The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-09-21
NEW ANGLE
To BRIBERY
CHARGES

New coloring was added to the
Gary inoze scandal this morning
when the startling information was
learned that George Pavich. soft
drink parlor operator whom govern
ment dry agents claim signed an af-
fidavit against Attorney B. A. Lucas
chraging him, together with Judge
Dunn with conspiracy. signed a pa
per after being misled that it was
petition for beer and light wines
The bearer Of the paper or Aft
davit, was no other than Attorney
Phillip Ukn1an, a member of the gov
eminent dry forces who was arrest
ed night before last after accept
ing a three hundred dollar brlbe
and tore up a fake warrant for the
arrest OF asouth side hotel keeper
Police officials, were not amazed
this morning when Pavich came TO
the Cary police station with the in
formation that he had ben tricked by
Ukman in signing the paper. He
told very connecting story and he
made sworn statements to report
ers.
L thought the paper was petit
ton for bier and light wines and
did not know that anything was
wrong until I saw the papers last
night" Il cannot read" he said
but friends OF mine told me what
/ had done" 'Ukman had another
man with him who have never seen
before and after I sign the paper be
also put his name down. He also
stated that Attorney Lucas had new
er represented him in the two liq-
uor cases in the police court. Rec
ords show that for the first offense
he served a thirty day jail sentence
and for the second offense was Civ
en- fine and suspended jail SEN
tence by Special Judge Narcovich.
Ukman is still in Jail a few eff
forts have ben made to get 5ond for
him. but mp TO this noon. no one had
appeared with the required amount
Of $4,000 each for the two charges
Of bribery and forgery. When ar
rested Uknan told reporters that
Morgan would get him out OF the
trouble, kat so far Mr.. Morgan has
done nothing to obtain his release
with the exception Of asking what
tie bond would be the night Of his
arrest. Reporters and police offic-
ials dug up other startling infor-
nation regarding Ukman's shake
down methods.
The sworn statement given by Pa
vich reads as follows:
STATEMENT OF GEORGE PAvICH
My name is George Pavich. 1 run
a soft drink parlor ar 1888 Jefferson
CT II
the latter part of July. Philip Tx
man came down to my Place Of bus
mess and showed re a sheet of
paper. about 5 inches long and
inches wide, telling me ne would
show me the names of lots of bust
ness men AMI propr;etors OF soft
drink parlors who had signed their
names to this paper. which was a
petition TO get light wines and
beers He said, "See ali those names
on there. Put your name on there.
too" I said. "If all those men put
their names there. put mine, too
So he wrote my name in there with
a pencil.
About day or two later, Ukman
came around again with type
written sheet of psptr. As can
not read. he read the paper to me in
the Servian language. He said.
This is the paper that you should
sign to get the light wine and beer
Every man has to sign that kind of
paper" He said every man would
have to sign and send that paper
to washington. v hen I heard him
talk like that, I signed my name
with ink to the paper.
After that. when we were through
he said. y read in the paper you
was arrested for moonshine." I
said, Yes" He said. How much
did you pay?" said. You was
down in the court the same day.
You hear dabout it." He said -All
right" and walked away.
didn't know what that meant
until the other evening. when fell
low read a newspaper TO me- He
said. See what they say in the
paper" He explained it to me. and
/ say. y come right down and find
out what is the matter"
never appeared before the Fed
eral officers in Hammond. That was
the FIRST time l ever saw Ukman.
and / have never seen or talked 70
him since. The second time he
came 70 see me. there was another
man with him whom I did not know
lie signed his name underneath
mine on the paper which ! signed
sworn to by George Pavich.