Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1923 — Page 12

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GLIMPSES CAUGHT OF 10 GRIND IN POLICE COURT

Comedy Mingled With Pathos Seen in Play of Real Life. A SEA of faces—some cynical, some sad, some wistful, many hardened. A bright blue turban and a silver metalcloth hat with pink flowers—the only touches of bright color. Dark blue uniforms of policemen, brass buttons shining—the background. In front of the sea of faces, and above It —the judge. In his hand he holds the keys to honor and dishonor. He laughs lightly as he talks to a police lieutenant. The prosecutor, a bit cynical, at a table in front of the judge’s bench. A morning in city court. NICELY dressed man stands before Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth. "Hold up your right hand," says the judge, turning toward the defendant. "Do you swear you are telling—hold up your hand—the truth ” Finishing the oath, but not waiting for the "I do,” the judge turns around to complete his conversation. A few minutes later, after testimony is offered: “Discharged on vagrancy charge; $1 and costs, suspended, on charge of having license plate muddy.” SMALL, middle-aged man. wearing an overcoat over a black jersey sweater and holding a cap in his hand, stands up. "John Doe.” (Slated under that name when brought in and charged with being drunk). “Were you drunk?” Prosecutor J. Burdette Little is speaking. “Yessir,” mournfully. "Sit over there until the judge decides what to do.” Twisting his cap, the man walks away. THE prosecutor Is annoyed. "D oh, excuse me!” He apologizes to the girl reporter beside him. A PROSPEROUS-LOOKING salesman walks up. He is charged with operating a blind tiger. "Judge”—he is just a bit timid—un accustomed, perhaps. “I understand there’s a difference between having liquor in possession and blind tiger charge.” "Blind tiger covers everything,” from Little. A policeman testifies he found whisky—"real bonded whisky?" asks the prosecutor —in the man’s house. "One hundred and costs.” BABY cries in a corner of the room. ‘Quiet.” The child is taken away. A SMALL woman in a plush coat, a dirty-faced baby in her arms, another clinging to her skirts, stands before the judge. Her black and yellow knitted cap hardly covers her head. She is charged with operating a blind tiger. Her husband is on the penal farm. “Thirty days and SIOO. suspended during good behavior,” the judge tells the woman’s attorney. “Impress upon her what would happen if she should be caught again.” COURT Is over. The courtroom is empty. On one side of the judge's bench a large potted fern nods lightly. On the other side a piece of decaying meat lies in the bottom of a bottle of "white mule.” MRS HATTIE WEBSTER, 70, DIES OF PNEUMONIA One of the Founders of Centralist Church Expires. Mrs. Hattie Clark Webster, 70, of 414 E. Twenty-Eighth St., died this morning at the Methodist Hospital, after six days’ illness of pneumonia. Mrs. Webster, who was the widow of George C. Clark, a prominent Civil War veteran, was born in Fayetteville, N. Y., and moved to Indianapolis about thirty years ago. She was one of the founders of the Central Universalist Church of Indianapolis and was active in Sunday school and mission work. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m., Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Webster’s stepdaughter, Mrs. Florence Webster Long, 414 E. TwentyEighth St. Burial will be in Crown HilL Surviving Mrs. Webster, besides Mrs. Long, was another stepdaughter, Mrs. Nellie Webster Hillman of Cincinnati. STAY OF DEATH GRANTED TO EXPECTANT MOTHER English Woman, Convicted of Murderdewing Husband, Given Reprieve. By United Press LONDON, Jan. 8. —Stay of execution was granted Mrs. Percy Thompson today, on the eve of the date set for her hanging for murder of her husband. Frederick Edward Bywaters, found jointly guilty with Mrs. Thompson, is to hang tomorrow. It is believed Mrs. Thompson’s delicate condition may have led to the home secretary agreeing to a considerable postponement of her execution. BURGLAR USES CLEAVER A burglar called at J. E. Reeves’ grocery, 2030 Brookside Ave., Sunday. Reeves had taken $335 in money and checks from his home to his store and locked the money In a desk. Hours later he found the glass of the door broken, and discovered the thief had used a meat cleaver to pry open the desk. BALTIMORE MEN GUESTS Business men of Baltimore will be guests of honor at a special dinner Tuesday evening at the Chamber of Commerce. The visitors are coming to Indianapolis to interest local manufacturers in using Baltimore as a seaport. All members of the Chamber of Confmerc© are Invited.

Baby Mine

! WE CERTAINLY HAD A BIG CROWD AT CHUPCH YESTERDAY—IT BURNED DOWN

Turn About

We were talking of buying a coaster wagon for our two boys, aged 9 and 3. They scrap over things like boys will, so I told there father If they were bad and fought over the wagon, I would take it away from them. Lawrence, 3, was quiet for a few seconds and then said, “’es, and If ooh and pop did to fightin’ I tate it way from ooh.” —C. R.

Maybe He’s Hungry

For some time we have been teaching Lawrence, aged 3, to say his prayers and sing “Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam.” One night I was reading the Times and heard him in another room singing. This was his version of the song: “Jesus wants me for a soup bean, a soup bean, etc." I immediately corrected him. —Mrs. C. R.

