The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-10-13

three TO i've miles an hour. kunich
made to attempt TO prevent her
leaving the car when she finally
succeeded in doing SO, she said.
No advances were made by
kunich.
kunich. on the stand. denied he
was jitney operator. denied there
was any white paper on his wind
shield, denied that he had repre-
sented himself as a 3itney man. He
said further that Mrs. Burkhard en-
tered the car in Carol street, not
Highland street. That he threw the
door open after she had responded
to a smile from him.
Albert e. Griffith attorney for
the defense. sought to impeach the
plaintiffs character, her motive for
entering the car and called to the
stand character witnesses for his
client.
The state rested on the evidence
The defense argued
THE PROBLEM.
In broad daylight on a busy Ha
mond thoroughfare woman char
| she was kidnapped by fraud.
says she was forcibiy carried t.
point several miles from where
entered the car. Testimony pro
that the ear Travelled at vary
speed. Especially at the juncturt
Columbia avenue and Summer bou
ward, where the street is torn
necessitating one-way traffic
slowly at that. But the woman
| manned in the car In spite of pi
tests that she sought to escape. $
denies that she smiled at the drive
that she entered the car for 30
ride BY a curious comedies a
her witnesses happen to be friends
| of hers. None others are intro
duced by the state during the tria.
Kun4ch, the defendant. offers nc
rason for his escapade. There
as no evidence that he made improp
er advances. There is no evidence
OF collision between witnesses mol
| IS motive for any such projected.
1t IS APPARENT that neither the de-
PENDANT nor the plaintin had eve
before met.
THE DISPOSITION.
Judge Cleveland thought long
and carefully of the charge of kid
mapping. He fined the defendent
guilty of speeding. But the second
charge carries a sentence or two to
fourteen years on conviction. The
court did not express its opinion
audibly on the implications that
might be entertained He did say
| that -pick-lgs." such as the de-
PENDANT charged. were common In
Hammond. He did say that the
woman probably entered the car Of
| her own volition. If kidnapping
We're attempted the violation began
not when the woman entered the
1 car he held. but from the moment
/ that she tired of the adventure and
requested to be let out. He held
| that there was not preponderance
| of evidence clinching the guilt OF
| IIunich. but ne thought there was
enough evidence "of probable cause
to warrant bind over to the Grim
inal court. lie did that and Kunich
was freed IN tonds of $4,000 pend
| ing his trial before a jury.
THE THIRD CASE.
State VS. Gilbert McJohnstone
Charge. violating the liquor Law
and assault and battery.
| THE EVIDENCE.
The charge OF :. ]. |. occupied
! only a few rlinutes to prove il
/ groundless and the defendant was
discharged on that count.
on the charge of assault and bat
terry, Airs. Edith Tuner took the
/ lot er~e
/ blackened, her face was cut and
she offered to show the court
bruises to her arms and shoulders
The court held that unnecessary
saying that 1t was apparent on tho
face of 1t that an assault had been
| committed
Mrs Turner, on the stand, as
serted that Gilbert McJohnstone. de-
PENDANT. had returned to her board
| ing house Monday afternoon. after
| phoning a few minutes before thai
| would leave Immediately for work
at the Standard Steel
He arrived, drunk, she said. He
| offered her drink. She refused
| and he. with an exclamation tina
you'll drink with others but vol
| won't drink with me- sailed int
her. inflicting the wounds visible
to the court.
He left and attempted to get away
| in his machine but police arrived
at that moment and arrested him.
McJohnstone took the stand. II
denied having even touched her. H
had not entered the house. His ar
| rival at the place brought her out
| side 1t was dusk. He could no
| tell whether her face then was
marked by bruises or her eyes
| blaclened She fell on the ground
He tried to turn his car around
When he looked back she had dis
appeared She appeared at win
dow and said she had called tn
police. He tarried and the cops go
him. He said on his arrival h
noticed a man leaving by the real
and dashing off in the opposite di
rection.
THE PROBLEM.
The woman was beaten up. Nc
| tombstone was the last seen witt
her. Another man, alleged to b
bootlegger named Burker, wa
| believed to have been the figure
that disappeared in the rear on Nc
| Johnstone's arrival McJohnstont
ND nCCEn EVE&