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BURKE SMELLED MOUSE ALL RIGHTi; Jack Burke the Cedar Lake saloon- ! ; keeper Who is mow a fugitive from j [justice, ksked for a Porter county jury: to try his case in Lake county hoping ! I to escape some of the feeling- that existed a gainst aim in J.ake county, Puit he seems to have been equally j well known in Porter county if the !jnumber of jurymen rejected for cause ! is any criterion. Eight of the neigh- j boring county men who had been sub- iipoenaed to serve had to be rejected j because they frankly told the court and the attorneys that they had already made up tneir minds regarding I Burke. One man from Kouts said j they could talk to him for two weeks j and he would not change his views j about Burke. ' jBurke has no property In his own j name in Lake county now. His Cedar j Bake holdings were transferred to the ! Cedar Lake Country club of which lie I was the president. The $1,5 CM) cash bond which he forfeited by his non-appearance for triai yesterday will go to the county school fund. The county ! however, must still bring suit to col- I loot the remainder of the $3,000 bond !I which he jumped.
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Hammond Lake County Times
Hammond, Indiana, US
Sat, Sep 23, 1916
Page 5
Full Page
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Lake C.
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