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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 219

LOWDEN AT HEAD OF FARM REVOLT AGAINST COOLIDGE

Dictionary Bought in ‘Steve’ Case Bu Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Jan. 13.—Miss MaUde Dale, official court reporter, has purchased anew medical dictionary to aid her in transcribing the testimony of expert witnesses in the decent trial of D. Stephenson, convicted of the murder of Madge Obevholtzer. Miss Dale has completed 500 pages to be used in a Supreme Court appeal and says she is only one-fourth done.

320 ACRES FOR DUNES PARK TO BE PURCHASED Conservation Commission Deals for Acquisitions Nearly Complete. Deals were practically completed today by the State, conservation commission for the purchase of 320 acres of Lake Michigan shoreland, to be added to the Dunes State park. Tracts to be acquired immediately, their acreage and cost are: E. B. Leigh farm, 243.67 acres, $65,000; Gary Boy Scouts’ camp, 40.20 acres, $12,000; Kossakowski farms, 21.05 acres, $6,315; Joseph Keiger farm, 5.90 acres. $1,770, and the W. D. ilixon tract, 4.66 acres, $1,464. Cost of the total, 320.48 acres, is $92,549. Together with the 480.88 acres now owned by the State, the acquisition will bring the park up to 801.36 acres, according to Everett L. Gardner, commissioner in charge of purchases. soon the commission will close deals on three other tracts, totaling 1,058.49 acres, which will bring the total ultimate size of the park up to nearly 2,000 acres, the legal limit. The commission this week will collect SII,OOO rental on tracts it has lqased since acquisition some timo ago. Gardner today deposited a check for $135,000 reeehiftd Saturday from Elbert L. Gary of the Illinois Steel Corporation. This money, together with $115,000 more from Gary and $50,000 from Julius Rosenwald, will be used in the purchase of additional Dunes park tracts. Thus far $151,234 has gone into purchases, leaving nearly $200,000 now available.

CRUSE PROJECT NOT ABANDONED But Board Cuts Improvement Plans to Minimum. Complete suspension of the Shank administration Cruse St improvement program being ruled Illegal by City Attorney John C. Ruoi.elshaus, the board of works today lopped $54,000 off the project's cost, by elminating all the proposed improvements except widening of the street ten feet on the east from Southeastern Ave to Maryland St. The board plans to spend only 115.000 on the project. Razing of about fifteen houses was eliminated. Railroads required by the former board to elevate their tracks for the improvement to go through, already have started the work, and as the action of the former board was legal, Ruckelshaus told the board, it could not accomplish abandonment of the improvement project by rescinding the old board’s action. RILEY HOSPITAL GIVEN SIO,OOO Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Ayres, Newcastle, Contribute. A SIO,OOO gift by Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Ayres of Newcastle to the Riley Hospital Association was announced at noon today at the annual meeting of the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association at the (University Club. In a letter to Arthur V. Brown, memorial association secretary, Mr. and Mrs. Ayres said they 'desired to aid and assist one of the most worthy institutions in the State.” A resolution expressing appreciation of the gift was adopted. Annual reports were made by Schortemeler, secretary of State and association secretary, and Dr. Samuel E. Smith, Indiana University. Officers were to be elected. S MODERN LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING 1128, Spruce. DRexel 1176. THE above Want Ad ... RAN only ONE day and it * * * DROUGHT the DESIRED results. THIS is only another ... Os many such experiences WHICH users have had WITH Times Want Ads.

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National Cooperative Marketing Conference at Washington Develops Into Political Meeting That May Be Campaign Factor. PRESIDENTIAL TALK IS OUTGROWTH OF FIGHT One Faction Would Support Nation’s Executive, Other Demands Federal Board to Handle Surplus Crops —Vote Thursday. By Joseph S. Wasney United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. Split over the intricate farm surplus problem, the national co-operative marketing conference today developed into a political meeting that may become a big factor in the next Republican presidential nomination. Delegates, representing two million organized farmers, have divided into two factions. One group is supporting Judge Robert W. Bingham of Louisville, Ky., president of the organization, who has asked the agriculturists to put their faith In President Coolidge and Secretary of Agriculture Jardine to lift their business to a higher plane. Bingham is opposed to any Federal legislation to solve the surplus problem. He contends that cooperative societies can handle their own business without Government interference.

