The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-08-30
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FEAR AssAu.ANrs ESCAPE.

Although the police have seven
Italians under arrest. charged with
murderous assault on Solomon Miller
and his son. Bert Miller. of Richmond.
they fear the person guilty of shooting
Bert Miller. who probably will die. has
escaped. Nichola Benakes. keeper of the
italian boarding house. is now believed
to have shot Miller. Benakee can not
be found, and his wife Gays he has
gone to New York to visit a relative
who is sick.
QUICK ACTION SAVES LIFE.
Carl BedwelI. Hartford City
"steeple jack" missed death by hair
breadth yesterday when, while work
ing at the top of so-foot smokestack
at the Johnson factory, the rope to
which he was cIinging parted Bedwell
caught the dangling end and by shut
ting his fst on 1t and putting his arm
! in hook. was able to hold on until
lowered by other wcrxmen.
ESCAPES FROM STOLEN RIG.
/ No trace has ben found of Edward
Brandt. alleged horse thief. who eseap-
ed from Marshal King at Patoka. (Siib-
SOM county. last night. The marshal
recovered the rig. but the driver jump
ed out and escaped. He IL bensvs- /.
be in hiding near Linton. The rig was
stolen from the livery barn of Han
mum Bros. at Linton.
/ POLICE FIND A TARTAR.
In a fight. last night. between Frank
Schafrer. a Bedford character. and a
man named Foster, employed as line
man by the telephone company. the lat
ter was badly cut across the throat
and other parts of the body. His in
turies are very serious. Schaner was
so cnraged that. in making a heany
slash at his adversaryts throat a second
time, the man lodged. the knife taking
effect on Schaffer's wrist. nearly sever
ing IT. The police had to beat Schaffer
loose from Foster. and on the way 50
the jail, after leaving trail of blood
three squares to doctors office
where his wounds were dressed they
were compelled to knock him down
with their mace. In the fall. his arm
was broken. Foster is at his boarding
lhouse. and schaffer is in Jail.
LETS VICTIMS GO UNFRAMED.
When Gus Kahn of North Man
chester passed silverton Hill, four
miles west of Huntington. a masked
man stepped out and leveled a revolver
causing the autoist to stop. He ,hel
said that he had ben looking fol
George Bechtold and allowed the mar
10 depart Bechtold himself passed tbs
spot short time later. but was no
stopped, and is at loss to understand
why any one had been waiting for him
FALL MAY CAUSE AMPUTATIoN.
Falling backward from a porch roo
fourteen feet from the ground. Madison
KENNEDY, 3 years old, son of ]. Hunte
Kennedy. of Indianapolis, 431 Nortl
Tacoma avenue, was so severely in
lJured yesterday afternoon that ampu
ltation of both his arms may be neces
sary. The bones of the forearms AM
wrists were splintered and brok
!. through the flesh. The tendons wer
/ badly torn. Attending physicians sa,
e the arms are SO mangled that ii ma
I be necessary to amputate them. Tn
i boy was attempting to fly a kite an
II became so Interested in the undertak
e ing that he became over balanced.
o REFUSES TO TAKE MEDICINE.
Mrs. Milda Curtis. of Danville,
q years oldfi who had ben i'll for the las
> month at her home near Plainfielt
= was found dead at her home withou
Is having received proper medical atten
ttion. DR.. Thomas of Plainfield wa