Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 112, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1926 — Page 2

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SPEED UP MELLETT CASE, GRAND JURY TOLD BY lUDGE Wholesale Return of Indictments Envolving High Officials Expected. Bu Timex Special CANTON, Ohio, Aug. 16.—The Stark County grand jury expected to return indictments in connection with the murder of Don R. Mellett. publisher of the Canton Daily News, and former Indianapolis man, was charged by .Judge A. W. Agler to lose no time In considering evidence In the case when it convened todSy. Decision by the jury Is expected before the end of tlie week. Protect Innocent In his 3.000 word charge Judge Agler stressed' the importance of protecting the innocent as well as punishing the guilty. Investigators predict a wholesale 'return of Indictments involving-several high officials. Prosecutor C. B. McClintoc-k has requested Attorney General C. C. Crabbe to appoint a special prosecutor to assist him In the jury Investigation, It became known as the jury convened. Appointment of Joseph Roach as his assistant, suggested by the group of Canton citizens, who brought the criminal Investigator here, was impossible, because Roach is not a resident of the State, McClintock explained. Two Summoned Carl Studer and Louis Maser, reputed underworld leaders, questioned here in connection with the Mellett murder, were summoned to appear before United States District Attorney A. E. Bemsteen in Cleveland, where evidence is being gathered for a Federal grand Jury. Judge Agler told the grand jury that Federal officers would take care any’ evidence of liquor conspiracy, leaving for the Jury only the murder case. It Is In connection with the Federal case Maser and Studer will be questioned. It is believed any Indictments returned by the county grand Jury will charge first degree murder. Judge Agler advised the Jurors there is no Ohio law cov erlng accessories before and after the fact. Mellett was murdered more than a month ago, following a newspaper campaign against liquor traffic and vice conditions. Investigators freely express the

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opinion that he was murdered at the instigation of bootleg Interests that were feeling the effects of his crusade. DETECTIVE QI’KSTIONEI) Canton Official Denies Knowledge of Mellett Murder. Bu United Prexx CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 16. Joseph Metzger. Canton police detective, denied knowledge of the murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton publisher, when questioned by Federal authorities here today in connection with a liquor case. '“Ever since the murder effort has been made to link my name and that of Ren Clark with the slay.ng." Metzger said. Clark Is a police cap tain. , “Clark isv supposed to have given me a certain type of pistol just before the murder. That is a lie. I didn't even know Mellett," the detective told his questioners. Another witness, whose identity was not divulged told authorities his life has been threatened since making a statement that he overheard a Canton man say Mellett was to be murdered. On the theory that bootleggers whom Mellett w attacking through the colunAns of his newspaper, played a prominent part in the murder. United States District Attorney A. E. Bernstein is gathering evidence to be presented to a Federal grand jury here next Hoth. ♦

SPEEDWAY CITY ANNEXING TO BE RUSHED THROUGH Passage of Ordinance Is Expected Budget to Be Presented to Council. v Suspension of rules and immediate passage of the ordinance to annex Speedway City to Indianapolis is expected at city council meeting tonight. The action is designed to forestall completion cf an incorporation project which would tilS- place with the election of town officers in Speedway City Wednesday. Annexation of Beech Grove and Ken Davis will be postponed for a time, according to Councilman Otis E. Bartholomews who, with Councilman Walter It. Dorsett, ls sponsoring the annexation movements. Passage of~ appropriation ordl nances awarding 181,505 to the city engineer's department for street repairs and $27,575 to the streets department for bridge repairs also is deemed certain. The funds comprise the city's share of the State automoible tax. The street repair award, made at a special meeting Aug. 7, was rendered invalid through a technical mistake. Counoilmen plan to hold a special meeting Wednesday to consider the 1927 budget. Boynton J. Moore, president, today Indicated the city legislators would undertake some Pruning with special emphasis on City officials drawing salaries from more than one fund. v PETERS REPEATS FINANCE DEMAND; - What Is State Treasury Balance Now, He Asks. Bu Tima i Special FRANKFORT. Ind., Aug. 16.—Reiterating his demand that Governor Jackson, State Chairman Clyde Walb and Senators James E. Watson and Arthur R. Robinson tell the people of Indiana the entire truth about State finances. Democratic State Chairman R. Earl Peters addressed a meeting here this afternoon. “A few weeks ago Governor Jackson issued-a statement to the people of this State,” Peters said. "In that statement he declared that there remained in the current funds of the State a balance of more than $16,000,000 on June 30. “What was the balance ,in the State treasury on July 31? Was there on that date an accumulation of $16,000,000 in the State treasury?” Peters said that -the present administration in Indiana is collecting a total of nearly $53,000,000 In taxes in a single year. He compared this with the SB,QOO,O|O collected during the last year of the administration of the late Samuel M. Ralston as Governor of Indiana. 8 DIE IN ACCIDENTS k , Bu United Prens DETROIT, Aug. 16.—Six died in through automobile mishaps Sunday, a seventh victim was drowned and an eighth was killed when struck by an airplane making a forced landing. The accidents occurred near Monroe, Grand Rapids. Pontiac, Clare, Detroit and Newberry. * \- POLICE HUNT FOR S ALS Two youths thought to have run away from their homes Thursday were sought by police today. Joseph Liggera, 14, of 61D S. East St., left his home about 8:30 p. m. Thursday. His brother thinks he left town. Harold Schoettle, 16, of 655 Greer St., is also missing from his home. Yhey are pals. RESERVES IN CAMP A large group of Indiana Reserve officers had reported today at Ft. Benjamin Harrison for a fifteen-day period of active duty. The largest group was made up of Indiana** men in the 335th Infantry, 84th Division, commanded by Col. Philip W. McAbee of Muncie. ROSES DONER DEAD Bu United Prr ex NEW YORK. Aug. 16.—Miss Roses Doner, ,20, dancer, died at the Polyclinic ' Hospital Sunday after an operation for appendicitis. Miss Doner appeared In vaudeville with her sister, Kitty, and brother, Ted.