Lowden Opposes Frank O. Lowden, former Governor of Illinois, has gathered an aggressive group ou his side, demanding legislation on the surplus problem. He favors a Federal board for handling surplus crops. Bingham is seeking re-election as president of the organization and Lowden will either run for the office or support a strong farm leader for the post. i Bowden, a strong Republican, may even seek the rnsxt Republican presidential nomination for himself, whilfe Bingham, an independent Democrat, has voiced approval of the Coolidge Administration. Aaron Sapiro, noted California cooperative attorney, supported Bingham in his stand. He asked farmers to support the Jardine bill and bitterly attacked other proposed legislation. He urged to delegates to solve their difficulties by their own efforts before “putting themselves under Government dominion’’ and warned against over-centralized control. Lowden will present his stand at the orgaanlzation’s banquet tonight. He will point out that there are adjustments that cooperative marketing cannot make and the only way to put agriculture on Its feet Is to have a federal surplus board. Show-Down Thursday The show-down, however, may not come until late Thursday, when the delegates elect officers. Bingham and Lowden are expected to be candidates. Meantime Secretary of Agricultnre Jardine is holding conferenoes with the farm leaders to get their views on the surplus question and other agricultural problems. Jardine will address the conference Thursday and give the government’s viewpoint on what the agriculture department is doing and going to do for cooperative marketing. After the morning business session the conference adjourned this afternoon for group committee meetings. TALK FLOOD PROGRAM County Officiate Confer With Board of Works Members. i County officials met this afternoon with the board of works to “iron out’’ any differences of opinions in the city’s flood prevention program. By law the city and county each are to bear 45 per cent of the costs and property owners benefited directly by the improvements 10 per • cent. It is hoped that the conference will result in a dismissal of a mandate suit filed by the city in Circuit Court to force the county to pay its share, said Charles O. Sutton, commissioners’ president. RETAILERS OPPOSE BILL Price-Fixing Proposal Not Popular With Dry Goods Association. Bargain-seekers should urge their Congressmen to oppose the Kelley price-fixing bill coming up for a vote soon, according to members of the Indiana Retail Dry Goods Association, who today sent copies of resolutions adopted at the association’s midwinter meeting to all Indiana representatives in Congress. The act would prohibit retailers cutting prices on tfado-marked articles.

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Following the resignation of Representative John W. Langley of Kentucky, Mrs. Langley has announced her candidacy to succeed him. Langley was convicted 1 na liquor conspiracy and lost his appeal to the Supreme Court. He has already left for Atlanta, Ga., where he will serve two years in the Federal prison there.

BEATTY FIRED, KEENEJNSISTS But Governor’s Son-in-Law Stays on Job. “Oh, that always happens. We do something and then King brings up a set of phoney minutes at the next meeting and try to tell us we didn’t,” Dr. T. Victor Keene, State board of health member said today, answering statement of Dr. William F. King, board secretary, that Governor Jackson's son-in-law, Norman Beatty, will not be discharged, despite the disapproval of his employment by the board Monday. “You see,” Dr. Keene said, “we can’t fire anybody outright, without recommendation from the secretary. Likewise he can’t hire anybody without our approval.” Keene said that when-, be asked King to show the board the minutes of the meeting at which the hiring of Beatty as bacteriologist, was approved, King was unable to do so, and that subsequent resolution in effect “fired” him. King said study of the minutes fall to reveal any board action dismissing Beatty and that Beatty will continue his part time work.

WOMAN UNABLE TO REMEMBER ATTACK Mrs. Grace Bickerstaff, Recovering From Mysterious Beating, Talks Freely to Sisters.