Altruistic

David had made plans to go with a playmate to a movie, but mother refused her consent. David, seeing it was useless to plead, said, with tears in his voice; "I don’t car© so much for myself, but Jimmy’s feel bad will be awful!”—M. G. G.

EVANGELIST'S SON HELD AS BURGLAR

Thomas Moore, 17, Said to Have Admitted 6 Robberies. While J. E. L. Moore, an evangelist, is conducting revival meetings In Oklahoma, his son, Thomas Moore, 17, of 231 N. Jefferson Ave., was held to the county grand jury today on charges of burglary and grand larceny. Moore was said by police to have confessed to committing six robberies. I Patrolman John J. O'Brien, early Sun-; day morning at Washington St. and i White River, halted Moore and questioned him. Moore told the officer $93.71 he had In his pockets was won in a craps game. O'Brien took Moore’s name and address and permitted him to go home. Later when the Pure Oil filling station at Sheffield Ave. and Washington St. had been robbed, he recalled that the knees of Moore’s trousers were soiled. Then he notified Capt. Roy Pope. Moore was arrested. After being questioned by detectives Moore is said to have confessed not cnly to robbing the Pure Oi : Company's station at Washington S’, and Sheffield Ave., but also to five other robberies. These were the Foun.ain Square filling station; a coal office at State Ave., and the Pennsylvania. Railroad; the A. B. Meyer coal office, Michigan St. and the Monon Railtoad; the Penn Company coal office, 741 E. Washington St., and the office of the hominy mills at Madison Ave. and Palmer Sts., police asserted. Officers quote Moore as saying he needed "spending money.” Little was obtained by Moore in five of the alleged robberies but at the Pure Oil Company filling station he battered open a small safe, it is said. Moore admitted, police say, that he was in trouble at Olivet, 111., “where a gang of us threw a stone and hit a woman In the face.” Senators “Kid” Each Other and Call It a Day By W. 11. PORTERFIELD WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—’Round and ’round and 'round they go In that mill of oratory, the United States Senate Here’s a sample, taken verbatim from the Congressional Record, and published without further comment: Pat Harrison (to Jim Watson of Indiana); ”1 ever you’d pass a ship subsidy bill p-ou will not make as good a race as you did last time in Indiana.” Watson: "We did very well ir. Indiana.” Caraway (of Arkansas): “I think so, too.” Harrison: “The Senator (Jim Watson; made speeches all over Indiana, and they were good speeches.” Watson; "I thank the Senator.” Carraway; "Every county Into which the Senator went, went Democratic.” Harrison; "I do not know whether the Senator's fingers were crossed at the time or not, but he made good speeches. The Senator understood me to say he made many eloquent speeches throughout Indiana, did he not?” Watson: "For which I thanked the Senator." Harrison: "The Senator agrees with me in that statement, does he not?” Watson: “I certainly do.” (Laughter). After another hour of this delightful colloquy, the Senate adjourned, calling It a day. YOUNG PEOPLE TO MEET A mass meeting of young people of Reformed churches in Indianapolis will be held April 29 at the Butler Memorial Reformed Church, it was announced today. Arrangements were made Sunday night by the executi . committee of the Heidelberg Lea? ' for a conference about Easter. Triegates from young people’s societies throughout the Middle West synod of the Reformed Church will attend.

‘GOVERNOR JACK' OF OKLAROILAA HAS WILD PARTI

Thousands Make ‘B9 Run’ to Attend Inauguration Festivities at Capitol. By United Press OKLAHOAIA CITY, Okla., Jan. 8.—■ A run as wild as tho opening of “the strip” in ’B9 was on in Oklahoma today. Cowboys, atop pinto ponies, galloped Into the capital, an occasional blazing revolver announcing their arrivals; quaint vehicles, bringing quainter people, rumbled behind staid ox teams over the paved streets; high-powered motors, carrying Indians rich from oil leases, honked their way through swarms of pedestrians, while overhead hovered airplanes seeking a landing spot. Special trains steamed into the union depot in rapid succession, depositing delegations from States from Washington to New York. With thousands already jamming the streets, trails, paths and roads converging here were swamped as all Oklahoma made a mad rush to attend the Inauguration of Governor Jack C. Walton—a reversion to the days when the "wild West” was wild. The elite and the riff-raff met on a common plane. Millionaires rubbed shoulders with pickpockets and gangsters, and uproarious plainsmen, picturesque in tall hats and high boots, jostled Indians, characteristically garbed in bright-hued blankets and glass beads in hotel lobbies. And throughout the crowds mingled painted ladies and gamblers as true to type as in tho days before statehood. Moonshine liquor, choc beer and other beverages flowed as freely as in the days that were, giving a realastic atmosphere to the page from the State’s early history. Fires gleamed In rows and rows of trenches preparing savory meats for the mammoth barbecue tomorrow. Hundreds of men were kept constantly busy. The formal inauguration will take place at noon, but will be repeated be fore the thousands of visitors tomorrow. From then until Wednesday midnight, square dances, Indian war dances, the barbecue and other events on the program will follow in rapid succession. U. S. EXAM FEB. 3 A general clerical examination for Government field service Feb. 3 was announced today by Henry M. Trimpe, j secretary of the civil service board, | 421 Federal building. The examination j will be open to men and women of j more than 18 years of age.

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