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WOMEN LEAD TO ARREST OF TWO BANDITS Hostetter Brothers Captured in Buffalo; Girls Held in Pittsburgh. WANTED IN BANK ‘JOB’ Money Orders Sent ‘Friends’ in Lavish Apartment Serve as Clews. Women proved the latest undoing of Howard and Robert Hostetter, Indianapolis bank bandits, captured at Buffalo, N. Y., Sunday, according to a *Times dispatch from Pittsburgh today. The Hostetter brothers are wanted here for the robbery of the Southport Citizens State Bank, ind the wounding of Deputy Sheriff Charles Bell a few nights later. Feb. 6, 1925, they got $1,600. Dennis Hostetter, a third brother, and Kenneth Reeves are serving time in Indiana State Reformatory for complicity in the robbery. Money Orders Are Clews Pittsburgh detectives learned that Betty Johnson and Virginia Williams, attractive, well-dressed girls, living in a luxurious apartment were receiving money orders from Buffalo. These money orders led to the arrest of the Hostetters, according to the dispatch. The men gave the names of Wallace Johnson and Ralph Williams. Police here are sending Anger print* and other Bertillon records to maka identiAcation positive. Girls Are Arrested After the men had been captured, Pittsburgh detectives caught the Williams girl in the apartment and the Johnson girl at the Pittsburgh Union Station, where she had checked her handbag preparatory to flight. The girls admitted they were from Indianapolis. Pittsburgh detectives believe they gave assumed names. A woman once before messed things up for the Hostetters. A few nights after the Southport robbery Sheriff Omer Hawkins received a tip that the robber gang had established headquarters at Robert’s home, 621 N. Bradley Ave. Two Wounded in Battle Deputy Sheriff Bell, Robert McElroy, a private detective; Lawrence Bradley, a citizen of 1120 N. Kitley St., and police rushed to the house. After a brief struggle the party in the house, including the three Hostetters, Reeves and several women, was subdued. While the party was prepared for transportation to Jail, Rose Marie Kaiser, girl friend of one of the Hostetters, asked permission to go to a bedrooom to get a handkerchief. While in the bedroom the woman secreted a pistol in her clothing, walked into the living room and passed the gun to Robert Hostetter. Hostetter began flring. Bell and Bradley were wounded. Howard and Robert Hostetter and the women escaped. Captured in Texas The officers caught the woman here later. She confessed that she had kept an automobile several miles from Southport and that the bandits had transferred to it, abandoning the hold-up car. She turned state’s evidence and was released.

A nation wide search resulted in arrest of Robert and Howard Hostetter and Reeves at Laredo, Texas, in March, 1926. A few days later Robert and Howard sawed their way out of jail. Reeves was detained and returned to Indianapolis, where with Dennis Hostetter he received a two to fcareen-year sentence. Richard Hostetter, father of the bandits, was acquitted on a charge of receiving stolen goods. FATHER AND SON BOTH DIVORCE DEFENDANTS Suits on File at Danville—Abandonment Alleged in Each By Times Special DANVILLE, Ind., July 25.—Father and son are defendants in two divorce cases on file in the Hendricks Circuit court. Charles A. Ragan, the father, is accused of abandonment by Mary E. Ragan. They were married thirtyone years ago. Ethel E. Ragan alleges the same ground as her mother-in-law against the son, Earl A Ragan. Married in 1919, the younger couple separated in 1922, and the wife alleges she has not seen or heard of her husband since the latter year WIN RACE WITH DEATH Coffee Bean Removed From Lung of Minnesota Child. B CROOKSTON, Minn., July 25. The parents of 3-year-old Gladys Lund. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lund, won a seventy-mile race with death when the child recovered from an operation to remove a coffee bean from her lung. The girl was rushed to a Crookston hospital frbm Trail, Minn., through a rain-spattered night over a dark and treacherous roadi

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HOT DOG IS BANNED ,— —— —— * Court Battle Impends on Issue

