The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-09-14
rs ARRESTED WITH FIVE OF HIS
COUNCILMEN, SON OF ONE
AND CITY ENGINEER. 49,.
CHARGE OF BRIBERY THIS TIME
Alleged to Have Taken $4,000 In
Connection With Heating Fran
chise, Recipient of Which Ac-
cuses the Executive.

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accepting a bride of $4,000 to safe.
guard a heating franchise, Mayor
Thomas e. Knots of Gary, Ind,
spectacular figure in a district of fast
and furious politics, was arrested with
five OF his nine councilmen and G. A.
Williston, city engineer, by deputy
sheriffs from Crown Point.
The wholesale arrest of Gary's mu-
nicipal officials threw the steel city
into the widest excitement and burst
anew the fractional strife which has
characterized Knots political career.
The taking into custody of the Off
Gals was sensational. T. q. Dean,
recipient of the heating franchise UNI
der suspicion, went to the city hall
accompanied by two deputy sheritfs.
Before entering the mayors office
Dean requested the sheriffs to search
his clothes and discover whether he
had any papers besides an envelope
containing $4,000 in currency. The en-
velope was found to be in Deans
pocket and then he went into the city
executives private office.
Dean Tells of Incidents.
Dean declared that when he entered
the office Mayor Knots arose and
taking him to table near his desk,
asked: "1s everything ready?"
Dean said he replied affirmatively
and that Knots turned to his desk
and signed the ordinance which gave
a heating service right to the Dean
Heating and Power company of Louis
Vile, Ky. The money, Dean asserted,
was then handed to Knots, who
placed the envelope in pigeon hole
deputy sheriffs, who served the war;
rant charging the official with bribery.
The money-tilled envelope was point
ed out by Dean and this is now in the
custody of Sheriff Thomas Grant of
Lake county.
A photograph arrangement in the
mayors office and in Deans room at
the Gary hotel is said by attorneys
representing Dean to have recorded
conversations with all the men in
volved, as they figured with Dean in
arranging the passage of the fran
chise. Alderman Gibson was to re-
ceive $500; Alderman Baukus, $1,000;
Alderman Simiaska, $500; Alderman
Szymanski, $500; City Engineer Will
liston, $4,000; Alderman Bowser, ST.
$50 and Bolaf Szymanski, $3.50 for act
ing as messenger
I1oop a1co +bn ,l;o+or,o,,I,
record shows that former Commission
err of Public Works John Nyhoff de-
$4,000 as his share of the
OF this amount, $4,000
was to be in cash and $4,000 in stock
Of the heating company.
That his arrest is conspiracy was
the declaration made by Mayor
His regime has been a stormy one
and the city administration has been
in constant turmoil Last December
Mayor Knots, With Chief of Police
Martin, was indicted with seven other
city officials on a charge of conspiracy
to commit murder upon the person of
Sheriff Thomas Grant of Lake county,
during the county election in Novem-
Der.
Knots and his associates, however,
were acquitted, after the case was
taken to an adjoining county for trial.
Last May Knots was arrested on a
charge of ENLIGHTENMENT, perjury and
in office. 1t was alleged
he appropriated to his personal use
$4,000 said to have been collected by
him while sitting as a judge of the
city court. He is now awaiting trial
IN the charge.
Mayor. Knots gave cash bail of
100000. The others who were arrest
ed later were taken to Jail at Crown
Point, Ind. Mayor Knots secuted the
bride charges and said he would be
able to prove his innocence.
Not So Many Idle Cars.
Chicago, Sept. 9.-There is con-