Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1960 — Page 3

The Indianapolis Recorder, Jan. 2,1960

Ice Pick Slayer

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Mrs. Dyer, who lost several teeth and suffered a fractured nose and severe cuts and lacerations during the attack, came upstairs to talk to her husband about the officers’

visit.

sergeant said, he got into the | "I came down out of the attic Buick, While Sgt. Dehn drove the || Robinson said, "and told Peggy I police car. They went back to | wanted to talk to her.” He said Mrs. Dyer’s home.| Dyer jumped on him and "I had The detectives were met at the | the ice pick in my pocket, I took door by Mrs. Dyer, who said Rob- | it out, then I blacked out.” He has inson had just left the house and | told officers repeatedly he doesn’t had "stabbed Boobby.” | remember stabbing Dyer or anyThe officers found Dyer’s life- | thing that happened until he ran less body sprawled in the upstairs | out of the house. hallway. | Mrs. Dyer tried to intervene and After fleeing the murder scene | was stabbed twice in the back. Robinson stopped at the West | Her brother, Paul Reeves who atstreet address and told Die occu-| tempted to stop Robinson as he pants, “If the police come looking | fled was also stabbed, for me, I’ll be waiting for them at | Mrs. Louise Stratton; the slain 516 Bernard ” | man’s mother-in-law, said she While being questioned, Robin- | heard her daughter scream and ran son said he had parked the ear and | upstairs. "When I went into the come back to the house about 6:30 | room," Mrs. Stratton related, "I A. M., slipped in through the un- | saw Jerry up on the bed on his locked front door and gone to the | knees stabbing Bobbie. I screamed attic and fallen asleep. | for my husband (Walter Stratten) He said he was awakened when | and Paul, and Jerry seemed to get a hold of himself. He got up and ran into the bathroom. Paul ran after him and

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Born at Greensburg, Ky., Mr. Shively had lived in Indianapolis 46 years. For 42 years he was a meat packer at Kingan’s, and for several years he was treasurer of the Meat Packers Union. He was a member of Fidelity Masonic Lodge. Survivors include the wife, Mrs. Theresa Shively,

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l saw Jerry strike Paul in the face with the ice pick and I screamed ‘Don’t you stab him any more,” Mrs. Statten related According to the woman, Robinson then bolted downstairs and

out the front door.

In Municipal Court Room 4 Monday he waived a preliminary hearing and was bound over to the Grand Jury on a first-degree murder charge. He is being held without bail in the County Jail.

RIGHT IN HIS OWN BACK YARD: Minutes after he told his wife's friend, "I'll be waiting when you get back," Siel Davis lay dead in his own back yard, gunned down while his 12-year-old son stood helplessly by. Charged with the slaying is James Farley who had argued with Davis over the latter's wife. Mrs. Davis quoted the gunman as saying, "Yeah, I killed him, and I ought to shoot him again " (Recorder photo by Jim Burres)

ICE PICK VICTIM: Slain in a savage ice pick attack during which his wife and brother-in-law were wounded, Robert Dyer lies sprawled at the top of the stairs of his home, 2402 Guilford. The accused slayer, Jerry Robinson, 7 I 0 N. West, told police he stabbed Dyer after he "jumped on me " Mrs. Dyer was treated for injuries she received when Robinson beat her with a wrench the night before the fatal fight. (Recorder photo by Jim Burres)

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Funeral services for Mrs. Frances | His life suspension lifted in a |THE CASE AROSE as a result I 23, told Homicide Detectives Leon-i a United and Strong NAACP in E. Coble, 69, were held on Dec. 17 | precedent-setting legal maneuver,'| of a recommendation by City| ard Stanley McDonald and Will | Indianapolis.'

in Jacobs Brothers Westside | a 31-year-old Eastside man can | Court Judge C. V. Malan of Nobles- liam Kaiser that Farley had come

Chapel with burial in Floral Park | drive again. | ville that Thomas’ right to drive | to the house while his parents' cemetery. She died on Dec. 14 in | be suspended for life. The recom- | were shopping. her home, 877 w. 29th | The Bureau of Motor Vehicles | mendation followed the Indianap- | “HE RETURNED.” the youth ]

granted the license of James E. | olis man's conviction for operating |said, “a short time later after my Born at Tullahoma, Tenn, Mrs. | Thomas, 2242 Hovey, on Monday | while under influence in August, | mother and father had returned Coble had lived in Indianapolis 51 | after institution of contempt pro-| 1957. | home.

