Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1927 — Page 2

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O’BANION, TRIED FOR PAL’S DEATH, CALLEDTO STAND Daughter of Widow, Object of Alleged Fatal Fight, Testifies. John O’Banion, 59, of 423 Irving PL, was to take the witness stand in Criminal Court today and defend himself against the State’s charge that he took the life of his “buddy,” James Sparks, 43, of the same address. H, B. Pike, O’Banion’s attorney, declared several character witnesses w4U testify. The case is expected to go to the jury late today. Prosecutors allege O’Banion stabbed Sparks twice, Nov. .21, following an argument over Mrs. Pfieffer, 1030 Southeastern Ave., Whom they were visiting. According to testimony O’Banion is said to have angered when Sparks asked “the widow Pfieffer” for a date. Daughter Testifies t .Tearfully, Agnes Pfieffer, 16-year-old blonde daughter of Mrs. Pfieffer, told the court that before the stabbing occurred Sparks was on top of O'Banion. “Then O'Banion went out of the house and came back. When the stabbing happened I was in the other room. I heard Sparks yell and found him sitting on the davenport, sw'aying back and forth. "I am killed,’ he moanel. And then he got up and went out the door, saying, ‘l’ll get him.’ ” State's Attorneys Judson L. Stark and Paul Rhoadarmer declared she had said before that she saw tlie stabbing and that O’Banion was the aggressor in the tussle. Other Witnesses “I am telling the truth,” site told Special Judge Fremont Alford. “I ■was too scared before and couldn’t remember what happened. “Sparks said bad- tilings to my mother. I said I didn't remember because I didn’t want to say the words.” Mr. and Mrs. Leland Ballard testified they were passing the house when they heard sounds of a tussle and breaking glass. Police declared they found Sparks on the sidewalk and thought he was intoxicated. The defendant is alleged to have stabbed Sparks twice with a penknife shaped like a woman’s foot and leg. THREE KINGS INVITED Chicago Wants Royally to View Its 1933 Centennial. Bit Vnited Press CHICAGO, June 3.—Three Kings have been invited to attend the Chi cago Centennial in 1933. Charles S. reterson, city treasurer, left for a tour of Europe, and will present invitations to tile Kings of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway to attend the Chicago celebration.

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Male-Garbed Calamity Jane, Custer’s Scout, Once Stalked Cal’s Black Hills

Angel Disguise of ‘Old Soak’ Perfect and She Reigned Queen. Tbis is the second of six articles on the picturesque history and romantic associations of the Black Hill country, where f'resident Coolidge will spend his vacation. The third story will appear tomorrow. By Peter Edson HE A Service Writer RAPID CITY, S. D., June 3.—Custer’s last stand needs no press agenting, but the fact that one of Custer’s best scouts and messengers was a woman who dressel herself in men’s clothes is not so well known. That woman was Calamity Jane Burke (nee Cannary), a Missouri preacher’s daughter who made as much history as any other individual in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where Calvin Coolidge will spend his vacation this' sumhier. In the 1870’s, when the gold field nol’th of the present summer White House was still in its swaddling clothes, Jane Burke was an angel in disguise, and the disguise was perfect. It was Jane’s boast that she never went to bed sober and that she never went to bed with a penny in her pants pocket. Pants pocket is correct. Calamity Jane wore masculin.e garb. • Queen of I lie Hills She got her name from the fact that she brought calamity on her adversaries. She lived as a man among the roughest of the toughest days in the dime novel capital of the world and she held her own. She was coarser than cord wood or finer than silk, depending on whether you look on her virtues or vices. If a fever-racked prospector in his delirium called for sweet pickles against the doctor’s orders, Jano saw that he got the pickles. At the point of a gun she held up a store at Confederate Gulch during the smallpox scourge ■which hit the hills in IS7S. She made the storekeeper wrap her up an order of fancy grocleries. Backing out of the store she made for the mountain isolation camp. Her patient got well and was brought back to town amid much shooting. Expert Pistol Shot A queer mixture of Lady Bountiful, Florence Nightingale, Evangeline Booth, Buffalo Bill, Deadwood Dick and plain old’spak all rolled into one—a woman who did everything that men did years before suffrage and the modern woman were dreamed of! She even chewed tobacco. When she went on a tantrum, the population took lo the woods. It was her handiness with rifle and six-shooter that won her a place as teantster and later as a scout for Custer. At the age of IS this predate flapper could throw an oyster can in the air and put two buffet holes in it from her revolver before the can touched the ground. She rode the Pony Express route from Deadwood to Custer, all through the heart of the banditi infested Black Hills. ( Riding toward Crook City one day she found the Overland Mail, drivenless, plunging across the plain pursued by Indians. Calamity unloaied everything but the mail and the six passengers and raced them to safety. Equally Adept With other short-range weapons she was equally adept. She would bet Black Hills gold dust that she could fleck a fly off an ox's ear with a sixteen-foot whip lash three times out of five. It is unproven history that she cornered and captured Wild Bill Hickock's Blayer with a butcher’s cleaver. She was married three times for sure, and maybe nine times more for luck. Folk lore around the hills says she had twelve husbands. She has one daughter still living, known as a “loving mother in her own beautiful home.” When Calamity Jane died in 1903, after a spree which had lasted several days, she was brought back to Deadwood and, at her own request, juried beside Wild Bill Hickock, her idol. She had the largest funeral ever held in Deadwood. TOMORROW: Wild Bill Hickock.

