Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 252, Decatur, Adams County, 26 October 1949 — Page 2

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L *r <2* afotiSlßffißr I ■ I ?v .•# *♦ & ■■& IK & • Kc •W- S . ’ ?Bs* S'.gtnußd l.ngd and wife Pauline in Chicago court. t '■ '.'di^.- * ’ .4 .JeWMI Norman Chrlqulst exhibit* "deep friendship” for Mr#. Engel, THi "WANDERING WOOtt," octogenarian Sigmund Engel, faces jury of six men and six women—half of his wish for an all-woman jury- at Chicago criminal court. He is charged with fleecing a Chicago widow, Mrs. Reseda Corrigan, 39, of $8,700. A# the trial got underway a blonde, wavy-haired man, nattily dressed in blue suit with cream-colored waistcoat and wearing jewelry, sat behind Mrs. Pauline Langton Engel. He told reporters he was Norman Chdquuß, about 40. of New York, and that he came to the trial out oi lux "deep friendship” for Mrs. Engel. (International Soundphotot)

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Wanted Man Held By Minneapolis Police Minneapolis, Oct. 2s. —(VP)— 1 Police today held a 27-year-old Indlanapolis man believed wanted in at least three <>th< r cities Held for investigation was Benjamin L/Bocoi-h who first said his name »W Walter Lundley, Detroit Police said Rococh was picked up on suspicion of planning to rob a downtown bar. I Police said the other suspect was released. A gun nnd shells were fund in Rococh's hotel room Police said lie may be wanted' In Milwaukee. Detroit nnd Philadelphia. — An ele trie dock-radio is on the market. The compa't platicsen cased < omblnation can he stood on its base or hung on the wall.

Widow Testifies At Engel's Trial Relates Fleecing By Elderly Lover Chicago. Oct. 20 — (t’Pi— A pretty red haired widow charged tr> day that suave Rlginund Engel. 73. kissed her rlae 4-*4 feet, swept her off the m, and then took oft with her , $8,700 savings Mrs. Reseda Corrigan insisted it was exactly $8,700, not just ss.ooo, that the alleged love swindler took from her as defense attorney Allan Bloch cross-examined her at Engel’s trial on charges of operating . a confidence game. Engel was yet to testify before the jury of six men and six women in his own defense. He was expected to make his main pitch In a display of charm to the panel's six feminine members During a recess in the trial, however. he denied Mrs. Corrigan's charges and said she was “a liar — no, that's impolite, let's make it a I gold-digger.” During her testimony, given with a naive abandon of girlish flutter!ness, Mrs. Corrigan blusblngly told how Engel piled her with lavish I compliments. ' He kissed my fingers and ears." she said breathlessly, holding her hands up for the jury to see. "Then he kissed my feet—they're alxe | 4-L#. you know." Most of her testimony yesterday : was directed to the nattily-dressed I Engel who coughed reproachfully I from time to time but returned a steady gaze at her Bloch tried to show that $5,000 ' was all Engel took from her but . Mrs. Corrigan insisted she gave I him $3,700 additional from a money j box In her home. The prosecution produced the box and everybody looked It over without explaining what they expected to see. Mrs. Corrigan blithely rattled on. j despite efforts of prosecution and defense attorneys to make her stick to the main line of questioning. tdling how Engel accosted her on Michigan Avenue and told her she looked like his dead mother From then on. romance flamed ; and they soon were engaged to . wed He said he was a Hollywood producer and owned a 35-room house, and a 1.04949 acre ranch with many servants, including four chauffeurs and two cooks, she said. Once they saw a movie wi:h a , credit line listing the producer as Sam Engel "That’s me," she said he told her. ( He goes by the nickname of Sam Because he didn't want to have ( friends think he was marrying a , "poor woman." he showed her big checks made out to her and her two daughters He said they would be deposited in California banks to her ’ credit. Just before they were to be married, he suggested she turn her savings over to him. she said. He lost some of his charm when they . went to the hank to draw out the . $5,000. I She was a little slow writing the figure into a withdrawal slip and he hurried her. testily saying: "one more zero. Reseda, one more." When the cashier handed him the cash in SIOO bills as specified by Engel, she said the sllvery-halred Lothario swooped It up and stuffed It into his pocket. "I never even had my bands on ? it.” she said " Before they cculd be married. , she xald. Engel disappeared She tried to trace him down in New I York on the basis of a telephone call from him but returned, heart- . broken, after eight days spent j walking the streets of Manhattan and sleeping on hard railroad ataj tion benches. r Engel wa# captured later after be 1 allegedly tried to work a fleece 1 scheme on another Chicago widow who notified her sisterin law. a policewoman, and had him arrest- ” ed [• —- ■■ 1r ~ ’ /oiwK " w ' w A : JB i, yw A i hU L--aJsv ■ , COMMANOIR Os the Sixth Task I Fleet in the Mediterranean. Vice * Adm. Forreet Sherman tabovet, J is reported to be a pauibibty for » Chief of Naval Operations in care J Adm. Louis Denfeld leaves as re- » suit nt unification squabbles. Ac* J cording to Washington report? | Sherman i> strongly In saver of ’■ MfiiAcaUofi, (JnfarMtieas/l.

