The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-12-08
|MELLOY AND
NYHOFF ARE
SENTENCED
Grand Jury to Start Quiz in
Alleged Gary Conspiracy
Case.

DiANAPoL1S, Dec. s.-The Gary
iiquor cases were featured IN .b. ga
eraI court yesterday bv raSa~,, g.,
piisonment Of years duration for
TWO Gary ex-consrapies.
Daniel Melloy. former denu,v oo,-
Stao4e' who was sentenced on q ,1ss
OF guilty. addressed the court =, x.,.,
~ d statement made earlier In the day
OS frederick VanNuys. United States
uistrict attorney. to the effect that tho
grand jury has not been abIa 70 ,ndt,+
court officials IN Gary on the uncor-
roborated testimony Of Msl,ov 1.o,,
SAid ne did not understand why in
olctments could not be ra,u--.s
against officials on evidence presentsa
oS MIN and Herman j. Nyhory. .no+bsx
deputy consta BILE, when sevArsI ,.
0nehoers had been indicted and con-
Victed on evidence given solelv bv hin,
ne SAID he did not want the public to
think he had not told the truth wbile
assisting the government.
YEAR AND DAY.
1uose Anderson sentenced SI.ifov
ana Nyhoh to serve year ana 40,
Al Leavenworth on & charee or -o,-
spiracy to violate the prohibit,on act
sentences of six months each In tho
raiioh county Jail were imposed on
ohe loliowfns defendants in these two
cases. Alex Csallo. John DernuS petAr
Manos. all OF South Bend, ana peter
Heron. OF Chicago.
Other sentences ;n,1a..s
Musick. Gary. four months. Andra,s
kekko Gary, three months; Mrs
stephen Crabb. South Bend. ro,-
months; Joseph Czigany, South BEND
tnree months; James Varga, of Sou.h
send three months; William Jones. In
annapolis, three months: Anton Ko-
siba, Gary, four months. and Tonv
horasis Gary. three months. Frant T.
Arndt Michigan City. was fined 500
and costs; John NJ. Kahn. Of Chicago.
sloo and costs. and Charles Marshall.
OF Chicago, $50 and costs
BOND INCREASED.
Danitar Mcgowan and Feter streitoS
OF Gary. charged with possessing uo-
uor, were each fined 5000 and costs.
References to the work of the grand
jury was in answer to sugrest,on.
made by Judge Anderson in the trial
OF the Gary conspiracy case last week
when Melloy ana NyhoN testified that
some officials at Gary were member.
OF ring" which divided among its
members whisky confscated from
"bootleggers.
JONES REPEATS STORY,
One Of the defendants who pleaded
guilty In the Gary case was william
Jones, Of indianapolis, former sa-
ioonkeeper. He repeated to the cour.
today story that he had told last
week OF having been arrested BY
Melioy and Nyhoff near Gary whiie
transporting a load of whisky and Of
having lost, his liquor and paid rne
which Meiloy testified had been divid-
ed among the officers OF the court.
Melloy interposed explanations OF
Jones story and spoke of a second
time Jones was arrested
TITS a lie." said Jones in reference
to the second arrest
II was then that Mr. vanNuys sd-
dressed the court. He arraigned the
prohibition enforc cement arm of the
government in severe terms. after hrst
absolving the last grams jury of blame
for not returning indictments against
Lake county officials
Jones is telling thu truth in this
matter" he said. and Meiioy is not
telling the truth. /"
MONEY TAKEN By OFFICERS
Mr.. vanNuys referred them Co tho
testimony of Meltoy last week, in
which Meiioy said Gary officials ana
lawyers had received money obtained
from the sale of confscated liquor
and from fnes and bonds paid by men
for transporting liquor.
Judge Anderson last week directed
the district attorney to take the names
of those officers with a view to
grand jury investi cation. The court
also said that grand Jury itself could
be Investigated.
Mr.. VanNuys said that every effort
had been made to corroborate the
grand jury testimony Of Melioy and
Nyhon concerning the activities of
the Lake county officials. but that no
corroborative evidence could be OBJ
tained. He said ono of the most eff
cient investigators Of the prohibition
drector's office, Edward p Brennan
(who recently resigned). had worked
for weeks In Lake county and had
met with opposition In his efforts to
obtain evidence required by the grand
Jury.
ACTION OF ONE AGENT.
Mr.. vanNuys asserted that during
the investigation a prohibition agent
tffs Hammond territory. had bsen SELL
ing oil stock to the ''bootleSgers"
which he had been commissioned to
watch. He said as a result of those
operations that man did not dare pro
ceed against the "bootie EEers' and
that he had therefore been untrue TO
his trust. He said the man had later
been discharged from the service.
Mr.. varNuys said further that the
district attorneys orfice held no brief
For the prosecuting attorney in Lake
and for the other officials re-
,erred TO by Melloy. but that no evi-
4ence had been obtained to warrant
against thGm. He saiG
{ was an outrage that such defendants
is those in the Gary and South Bend
,ases should be before the court when.
Z the prohibition enforcement men
we're of the right type. the defendants
n the federal court would be the offi-
,ials who failed IN their duty and who
rave prot ection 70 the ones who trans
ported and sold liquoe sn violation Of