Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-30
GARY OFFICIALS
FACE INQUIARY


seized from an automobile said to belong
to Dennis Shea of Terre Haute, and on
numerous occasions she made cash trans
actions for liquor in amounts equally
large.
The revelations as to Agnes Szabo as
founded the court and on several occa-
sions he asked about her as to her age,
her family and other matters.
MELLOY TESTIMONY
Is SENSATIONAL.
MeIloy was the first witness for the
Government and he began to make SEN
sationaI admissions almost with his open
ing words He is defendant in the cases
and has entered plea of guilty.
He told of arresting Agnes Szabo and
her mother with a basket full of quarts
and of taking the case to Justice Glenn
ons' court They put up 500 bond, then
came pack later with S135 additional.
The case then was dropped against them,
and the money was divided, he said, be-
tween Clemens, Nyhoff and the witness,
after making deductions for the lawyer
Of the Szabos and the fee for the prose-
cutor.
Has this judge been indicted?" Judge
Anderson asked, and being told that the
last grand jury had taken no action, he
said:
wen have another grand jury
Fred Seabright was the deputy prose
cutor accused named as receiving SO.
Melloy said that the cases Of about
forty defendants had been handled in
this way
WITNESS TELLS OF
GRAND JURY LEAK.
II WAS at this point that Nlelloy de
cIared testimony he lad given to the
Grand iurv had Leen repeated to his wife
even before he got back to Gary.
I'VE can examine the grand jury too.
!Judge Anderson said, after gong INTO
the matter with the witness thoroughly'
NIaIlov next turned the spotlight on the
CITY court of Gary. He told OF the SELF
ure of a car load Of whisky twenty
cases. supposedly owned by Dennis ohea
Of Terre Haute This whisky ne sald ne
later sold to Agnes Szabo Ior @ioo
case. which she paid in cash. He salc tne
money was divided between Judge " II
liam Dunn, Clyde Hunter, prosecutor;
Nvboff and himself. He said that Nyhof
and himself delivered the whisky 10
Agnes Szabo and she drove off with it.
CHILDREN RIDE
IN BOOZE CAR.
"She took it away in q seven-passenger
Hudson" Melloy said. with her were
one or two little tots, her brothers or
sisters"
He said that when he first became con
nected with Judge Dunn's court the
whisky itself was divided, but later when
they got so much whisky they didn
know what TO do with it, he was told to
NaU il and after that the cash resulting
fN9m the sale was divided.
On one occasion he said he had seized
a lot of LIQUOR from Fred Shafer. another
defendant but that Howard Hay, Re
publican city chairman Mt Gary, Lad
raised so much Cain" that it was given
back TO Shafer.
Next came story Of the rivalry exist
ing between the sheriff of Lake County,
Louis Barnes. and the city officials in
trying to get their hands ON seized
whisky. He told of the time that he
had seized whisky from Alex and Eliz-
abeth CsalIo and how the big Packard
car of the sheriff had followed them all
the way to city court
SHERIFF. PURSUEs
WHISKY LADEN CAR.
He wanted to get that whisky" Mel
10y said
Herman J. Nyhoff. another constable
and a teammate Of MellOy, who also has
entered a Plea OF guilty, was the next
witness for the Government. He con
frmed testimony given by Melloy and
told OF delivering whisky on two different
occasions to the home Of Judge Dunn and
to Prosecutor Hunter. Three cases were
delivered on each occasion He said that
once Mrs. Hunter received the liquor.
Another defendant TO plead guilty ana
take the stand for the Government was
John NJ Kahn OF Chicago, who operated
with Melloy aud Nyhof. He told
straight-forw I'd story that seemed 10
impress the jury.
TELLS OF GUARDING
CARGO OF LIQUORS.
He told Of the Shea job as he termed
if. and how he had the whisky for two
nights before it was turned over TO
Agnes SzabO. He also threw a light on
the protection afforded customers. When
whisky was sold he said that often he
or some other constable would ride ahead
Of the customers car to see that no
attempt al arrest vas made by other OF
ficials.
He testified to trips made by Agnes
Szabo with car loads Of whisky.
Mrs. Mary Smith. proprietor of the st.
Regis Hotel at Gary, told of trips made
bv Agnes to Gary to meet MellOy who
lived at the hotel. She said Agnes would
call MeIloy several times 4 week by
telephone and that Melloy stored large
quantities Of whisky in his room. This
was whisky which later went to the
Szabos.
Judge Anderson showed great interest
in the present activities Of the Szabo
family. District Attorney Van Mugs told
him that the family had sold its estab
Iishment in South Bend aud had moved
TO a farm where it was conducting the
same old business.
Judge Anderson then directed Mr.. Van
Nuys to file injunction proceedings
against the continued operation 0 fthe
place, such as were filed two weeks ago
against a number of Vigo County road
houses and which resulted in closing up
these places
It is not believed that the case will
60 to the jury before tomorrow.
The following defendants are on trial:
Agnes, Theresa, George and Joe Szabo
Alex and Elizabeth Csallo, all Of South
Bend: Joe Davers. Fred Shafer and An
ton Kosiba and Julius Musick, all Of
Gary; Andrew KekkO ard Steve Deak,
both Of South Bend.
NINE ENTER
PLEAS OF GUILTY.
Pleas Of guilty have been entered by
the following: Daniel Mellot, Hermann
J. Nyhofr, John NJ. Kahn and Tony
Korases Of Gary; Frank L. Arndt. Michi-
gan City; Joe Javinski. James Varga,
Charles Hovarth of South and William
Jones of Indianapolis.
The grand jury which heard the
evidence against the Gary city officials,
but failed to return an Indictment was