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I f ~ Tangled Crime Case Again To Governor Lobaugh Attorney ‘ Meets Schricker Indianapolis, Oct. 2G-(UP> — I Indiana's most tangled crime case ■ came to governor Schrlcker'a at - tention again today, ju<t one month r before one of its key figures Is r scheduled to be electrocuted. Attorney Ralph Buhler of Fort I Wayne, who represents both Ralph > Izibaugh and Franklin Click, visited the governor's office and talked - with Schricker. . Executive secretary Arthur ' Campbell said Buhler did mil a«k i the governor to stay Lobaugh'# execution, which has been postpon- ! «d seven times. I*obaugh Is sched- , uled to die Nov. 2S. "Mr. Buhler didn't ask for any action today,” said Campbel). "There isn't much to be done until the situation Is a little clearer” In 1947. Lobaugh walked into the ‘ Kokomo police station and confess-. : ed he killed Wilheima Haaga. Anna i ’ Kuzeff and Dorothea Howard at Fort Wayne in 1944 and 1915. ' Lobauth repudiated the confessions but pleaded guilty when brought to trial ’ r Last summer Click, being held for a rape, confessed the Haaga* and Kuzeff murders and added a 1 new one. that of Phyllis Conine He is awaiting trial. ’ A third man. Robert V. Christen.] I

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Watts Reindicted On Murder Charge Indianapolis Negro Faces Second Trial Shelbyville, Ind . Oct .25— (UP» Robert Austin Watts today sac-, ed a second trial tor a 1947 murder afier a believed unprecedented re-' indictment '■ A Shelby county grand jury yes--1 terday indicted Watt# on two counts, first-degree murder and i murder while attempting to perpetrate a rape, in connection with ' the murder of Mrs. Mary Lois l Burney. Mrs Mary Lois Burney was killed in her northside Indianapolis home nearly two years ago Watts ’ was indicted for murder by a Marlon county grand jury, and was 1 ' convicted and sentenced to die in Shelby circuit court, after a change j of venue. I The I’. S supreme court voided the conviction because Watts' con-1 I stitutional rights were violated. i and special judge William F Marshall last week threw out the' Marion county indictment because f he raid negroes were "systematically excluded" from the grand jury ‘ ( Watts, a 27-yearold negro, picked Shelby county when he was given , a chance to select the grand jury, . to consider the charge) against I him One important piece of evidence admitted in the first trial which

win not be used In the eecond wax Watt's alleged confession of Mrs. Burnay'a murder. Ills attorney# said police brutality was used to obtain the confesrlun, and the supreme court sustained them. - ■ Some kangaroos live in trees, and can jump as far as 50 feet to the ground, the World Book Ency clopedia reports. * o THI MAN who Com muni ted postwar Hungary—Gregor! H. Pushkin—now is in Berlin as chief of the Soviet diplomatic mission to the new East German republic. He is behlnd-sccnes string puller for Moscow. (International)

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