By United Press . * - ... . ~ ~, ... ... > EW YORK, July 25.—The hot dog was fighting for its life with its W back to the mustard P ot in the little suburb of Scarsdale today. I A w| Tomorrow, sale of the Frankfurter and roll will become illegal under a fiat of the ruling body of the village, and a battle of injunctions to test the right of the reform element to take from the public one of its most popular between-meal foods seemed likely to result. Castas Hitalakides, known throughout Scarsdale as “Joe the Hot Dog man,” said in a letter to a New York newspaper that he intended to test

the validity of the ordinance. “Hod dog guys and army men like me,” said Joe. “Say give reform guys hell. My lawyer, he say open business July 26. So, on Tuesday, I go open business same any other day.” So on the shoulders of an alien falls the task of standing against what many persons regarded as invasion of American rights. Clarence barrow, Samuel Untermeyer and Charles Evans Hughes may enter the battle to protect the

VILLAGE TO SEE BUD'SWEDDING French-Canadian Town Is Ready for Its Big Event. BY MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY United. Press Staff Correspondent LA TUQUE, Quebec, July 25. This French-Canadian village was all excited today in expectation of the ceremony tomorrow that will transform one of its humbler residents into a modem Cinderella, connected by marriage with New York’s highest society. Fashionable guests from New York will mingle with the country folk and villagers of central Quebec during the two-day wedding celebration to follow the ceremony tomorrow, when James “Bud” Stillman marries Lena Wilson, former maid in the Grande Anse camp of his mother, Mrs. James A. Stillman. The Highlanders’ band from Montreal will play the bagpipes at the especially erected pavilion at Grand Anse, large enough to accommodate 500 dancers at a time. The band has been engaged for two days. Several last-minute changes have been made in the wedding plans, but all the differences between he Wilsons and the Stillmans have been straightened out, and everything and everybody was ready for the Catholic cure, Father D’Ami of La Tuque, to perform the ceremony. The wedding will take place in the morning. MUST ‘PURIFY’ BEACH McClure Resort Told to Instal Chloride System. McClure Beach will remain officially closed the remainder of the season unless a chlorine gas purification system is put in. The cost of such a system, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer, estimated would be about $2,000. The 10-inch pump which was put in recently to clear the water at the beach has been found inadequate and City Engineer Paul R. Brown declared this morning that it would be impractical to put in more pumps. The present pipe lines would not be able to handle the output from another pump. “The situation will be the same next year unless plans are made now to remedy it,” Dr. Morgan said.

HOLD BOYJN CRASH Youth, 14, Revealed as Death Car Driver. Following a ten-day investigation of a fatal accident July 13 at the Pennsylvania railroad crossing and Arlington Ave., in which three persons were killed, Coroner C. A. Keever today ordered Lester Willison Harden, 14, of 5151 N. Arsenal Ave., charged with manslaughter today. At the time of the auto-train crash, Mrs. Kathryn Keller, 37, of 4720 Caroline St., told police she was the driver. Since then the officials say they have learned that the boy was driving. Besides those two, Mrs. Emma Harden, mother of the youth, and a sister, Serena, 15, escaped death. Those fatally injured were Mrs. Goldie Roth, 23, of 5127 N. Arsenal Ave., and her son, Junior, 3, and Eugene Keller, .6, son of Mrs. Keller. $20,000 Hospital Gift By United Press NEWCASTLE, Ind., July 25. Heirs of Thomas B. Millikan announce a $20,000 gift to the Henry County Hospfts.l fund. Wanted in Bank Holdup By Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., July 25.—Merle Yocum and Dick Morningstar, convicted of forgery in th Jay Circuit court here, are being sought in connection with the $2,500 holdup of the Rockford (Ohio), National Bank last week.

hot dog, Stephen Roach, Joe’s attorney, told newspapermen today. Darrow and Untenneyer long have been the friends of the lowly and the oppressed, but heretofore have betrayed little public interest in hot dogs. Hughes, former Supreme Court justice, secretary of state and candidate for president, usually has devoted his legal talents- to cases involving millions and settling, questions of grave constitutional importance.

