Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 71, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1925 — Page 7

SCOUT THEORY OF SUICIDE IN iPMfIIi’SDEfITH Authorities Turn to Thirty Scribbled Notes in Search for Motive. Bu United Press , MATTOON, 111., Aug. 4.—Theories of suicide and accidental death having been virtually eliminated today authorities turned back to thirty scribbled notes found near the body of bliss Cora Stallman in an effort to find a motive fcr murder. Questions of how the woman met her death and how her body was placed at the bottom of a cistern on her sister’s farm, the lungs empty of water, so far were entirely without answer, police and Coroner F. S. Schilling admitted. Possibility of Miss Stallman's death being brought about by Main street “gossip” who flooded her with threatening letters, was being investigated. Warning of Violence Notes, roughly scribbled and warning of violence, had been received by the middle-aged spinster and by other residents of the farm —Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Seaman, and “Boss” Lilly, tenant farmer on the Seaman estate. Mrs. Seaman is Miss Stallman’s sister. The threatening missives all were postmarked “Humboldt, 111.” —a town of 3,000 inhabitants, located At twelve miles from the Seaman nffm. "You’re living off your sister’s farm and we’ll get you out of the neighborhood just like we’ll get your friend, Boss Lilly, out of there,” one of the notes read. This one was received by Miss Stallman. One Note Suppressed Another note, received by Lilly declared: “You are carrying tales about ieople you shouldn’t. You are speaking ill of neighbors and the less attentive to Miss Stallman.’’ Near the top of the cistern in which Miss Stallman’s body was placed , the following note was found: “Don’t let Lilly say one wore’.. This

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is the last you will hear. They are down.” On the porch of the Seaman house, the following was pinned: “We got your sister scared green. Read your letter.” Mrs. Seaman told investigators she had received a letter about this time and showed it to them. Its contents, however, were not made public. GET MIDWEST PROPERTY Trustees fcr Mortgage Holders Authorized to Take Deed. Trustees for holders of $1,046,950 mortgage against assets of the Midwest Engine Corporation, now in receivership, Monday were authorized by Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash to exchange their mortgage for the deed to the property at Nineteenth St. and Martindale Ave. Appraised value of the real estate and the machinery is $319,000. The bid of the bond holder was the only one received at a court sale. A second mortgage of over $1,000,000 was waived by representatives, who reached an agreement with holders of the first There is also unsecured debt of $375,000. DAUGHTER IS Parents Start for Kansas on Learning of Accident. Mr. and Mrs. Green Hagerman, 3562 College Ave., are today en route to Wichita, Kan., following receipt of a telegram Monday that their daughter, Miss Clarice Gallagher, 19, was killed in an automobile accident. Miss Gallagher had been visiting her grandmother and an aunt in the West. Hagerman is rice president of the Police and Firemen's Insurance Association. i BODY RETURNED HOME John Downey, Attorney, To Be Buried at Vincennes. By Times Special VINCENNES, Ind., Aug. 4.—The body of John Downey, well-known Knox County attorney, who died Monday at Indianapolis in St. Vincent’s Hospital, has been returned here for burial. Mr. Downey had been ill two years. For several years he was Daviess County circuit judge. FRIENDS END MEET Bv Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Aug. 4.—Young Friends of America, which has been in session here at Earlham College for ten days, terminated their sessions Monday with sending of letters expressing the good will and sympathy of American Quakers to the young people of China and Japan. PESTHOUSE IS ACQUIRED By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 4.—Final action whereby the city of Anderson exchanged its pest.house property east of here to Madison County for the Beachler farm, a park, north of the city, was taken today. County expects to utilize the pesthouse as a tuberculosis sanitarium. RAINBOW VETS TO MEET The Rainbow Division Veteran's Association will meet Wednesday at 6 p. m. in Superior Court Room Three, it was announced today by President Garrett Olds.

