The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-11
Hearing
in Huber
Case Had
Two Women and Ex- Soldier
Sent TO U.S.. Jail as
Witnesses.

Esther Plunkett, the seventeen
year-old girl of Morris City, Ill.
arrested in raid on the Avalon
Hotel, has placed in the hands Of
the government evidence involving
number of well known Hammond
men in one of the most sensational
scandals of recent years.
Sworn statements by other Wit
nesses. vino are now enroute to the
federal jail at Indianapolis arc 70
be read before the y. S. grand jury
in support OF her story and may
result in al issue of many indict-
nents charging conspiracy with
Constable John Huber to violate
the Mann act. The story IS one Of
the nastiest ever told in a Ham
monld courtroom.
HUBGR BOUND OVER.
At a hearing before i. : Comnlis-
s4oner Charles Surprise today Huber
vas bound over under $4,000 bends on a
charge Of white slavery The Plunkett
sirI Essie 1lcMorris and Charles Tay
Tor. nabbcG in the raid b the Hammond
Police. were delivered into the custodv
ot Deputy Marshal Whicker % be held
in the L. S. jail al Indianapolis as ma
terial Nituesscs-
TRfF< To TT-T, Ann MTCE
I The srra ignment Of Huber today VAS
/ The beginning of one Of the most irn-
portart 81 hitc slave cases ever taken be
/ fore tie federal grand jury Of Indiana
Attorney John sIorthland appeared for
the government by request Of |. s.
! Atty. SLACK who could not leave tne
7 grand jury now in session at the capital
The firm Of Mc-Aleer. Dorsey and Gillett
represented Huber.
Trips with Huber to Chicago Mict1-
gan City, ST. Joe. Mich, and Niles.
Mich. and n rondezvoux II the office of
Justice Of the Peace Frank Prest wors
parts Of The testimony Of Esther
Plunkett. Much Of the evidence is abio-
iateiy unprintable-
The girl tod Of coming 10 Hammond
n response TO letters and a telegram
from the McMorris woman who wrote
she vas living with a Charles Taylor
and had a man for Esther According
to her statement. Esther reached Ham
rnond in January ana went to live with
| the woman and two men on Ceda
street. The second man was known as
Stewart Moore
The Plunkett girl testimony la brief
follows:
THE GIRLS STORY,
Chas. Taylor. cx-soidier and former
taAicab driver. brought a man called
Jim Thompson 10 see her from whom
she secured SIS during three visits She
quarreled with Moore over Thompson
and Moore left and Thompson agreed to
pay her board.
After living a week on Cedar street
they moved 70 SIS Alice street and she
became acquainted with a Raymond
Kennedy. Then Taylor arranged
meeting with John Huber at Huber's
poolroon1 on State street and visited her
at the house.
PAYS HEE FARE.
About ten days ago Huber took her 70
Chicago, she alleges, where they went
TO a rooming house over a saloon near
the Polk street depot. He paid her fare
and upon returning 20 Hammond gave her
s.. A day or so later she could not re-
cali the exact date, Huber took her 70
Judge Prests living apartments in the
Rimbach building. she states and intro
duced her to tho justice and another
man whose name was not mentioned
HAD 4 LITTLE wHISKET.
Then Huber left The Judge and ths
other man drank Vhiskey and she took
. little. Huber returned and started out
Continued on psge nine)