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FIVE HURT IN CRASHES liOral Persons Among Kokomo Auto Accident Victims. Bu United Peril KOKOMO. Ind.. Aug. .16.—0f thirI teen persons hurt in automobile aoj cidents in and around Kokomo SunMay, five Indianapolis persons were! . injured, four seriously. * Mrs. and Mrs. Cecil Peeler, 505 ' Arbor Ave.. Indianapolis, suffered broken bones, bruises and cuts. i Kelso Miller and John Stewart, both of Indianapolis. were injured in a I collision with a machine driven by ' Ralph McCray of reru. Stewart ] suffered a broken log; Miller serious cuts and bruises. Will Cook of In- | (lianapolis. was slightly injured in a crash near Delphi, in which Mrs. i Elmer Huntley of Cutler suffered ! four severed arteries. KILLS HIS WIFE, SHOOTS HER SONS Ohio Man Then Tries to Take Own Life. flu l nit'll Pm * i MARTINS FERRY. Ohio, Aug. 16. —Mrs. Eli Kscott was killed, one son and her husband seriously j I wounded and another son was slight ; ly wounded as the aftermath of a family reconciliation conference here, j Mrs. Eseott was shot three times when she refused to return to her husband from whom she has been j separated three times. She died as j her son Frank Davidson, 24, Ell- j wood City, Ta., bent over her to j treat hpr wounds, Davidson whs shot and seriously wounded and fell unconscious across his mother's body. Ralph Davidson, 20, rushed from ! the house to call police and was shot j ki the arm. Mrs. Helen Fix, a | daughter, was fired on as she ran from the house, but the bullet missed. Eli Eseott, who police say did the shooting, then shot himself. He and j Frank Davidson are here in a serious i condition.

LOOSEN GRIP OF VOLSTEAD, VIEW League Council Would Retain Prohibition. Retain prohibition, but modify or repeal the Volstead Act. is the vfew of a majority of the National Economic League’s council members, announced today after a nation-wide pool on the question. The council has as its purpose creating of an “informed and disinterested leadership for public opinion.” A nunber of Indiana members voted in the pool. Former Senator Albert J. Beveridge is an officer o ft the league. Out of 4,600 council members, 1904 cast ballots. Total of 841 favored repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment while 997 were against repeal. For retaining or rein- | forcing of the Volstead Act, 808 votes were cast, as compared to 996 ballots favoring modification or repeal of the enforcement law. MOTHER, 21, GIVES UP Thelma Sution Walks From Memphis to Chicago to Surrender. Bu Unit:l Prcn GHIdAGO, Aug. 16.—After walking from Memphis, Tenn., Thelma Sutton, 21-year-old mother, surrendered to Chicago police today, saying she is wanted In Dayton, Ohio, for passing bogus checks. “I left my baby in Dayton and I am willing to be sent back to face trial If I can see her,” she told police. hSe said she passed the checks after her husband deserted her.

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