The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-11-09
STORMY
ELECTION
At GARY

1917 election, and as night came on
affairs became still stormier. Frequent
clashes between the city police. under
Chief Martin, and the deputy sheriffs.
headed by Sheriff Grant. were the
principal events of the day.
The day passed with no one being
seriously injured, but a number of
broken heads were reported and slug
ging by the police in many instances
resulted in the arrival of deputy sher-
ifs.
Negroes Go Armed.
Although his force was
ten to one, Sheriff Grant did admirably
well with the men at his command.
Earlier in the day there was a dis
position of insolence, but the sheriff
soon asserted his authority. His chief
trouble lay with a number of negroes
from the south end saloons whom May
or Knots had sworn in as special po-
lice. Given a gun and a club they then
took on a supply of bad whisky, and
this started trouble.
The sheriff's flying squadron was
followed to all parts of the city by an
equal detachment of police, and when
ever the deputies appeared on the
scene the police were there to counter
act their powers.
Several deputy sheriffs were placed
under arrest by the police, but Sheriff
Grant arrested none of the police dur
ing the day. At many times trouble
seemed imminent, but the sheriff kept
a cool head.
Several Are SIugged
Among those beaten up by the police
deputies were Deputy Prosecuting At
torney Clyde Hunter. Attorney Paul
~Tomanoczy and Deputy Sheriff John
Upshaw. One negro deputy had a clash
with Chief Martin and after he had
planted a few punches on the chiefs
jaw other members of the police force
took him into tow and he was a can
didate for the emergency hospital.
One of the terrorizers of the day was
Detective Mike ~Yoconovitch, who early
in the day took on a full cargo of bad
whisky, and then with his gun and
club and burly fists he got busy. At
1 o'clock Dog Face Charlie" as he is
known, was the cynosure of all eyes
when. sitting between two police offc-
ers in a speeding automobile, he sat
waving a whisky bottle in one hand
and his police club in the other.
DOG Face Is Captured.
Dog Face" continued to terrorize the
south end of the city until after mid
night. when with 100 armed men back
ing him he started to shoot up the vi
vinity of Sixteenth avenue and Massa-
chuetts street. A hurried call was sent
into the s~hrievalty headquarters and
Sheriff Grant and fifteen of his huskiest
deputies hurried to the scene in auto
mobiles. Upon their approach they
were fired upon and some of the depu-
ties ducked low.
However, five of them, headed by
Sheriff Grant, Deputy Allen and ]. V.
Thompson of East chicago went into
the crowd with drawn revolvers to get
Dog Face who was the r~ingleader
of the uprising. Dog Face" with a
wild yell. drew a pistol and pressed it
to Sheriff Grants head, but a timely
welding of a blackjack over the head
of Mr.. Knots policeman saved the
sheriff from being the principal figure
head at a funeral. Dog Face was then
placed in an automobile and was rush
ed to the Ohio building, where he was
put under special guard and this morn
ing he was AXE to the county jail at
Crown Point.
During the evening unruiy crowds
congregated in several places in front
of the south end polling places, where
1t was feared an attempt would be
made to steal the ballot boxes. How
ever. Sheriff Grant finally succeeded
in getting the ballot boxes to the polls.