Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 293, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1924 — Page 1

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GIRL BAIT UNNERVED BY GRIMED Celia Cooney, Bobbed Hair Terror of New York, Surrenders to Detectives at Jacksonville, Sobbing Over Death of New Born Babe. MATE TRIES SUICIDE > AS POLICE STORM DOORS ‘Don't Shoot and I Won't,' Cries Gun-Woman, Near Collapse From Flight and Birth of fchild—Trapped in Dingy Rooming House. By I'nitrd Prrts JACKSONVILLE. Fla.. April 21. Celia Cooney, 20. New York bobbedhair bandit, who has smiled her way through a score or more of daring ani successful hj d-ups in reijpnt months, surrenleied here todav without a fight. ■'Don't shoot and I won't." pleadel the girl, whose automatic has terror ized shopkeepers of New York, as detectives trapped her in a dingy rooming house where she was mourning the death of her new born babe. Edward Cooney, husband of the girl ter*'or. attempted suicide as police stormed the door of the 100 m. Celia said, but was unsuccessful and was also arrested.

Husband May Take Blame Cooney has agreed to make i tfcmplete confession of the crimes credited to his bobbed-haired wife in an effort to exonerate tffe girl, police said. Celia gave birth to a child in a local hospital April 11, ten days after the bold robbery of seventeen employes of | the Brooklyn plant of- the National r Biscuit Company in which she is alleged to have shot and seriously wounded the cashier. The baby, throueh which police of New Tork a*id Jacksonville traced the bandit car, died Saturday and was buried here yesterday. The grief-stricken bandit-mother had returned to her hiding place to sob in seclusion until she should again renew her alleged acti’Jities. She was atrare that a nation-wide search was being made for her by New York police, who were cognisant that she ex'o become a mother and who hoped through the child to be able to apprehend the mother who had defied their efforts to capture her. Police Smash Door Sh was startled from her reverie by x banging at the door of the room. Then the door crashed in and two de tectives stood facing the mourning parents who waited expectantly with' raised revolvers. Near collapse from her flight from New York, her recent, operation followed so soon by her sorrow, the girl bandit whose cool nerve has been the marvel of police and the fear of her victims, broke. "Don’t shoot and I won't," pleaded the bobbed-haired bandit. /' "Well, get 'em up.” was the gruff command of the detectives. Dejectedly, the couple surrendered as the climax of careers which have been the envy of many in the underworld of the nation.

ELLIOTT DEFENDS DEBT MINTAGE City Engineer Returns From Western Trip, John L. Elliott, cjty engineer, back at his desk today after a business trip to California, said he was not ashamed of a $4,600 debt contracted with William H. Arrritage. political adviser of the Shank administration, which' was disclosed by a city council committee investigating irregularities in city government. "I listed the dehis. knowing they would be public property.” said ElUott, referring to his tax statement, where the transaction was recorded. It shows notes of $2,600 and *2.000 to Armitage. Elliott denied, however, that he owed an additional $2,000, as alleged by the committee. Elliott said this was a duplication. Elliott, with J. W. Atherton and Thomas Dillon, attended the National city planning conference at Eos Angeles. On the return trip, they visited other western cities, studying lighting conditions. ‘DIAMOND’ PROSPECTORS Police Cbrge Baseball Pool Selling and Gaming In Arrests. Almost with the opening of the baseball season, police are having trouble with baseball pools. Patrolman Marcy arrested Foster Blaze, colored. 543 N. California Ave.. today on a charge of gaming and William Lee, colored, 446 Indiana Ave.. on a charge of pool selling.

