Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 May 1926 — Page 1

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Tracy Law and Death Stokes’ Claim to Fame Another Tangle What Law Is

By M. E. Tracy A man is scheduled for death in Nevada's “lethal chamber” today. You would never have heard of him if he hadn’t run foul of the law by hilling a young girl who refused to marry him. You would never have heard of the “lethal chamber,” but. for the law’s effort to inllict the death penalty with as little pain and violence as possible. It makes no great difference, of course, whether one is put out of the way by guillotine, rope, electricity, or gas, since the most painltd part of the proceeding consists in dreading the approach of the fatal moment. -I- -|- •!• \V, E. D. Stokes, who died Wednesday and who wili be bulbed Saturday, won fame largely because of the many law suits in which he was involved, llis first wifo divorced him, after which he made a huge cash settlement with her to get custody of their son. lie tried for five years to divorce his second wife, but without success, after which he was tried for conspiracy to defame her character. Between trials he was mixed up in nil kinds of controversy. He sued liis lawyers and they sued him. He named the son by his first wife as one of the ten co-respondents in the suit for divorce against his second wife. It was law that made him famous, though from an unusual angle. •I- -I- -IRaffaelle Morello, just released from a New Jersey prison because the law made a tragic mistake, is now waiting to see if the law is going to make another mistake and deport as an alien convict. \ little more than eight years ago Morello was found beside his dead bride of four months with a bullet through his ear. It was taken for granted that he had shot her and then tried to shoot himself. Brought to trial for murder, he tried to tell in the peculiar Italian dialect, which he spoke, how site had committed suicide because, he was going into ttie army, and lie thought she could not live without him, and how ho had tried to commit suicide when he saw that she was dead. The interpreter, unable to understand correctly, translated his story os a straight confession of murder and lie was sentenced for life. Ho learned English In prison and finally made himself understood. The interpreter was hunted up and forced to admit that his translation might have been wrong. The authorities became convinced that a great Injustice lmd been done Morello and released him. Now lie is waiting to sec whether .he will be deported because of a law which provides deportation for alien convicts, notlnvithstanding the fact that he was wrongly convicted. •I- -I- -IFive noble Senators will soon go forth to probe the use of kale by those who asp’re to become, or remain their brethren. Commendable mission, no doubt, hut witli more politics than idealism in it. t Most of those aspiring to become, or remain Senators, are Republicans, and Jim Reed certainly put one over on the grand old party when he forced It to authorize a probe that is bound to work hardships on its own candidates. Back of it all, however, is the law —tlie direct primary law, the law limiting campaign expenditures, the law against bribery, vote buying, etc. It was dissatisfaction with a law that nominated Vare in Pennsylvania and inspired Governor Smith to sign a Hill providing for an unofficial referendum on the Volstead act in New York. It is alleged violation of a law that puts former Attorney General Daugherty under indictment. It is through a provision of a law that Roberts and Pomerene still hope to break the Teapot Dome oil lease. % You can hardly mention a thing o" public importance but it is tangled up with law somewhere. •I- -I- -I’ Law Is religion, business, philosophy, moral convictions, prejudices and a lot of other abtractions boiled down to make a code of conduct. If we took more time in the boil lug, we would have far less trouble with the product.

OWNERS REJECT MINE PEACE PLAN Join Strikers in Refusing Baldwin’s Scheme. tin Uiil'cil Prat* LONDON, May 21.—Tho British foal mine owners today formally rejected the government proposals for ending the British coal strike. Thursday the miners rejected the proposals. The government’s program had contemplated what the winners had said would amount to a 10 per cent wage reduction. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 57 *lO a. m 72 7 a. in f>! II a. rn 73 8 a. in 66 12 (noon )..., 74 9 a. m ‘Gts l p. m 76

