The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-09-12

KNOCKED
To FLOOR
Police Squad With Drawn
Guns Charge Mob; Quell
Uprising and Arrest Five.

Part Of a seeming plot to rid the
United States of the Montenegrin COM
unittee of France. sent to this country to
encourage the enlistment Of servians
and Afontenegrins. was frustrated last
night at Indiana Harbor by squad OF
police.
Tba chairman of the committee,
NF,1ash Ivanovich, an ex-judge of the
SUPERIOR court Of -Servia, was speaking
st a meeting held at the Balkan hotel'
1s6th and Beech streets, when riot
was melted. The speaker and his COM
nenions were attacked with chairs, cluos
and bottles. Guns were freely orawn
and cries Of XIII them! Kill theIn'
were heard among the rioters.
sPEAxERs KNOCKED DOWN.
Rudich placed himself between the
committee and the surging mob ana
drew his gun. 4 bottle hit him on the
hack of the head. In the lapse Oh
few seconds which occurred, the rAoteEs
surged forward, knocked down members ;
~ the committee and probably would
boye murdered them had not the of1lcer
cent in shrill call for help. Ihe ex-
pected arrival of squad OF ponce pre-
vented the riot leaders from carrying
out their fell designs.
A. The beginning Of the melee one
or the committee escaped through
window and hastened to the ponce st4-
ton. The following officers We're soon
on the scene. Yurgutis. Pakowskl' Ear
kovich. Gould. Weinstock and Nauraes'
FIVE ARE ARRESTED.
Five men were arrested. Inc tnEeo
,.aasrs however. who have been fol-
lowing this commission from one elsy y
.rother making trouble in Detrolt'
To1tst and Gary, temporarily escaped.
rr1,o however. were later picked up on
5a.crin+ton through Sergeant Makar OF
tLa E,sst Chicago station He arrested
49,, an hour after the trouble at Ex-
.barza and Forsyth avenues where
+Lav were waiting for street car 10
Chicago.
rbis commission has headquarters in
Chicago under the direction OF the
FRENCH government and is responding
"a invitations from cities all over the
country to make addresses to Servians
.nd Nontenegrins to induce them either
"a raturn to Servia and enlist there or
enlist with the United States army.
In several cities, three men, thought
+o he in the employ of enemies or this
country. have made trouble at the meet
inrs and in Joliet were arrested and
aned. These three men have followed
the commission insistently and have
tried to incite riots wherever they found
men upon whose feelings and emotions
they were able TO play.
1t is believed that the invitation TO
address a meeting at Indiana Harbor
was the result Of a plot started by these
enemies in which they themselves
duced certain men at the Harbor t. is
sue the invitation. All of the circum-
stances lead to the conclusion that they
intended to put a stop to the work OF
the commission by melting a riot in
which members of the commission were
to be murdered.
PHYSICIANS DRESS WOUNDS.
This commission consists Of Milash
Ivanovich. George Vouknerovich and
Vladimir Lazovich After the riot. two
of these men required the services of a
rhvsfcfan to dress their wounds. They
were attended by DR.. Emenhiser.
The men arrested as being prinipals
in inciting the riot were George Checha-
vich and Rada Zarich who give their
addresses in Chicago. These men will
he held for investigation by Inspector
Bragdon of Gary.
Five men were arrested as rioters at
the meeting They give their names as
Mike Schekich, Deodor street; Tony
Nrslich. Deodor street; John AIiljanich.
a7zO Cedar street; Mike Vidakovich.
ans Cedar street, and Dadovan Pesicu.
ozsn Cedar street