24 RIOTERS AT WHITING HURT Kentuckians, Poles Clash in Indiana Town. Bu United Press WHITING, Ind., July 25.—A feud between a colony of Kentuckians and the Polish element here culminated in a series of riots over the week-end which required the police of Hammond, Whiting, Robertsdale and East Chicago to quell. Everett Wilson, 24, a Kentuckian, is in a Hammond hospital with a fracture! skull received when struck on the head with a hammer. Mike Delinsky, 30; Anthony Misch, 33; Albert Dudzik, 20, and Thomas Bonoszyk, 17, also are in hospitals suffering from razor slashes. Twenty others received first aid for minor cuts and other injuries during the week-end. The first riot began Saturday night at a medicine show when Kentuckians are alleged to have struck several Poles. The ensuing fighting was stopped by riot squads, but broke out anew Sunday morning. It was not until 8 last night that police succeeded entirely In quelling the fighting. At least 200 Joined in a pitched bat’le with knlvos, clubs, hammers and iron pipes. The settlement was then placed under guard of shotgun squads throughout the night. Twelve Poles and seven Kentuckians are under arrest. HOOSIER, 86, RECALLS THOSE SLOWER DAYS Flrat Wells County HUH Carrier - Cites Mile in Two Hours By Times Special BLUFFTON, Ind., July 25.—J. B. Brown, 86, living near Petroleum, recalls the slow methods of transportation in the days when he was ti c first 1 star route mail carrier in Wells County, as he reads of flights in a few hours across the Atlantic ocean. Brown remembers instances when two horses hitched to a buggy cou j cover only a mile in two hours, due j to muddy roads, and even at that, he had to keep mud poked from spokes of the buggy wheels. Tha. was more than half a century ago.

HURRICANE SWEEPS ITALY, KILLING SIX St. Mark’s Church and Venetian Bathing Resorts Suffer. By United Press MILAN, July 25.—A hurricane, accompanied by a thunder storm, that swept northern Italy Saturday night killed six persons, whipped the can&ls of Venice into' waves, and destroyed the flagpole and lamps before ancient St. Mark’s Church. Houses in several towns were damaged. Bathing cabins along the fashionable Lido opposite Venice were blown over, and several persons were hurt there. Lights in parts of Venice went out, and telegraphic communication was interrupted. ,

HEY! LET A GUY SLEEP Negro Believed Dead Because He Naps on Fall Greek Bank. William Green, Negro, 32, of 232 W. Michigan St., supplied himself with a sign, “Sleeping, do not disturb,” to prevent experiences such as occurred Sunday. Green, chose the bank of Fall Creek for a nap and a passing fisherman thought he was dead. An emergency squad in charge of Sergt. Ralp Dean arrived and awakened him from his heavy slumber. 93, HE PLOWS FIELD John Hicks Celebrates Birthday; Voted for Abe Lincoln. By United Press NEW YORK, July 25.—John Hicks, who lives at Jericho, Long Island, but comes from the Hicksville Hickses, celebrated his 93rd birthday yesterday by hitching up his team and plowing a field. Hicks voted for Abraham Lincoln for President and was a member of the old New York City volunteer fire department.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1927

PLANE FALLS SEVEN MILES; PILOTJS SAFE Engine Explodes Following Setting New Altitude Mark, 40,000 Feet. HOLES RIPPED IN WINGS Aviator Guides His Blazing, Hurtling Machine Into Tiny Corn Patch.

By United Press WASHINGTON, July 25.—Lieut. C C. Champion, Navy air ace, today unofficially broke the world’s altitude record and then, his engine exploding, fought flames with his hands during a seven-mile plunge to safety in a two-acre, weed-grown cornfield. x . He rose In a tiny Wright Apache biplane from the field jointly shared by the Bolling Field army and Anacostia navy air forces, at 6:40 a. m. Within ten minutes he was out of sight. Within an hour his altimeter registered between 40,000 and 48,000 feet, he said, whereas the previous record was 40,810 feet, set by Callizo of France. Cylinders Blow Out He started to descend, but at about 36,000 feet up seven of his j nine cylinders blew out, their heads ripping holes in his plane s wings and knocking the oxygen tube from his mouth. All nine piston rods flew back through the plane, further shattering the wings and endangering his life.

Then began the forced plunge that beat all records for similar descents. Three more times as Champion volplaned crazily toward earth, peering with difficulty through goggles clouded with frost, he was forced to fight out flames. Parts of the broken engine fell in scattered places. One was reported to have gone through a building at Hoover Field. “I fell like a bat out of hell,” Champion described his descent. “The plane was powerless, and all I could do was volplane. “I spied v'hat looked to be a garden near the Eleventh street bridge. "I didn’t care much where I landed, but luck was with me and I brought her down safely.” Lands on Rough Ground The patch where Champion landed was less than two acres in extent. So skillfully did he manage the plane that it traveled less than thirty feet on the r mgh, stubbly ground before it stopped. An ambulance sent from Bolling field when officers saw his plane hurtling to earth found him struggling to get out of his heavy flying clothes, which he said were smothering him. He was taken to Anacostia Station, but immediately returned to supervise moving the plane.

