Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 167, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1920 — Page 12
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LURED TO CITY BY STORY OF WEALTH French Lick Girls Charge Men With Deception. Lnred to the city by a story of wealth, and the opportunity to lire in a beautiful mansion. Pearl Belcher, 18, and Josephine Livingston, 18, whose homes are in French Lick, found themselves in the power of two men who are under arrest today. Not only have the police the statements of the two girls, but they have letters said to have been written by the men who are under arrest. Tharel Lawson, 21, of 2258 Martindale avenne. a taxi driver, is charged with pandering. vagTancy and operating a blind tiger. Raymond Wright, 19, of 3609 East Thirtieth street, la charged with pandering and vagrancy. Harry Fletcher living at the Atlas Hotel, is charged with drunkenness and operating a blind tiger. He wai released on a bond signed by Clyde Karer, 1406 Martindale avenue, but a few hours later was again arrested when the police sllege he attempted to steal an automobile. Lieutenant McMurtry and Sergeant Dean were walking on Illinois street at 3 o'clock Sunday morning when they saw s taxi stop. Lawson got out and, running across the street, entered a rooming Louae at 428 North Illinois street. The taxi driver returned, bringing with him a young girl whom he helped into the automobile. As the car started the police jumped on to the running board. In the car they found Pearl Belcher and Harry Fletcher. A bottle of whisky In the taxi resulted in the blind tiger charge being placed against Lawson and Fletcher, while the story told by Miss Belcher caused the bringing of other charges against the two men and the arrest of Wright. Liwson met Miss Belcher, who was Tisiting in Indianapolis some time ago and he is alleged have sent her a telegram telling her to write to him at onr* as he had Important information which he would send her in a special delivery letter. The telegram reached her at her home in French Lick, and then came the letter. In the letter, which is in the possession es the police, Ijiwson is alleged to haTe told the young woman he had Just received a telegram telling of his mother's death In Detroit, she having been killed’ when her automobile was struck by a train. However, his mother’s attorneys had notified him that his mather believed he was married to t.he girl he had written her about (Pearl Belcher), and had left a will leaving her entire fortune of $450,000 to her son and his wife Jointly, he said In the letter. He told Miss Belcher, it Is charged, that he wanted her to pretend to be bis wife and for her own protection to bring some girl friend with her to Indianapolis. The letter assured her that as soon as the estate was settled they would live in Lawson's mother's beautiful mansion in Detroit. Miss Belc- er and Miss Livingston arrived in Indianapolis a month ago, but did not leave their homes nntli after Raymond Wright had written Miss Belcher a letter, the police say. In that letter Wright is said to have told the young woman he had known Lawson since he was a young man and
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also to have assured her Lawsou was now a wealthy man. The two girls charge they were forced, through fear, to live at the rooming house with the two men, and that Lawson and Wright would make them take taxi rides with strangers. Lawson was turned over to Federal offlcals, who will charge him with transporting liquor, and his automobile was confiscated. Poetoffice inspectors also went to work on the case and it is understood they are investigating the grounds for charges of using the mails to defraud and transmitting obscene language through the mails. The girls' testimony probably will be placed at the disposal of the Federal officers. It is expected they will be sent to their homes pending the hearing of the cases. Woman Mistakes Cop for Bandit, Kills Him fT. LOUIS, Mo., Nor. 22.- Believing that a police automobile, which was pursuing her speeding machine, was a bandit car, Mrs. Samuel S. Scott, a prominent society woman, shot and killed Patrolman Charles J. Backer Sunday as he brought her car to a atop. Stiek-ups Strip Two After Robbing Them CHICAGO. Nor. 22.-David Regan. 6413 Minerva avenue, and James Bir-ell. 3848 Prairie avenue, were literally "stripped" of their possessions Saturday night by three bandits, who dragged them behind a billboard at Forty-First street and Michigan avenue. When they were released they were in their B. V. D.s. Home Light Plant Blows Up; 2 Hurt Irvin Turley, 11, is in a critical condition and his brother Harold is less seriously injured, as the result of au explosion of acetylene gas at thelf father's farm near Morristown, Bhelby County, Sunday. Tho two boys were brought to the Long Hospital by their father following the accident. Irvin is still unconscious, his skull having been fractured. Harold suffered severe concussnons and both of hts arms are broken. The children were playing in the rear yard of their home when they were hit by flying debris when a lighting plant blew up. Prisoner at Richmond Jail Ends His Life Special to Tho Times. RICHMOND, Ind.. Nov. 22—Ezra Clements, 60. stock buyer of Fountain city, who was held in the insane ward of the county Jail here, ended bis life by cutting his throat with an instrument which has not yet been found by the authorities. After slashing his throat !n the toilet room. Clements went to bis cell where ha tried to choke himself. Inmates heard his groans and aroused the turnkey, but Clements had lost so much blood he died shortly after he was removed to the Reid Hospital. Coroner Bond believes Clements may have used a small piece of glass to slash his throat.
