Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1927 — Page 1

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JURY BOX FOR SINCLAIR OIL TRIAL FILLED Two Women and Ten Men Will Decide Fate of Millionaire. STARTS OUTLINING CASE Prosecutor 0. J.. Roberts Is Presenting Government Side at Hearing. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—A jury of two women and ten men for the Fall-Sinclair conspiracy trial was completed and accepted at 12:16 today. i John J. Sostinett, a tailor, took No. 9 seat, the only vacancy at that time. The Government then challanged Charles T. Hennessey, juror No. 3, picked yesterday. Samuel Farber, a naturalized Austrian, who declared he had not been “interested in that case,’’ was selected for the No. 3 seat after several men had been examined. Armand Fendeville, a pastry chef, left seat No. 6 under a Government callenge, and Robert C. Flora, ice company sales agent, passed the examination for the place. Mrs. Pauline Leavitt, one of three women jurors tentatively drawn yesterday, was forced out under a defense challenge. . Clerk Accepted Jesse H. Foster was approved and seated as No. 12 and the Government sent Joe Joholske out of No. 10. Norman Glascock, 47-year-old clerk, who voluhteered that he would giye defendants “the benefit of a doubt,” was accepted as No. 10. The jury follows: No. L (Probably temporary foreman) Mrs. Annela L. Bailey, about 30, piano company clerk. No. 2. Miss Bernice K. Heaton,; about 30, telephone company instructor. No. 3. Gardner P. Grenfell, 26, unmarried, electric cable splicer. No. 4. William H. Goucher, 39, tire salesman. No. 5. Conrad J. Herzog, 56, automobile sales manager. • No. 6. Robert C. Flora, 39, ice company sales agent. No. 7. John P. Kern, 32, bakery route supervisor. No. 8. Bradner W. Holmes, 34, department store floor manager. No. 9. John J. Costinett, about 55, tailor. No. 10. Norman Glascock, 47, No. 11. Edward J. Kidwell, Jr., 31, leather worker. No. 12. Charles Holt, 63, retired stone mason. A. T. Dent,, No. 4, was put out by the defense and William H. Goucher, 39, tire salesman, was accepted in his place. The Government rejected Farber from-No. 3. N. Preston. Goulder, 51, a salesman, next called, admitted he had expressed opinions on the case. He was challenged for cause, but the Government objected. After a half hour of wrangling, Goulder was excused. Gardner P. Grenfell, 26, electrical worker, was seated in No. 3, whereupon the defense announced it was satisfied with the jury as constituted. Foster, the dyer, was challenged by the Government, however, and F. M. Jones, a youth, failed to satisfy. Charles Holt, 63, retired brick mason, was calle<J. Holt, veteran of the SpanishAmerican War, was accepted and both sides announced they were satisfied. The jury was sworn in immediately and seated at 12:17 p. m. Owen J. Roberts, chief of the prosecution, started at once to outline his case to the jury. Sinclair Keeps Busy Sinclair, dapper and well-groomed, is taking an active part in the trial, through frequent conferences with his lawyers. Fall, looking a little worn, sits quietly, and, for the most part, says nothing to his lawyers. He was reported to have had a high temperature at the conclusion of yesterday’s session. He recently Buffered a severe pneumonia attack. He is 66 years old. FROST HEAVY IN CITY More Is Predicted for Tonight; Temperature Below Normal. A frost, heavier than that of Sunday night, prevailed here and over most of the State Monday night and early today. Temperatures this morning started out 9 degrees below normal for this time of the year. There likely will be another frost tonight and temperatures will be ibout the same Wednesday, the Jnited States Weather Bureau predicted. BURGLARS TAKE SOAP Nine Cases Gone From Williams Company, Police Learn. . Police today sought some cleanfaced burglars. J. N. Dailey, manager of the Wil--1 liams Soap Company, 519 W. McI Carty St., reported the rear door of I the place pried open and nine cases | of soap, valuted at $54, stolen. Two I cases were face soap and seven I laundry w