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TWO INJURED IN FALL Scaffold Gives Way—Two Hold to Rope and Are Unhurt. Two men are at city hospital, one in serious condition, after falling thirty feet today when a scaffold on which they were working at 4040 Pennsylvania St., gave way. Leroy Russell, 18, colored. 422 Blake St., was seriously lnjift-ed about the head. Henry Washington, 46, colored, 542 Blake St., suffered a broken arm. Luther Crawford, 19, colored, 951 Camp St., and Harold Vorhis, 25, colored, 1708 N. Arsenal St., on the scaffold, held on to a rope, and did not fall. The men employed by the N. W. Turner Roofing Company, 1624 Columbia Ave., were putting a slate, rook on a house. Nails In a bracket, holding the scaffold, pulled loose. LEN~~SMALL "ABSENT Illinois Governor Unable to Address Pythians Today. By Times Special MARTINSVILLE. Ind., Aug. 4. Governor Len Small of Illinois who was scheduled to speak today at the two-state encampment of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias of Indiana and Illinois, being held here this week was unable to attend. He is expected to address the delegates Wednesday. Richard S. Witte of Milwaukee, Wis., national officer, will he among principal speakers for Wednesday. Senator James E. Watson was chief speaker at the dedication of Camp Blair Monday afternoon. Governor Jackson also spoke. Wat* son praised Jackson’s activities as Governor. WIFE DIES FROM GRIEF Famous Singer Expires in Seat at Theater, Bu Times Special CHICAGO, Aug. 4.—Stricken by the shock and grief of her husband's sudden death beside her in a moving picture theater, Mrs. Charles W. Clark, wife of the famous music master died early today, two hours after his death occurred. Clark was a baritone singer and vocal teacher of international reputation. AMOY ASKS ACTION Chamber of Commerce Seeks to Control Coast Ports. Bu United Press LONDON, Aug. 4.—-“ The Exchange ' Telegraph reported today that the Amoy chamber of Commerce had expressed the belief that “strong, prompt action Is necessary to prevent the situation in the China coast ports from becoming hopelessly out of hand.” The warship Foxglove has been sent to Amoy and the Titania has departed for Wejhaiwei. BOND ISSUE SOLD By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Aug. 4. A bond issue for SBO,OOO for new addition to Westfield High School has been sold to the Jolietville State Bank for par, accrued interest and a premium of $2,275.

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RUSSIA SEEKS CREDIT IN U. S. Trotsky Contends America Should Aid Soviet. (Copyright, 1925, by United Press) MOSCOW, Aug. 4. —Soviet Russia is anxious for a reapproachment with America and for United States credits for use in mechanization and electrification of her agriculture and industry. Leon Trotsky, who is now directing the concession system of the soviet regime, lifted the curtain on his government’s policy in an interview with the United Press in which he scoffed at the "absurd superstition” that revolutions are “made in Moscow.” Capitalist governments, he said, were wont to blame upon soviet propaganda all their Ills just as the “ignorant old peasant woman of Russia blame the ’evil for fires and illness.’ ”. But America, In a position comparatively better than that of European countries, “ought not to share this view,” he contended. EVANGELIST VISITS HERE The Rev. S. J. T. Williams, business manager of the Will Hogg evangelistic party, was in the city today on his way to attend the Lake Winona Bible conference. He visited at the home of his step-brother, Jamees Jennings, 719 Fletcher Ave. NOTED SINGER ARRAIGNED Bu United Press COLUMBUS, Ind., Aug. 4.—Jesse Van Norman, noted singer, faced arraignment here today under the lazy husband act. Van Norman was arrested at Bloomfield.

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MARKET STANDS WELL SUPPLIED No New Arrivals —Fruits, Vegetables Plentiful. No new arrivals were seen on the city market stands today. There was an abundance, however, of rult and vegetables in season. Wax beans are becoming plentiful at 5 to 16 cents a pound. Honey dew melons are cheaper at 40 to 75 cents each. Cantaloupes sell from 10 to 20 cents each. Pickles are on more stands at lower prices and sell from 50 cents a hundred to $1.25 a hundred. Other prices were: White peaches 10 cents a pound; mushrooms $1.25 a pound; prune plums 2 pounds for 25 cents; home grown potatoes 7 pounds for 25 cents; sweet potatoes 10 cents a pound; Michigan cherries 25 cents a pound; peaches 3 pounds for H 5 cents; sugar corn 25 cents a dozen; and transparent apples 6 pounds for 25 cents. Dressed chickens sold from 40 to 50 cents a pound. Country buttter was 50 cents a pound, while creamery butter was 55 cents a pound. Fresh country eggs were 43 cents a dozen. LOCAL MEN RESLATED Dewight Fritehey and J. H. Arnold Arraigned in Nobiesville. By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Aug. 4 Dewight Fritehey and J. H. Arnold of Indianapolis, arraigned Monday afternoon in the court of Hugh Maker, justice of the peace, on a charge of poowessing liquor, were rearrested as they left the courtroom on charge of liquor transportation. They were bound over to the Circuit Court and released on bonds. Officers found eighteen gallons of alcohol, and ten gallons of beer at their camp near the Marion and Hamilton County lines, It is charged. < PREACHES OWN FUNERAL Retired Farmer Shocks Friends With Phonographic Sermon. Bu United Frees DAVENPORT. la., Aug. 4. Friends of Charles W. Leau, retired fanner, attending his funeral here were astonished to hear the dead man’s voice speak the final rites. Prior to his death Saturday Lau had two addresses which he had prepared inscribed upon phonograph records. One was delivered at the services at the home and the other at the vault where the body is to be cremated. Boht addresses deplored conditions at the churches of today and gave his conception of modern church evils. NO FAVORITES PLAYED Bu Times Sneiial COLUMBUS. Ind., Aug. 4.—Absolute Impartiality was the motto of the Barthollomew County board of review. It raised an assessment on the real estate of Mrs. Pearl Emmons, county assessor and board chairman.

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