Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1926 — Page 2

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HOSTETTERS RETURN ‘NOT GUILTY’ PLEAS Father and Son, Reeves and Mrs. Kaiser Face Bank Robbery Charges. Picas of not guilty were returned today in Criminal Court by Dennis llostctter and his father, Richard Ifostettcr, and Kenneth Reeves and Mrs. Rosemary Kaiser, all alleged to have been implicated in the holdup of the Citizens Bank at Southport. Ind., last Feb. S. Sheriff Omer Hawkins returned at 4:30 a. m. from Laredo, Texas, with Reeves, captured there. Robert and Howard Hostetter, sons of Richard Hostetler, wanted for connection with the bank hold-up, escaped from the Laredo jail. : Sheriff Hawkins said the three were locked in a hotel room after they returned from a visit in Mexico. The brothers escaped while the constable was wiring Indianapolis police, but Reeves was nabbed before ho could got out through the window. .Judge James A. Collins consented to lower Richard Hostetter’s bond from SIO,OOO to $3,000. The father js charged with receiving $1,699.06 taken from the bank, and the other five are charged with conspiracy to Commit auto banditry, robbery and grand larceny. Judge Collins said he would try Mrs. Kaiser Friday. IV hen arraigned Mrs. Kaiser, nervous and on the verge of tears, said she had gotten into “bad company.” Sho said she attended Manual Training High School and was married. latter, she said, her husband deserted her and is in Detroit, Mich.

Would quash INDICTMENTS Motions Filed for Three Others —91 Arraigned. Motions to quash indictments against Roy E. Castetter, 324 N. Gladstone Ave.; George C. Megorden, 302 N. Colorado Ave., and Miss Grace L. Neary, 311 N. Temple St., all charged with conspiracy to commit grand larceny, were filed in Criminal Court today before Judge James A. Collins. The three are alleged to have illegally obtained $2,500 while employes of the Tuxedo Street State Bank. Castetter also is charged with embezzlement and Miss Neary and Megorden with being accessories after the fact. Indictments were returned after a survey by State Rank examiners. Ninety-one other defendants were arraigned this morning before Judge Collins. Odell Moody and Thomas Goins, Negro, pleaded not guilty to first degree murder charges. John W. Grimsley, charged Nvith vehicle taking and being a .habitual criminal, filed a motion for change of venue.

TRUSTY BALKS ESCAPE PLANS L (Continued From Page 1) time or another lived in Akron—unit was all. . This brings back the carefully laid 'plot for escape that surrounded ii.’hapman’s stay in Federal row at ■ be Marion County jail. Captured at Muneic : ,He was captured at Mnucie on ‘Jan. 18, 1925, by police. I He had been watched there for four months before the Sunday Snorning when Detectives Harry Drown and Marvin Collins and Capt. '.Fred W. Puckett apprehended him 3>n Mulberry St. * Chapman drew his gun and fired, but was captured before he could X;et away. V The following day lie was brought ftu Indianapolis. % Before he left the jail as Xo. h 2983, bound for Atlanta penitentiary from which lie had escaped on I March 27, 1923. it was learned that Kblans were laid for his escape. Hi Arrangements had been made by HKlijch a “friend” was to place keys h>! handcuffs, a revolver and a "boMtle of nltro-glycerine in a compartment of the Pullman in which •iie luoulej, travel. He was to shoot jus lway to freedom. 7 Tlmis failed when the person he •Jiad Itrusted with the “job” went to FedeVal authorities with diagrams end hiiforniation revealing the plot. Tt ItA believed that if Chapman iiangs. Vhe great bandit gang known as the! most efficient working organization of this type, will com pletely disappear. Charles, “OneAim” Wclife. another alleged member of thle gang is serving a life sentence Vn Indiana State Prison, md CJeoAge “Dutch” Anderson vas killed iVecently. Some IMystery Remains ; Several stVains of mystery still ) emain uncleared. Who and v\here is Betty Bates, known in ChupVr.an s conversation as Betty BeeswiAx"? £ She is a former Lafayette (Ind.) girl, born near \that city and lived there the early 'part of her life. It is said that\ “Betty Beeswax.” inown as ChapmaVs sweethaert and •woman." was the cause of his capture at Muncie. That she had ■squealed" on him Ind turned him_ rver to the police, is the story. ; She is reported to he operating a millinery store in San Francisco, and also is said to be a married to prosperous merchant in Providence, R. I. Some officials ccJnterid that '‘Pocky” Dillon, a pal df Chapman’s underwrold years, and not Betty, betrayed him. |

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ANDY FARRIS Without feeling over the 'ghastly flogging to death of his nephew, McHenry Bobby Hill, 7. son of Mrs. Catherine Ilill, 569 River Ave., for which he was sentenced to die in the electric chair 31ay 21, Andy Farris, 28, mountaineer, today was in Knoxville, Tenn., jail. Farris was convicted of first degree murder by a jury there last week. His 22-year-old wife was charged with being an accessory to the fact. Attorneys plan to appeal. Bobby made his home with his uncle on a Tennessee farm.

