The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-09-21

and got $1,000 from bank. and 1 put
up my personal collateral as security
for the money. No one furnished any
of this money but myself and l got
the money on my personal security. ,
That night / returned To Gary with
the money and put it in vault in the
city and kept 1t In that vault from
Wednesday night until the following
Friday morning. Friday morning / got
the money out of the vault and met the
mayor at Seventh and Broadway, and
we went to his office. There he signed
the ordinance
This money was in eight packages
and 1 told the mayor that l thought
one OF the packag es was short hun
d-ed dollars. He watched me as L
counted the money and said. No. 1T IS
all here. II is all right
II was searched by reputable wit
nesse before 1 went into the office and
the money was known to be in my
possession and / was searched by re-
putable witnesses when I came out Of
the office, and the money which was
marked and can be properly identified
was found in the mayors desk"
| But the mayor says you planted the
money there yourself and without his
| KNOWLEDGE remarked
| "Oh yes" laughed Dean. Il tickled
him under the chin with a feather and
slipped the money in there while he
wasn't looking did not. That kind
of story won't do 1t will be shown
in the trial that could not have plant
ed the money
Did you have a photograph at work
on the mayor during the time you were
hearing the conversations with him?
| Dfct-~rnph Knots.
| Il certainly have photograph record
on Mayor Knots"
You charge C. A. Williston. the city
engineer, with accepting bribe money
aIso?"
He was the most voracious one Of
the whole bunch. He wanted money
all the time. He is member of the
board of public works. and his vote
would be necessary. OF course. 1 gave
him money three times. and there is a
| photograph record of the transactions.
Not only that. but Mr.. Williston at ihis
time is holding an option on a lot IN his
own name as security for $4,000 that I
agreed to pay him for voting for my
franchise. You see l had to have this
particular lot and williston took an
option on it in his own name to hold
until / paid him the $4,000. In other
| words as 1 say. he held an option on
this lot as security for $4,000 that
was to pay him in bride money. The
photograph record against Mr.. Willis
ton is very strong
Where does Councilman Bowser
come in2" I asked.
MY friend Bowser" said Mr.. Dean,
! was to go between. as will be shown
III i
! q GO between not only in my interests.
and his work was not confined. as will
be shown by his photograph record, to
getting a franchise for me. The dicto-
graph record will tell of other matters
OF criminal nature that will be verv
Embarrassing when Mr.. Bowser hears
them read In court. My friend Bowser
was to get $3.50 as his share"
..Nfiinz and Anxious
We'll. did he get it?'
Not all of it, but l paid him a good
portion of it on account and we have
got the documents to show that he was
willing and anxious to take IT."
How about the rest of the council?'
"Oh, that was simply case of get
ting to them. finding out how much
they wanted and then trying to jew
them down to the lowest possible
notch. We finally agreed that Gibson
! was to have $500, Siemiasko $500 auo
Zymansxi $500, Baukus $1,000. The
original proposition was that to Bodice
Sigma nski, and he was to be a sort OF
go-between and use his influence Will
his father. the councilman but tht
! bunch got suspicious of Bodice and tha
lestimable young man started in e
mace me on his own account. H;
wanted $500. but I finally agreed ts
give him $3.50. though told him at the
time that l ought not to give him any
thing"
There has been a good deal of tai.
: of the manner in which you trapped
. the members of the council at Chicago
how was that done?"
Easy, spells easy" laughed Mr.
Dean. Councilman Gibson and mysel
left Gary at o'clock in the mornin,
land came to Chicago and went to TIL
. Office of a trust company, where 1 in
Itroduced Gibson. Then we put his $50
lin an envelope and placed it in safet.
deposit box with the envelope properl
signed. and then I let him go Bauku
and Siemasko left Gary on the o'clocl
train after I had disposed of Gibson
met them and went through the sam
kind of transaction with them that
had with Gibson. Bodice Szymanslx
got here about noon and ] took hir
down to the trust company and put hi
$3.50 away just like l had put away tn
money of his father and the Sothe
lcouncilmen. Bodice got greedy and sal
THAT he and pa should have thousan
dollars between them; but 1 wouldn'
lstand for the raise, and after we ha
Ifussed over the matter a little 1 fnall
agreed that he should have $3.50. an
put the money for him in the vault"
Dinner for Bollce
TT is reported around Gary that yo
gave Bolice a swell dinner at tn
Annex"
We'll, that's true, did. I pulled o
a dinner for Bodice. Bodice told m
what he going to do with hi
money, and l though that he was show