Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1923 — Page 2

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MAN IS KILLED DURING ATTACK ON . NIGHT WATCHMAN Alleged Gangster Shot — Guard, in Hospital, Is Under Arrest, Detectives today took steps to arrest members of a gang that beat Roy Buchanan, 26, of 645 Erie'St., night watchman at the Eli Lilly plant, Friday night. Homer Deering. 23, of 820 S. Alabama St., was killed by two shots • from the watchman's gun. Deering it is said, was a member of the gang. He was shot while attempting to escape following the attack police say. Buchanan is In the city hospital. His condltiion is not serious. The trouble dates back more than a week. Buchanan had received orders to keep a gang of young men from loafing in vacant buildings. This, it is said, “got him in bad” with the gang. Deering and another man, it is said, alleged water had been thrown on Deering from a window of one of the buildings. He is said to have entered the building and abused employes at that time. Buchanan told Motor Policemen Reidy and Griffin he was walking : through a passageway about four feet • wide, between two buildings. One of - about ten young men in this passage- ‘ way said, “Let's get him,” according cto Buchanan's story. Buchanan ordered them out. Deering is alleged to have seised the night watchman ! and the others to have beaten him with knucks. .- Twisting one hand loose, Buchanan ■ t fired one shot. Dazed, he fired three \ ■'re shots as some of the men ran ,ien the police arrived, Buchanan did not know any of his bullets had taken effect. Sergeant Harris and a squad found Deering's body in the passageway. Two bullets had struck him. " Buchanan was charged with man- - slaughter Deering. the police say. ’ had been arrested a number of times. Police today are holding a cap which belongs to bne of the men ■ who attacked Buchanan. The owner of the cap is said to be named Brown. Funeral services for Deering will be held at his home, 820 S. Alabama St., at 2 p. m. Monday. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Deering's father died two weeks ago. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Allie Deering, a sister. Mrs. Robert Wines of Indianapolis and two brothers, Curtis and Roy Deering, both of Indianapolis.

MRS. L.H. PRICE FUNERAL RITES AWAITRELATIVES Widow, Who. Takes Own Life, Believed Despondent Over Husband's Death, Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Lehman H. Price, 55, who took her own life by swallowing poison in the McKinsey Apts.., Delaware St. and Maple Rd., Friday nigh*., will be made when relatives arrive from the Pacific coast. Despondency over the recent death of her husbapd. the late L. H. Price, sales manager of the Chapman-Price Steel Company, is believed to have been the cause of her act. T Friends of Mrs. Price said she had grieved deeply over the death of her husband in January. Mrs. Prico was found by a maid In her apartment when the odor of escaping gas was evident. She was found lying across the bed unconscious. Mrs. Price was taken to the Clark-Blakeslee Hospital, Delaware and Eleventh Sts., where efforts of Dr. M. E. Clark to revive her failed. She drank two ounces of the poison p-’d inhaled gas fumes. Dr. William Doeppers, deputy coroner, said. A sister of Mrs. Price, Mrs. C. B. McConahay of Van Wert, Ohio, arrived today. In addition there is a brother in Milwaukee, one In Los Angeles and a sister in San Francisco •D their way to Indianapolis. Urs. Price had been a resident of Indianapolis for twenty years. COMMITTEE TO REPORT ON SITE FOR GARAGE John F. White, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce committee to recommend a suitable site for the location of a garage to house the equipment of the board of sanitary commissioners, will make his report Mopday at noon, when the civic affairs committee of- the Chamber of Commerce mets. William Fortune, chairman of the civic affairs committee, will preside. One of the sites under consideration is on land owned by the city on Kentucky Ave., west of the White River bridge. Another site, location of which hai not been announced, is also under consideration. This would cost $270,000 t;nd make it necessary for the sanitary board to issue bonds. Condition of the city streets during State Fair week also will be discussed. Other matters to be considered are the city budget and the improper labeling of strets. BODY TAKEN FROM CITY The body of Albert W. Thornton, 68, of Niles, Mich., who died at the Methodist Hoepital Friday, was taken to Deckerville, Mich., for burial today. Mr. Thornton died of septlcaehla. said t ohave followed a fall from a ladder Last February., He wap eraploved by the Big Four railroad at

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HOMER DEERING The funeral of Ilomer Deering, 23, of 820 S. Alabama St., fatally shot by a watchman at the Eli Lilly & Cos. plant on McCarty St. Friday night, will be held at the residence at 2 p. m. Monday.

