Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1920 — Page 17

CHORUS GIRL S “MURDER PROBE LEADS TO CITY Her Husband, William Stockwell, Quizzed by Police After Slaying in Cleveland. By DICK FARRINGTON, Cleveland’s sensational chorus girl murder mystery yesterday led to Indianapolis. William B. Stockwell, 22, 1031 Bates street,'' is the husband of Frances Altman Stockwell, the jead girl. He married her in Philaielphia May 24, 1919, when he was a jailor and she was a dancing, rollickteg little miss in the chorus of "The London Belles.” But Is was an unhappy marriage. Love UitteU after a few weeks. l * An estrangement came between them. They parted and Stockwell claims he hadn’t seen her for many months. Mrs. Stockwell’s body was found In a snow bank In the rear of a rooming house In Cleveland last Sunday. She had been struck a blow on the face. The Cleveland coroner claims the blow did not kill her. But she fell pnconscious in the snow and died in the cold. SAILOR SOUGHT IN’ SLAYING. A sailor is being sought. The Cleveland police claim she was last seen in company with a man in a naval uniform as she left her hotel. That was on Saturday night. Mrs. Stockwell was supposed to catch a midnight, train for Detroit, where she was to appear with her show at a burlesque house. The supposition is her sailor suitor Quarreled with her before she got to the depot. He struck her. She was rendered unconscibus and believing her dead deposited her body in the snow bank back of the rooming house. Stockwell had nothing to do with the crime. . He has accounted for every minute during the time his wife was last seen and when her body was found. INDIANAPOLIS MAN TELLS HIS STORY. Stockwell works for the Weidley Motors Company. He worked last Saturday until noon. In the afternoon he helped his aunt in her boarding house at 1031 Bates street, where he has lived for fifteen years. He helped her out again oi* Saturday night. Sunday he was around tije house the same, as usual. The young man unfolded a sad love tale to the detectives. He married Frances, then Frances Alton, after a ‘“wild light.’’ in Philadelphia, be said. But he oved her, he claims. “She loved me, too, for a short time,” stockwell told the police, “but soon forfot our matrimonial bonds. She began o run around. I left her when T was liseharged from the Bay Ridge training amp." Stockwell gave the detectives some inormatiou winch-may prove valuable in unning down the slayer. He said thnt .'Hite he was still living with his wife he kept company with a sailor nalned mith from Bay Ridge station. NOTIIEIt SAILOR N THE CASE. Another sailor whose name he wa§, unble to recall wrote her asking her to o to 523 State street. New York City, nd live with him. This letter, along, r Ith others, he claims found their way! uto the hands of the chaplain at Bay Jitfge station. The Cleveland police may olve the mystery if they get these Jeters. he says. The man who wrote the letter, Stockwell asserts, was a warrant machinist in he navy. \ Stockwell says that one quarrel he had r lth his wife was after the machinist ad accused her of stealing $35 from him. Louis Sobul, a newsboy, told the Cleveand police that lie was selling papers in ront of the Hotel Moreland Saturday igbt when he saw the chorus girl and sailor leave the building. He said they ttracted his attention because they were aurreling. iMrs. Blanche Mack, Stockweli’s aunt, here be has lived since his mother led, sixteen years ago. today told bow r liliam had been lured away from home y “bad boys." “He was 16 years old when his friends old him I was too strict withtbim,” she aid. “He said he was going away and few days later he told me he had oined the navy. He served four years nd was discharged. “He went to work for the Weidley impany when he came back, and it as not long before the world war broke it. He then went back inte the, navy. was duringg the last naval enlistment lat he met Miss Alton and married her. “The whole thing is most unfortunate, id I am sure he regrets it as much I do.” ocialists’ Hearing Over Till Tuesday ALBANY. X.,Y., Feb. 6.—The invest!gan into the live unseated socialist memrs of the assembly adjourned late ‘sterday until Tuesday. The state had actically finished its presentation of e case against the socialists and the sense will begin when the judiciary mmittee resumes the hearings next ek.