All memory of the terrible beating supposedly administered by burglars to Mrs. Grace Bickerstaff, 3412 E. Twenty-Fifth St., Jan. 6, has apparently passed from her mind, according to her sister, Mrs. E. Farland of O’Clair, Win., who arrived In Indianapolis to visit her. Tuesday. “Why am I here?” Mrs. Bickerstaff asked, looking curiously at her bandaged hand at Methodist HosplLUTHER TAKES OVER CABINET Officially Commissioned by Hindenburg. Bu T nitrd Press BERLIN, Jan. 13.—Dr. Hans Luther, whose rose from burgomaster of Essen to the Important post of chancellor of the Reich, today agreed to undertake formation of anew cabinet, succeeding the old Luther cabinet. Officially commissioned to this work by President Von Hindenburg, Luther accepted and proceeded to sound out party leaders. BETTER TRADE REASONS GIVEN Babson Expert Talks at Kiwanis Luncheon. r H. C. Bowdoin of Babson's Statistical Information Service outlined to Kiwanians at their Claypool luncheon today seven reasons why business the first six months of 1926,’ likely will be slightly better than the first six months of 1925. They were: probable curtailment of speculative building; likelihood that the sound building cost will top the 1925 period expenditure; no car shortage; ample fuel supply for manufacturing; stabilization of wages; conclusion of the Locarno security agreement between America customers, and business’ willingness to sustain the buying wave of last year.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 13,1926

LAWRENCE, CLAYPOOL HEAD, DIES Pioneer Hotel Man Had Been in 111 Health Several Months. SERVICES ON FRIDAY Funeral to Be in St. John’s Church. Henry W. Lawrence, 73, president of the Indiana Hotel Company, which owns and operates the Claypool, died at 9:32 a. m. today ih his room at the Claypool. Mr. Lawrence, who had been in failing health for several months, was active until his death. He was one of the' pioneer hotel men of Indianapolis, having been in the business for thirty-five years. Services Friday He will be buried in Crown Hill cemetery Friday morning following funeral services at St. John's Cathedral. Active pallbearers will be Henry Rood, George Thompson, William Zumphe, M. E. Foley, Charles Kepner and J. P. Frenael, Jr. Mr. Lawrence came to Indianapolis in 1889, after engaging In the hotel business in Colorado and Texas. He leased the Spencer House near the Union Station, subsequently pur. chased it and made it one of the leading hostelries In the Middle West. He became proprietor of the old Bates House in 1897 and later razed it to make way for the Claypool. Charles A. Kepner. general manager, recently assumed Mr. Lawrence's duties. He had been assistant for several years. Bom in New York Born In Duanne, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., Aug. 15. 1862, Mr. Lawrence was educated at Platts burg, N. Y., and graduated from Plattsburg Academy In 1874. Mr. Lawrence was a Mason, a member of Columbia and Indianapolis Athletic Clubs. He was a director in the Indiana Trust Company and the Merchants National Bank. In 1890 Mr. Lawrence man-led Adelaide E. Cunningham. There was one son, Janies, uHrtr wtt£t? he was If. Hhe widow eurvives. Lawrence's paternal grandfather was the first male child born in Lis bon, N. Y. This grandfather was a brother of Capt. James Lawrence, commander of the Chesapeake, who gained fame during his naval career and whose dying command. “Don’t give up the ship," still is a naval ideal.

tal. She recognized Mrs. Par land and another sister, Mrs. Plummer, also from Wisconsin. “My sister Is conscious now,” said Mrs. Farland “and talks quite freely. Apparently the, memory of the attack was with her only when, she first regained consciousness and talked to her husband. “At Yhat time she mentioned robbers and later told him to be careful of a big, black man, but now makes no reference to the attack. She has asked several queetions about her home, but aside from curiosity about her bandages and complaints of a ‘bad pain on the side of my face,' she hae nothing td say about the tragedy.” “We are Just praying.” the other sister said, “that Grace will never remember about it. Just think what a nightmare it could be all through her life!” Doctors said Mrs. Blckersrtaff’a condition is improved, but feared a relapse if detectives questioned her about the attack. She was found beaten unconscious In bed by her husband, a railroad employe, on his return from work at 9 a. m. A son, who was In the house over night, said he heard no noise. She had not been criminally attacked. Police expected Mrs. Bickerstaff’s story so give a clew to the attackers. policY\yarTcoasters William Crane, 9, Narrowly Escapes Injury Near Home. Children were warned by police today against using the streets to coast in. The warning was issued after William Crane, 9, of 482 W. Merrill St., while coasting in front of his home, narrowly escaped Injury when his sled coasted under a machine driven by W. B. Hill, 2315 W. Washington St. BOARD SETS STYLES Roses on Table and Tuxedo Mark School Meeting. Two new styles were inaugurated at\ the Indianapolis school board meeting Tuesday night. In the first instance, a dozen halfblown roses, occupied a place of the center of the com missloners’ table. And in the second instance Charles R. Yoke came yßkc meeting faultlessly garbed

