Herald-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 October 1920 — Page 1

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SINGLE COPIES. 5 CENTS. ilUNTHE LEMAY TRIAL IS SELECTED

>| \T EM ENTS OF ATTORNEYS K>K PROSECT TION AND FOR KEFENSK MARKED OPENING OK THE SECOND DAYS TRIAL of CLAY COUNTY FARMER , H VRGED WITH MURDER

A strictly funner jury will give the veTict in the ease of the Stat e of Indiana against Lewis D Leinay of Clay County, eharced with the mur. iler of William Law-son, a neighbor last January 8. Late Monday afternoon the jury ,vas accepted hy both th ( , prosecut. ion and the defense, Th . men on the jury are: Will Hanna Ab Sigler (' B. Knauer Fred St eel „ John Williams Frwl Stoner George Coffman T J. McKeehan Rcsh Akers Joe Brackney .kdui Akers Alfred Cooper Th r se lection of the jury was com ilc.ed on Monday afternoon and jwhen court waA caller to order this jnoming the statements of the ease . the prosecution and by the do. ^ 'fcr.se were heard. The state, through Fay Hamilton, i.unty prosecuting attorney, declar. fd that it would be proved that Le_ may simply waylaid his neighbor anil murdered him while the defence in p statement declared that the kill. Al- was i n self defense. Attorney .raig of Brazil who spoke for th ( , dc. Vi se stated that Lawson was killed ater he had threatened the life of ■may ami after he had started to. sard I.emay with a club, as if he -ere going to attack him. He also Wined out that Lawson was armed -:th a revolver and said that the only leason that I.emay happened to he ji-med was that he was carrying a (hot gun with which to hunt rabbits. The case tried once before resulted " a hung jury, seven of the jurymen ■'ng for conviction and five for ae.

jnittal.

Lemay’s wife is seated with him Kh day at the table of his attor. *ys, while a brother of .the victim the hooting occupies a place at i! table of the prosecuting attorney, iinay has been in jail continuously bee January 8, the day of the kill. IF. After ho had shot Lawson he r n t to Brazil and gave himself up, wson died about 8 hours after he'

i shot

A HOME NEWSPAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE

BURNED $1,000 IN WAR SAVIND STAMPS, HE SAYS

FRIDAY, HHPTKUUfcU 17. 192» PROSECUTION WITNESSES ON STAND IN TRIAL

HENRY SNIDER, WHO LIVES IN COMMERCIAL PLACE TELLS OFFICERS THAT HIS WIFE, FLORA BELLE SNIDER DES. TROVE!) STOLEN PROPERTY— W \RR\NT SWORN OCT FOR HER ARREST—MOTHER OF DEWEA SNIDER, NOW IN JAIL ON BURGLARY CHARGE

FRANKLIN ). 0. OAMMACK UNITED STATES ROOSEVELT ■ IS ELECTED TO MARINE BAND

SCHOOL HOARD,

IS COMING

democratic cvndiratk for VICE PRESIDENT W ILL BE IN GREENt ASTI.E FOR SPEECH ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER II —WILL CREATE MUCH EN. THUSIASAI

Franklin D Rootuvelt, Democratic candidate for Vice President, will j come t f * Greencastle Thutsday, October 14, for a political address. Mr. Roosevelt will he in Greencastle at noon. Local Democrats are now at work or. arrangements for the meeting, which no doubt, will he tht

T THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE (TTY COUNCIL ON TUESDAY NIGHT, MR CAMM A A Tv \\ VS ELECTED TO THE SCHOOL ROVRD FROM GREENCASTLE TOWNSHIP - NORTHWOOD WAS INCORPORATED

The city council met-in it’s regular meeting on Tuesday night, with May or Bartley, city clerk McGaughey, city attorney Alice and councilmen Abrams. Smith, W iiliams and ODan.