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WEI HOPES NOW PINNEO ON OREGON Pacific Coast State Goes to Polls With Prohibition an Issue. WASHINGTON IS ANXIOUS A Reed Movement for National Referendum Grows. Bii United Prexs WASHINGTON, May ”I.—While the movement for a national prohibition referendum grew in Congress today as the result of the beer victory in the Pennsylvania primary another liquor battle at the polls was being staged in Oregon. The senatorial and gubernatorial candidates are being chosen in contests in which both wets and drys are involved. The outcome will be injected into tlie heated contest now being waged here over prohibition. Senator Edward N. Stanfield, seeking the Republican renomination, has been endorsed by the Oregon Corporation for madification of the Volstead act. He has six opponents, led bv the Anti-Saloon League candidate, Frederick Steiwer, Pendleton attorney. L. B. Sandblast, Portland attorney, is also running on a platform of liquor law modification. A. R. Shumake, a farmer, Is the only opponent of President Coolidge's politics. He is advocating sweeping agriculture relief. Woman in Kace In tite Democratic gubernatorial contest Mrs. Louise Painter Weber, a wet, is opposing the renomination of Governor Walter Piece, and dryest of the drys. Meanwhile Senator David Reed of Pennsylvania has proosed in the Senate that the States hold referendums on prohibition in order to take the question—“the greatest since slavery”—out of politics. Sees Inefficiency Commenting on the nomination of Congressman Vare in tHo Pennsylvania Republican senatorial contest. Heed said “it means sure inefficiency in government if wo continue to select our public men solely from .the standpoint of their attitude on prohibition. “A man may qualify a. an ardent dry or a wet and still be densely ignorant of foreign relations, national finance, taxation, immigration, railroad regulations, shipping and naval affairs, the Government of our territories, banking and currency and all of the multitude of other questions that call for ex pert knowledge and sound judgement in their solution.”

DEMAND EON GAG INQUIRY RENEWED Senator Aroused by New Increases. Bu Timex Sncclnl WASHINGTON, May 21.—Concerted action among oil companies to Increase the prices of gasoline and oil, “if not direct violations of the anti-trutft law," were charged by Senator Trammell of Florida in the Senate today. "Recently gasoline prices increased simultaneously in Texas and New Jersey and then in Indiana and Florida,” he said. Trammell asked consideration of a resolution directing the Federal trade commission to investigate. This was blocked by Senator Curtis of Kansas, majority leader. CHURCH BIRTHDAY SUNDAY PLANNED Emerson Avenue Baptists Hold Anniversary Dinner. “Things necessary for growth of the church” was the topic of Dr. Ernest N. Evans, .Church Federation secretary, Thursday night at the anniversary banquet of Emerson Avenue Baptist Church, E. New York St. and Emerson Ave. Fifth birthday of the church will be observed Sunday ( the Rev. I’aul J. Morris, pastor, said. Roll call of 125 charter members will be held. The Rev. U. S. Clutton of Tuxedo Park Church will speak in the morning and Dr F. A. Hayward, Baptist Federation secretary, in the evening. The Rev. Morris said additional units of the $150,000 plant will be erected within two years. Gymnasium and Sunday school room have been completed. SHOWERS PROBABLE Thunder showers may descend upon Indianapolis tonight, according to tho United States Weather Bureau’s torecast. Fair and cooler weather is due Saturday, bureau ofii cials said.

HE Y JIM! YOU BE TIER DENY THIS House Told Watson Is Regular Consultant of Mediums. Hn Timex Suuial WASHINGTON, May 21. —The names of Senator Watson, President Coolidge, and other Republican leaders have been dragged into debate here as to whether spiritualistic practices and mediumistic exhibitions shall be forbidden in the District of Columbia. Harry Houdini, famous magician, is leading the tight before the House District of Columbia Committee to forbid the practices. Miss Rose Muckenburg, Investigator hired by Houdini, told the committee that at a “seance” with her Mrs. Jane Coates, local medium, said that table-tipping seances were held in the White ifouso and that Watson and other Senators were regular consultants of mediums. A prompt denial came from *the White House of any White House participation, hut so far Watson hasn't made any denial. Mrs. Coates also denied that she had mule the Wiiite House statement, but didn’t mention the Senators. Mrs. Coates told the committee on Thursday that a friend of hers had asked Watson's aid and advice in lighting the bill, but didn't say what the results were. Houdini Thursday threw SIO,OOO in bills upoii tlie table ami said lie would gie it to any medium who would produce “manifestations" that Houdni couldn't prove were faked. The money was not claimed.