KILLS BRIDE, SHOOTS SEL Soldier Also Wounds His Mother-[n-Raw. till United J'ri’ss ANNISTON, Ala., April s.—Angered when she threatened to leave “after learning he had another wife, Private Joseph Floris, stationed at Camp McClellan here, today shot and killed his bride of six months, wounded his mother-in-law and then shot himself in the mouth. Attendants at the hospital where Floris was removed, said he would die. Marriage Licenses Eldon J. Sandell. 21. Ft. Harrison, soldier ; Dorothy Messingcr, 18. 1326 Finley, stenographer. i _ , Frank W. Stubbs. *l. Trrrc Haute. Tnd.. ffarjgo owner’ Hclcu Herod. 30. Terre Haute. , Willard C. James. 31. 1301 English, shipping clerk; Junia M. Harding. 20. 803 Flf tcher. stenographer. Delbert (V HeiidrieKSon. 22. 001 Charles, truck driver; Elma K. Ertzinger, 31. 834 S. Delaware. Jack Gossett. city, mechanic; Mary L. Griffin 10. 724 Buchanan. Amos Bruliu. 23. 1901 S. Talbott, milkman: Mary F. Pack. 10. 1913 S. Meridian, bookbinder. . _ .. , John E. Knox. 27. 2241 N. Gap Hoi. painter; Julia K. Rodockcr, 20. 2104 A. Capitol, domestic. Lee Cradv. 22. 130 N. Delaware, core maker: Elsie Wilson. 21. 1210 Union, nnLester ,7. Smith. 24. 1010 MeCartv. trueker: Margaret L. Perkins. M. *><•> • Lynn, domestic. Robert Hill. 38. 3133 Northwestern, lineman: Hilda D. Stearns. 33. 2220 'Talbott, saleswoman. „ ... , _ , John H. O'Donnell. 27. 1211 Beile!tontaine. artist* Alice St. Clair. 20. J -•> John D Looper. 19. 25 Columbia, foundry work: Pinkie Evans. 19. 2441 Arsenal. Orin K Davis 44. TBS Massachusetts, electrical contractor: Lillian Tuney. 39. 3.> N. Walcott. . wDamon Edwards. 40. 43 < N. AJabania. shoemaker: Ethel J. Richardville. 30. 000 E. 'Tenth domestic. a .. . M John M. Moore. 24, 5570(1 Washington, salesman: Mary C. Trimble. .1. 31-0 >. Eugent H. Haitrr. 28. G l O N. T>Ha\va . tool maker: Bertha E. Meranda. -8. W. Walnut, boxmaker. . Raluli C. Smith. 27 314 E Walnut, rcpairman: Velma A. Baker. S-- .* Alabama, real si!k mills Jones Alexander. uO. 10..! W. Veimont. carpenter : Anicline Beard. 4*. 10..3 *> • Vermont, domestic. ....... Benhardt J Hemmelgarn. 8. L 330 Leonard, laborer: Lillian Meisbergcr. -o. 315 Sanders, operator. Shannon Johnson. 30. 2020 Northwestern. janitor; Evelyn Hayden. 10. ~0-0 N °Herbert tel D'. Griff in. 27 545 Dbdsioil. trimmer; Margaret Muncie. I<. 600 Bircn. d °Orvil l |W O. Hutchison. 33. 1220 Itißncr, i steam fitter:. Willia Patterson. 2b. 2 >4l De-lOfeA,V-xam?er"sin:<JUaki. . X'lS Madison, laborer; Elenor Shroder 33. --o Madison Marion H. Lewellyn. 22. 2182 Eastf.ru. electrician: Norma S. Sinder. ij Maywoou. riH Scott C. Cartmel. 24. 614 Prospect UI--i bolstercr: Ruth A. Mowbray. 19. 4J.j • | Ut CaH lU Donova’i'.;''r>3. 553k,'.’ | assembler: Ellen kephart. „4. 1 -o. ken 1 I,l '.Alexander Barr, 25 Oconto Falls. Ww i teacher: Dorothy G. Silver. ... JJ4J Win j throp. stenographer.

