody Notwithstanding the fact that h,
has visited Chicago this week and con
fronted his and his business partner
accusers. In fact, Mr.. Schmidt wen
purposely to invite arrest but no at
tempt was made to take him into Gus
tody. This afternoon Mr.. Schmidt sal,
that no attempt had been made to ar
rest him here either.
Mr.. Schmidt feels confident that tn
arrest of Mr.. Winter and his threatenet
arrest is due entirely to animosit,
borne them by the Falkenau compan,
owing to the fact that they had sew
cred their connection with the concerl
after having served that concern TO
fifteen years. He said that threats ha
been made against them by their for
mer employers, and he feels confiden
that the charge preferred against then
is only the elimination of thos
threats
I'm speaking of the tile alleged t
have been stolen, Mr. Schmidt said tina
the roofing material had been shippe
to Gary for use on one of the build
ings erected by the Falkenau Con
, struction company, and that upon in
spection the entire consignment wa
rejected by the inspector of the stet
company. For several months the til
lay out in the open and become NOR
or less covered with sand Blown abou
by the wind; that Richard Knisely, VIII
, was connected with the tile compan.
consented to the use of q few of tn
best in roofing a small ice house cor
q structed by Messrs. Winter and SchmiC
after they severed their connectio
with the Falkenau company. NJ
: Schmidt maintains that not over 81
q worth of tile was so employed and thu
G the balance of the shipment can u
o be found on the ground at Gary"