Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1923 — Page 12

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POLICE UNMASK CHICAGO ‘FLAPPER’ SLAYER AS MAN Fred G. Thompson, Legal ‘Wife’ of Frank Thompson, Denies Guilt. WORRIED ABOUT HUSBAND ‘Girl’ Dabbles Lipps With Rouge Stick, Then ‘Her’ N Voice Changes. By United Press CHICAGO, June 20.—" Mrs. Francis Thompson," 32, Identified as the smiling, blue-eyed girl bandit,” who killed Richard C. Tesmer was unmasked as a man by physicians today. Dr. David J. Jones, city physician, and Dr. Clara Sieppel of morals court, made the examination, disclosing one of the strangest cases of masculine and feminine personalities ever brought before Chicago police. "Mrs. Thompson” was arrested yesterday and identified by Mrs. Richard Tesmer as the “girl” who killed the latter’s husband during a robbery in the rear of the Tesmer "gold coast” home. She was dressed in feminine attire. The prisoner, now on police records as Fred G. Thompson, has been the legal “wife” of Frank Thompson, also known as Frank Cat-rick, for thirteen years, she and Thompson, also held, told police. Convinced Police For hours after the arrest and identification “Mrs. Thompson” convinced police, physicians and newspaper men that he was a woman with an abnormal femine and masculine nature. Preparations were made to take “her” to the women’s detention home when Doctor Jones and Sieppel made the discovery of sex and police placed the prisoner in the men's ward at the Hyde Park station. Thompson, still in the feminine attire in which he was arrested, paced the “bull pen” of the statioij. today and protested his innocence of the murder. Frequently his voice changed from masculine to feminnie. He nervously, in a girlish tone, expressed concern for his ‘‘husband." He dabbled often at his lips with a rouge stick, deepened the mascarole under his eyes and patted his bobbed hair. Voice Changes

Then his voice changed. “Qh, h , I wish I was out of here. I wish I had a shot of hootch and a razor. This beard needs trimming." Thompson, when arrested, admitted shaving twice a day, but claimed this was because of his "dual feminine and masculine nature,” police said. Denying the murder, Thompson protested in a feminine voice. "I ain't never killed nobody. I ain't never shot a gun. My heart goes out to Mrs. Tesmer. She has lost her husband. But I'll fight the charges because I ain't guilty. The identification? She’s so hysterical she’d identify anybody.” Then in a masculine voice: “The poor damned fools. They got me in the cooler for this. I ain’t guilty. I was home the night of that murder. I was sick in bed from moonshine." Luxurious Finery Seven wigs, men and women costumes, a nun’s “uniform,” a revolver and luxurious finery were found in the North Side flat at which the prisoner was arrested. Various hats and some of the other attire was declared by “Mrs. Thompson" to be the property of her "chum." Marie Clark, also said by police to have been found in the apartment. Thompson for months has been posing about Chicago, first as a man and then as a woman, police said. He now admits, it was declared, that he was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and came here a few years ago from Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Thompson, or Carrick, the "husband” is an auto mechanic. POLICEMAN MISSING Cop Is Said to Have Left Note With Wife. By Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., June 20.—The mysterious disappearance of Samuel N. Bowman, who on June 16 handed in his mace, badge and other equipment at Stacey’s drug store with the request they be turned in to police headquarters has not yet been explained. He is said to have written a note to his wife. Its contents have not been divulged. Broken Flusher Floods Street When the wheel of an automobile driven by S. H. Hunter Kuenzel, 411 N. Walcott St., caught on one of the sprays of a city street flusher, Tuesday night, there was a rush of water as the spray was broken at Walnut St. and Park Ave.

Meetings Here Thursday Marion County Parant-Teacher Association. Meeting. ClaypooL State Sunday School Convention. Cadle Tabernacle. Traffic Club. Luncheon. Severln. National Association Stationary Engineers. Meeting. C. of C. Credit Men’s Luncheon. Claypool. General Contractors. Luncheon. Splnk-Arms. Lumber Dealers’ Association. Luncheon. Lincoln. American Association of Engineers. Luncheon. Board of Trade. Advertising Club. Luncheon. 7th. floor, C. of Cl Electric League. Luncheon. Lincoln.

