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[counties will bring their animals ' here for the exhibit to be held In '| a big tent at the creamery. MARION KILLER PLEADS GUILTY (tytHTINUED FROM PAUS ONE) [county jail at Huntington, made two futile attempts to commit sul- ■ cide in his ceil last night. He [ tore a blanket into strips and tried |to hang himself, but the cloth' I broke wheat he jumped from his I 'col. Jad officials removed all his i

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bcdclothing. A few minutes later they found l''al rubbing his neck against the j iron bedstead in an effort to sever an artery. He was taken from the jail and brought to Marion at once. JOBLESS WAR WITH POLICE !S??’ T1 y* F ° RM PAGE ONE) erious here since the riots of 1921 and the most significant demonstrations in the British isles against reduction of unemployment bene-

fit. Many members of the mob shouted "down with the baby starvers,'’ meaning the national government ministers who reduced the i "dole." John McGovern, laborite member of parliament, who organised the demonstration, was arrested with six others on charges of disorderly conduct. The situation became quieter after 2 a. tn. CAPONE HAS NEW RACKET E P FRUI M PAGE ONE) [agents who furnish table linen for all saloons and others who see that the linens are sent to laundries i where Capone collects a percent- [ age on all work done. Many saloon keepers have been ’reported as going out of business ithe last few weeks because with | Capone having an absolute tnontopoly and collecting a “take” on every dollar the bootleggers either spend or earn, most of the profit is gone from the business. o . POISON TRIAL PROGRESSING .CONTINUE! FROM PAGE ONE) Simmons. After they were packed in a tin box and placed in their auto, they were not reopened by any member of the family until , they reached the picnic grounds. I he said. The only time the poison could have been inserted, Sim mons insisted, was while the auto was parked in front of the home of W. H. Pollard in Leliftnon. It was with members of the • Pollard family that the reunion was held. i As Simmons bared details of the events leading up to the tragedy, i his wife’s composure broke. For the first time since the trial opened. she sobbed. She appeared especially moved | when her husband insisted that i she could not have laid the poison trap. Seated at the counsel table in a new dress and Empress Eugenie hat, she dropped her head in her hands and cried. Elizabeth. seated by her mother's side, tried to comfort her. Ben Scifres, prosecutor, who promised to show that Mrs. Simmons attempted to poison her daughters two weeks before June 21. endeavored to draw an admission from Simmons on this point. The father, however, firmly denied knowledge of any such circumI stance. Coroner G. A. Owsley, who held

the inquest Into, the deaths of Alice Jean and Virginia Simmons, was expected to be the second witness called by the state. After Owsley, the state said it would call the 27 other persons who attended the reunion, including George. Dale and Elizabeth, surviving children of Mr. and Mrs. Simmons. HARTFORD CITY BANK HELD UP AT NOON TODAY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) that he was not injured but was taken “for a fast ride.” All nearby towns and cities were notified concerning the hold-up and state police were dispatched to follow the trail. —, o LINDBERGH’S PLANE CRASHES; NONE INJURED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) thrown through the air. When the spray settled, the plane was lying on its hack in the water. badly wrecked. • It was believed the accident had brought an abrupt end to the Lindbergh's piau to continue their "vacation" jaunt back to the United States by air. Col. Lindbergh, making surveys for flood relief out of Nanking earlier this week, was surrounded Iby - Chinese crowd reported to I have menaced his plane in the belief that he carried food instead of medicines. He was not accompanied by Mrs. Lindbergh at the time. A Chinese doctor and a flood relief official were with him. Lindbergh and his wife have ? made a series of flood surveys for [the Chinese government during ' their visit to China. Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek. Chinese president. presented Lindbergh with China's aviation medal in a simple I | ceremony at Nanking, expressing 1 China's appreciation of Lindbergh’s work for advancement of aviation! and his efforts to aid Chinese flood . sufferers. —. — World’s Biggest Liar ! The damage Dame Rumor causes is often irreparable, though later events prove her to he the world's : greatest liar.—American Magazine —o Room for Expansion The addition of numerals to the old telephone designations fn New York city will allow for expansion of 154 years without making any change In the catalmniins’ system.

Believe Mystery Solved I Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 2. — (U.R) — Finding of Ernest Bevington, 31, in a Chicago hospital suffering gunshot wounds in his back, today was regarded as the solution to a I holdup and gun battle here in which a kidnaped youth was forced to participate. Bevington, on parole from Indi-

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| ana state prison, was believed by | local authorities to have been ehot last Sunday by Archie Gilmore during a highway holdup. Gilmore routed his assailants and fired seven shots at them as they fled. Finding of Bevington was the result of a story told by Burns Fitzpatrick, an Indianapolis higli school boy. Fitzpatrick told police he was kidnaped by two men and forced to drive to Chicago. En-

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route, he said, a roadhouse near Lebanon was robbed by his com panions, and the holdup of Gilmore attempted. After arriving in Chicago the men gave Fitzpatrick money for gasoline and oil and ordered him to return to Indianapolis, he said. Bevington was said to have a record at Mansfield, Ohio. Q uet the Habit— Trad* «t Hems