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Otherwise Known As Jack Burke, He Is Placed Under Bond and Held on Two Charges, Following Sensational Clash.T!gcrabicathththfobotifeliThhoan(Special to IJni Times.)CROWN POJN3E* lND-» Oct begin with the authorities state his name is Daniel McEwen.So thb famous Cedar Lake resorter, proprietor of Burke's Hotel, is not Jack, Kurke at all or Deputy Prosecuting Attorney August Bremer who made out the warrants for his arerst yesterday is mistaken. The warrants were for Daniel McEwen, alias Jack Burke.Under a $200 bond furnished by Attorney Edward Knight. McEwen. alias Burke, is to be tried in the mayor’s court at Crown Point, October 5, on two charges made against him by County Agent S. J.. Craig, secretary of the Lake County Fair Association. The first alleges P.urke conducted a •'blind pig and the second that he carried concealed weapons. The peace bond was obtained by Craig ‘who statedBurke threatened to get his hide.* *Craig and Burke clashed at the county fair Thursday over the blind pig business which the Qedar Lake resorter boasted, according to Craig, had been conducted at the fair for seven years. In the secretary’s office last evening Craig exhibited a jug containing a liquid unmistakably whiskey or some intoxicant closely related to it, which he said witnesses saw Burkd use in filling bottles at his stand on the fair grounds. It is exhibit A.The secretary’s fight against the alleged illicit sale of intoxicants began when he found two men getting drinks at the Murdoch stand Thursday. Craig asked for a drink out of the same bottle, was refused, and claims upon finding two and a half cases of Intoxicants he gave theproprietor the privilege of taking tKe stuff away or closing up. As a result the stand was closed.That same evening Craig states be apprehended Burke. Friday morning,” adds Craig, Burke came into my office, used vile language and thrc-at-| £ned 'to take my hide.’ ” Craig states 1 Birrke carried a gun and flashed it. P'lt; One other threat which the county lr,£ agent states the resorter made was an' that in two more weeks the gang In bjs the county will get rid' or you tal (Craig. W I 1hi:athThthlt;foiletSclisquItby
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Hammond Lake County Times
Hammond, Indiana, US
Sat, Oct 02, 1915
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