O.O. Hewitt—Waging War on the Niles Underworld
Orris Oliver Hewitt
Hewitt birth certificaate
Blanche M. Everitt
Hewitt was selected by the Democrat party in 1909 as their mayoral candidate.
1909 city voting ballot for the Democrat, Republican and Socialist candidates and their respective offices.
Photograph of the Niles Police Dept
Niles City Building, erected in 1928, was partly funded by fines against bootleggers.
On August 18, 1926, Hewitt and his family nearly paid with their lives when a blast reverberated through the night and left their home in shambles. The Safety Director, his wife and two children, Lee and Ruth, were asleep when the explosion occurred. Because the bomb had been placed next to a brick pier which supported the porch, the force of the blast was deflected outward, away from the home. Thus no one was seriously injured.
1925 lawsuit by police officer Joseph Gerard against City of Niles and Safety Director, O.O. Hewitt.
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