The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-10-19


Schultz, had been out three and one
half hours. There 1vns no intin.a-
tion when they night return
CROWN PoI-.T. Ind. Oct. IA
THE TINES reporters who testified
yesterday in the trial OF Pauline
Schultz OF Cary, either told the
truth or else they are the most dam
nable scoundrels who ever sat in a
witness box"
This was the statement Of Deputy
Prosecuting Attorney W. O. Thomas
today fhen he made his closing ar
gument before the jury in Judge
Martin Smiths court
Pauline, mistress Of the notorious
Metropolitan Hotel, is now anxious
~ awaiting the appearance Of the
jury which has been cioseted since
1l3o trying to decide whether she
is guilty. as charged. OF keeping
house Of ill-fane.
Either these young men told tie
truth about what went on at the
Metropolitan Hotel the night of
June fifth or they have conspired to
ruin the reputation OF an innocent
woman" said Thomas IN his areu-
ment- who are YOU going to be-
lieve. gentlemen Of the jary? TIE
reporters who visited the Metropol-
itan Hotel and have testified that
it was a house OF III fame and that
they were solicited repeatedly by
women and that they had to prom
ise TO return in order to get away
from these women. or Pauline
Schultz and her attorney who say
that the painted women were cham
bermaids.,
Either these reporters have been
telling dirty, malicious vicious lies
or they are telling the truth En-
er they have deliberately, purpossfv
designedly and falsely mentioned
this woman as running a house Of
Ill fame or it is true. Think of tie
kind OF a low-down, insihnihcant
man that would so into a respect
able woman's place Of business
lawful business-and proclaim her
to the world as the keeper Of a
bawdy house. Any man who would
so such a thing ought TO De In the
penitentiary
Then he pointed to the fact that
one of THE TINES employees had
been with the firm for sixteen years
and that the regulations of the
three were good. He called atten-
tion to the apparent reluctance 81
the reporters to testify.
Thy are not anxious to testify III
this matter. It was distasteful 10
them. They didn't come here OF
their own free will but because
they had been subpoenaed by the
state" said the prosecutor. "Coun-
sci for the defense admits himself
that each Of these TINES men Is Of
clean character and truthful and il
they are truthful. Pauline Schultz
IS guilty as charged"
Prosecuting Attorney Thomas
made Il plain that the jury had 10
believe one Of the two stories, and
that If they believed the reporters
it was their duty TO send Pauline
Schultz to jail along with Jake
saultz who was sentenced Tuesday
on similar charge Of operating
house of i'll fame
Thomas riddled the story" Of the
defense.
After the reporters had told their
experiences in the Metropolitan
Hotel and the grilling cross-exan-
nation of attorney for defense had
failed to shake their testimony. the
defense introduced its witnesses.
Three men were put on the stand
to show that Paulires place was a
nice. clean. orderly loomirg house.
One was a bartender, another
foreigner who had difficulty n
making himself understood. The
third was a young SweSe. who is
an engineering student. 1t was on
the latter's testimony that the de-
fense laid most stress. This bov
said he always spent his evenings
at the Gary public library and had
never seen anything off color at
Pauline's place
The defense in its argument parti-
cularly called upon the jury to con-
slider the fact that this clean lock
ing young man Of studious habits
had selected the Metrop olitan Hotel
as his home.
It was noticeable that the attor-
ney for the defense failed to reit-
crate his gamblers war" charge
which he used in trying TO smooth
the path of Jake saultz on Tues
day. 1t evidently failed to take
we'll with the saaltz jury and the
defense let It slide
The defense took occasion TO speak
his mind on the jury system In lie
criminal court lie criticized tho
Jury commissioners Tor not drawing
enough Jurors TO I'll the vacancies
caused by reflections He complain
ed of the system OF replacing jurors
by having the sheriff pick men out
Of the corridor Of the court house or
off the street and said that it was
this practice that created the pre-
fessional juror. He said that the
court was no to blame fo~ the prac-
tice but that It was the fault Of
the jury commissioners who i'm
panel the juries.
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