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VOLUME 39—NUMBER 138

Death Scene, The Weapon, and the Investigators

M —— * 6 11 V s ’ j, x? Only a few weeds and brambles concealed the ax-hacked bodies of Mrs. Zenith Burres L>._nj, Ji;i j 32, and her stepfather, David Boyles, 65, in the shallow ditch at the side of the Thirtieth St. Rd., M m eleven miles east of the city Monday morning. Carl Harting and Claude Whiteside, both of Mt. j|§!§tfl WW Comfort, are pointing to where they found the bodies while passing on gravel wagons. / 4^ Hancock County Coroner C. M. Gibbs, Greenfield, Ind., is holding the blood-stained hand-ax, % WmM h found in a wooded pasture fifty feet away from the bodies. J . .. ... . „ Hpr fF* J Ty Below at the left is Sheriff Harry Comstock of Hancock County, and to the right. In order. White and Harting, and Prosecutor George F. Dlckman of Hancock County, Greenfield, in whose - - ' hands will fall prosecution of the slayer If apprehended.

CHAMBER HEARS POLICYREPORTS Group to Vote on U. S. Pay* ing Flood Control Costs. Bit Time/i Special WEST BADEN, Ind., Oct. 18.— Committee reports expected to outline 1928 business policies were to be submitted today to the Chamber of Commerce of the United States councillors and directors in conference here. A report recommending that the national Government pay the cost of controlling floods in the lower Mississippi valley was ordered submitted to a referendum vote of the national chamber. A redefinition of Americanism was recommended. The committee proposed keeping in view those things that would “form a more perfect union, insure domestic tranquility and establish justice,” in the formulation of all business and national policies. The Federal Reserve System was pictured as the bulwark of America’s financial and business position by Harry Wheeler, president of the Union Trust Company, Chicago, chairman of a committee of fifty business men and ecoonmists which has completed a study of the banking and currency problem of the United States. The meeting is scheduled to close Wednesday. STATE REDMEN HERE FOR 2-DAY MEETING Election of Officers Opens FiftyEighth Annual Convention. Six hundred and sty Indiana Red Men today opened their fifty-eighth annual two-day convention in the K. of P. building with election of officers this afternoon. A two-day session of the great council, Degree of Pocahontas, women’s Red Men auxiliary, will start Thursday.

| j RESIDENT CALVIN COCLD J IDGE, as trustee, today 1 1 |is the owner of an Indiana A,., a. The deed was recorded today at Winamac, in Pulaski County, and transfers 176 acres of land to him in consideration of “an unrendered service to American agriculture.” The President is made the trustee for Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover, United States senators Simeon Fess.xJames A. Reed, Pat Harrison and Finis Garrett; also for Secretary of Agriculture William A. Jardine and Julius Barnes. Former State Senator Luke W. Duffy of Indianapolis, and now connected with farm bureau activities, gave the farm to the President. The farm a few years ago, ac-

Only a few weeds and brambles concealed the ax-hacked bodies of Mrs. Zenith J!?’ 32, and her stepfather, David Boyles, 65, in the shallow ditch at the side of the Thirtieth St. Rd., eleven miles east of the city Monday morning. Carl Harting and Claude Whiteside, both ol Mt. Comfort, are pointing to where they found the bodies while passing on gravel wagons. Hancock County Coroner C. M. Gibbs, Greenfield, Ind., is holding the blood-stained hand-ax, found in a wooded pasture fifty feet away from the bodies. . .. ... . n Below at the left is Sheriff Harry Comstock of Hancock County, and to the right, In order. White and Harting, and Prosecutor George F. Dlckman of Hancock County, Greenfield, in whose hands will fall prosecution of the slayer If apprehended.