Births Boys Wyatt and Doris Mitchel. 3007 W. Ml Am"a" and Geneva Ellis. 330 Cora. S trail t her and Thelma Crew a. 11 a VV . " Paul aiid Forrest Crislcr. Dons HosUlt Aiuos and Row Heaton. 1023 W Ohio. Charles and Minnie' Meadows. 20.J4 IS. Fred and Beulah Pan-li. Ij4< Villa. Scldou and Daisy Jones, la.o itmgr”°Fred and Mabel Meek. 2125 Olive. Girls Herman and Waneta Daccfield, 2159 Wallace. „ IT . mini and Hazel Slierers. Dong Hospital. .... Floyd and May Garris. 11 ’• I Ir ving I 1.. aohn ami Xc-ilics Coilingswortii. 118 Bloomington. _ _ Karl and Dcnn Tener. 92d Sanders. Harr? and Maud Ott. 1439 S. Talbott. Charles and Mary Martin. 952 High. Ft-m-rt and Mary Miller 2104 X. Capitol. Deaths N Raymond Eubanks, 2. 514 Marion, broncho pneumonia. William Dott. 28. Methodist Hospital, septicaemia. Preston D. Davis. 22. 1874 Mansfield, scarlet lever. Ellen M. Stone. 47. 332 X. Do Quincy. vi -mix. Frank H. Minnieli. 71. 1116 Groit. chr niic myocarditis. Carolyn Anne Wecdon 3 months. Methodic' Fosoi al h'dorcepalus. James P. Smither II months. 327 Mvnis lobar nno. uumin. ' - > ro< I• :s. I 0.7 7 X TANARUS: < moot, cerebral anonlexv. jiar'iiv ' oss. hi X. Wa'cott. chronic* . myocarditis. Mar- Knurs -in. 73. 112 E. 011 10. chronic myocarditis. Hcan B. K unedv. 08 HO Riley, arteriosclerosis. Fred Patrick. 34. Method.st Hospital. Vincents Angina. Janus Madison Kincaid. 60. Christian Hospital, cardiac dilatation. Harry C. Meyers. 50. ‘ 1302 Madison, chronic myocarditis. Frederick C. Koeline. 05. 1322 S. Talbott. apoplexy. Minnie F. Kritoh. S3. Christian Hospital broncho pneumonia. Charles J. Campbell. 58. 26 W. St. Clair, acute cardiac dilatation

FRANK WRIGHT IS BACKED FOR HOUSE WEAKER Coffin and Prohibition Factions Said to Be Aligned. Frank E. Wright, father of tlie now famous "bone-dry” prohibition law, will be speaker of the 1925 House of Representatives if a wellarranged political set-up stays fixed. Wright, auditor of the State se eurities commission. Saturday filed his declaration of candidacy for the Republicn nomination as Representative from Marion County. By virtue of his sponsorship of the present dry law, strictest in the United States. Wright is assured of the unanimous support of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. He lias the indorsement of George V. Coffin, county and city Republican chairman, said to be angling with prohibition forces in the hope of putting through some legislation of his own. Strange as the, CoffinProhibition alignment may seem, it is said so present an imposing array. Coffin, as well as the AntiSaloon League and the W. C. T. U.. would like to sec Wright made Speaker. Wright has been connected with every legislative session since 1915 when lie was elected Representative from Randolph County, lie was the father of the 1917 prohibition measure. Wright was Randolph County Representative in 1919 and chief clerk of tHe House in 192 i and 1923. lie was returned as a. Representative in 1925. For twenty years he published a newspaper f t Lynn. Shortly after the 1925 assembly Wright was appointed investigator for the State securities commission and recently was promoted to auditor. He resides in Indianapolis. Secretary of State Frederick E. Schortemeier has promised Wright a leave of absence if elected.