Death Takes Pioneer Hotel Proprietor

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Henry W. Lawrence, "3, one of the early hotel proprietors of Indianapolis, died this morning at tlie Claypool, operated by the Indiana Hotel Company, of which he was president.

N. Y. BANDITS SEIZE SIO,OOO Restaurant Held Up ala Wild West. Bu United Pi ess NEW YORK. Jan. 13. —Between SB,OOO and SIO,OOO in cash was taken from 200 diners in an East Side restaurant early today by a gang of at least eight bandits. Echoes of the wild west came in the daring and leisurely hold-up. Six of the bandits carried two guns each. And, typically of the mining camp “bad man” the leader of the gang, by way of Introduction, fired three shots into the floor. The victims were largely owners and waiters of other East Side resorts. This accounted for the large amount of money obtained, since many had in their pockets the night’s receipts. ,

ARGUMENTS ON BELL TO CLOSE Commission to Take Case Under Advisement. Final arguments in the public servioi commission's investigation of rates and service of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company were held this afternoon in the Senate Chamber at the Statehouse. Taylor E. Groninger, special counsel fer the commission, was to offer arguments for a reduction in present rates of the utility. Will H. Thompson, Bell counsel, waa to reply In support on the company's claim for rate increases aggregating about $627,000 a year. Arguments were postponed early Tuesday afternoon on account of the weakened condition of Presiding Commissioner Samuel R. Artman, who arose from a sick bed to attend. Following arguments, the commission will take the case under advisement. INSPECTORSNOT TO HAVE EXAM Duvall Says Ousting Won’t Be Tried. Mayor Duvall today indicated no effort will be made to oust building department members by forcing an examination. No examination will be given, unless required by law, he said. Francis F. Hamilton, building inspector, had feared his staff would be forced to take examinations of catch questions. Duvall said he did not know whether Mrs. Maude Starr Reed, statistician, will resign. An effort was being made to replace her with Mrs. Clara Oxley, former board of works clerk. COLD~WAVE LEAVES CITY Rising Temperature Predicted Today and Thursday. With its backbone broken, a brief but sharp cold wave clipped out of Indianapolis Tuesday night. Rising temperature is due today and Thursday, with increasing cloudiness on Thursday, according to the United States weather bureau. Tonight is expected to be fair, with a low mark of about 20. Low temperature during the night was 14 above at 7 p. in. The mercury rose steadily after that hour, reaching 24. only 3 below normal, at 7 a. m. The cold wave pame from the. Northwest, bringing a low mark of 3 above at Ba. m. Tuesday. Light snow fell during the 1 night. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 23 10 a. m,, 17 1 a rn 24 11 a. m 15 8 a. m...... 24 12 (noon! .... 17 i 9 a. fa 20 i p. m 18 1