RUTH ELDI TO SEE Air Heroine Eager for Sight of French Shop?,; Given Farewell Ovation. BY MANUEL CAMARA United Frees Staff Correspondent HORTA, Azores Islands, Oct. 18.— Ruth Elder and George Haldeman sailed aboard the Portuguese steamer Lima for Lisbon and Paris at 5 a. m. today. Miss Elder went aboard the steamer late last night, Intending to sleep through the ship’s prepara-tion-for its departure at dawn. She was escorted to the ship by a big crowd, surrounded by foreign colonists who entertained her during her surprise visit, and was cheered heartily as she went aboard. The American girl trans-Atlantic aviator was clad in the knickerbockers and sweater she wor# when she ascended from Roosevelt Field last week for a flight to Paris. To help her bandeau keep her curls in place. Miss Elder wore the cap she borrowed from the commander of the Dutch Tanker Barendrecht. She had kept it as a memento of her rescue at sea. Miss Elder said last night„ as she prepared to board the Lima, that she and Haldeman probably would fly from Lisbon to Paris, and remain at the French capital for two weeks. Miss Elder’s last hours here were full ones. She started the day, technically, at a dance that lasted until 1 a. m., and then, after a few hours’ sleep, paid a round of far nwell calls—principally to the Governor of the island, to thank him for Horta’s hospitality. She was busy until the time the Lima’s crew was making preparations to sail. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 38 10 a. ni 44 7 a. m 39 11 a. in 45 8 a. m 40 12 (noon) ... 49 9 a. m 44 1 p. m 47

DEEDS 176-ACRE INDIANA FARM AND $3,500 MORTGAGE TO COOLIDGE

cording to Duffy, sold for SBO an acre and he gave it away for the mortgage of $3,500 against it. It lies between Knox and Winamac, on both sides of a State highway, contains fifty acres of onion land with “a tariff problem” and fifty acres of wooded land. * * * SITLE to the farm is turned over to the President by Duffy until certain things happen, and is then to be turned back to the State of Indiana as a State park, to be known as “Coolidge Industrial Park.” The deed was recorded today on Page 14, Record 103, and Is given serial number 5986 in the records of Pulaski County. The conditions of the gift to Coolidge form a sizzling indict-

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, OCT. 18, 1927

LR SAILS HER PARIS

Ruth Elder is the darling of her home town, but they always wonder what she’ll do next. Read the first installment of the life of thd air heroine on Page 2 of this edition.

TAX CUT STUDIED $250,000,000 Slash Limit, , Treasury Says. Jill United Prosit WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—The Treasury will advise the House Ways and Means Committee when it goes before that body Oct. 31 that anjr tax reduction recommended to the next Congress should be kept to $250,000,900. Officials said today after a month’s study of revenues that the governing factor for a tax reduction will be the 1929 surplus. It was estimated the surplus for the current fiscal year would reach nearly $600,000.000 because of back tax collections’ of nearly $300,000,000 and $170,000,000 receipt}! from Government owned railroad securities. The 1929 surplus will be only about $300,000,000 as revenues from railroad securities will be exhausted this year, and back tax collections will drop to about $150,000,000 annually, it was stated. U. S. Chief Entomologist Retires B,u United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—Dr. Leland O. Howard, Rockford, 111., today retired as chief entomologist of the Agriculture Department after thirty-three:years of Government service and was succeeded by Dr. C. L. Marlett, Atchison, Kan.

ment of the Government’s farm relief policy and its opposition to the McNary-Haugen farm bill. Coolidge is made trustee owner of the land with the burden of maintaining and supporting it “throughout the period in which the Liverpool Free Trade price level, known in America as the Grover Cleveland plan of crop valuation, shall fix, un-American-ize, undersell or ruinously control the value of uny and all commodities grown upon the within described real estate.” * * * OHE deed provides that the trust shall not .cease until; First: American farm agriculture has been provided with a well-placed and effective niche in the national tariff scheme.