tel present,

.1. ^O. Cammack was re elected to the school board for a term of two

More than 81,000 in War Savings Stamps, evidently stolen in a post office robbery, wer e burned in' the kitchen stove by Mrs, Flora Belle I Snider wif.e of Henty Snider, who lives in Commercial place, a short time ago, according to a statement made j lu county Sheriff Howard Harris, by , Henry Snider, Monday, following the j unearthing Sunday of it lot of stolen | property at the Snider home, east of

town.

t Sheriff Howard Harris and his de. puty Fred Lancaster are responsible , for the discovery, Sunday, of it lot of ' stolen property at the Snider home, ’ For more than two weeks, Flora 1 Belle Snide", who is lit,, mother of ■ Dewey Snider, now held in jail on a I charge of burglary, has been visiting ■ her son almost daily. AYlien Snider was arrested, a lot of ^ stolen property and many stamps [ ami i few saving stamps wore found

| in his room.

Sheriff Harris believing that he might Uarn some facts regarding the robbery by listening to th,, eon. versation between the mother and

l son. did same detective work and got

I into a position in which he could hear

FAMOUS Ml SIC AL ORGANIZAT. n mothei and ION TO GIVE CONC ERT IN SI)I) , ]„ (Jjj s way he seeure,| some ( v. lilt,II SCHOOL Bl II.DINT, ON idence which led Sunday to a search

] of the Snider home,

i Sheriff Harris, Marshall O’Hair j .-'nd Prosecuting attorney Fay Ham. i ilton mad, up the Sunday searching Band 1 nartv Th chicken house fi-st was

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EVIDENCE WOULD SHOW THAT DIKE LEMAY WAITED FOR VIC TIM AND THAT HE SHOT HIM IN COLD BLOOD—BROTHER OF VICTIM IS ON THE STAND 1 0 Evidence of Charles Johnson, a farmer, .in the case of the State of Indiana against Lewis D. (Dike) I.emay, charged with the murder of William Lawson, a Clay county farm er, last January, would tend to show that I.emay waited behind a tree for Lawson to come along the road and that after Lawson had passed, that the latter followed up behind and shot him with little if any warn-

ing.

Johnson asw one of the early witnesses for the State. He and his wife were among the first to reach the scene of the killing. After assisting in caring for the injured man and assisting in carrying him to a nearby home, Johnson returned to the scene of the shooting. There was snow on the ground and Johnson testified that he, upon reach ing the scene, made an examination of the foot prints in the snow He says he found the foot prints of I.emay, which indicated that he had come across a field and stood behind a tree, untill Lawson had driven down the road past him Then ho says the tracks of Lentay crossed the road ami into the field on the other side of the road and then down to where he stood when he shot Lawson, II savs that Lawsons foot prints in the snow indicated that he was walking along beside the wagon in which he was hauling props. Lemay says that Lawson, at the time of the controversy, walked from his wagon ♦owned l emay for ten or twelve vards. then returned to hi« wagon and got the club and stalled toward

will ^i\e a concert in the Auditorium (searched and 1,002 two cent *ta np*

of the High School building on the | and .‘Jf* ot\e cent stamps were found j ( ' om, D * '‘g un

ERI.VND AUTO PRICED REDUCED

pe Overland ears are the second to * » tumble in prices. Following , anonuncement last week of Hen* Ford of a big reduction in prices frord cars, the Overland company 'V in the Herald is announcing a rediktion in the price of its cars, elNiiw Freshman Kirt*. wearing w hite stocking and one black -lung, with a black shoe on the ^te stocking leg and a white shoe the black stocking leg, created 5 * lot of comment on the down. 1 Creels this morning. The girls c w i‘i , e hundreds of them were sv ’ n| f out the edict of the upper kill m appearing in the hum* " dress. Green hair-ribbons, al* , ete in evidence on the hair of the

shfiwn girls.

