The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-19

corroborative testimony to support the
contention OF the state that Gibson sold
his vote on the junk dealers ordinance
for twenty dollars.
W. f. Feuer was placed on the stand
and testified that he had put the pin
holes in the money and that after Glib
son was arrested and the money had
been found in his pocket that he had
identified the bills as being the same
ones that he had perforated. Harry
Hall testified in a similar manner.
1t as this iuncture that Knots
and Martin would kave been called to
the stand but they had left the ely
and could not be subpoenaed.
Then the state INTRODUCED a subpoena
which indicated the return blank
that Alderman Baukus could not be To-
Gated and had left the state. This made
thre witnesses which apparently had
| fed because their testimony would have
| incrinlinated the defendant. The three
| are Knots who had Gibson arrested.
Martin. who arrested him, and Baukus
/ who Is said to have made a confession
duplicating Gibson.
The statement was made by the at
torneys for the state that the criminal
case against Gibson is now pending in
the Lake Superior Court. The success
of the state In securing the Introduction
of the junk dealers ordinance graft case
in evidence caused a tremendous sensa-
tfon in Crown Point.
| But this was but one of two import
ant victories for the state. 1t will be
remembered that yesterday the defense
Iput Stenographer Himmelblau on the
stand and made it appear that he was i
VERY Incompetent stenographer for the
purpose of leading the jury to believe
that the evidence in the photograph rec
ord might be incorrect.
To counteract the effect OF this the
state plaed court reporter Morris Nc
Kenzie on the sand Mckenzie testi-
fed that when Boone read from the law
book for the purpose OF testing Him
Imelblau's ability to take dictation that
he too had attempted to take down
what Boone was reading and that he
was unable to do He admitted that
he had missed part of 1t.
Mckenzie was then interrogated as
an expert witness on the question as to
whether or not it was harder for Him
melblau to take down a conversation or
what Boone was reading.
Mckenzie stated frankly that II
would be easier to take down CONVEX
words are used and the stenoerapher
lis more familiar with the words tNlt
are used In ordinary conversation. Nc
, Kenzie stated that he had been a court
reporter for nine years.
After this the defense seemed de-
, mora1ized. The state closed its case
, with the understanding that if Mayor
KNOTS or Chief Martin could be sub
! poenaed in the meantime that they
, would have the right to put them or
, the stand.
II Following the completion of the in
PRODUCTION of evidence for the state
, attorney d. f. Boone for the defense
/ made his opening statement. He sait
. that the defense intended to show thai
Dean has falsified as to the day and
hour that certain events took place
Boone also indicated that the defense
would have the evidence to support
. their contention that when Dean .aol
Gibson to the office of the Michigan
Avenue Trust Company that he tool
0 him there to show him some papers and
' that Gibson did not know that an.
q bribe money had been placed there.
\ It is significant that in his opening
r address Boone did not make any ref
D erence to the United States Steel com
pany, which seems to Indicate that thu
i defense had abandoned the effort t
r connect that company with the prose
n cutfon OF this case.
b The defense then resumed its tactic
e of attempting to discredit Dean rattle
7 than prove Gibson innocent A. II
; Cooper of Louisville testified that h
Z had come from Louisville at the solicit
n tation OF a detective to testify agains
n Dean and that he had been promises
: pay for his trouble.
3 ]. ". Clements. an attorney in Louis
q Vile testified that Deans reputation
i for truth, veracity and morality wer
n not good When asked IL he knew Deal
he said that he did not know him per
i sonally, but that he had heard a grea
# deal about him.
!. There was another evening sessio
last night and it lasted until $50. A
Z this time the defense stated that !
wanted time to talk over some matter
with its client. and the trial of tn
case ended for the day
The trial of the case was resume
again this morning. In effort to off
set the setback of yesterday, in whic
/ the fact that Gibson is now under bon
/ In another grating deal was brough
L out, the defense put Homer Stanton o
the stand and attempted to prove tina
| the arrest of Gibson on the charge c
| receiving a $40 bride was frameup
| Stanton testified that Lee Nowicl
! had told him that he had borrowe
/ the money from Gibson and that h
\ was simply paying it back An aft
I davit signed by Nowicki seemed to bea
! out this contention.
III However. the affair took on a diffe,
ent appearance when the state was abb
to prove that by the name
l Schmidt has beaten NoWicki into in
| sensibility before he had been compel
| ed to sign the affidavit
Gibson. himself, took the stand {
1870 p m.
in the Lake superior court was eve
put through more savage crosse,
! animation than was Dean yesterda
1 afternoon. His motives were impugi
ed and his honestv attacked Dec