JURORS INDICT 12 Charge Seven With Murder; Four With Manslaughter. Twelve persons were indicted today in the first report of Marion County’s new grand jury before Criminal Judge James A. Collins. One person was discharged, Seven murder indictments, four charging manslaughter and one charging grand larceny were returned. Much accumulated "routine business” remains to be acted on by the grand jury. Sayde L. Blakeman, 22, Negro; James Crite, Tilford Roberts, Minnie Tuan and one whose name is being withheld pending arrest, were indicted for first degree murder. Theodore Yates and John D. Smith are charged with second degree. Manslaughter indictments were returned against Joseph Brown. Lout H. Dailey, Anna Barrett and Tode McQuaid.

NINE DIE IN CAR CRASHES Three Gary, Ind., Brothers Crushed in Crossing Accident. Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 25.—Nine persons lost their lives in the Chicago metropolitan area over the week end as the result of automobile accidents. Three of the deaths were in Gary, Ind., where brothers aged 16, 13 and 6, were crushed to death when a New York Central train struck their motor car at a crossing. RS-1 ACROSS MOUNTAIN Big Army Dirigible Passes Over Alleghenies at Night. By Un ted Pres a WASHINGTON, July 25. The RS-1, the Army’s largest dirigible, successfully crossed the Allegheny mountains during the night and landed at Langley Field, Va., at 8:30 a. m. today, the war department announced. It left Scott Field, 111., yesterday. The great semi-rigid airship and its crew of eight is to come to Washington and tour several other sections of the East.

SIO,OOO Offer by Jackson to Control Naming of Prosecutor Is Angrily Spurned by M’Cray

Ring Sought to Bar Remy; Stephenson Then ‘Worked on’ Governor’s Attorney, in Effort to Swing Deal, but Failed. By FRANK J. PRINCE (Copyright, 1927, by The Indianapolis Times) “I have lost my money, I may lose my office. Perhaps I will lose my liberty. But I still will carry with me a sense of self-respect that I could not have if I made such a bargain. ” It is Warren T. McCray, then Governor, speaking on Dec. 8, 1923.

He is under indictment. And he is speaking to Ed Jackson, then Secretary of State and now Governor, who just has brought to him the most amazing offer ever made to a man in similar circumstances. It was an offer to furnish SIO,OOO for attorney s fees for McCray, a pledge that no Jury in Marion County, or elsewhere ever would convict McCray on any charge, and in return he was asked to name not William H. Remy, but James P. McDonald, whom George V. Coffin wished to place in the prosecutor’s office.

Offer Twice Made to McCray With the placing of the two “black boxes” of D. C. Stephenson in the hands of the prosecutors, The Times is enabled to print for the first time this unwritten chapter in Indiana politics, a chapter more dramatic and more suggestive than any other yet revealed in the entire story of Stephensonism. That offer was made not once, but twice. The first time it was made by Jackson, who had come from a conference in his own office with George V. Coffin and a man who was the financial backer of the entire campaign to obtain control of Indiana and make Jackson Governor and Coffin “boss.” Second Offer Made When the offer was made to McCray, he did not hesitate. His response was immediate and emphatic. Tears were streaming down his face, or so at least Jackson reported to the conferees who had sent him. He saw a prison in the near distance. He saw the humiliation and disgrace sure to be his. He did not reach out for this promise of liberty, which he probably knew might be his. And his reply was that he would carry to a prison cell his sense of respect rather than lose it in such a manner. Conference Called On the morning of that day. William P. Evans, then prosecutor of Marion County, son-in-law of McCray, was scheduled to turn in his resignation. He had made public announcement that he would recommend that his chief deputy, William H. Remy, be appointed as his successor. It was then that a conference was called at the office of Jackson, then secretary of state. At that time there was a working agreement with certain forces and influences in Indiana that funds of practically unlimited quantities would be furnished to place Jackson in the Governor’s chair and Coffin in control of the machinery of Marion County. “Slush Fund” Available A representative of the financial powers back of the campaign was called into the conference and a demand that SIO,OOO be 'furnished that day was made. The purpose for which the money was to be used and the program was made clear. An offer was to be made to Governor McCray that this money was to be given him in return for the appointment, not of Remy, whom Coffin did not control, but of James P. McDonald, a local attorney. McCray was to be assured that If Coffin could name the prosecutor to be appointed he need not fear any conviction in Marion county or elsewhere. It was known that McCray was pressed badly for funds. He was without money to perfect his defense. His own money already had been spent. To this man, badly in need of money and deserted by many of his friends, that immunity and money was to be offered in return for the one office of prosecuting attorney of this county, the office which could control all criminal prosecutions and which would enable the political machine, as it was discussed in that office, to take 10,000 votes in the primary without fear. Ed Jackson left that conference. He went to the office of McCray. He hesitated and then made the proposal agreed upon. He repeated what had been deeded upon. Scores Offer It was then that McCray exhibited a courage that no other Governor and perhaps no other man in Indiana has shown. He did not even stop to consider his freedom and the money which he needed so badly. He did not even hesitate as he turned to the aecre-