A Puzzle a Day This man was so ******* liis ******* side Was all men could ******* until he died. There are three words missing in the above epitaph; each word is composed of the same seven letters. Can you fill them in? Yesterday’s answer: 6 9/Vi n i <2^o Starting with the letter E (numbered 1), count seven letters around the circle (to the right), which brings you to L (numbered 2). Continue to count seven each time, and you will check off the letters in the order in which they are numbered. In their order from 1 to 12 they spell ELEVEN O CLOCK, the very hour to which the hand# are pointing! franklingaT STATJONROBBED Robbers Escape With Between $l5O and S2OO, By Times Special FRANKLIN. Ind., June 20.—Sheriff William Perry today has no clew of identity of three men who last night held up O. W. Bowen, operator of a filling station, and escaped with between $l5O and S2OO. Bowen, who was at the station with his two little girls, told the sheriff three men drove up in a Ford car and asked for a quart of oil. They gave him a one-dollar bill. While he was after change, one of the men stepped from the rear of,the car and pulled a gun. he said. The men drove toward Shelbyville, he said.

SCHEDULE OF RED CROSS WATER CLASSES GIVEN Many Pools to Be Used, During Leam-to- Swim Week. Miss Helen Cruse, director of the Red Cross Life Saving Corps today announced the schedule for Learn-to-Swim week, which opens July 25 at all municipal pools, the Y. W. C. A. and the Broad Ripple pools. Lessons at the municipal pools will be given from 9 to 11 every morning. 2 to 4 every afternoon and 6:30 to 8:30 every evening. At the Y. W. C. A. pool instruction will be from 9 to 10 irP the morning, 11:30 to 1:30 noon. 5:30 to 6 and 7 to 7:30 in the evening. Miss Cruse recommended that all children living north of Thirty-Fourth St. register for the Broad Ripple pool program for which is not complete. COLLEGE DOORS CLOSED Fight Between Conservatives and Progressives Fatal to Institution. By Times Special GOSHEN, Ind., June 20.—The doors of Goshen College are closed till the fall of 1924, when the college will be reopened as a strictly denominational school. The closing order came as the result of a fight between the board of control and the faculty, student body and alumni. The president, the Rev. Daniel Kauffman, Scottdale, Pa., representing the board and conservative element, was not forced to resign although pressure was exerted.

BANK CASHIER ARRESTED Shortage of 5170,000 in Funds of Waynesboro Trust Cos. Discovered. By United Press HARRISBURG, Pa., June 20.—Discovery of a shortage of $170,000 in funds of the Waynesboro Trust Company, Waynesboro, Pb_, by examiners of the banking department, led to the arrest today of Charles B. Coover, cashier. According to examiners the bank is solvent. Preacher Starts Movie Bv Times Special LA PORTE, Ind., June 20.—The Rev. W. F. Bostick, pastor of the Baptist Church, has started competition with the movie houses. Sunday night he staged a movie show in the courthouse lawn. The show was preceded by a short sermon and religious songs. Thieves Strip Cars Robert Ibaugh, 2244 N. La Salle St., told police a tire, a motometer and automobile tools valued at SSO were taken from his car. Russel Toppaw, 2273 Union St., reported a tire valued at sl7 taken from his automobile. Pony Stolen A pony valued at $23. owned by Lawrence Underwood, 4249 Royal St., was missing today. It was stolen from Keystone Ave. and Fall Creek. MAGICAL SEIUIIfIERS li Women everywhere are trying all kinds of beautiflera, only to And that their effects are transitory. The first requisite of beauty is health. Without it the steps lag, eyes are lusterless, dark circles appear beneath them, the complexion becomes sallow, and almost ’.u variably the underlying cause is some ailment peculiar to women. There ts a very inexpensive Remedy for this condition in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, which for nearly fifty years has been relieving women from some of the worst forms of female ills. Why not let it restore you to hearth and beauty and the Joy of Li ring ?—Advertisement.

