The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-04-26
herman
ALSO FOUND
GUILTY
Liquor Trials in Federal Court
Bring Vari8ty Of Sentences
in Connection.

lIIsEs suFEAg At STATE cAPIThL1
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April 20.
For offers Of bribes Of $500 each
to George w. Green, special agent
Of the department of justice, and
Crarles 1. Surprise, United States
commissioner at Hammond, Theo-
dore Piechockia, Of Indiana Har-
Dor, was fined $500 by Judge Al
bert B. Anderson in United States
court upon a plea OF guilty Thurs
day afternoon.
Counsel Of Piechoclcia told the
court in mitigation Of the offense
that the officers had misunder-
stood the intent and the broken
English Of his client when he was
taken before Mr.. Surprise for a
hearing in cases in which he was
charged with the unlawful trans
portation Of liquor.
THOUGHT HE WAS FINED.
II was explained that PiechocI1ia had
lriea lo make settlement with the
government and had rendered the
money in payment or me IL ~
thought. but that The officers heBc.ed
he was offering the money to them -
let him so.
FINES Of 500 each and jail sentences
of three months each were entered ii
the cases of -Neyer -4salaaovitz and Heins
Dennis, junk dealers Of Gary. convicted
by jury Wednesday Of the unlawful
TRANSFORMATION Of liquor. sam Click
man, indicted with them and who plead
Cd guilty. was fined 500 aud costs
Harry Iiorovich. defendant in the
same case. was acquitted b. the jury.
BEEE AGENT CONVICTED.
Abe Eisenbers. agent FOR brewjn-
company at South Chicago. pIeaacs
guilty TO the unlawful TRANSPORTATION If
hsuor and was fined Sl00 and sent H.
Jal for ninety days. He admitted ia
had employed John Ribicki 10 deliver
beer IN Hammond and other indiana
towns. Ribicki. who also pleaded quilts.
was fined $50 and costs.
After trial lasting nearly the ent,rs
day in which the instructions on a con-
spiracy charge were given fer tb, ers.
lime at this term Of court. Louis i.
kernan. head of IL sax & 90. ,vbesa
sale liauor dealers. of South C,bfrs
was convicted Of the unlawful trarspos-
tauon OF liquor late THURSDAY sft..-
noon The jury acquitted him on rh.
conspiracy charge
THE GERMAN TRANSACTIONS.
herman was alleged to have sotH
forty gallons Of whisky to Never
klempner. East Chicago. Ind. knov-iaa
y Was 70 be transported in interstate
eommeree klempner and his bartender
ben Yoffe, and John ZaIeskI. of indiana
Harbor. who hauled the whisky testfa-
ed that Bermsn knew who bought tfts
whisky and where il was to be deliver
ea- Berman testified thar the order
was received BY telephone and that he
believed IT was ORDERED for Max Salmon
at West Hammond. Ill
salmon testified that ElenDncr e-a...
him Son to nay Berman foe the whisky
two or three days after zaiesl1 hats
been arrested while trying 10 deli,as
the gods that BE told Berman yvha4
the money was for and that Berman ae-
paid him $500 or $500 on his own (sat-
mon) account and had said nothing
about KIempner. Salmon said he had
paid only the s266. and for the purpose
he had stated.
RUNNING SOFT DRINK PLACE.
herman was Indicted with John rs
iesid ana Meyer Klempner Of East Chi
caeo and Ben Yafe Of Indiana Harbor
on the charge Of Transporting whisky
into indiana Zaieski was caught wits
four ten gallon kegs of whisky in his
machine. He was taken before Special
Agent Green in Hammond but was told
to SO on and deliver the goods Cow
ernment agents followed him in another
car lie took the whisky to Meyer
Klempner in East Chicago. Klempner
was running a soft drink place in thu
Friendman building which lie had occu-
pied for serveral wears before as a sa-
loom Yaffe was hts bartender.
CHANGED PLEAS TO GUILTY.
In the trial al Indianapolis Klcmpner
and Ya6e both changed their pleas from
NIT Euilty to guilty Berman was also
indicted in connection with two other
liquor TRANSFORMATION cases in both of.
which the other defendants pleaded
guilty. Berman's trial was one of the
hardest fought IN the history Of the
federal court at Indianapolis and the
government regards his conviction as
one Of its big victories In the fight 10
stop the interstate shipment of liquor
II is the nfth case in which wholesal-
ers or distllers Of Chicago have heen
indicted and success sfuliy prosecuted
ANOTHER CASE REVEALED.
one Of the other important cases was
that in which President Gray Of Hanna
& Hogg Of Chicago was fined and stnt-
snced to the Marion county Jail upon
Iis plea of guilty ia connection with the
Wolfe-Markovich ease.
IN the trial Of eases in the federal
court this week Judge Anderson has us-
"a two Jurics. trying seven or eisht
cases a day and in only one case was s
verdict OF not guilty returned. Betve