MONOXIDE GAS (LLSFjREMAN Dies While Fighting Blaze in Basement. Monoxide gas took the life of George Freels, 36, of 5152 Sheldon St., a city fireman, today. Freels lost his life fighting with his mates of Pumper Company 2, Roosevelt Ave. and Sixteenth St., at a basement fire at the home of E. A. Taylor, 2422 Brookside Parkway, North Drive. Property danv age did not exceed SSO. Mrs. Taylor had inspected the furnace just before she left her home to borrow some soap chips from a neighbor. As she returned she noticed smoke curling from a side roof. She peered in and saw flames in the basement. Running into the house she gave the alarm to fire headquarters over her own telephone. A hose was turned oh the fire just as Freels stuck his head in a coal chute, to carry in the hose of a chemical t^nk. The flames had eaten away soldered connection of the gas meter and let a flood of gas into the basement. As the water struck the burning gas it drove the monoxide gas formed by burning of the meter gas out the chute. Freels collapsed into the arms of other firemen. They tried resuscitation, but he was dead. TEN ESCAPE FROM JAIL Eighteen Others Refuse to Follow Trusty’s Lead to Freedom. Bn United Press _ _ , . ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio, Oct. 18. —Led by Russell Gilmore, a trusty, ten men, two of them under sentence today, escaped from the Belmont County jail here after prying abar from a window on the second floor. Eighteen other men in the jail refused to follow the lead of Gilmore.

Second: Until farm life has been stripped of favoritism in behalf of Eastern ‘margin hunters.’ Third: Until there is a protective system for farms that will remove the menaces of fret trade. Fourth: Until there is a system of caring for the surplu° agriculture as surplus stOcß-o boi fL are cared for. Until there is a home-made American cost mark engaged on all grain sales for domestic delivery. The deed delivers the farm clear of all special ditch taxes, but subject to general taxes on a value asserted to be 80 per ce ( higher than the mortgage. It provides that the president as trustee must assume and care for the $3,500 mortgage standing against the property.

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GUARD HOME OF SLAYER SUSPECT’S WIFE, FEARING SHE IS MARKED TO DIE

Husband Was Kind to Her and Son, Says First Wife, in Interview. SENT NOTE FROM FARM Assured Her ‘Everything Would Be All Right’When His Term Was Up. While Willard Ewing, convicted bigamist and fugitive, was sought today for questioning regarding the murder of his second wife and her stepfather, his first wife, Mrs. Mary Day Ewing, trudged wearily over the city’s streets in search of employment for the support of her blueeyed 4-year-old son Bobby. It was Bobby’s mother, rather than the wife of the hunted man who left the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Day. before sun-up this morning and boarded the 6 o’clock car for Indianapolis. “We never had any serious quar rels from the time Willard and 1 were married, May 30, 1922, until he left me, saying he was going to visit his parents in Oregon, Aug. 2, 1926. He always seemed devoted to Bobby, but ht hasn’t sent either of us a cent since he went away, more than a year ago. Received Letter From Farm “I never saw him again until his trial on a bigamy charge, after he had married Miss Burress. A few days after he went to the State penal farm, in September, I received a letter from him. He said he was sorry for everyting and that when he got out he would make everything till right. The next day after he wrote the letter he escaped. “After the trial Miss Burress and I talked things over. She hadn’t known about me, and we weren’t mad at each other. But when I saw her Saturday she was afraid of Willard. He had been out to see her. “She had told police the first time he came out after his escape and she was afraid of hill after that. I told her I never had lelt that way. “Zenith told me Saturday night that when Willard came there the other day he said he jhadn’t caused anytody any trouble; but he would makl trouble.” Angered at Informer “I think now he meant he was mad because Zenith had told the police about his being there. “And I talked to Mr. Boyles, too.” Boyles’ body and that of Ewing's second wife were found Monday morning northeast of Indianapolis. ‘He said he wasn’t afraid of Willard, wouldn’t call the police and that ‘he wouldn’t want a nicer man around the house.’ “Willard had been good to Zenith, just like he had been good to me, until he left me.” "But I wasn't afraid and went to the prosecutor’s office Monday. It was there I learned of the murdt and of Willard’s disappearance.” Couldn’t Cay for Him “No, if this terriDle thing hadn’t happened and Willard had been able to clear himself of bigamy and ‘fixed everything up,’ as he wrote me, I couldn’t have cared for him again. Not after his leaving me. “Bobby, poor kiddie, knows something is wrong. When the detectives asked him last night what his name was, he wouldn’t say and just hid his eyes. “‘Say Bobby Day,’ his grandmother coached him, and he did. That’s what we are going to cal! him from now on. Willard has been gond so long and Bobby was so little he doesn’t ask about his daddy very much any more.” NO WILD ASSETS BIDS Receivers Believe Offers Will Be Made During Day. No bidders for the assets of the defunct J. F. Wild State Bank appeared at b a. m., the hour of the advertised sale by receivers. Court orders fixed the minimum bid to be accepted at $3,650,000. Probate "Judge Mahlon E. Bash said time for receiving bids would be several days.

