Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 147, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1926 — Page 14

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MONDAY SET FOR ROADJfT TRIAL Contractor Asks $213,000 Damage From State. Superior Judge James M. Leathers, presiding in the Marion CountyCourt of Claims, today announced the five "Superior Court judges will sit in Rooom Two Monday to hear the suit of the Scott Construction Company, which is seeking SIOO,OOO judgment against the State highway department. Suit is on a written contract whereby the construction company agreed to lay the ShoalsWest Baden Kd. in Orange County for $213,747. Because Judge Leathers is sitting as special judge in the Hamrick arson case in Criminal Court, he will be represented by Judge James A. Collins. Other judges who will hear the case, which it is expected to last at least two days, are Judges Linn D. Hay, Sidney S. Miller, Clinton H. Givan and T?" J. Moll. Contract for Improvement of the road was made Aug. 20, 1923, by the highway department through its director, John I>. Williams. Contract covered excavating and grading of roadway, construction of culverts and head walls and certain reinforced concrete pipes for drainage. Petition alleges the work was completed under supervision of the chief engineer of the highway department. According to the suit, the engineer changed the specifications so that the company was put to an additional expense of $82,401.88. Merle N. A. Walker will represent the plaintiff and Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom the State. TO HAVE LOCAL JURY Prosecutor in Hall-Mills Case Displeased at Ruling. Bv United Press SOMERVILLE, N. J., Sept. 25. A jury from Somerset County, where the Hall-Mills murder was committed, will hear the case against Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and her three relatives, accused of the murder. Alexander Simpson, special prosecutor, as he made plans for the trial today, expressed disappointment at the refusal of the Supreme Court Justices to allow him a jury from another county. “It may be a serious handicap,” he said. “I don’t think lam as sure Os a fair and impartial trial with a Somerset Jury." It is expected to be nearly a month before the trial starts. GETS LIQUOR FIXE Oliver S. Rodgers, 61, of 849 N. Keystone Ave., was fined SSO and given a suspended sentence of ten days in jail Friday by Judge Thomas E. Garvin in Municipal Court One on a charge of driving while under the influence of liquor. He was discharged on a drunk charge. KILLED BY CARS Bu United Press PERU, Ind., Sept. 25.—Funeral arrangements were being made today for Henry Hiers, 32, who died from injuries received when he was run over by a string of cars in the Chesapeake & Ohio yards.

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VENICE MAN LIKED BIG HURRICANE Former Resident Writes Sister Here He Is Safe in Florida. Venice, Fla., resembled its Italian namesake for a time during the hurricane, according to a letter from Ted C. Brown, former secretary of the Indiana Motor Bus Association, received by his sister, Mrs. Willard E. Worrell, 41 W. Thirty-Fifth St. “Since the disaster had to happen, I am sure glad I was in it,” Brown wrote. “I have always loved the Gulf, but never as much as Sunday morning, when I saw waves coming in ten to twenty feet high, mountains upon mountains of water, each apparently trying to reach shore before the one in front of it. ' “I was in a building while part of it was blown away. Furniture on the porch was blown into the sea, trees- were falling like matches ev-

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erywhere. Window panes were blown in and even tile roofs blown off. “Wind tore out about thirty feet in the center of the Fuller Construction Company office, leaving both ends standing. ’ “But in tl(e-face of all of it, Venice stood high and dry, without a drop of water visible except in its bays and the gulf. “A fellow at Nokomis was telling me of their house blowing down. He and his wife got out all right. When he came back the next morning there was a big rattlesnake on his dining room table.” SPENCER REAPPOINTED Continues as Democrat Member of State Election Commission. Reappointment of W. W. Spencer, Indianapolis attorney, as Democratic member of the State Board of election commissioners, has been announced by Governor Jackson. Spencer was recommended by R. Earle Peters, chairman of the Democratic State committee. Spencer has been a member of the board since 1918. Fred C. Gause, former tnember of the State Supreme Court, was appointed Republican member recently. Each appointment is for two years.

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