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CROSS-CITY BUS SERVICE ASKED BY COACH HEAD Bowman Petitions Connecting Riverside and Brightwood. In answer to what he characterizes a persistent public demand for cross-town transportation service in Indianapolis A. Smith Bowman, People’s Motor Coach Company president, today asked the public service commission to re-route his Riverside line in a way that will afford practically continuous service between the Brightwood neighborhood and Riverside. “It is just the thing the public has been clamoring for,” Bowman declared In announcing a resumption of his fight for recognition by the commission. “Repeatedly we have sensed the public demand and responded with a proposal to meet the need, and each time we have seen our idea gobbled up by the competitor. We have contributed the idea and our competitor has been allowed to provide the service.” Would Reroute Bowman’s new line, as proposed, would go north on Delaware St. to Thirtieth St. and then east to Adams St. The Riverside line, which now runs north on Delaware St. to Twenty-Eighth St. and west to Talbott, would be rerounted to turn west at Delaware and Thirtieth Sts. Incoming passengers on the east portion of the proposed line would be given free transfers to ride on the west part of the Riverside route, and vice versa, making a complete cross-town service between Brightwood and Riverside Park. The same free transfer system would be effective between Riverside and points on the Central Avo. line north of Thirtieth St. | If the coach company’s petition to establish a Thirty-Eighth St.-Keyt ‘stone Ave. line Is approved subsequently, a free transfer system will be Inaugurated for crosa-town rides at Thirtieth and Bellefontaine Sts., Bowman s&ld. For Golfers “The purpose in mind is vo afford residents of north Indianapolis direct transportation to the numerous golf courses in and about Riverside Park,” Bowman said. "During the summer months it is the plan to have through service between Sherman Dr. and Riverside,” he added. Bowman is awaiting a hearing on hie proposed Thirty-Eighth St.-Key-stone Ave. line. The commission heard the It. dianapolis Street Railway Compan r ’s petition for the same route Monday, although it wts Lied several days after Bowman’s. Action on the two petitions is being Withheld pending hearing on Bowman's. Bowman and his attorneys appeared <\t the commission today to protest igainst petition for the railway c npany to start a feeder bus line In Twenty-Fifth St., between Martlndile Ave. and Dearborn St. Bowman offered to yield if the street railway would establish the east terminal of its feeder line at Oxford St. Instead of Dearborn. Bowman’s Brightwood line crosses Twenty Fifth St. at Dearborn, and he said service would conflict.

NATION’S HYPOCRISY SCORED BY TEACHER Columbia Professor, at Education Conference, Says Character Molding in Schools Is Impossible.

The American people are insincere. So Insincere and hypocritical that It makes character molding in the schools practically Impossible. Dr. George A. Coe, Columbia University professor, said in a speech at the

World’s Oldest Footprints Bu Times Special PRINCETON, N. J., Jan. 13. —Plaster cast of footprints believed to be those of the earliest land vertebrate, which first walked and wiggled Its backbone some fifty million years ago, have been brought back to Princeton by R. Milton Fulle, a senior, who undertook a geologic field trip in the Grand Canyon during the Christmas holidays. The footprints, four Inches in diameter, are believed by scientists to be those of the earliest amphibian which existed in the lower carboniferous era. It was the ancestor of the frog and the salamander, although much larger than either. Fulle found the footprints, after three days in the Grand Canyon, in the middle of the supai formation of the so-called Mississipplan period, which' dates their formation as roughly 50.000.000 B. C.

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Rescue Workers Talk With Entombed Miners on 600Foot Level, Who Express Little Hope Others Have Escaped. TIMBERS BLOWN FROM BOTTOM BY EXPLOSION Fans Kept Going to Hold Back Damp as Aid Is Sent to Victims Disaster Comes on Heels of Considerable Labor Trouble. Bu United Press WILBURTON, Okltt., Jan. 13.—Between 100 and 105 miners were entombed today when a terrific blast wrecked the Degnan-McConnell coal mine No. 21 near here. Rescue workers, who entered the 600 foot shaft, reported they had talked with several of the entombed men who expressed their belief that but few of the miyiers had survived. Members of the rescue squads, however, were unable to penetrate into the furthermost parts of the tunnel because of the gas. F’ans were kept running to help rescue work and keep back the damp. The blast hurled timbers from the bottom of the mine out of the mouth of the shaft and into the air. Mine officials believed a carbide lamp of one of the miners may have set off the gas which filled passages. Business was at a standstill here. Relatives and friends of the miners hurried to the scene in autos. Considerable labor trouble has existed in this area for many months. Wllburton, a town of 2,226, is in I/atimer County, about forty miles east of McAlester, Okla. FEAR FOR 50 MINERS Gas Explosion Wrecks Shaft in Japan. Bu fretted Press TOKIO, Jan. 13.— The fate of fifty miners, trapped in Fukero Perfecture by a gas explosion today. Is unknown. MELLON CONFAB AIRED Sargent Aid Grilled on “Trust” Exoneration. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Assistant Attorney General William J. Donovan was questioned before the Senate judiciary committee today regarding an alleged conference of the Secretary of the Treasury Mellon at the White House with President Coolidge about the time Donovan issued a night statement exonerating Mellon’s Aluminum Company of America of anti-trust law violation allegations. Dbnovan said he knew nothing of Mellon’s White House conference and that ills statement was prepared some time in the afternoon, before the. alleged conference.

