The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-11-17
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
HOOSIER NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

nounced that II. NJ Daily OF Val
paradise had been retained as special
prosecutor In the bribery cases
brought by Thomas Il. Dean against
Gary officials which will go on trial
Monday before Judge Van Fleet at
Valparaiso.
Mr.. Daily will work with Samuel
Parker Of South Bend. selected by
Governor Marshall. and S. w. ).
Hodges Of Gary. named by Judge Me-
Mahan of the Lake circuit court FL
mer Sellers of Monticello. United
States district attorney under Presi-
dent Cleveland. has entered the case
in an advisory capacity
Mayor Knots. Engineer Willistcn.
John J. Nyhoff and Councilman Bow
ser expect 10 have about fifteen attor-
neys and Williston will be tried first.
followed by Nyhoff, Bowser and
Knots. The other councilmen and
Bolice Szymanski will be tried
later on.
Announcement has been made that
7. b. Dean. who laid the bride trap
for Gary officials and caused their ar.
rest. would be arrested Monday when
the cases come TO tria&-st Valparaiso
on a charge of filing a false AFFIDAVIT.
Mr.. Dean. Il is charged. in order TO
trap Mayor Knots. swore TO the bri'
berry charge "a hours before 1t took
place and later the mayor was rear
rested on a new warrant
valparaiso-The trial OF City
Engineer c. NJ. Williston of Gary.
one of the defendants in the Dean
heating franchise bribery cases.
opened here this afternoon in the Por-
ter circuit court before Special Judge
Vernon Van Fleet OF Elkhart and the
task OF securing n jury was begun.
The trial of Williston is attracting
national attention for it involves the
use of the photograph as bride trap
per and upon IL TO a great extent will
depend the fate OF Mayor T. f. Knots
and other city officials who were ar
rested with Wiliiston.
II is expected that the securing or
the jury will take about three days.
Inc Ittl lEoutH VIII utElh dhOAA
Thursday when T. b. Dean. who has
not been seen in the city since IN,
arrests early in September. viii take
Che stand and unfold his photograph
evidence.
Sensations are promised by both
sides and when the case wakes warm
some inside history may be brought
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Samuel Parker OF South Bend. II. Nj.
Loring or Valparaiso. Charles Green
valid and w. +. Hodges of Gary APP
peared for the state and A. f. Knots.
/ McAleer Brothers and Charles Drum
mond OF South Bend for Williston.
Bedford.--The unconscious body OF
James Mitchell. aged forty-fve
years, married, was found by DIR
II. Nj. Hackman and Elmer Peed who
were en- route to the Peed home TO
attend the bedside of Peed's mother
who is i'll. The body was not discov-
cred in time to avoid striking IL with
the doctors automobile. Investigation
showed tree different pools of blood
indicating that a horrible attempt at
murder and robbery was the cause OF
the trouble Ollie Younger. who had
been Mitchell's companion, and -four
members of a gypsy camp. two men
and two women. are in jail pending in
vestigation. Mitchell died at the City
hospital.
Nj
steeplejack, who during the Boxer
rebellion was held at top of a steepl,
in Hongkong for sc hours without
food or water, saved his life here by
remarkable display of nerve anC
endurance. He started to slide dowr
a rope 100 feet over the edge Of {
chimney when be came to a plac,
where the rope was frayed and al
most parted 80 feet from the rim o
the chimney. To go below the fray
meant death. so Sesbold swung IN
midair and pulled himself hand ovei
hand 80 feet to the chimney and ovei
the projecting ledge.
Kokomo.-Saying that a tram
Is human being and entitled e
as fair a trial as a millionaire
Mayor Pickett acquitted Jack Nc
Carly and Thomas vinson. hoboes
charged with highway robbery. Thu
. prosecuting witness was Otis Shaffer
and Mayor Pickett said the evidenc,
. convinced him that Shaffer, who as
sisted in the arrests with a shotgun
was n victim of yellow-back litera
ture and was seeking notoriety.
lndianapols.-A one-day-old bah.
found dead In a telescope by tn
police is believed TO be the child tina
an unknown woman tried to dispose o
at the Orphans Home In this city
The woman told the matron at tn
Orphans home that il was her daugh
ter's baby and that she was unable I
care for II. The child was alive a
the time and Is believed to have suffc
Gated. The woman is wanted by tn
police on a charge of murder.
Princeton.-The bodies CT Wa
ker Mcdaniel and Commodore M,
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