The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-10-13
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WAS LAID
IN GARY
Special Writer Hits The Trail
On Michigan Central
Train Wreck Case
BY W. II. RIoDGETT

by w. II. BLODGETT
CROWN POINT. Ind, Oct 12.-The
plot to wreck the fast express on
the Michigan Central railroad which
resulted In the killing of the engi-
neer and fireman near the city Of
Gary. was laid in Gary. This is the
opinion of several Of the members
Of the Lake county grand jury
which investigated the crime.
This orinion or the grand Jurors
is based on the statement Of man
who told several officials of the
county and who is presumed to have
given the same testimony before the
grand jury. that money had been
offered him to take part in the
wrecking of the fast train on the
morning of Aug. 20. 1922.
The name Of this man is carefully
guarded by the persons to whom he
made the statement because they
believe that eventually they will.
through him. be able to apprehend
the arch conspirators in the crime.
and they are afraid also that If his
identity becomes known that he will
be Murdered
The investigation OF the wrecking
of the train was made by members
Of the Gary police department and
the police department of Chicago.
The first persons investigated by tho
Gary police department were Mike
Buros and George Sabo OF Gary.
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were held up by plain clothes men
connected with the department of
police at Gary and suffered the third
degree. Buros testified in an affi-
davit he gave to c. oliver Holmes.
state senator from Lake county
that he was taken to the police head
quarters in Gary by three plain
clothes men. one OF whom is a
Slavish policeman. The officers sur
rounded him and one OF them struck
him repeatedly in the face with a
blackjack, he says. He was beaten,
his affidavit says. in order to make
him confess that he had part In
the wrecking of the train. He was
kept In the police station, his affi-
davit said, until his two children,
Anna and Joe. came to police head
quarters and convinced the police
officers that their father was at
home the night the train was
wrecked and he was then released.
Sabo, in an affidavit also given to
Senator Holmes. said that he was
arrested in the street by three plain
clothes men and taken to a cell up
stairs at the police hes dquarters. He
testified in his affidavit that one of
the officers beat him severely with
a piece of rubber hose, fourteen
inches long, and that another Off
Ger struck him repeatedly on the
knee with a railroad spike. He tes
tilted in his affidavit that the offi-
GERS threatened to shoot him and
made preparatio to hang him in
order to make him confess that he
took part in the train wrecking.
After he had been kept at the police
station for several hours he was re-
leased The affidavits OF Buros and
Sabo were forwarded to Warren t.
McCray, governor of Indiana. by
Senator Holmes. and are now being
investigated by L. S. Lesh, attorney
general. Senator Holmes is getting
other affidavits Of third degree
methods by the Gary police but the
two in possession OF Governor Nc
Cray are the only ones that bear on
the wrecking of the Michigan Cen
trail train. Additional affidavits, 1T
is understood. will be forwarded
shortly to the governor by Senator
Holmes.
The Lake county grand jury In
vestigated the charges made in
these affidavits but returned no In
dictments against the Gary police
for assault and battery. The grand
jury also investigated the story told
by Buros and Sabo but their testi-
mo7y added nothing toward the ap-
prehension Of the train wreckers.