r 1 HEN all the conditions of VY7 the deed have been met, the W final condition sets out, the Pres.dent shall turn the property over to the State of Indiana for a park, to be known as “Coolidge Industrial Park,” to stand “forever as a token and memorial evidence of the great-service which the trustees and his sards have rendered American industry.” It is admitted that the giving of the farm to the President under the conditions had for its purpose the calling to public attention of the gravity of farm problems and the conditions of Indiana farmers. * ♦ * SHAVE given’ the farm away,” said Duffy. “I have tried to give it to others but they have refused it and

Have You Seen This Man?

Name —Willard Ewing. Age—Forty-six. Height—Six feet one inch. Weight—A bout 220 pounds. Marks —Small mole on each cheek, just below eye. Wanted —For questioning with regard to .double ax murder of Mrs. Zenith Burress Ewing and D. O. Boyles Saturday night.

COST S3O FOR WHISKYTONIC' Fine Mechanic for Getting Child Medicine. Governor Ed Jackson and Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom escaped with front page publicity for violating the law to get whisky to save the lives of loved ones. It cost John R. Griffin, 32, of 1432 Oliver Ave., a plain automobile mechanic, S3O. Jackson and Gilliom’s loved ones obtained the benefits of the liquor. Griffin’s little girl must go without. When last seen, Griffin’s liquor was in po: session of State Policeman Charles Bridges. Griffin was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to thirty days in jail for having four pints of whisky In his automobile a week ago Monday. Afetr Dr. Walter F. Hickman, 1210 Oliver Ave., testified that he had advised Griffin that whisky would be a good tonic for Juanita Griffin, 12, Griffin’s daughter, who twice has had double pneumonia within recent months, Municipal Judge Dan V. White suspended the fine and sentence, but required Griffin to pay the S3O costs. “Understand,” said Judge White, “this is not punishment for trying to help your child, but you have violated the law and it is the law, no matter what others think about it.” Griffin paid the S3O. Clemency Granted One parole and one remission of fine, out of a list of seventeen applications, were recommended by the board at Indiana State Farm and approved by Governor Jackson today. Reuben K. Gilliand, Fulton County, was paroled and Ed Robertson, Delaware County, had his fine remitted.

would not take It. Its low value is due entirely to the farm policy and those who created conditions which have lowered its value should not hesitate to assume Its burden.” “It Is a good farm. It has sold in the past for SBO an acre or more than four times the amount of the mortgage. It is good land. It will also make a beautiful State park. It has the convenience of a State highway running through it.” The recorder at Winamac has recorded the deed. What will happen when the holder of the mortgage tries to collect, is, says Duffy, no longer a matter of importance to him. The holder, he insists, must now sue the president as trustee to get the title.