years and was a member of Mt. | ceedings and filing of a writ of | A judge's recommendation in |"He asked mother to come over

Old-timers had to search their memories of the 1940’s to recall a similar turnout at an NAACP election. Even in losing, Ramsey received many more votes than a winner usu-

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L. Niblack ruled the life suspen-| couldn't go unless he said so"| tual Temple for Rev. Burton. sion as enforced by the bureau was |According to young Davis state- | Other speakers for Ramsey were illegal and was, in fact, a suspen-|ment, Farley then started an argu-| Attys. Willard B. Ransom and Patsion for a year only.| ment and the pair argued through| rick E. Chavis, Jr. Thomas’s subsequent request for| the house and out into the back.| For Burton, the oratorical firea license was refused on the| After a few minutes the boy| works were turned on by Atty. rounds of the suspension. The bu- | said Farley broke off the quarrel| Henry J. Richardson Jr., and Rev. reau, however, later reconsidered | and told Davis he was going home | B. T. Almon, pastor of New Baptist and granted Thomas his license. |to get his gun. | Church.

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legality and constitutionality of a life suspension has been raised under the 1957 statute. They labeled such suspensions "arbitrary and capricious unless specifically authorized by statute and done in such a manner as to protect one’s liberty under the 14th Amend-

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tioned more frequently,” they add- | argument

"Daddy told him, I'll be here when you get back."

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Charles, the oldest of eight children, said.

A few minutes later, the slain man’s wife sent him after some coal and when he started out the door Farley was

sitting in his car in the alley. Mr. Farley got out of his car,

Charles said.

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argument resumed and I heard | Ramsey, Rev. Andrew J. Brown.

ed, "our constitutional rights would | Daddy call Mr. Farley a liar sev- | Henry J. Richardson, Jr., Mrs. be fully protected against any and | eral times. | Jean Stephanie, Rev. H. L. Burton, all administrative and underocratic | Mr. Farley said, Don't you call | Rev. George Tate, Mrs. Essie Ray,

me a liar’ and reached into his | Gerold Baumann, Herman Walker, back pocket and pulled out a re- | Mrs. Lillia Adams, Atty. L. Aldvolver. | ridge Lewis, Jr., Charles S. Pres"Daddy grabbed his arm and | ton, Mrs. Gertrude Gibson, Mrs. Mr. Farley shot three times while | Virgia Davis, Oscar E. Banks. my dad held onto his arm. He fell | Others who will also be named

NASHVILLE, Tenn, (ANP)—The| after the second shot and Farley | are Miles H. Loyd, Ernest Davis 35-year sentence of a 12-year-old| fired a third time as he slumped | Moses Gibson, Rev. Alexander Berboy convicted of "raping” a white| to the ground. | nard, Norman B Gesner, Mrs. Elizgirl has been reduced to ten years. | I SAW FIRE JUMP out of it | abeth Ray, Earle Barnette, ChandJoseph Westmoreland’s sentence| three times and heard it go off | ler Houston, Jasper Burton, Mrs. was cut by a criminal court jury| three times." The boy struggled| Barbara Smith, Mrs. Lillian Walafter the state Attorney General's |to hold back tears as he described| lace, Mrs. Beatrice Martin and Mrs. office requested a new trial be-| seeing his father who had come | Enez Tanner. J cause of the boy’s age.| here with his family from Ala- | Miss Irene Lewis, Miss Alice RutThe youth will remain at the| bama two years ago shot to death. |land and Mrs. Evelyn Kimble, this state reformatory for Negro boys| Davis' widow, Mrs. Mary Lee | city, and Mrs. Thelma Motley, until he is 13 years old. At that| Davis, hearing the shot ran out |Bridgeport: a son, Herschel Rut-

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Charles Daugherty. Farley was bound over to the Marion County Grand Jury on a first-degree murder charge and was ordered held without bound in the County Jail He served 10 years in the Kentucky state prison for manslaughter and was convicted of assault and battery with intent to murder

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RECORDER EDITOR Marcus C. Stewart Sr., who accompanied a reporter to the scene, later took | the family a Christmas tree and several bags of groceries to keep their Christmas from being entirely

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Funeral arrangements for Davis had not been completed Tuesday, but plans were to return the body to Alabama for burial.

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Funeral services for Mrs. Selesta B. Rutland, 80, 917 W. 33rd, were held Dec. 26 in New Era Baptist Church, where she was a member, with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Survivors include four daughters,

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