The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-15


idea that some one was intent on kill
proposed to his wife that she do the job
with an ak.
SAFE BLOWERS SENTENCED.
George Gibson and William Murray
who confessed to attempting to blow a
safe in the Hixon brokerage house at
Middlebury, Ind. Dec. TO- were sentenc-
ed to Michigan City Prison for terms
of from two to fourteen years.
Clyde Spencer, Elkhart insurance
agent who reached through a desk
railing door In Superior Court Clerk
Aitken's Office and took s3s out of an
unlocked till. when Bessie Diener, the
deputy clerk. was absent. sentenc-
ed to Jeffe-sonville Reformatory for
from one to fourteen years.
RIFLE SHELL IN APPENDIX.
Benjamin ]. Kremer, age nineteen,
eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John w.
kremer, living near st. Magdalerfe. died
during an operation for appendicitis.
The boys appendix was removed and
found to be eleven inches in length. 1t
contained a twenty-five caliber rife
cartridge. He swallowed it several
days ago, 1t is believed, while hunting
| birds. when he held several of the
small shells in his mouth while load
| ing the magazine of his repeating rife
ATE NAILS AND HAIRPINs.
I OF the nine deaths when occurred
during the last calendar year at the
Indiana reformatory. six were due to
tuberculosis, in most cases of the pull
monary variety. or the other three
| one was due to pneumonia, one--that of
Charles Fowler-was case of homi-
eide. for which his slayer is now on
trial, and one is given traumatic
peritonitis. This was the case of con-
Wet Hess and was really case OF
suicide, for death was due to a volun-
tary diet of nails, hairpins, lye and
other indigesti ble materials taken in
the Marion County Jail before his COM
mitment to the reformatory at Jeffer-
sonville.
PNEUMONIA EPIDEMIC RACES
| Lafayette is in the grasp of a pneu-
monia epidemic, and in the last week
several have succumbed to the disease
This evening Mrs. John Bill died in St
Elizabeth Hospital from the ailment
A week ago she and her three children
were taken to the hospital from their
home east of the city. The three chill
dren are still in critical condition
anu t1cy nave not beSu in1oTIHc0 Vi
1.-The death of their mother. The two
hospitals are crowded with pneumonia
patients and many are in a dangerous
condition.
BITE CAUSE BLOOD POISONING.
Miss Nora M. Frenzelmeier, of Lawr-
lenceburg. age thirty-one a trained
nurse is in serious condition suffer
ing with blood poisoning. Miss
- Ii,
with 81 stick of stove wood. She Grip
pied the little animal and when she
picked 1t up the mouse bit her on tbs
right hand. Her hand will probahl,
have to be amputated to check ths
lspread of the infection.
iDEsPoNDENCY CAUSE OF SUICIDE
BENJAMIN Caldwell, of Marion, ag,
forty, member of the Modern Wood
men of America, committed suicide las
evening in the Brown laundry, wher'
he YVES employed. by firing two shots
Unto his left breast near the heart
Caldwell opened his shirt front ant
| placed the revolver inside his shirt be
fore firing. C. II. Brown. manager o
1.-The laundry, found Caldwell as he wa
loving. The death of his wife ten year
iago caused Caldwell to become moros,
and is believed to have produced tn
state Of mind causing his act. lie Il
survived by a widowed mother
MORRIS WINS FAME.
! Carl Morris. former Rushvilie man
Iwho has attained great success al
! barytone soloist in New York. writes
; his friends at Rushville that he woul'