BANDIT BEGS FOR OWN LIFE (Continued From Page 1) necticut. He said he was in solitary confinement in Atlanta and was given no intimation that the transfer was planned. “One postoffice inspector talked of it but spoke as though he were merely fooling. He asked me if I would rather go to Connecticut or Atlanta. I said it would be all right to go to Connecticut, for I had nothing to fear. I had seen too many other cases where I was accjised of killing policemen. ‘'The next thing I knew I was told one day to get up and dress and was taken to Connecticut. That is why they now say no objection was made to the transfer. “That appeals to my prison sense of humor. l)o you know what that is? I don’t think so. It is compounded from a peculiar sense of futility; from the feeling that whatever comes Vnom authority must be whether it is right or wrong. “Another thing that appealed to my queer sense of humar is that Mr. Alcorn says I have not protested my innocence. A plea of not guilty was entered at my trial. If I were half the actor that Mr. Allivrn is I might present you with abuse and recrimination and reference to past performances and the future and all that. Most of Mr. Alcorn’s statements have been prophecies of the future in case I should live.” Apperance Is Sudden The appearance of Chapman was sudden. When the prison board went into session the previous announcement that Chapman would not be allowed to appear still stood. Then after the meeting bad been in progress a few minutes word came out that plans had been changed completely and the board would hear Chapman in person. Guards immediately went to the bandit's cell, not far from the conference room, and brought the meeting. The doors of the meeting room were bolted behind him and guards and State police with rifles paced the corridors outside. Meanwhile preparations were completed for the hanging. Unique Gallows The gallows on which Chapman will be executed is the only one of its kind in the United States. It is a permanent affair and no preparations were necessary to make it ready for use. The death chamber is a. small room not far from the solitary cell where Chapman has been confined for more than a year. Tn this chamber is a long rope going up the high wall out of sight. Actually it goes through a pulley at the top of the wall and down the other side where it connects with a. counter weight many times as heavy as an ordinary man. After the noose is adjusted a guide rope releases this weight on the other side of the death chamber wall and the condemned man is jerked sharply upward. It is contended that the first upward swing breaks his neck, bringing death instantly and painlessly. However, if the upward rush does not kill him the sharp jerk back when the weight reaches the floor on th eother side of the wall breaks his neck. The condemned is allowed to hang until it is certain that the spark of life is extiguished and then is cut down. NO REFUND. OPINION Full Aula License Fee to He Charged Says Giliiom. No rebates shall be granted automobile owners when they . transfer tlie license plates from one car to another, even if the latter is of a lower classification, attorney general ruled today in an opinion to Secretary of State Frederick E. Sehortemeier. The $1 transfer,-fee shall be charged in all cases, Inf held.

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COOLIDGES HOST TO HARD BOILED PARTY First Aid Stations Set Up to Take Care of Casualties Expected When Children Stage Annual Egg Rolling.

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TWENTY AUTO ARRESTS MADE Twelve Drivers Face Speed Charges. Twenty motorists were arrested over the week-end, twelve being Charged with speeding, three with driving while intoxicated and five with violating other traffic rules. Alleged speeders were: James L. Talbott, 19, of 6231 Park Ave.; Charles L. Sauers, 33, of 115 E. Forty-Eighth St., Edward L. Mitchell, 45, of 3146 N. Delaware St.; Earl L. Ungerich, 27, Linden Hotel: Chester R. Rinehart, 19, of 2237 Talbott Ave.; Howard W. Fiefer, 27, of 361 Hampton Dr., and Dock Snyder, 26, of 4791 Schofield Ave.. Harry O'Haver, 25, of 415 X. Illinois St.; William Evans, 37, of 20 N. Arlington Ave.; Floyd Jackson. 32, of 32 N. Webster Ave.; Fred Sanders, 17, of 2920 N. Capitol Ave.; Neal Green, 26, of 1027 N. Dearborn St. Those charged with driving while intoxicated were; George Moss, 45, of 623 E. Washington St.; John W. Rodgers, 27, of 703% E. Market St., and Otto Hopkins, 42,,0f R. R. C.