State Conference on Character Education, sponsored by the State department of public instruction and teachers’ and patrons’ organizations at the Lincoln today. The Nation's educational system fails even to attempt to shape the character of pupils, he said. Evidences of insincerity, dishonesty and hypocriey influence the younger generation and condone their wrongdoings. “What is honesty in Florida?” he asked. Coe cited the general idea of free: dom and equality and the opposite condition of the rich litigant's advantages over the poor one. Though Americans profess support of the Constitution, he said, they are “the most lawless people In the world.” He said the educational system now attempts to teach people what to think instead of to think, and that another generation, if the system remains in use might see “automatic. citizens” going through life, without character or originality. MINE BILL PRESENTED Would Give President Authority to Operate Coal Shafts. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—A bill, giving the President power to take over and operate anthracite coal mines during emergency periods, was introduced in the House toda\ by Representative Boylan, New York. Democrat.

Forecast i FAIR tonight with lowest temperature about 20; Thursday increasing cloudiness and warmer.

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DEPRESSION IN FARM VALUES STRIKES BANKS Capital Stock Reduction to Be Necessary, Says State Official. Overloaded with farm loans and faced with an unprecedented depression in real estate values, scores of the smaller banks of Indiana will be obliged to reduce their capital stock in order to widen their margin of security, declared Thomas D. Barr, Stale bank commissioner, today. Stockholders of the State Savings and Trust Company Tuesday docided to cut the capital 50 per cent, from $760,000 to $376,000, Thousands of acres o? Indiana land, mortgaged on the basis of S2OO an acre, have fallen In value to $126 an acre, and even lower. The banker holding these mortgages has felt the pressure of this drop, because his margin of security has been materially reduced, Barr explained. Capital Reduced Several Indiana banks have met the crisis by reducing their capitalization and more will follow, Burr predicted. Barr said ho knew of one small bank, located in a country town, which has foreclosed on 3,000 acres of over-mortgaged land. “It is a situation of State-wide consequence,” Barr said. State-chartered hanks are held to a minimum capitalization of $26,000, as provided in the Statute. Those capitalized at the minimum are prevented from reducing their capital stock, and, therefore, will bo forced to foreclose on land and resell quickly. Barr expressed confidence that practically every institution would bo able to meet the emergency, despite the apparently critical situation faced. Rank Meets Issue The action of State Havings and Trust Company stockholders In reducing the company’s capital stock Tuesday, was meeting “an issue that has confronted a. number of banks in Indiana,” Scott R. Brower, president, cleclnred. The reduction has been contemplated since ominous signs of decreasing values in farms- upon which the bank held mortgagesfirst were apparent, it became known. Brewer's statement openly revealed fears of the stockholders that the farms are not worth nearly what they were when the loans were made and the mortgages taken.

SHEPHERD WINS IN WILL FIGHT Judge Orders McClintock Testament Probated. Ru United rrc CHICAGO, Jan. 13.—William l> Shephard, former Indianapolis man, today won an important victory in his fight for the $1,000,000 eatatc of Billy McClintock, when Judge Klckam Seanlan ordered Billy's will admitted to probate. Isabelle Pope, Billy’s fiance and his cousins, contesting the will, will probably carry their case to the State Supreme Court. ‘‘lnasmuch as I can see no evidence of fraud, forger or compulsion," Judge Seanlan s&ld, “and as It Is not my duty to determine whether or not any undue Influence was used, I must admit the will." I.ost summer Shepherd was acquitted of the charge that he murdered Billy by feeding him typhoid germs.

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