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BANDITS GET SIO,OOO Robbers Force Customers Into Large Vault. Bj/ L nitrd Prc* OMAHA, Nell.. April 21. —Four bandits today entered the bank at Wall Lake, lowa, locked the cashier and two clerks in a vault and escaped with 110,000 in cash according to a telegram call to Omana police. Nine customers who entered the the bandits were at work, were forced to enter the vault. Telephone and telegraph lines to Wall Lake were reported out of order and it is believed the bandits cut all communications before staging the robbery. Ml. DUSE. QUEEN OF TRAGEDY. DIES AT PITTSBURGH Influenza Fatal to Famous Actress Who Appeared Here Few Weeks Agt). By ['nitrd Prrts PITTSBURGH. Pa.. April 21. Eleanora Duse, noted tragedienne, died here tgday. The Italian actress, whose alliance with Gabriclle D'Anunzio goes down as one of the great love affairs of history. succumbed to influenza at 6:30 a. m. in her hotel suite here, far away f/oni her native land and former lover. Duse had been ill two w'-eks. She was stricken in Detroit after a tour of the Pacific coast, and became seriously ill when she reached Pittsburgh. Her condition became nutch worse last week, when she suffered a relapse. and she weakened steadily until death came today. Was 65 \ears 01:1 The actress was 65 years old and was racked with Sarah Bernhardt as one of the great tragediennes of history. Duse has pre eminently the world’* greatest tragedienne following the death of her friend and contemporary, Sarah Bernhardt, in whose theater in Paris she played by invitation. The love affair between the actress and D'Anunzio came at the height of her career, after her union with the actor Uhecchi had been dissolved. It set all romantic Italy athrob.

Daughter of Stage The poet wrote a number of plays for Duse, in which she scored some success in Italy, but which were a failure on tour in the I'nited Stales. The tragedy queen herself was a daughter of the stage, born of strol ling players Her father was Alessandro Duse and her mother Angelica Capeletto. The child was born near Venice. Oct. 3.1839 Duse made her, first appearance on the stage in 1863 as Ihe child “Cozetta” in "Les Miserables" and frorjj earliest years worked with her parents, playing in a variety of pieces. LAST APPEARANCE HERE Noted Actress Enable to Go on Stage at Pittsburgh. Signora Kleannra Ouse, who appeared here at the Murat Theater March 29 in "The Closed Door." was given a tremendous ovation by Indianapolis playgoers. Her advanced age and weakened condition, however, was noticed by many, despite the staiA triumph which she achieved. Artiving here March 28. she was accompanied by Ijidy Catherine Onslaw. a companion, and a private part.v of maids and secretaries and other members. Duse went immediately into seclusion at the Lincoln. As in an atmosphere of sadness, the famous tragedienne retired then until Saturday night, the evening of the performance he~e —the only one in Indiana. A suite of six rooms was reserved for her on the twelfth floor of the hotel. Duse made her last appearance on any stage in the world at the Murat ir this city, according to Mrs. Ona R. Talbot, under whose direction* Duse was presented here. "Duse went directly to Pittsburgh from Indianapolis, but illness prevent ed her from appearing there." Mrs. Talbot said.

GIVE THE MOTOR BUS A CHANCE TO SERVE

* ed by the public service commission everything in the way of rates for which it has asked. The city has made only a feeble protest against the proposal of rite company that no reduction be made for constant riders who buy a large number of tickets. This protest has not been heeded by the com mission. The car company may have needed higher rates. At least it has them now. Asa result, it should be considered by the public service commission, the city and lhe people generally in the same light as any other business. It should be granted no special privileges, as it has been in the past. Privileges have been granted to the company on the ground that it was a struggling utility, unable turret along financially if anything was put in its wax This condition no longer exists if it ever existed. Some time a k o, in order to help the car company, the city council passed an 'rdinanee providing that no bus or automobile carrying passe, gers for hire should operate on streets on which street cars are operated. The sofe purpose of the ordi-

RUM TRUNK STORY DENIED BY GILLETTE Speaker of House Says He Did Not Receive Liquor as Told to Senate by Captain Scaife, Former Department of Justice Man, WAS PROPERTY OF ONE OF HIS CONSTITUENTS Head of House Indignant Over Publishing of Charge, Declaring Such Statements Should Not Be Given Out to Public, By 'i'nitrd Pi rn* WASHINGTON. April 21.—Speaker I Gillette today entered an indignant deI nial before the Senate Investigating Committee that he reee.ved a trunk full of liciuor seized by the department i of justice in 1919. “It is an outrage to allow such j statements to be given out." said Git- ; lette in denouncing the testimony of Capt. H. 1,. Scaife. former Departj ment of Justice agent, who told the j committee last week that Gillette was | the*one who got the liquor. Explains Ownership Gillette exDlained that the trunk j In question belonged to a constituent ; ' t was being sent from Florida to ! Massachusetts when a Dottle of liquor i broke and the tinink was seized. Gillette said that he was In AuI gusta. Ga.. and instructed his secre- | tary to write to the Department of Justice and have the trunk released. The tru.ik was sent to Gillette’s office in the Capitol and later shipped, to : his constituent, he said. "I did not like the idea of the story about the liquor getting out and, although if was nor my liquor." said ihe Speaker "ii always besmirches a man a little ro have his name used in a liquor case."