ft CORMIGK DID NOT KILL HAAG, WIFE DECLARES Says She Was With Him Aii Day Monday and Knows He Is Innocent. “I want all the world to know th.it my dear husband is innocent," today declared Mrs. Elmer McCormick, 22, a bride of only four months, whose husband is being held in connection with the Milford Haag murder investigation. “I haven't eaten or slept since the officers took him away on Tuesday,” she *tvent on, ‘and I'm going to stay right around this jail until lie's let out.” Mrs. McCormick, who is slight of stature and blonde, plainly showed the effects of the strain. "If there was any possibility of his being guilty, it would he different,” she went on, “but I Mas with iiim tlie whole day Monday. Ac couldn’t have done it. "I can see sonic of the reasons why they’ve picked on Elmer,” she observed. “You see lie’s been out of work practically since we’ve been married. He’s a good automobile mechanic but lack3 the confidence to get himself placed. The officers wondered where we've been getting money. \Ye can prove tiiat my mother-in-law', Mrs. Anna McCormick, lias been advancing us money, and we’ve given notes for every hit of it and intend to pay back every cent. Some folks say Elmer bootlegged for his money. Well, they say that about lots of folks, you know, especially if their money supply is unknown. “The other reasons for suspicion of him are, of course, the tan Chrysler roadster and that unfortunate moustache that Elmer wears.” “We both were utterly astounded when tlie doers came for him, Tuesday,” Mrs. McCormick observed, “although neighbors had jokingly referred to tiie fact that my husband answered the discretion of one of the bandits. ‘Better shave off your moustache,’ they had said. When the officers took him away, he kissed me good-by and said he would be back in a couple of hours. He knew we had the best of alibis my constan presence with him Monday.” “If he was guilty I’d want his punished, but he’s innocent and I think it’s terrible for him to be put through this awful questioning. The officers questioned me for four hours, but what could I tell but the truth. That’s what Elmer said when they took him away. ‘We’ve only to tell the truth.’ We have —both of us.” 37 TO BE ARRAIGNED Will Face Federal Judge Baltzell on Saturday. Thirty-seven persons will be arraigned Saturday before Judge Robert C. Baltzell to answer charges of committing Federal offenses for which they have been indicted by the Federal grand jury. Twfenty eases v/ill be for violation of the liquor law, one for automobile theft, one for postal theft and one for white slavery. TO DISTRIBUTE BURDEN Commissioners Confer Upon Hales at Grceiisburg. Public service commissioners held a special conference this morning to distribute the burden of a $15,000 annual increase in water rates at Greensburg among the various classes of users. The increase is In compliance with a Federal Court de cision setting aside tlie commission's $225,000 valuatiorAof tlie Greensburg Water Company and fixing $310,000 tlie fair rate-making value.

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JUDGE 10 HOLD BRIBE QUIZ HERE Evansville Bootlegger Ordered in Local Federal Court. TO EXPLAIN REMARKS Ingram Reid Arrested on U. S. Indictment. With the arrest late Thursday of Ingram Reid, confessed Evansville bootlegger, on a Federal grand Jury warrant, Judge Robert C. Baltzell today ordered Reid brought before him in the local court to explain statements Reid made to the effect that he paid money to be “protected” by Federal prohibition agents and insure immunity in Federal court here. Reid was indicted by the grand jury Thursday and a warrant issued Immediately for his arrest. Judge Italtzell ordered his appearance here either this afternoon or Saturday morning, when Reid was to be arraigned on a liquor law violation charge. Reid was arrested Dec. 11 by agents on charges of possession and transportation of booze. Says Paid .Money Reid in open court in Evansville said he paid A. E. Sanders, former editor of tlie Evansville Journal, SB3O to “fix” George Winkler, form> r prohibition agent now city lieutenant of detectives, and other Federal agents. It was believed Judge Baltzell will question Reid at length on his statement. Winkler denied having received any money from Sanders, but said >e believed Reid's statement that Handers used his name to extort money. Reid is in the custody of Deputy United States Marshal James Stickelman. It was learned that Shelby McDowell. Vanderburg County sheriff, has been subpoenaed to appear before the Federal grand jury in the case. Sheriff McDowell brought Indianapolis police w a rants for the arrest of Sanders on charges of forgery, perjury and obtaining money on false pretense;;, an.l for tlie arrest of Frank Riff >rd. Federal dry agent, on charges of criminal attack and robbery. Dry Agent in t a.se Rift'ord, a Federal agent working out of district dry office in Chicago, was sent to Evansville when Sanders asked a squad of men be sent to clean up the town. It is believed Sanders and Rifford have gont to Chicago. Reid was not indicted immediately after his arrest Dec. 11 because Sanders told Winkler and A. R. Harris, deputy prohibition administrator, that Reid, posing as a newspaper reporter, could gather sufficient evidence to “clean up” the town. United States District Attorney Albert Ward approved of this procedure. but since tlie liquor scandal developed, took action to indict Reid.

