Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 273, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1921 — Page 21

MURDER TRIAL OPENS MONDAY Harold Kauffman to Face Napariu Claying Charge. Harold Kauffman, indicted with seven other* on a charge of the murder of Adam Napariu, former health inspector of this city, is scheduled to be tried in the Johnson County Circuit Court at Franklin, Ind., next Monday morning. Kauffman will be the second of the accused men to be placed on trial. 'William Buckner, a negro, was found pulty of manaauphter in connection with the crime in the Shelby County Circuit Court, and is now serving a term of from two to twenty-one years. Others who were indicted in connection with the murder of Napariu were Edgar Harrison, John Montgomery. Mik/ McGuire, Henry Lee and Lawrence Allen. The State, it is umlerstood, will attempt to prove that Kauffman was one of the principals in the murder of Napariu. which occurred, it is charged, while Napariu was delivering fifteen gallons of "white mule” to Kauffman. Kauffman Is indicted on a charge of first degree murder. Attorneys Henry Spann and Charles Wiltsie will defend Kauffman. Kauffman renued his case from* Judge James A. Collins’ court to Johnson County. TO BURY WAR VICTIM HERE Plan Military Funeral for Christian W. Yetter. Christian G. Yetter. 610 Weghorst street, received word today from Government officials at New York City that the body of his son, Private Christian W. Yetter, 28, of the engineer corns, who was fatally wounded In action Nov. 10, 1918, had been received in this country. Plans have been made to ship the body here for burial. On the arrival of the body plans will be made for a military burial. Private Yetter was one of the engineers who was trained at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. His brother, William E. Yetter, served nineteen months In France and returned safely to his home In Indianapolis. Private Yetter was shot In action and died two hours later. Before Joining the army, he was a traveling supervisor on the P. & E. division of the New York Central. The American Legion has honored his memory by naming a legion post after him. POLICE TRAIL FLOUR TRACKS Arrest Negro in Big Freight Theft. Six ninety-eight-pound sacks of flour were stolen from a freight car between Pratt and St. Clair streets early this morning, according to W. C. Brown, secretary of the Century Biscuit Company. , Motor Policemen Hudson and Gaither, who investigated, arrested Sylvester Barber, colored, rooming at "14 North Senate avenue, in connection with the theft and he is being held at the city prison on charges of vagrancy. The police say they traced tracks of a small truck near the door of the freight car to the rear of the Senate avenue address. The flour was not recovered, bu/ r, small amount was scattered on the floor of Barber's room, the police charged. Burglars entered the grocery of J. A. ,Mendt-11, 702-94 Indiana avenue, by- prying open a transom of a rear door and stole ?3 In change from a cash register some time during the night. Alice Ryan, lIS East St. Clair street, reported to the police today that some one entered her henhouse during the night and stole ten hens valued at ?20. Indiana Man Declines Job Harding Offers Special to The Times. HAMMOND, Ind., March 25.—Walter J. Riley, a banker of East Chicago, has declined an offer by President Harding es the post of United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue, it became known today on Riley's return from Washington. “I am not a candidate for any office within the gift of the President of the United States or the Governor of Indiana,” Riley said.

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Plantation Owner and Employe Charged With Killing Eleven Negroes

ATLANTA, Ga., March 25.—With the alleged confession of Clyde Manning, negro. In their hands, and John Williams, wealthy plantation owner of Jasper County, Georgia, in jail at Covington, authorities here and in Jasper County declared today both Williams and Manning would be tried bn charges of having slain eleven negroes, some of whom wero thrown in the Yellow River. The negroes, it was said, all were laborers on the Williams plantation and were slain to prevent the possibility of their squealing over conditions on the plantation, said to closely approach slavery. The killings, all within the last sixty days, it was said, in Manning’s reputed confession, were carried out with the utmost brutality. Four of the men, Manning is said to have confessed, were knocked In the head with an ax, one was shot to death, while the others were taken to the Yellow River, chained and weighted with stones, and “drowned like rats.” Williams Is held under a charge of murder in Covington, while a similar