Started Other Rumors Gillette said that two years ago he ’earned that Scaif vas responsible for similar rumors He said that he went to Representative Woodruff. Michigan, and nsk.-d him to have Scaife stop circulating them There was a flare-up when Scaife sought to cross-examine the speaker "I'm not going to have an employe of this committee cross-exam ining the Speaker of the House." said Senator Moses, New Hampshire. Scaife insisted that his charges were true. f After Gillette left. J. M. Boucher a former employe of the Department of Justice, took the stand He testitied that he delivered either "four or six quarts of liquor seized by the De partment of Justice, to E. R. MrLean's "little house on H St.," while former Attorney General Daugherty <.nd Jesse Smith were livfng there. Boucher said that he used a Department of Justice automobile to deliver the liquor to Daugherty's H St. house. He said'that it was taken from the safe of the bureau of investigation. Liquor belonging to Alonzo Bunch of Washington. Boucher raid, was "sorted -1 in the bureau of investigation. "the best” hemg put into the office safe and the rest stored in the basement. ORDER MAY BE CHANGED Utility Board Member Awaits Killing of Intestate Commission. The public service commission may issue an order establishing new safety regulations for operation of traction cars in the State, it was learned today. The interstate commerce commission report oil the Fortville wreck is understood to embody new safety device provisions. Samuel R. Altman, who wrote the commission's order on the wreck, is awaiting arrival of the report from Washington.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1924

ELIAS W. DULBERGER. Indianapolis. candidate for nomination for Governor in the Republican primary, was born in Yassy, Roumania, on March 17, 1830.

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NOTE—THIS IS THE FIFTH OF A SERIES OT ARTICLES WRITTEN FOR THB TIMES BV CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR By £LIAS W. DULBERGER

I AM in the race because 1 believe the State needs a man of the people, untlonUnated bv any Interests, at Its head. I am making no promises to politician* and stand for efficiency and economy In State affairs, as I always have In mi owq. Taxation and economy are related. If thete were strict economy in all departments, high taxes would not be necessary. While the Governor cannot order a tax reduction, he can. through effecting economy, make higher taxes unnecessary, and that 1 pledge Poorly constructed roads have cost countless thou sands. My policy will demand not only more roads, blit better. There will be no graft in road building or repair if I am elected. Recently we witnessed in Indianapolis the spectacle of insane men and women placed in ceils, a condition that exists in all the counties, because there Is no room in Ntale institutions. I stand to correct this evil, and I believe institutions for women and children should be under care of women. It bile come to pans that it is almost impossible for

LARCENY CHARGES DENIEDBY LAUB Was Preparing to Surrender When Arrested, He Says, Assertion that he was not president of the Realty Finance Building Company at the time it got into financial difficulties causing loss to poor per sons, was made today by Lyle T. The company is In receivership. Laub is in city prison unable to furnish $20,000 bond. He was brought from Hollywood, Cal., by Detective Louis Fossati. I/aub said he was confident he would be acquitted. He is charged grand larceny. He said he was in Indianapolis eight weeks ago and learning for the first time of the charges against him. returned to California to prepave to come here and surrender. Meanwhile he was arrested.

nance xvas to eliminate jitney bus competition, xvhich the car company said xvas hurting its business. The ordinance successfully carried out the purpose of tlu* v council ftnd the company. But cifcumstances have changed. A bus line is seeking to do business in Indianapolis. It is a concern which operates large, comfortable busses on a fixed schedule, over fixed routes, and a concern which is financially responsible. Because of the so-called jitney bus ordinance, the two bus lines now operating, one to Riverside Park and the other to Fifty-Ninth St., must take devious routes to reach their destinations. The park hoard is refusing th permit the busses to use boulevards and the city ordinance forbids them the use of streets on which street cars operate. Both of these restrictions should he lifted. There is noxv no good reason why the Indianapolis Street Railway Company should not have competition. Such competition is good for the consumer and seldom hurts the utility, under proper conditions. Tt does make for efficiency. It may force the street car company to reduce the cost of producing power to somethiry; near the cost in other cities. It would do saore than all the rerouting