SERIES PLANNED AT ORPHANS’HOME V Churches of City to Unite in Entertainment, Members of the Protestant churches in Indianapolis interested in the General Protestant Orphans Home, 1404 S. State St. will attend the annual Orphan Feast at the home all day Sunday. The Ttev. R. C. Renting, pastor of St. Mark’s English Lutheran Church will conduct an open air service at, 10:30 a. m. Special hymns will be sung by the choir of St. Mark’s church and the orphan home scohus. From 12 to 2 p. m. dinner will be served by the —Ladies' Auxiliary of the home. Judge James A. Colons of Criminal Court will speak in the aftemopn. The Cincinnati Orphan’s Home Band will play and the Murat Chanters will sing. The committee in charge: Charles Groffert, William Liehr, Theodore Losche and Riehard Leeb. Officers of the home are: Phillip Klein, president; Henry Walters, vice president;. John Leyenbecker, secretary and Julius F. Leinicke, treasurer. Thief To Keep Cool. An ice box was reported by the Circle City Construction Company, 1406 Fletcher Trust Building, as stolen -from a construction Job at 3266 CX>l-

FROM FAR AND NEAR

Georgia House of Representatives Friday voted a heavy tax or> all opera organizations appearing in the State. When Jerry Wyant, San Francisco, underwent a surgical operation surgeons found in his bladder, not a cancerous gsßsvth they feared, but a rubber glove.. Wyant had undergone an operation two years previous. Five bandits held 200 citizens of Maple Hill* lowa, at bay Friday while they leisurely looted the private bank of Fred Reuf and B. F. Robinson. Forest fires in Santa Barbara forest died down last night after sweeping over a ten-mile front. While 200 worshipers in Rutgere C. W. GARVEY HELD ON TIGER CHARGE

Police Find Booze in North Side Home. Charges of operating a blind tiger were pending against Ch&rleg W. Garvey, 2355 Broadway, a contractor, today. The charges were the result of a raid made by Lieutenant Jones and squad on Garvey’s residence. The police claim they found 566 quarts and fifteen pints of beer, thirty gallons ,of wine in a keg, ten one-half-gallon bottles and fourteen quart bottles of wine. The officers say they found a complete outfit for making beer and a capping machine. Sev.enty-eight gallons of white mule were found in a cornfield on theJamu Sewell farm on the Rockville Rd., west of Big Eagle Creek, by Lieutenants Cox and Jones late Friday. Sewell was arrested, charged with operating a blind tiger. Cecil Lynch, 540 S. Missouri St., was charged with operating a blind tiger when Lieutenant Jones found 107 quarts of home made beer at his home. Bogus S2O Bills Reported. Capt. Hallsof the U. S. secret service today has reported to the local policy department that seven or eight bogus S2O bills are being oirculated in Indianapolis.

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Street Synagogue, New York, were praying for repose of the soul of President Harding, two gunmen shot dead Louis Schwartzman, who was sitting on the steps. Mrs. Warren G. Harding has ordered floral tributes at the state funeral of the late president in Wash lntgon distributed among the dis abled war veterans in government [ hospitals. Three prohibition enforcement j agents were tlain by moonshiners Friday at Lonnutt, Kentucky. Fifteen foreign ministers have de tnanded indemnities of the Chinese I government for capture and imprison ment of foreigners by bandits last May. Four persons were kidnaped by un ! masked men at Macon, Georgia, last night.

INJURIES IN FALL CAUSEOF DEATH Amandus M, Drelsbach Succumbs at Hospital. Amandus M. Drlesbach, 75, living wiyi his son, George E. Drlesbach, 617 N. Delaware Bt., died early this morning at the city hospital as the result of brain concussion due to a fall Friday night. Drlesback had a broken leg, Internal Injuries and severe cuts upon the head. The son said that he be lleved his father tried to climb the picket fence which runs around the side of the house and fell Backward, striking his head on the walk. • Funeral services will he held at 2 p. m. Monday at Shirley Brothers’ funeral parlors, 946 N. Illinois St. Burial will be In Crown Hill cemetery. He Is survived by two other sons, Fre4 A. and Robert L. Wyoming; three daughters. Mrs. Lucy Fields, Mooresville, Ind; Mrs. Grace Baker, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Daisy Pressnal of Chicago; nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

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