INJURY IN BAITLE PROVES FATAL 10 WORLD WAR ‘VET’ Will 0, Carroll Dies at Home Here —Was Gassed at Chateau Thierry, The World War laid claim to another life in Indianapolis today. Will O. Carroll, 29, died at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Carroll, 928 Hervey St., late Tuesday. Carroll served in the 4th Division, 47th Infantry, during the war as a machine giin squad leader. While In the battle- of Chateau Thierry he was gassed so severely that he never recovered. While in the hospital he was decorated with the FVench Croix de Guerre and received an American citationCarroll has been an invalid since the war. Funeral services will be held at the Carroll home Friday at 2 o'clock The Rev. D. L. Thomas, pastor of the Barth Place M. E. Church, will speak at the services.* The American Legion will have charge, with a military urial at Crown Hill. Carroll is survived by his father and three brothers, all of Indianapolis.

YOUTHS SNOOT OP HOME OF PRIESTS Four Catholic Churchmen and Lay Official Wounded, By United Tress POCAHONTAS, Ark., June 20. Three youths. Burton Knotts. Henry Daniels and his younger brother, are under arrest today following the shooting up of the home of Father A. P. Herringer of the Engelburg Catholic Church, five miles north of this city, early yesterday morning, in which four priests and one lay church officer were wounded. The house was literally riddled with bullets.. The wounded: Father Straussner of Jonesboro, shot in neck and shoulder. Father George Heflinger, Paragould, shot in neck. Father A. P. Herringer, Engelberg, slight flesh wound. Father Joseph Froitsheim, Pocahontas, shot in leg. George Bruner, lay churoh offeial, shot In back. Bruner's condition is serious. The priests and Bruner were seated at a table reading church reports when the firing began. HOLD-UP ATTEMPT FAILS Taxi Driver Flees From Two Men After Stopping (*or. Detectives today were searching for two men who attempted to hold up and rob H. T. Hall, Great Eastern Hotel, Tuesday night. Hall, a taxi driver, said two men got into his car at Meridian and Pearl Sts,, end rode to the end of the line. They remained In the automobile on the return trip, and at Union and Arizona Sts. they pointed a gun at Hall and ordered him to stop. Hall stopped, seized the switch key, and jumped from the car. The men escaped. Receipts For “Specials” Receipts for special delivery letters will be required beginning July 1, Postmaster Robert 11. Bryson, announced today. The change will mark resumption of the rule in force for many years. •Jasonville Has $50,000 Fire. By Times Special JASONVILLE, Ind., June 20.—Damages caused by a fire which originated in a clothing store and damaged the building, contents and neighboring tenants, was today estimated at $50.000. The flames were under control shortly after midnight.

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FRIEDA’S FOLLIES ' By M: E. ————— Amateur theatricals are such fun. Even if they are miscast. I should have had the loading role. But didn’t. What Is a pretty face, Compared to histrionic ability? In her big scene she swept past me. The audience was carried to a high pitch of interest. I felt I should relieve the tension. I tripped her. ARCHITECTS OF STATE TO MEET HERE SATURDAY Visitors Will Inspect. City Buildings —Banquet Planned. The Indiana Society of Architects w r ill hold their seventh annual convention at the Lincoln Saturday. Eighty per cent of the architects of the State are members of this organization. In addition to business < sessions there will be luncheon and dinner meetings. Members will inspect the new J. F. Wild State Bank building. Roosevelt building and newly completed residence of Dr. Goethe Link. Officers of the organization are: President, Guy Mahurin, Ft. Wayne; first vice president, Wilson B. Parker, Indianapolis; second vice president, Harry E. Boyle, Evansville; secretary, Merritt Harrison, Indianapolis; treasurer, Charles Brossman, Indianapolis. Perfection Ratter Mli Kiddles Grow.—Adv Shave With Cuticura Soap The New Way Without MujJ PIANOS " Seo mir stock before you buy. Low rrlcee and reaaonable terras. Everythin* musical. The Carlin Music Cos. 143 E. Washington 100 Bt*pt Kajit of ft>nnxivaaU. fit. THE WHITE FURNITURE CO Complete Home Outfitters £43- Z49U.UASHWGTON STREET. Tom Quinn *** Jake UoJf

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