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Deep Silence By Times Staff Correspondent MACKINAC ISLAND. Mich., July 25.—When asked by a staff correspondent if he had any comment to make upon the story printed today in the Times,, Governor Ec'. Jackson, who is attending a r'->ference of governors here, said. “I have nothing to vy."

tary of state, the man who eventually was elected to the office which he knew that he soon was to lose, and declared that nothing could tempt him to descend to such depths of political and official degradation. When Jackson went back to the conference, he reported that he had failed. He said that McCray had choked and had been in tears. He said that the Governor was shaken by the prophetic shadows, but that he would not consider the offer of assistance. His report indicated that he considered McCray a very foolish man, but an obstinate one on this point. He did not report the moment of stupendous courage which it must have required, instantly and automatically, to flash back an indignant “no” to an offer to sell an office in return for freedom. Turn to Stephenson But McCray’s point-blank refusal of the offer made by Jackson did not check the plan. D. C. Stephenson was yet to be used and to Stephenson they turned. The same offer was made to James P. Noel, then attorney for McCray, by Stephenson. There was the same offer of SIO,OOO in cash, the same offer to control Juries, the same offer of immunity, in return for the place which it had been announced publicly would go to Remy, but for which no official appointment had been issued. As attorney for the indicted Governor, Noel was urged by the former dragon of the Klan to place before the Governor the same offer which Jackson had placed before him and failed. Stephenson went Into considerable detail as to what the office of prosecutor meant t* a political machine. He knew its value in election cases—especially in election cases that involved charges of fraud. McDonald Not in Deal As far as is known, McDonald knew nothing of the offer in his behalf. It is not probable that he knew that he had been selected by Coffin as the man he could control and there Is no suggestion that he would have been controlled for any improper purposes. But there is no question of what uackson and Coffin, sitting in the office of the former under the dome of the Statehouse, wanted. They did not want Remy. They wanted a man they named. And they talked of votes that would be possible in the coming primary. That was what Stephenson, destined to be sent to prison for 112%

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MUNCIE EDITOR PAYSSSOO FINE Dale Heads for Prison Where Parole Awaits. Editor George Dale, Muncie, today paid the SSOO contempt fine assessed by Circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth of Delaware County, and equipped with his own mltlmus set out to report to the Indiana State Farm at Putnamville, where he was to report for a ninety-day sentence. A parole signed by Governor Jackson awaits him at the farm so he will return free. En route Dale stopped at the* office of Supreme Court Clerk Charles L. Biederwolf to settle for the cost of appeal, which he lost in the court decision which held that truth was no defense. talked about. He was not talking then about his own freedom, nor was there any possibility in his mind that the prosecutor of this county would play an important part in his life. It was votes and control of which he talked when he asked Noel, McCray’s attorney, to permit him to furnish SIO,OOO for legal feees and defense and the pledge of jufors so fixed that no verdict of "juilty” would ever be returned. Against this temptation McCray stood. It was indeed no temptation for him, as the evidence in posssesion of The Times shows. He never considered it for even a minute. Instead, perhaps it was an nou. of pride in the midst of darkening skies that he looked up from his desk, a desk he soon was to leave, and to an embarrassed messenger declared that rather would live in eternal disgrace than thus to betray his State and his oath of office. McCray went to prison. Jacksor did not need his extra 10,000 votes. He became Governor and is Governor. Remy received his commission from McCray Dec. 10, 1923, a Sunday having intervened between the day of Evans’ resignation. McCray was indicted in Marion Criminlal Court Dec. 1, 1923, for forgery and obtaining money under false pretenses and issuing a fraudulent check. Evans resigned Dec. 8 and Remy officially was commissioned Dec. 10. The jury in Marlon County Court failed to agree. McCray then was tried in United States District Court on a charge of using the mails to defraud. He was found guilty and given a sentence of ten years at Atlanta by Judge A. B. Anderson, April 30, 1924. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 69 10 a. m 78 7 a. m,.,,." 70 n a. 79 8 a. m , tr , T 73 12 (noon) 80 9 a. nw4M S* I D> aw~. 81 I