SLAYER IS PUT TO DEATH WITH GAS Nevada Execution Is ‘Entirely Successful.’ lUi United I'reuß CARSON CITY, Nev., May 21— Three short blasts of hissing gas shot through the floor of a small, airtight cell in the yard of the Nevada State prison today, took the life of a man strapped tightly to a chair within. The victim was Stanko Jukich, 23, Serbian, executed in the Nevada bizarre manner, for killing Jane Munkn, his 16-year-old sweetheart, when she refused to wed him. The execution was pronounced “entirely successful - ' by the physicians and witnesses, who, through a thick window, saw Jukich’s head drop to his breast. The death chamber was cheated of one victim. John Randolph, who was to have died with Jukich for murdering his aged mother, was reprieved at the last minute by the State board of pardons and his sentence commuted to life imprisonment. GRAY TESTIMONY ENDS Ilaby Murder C ase May Go to Jury Late Today. "WINCHESTER, Ind., May 21.—A woman had the Inst word today in the trial of Charles Gray of Munoie, charged -with the murder of his infant son, "Baby Charles." "I did not," Mrs. Sepheria Gray, ills wife, shouted, when she had been recalled by the State to deny the charges of her husband, who accused her of striking the baby only a few hours before its death. The case may go to the jury late today. FISHER VICTOR CLAIMED fin l’nitn! Pm* HARRISBURG. Pa., May 21.—Although Edward E. teidelman has refused to concede the Republican nomination as Governor to John S. Fisher, almost complete returns to day indicated that Fisher had swept the State.

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Elisha < liupmati and Jesse Robinson, Negro ice men, who drove up t" Die Green Mill dance hall Monday as Wilkinson Hang was shot, watching Elmer McCormick re-enact tlio slaying at the dance hall Thursday,

RECORD GRAIN BUSINESS SEEN Freight Cars Ordered Into Middlewest. Bu United Pros CHICAGO, May 21.—Freight cars from all corners of the nation today were ordered Into the middlewest i n anticipation of the greatest freight traffic in grains on record. The orders went out from the American Railway Association after hearing reports that crop conditions in the southwest and most parts of the western wheat belt indicated a tremendous yield. No comparative figures were given in crop estimates but the cat- service department reported private advices which indicated that' the crop wotild be so large that the railroads would be faced with tlie most serious transportation problem in history. Empty cars available for handling grain shipments have been ordered out of the eastern and southern States so that they will be ready to carry the big grain loads. NEW DRY FORCE IS AUTHORIZED U. S. to Make State, County, City Men Agents. BU United Prexs WASHINGTON, May 21.—President Coolidge has signed an executive order authorizing Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews to appoint State, county and municipal officers as Federal prohibition agents. The o-der announced at the treasury today, said: “In order that they might more efficiently function in the enforcement of the prohibition act, any State, county or municipal officer may be appointed at a nominal rate of compensation ns prohibition officer of the Treasury to enforce the provisions of the national prohibition act and acts supplemental thereto, in States and territories except in thoso States having constitutional or statutory provisions against State officers holding office under the Government. HARRIS DOUBTS SUCCESS Dry Chief Says Officers Tempted by Bribes. Deputy Federal Prohibition Administrator A. It. Harris today said he doubted the success of the plan to appoint State, county and municipal officers Federal prohibition agents. He said the temptation of bribes might influence tlie agents not accustomed .o Government enforcement. RUCKER FILES PROTEST Asks Court to Set Aside Order on Park Board. Alvah J. Rucker, city corporation counsel, today tiled in Circuit Court a motion asking the court to set aside a temporary restraining order issued several days ago enjoining Mayor Duvall from hearing charges of Inefficiency and extravagance against Albert M. Maguire, park board member. The mayor’s hearing was originally set for today. The hearing on the petition filed by Maguire, who is seeking a permanent injunction, has been set for June 2 before Judge Harry O. Chamberlin. Until the outcome of this hearing, the mayor has .teen restrained from hearing an.\ charges Rucker declared Maguire would get a fair and impartial hearing.

DID HE KILL HAAG?