Father Finds Body of Daughter in Cistern Special to The Time*. EVANSVILLE. Ind., Nov. 22—Miss Fannie Wilson, 30, daughter of Charles Wilson, farmer at Elliott's Station, north of here, fell Into a cistern late yesterday while getting a bucket of water, it was learned today. The body was found by the father. Whole Family Killed by Rejected Suitor MT. VERNON, Texas, Nor. 22.—Because she rejected bis attentions, Sam Lee, 24, shot and killed Miss Stella Bankston, her mother, Mrs. A. L. Bankston, and her brother. Fink Bankston, and then ended his own life. The tragedy occurred la the Macon community, ten miles southeast of here. $300,000 Estimated Loss in Garage Fire CHICAGO. Nov. 22—A series of ex plosions In the Drexel Square Garage today caused a fixe that wrecked the plant and destroyed seventy-five automobiles. One flremsn was Injured. The loss Is estimated at $300,000. DRY AGENT IS KILLED. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Nov. 22. Federal and county officers who left Oklahoma City to search for George Wills of Perry, alleged slayer of Kirby Frans of Oklahoma City, a Federal prohibition enforcement official, returned last night unsuccessful. Frans died after being wounded at Wills’ home in Perry, which Frans and J. C. Gates, another enforcement officer, were searching for a whisky still. EverOood Oleomargarine—Gloeehrenner’s Why Be Skinny? It's Easy to Be Plump, Popular and Attractive It's easy to be plump, popular and at tractive instead of being thin, angular and scrawny. Almost lnvnriablv tan trouble Is due to weak nerves ana con sequent failure to assimilate your food You may eat heartily, but owing to the lack of nervous energy and impoverished blood you don't get the benefit from the food you eat. All of this can be remedied very quickly by taking with each meal a five-grain tablet of Blood-Iron Phosphate. This quickly strengthens the nervous system, enriches the blood apo increases its oxygen carrying power, and in a remarkably short time the average thin, weak, nervous man or woman be gins not only to put on flesh, but also begins to look and feel better Sleep, appetite, strength and endurance are 1m proved, dull eyes become bright, and, unless afflb-ted with some organic com plaint, there Is no reason why. If you take Blood-Iron Phosphate regularly, you should not soon look and feel much bettor and mauy years younger. Deposit $1.50 today with Hang's. Hook's or Hit dor's, or any other druggist for cnougn Blood Iron Phosphate for a three weeks' treatment. Use as directed and If at the end of three weeks you aren’t do lighted go bark and get your monev. Your druggist, a man you know, Is authorized to give It to you.—Advertise meet.
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ROBBERS HOLD $650,000 LOOT More Bond and Money Shipments Revealed in Omaha Case. OMAHA, Neb., Nor. 22.—Tbs loot still held by robbers who entered a Chicago, Burlington fc Quincy mail car n week ago Saturday night amounts to at least $650,000, authorities believe today. It has been definitely established, according to the police, that three shipments of Liberty bonds and cash, not heretofore reported missing, have been lost. These shipments, according to the authorities, were from banks in Portland and San Francisco to Chicago banks. It is declared missing registered shipments made Nov. 10 from San Francisco have not been received by tho consignees. Fifty packages of SI,OOO each, all $lO bills, shipped by the Anglo-London-Paris National Bank of San Francisco to the Continental & Commercial National Bank of Chicago; a consignment of SOI,OOO In cash gent by the Ladd & Tilton Bank of Portland to a Chicago bank; a large quantity of stocks uot yet itemized, consigned to firms In Omaha, and fifty $lO,000 Liberty bonds, consigned by the Anglo-London-Parls Bank to the Continental & Commercial National Bank, are now declared to be missing. With seven men under arrest In connection with the robbery, the police and postal inspectors are continuing a search for Lieut. Keith Collins, overseas veteran aviator, who is believed to have fled with a large amount of the loot. 2d Division Veterans to Meet Tomorrow Former members of tho Sceond division, comprising the Fifth nnd Sixth marines, Ninth and Twenty-Third infantry, Fourth and Fifth machine gun battalion. Twelfth Fifteenth and Seventeenth field artillery. Second ammunition train, Second sanitary train and the Sixteenth field hospital will meet tomorrow evening at a smoker, when an attempt will be made to form an Indianapolis society of the National Second Division Association. The smoker will be held in the library of the Board of Trade. Representatives of practically all these units reside In Indianapolis. The program will begin at 8 o'clock
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