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Residents in Neighborhood of Victims’ Dwelling Hear Prowler. EWING SOUGHT IN WEST Escaped Prisoner, Wanted for Death Quiz, May Be Headed for Oregon. Fear that the fiend who crushed the skulls of Mrs. Zenith Burress Ewing and her spetfather, David O. Boyles, with a hand ax Saturday night, might be planning to return to Indianapolis and McCordsvillc and kill two and possibly three persons, caused a close watch to be kept over the two houses today. Fear was based not only upon the insane brutality of the double ax murder, but also upon the fact that persons living near 2342 Brookside Ave., where the victims lived, heard someone prowling about the house ; Monday night. The house was not occupied Mon- ; day night, for Mrs. David O. Boyles, wife and mother of the victims, had gone to the home of friends. The bodies had been left in the morgue at Greenfield, Ind. They were found Monday morning, half concealed by weeds, in a ditch beside the Thirtieth St. Rd., eleven miles east of Indianapolis. Search for Bigamist Meanwhile, police througnout the country were spreading their dragnet for Willard Ewing, 46, bigamist and escaped prisoner from the Indiana State Penal Farm, last seen Saturday night, when he drove away from the Boyles home with his second wife and her stepfather. They were accompanying him to Greenfield on his pretext that an attorney there would prepare papers to have their marriage annulled. Detectives questioned Hermaa Schrader, employe In the Joe Stahr restaurant, 221 8. Illinois 8t„ who reported to police that a man answering Ewing’s description was In the restaurant at 2 a. m. today. Schrader said the man ate lunch and acted so nervous that he slipped the money from the cash register fearing a hold-up. When the man was leaving he noticed his similarity to newspaper picetures of Ewing. “I am certain I heard someone prowling about here last night," said Clarence Porter, who lives at 2338 Brookside Ave., two doors distant from the Boyles home. “I don’t lie awake imagining things. But I was awake all last night. I heard the prowler several times.” Prowler Is Heard Mrs. R. Pence, 2340 Brookside Ave., next door neighbor to the Boyles, added her testimony that she couldn't sleep and was sure she heard someone aroiihd the place. While a close watch Is kept here on the Boyles home, horsethief detectives are keeping a vigil over the home of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin* Day at McCdfdsville, where their daughter Mrs. Mary Day Ewing, first wife of the hunted man, and her son, Robert, 4, are staying. Indianapolis detectives and Hancock County authorities were handicapped by the slayer’s thirtysix hour start. They were without accurate description of the car in which Ewing started to Greenfield, and suspect it was stolen. Police at Portland, Ore., were notified when It was recalled that Ewing had said his father had moved from the vicinity of South Bend, Ind., to the west coast city. Authorities got scant clue of Ewing’j probable whereabouts from 45 minutes’ questioning of Mrs. Ellen Boyles, wife of the slain man. Inquest Is Held Inquest was held at Greenfield today by Coroner C. M. Gibbs, assisted by Sheriff Harry Comstock and Prosecutor George F. Dlckman, of Hancock County. Sheriff Comstock believes the victims were induced to get out of the automobile before the attack was made. That there was a struggle was indicated by the fact that a keyring, a nickle, a dime and two street car token were found in the road opposite the bodies. Mr. Boyles’ hat was forty feet down the road, the woman’s left slipper was a like distance in an adjoining field, and the blcod-stained army ax with which the crime wa3 committed was found fifty feet from the bodies, In a wooded pasture. Funeral Services Tonight Funeral services for Mrs. Ewing and Mr. Boyles will be held at 7 o’clock tonight at the home, after which the bodies will be sent to Loogootee for burial Wednesday morning. Ewing and Mis3 Day were married five years ago. Ewing deserted his first wife and on Oct. 4, 1926, married Miss Burress at Washington, Ind. He was arrested here In August on the bigamy charge. After serving three days of a sixmonth sentence for bigamy. Ewing escaped from the penal farm Sept. 19. . His visits to his second wife followed, culminating in the trip to Greenfield Saturday night.