WHY HE IS HELD Police arc holding Elmer McCormick. Lawrence. Ind., in their investigation of the slaying of Wilkinson Haag, Ilaag Drug Company official, under a SIO,OOO bond on a vagrancy charge, because: He has a mustache similar to that of the slayer. He has a complexion as dark as the bandit who fired the shot that killed Haag. Ho answers the general description of the robber. Ho has a pair of glasses like those worn by the gunman. He drives a Chrysler auto which witnesses say looks like the bandit auto. 11c was identified by Miss Jessie Murphy, 1117 E. Market St., companion of Haag and witness to tlie shooting. “I’m practically sure that is tlie man,” I don’t sec how I could be mistaken,” Miss Murphy said when she viewed McCormick's profile as tlie slaying scene was reenacted tit Ilic Green Mill Thursday afternoon. Jesse Robinson, Negro, 514 Agnes St., who drove up in an ice truck as the bandits fled, said he was “nearly sure that is tho man. lie looks and talks like him.” Mrs. Fred Kline, ticket seller at Ohio Tneater, said she did not remember McCormick purchasing a ticket at the theater Monday afternoon. McCormick told police he was in the show early that afternoon. The bandit auto circled back In the direction of McCormick’s home, speeding over rough roads instead of traveling westward over paved rnnrl*

YESSIR, JOYCE WAS IN THAT BATHTUB Newspaper Man Thrills Courtroom With Details of Earl Carroll's Famous Party.

Bu Unit and Pee** NEW YORK, May 21.—They finally got Joyce Hawley into Earl Carroll's famous bathtub of alleged champagne today. Earl is on trial to prove bis virtue and veracity. Arthur Irwin, young newspaperman, who attended Carroll’n famous Washington birthday party, testified Miss Hawley bathed for about ten minutes In the tub, allegedly brimming with champagne. Irwin was continuing testimony he started Thursday in Carroll’s trial for perjury in connection with the

27 MOTORISTS IN AUTO LIGHT DRIVE Ten Drivers Arrested on Speding Charges. Twenty-seven drivers today were held in the drive against motorists with improper auto lights. Arrests were made Thursday night. Police charged ten with speeding. They were: Sherman R. Hawkins, 30, of 204 E. Twenty-Fourth St.; Carl Ochiltree, 26, of 2460 Ashland Ave.; George Weiss, 29, of 312 YV. Michigan St.; Edward Vernon, 23, of 1222 Prospect St.; Verne Murray, 31, of 3515 Wintlirop Ave.; D. W. Haley, 24, 3727 N. Capitol Ave.; Thomas Fuller, ID, of 401 S. Missouri St.; Edwin Urich, 21, of 2039 Central Ave.; Edward Dehne, 21, of 509 N. Dorman Ave., and Aaron Pollard, 32, of 603 N. Senate Ave. M. F. Canary. 30. of 425 N. I.iberty St., was charggd with driving while intoxicated, failure to stop # after an accident, and reckless driving.

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M’CORMICK’S STORY “My God, if they only will study this thing out and realize what this means to me, I know they will vindicate me. I never killed Haag, and I have an alibi that will prove every place I have been,” said Elmer McCormick, 26, Lawrence, Ind., in a statement today. McCormick is charged by Miss Jessie Murphy as being the man who shot Wilkinson Haag, official of the Haag Drug Company, at the Green Mill dance hall Monday. “They talk about the car chasing Haag from Louisville, Sunday morning,” McCormick continued. “Well. Saturday afternoon, my wife and I took Raymond Wright and Miss Kathclene Nicholson to Greenfield, Ind., to be married. The courthouse here was closed. V.'e left there at -1 p. m. and drove to our house, where we stayed until Sunday morning when Wright and Aiis wifo went to the creamery where he worked. They drove my car and came back in the afternoon. About 4:30 p. m. 'i drove them to his wife's home, Eleventh tit. and College Avc. and then returned home. Came Into City “Monday morning my wife and I had breakfast and came to the city. I drove here to New Jersey and Washington St., where she applied for a position at the Steffen Cigar Company. After that I drove up and parked near the Vonnegut hardware store and saw George J. O'Connor on a business matter for my brother, who is in Florida. "I judge it was a short time after 10 a. m., for when my wife drove (Turn to Page 27)

Federal grand jury's investigation of his party. Irwin described how a bath tub was setting on a platform on tlie stage where the party was held. He and others, he said, had filled their glasses from the contents of the tub and drank. He Drank Alone “Was any one in it when you drank?’ he was asked. “There was not.” •fCarroll was near by, but I did not see him drink anything,” he said. Carroll had told the grand jury he himself never draitk. “Did you see any one in the tub?” “Yes.” “Do you know who it was?” ‘lt Was Miss Joyce Hawley.” “Carroll was standing at the left of the tub,” he testified. “The tub had been moved to tho center of the stage. A chair was placed in front of it and Carroll stood on the chair and held up a cloak. Then let the (Turn to Page 27) ONE DEAD IN WRECK Big Four Train and Freight Crash in Illinois. Bn United Prrxx ST. FRANCESVILLK, 111., May 21. —One person was killed and several injured near here early today when southbound passenger train No. 43 on the Big Four Railroad crashed Into the rear end of southbound freight No. 63. William Earl, 64, Mt. Carmel, engineer of the passenger train, was instantly killed. GIVEN TERM AND FINE Lewis Roberts, 1049 Elrn St., was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to thirty days in jail today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins , n charge of S'-cclflc sale of liquor. He was charged with selling liquor to D. R. Sturgeon, Federal prohibition agent.