DRY LAW CHIEF FIRST WITNESS { '(Continued From Page 1) the six days allotted to the prosecution. i Others will follow them during the week and more than 100 are expected to take the stand to portray expenses and suggest plans for Government distribution of beer and light wines or for Socal option to State government of municipalities. More Time “If the committee determined that more evidence is needed after the wets have used their six days and the drys have used their six succeeding 'days, it will summon whom is pleases,” Chairman Mea’.s said. The hearing was begun with an opening statement from S< nator Cabel Bruce, Democrat, Maryland, author of a resolution to per nit States and cities to decide whether they want prohibtiion, or liquor dispensed by the Government under the Canadian system. Bruce’s Charge Bruce charged the prohibition law has no true moral sanction of the public back of it. He charged that drunkenness has increased; that the law itself encouraged faithless administration; that corruption has grown among officials; that 300 smugglers are besieging the coast; that even prison inmates are making their brew by simple process; that temperance has been forgotten and that the law is breaking down completely. To remedy these alleged conditions, Bruce suggested that the United States adopt the Canadian system of local option and government distribution The Government has tried honestly for six years to enforce the law. he contended. “Never in the history of free institutions has any government more pertinaciously sought to carry out a policy obnoxious to a powerful sentiment than has the Federal Gov eminent in its relation to the Volstead act. “But it lias fostered deceit, per fidy, espionage and tyranny. “It has lowered the prestige of the Federal Government. It has rendered more than one sober Ainer icun citizen who gave liis blood or treasure freely to our national cause during the World War to ask whether our forefathers did not shed their blood in the cause of American liberty at Bunker Hill and Camden in vain.” Bruce argued for the Canadian system. Senator Walter E. Edge, Republican. New Jersey, leader of the congressional wet bloc, was to submit his, proposal for a national referendum on prohibition and his bill to amend the Volstead act, which now permits nothing of more than onehalf of 1 per cent of alcohol by substituting a phrase “non-intoxicating in fact.” Permits Beer This latter amendment would per mit manufacture of beer and light wines provided they are “non-intoxi eating in fact” —that is, wines and beers of strength which could not he taken in sufficient quantities to in duce drunkenness. Then Col. Julian Coresman, legal adviser of the consolidated wet organization, was to make a brief statement before the first witness of the wets, General Lincoln Andrews, in charge of national prohibition .enforcement, was called to the stand

to have learned eitquette from Donald Ogden Stewart rather than Emily Post, and so the precautions. If the children would stick to egg rolling everything would he very peaceful, but eventually they begin to eat the eggs and then ptomaine poisoning is not uncommon Breaking a ten-minute egg over the head of one's playmate occasionally re suits in a rush order for the arnica. And when you get several thousand children together, it is not impossi hie that some arguments will arise and fistic combats ensue. All in all, it has been a poor Easter paity during which some guest was not carted off in an ambulance to Emergency Hospital, handily only a few blocks away. Same Rules The rules this year are much the same as they were last. Until 3 this afternoon no adult was allowed in the White House grounds unless accompanied by a child. This gave an opportunity to the more practical youngsters to make a little pin money by charging altilts 25 cents for walking in with them. Sometimes several trips can he made without detection. The egg-rolling proper is a minor matter. No one seems to know exactly the point of this game. There are a number of knolls on the lawn in hack of the executive mansion and the serious-minded egg-roller urges the colored produce up and down these slopes. At 3 the gates were thrown open to all. old and young, who care to attend a concert given by the United States Marine Band. for examination by the committee of five —four drys and one wet. Among those to appear arc Andrews, District Attorney Buckner of New York, Bishop Charles Fiske of Utica, N Y.; Rabbi Alexander Lyon of Brooklyn, Mayor William Dover of Chicago, Matthew Woll of the A. F. of L., Ceoge Brennan, candidate for the Democratic senatorial nomination, Chicago; William S. Yare, candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. PennsylTlie Senators will also consider the new drastic bill extending the Volstead act, just presented for the administration, which would establish government supervision of cereal beverage plants and permit search of homes on evidence that liquor is being manufactured. As Congress is three-fourths or more dry, the latter bill is the only one that has the slightest chance at this session. If the drys make a successful defense of prohibition in the hearings, the last remote, chance of modification for many years will vanish. The Administration and all politicians except those from strictly wet localities will move to tighten up enforcement and the number of parched tongues now hanging out of thirsty throats will increase rapidly. If Wets Win On the other hand, if the wets make their case stick, the next Congress probably will have a smaller dry strength, enforcement probably by ultimate weakening of the Volstead act —something more than one-lialf of 1 per cent of alcohol will come into general acceptance. As three-fourths of the States must approve any alteration of the Eighteenth Amendment, a change in this foundation of Federal prohibition is far, far away, even if prohibition loses its case. . But as lawn arc in the long run the formal expression of public opinion, these beer hearings probably will mark a turning point in the prohibition experiment. They will set general opinion running in one of two directions. They are likely either to convince the country that prohibition is a good thing and can be enforced eventually, or that a mistake has been made and that whatever desirable social ends were sought through prohibition, the method was wrong. CLUB TO GIVE PROGRAM Concert at Second Reformed Church Thursday. The Glee Club of Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio, will present a program at S p. m. Thursday at Second Reformed Church. Alabama and Merrill Sts. The event is being sponsored by the eight Reformed churches of Indianapolis. There will be no admission charge. Prof. Amos S. lCbersole is director of the organization. Soloists are: Prof. Harry R. Behrens. Walter S. Armbruster, Magcus J. Knglemann, Myron B. Barnes and Marion R. Martin. Officers are Armbruster, president; Neil B. Reston, vice president: Englemann. business manager, and Arthur H. Knippenberg, secretary- There are twenty-three memhe is.