LANDIS TO BE LEGION SPEAKER Program of Tabernacle Meeting Almost Completed. The complete program for the Americanization meeting under the auspices of the American Legion, to be held at the Gipsy Smith Tabernacle the night of April 2, will be announced Monday, according to J. F. Cantwell, president of the Marion County council of the legion. That Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge of the United States District Court at Chicago, will be one of the three speakers of the evening is now an assured fact, and it is believed that Charles G. Dawes will be able to be present to make one of the other talks. The third speaker will be Henry ,T. Ryan, chairman of the Americanization committee of tbe iegion. The chairman cf the meeting has not been decided upon, but will be announced within a few days. Music will be provided by the Newsboys' Band. Joseph Daniels has been appointed chairman of the entertainment committee, which will take charge of the speakers during their visit to Indianapolis, Other members of the committee will be named later. TREED OF MANSLAUGHTER. A charge of manslaughter against Walter Faust was dismissed !n city court today on recommendation of Dr. Paul Robinson, coroner. Faust drove the automobile which struck Scott Parker, 622 West Court street, causing injuries that resulted in his death. Faust lives west of the city on the National road. The accident occurred in front of 514 West Washington street.

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charge has been placed against his negro hired hand who was brought to Atlanta for safekeeping. Clyde Freeman, another negro, w r ho was employed by Williams, has been brought to Atlanta and Is being held as a material witness. According to Manning, his part in the crimes was to aid his employer. He says he acted under Instructions from Williams who, he is said to have declared, not only was his accomplice, but his confidant. Recently the bodies of three negroes were found in the Yellow' River. Weights and chains were attached to them. Five additional bodies, Manning said, are burled in a pasture behind his house on the Williams plantation. "I knocked three of them in the head with an ax myself,” he said. For years, according to Manning’s reputed statement, Williams has been holding negroes in virtual peonage on his place. lie said: “Julian Williams, son of the accused planter, obtained negroes from the city prisons of Atlanta and Macon.

Says Wife Put Bits °f Glass in Coffee Claiming that his wife placed broken glass In his coffee and otherwise treated him cruelly, Charles W. Harrington of 916 East Twenty-Fifth street, today filed suit for a divorce against Mabel Harrington in Superior Court, room 2. The Harringtons were married Nov. 2, 1902, and separated Jan. 5, 1921. Got His Wish? WELCH, W. Va., March 25.—Two hours after he had expressed the wish I hat his life be taken if he had made a statement attributed to him by witnesses in a suit over the sale of cattle here, Mark Dillon dropped dead.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, MARCH 25,1921.

CALL THREE MORE RAIL OFFICIALS Workers Wish to Question Them on Changed' Attitude. CHICAGO, March 25—Three more railroad executives are to appear before the United States Railway Labor Board on April 4 to be questioned by representatives of the unions as to the rules and working conditions imposed under the national agreement?. Formal demands for the appearance on that date of E. E. Loomis, president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad; H. (4. Besler, president of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and 11. E. Byram, president of the Milwaukee & St. Paul, was made today by B. M. Jewell, president of the Railway Employes' Department of the American Federation of Labor. The employes charge that President Loomis and Besler originally cast their votes with a majority of the labor committee of the American Asoeiation of Railway Executives In advocating national boards of adjustment to settle disputes, being later switched to the minority, which consisted of W. W. Atterbury, vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and whose report against the national board was adopted. The employes, according to their request, desire to question these officials as to their reasons for lending their support to the minority report.

Michigan Company Receiver for Stores The Grand Rapids Trust Company of Grand Rapids, Mich., was appointed ancillary receiver of stores at I.a Par. and Bremen, Ind., owned by the Universal Stores Corporation of Chicago, by Judge Francis P. Baker, United States Circuit judge yesterday. The petition for received was filed by John F. Fisher of Cassopolis, Mich., and stated that the trust company already had bpen appointed receiver for the defendant's company by the Michigan Federal Court. In the absence of Judge Albert B. Anderson the papers were taken to Chicago and were acted on by Judge Baker.

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