Forecast Unsettled this afternoon and tonight with probably thundershowers, followed by fair Saturday ; cooler.

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OFFICERS TO SEE PAPERS HAAG LEFT Hope to Get Some Clew to Murder From Contents of Strong Box. M’CORMICK IS OBDURATE Denies Guilt—lllinois Bandit Theory Blasted. Holding one man as a suspect, though he had denied his guilt for more than twenty hours, police this afternooti were to attend the opening of the safety deposit box owned by Wilkinson llaag, official of tlie Haag Drug Company, slain in a hold-up Monday, in an effort to get some new clew tc tlie killing. Elmer McCormick, 26, of Lawrence, Ind., tlie man held, is in county jail under SIO,OOO pond. Thursday afternoon, when tlie murder was re-enacted at tho scene, the Green Mill dunce hall on E. Thirty-Eighth St-, Miss Jessie Murphy. 1117 E. Market .St., companion of Haag Hl tlie time of the murder, identified him as the taller of the two bandits —the one who fired the shot that killed the drug company official. Noah A. Bash, administrator of Haag's estate, invited Inspector Claude Worley, in active charge of the case, to witness opening of the safety deposit box at 2:30 p. m. at tho Bankers Trust Company. Papers May Give Clew It was suggested that papers in the box might give some hint as to a motive and might throw light on the identity of the murderer. Officers, howover, have held to the theory that tfhe whole affair was a hold-up, pure and simple. Haag was killed when ho refused to hand over a large diamond ring. The belief that the bandits were Illinois gunmen, who Sunday followed Haag back from the Kentucky Derby at Louisville, was blasted by Miss Murphy, who attended the big race with him. She said that a machine which followe4 llaag’s Marmon back from tho Kentucky metropolis was an Oakland coach, while the car used by the bandits was a Chrysler roadster. The two were of approximately the same color, she stated. “There were two men in the Oakland and both were short and chubby. I would know them if I saw them again. They were not the men who held us up at the Green Mill," Miss Murphy said. She stated that she and Haag started back from Louisville about 3:20 p. m. Sunday. They first saw the Oakland in Scottsburg and later saw it near Crothersville or Seymour, stopped by a State police officer, she said. Later she said the Oakland was seen near Columbus. “We waved to the men and they waved to us several times. One had a blue shirt. We didn’t notice any Chryfilers coming back,” she toid Detective Rugenstein. Miss Murphy said she thought tlie Oakland had the name “Elliott Oakland Sales, Indianapolis" on the tire cover. Officers are investigating the ownership of tlie car. The Illinois bandit theory was advanced when Miles Stirewalt, (Turn (o Page 2.)

COLLINS METES HEAVY PENALTIES Terms Given on Shoplifting Charges. The heaviest penalties ever meted I in Criminal Court to persons charged 1 with shoplifting were administered j today by Judge James A. Collins to two young women and a young man. Each was lined $25 and costs and sentenced two to fourteen years. Those convicted were Mrs. Martha Swarat, 20, Apt. 6 of 303 W. Vermont St.; Mrs. Marie McGlynn, 23. of 429 N. Delaware St., and - Raymond Mitchell, 25, Apt. 6, of 303 W. Vermont St. The women were sentenced to the Indiana Women's Prison, and Mitchell to the Indiana Reformatory. Mitchell Is said to he Mrs. SWa rat’s step-brother. The cases against Miss Bessie Shaw, 435 E. New York St., and Miss Ilattie Weakley, 434 E. New York St., both indicted with the others for conspiracy to commit grand larceny, were continued. The three convicted persons were charged with taking articles from 11. P. Wasson & Company's stoic. EXPECT JURY REPORT Federal Body May Return Vincennes Indictments Saturday. Federal grand jury will report on Saturday morning, according to District Attorney Albert Ward, and may indict about fifty Vincennes persons on charges of conspiracy to violato the national prohibition law. The indictments, if returned, may include county and city officials, in addition to several prominent persons. Other Vincennes persons are expected to be indicted for minor liquor, offenses.