Elias W. Dulberger

Coming to New York when 8 years old, he sold newspapers on the East Side, and later became a printer. Dulberger moved to Indianapolis in 1911, and supported himself by

MANY PENALTIES FIXEO Auto Driver Gets Fines and Sentence* on Four Charge*. William Braden, 23. of 819 S. Dela ware St., was flijed SSO and costs and sentenced to thirty days at Indiana State Farm on charge of operating a motor vehicle , while intoxicated by Judge Pro Tern. Thomas Whallon in city court today. Braden was also finer! $5 and costs on charge of drunkeness, 50 and costs on a speed'ng charge and $5 and costs on charge of driving on the left side of the street. YOUTH SWALLOWS POISON Byron Wallers Takes Mercury Tablets at Statelmuse. Byron Walters. 18, of 332 N. Minerva St., swallowed mercury tablets today in the office of the State museum at the Statehouse. Walters was discovered f>v Miss Helen Weydell. clerk in charge of the museum, in absence of W\ H. Hershman, curator. He was taken to the city vhospital

work in printshops while attendihg tew school. He was a union man, belonging to Typographical Union No. 1. He has practiced law since 1912, with offices in the Baldwin Bldg.

citizens to avoid infringing a law. I shall frequently recommend fewer and better laws and that out-of-date laws be repealed. Jatwg that are loopholes for criminals must be amended. I iielieve the puldio school system most important, and all, no matter what their faith, must support it. I was given my chance in America by the public Vhools in New York. The greatest force fpr good or evil is the public press. If elected I will recommend that*all writer! be examined as to their fitness as instructors of the public. I will suggest these examinations be held before a lioard of editors of Indiana publications, as no others would be competent to judge beginners. If a constitutional amendment is required. I will suggest it. 1 am not a rich man. i make no pretense of being brilliant. But I do assert lam an honest man who sincerely wants to help his fellows Next—l)r. F A. Priest, candidate for the Democratic nomination.

M’CRAY PARDONS TWO, PAROLES 1 Governor Refuses 48 Pleas for Clemency. Governor McCray today granted paroles to seven persons in State penal institutions, commuted sentenced of eight and granted absolute pardons to two. upon recommendation of the State pardon board. Forty-eight elemenc ypleas were refused. Among those paroled was Harry Williams, sentenced to six months by Marion Criminal Court Dec. 5. 1923,, for assault and battery. Those granted permission to pay fines by installments included Robert Dunn, sentenced for liquor law violations, and Robert Cox. on a similar charge. Both were convicted in the Indianapolis city court.

committees, experts and city couucilmen combined to force the company to give the people of Indianapolis the best possible service. Os course, the bus lines should he regulated, just as the street car system is regulated. They should be routed on specified streets and boulevards and forced to keep to schedule. Service requirements should just as strict as are those applied to any other public utility. There is no good reason why busses should not be ofkrated on boulevards. They will do no more damage to boulevards than to streets, and. xvith their xvide xvheels, they should do no more damage than many heavy pleasure vehicles. Other cities permit busses to operate on boulevards. Hundreds of them carry millions of passengers annually on Michigan Blvd. in Chicago. The first interest of the city and of the public service commission should be service to the public. We have seen the effects of removing competition in the telephone and gas business in Indianapolis. The public suffered in both instances. Why give any one a monopoly in the transportation business? Give the motor bus a chance.

Entered ms Second-class Matter at Postolfice, Indianapolis Published l>ailv Except Sundae.

M’CRAY ILISY IN FEDERAL COURT OBYAWED H ONE ■IMPHS Only Twenty-Seven Talesmen Examined —Defense Uses Nine of Ten Peremptory Challenges—Use of Mails in Scheme to Defraud Charged. JUDGE A. B. ANDERSON ORDERS ATTORNEYS TO SPEED TRIAIi Opening Statements Are Completed and Evidence Introduction Started —Governor’s Private Secretary Is First Witness Called by Government.