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TWO HIT AND BADLY INJURED BY AUTOS Pedestrians, Ages 65 and 74, in Hospitals. Two pedestrians struck by autos are in serious conditions in hospitals today. John W. Ferguson, 65, of R. R. B, Box 92-C, was taken to Robert Long Hospital after an auto driven by Harry Neal, 21, of Clermont, Ind., struck him at 450 U W. Washington St., early today. Neal, whom police were told was attempting to pass a string of autos when one of the machines turned out and forced him to swerve into • Ferguson, who was walking on the opposite side of tae street, was charged with speeding and reckless driving. John R. Stevens, 74, of 126 W. Twenty-Second St„ is in a critical condition at St. Vincent’s Hospital. He was struck by the auto of Albert Wooster, 914 N. Belle Vieu PL, as he stepped out to board a street car at Twenty-Second and Illinois St.. Thursday night. SCHOOL 48 BID $17,150 General construction contract for $17,150 addition and remodeling at School 48, 1102 York St., was awarded to the Krebay Construction Company by the school board today. Freyn Brothers, with a $4,838 bid, was awarded the heating and ventilating system contract and C. L. Smith the electrical equipment contract for $435. General construction of an addition to School 10, Ashland Avc. and Thirtieth St., was awarded the Service Construction Company for $17,150.

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47 LOSE LIVES IN STORMS, FLOODS Southeastern Part of Kentucky Suffers. Bu United Press LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 3. Storms and floods which have ravaged southeastern Kentucky throughout the week have taken a toll of forty-seven lives, according to reports which today reached the State board of health. These reports, according to Dr. A. T. McCormack, secretary of the board, indicate that the death list will be increased when additional details of the storm are received. The storm centered its fury in Letcher, Johnson, Perry and Magoffin Counties, according to the advices here. Property damage was believed heavy, especially along the Big Sandy, Licking and Kentucky Rivers. The storm began last Sunday night, and in the near-cyclone and flood which followed, three persons lost thier lives at Faintsville and seven others in Roxana. PARTIES RAPPED City Manager Speaker Flays Old Mayor System.| Political parties have disgusted citizens ar. l caused voters to neglect voting on election day, Harvey Hartsock, attorney, declared in a speech advocating city manager at the Dodge works of the Link-Belt Company, 515 N. Harding St., today at noon. llartsock described the effect of the political system on citizens, declaring that*tlie ballot is usually cast for candidates picked by some partisan organization. “Law prevents the mayor and councilmen from succeeding themselves, discarding every four years the experienced officials for a set of amateurs," said llartsock. “New officials are bound by preelection favors and promises discharging many for their friends. Many officials And themselves Involved with the corrupt practice act.” Meetings next week: Edwart work of Link-Belt Company, 220 S. Belmont Ave., Monday noon; Ninth Ward Workers meeting, 1214 E. Michigan St., and American War Mothers, 3128 McPherson sir. Tuesday; E. Sixteenth St. Civic Club, at E. Sixteenth Street Church, and Brotherhood of St. John’s Evangelical Church, Leonard and Sanders Sts., Thursday, and mass meeting, Central Buiek Company, Central Ave. and Thirtieth St., Friday.

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College Girl Has Quit Petting, Now Looks for ‘The One Man, ’ Co-ed Finds

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