The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-11-11
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East Chicago, Nov. 11-What appears
to be a second Joe Doppe1 case has Co.
veloped in East Chicago in the fire that
occurred early yesterday morning at
tia saloon of Joe Eylek. 1901 North
cote avenue.
Charles Rubens a boarder in the
home of Joe Hylek. is being held at
the police station, charged with arson,
and yesterday the proprietor of the
place and his wife, We're taken to the
station and questioned but the evidence
of their completely was not sufficiently
strong to warrant their being held.
Yesterday mornings fire is the sec
ond that has occurred in the Hylek
place within the past ten days. Ten
days ago a woman passing early in the
morning noticed smoke issuing through
the transom over the door and she
aroused the occupants who appeared
surprised and excited. and together
they put out the blaze. The latter had
started in some trash underneath the
barrel rack opposite the bar.
A day or two later whisky agent
to whom Hylek was indebted visited
the place to collect. Hy1ek told him
that his place had been entered by
burglars who after robbing him OF
$3.50 in cash and two gold watches had
set fire to the building. 1t came out
that the matter had no been reported
to the police, so the agent suspecting
something was wrong took it upon
himself to make the report.
Officer John Maldrowski was detailed
to watch the place for later develop
ments an yesterday morning was re-
warded for his vigilance by seeing the
anticipated smoke He went to the
nearest telephone and called up the
fire department, keeping his eye mean
while on the structure to see what he
could see. He saw Charles Rubens
emerge from the building fully dressed
and later Hylek's wife came out.
The fire department got the blaze
under control in a few moments after
it's arrival and very little damage was
done, most of the furniture having
been removed. Rubens was placed I'M
der arrest and Maldrowski got busy
taking observations. He found a trail
of footsteps in the sand which led to a
side entrance into a boarded-in base
ment and crawling inside he discover
! ed a large assortment of clohing, a
number of lodge books, a bank book
and other property which proved to be-
| lOhS W INuOC1AS-
| This seemed to be pretty strong evil
dence that Rubens knew more about
the fire than he had admitted, and war
ranted and the police in OBTAINING him
in an effort to get confession out of
him. Hylek when arrested denied
knowledge of the fire, declaring that he
had been in Joliet over night, and as
there was no evidence against him he
was let go.
The fire this time as before had its
| origin in some trash collected under
the faucet of a barrel of whisky which
stood on the rack opposite the bar and
the object seemed to burn off the wood
en- faucet of the barrel, thus allowing
the inffammable liquor to escape
carrying the fire with it and spreading
it over the floor and allowing it to burr
through into the partitions.
Rubens is a Belgian and speaks and
writes six languages He has ben GU
of work for some time.
The fire recalls the Joe Dope case il
Indiana Harbor in which boarde
Geo. Rowse. who was in arrears ant
out of work who is no oding time II
the penitentary at Michigsrs Cty A.
his crime, confessed that Dope agrees