The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-03-14

money be paid for the protection OF
gambling you never got any of 1t ?"
Absolutely not. And I know that
Julius never did such thing. He may
have INDUCED in some kidding talk
that has been twisted by my enemies.
He is no go-between and he has never
collected any money and have never
received any from the gamblers"
No Price Schedule, He Says.
"As to the report that there was \
schedule of prices for protecting
gambling games?'
That is just as absurd as the other
Stories" said the mayor.
And there was no charge made for
allowing resorts to live in East Chi
cago?"
There are no resorts here, and there
has been none for years"
And your chief of police never
cepted any money from the gamblers"
! Not one penny. When / became
mayor / drove all the professional
gamblers away. ! would not have them
around here. Sam Cohen, who keeps
a saloon down there on the corner.
came to me for permission to open a
gambling house. told him that would
not permit anything of the kind.
said to him that il he and few friends
wished TO nave a game OF CdTuS IN MS
back room it was all right with me- but
I would not stand for professional
gambling.
Says Cohen Ii AgftatOr.
Cohen asked me If 1 did not think
he was entitled to something because
of what he had done for me in the cleo
ton. and / replied that he was, but that
I would not repay him by making
bertha for q gambler. Then he went to
Chief Lewis and offered him $50 a
month for the privilege of running
game, and the chief threw him out.
Now Sam is one of the agitators and he
is responsible for many of the graft
stories you hear"
What about Harding. the former
street commissioner"
We'll, it may be possible that they
; can have a technical case on Harding.
but 1 do not think so. When Harding
Twas appointed street commissioned he
sold his coal yard and the record Of
the sale was placed on file at Crown
Point
J ITO who aid he sell it?''
VIII Trace the Charges.
t ITO his brother-in-law. but it was a
( bona fide sale. 1 guess he did buy coal
: for the city from his brother-if law.
But he never used the city teams Tor
private purposes did anything
illegal He never padded the pay rolls.
. either. But there was so much fuss
made about him that he resigned and
got a job in South Dakota. bat he Is
coming back and will face his slccusers.
The same thing is true of City CLERK
: Spencer-he has never committed q
wrongful illegal act. and fae will
. show that to be true when he goes to
trial The sum and substance lpf it all
, Is" continued the mayor, showing for
the first time considerable feeling.
that my enemies. especially at Indiana
7 Harbor are responsible for all this
| trouble and they have not the least
: thing on which honestly to base their
/, charges.
v Well didn't you know there was =
gambling game at the Metropole saloon
in Indiana Harbor?"
"A councilman told me there was.
sent the chief over there and told him
!, to stop the game II it was going on.
:, He found there was gampilng ana III l
stop 1t. And as far as l know 1T Is
:. stopped now"
: Mayor Schlleker, in his interview
= here given. talked for all the mem
bers of his administration and for his
: friend. Julius Friedman. He says he
: will fight the cases and expects, hs
: says. to show up In court the true
animus of what he declares to be per-
!, secution instead of prosecution.