meeting, which no '^t wi . ne ne to r , preswt Greencastle town

hijree c t political ovi‘nt of the •

campaign in Putnam county | ^ ordinance hy which Northwood

was incorporated passed It aws not

TAGGART PLEADS FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS

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PORTLAND lud,, Sept. 2<J.-In a ringing plea here this forenoon Thomas Taggart, Democratic candidate for United States senator who is on a campaign tour of this part cd Indiana, advocated the adoption of the League of Nations covenant. “I know you have had enough of war”, h^ said, “The people ar 0 sick at heart over the sacrifices th-y have had to make in the last war. It is an awful thing to have a member of oatfamily taken from the circle and stood up in his innocens,. to be shot at by the enemy. The awfulness of such a thing becomes more crushing to those who have a heart when we reflect that such a thing would be im posible in the future had it not been for the partisan madness of men.” (Quotes Wltkersham’a Stand “Mr Taggart recalled how George W. Wickersham, formerly attorney general in President Taft’s cabinet, had been sent ove seas to gather facts against the covenant, and how be had come, back converted to the principles of the League. He quoted Mr. Wickersham as follow-:

George R. Grot* was in Ind* jpolis Tuesday to attend a meet* the State board of Education, p 5 * Ismise Chamberlain of Newton n*/ i* here the guest of her c«*u_ I “Lss Glenn and Mi*s Jean Ham*

Mclerrani* Pettijohn of Haute was here today visiting r °ther, L F, Chapin and othe*!,Vm and friends. Matcher who live* on Fox * w s ‘‘riously fll of annendlcitis

definitely decided, but it is thought that the subdivision will be divided between the first and second wards. It was decided however that the residents of Northwood would vote lu north Greencastle Township »t the fall election, as they have already

registered in that precinct

A special meeting of the council was called for Wednesday night, to hear any -emonstrance that might be made against the tux levy for Greencastle city, which was passed at the last meeting of the council. It is necesary however that twenty people tile remonstrances before steps can be taken to have the order repealed. Mrs W'. L. Denman, and J, W. Herod were granted permission to cut through the curb in front of

their homes for drains.

Dennis Curran was granted perinis sion to build a garage at hri home on

Ohio street.

A petition of Walter Lear, to have a street light installed in front of his home on North Indiana street was g-anted. It was decided to move the light f-om Locust street near the Sigma Chi House and the Camnus cottage. This action was taken when it was shown bv councilman Smith that the University students residing near this light never alloy.* it to burn over two nights without breaking it.

afternoon of October 11. This band j The officers also found some silver has not been away from Washington i ware stolen from the Devam y home in five years but is noy on a tour of j west of town an,| other stolen prop, the country It consists of fiTCy J erty. A 850 suit of clothing stolen pieces and is regarded as the great. I from the Devancv home west of town est band in America. It has lead ] also was found. It had been burled every inaugural parade since the time ' in a tin box in th . garden, of Thomas Jefferson, The average ^ In the meantime, Flora Belle Snid. length of service of the members er had left Greencastle, It is said now composing it is eighteen years. | that she deserted her husband and (left town with nnotho" man. Th t . offi

I cels have sworn out warrants for her I arrest and for ihi a rest of the man j who is supposed to be with her. ' Following the discovery of the stol.

URGE VOTERS TO REOISTER

CHAIRMAN ADVISE THAT ALL WHO CAN COME TO HKAD-

QU \RTEKS THIS WEEK

on property at th e Snider home. Mu, Snider was questioned and from him the offiee’-s learned that Mrs. Snider had. a few days ago, burned about $L0D0 worth of War Saving* Stamps

in her kitchen stove.

It has been believed that Dewey Snider, who now is in jail had been connected with a postoffice robbery , but a-s he aws staying at the home of

Monday. October 4. is the la-t day Snidor , north of town , at t h«

tim e of his arrest, and as much stol. en property was found there, th< mothr was not connected with the affair at that time. She had beer questioned hy th,. officers but ha«'

for regiistration of voters The Democratic county central commit* tee urge that this matter be attended o early Registration blanks may be to early. Registration blanks may be

week and will bo filed by the com. any fcnowjedgp of the robber mittee on Monday. Persons may call ' . wh|ire atnlutft tl f th-

Johnson says that the foot prints of Lawson did not show that he had advanced toward Lemay. A brother of I/iwson and another man who reached the scene soon after the shooting t* stifled that Lawson. after he was shot, stated that Lemay had shot him without provo-

cation.