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NEW MEN ARE GIVEN JOBS OF UNION STRIKERS Announcement Made by Officials of Contractors’ Association. Nonunion hoisting engineers and painters and decorators today took over duties of union men. who are on strike in Indianapolis, it was announced by officials of the General Contractors’ Association, the employers’ organization. The tradesmen, with the sheet metal workers, walked out Thursday after the association refused to grant wage increases asked by workers at the expiration of the wage scale agreements. Others to Be Hired Employers of sheet metal workers will employ nonunion men if the strike is not enedeii soon, it was said. “It is no longer possible for this organization to deal with labor unions which continue to make these demands,” association officials said. “Because of the number of unemployed men in the city construction work can continue uninterrupted.” Business Agents Meet Business Agents of the Marion County Building Trades Gouncil. representing strikers, met this morning and discussed the situation. No statement was issued. I It was said neither organization has made any advances toward compromise on the wage scales. Increases of 10 to 20 cents an hour are asked.

CHAPMAN PENS OWN EPITAPH (Continued From Page I) and glamor and halo of romance. One by one in his last days of life perish colorful legends built when lie wore the title cf “super-bandit.” Perhaps the crudest of these revelations was one which robbed him of ids oft-told glamorous love story. “Betty Beeswax” she was known as during his trial. She was the “mystery” woman in his past. A “society matron” of Providence, R. 1., who had been his great love. In this tale it was related that it was his love for “Betty” that had been hLs j undoing in Muncie, Ind., where he had successfully hidden in a cottage that bore .a doctor’s placard. It was said that Chapman had indiscreetly written to "Betty,” that these letters were intercepted by police and Chapman traced to his hiding place, where, it will be recalled, he tried to shoot an arresting officer. Perhaps, somewhere in his life, there was a “Betty,” but the “Betty Beeswax” of Providence is now dissolved and, instead, there rises the pockmarked face of a one-time crook, pal of underworld years—“Pocky Dillon,” as the police knew him. The Providence letters, it has been revealed, were to this one-time partner in crime, “planted” by the | police as a trap for Chapman. I Dillon, who had been serving .time, | “squealed.” gained his release ! through an arrangement with Count.v Detective Ilickey, of the Hartford staff, and used the initial “B” in signing letters that were credited to “Betty.” Tostal inspectors stepped in. Chapman carelessly left a brown' kit bag behind him—and that was that. Then, in his last feverish efforts to escape Wethersfield's newly contrived scaffold, Chapman tore off the trappings of a "super-bandit.” He had not been the “master mind” of the thrilling Atlanta prison escape, he said; he had not been the “master mind” of the great postoffice robbery: he had been no phantom,” but merely one, who having once been involved in crime, was blamed for a dozen and one. things he had not done. Not a single gesture of heroics did he leave himself; not an ounce of glamor for which he did not himself act executioner. The very pature of the crime for which his death was demanded, like the final deed of his pal. Dutch An der.-’on, detracted from his criminal glory. Anderson, the much glorified “master." was engaged in the pettiest of crime when he met-his end. Chapman was reduced to the role of robber of a small town store in which the reward would have been most trivial to a "super-crook.” Not even the picturesque name of Gerald Chapman is to remain. For, if his sister claims his body—as it is believed she will—the family records may show him as "George Char-

