The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-03-03

PROMISES
TO GROW
Lurid Stories Told and Probe
Promised of De-
partmelt.


under the scrutiny of the Cook
county authorities. This time it is
not the underworld but the police
department that will bear investi-
CATION.
Following general indignation
at the continued wholesale arrests
Of working men for trespass of
railroad bridge charges have been
made by individuals that each Of
Hcer receives a dollar for every ar
rest he makes. a practice in viola
ton of the law.
STATION A COUNTY JAIL.
Furthermore. it IS alleged. the police
station IS also a county Jail where
prisoners are made to work out their
fines or sent on the streets TO clean
and make repairs. That the new sta
uon was built largely by prison labor,
3 claimed by those who informed THE
TINES Of alleged conditions. Needless
to say, the city court or the police have
no power to make the station a penal
farm or workhouse
\ TINES reporter yesterday talked 10
three persons who have been arrested
by the West Hammond police and are
under bonds to be tried
JAW FRACTURED.
Peter Miller. one of the trio. could
not talk very plainly because his jaw
vas broken. Miller. who runs a res
taurant at 176 State st. declared that
the jaw had been broken by Policeman
Kulczak Friday night. Miller's jaw
was badly swollen yesterday and the
physician who examined him told the
reporter ii was fractured and would
have to be wired
7 close my restaurant at II o'clock"
stated Miller, "and was standing in
front OF the place when the policeman
came along. officer Kulczak demanded
TO know what I was doing, refused 10
accept my explanation and without
provocation struck me with a black
Jack, He forced me in an automobile
and hit me four times with the black
jack after was in. I was taken to the
station and charged with being drunk
and disorderly. I was sober"
KoBLINo sAPPED.
The second man TO tell a story OF
rough treatment was Jack Rolling
keeper of workinEmen's hotel. Kohl
ing told the reporter that he had been
in the habit Of going good for men ar
rested by the West Hammond police
who roomed at his place and that he
promised 10 pay the fine Of an Albert
Schneider in the sum of s11.50.
7 never intended not TO pay the fine"
work on the streets four or five days
To make the story short was picked
UP on trumped up charge and thrown
in jail. 'sapped' by a policeman. and
three weeks later 'sapped again on tho
streets. I have sworn out a warrant
for the arrest Of Officer Joe Yulandow-
ski for assault and battery"
In confirmation. Rolling carried black
and blue marks and q red scar above
the left eye which vas swollen.
POCKETS PICKED.
The reporter was given a document.
presumed to be the statement Of man
who resides at Madison and cherry
streets in Hammond. The signature Is
a scravl and appears to be William
Plawlter." 1t is written in pccil and
states:
To THE LAKE COUNT TINES.
Il went and paid 81 for groceries
and then walked 10 West Hammond
and Officer Kulczak hit me on the
head with blackjack and put his
hand I'm my pocket and took s25 out
and also took my groceries and
kept me in Jail days. The off
GERS made me lath the new court
room. then they let me so home"
The third individual the reporter
talked to was Harriet Brennan. nee
Rosenbaum. widow OF George Rosen-
baum. confidence man and diamond mer
chant Mrs. Rosenbaum owns her own
home on Plummer ave. She IS under
bond TO appear in court at o'clock
March eth to answer a charge Of con-
Quoting house OF i'll fame.
The charge. she declares. IS lie.
adding that she has had no girls in her
home for nearly year.
SAYS SHE PAID GRAFT.
Mrs. Rosenbaum told the reporter
that her place was clsoed last year the
day after she had contributed 5000 OF
graft money for protection. She also
told tho reporter that for months she
gave one officer $50. another s35 and
others smaller sums each month for
protection.
Officer John Kusmala. who three
years ago ran the fire truck into a post.
wreeking IT. and shot up the police de-
partment. served a warrant on Harriet
recently. charging her with conducting
a house Of III fame and she 1t once
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