The state closed its ease at near 2 o’clock this afternoon and the defense. after a statement by atttomey Craig, who represents the defense started to introduce its evidence. The theory of the’ defense is that Law. son had repeatedly threatened the life of Lemay and that Lemay shot Lawson after the other had started toward him as if to attack him. The defense. Mr. Craig said, also would introduce evidence to completely break down the “Track" evidence, as it had witnesses to prove that manyother persons h ad passed along the road prior to the time of the shooting, while the State alegod that the tracks made by Lemay an t j Lawson were the only ones which showed in the road,

at Democratic headquarters and se-

cure these blanks

If you desire to vote, you must. j-egi'U-i' on or before October 4.

first fire of fall SHINGLE ROOF ON FIRE

“The only posibl,. guarantee again st war and anarchy is international orderand the recognition of internal ion«l law. This guarante e can only be effected by the alliance of all the nat. ions showing a common ideal animat

DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS ARE LARGELY ATTENDED

Democratic meetings held Tuesday

ions snuwinK ** in Floyd township, Brunerstow,, an i e,) with a common purpose who can Broa dpark were largely attended and .1. _ a l.. •• T)»wv»"vl g) Vl'TV wH(*l*(* I ■ a- T II Turvxaa n fYll

e t j wan » minr--BroAaparK wt-ir . trust each other, Peopl ( , everywhere , (l(Ubu<ia , tk .. j 0 hn H. James ami are looking to America to give them j Thc0 d 0r<1 Crawley spoke at Center •« . .. * a. \T.vht

ies or of the where abouts of th-

stolen property.

It is believe^ that Flora Belle Snid er and her compar.ion will be arrest rd before many hours. Slowly bu' surely, the police and officers, arsecuring evidence, which probably will in thd, end unearth th p band of thieves, which have robbed nmnv

■ - Putnam county homes and which has The fire department was called to been implicated in postoffice rob. the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvanus beries, Vermillion, corner of Indiana and Poo | ——

lar street at 2:JO o clock this after, noo to extinguish a blaze which had started o n the roof from a spark •

from the chimney The fire was ex 1 Claude Loren Riddle, 2$, Putnam tinguish-d by a bucket brigade form County and Vernie Jane Mall, IS), ed of University students before the Putnam County.

MARRIAGE LICENSE

Ore department arrived

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Pierey L- Sinclair t* a! to Minnie E Sinclair, Land in Clovcniale tp.. *1. Minnie E. Sinclair to Frederick A, Sinclair, land in Cloverdale tp. $1, Minnie E, Sinclair to Pi-rcy L. Sinclair, laud in Cloverdale tp., 51. James A Croxton to Everett M. Ijarkin, land in Cloverdale tp $6,000. United States to John Hammond,

land in Greencastle township.

U.-.ited Sfiti- to Ei.uc- Wood,

land in Gleencastle township

United States to Michael Dinivan

land in Warren township

United States to Aaron Ingram,

land in Warren township.

United States to Worthington B Williams, land in Warren township. United States to James Gillmore.

this guarantee.

The former senator continued on hi* tour from here and will wind no with « big mess meeting al Decalu:

tonight

School Hoasc, Floyd township. Matt J Murphy and Andrew Durham spoks at Brunerstown and C, C. Gillen and Mrs, Winfield Johnson

spoke tit Breadpark.

LISTEN, BROTHER!

o„, at* c.™™

not have to spend any money on 1,1,1 ’ " , , , .. CHir VCO. IS.-T.on,,' I« “«

The slogan of the state highway

two hot^l owners today agreed to j cut their restaurant prices from 25 !

to 33 1-3 percent Vegetables, fruits e-immisrinn seems to be “Boys spend

and cer.-uls will be cut tha most. the mo .ey."

Nohidy will have to use a lantern to find out where Thomas Taggart stands -n thr Teague of Nation.-,