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‘BLACKBOXES’ IN HANDS OF PROSECUTORS Hundreds of Stephenson’S Letters Are Examined by Remy Staff. ARE ‘VERY INTERESTING’ Deputy Comes Back From Washington, Ind., With Documents. What to do with D. C. Stephenson’s “black boxes,” now that they have them? Marion County prosecutors were to discuss this problem this afternoon in conference at the home of Prosecutor William H. Remy, 44 IS, Fifty-Fourth St. Remy has been 1111. He arose from his sick bed to view the Stephenson document. Special Prosecutor Erasley W, Johnson reached the city with the boxes and a large quantity of Stephenson’s papers this morning. He, Remy and Special Prosecutor Johxf W. Holtzman planned to look them over. Delivers Letters. By arrangement made earlier last week, L. H. Julian, Evansville, former partner of Stephenson, drove to the barn of Thomas Singleton, eight miles south of Washington, Ind., last Thursday afternoon. There he met Special Prosecutor Johnson and turned over to him the two boxes and enough letters received by Stephenson and carbons of letters he wrote, to fill the back end of an automobile. Singletori la Johnson's uncle. Johnson sorted out some of th* papers and permitted Julian to taka them away. Johnson said the boxes, twelve by eight by eight inches, contained some "very interesting” information. Johnson called John L. Niblack, deputy prosecutor, from Vincennes and together they spent about nine hours Friday afternoon and evening poring over the papers. Many of the letters to Stephenson. according to Niblack, were fror.i persons seeking loans. Not in Loan Business One was from a New York City woman, who described herself as of “an old southern family.” Sha wound up with a request for a loan. On the back of the letter was ft note by Stephenson. “Not in loan business," and attached was a carbon copy of a letter by Stephenson’s secretary elaborating upon the note. Many of the papers were molded at the bottom. Niblack said they appeared to have been buried somewhere since last October, when prosecutors first started searching for them. In one of the black boxes were several shirt studs, rings, cuff links and other trinkets. Stones had been removed from all. One shirt stud appeared to have held a Jewel ths size of a pea.

Stones Are Missing Niblack said Julian was asked how the stones came to be missing. He said Julian replied that he did not know, that “that’s the way they were when they reached me.” The place where Johnson received the boxes Is near the family home of Miss Mildred Meade, former confidante of Stephenson. She was before the prosecutors several hours a week ago and It Is thought had something to do with appearance of the boxes. Hundreds of persons motored to the Singleton farm Sunday and were permitted to glance at the blade boxes by Johnson. LAWMAKER ACCUSED OF ROBBING FRIEND'S HOME Statute Which He Helped Enact Makes Penalty 15 Years. By United Press DETROIT, July 25 —Chester A. Good, Highland Park s young representative in the State Legislature, was arrested and arraigned today on a charge of robbing the home of a friend and neighbor during the night time. The penalty upon conviction, under the new State criminal codo which Good helped enact and which will go into effect in September, when Good will be tried, is fifteen years’ Imprisonment, Good stood mute at his arraignment and a plea of not guilty was entered for him. He was released on $3,000 bail and his examination was fixed for Friday.

s2l STOLEN IN CHURCH Money Missed From Purse When Neighbors in Pew Leave. Miss Nellie Carr, 1135 Bpann Ave., today reported to police she had been robbed of s2l while attending a downtown church Sunday afternoon. Miss Carr said she missed the money after three women, who bad been sitting in the same pew, left before the end of the services. A friend told Miss Carr ahe bad seen one take the money. She also gave the license number of the oar in which the women drove ft wait