The Jury ,T. A. PALMER, merchant. Roll. Blackford County. CARL BOWMAN, merchant. Advance. THOMAS HAMILTON, chief engineer, Gary Street Railway Cos., Gary. Ind. FRED MASTEN. real estate and insurance, Greencastle J. E. KRAUSE, farmer, near Madison. IJJUIS J. LEHM f AN. retired merchant. Columbus. WILLIAM O. CLEVELAND, retired farmer Hagerstown. ALTON G. TRUSLER, insurance, Connersville. THOMAS BUNKER, farmer. Pennville. HENRI' C. HASKETT, farmer. Tipton. CHARLES W. DRUITT, bond salesman, Richmond. L. A. CLINGEN, farmer, Kingman.

Introduction of evidence to sustain the Government’s contention that Governor McCray devised a scheme to use the mails to defraud banks out of more than $750,000 began in Federal Court this afternoon. W. Ii Powers of Kentiand. private secretary of the Governor, was the first witness. Opening statements of Homer Elliott, United States district attorney, who is in charge of the prosecution, and James \Y. Noel, who spoke for the Governor, were concluded before the noon recess. The jury was obtained in one hour and fifty minutes. Twenty-seven men were examined before the jury was selected. * On Jury The deleuse exhausted nine of its ten peremptory challenges, the Government used one. Among the jurors is Thomas Hamilton, chief engineer of the Gary Street Railway Company, of Gary. He opposed R. 0. Johnson. mayor of Gary, who is under sentence in Federal Court on charges of conspiracy to violate the liquor law in the last Gary city election. When questioned he said he might have a prejudice if a betrayal of public trust were involved in the ease. He was questioned at length by Judge Anderson, after attorneys for both sides had finished with him. Elliott asked him if he opposed Johnson for mayor, “Yes. I am not a politician, I did it as a matter of public duty.” “Whatever your motives were, you were beaten, weren't you?" Elliott asked. “Absolutely. Overwhelmingly.*’ Hamilton answered, with a laugh. Judge Anderson questioned the entire jury after both sides had passed it. * .

Throughout the morning, McCray watched the selection of the jurors inrently and frequently conferred with bis attorneys. He had a list of the venire, which he checked very closely. After the jury was accepted he expressed himself as thoroughly satisfied. Elliott passed the jury for the Government forty-five minuses after court opened. It took the defense one hour to complete its examination, after which Elliott re-examined some of the men for fixe minutes. Judge Anderson was impatient at delay and on sex'eral occasions urged attorneys for both sides to proceed with more speed. Governo 1 McCray was indicted by

Forecast k UNSETTLED tonight and Tuesday, and probably showers in this vicinity. Not much change in temperature for tonight or Tuesday.

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the Federal grand jury Feb. 23 on charges of violation of national banking laxvs. conspiracy to violate them and use of the mails in a scheme to defraud. The bank case has not been set for trial. There were no motions filed and selecting of the jury went on without preliminary statements. District Attorney Elliott, in the opening for the Government, spoke approximately forty minutes. During this time the Governor watched the jury closely and appeared slightly nervous. "I don't expect to spend very much time in this statement,” Elliott said. I want to tell you xvhat we expect to do, but in a most conserx - ativ and careful manner. ‘ This is a mail fraud case. The United States mails are denied to any pc,son using a scheme to defraud. Gist of Government's Case YVe can prox-e in five minutes the defendant used the mails, but it will take some little time to lay out the scheme to defraud. "The defendant is charged with fraudulently representing that he was the owner of a large number of notes and that the makers were solvent and able to pay—that he knew this by personal inxestigation. and that he used the mails in furthering his scheme. "The ex'idence will show the Governor circularized numerous banks In Indiana, stating he had note® taken on cattle loans and that the makers were solx-ent. He falsely stated in furerance of his scheme the value of the property owner by makers of the notes. "It will show f hese cattle notes so offered by V u were not valuable notes taker n > sue--, hut bve fictitious ■ Coq-inited on rage in HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m . 43 10 a. ll " a m 44 11 a. m ... 8 a. to 45 12 (noon) 9 a. m.■ ■..... 47 1 p, n. (I^H|