Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 164, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1926 — Page 11

OCT. 15, 1926

WEIRD TRAGEDY ; IS REVEALED AS * SUICIDE-MURDER Pistol Found in River Is Solution-to Crime in England. Bu Timm ftpecial BLUNHAM, England, Oct. 15. Lindsay Howitt Marshall, a wealthy farmer, planned the perfect murder and suicide. After weeks of careful preparation, he proceeded to carry out his plan to remove himself and his wife from the world by what would look like accidental death. His absent-mindedness in throwing a pistol from his automobile into the wrong side of a river brought his plan crashing, and a coroner’s jury returned a verdict that he murdered his wife and committed suicide. Marshall was 42 years old. No Motive No motive has been found for Marshall’s crime. He and his wife, always on good terms, visited friends a few miles from Marshall's big "South Hills farm.” They left just before midnight. * Just after midnight, the sudden flare of a flame atLcted residents on the road near Ijjo farm. motor car was found blazing at the side of the road, its Wheels straddling a ditch and its radiator jammed into a telegraph pole. Flames could be seen licking the charred forms of Marshall and his wife. While a' coroner’s jury that met in a barn on Marshall’s farm was preparing to return a verdict of accidental death, a gang of boys, fishing in a nearby river, found a pistol in six inches of water. The police traced it, as a matter of course, when they learned it had been found, and proved it belonging to Marshall. The inquest was adjourned, and the police got to work. With this evidence to work on, they traced Marshall’s movements back from the time of his death. * They found that he had bought some prussic a few weeks before “to kill a dog”; that the pistol was a recent purchase; that Marshall had filed the rims from a couple of cartridges of a slightly larger ca'iber than the new pistol, so that .hey would fit. Finally Solved Finally they managed to reconstruct an airtight an inexplainable case of murder and suicide. Marshall, after a designedly cheerful good-by to his friends, had shot his wife as his automobile stood on a bridge. Several, persons in the neighborhood" heard that night what

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they thought had been a .particularly loud “back fire” from a motor car. lie had thrown the pistol into the river below —but instead of throwing it in the eighteen feet of water on the south side, he had thrown it in six inches on the shallow northern side. He firove to a tricky piece of road and again halted his car. Here he sprinkled a gallon of gasoline over the inside of the car, and set it aright as he drained a bottle of prussic acid. The bottle was found in the car and identified by the druggist tht sold it. } Automobile experts showed that the fire must have started inside, away from the petrol tank, and the police proved that Marshall, for a few weeks before, had carried a gasoline can inside the car, saying it was filled with water for use in case the radiator needed it. The only thing the police could not show was a motive for the suicide. ACORNS YIELD MUSIC Used by Indians as Most Modem l Form of Jazz. LOS ANGEI.ES, Oct. 15.—Indian tribes in southern California have founCTa new way to jazz it up. They use acorns, tuned according to size and strung together in a musical scale. To play the instrument the Indian takes one end of the string in his hand and holds each acorn in turn between his teeth. Using the other hand he swings the string and pulls it taut, causing the acorn to vibrate between his teeth and producing a clear musical note.

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