Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 155, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1924 — Page 12
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WOMAN, 73, GUT ON HEAD WITH AX ST HUSBAND Mrs, Ellen Hupp Taken to Hospital Spouse Arrested, Mrs. Ellen Hupp. 73. of 226 S. Temple Are., remains in a serious condition today at the city hospital, where she was taken with severe gashes cut in her head by her husband with an ax, according to police. The husband, Thomas Hupp, 79, is held at the city prison charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. Hupp was found lying in some weeds in the rear of the home by Patrolman Deßarr. Ke was still armed with the ax and threatened to kill any one who came near. While Deßarr engaged in conversation with Hupp and pointed a gun at him. Patrolmen Hod Eller and Hodges came up behind quietly and grabbed him. The home furniture was found wrecked. Stoves were smashed and furniture and woodwork hacked, y Hupp told Sergeant Dean he wasorry he had not succeeded In killing his wife and hoped she will die, ae cording to the officer. Mrs. Hupp told the police she was afraid of her husband and had asked Mr. Hosey Park, 231 S. Temple Ave., to take her to her sister's home. Park said he had sent his daughter to tell Mrs. Hupp he was ready, when she came running home and told him Hupp was going to kill Mrs. Hupp. Park ran and met Mrs. Hupp in front of the house badly cut. As he ran to the back door. Hupp ran past him and swung at him with the ax, but missed, police reported. Police said that Hupp refused to talk. He admitted he had given all the furniture to his wife and after she tried to leave him and that wa.the cause for his action. BOOM FOR G. I. CHRISTIE Friends Want Director Made Secretary of Agriculture by Coolidge. Ed Jackson. Governor-elect, and Frederick E. Schortemeier. secretary to Governor Branch, and Secretary of State-elect, have been approached by William H. Jones, secretary, and E- J- Barker, president of the State board of agriculture, seeking ir.dors hme: of G. I. Chris tie. director of agricultural extension, Purdue Cniverslty, as a candidate for appointment as Secretary of Agriculture by President Coolidgc. The boom for Christie was started by the Indiana Farm Bureau Fe ieration. "HOW THE EAST DOES IT B. F. Hennacy Jr. Speaks at Ad Club Luncheon. Advertising as it is done by the Fuller Brush Company was described by B. F. Hennacy Jr., of Hartford, Conn., editor of the com pany’s publications, before the Indianapolis Advertising Club at lunch eon Thursday at the Chamber of CommerceHe pointed out that the Fuller - company, “selling" the idea of cleanliness in the home, helps other firms, as well as itself. 45-YEAR RESIDENT DIES Services for Mrs. Mary E. Bogardus Set for Saturday. Funeral services for Mrs. Mary E. Bogardus. 70. of 2247 Talbot Ave., who died Thursday, will be held Saturday at 2:30 p. m. at the residence. Burial to be in Crown Hill cemetery. She was born in Canton, Ohio, and came to Indianapol.s in 1879. She was a member of Fourth Presbyterian Church. The husband, one son and two daughters survive. Oil Company Sued A suit asking appointment of an ancillary receiver to take over $31,830 unpaid stock subscriptions in Indiana of the Cooperative Land and Development Company of Wilmington, Del., was filed in Federal Court Thursday by the Marchmont Oil and Gas Company and others, of Kentucky. Dice Causes Shooting John Porter, colored, 1737 Boulevard PI., was sought by police today on a charge of shooting Edward White, colored. 33312 W. Twelfth St., in a craps game. White was sent to the city hospital with a bullet in his arm. G. M. Declares Dividend By United Press NEW YORK. Nov. 7.—The board of directors of General Motors company. for the fourth quarter of 1924, today declared a dividend of $1.25 a share on the new common stock, payable Dec. 12 on stock of record Nov. 17. Butler Church Survey Os the 1.353 students at Butler University, only eighty did not Indicate church affiliations, in an investigation made by Dr. Robert J. Aley, president. The remainder represented twenty-two denominations, the canvass showed. Three Railroaders Retired . Pennsylvania Railroa/1 system has retired from active service John A. Sweed. 67. of 34 N. Biddle St.; Thomas S. Kittle, 68, of 2826 E. Washington St., and George Wurfel, 65, 35 N. Riley Ave. Fires Near State Prison By Timet Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Nov. 7. Buildings at the farm of the Indiana State prison are being sprinkled daily as precaution against field fires which are burning in this vicinity. Thousands of acres of peat and oat-tail marshes are burning.
Winter By United Pres* ST. PAUL. Minn., Nov. 7. First snowfall of the winter blanketed the upper Mississippi valley and the valley of the Red River of the North Thursday night and today. A cold north wind came down from Canada, bringing three Inches of snow here and a temperature well below freezing. Reports from the Canadian Northwest said it was 6 below zero there. By United Press LINCOLN. Neb.. Nov. 7. First general snow of the winter fell over Nebraska Thursday night, ranging from a light fall in the eastern part to six inches recorded at Crawford.
Conviction Is Appealed James Kline, Cleveland, has been released under $3,500 bond from the Indiana State penitentiary on an appeal to the Supreme Court of his conviction on charges of carrying dynamite into the Broadway Hotel last May. He was sentenced in Criminal Court Oct. 7 by Special Judge John W. Holtzman to two to fourteen years.
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