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tres.” said to ho his true name. For Chapman was the child of intelligent Irish folk, his parents dying while he was still in kilts. So, after all the swnshbucklo and high adveuture liuve been removed, there seems to remain for him only the precarious distinction of an intelligent man turned crook So few are the crooks with mind above the average that they invariably become glamorous figures. Chapman was a reader of the classics, a student of the philosophies, and something of a writer of verse that betrayed a basic sentimentality. Perhaps it was expected that this distinction of intelligence would save him: that he would be spared for being out of the ordinary. But this is a “Yankee” section*of the country where such values were not likely to have influence. Chapman seems to have accepted this, and in his last weeks of life sought to preserve the one distinction of sophistication and talent. From his cell came cynical and philosophic paragraphs and fragments of verse. His last was the Villon gesture. He would erase the thief and erect the poet. Futility "set upon him like a tightening mould.”' “Last thoughts caine like interrupted thunder” only to be silenced by the “grim dawn of reason.” Chapman had unconsciously created his best epitaph. COMMISSION PRAISED Evansville C. of C. Official Pleased With I’hone Rate Ordfr. Ir. a letter from Leslie T. Lacroix, Evansville Chamber of Commerce traffic department manager, public service commission members are congratulated for the recently draf’ed rate order affecting the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. Lecroix complimented commission members for their diplomacy in preventing another Federal Court appeal. “The able and conscientious way in which you handled this case lias brought to a close what years of litigation could not do,” Lacroix said. COAL BIDS OPENED 150,090 Tons to Be Bought by State; Awards Wednesday. Bids on approximately 150.000 tons of coal, for use during the doming year in various State institutions, , were opened today by the State purchasing department. Awards will i be announced Wednesday.

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MURDER TRIAL TO GET UNDER WAY TUESDAY No Motive Seen in Poolroom Killing—Venire of Fifty Drawn. Did Herbert Thleslng, 2)53 N. Alabama SI., charged villi first dc gree murder. KiJl Orin Verimrd, 45. of 1330 Sheldon St., Jan. 2 in I Inpoolroom of Raymond llolThaucr 1609 Ludlow Ave.'.’ There was n-> apparent mu ive. A Jury will Insworn in Criminal Court Tuesday to decide the rase. A special venire of fifty names for Jury service has been called. Thleslng. who lias been In Jail since the tragedy. Is said to have fired his revolver at men playing dominoes. Vernard was watching the game. ’Herb, do not shoot any more. You have shot me,” salt! Vernard as lie slumped to the floor. It is charged. “Oh. it was blank." replied Thtes ing. police say. An hour lie fore (he shooting Thleslng and Vernard played pool Witnesses said the men seemed ho the best of friends. Thlesln-i left in a taxicab and returned wi:h a revolver, it is said. Judson L. Stark, deputy prose cutor. said lie would ask the death penalty.

SOLD ‘MULE’ TO WRONG SOLDIER Barbecue Operator Held on Liquor Charge. L. A. Evans. R. R. J., Box 203 D., proprietor of a barbecue stand on the Pentdleton Pike at Ft. liar rlaon Rr., was released under bond today. lie was arrested on a. blind tiger charge Saturday by Deputy Sheriffs Sands, Bell, Brown, Wag ncr and Sergt. William) Paulsell. Mrs. Evans and Miss Bernice l!el leau. an employe, were also arrested and later released under bond. They were to appear before the grand jury today. Sands said Army officers charged Evans was supplying liquor to soldiers at Ft. Harrison. Ho said Kvans would sell only to men In uniform. Ivist Friday night Deputy Reams donned an Army uniform and purchased liquor from Evans, It was alleged. Deputy sheriffs Confiscated two gallons of white mule and nine pints buried in the ground, Sands said. MORE WORRY FOR ‘MA’ Texas Seeks Data on Kexreutlve Clemency In State, Something new for Governor Miriam (Ma) Ferguson of Texas to worry about! A nation-wide check-up on execu live clemency in other States is being made- from Texas just to prove , to "Ma” that she is too good to the j bad. 1 Governor Jackson received a elrcular letter today from Emmy Grigs by Meharg, secretary of state In Texas, asking the number of pardons, jwiroles, commutations, reprieves and stays of execution Indiana has granted. INJURED BY BROTHER Man Treated at City Hospital After ' Fight Sunday. Two brothers battled at 319 Ells worth St. Sunday night. Injuries of one were dressed at city hospital Alexander Campbell, Negro, 323 \V. Vermont St., told police his brother, Earl. 35. of 336 N. West St., struck him on the head with a broom handle and then tired two shots, both of which missed. Earl ran. BEFORE O. O. P. CLUB Dr. Henry Noble Sherwood, State superintendent of public instruction, will speak tonight before the Irving ton Republican Club. Dr. Sherwood will discuss “Highlight# in lloosier Education.”

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