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MARRIAGE LICENSES Warren Earl Bidaman, 29, material clerk for the George A. Fuller Company, ;md Julia Elizabeth Heres, 27, 2060 Ruckle Alfred J. Hines, 20, soldier at Camp Sheridan, and Mathilda Hubuer, 24, telephone operator, 1154 North Belle Vieu Place. DEATHS Lena Groves. 58, 512 Douglas, cerebral hemorrhage. George Dyer, 54. 2251 Central, broncho pneumonia. Dinma Center, 45, 234 Eust Wyoming, pulmonary tuberculosis. Sam Goodson, 61, City hospital, influenza pneumonia. Gladys Helen Reese, 2, 629 North East, broncho pneumonia. Rachel Wells, 25, 502 Blackford, broncho pneumonia. James Albert Stockdale, 52, 3350 North Capitol. lobar pneumonia. Mabel Birdie Brooner, 32, 1942 Hovey, lobar pneumonia. Sarah Pace, 73, City hospital, hypostatic pneumonia. Louis F. Hess, 34, 124 Hancock, influenza. Fred McQuay, 46, 20 Fair building, influenza pneumonia. Jennie Eliza Johnson, 65, 2248 Pierson, broncho pneumonia. Mary Berberieh, 64, 1033 East Ohio, influenza pneumonia. Theodore Bauer, 63, 1122 Windsor, chronic interstitial nephritis. Mano Abbott, 77. 1706 Barth, chronic bronchitis. Pauline Dickerson, 1, 228 South Noble,' ileocolitis. j Mary Adkinson, 64, 5789 Bonna, pulmo- j nary tuberculosis. Myrtle Tyson, 20, Methodist hospital, broncho pneumonia. Infant Barthalomew, —. City hospital, premature birth. Julia Marshall, SO, 2425 Manlove, bral hemorrhage. Infant McHenry, —, 712 North Alabama, premature birth. James Tyson. 35, Methodist hospital, broncho pneumonia. Cora Adams, 21, City hospital, broncho pneumonia. Sarah Thomas, 4 months, 523 Coffey, tubercular meningitis. Ruby Lenore Williams. 84, 840 North Hamilton, lobar pneumonia. Isaac Burrell, 52, 530 Division, mitral insufficiency." Jacob Kira, 79, City hospital, lobar pneumonia. Rosemary Haley, 4, 2301 Nowland, scar- , let fever. Bridget Ryan, 77, 1535 Sheldon, arterlo I sclerosis. Frank Wilson, 41. 217 West Thirteenth, lobar pneumonia. Dorothea May Smith, 1, 1605 Northwestern, broncho pneumonia. Gertie Borders, 43, 15 North Keystone, influenza. James L. Danforth, 45, Central Insane hospital, pzresis. births” Frank and Artona Waters, 1942 Cornell, girl. William and Elizabeth Hansen, 1527 South East, girl. Carl and Gertrude Sobbe, 412 Irving place, boy. Orlando and Carolyn North, 606 Cottage. girl. , Jobii and Anna Smith, 523 East Minnesota. boy. Peter ana Edna Elf era, 1520 South Randolph, boy. James and Fern Overman, 333 East Orange, gifll. 'Raymond and Mary Luicbinger, 1023 North New Jersey, boy. Walter and Katherine Mohr, 951 East Morris, girl.

GOVERNOR PUTS TAX LAW BLAME ON LOCAL MEN Faulty administration of the tax law Is due to failures on the part of local officials tnd not on the part of tho state board of tax commissioners, Gov. Goodrich said yesterday in a speech e.t. the opening session of the annual conference of county assessors at the statehouse. He declared that if all local'officials had done their duty horizontal Increases in valuations would not have beeu necessary. The governor was assigned the subject, “Tax Legislation.’’ He explained that be would not talk about future legislation because the principal problem of taxation now is the administration of the present law 1 . ,_“I hove heard a great deal about mistakes in the administration of the tax law," be said. “I have beard criticism of every one who has bad anything to do with the law. from the township assessor to the state tax board,-and the criticisms have even sometimes included myself. I am not able to account for all this criticism.” The .governor explained that the criticism centers around the “so-called centralization of power" which gives the tax board control over tax levies and bond issues, and around the horizontal increases ordered by the tax board. The governor then went on to talk of horizontal Increases. He did not again touch on the bond issue power and touched only briefly on the control of levies. The governor declared that horizontal increases are not new, but that they have been ordered year after year since 1891. He said that some years as high as forty-eight counties have been affected. He said he believed criticisms of horizontal increases in the past was not so great because assessments were below true cash value. In speaking of horizontal increases the’ governor admitted that some property was thus brought above its true cash value, but be declared that this made little difference because the increases did not bring them any higher In proportion than other property and thus they did not cause the taxpayer to pay aay more taxes.

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sessors and the board of review in everything they do to place true valuations upon the tax duplicates," he concluded. The conference was attended by nearly every county assessor ln the state. The program of the morning session included a speech by S. N. Cragun, a member of the tax board, and the organization of the conference. Philip Zoereher, a member of the board, spoke this afternoon. Fred A. Sims, chairman of the board, will address the conference tomorrow. Mr. Cragun in bis talk made an appeal for co-operation between the tax board and local assessors. He emphasized the necessity foe assessing property at its full cash value. He declared that much of the criticism of the tax board is “propaganda, base and sordid, to make the taxpayer believe that be may be discriminated against ln matters of taxation.” CRAGUN SAYS THEORY IS CORRECT. "None will admit that the theory of the new law Is not correct and that each should not pay taxes according to what he has," he said. He said that the propaganda to which be referred Is making the taxpayer think that favors are being passed around. Mr. Cragun expressed the opinion that there is $8,000,000,000 worth of taxable property in the state. He said that under the old law only $2,000,000,000 of this found its way to the tax duplicates.

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while under the, new law $6,000,000,000 has been placed on the duplicates, leaving one-fourth of the taxable property still untaxed as“a result of the failure of local officials to assess all of it. “Tax rates have been reduced as values have been increased,” be said. “Increases in revenue have been made only for the IJurpose of meeting Increased cost of government.” j, Mr. Cragun modestly admitted that the administration of the tax law last year was the best the ever had. He explained that no horizontal increase was ever ordered by a board of review that some property was not assessed above its true cash value. He said that the only perfect equalization lies ln perfect assessment. BURDEN OF ASSESSMENT EQUALLY DISTRIBUTED. The law has vindicated Itself Through the distribution of the burder c.f taxation, he told the assessors. He salt that real estate Is essuming Its proper place ln comparison with personal property. He said that In former years It had been compelled to bear three-fourths of the burden while now It must beai only one-half of the burden. Mr. Zoereher spoke on the subject, “Why a New Tax Law Was Necessarj.” He confined his discussion largely to quoting recommendations made by tax boards under the previous democratic administrations. He quoted Gov. Ralston's message to

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