Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1927 — Page 1

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1200 CONVICTS, BESIEGED IN PRISON, SURRENDER AS CANNON THREATEN WALLS Nine Are Dead, Twenty-Two Wounded as Result of Mutiny in California Pen; Seven Ringleaders in ‘Sol/ FOIL DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE * ' ' ■ i ■i- ■ , ■ y Armed Prisoners Slay Guard, Then Barricade Selves in Main Cell Block; State Troops Called Out. BY HOMER s. ROBERTS United Frees Staff Correspondent FOLSOM PRISON, Cal., Nov. 25.—The 1,200 barricaded convicts who had defied National Guardsmen and prison officials for twenty hours in the main cell block of Folsom prison, surrendered peacefully today. The convicts were returned to their cells and normal prison routine was resumed. The seven ringleaders who started the break which caused the deaths of nine men and injury of twenty-two more, were placed in solitary confinement. Their names were not divulged. Warden Court Smith announced that the daily routine would begin as if nothing had occurred.

One gun and half a dozen knives, claimed by the prisoners to be all the weapons they had, were confiscated by Warden Smith, who entered the cellhouse alone by a rear door, while hundreds of militiamen armed with rifles and machine guns formed a cordon around the building. First move for peace was made by the convicts less than an hour before the final surrender. One of them left the barricaded cell block of the prison carrying a flag of truce. He was received by the warden. Immunity Refused The peace delegate first asked immunity for the ringleaders of the mutiny in exchange for surrender. The warden refused that, but promised fair trials for the men and protection of the law. The convict then asked whether he and his fellows would be protected from beatings at the hands of guards and was assured no such punishment would be administered. He returned to the ‘fortress” within the prison walls and after a conference the convicts accepted the warden’s terms. Warden Smith had warned the convicts that unless they accepted his peace terms within half an hour, t.he 900 troops and guards on duty at the prison would launch a concerted bombardment of the cell block. Terms Are Accepted Shortly before the half-hour expired, the convicts called the warden’s office by telephone from their post in the cell block and notified him that his terms were accepted. Then the warden, pale from his long vigil, entered the cell block alone and took charge of the mutineers. The sudden surrender ended a desperate attempt by seven convicts to escape from the prison—ap attempt doomed from the start to fail because the forehanded warden had removed a bunch of keys from its accustomed hiding place, several days ago, upon learning of unrest in the cells. Yesterday, just before Thanksgiving dinner was to be served, the seven leaders of the jail broke from a line of marching prisoners and made for the old hiding place of the keys. Guard Shot Down They shot down a guard who tried to block their way, and another guard dropped dead from heart disease. When they found the keys were not there, the seven men withdrew to the main cell block and barricaded the door, holding 1,200 other convicts prisoner with them. When it became evident the men were prepared for stubborn resistance, the warden appealed to Governor C. C. Young for aid, and 700 National Guardsmen were mustered in and sent to the prison. They had machine guns, tear gas bombs and rifles, and latar two tanks were ordered from San Francisco to assist them. A check-up of casualties after the convicts surrendered showed nine persons dead and twenty-two wounded. Two of the dead were prison guards. The wounded included five prison officials. The dead: Ray Singleton, guard, shot to death. Charles Glace, guard, died of heart attack. Seven prisoners, names withheld, shot down by machine gun fire. The Wounded: - Walter Neil, guard, shot in leg. Barnett Huse, secretary to the warden, shot in leg. S . A1 Dealey, guard, stabbed and shot. Ah Massack, badly beaten. Seventeen prisoners wounded by machine gun lire. James Gorhanson, guard, stabbed and shot.

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PLOT TO SLAY DALEPROBED Dry Agent to Question Pair on Conspiracy Charge. George F. Winkler, deputy Federal prohibition administrator, sent Sanford Starks, special investigator, to Ft. Wayne today to obtain a statement from James Rose, 20, Ft. Wayne,” and Mrs. Helen Smith, Ft. Wayne, regarding a conspiracy to assassinate George Dale, Muncie vice crusader. Rose told Frank Conroy, Federal prohibition agent, Thursday, that he had been engaged by Eddie Duffy, Muncie police character, to drive an automobile to Muncie from Ft. Wayne, carrying Dale and Mrs. Smith, for the purpose of killing Dale* editor of the Muncie PostDemocrat, and John Cox, Muncie newspaper reporter. Rose’s arrest on the day preceding the proposed trip frustrated the plan, he said. Duffy first disclosed the assassination plot in Muncie last Saturday. He said he was to have received SSOO from two Muncie police officers for killing Dale and Cox. Interviewed in the Marion County jail Duffy said: “They’ve got Rose; make him talk. I’m afraid to say anything.”

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WOMAN NOVELIST WEDS Mrs. Nancy Hoyt Wynne, Divorcee, Marries Boston Man. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Mrs. Nancy Hoyt Wynne, young novelist who recently won a London divorce from Gerald Wynne', Is now Mrs. Edward D. Curtis, according to an announcement by her mother, Mrs. Henry M. Hoyt. Mrs. Hoyt Thursday received a telegram from her daughter, dated Baltimore. It said she had been married “in Maryland” Wednesday to Curtis, member of a Boston family, and that they will live in New York. Curtis is connected with the Guaranty Trust Company. SLACK TO TALK BUSSES Policies Will Be Outlined to Federation of Civic Clubs. Mayor L Ert Slack will address the Federation of Community Civic Clubs at the Chamber of Commerce at 8 o’clock tonight on policies of his administration. The federation also will discuss bus schedules of the Indianapolis Street Railways which recently acquired the Peoples’ Motor Bus Company. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 36 10 a. m 39 7 a. 37 11 a. m 41 8 a. m 37 12 (noon) ... 44 9 a. m 38 1 p. m 47

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REMUS SANITY REPORT MADE; HEUSECRET Three Alienists Suddenly Submit Document to Trial Judge. SISTER SOBS ON STAND Hysterical Kin of Ex-Booze King Causes Delay in Proceedings. BY PAUL W. WHITE United Press Staff Correspondent CINCINNATI, Nov. 25. —Three alienists appointed by the court to inquire into - the sanity of George Remus, on trial charged with the murder of his wife, Imogene, today submitted a report to Judge Chester R. Shook. Judge Shook asked that the contents of the report be not revealed at this time, but he told opposing attorneys he had received it and reports were general that Remus had been found sane. Charles E. Elston, co-counsel for Remus, objected to introduction of the document at this time on the ground it was based purely upon observation, and the defense had not begun to introduce evidence in its behalf. Charles P. Taft 11, county prosecutor, then reminded the defense that the State had not called upon its rebuttal witnesses as yet. Make Ruling Saturday Remus’ contention lias been that he was sane before the crime, insane during its commission and sane shortly afterward. The three alienists are: Doctors E. A. Baber, David Wolfstein and Charles Kiely. Remus, in court prior to the trial, agreed to their selection and said he would be bound by their report. Elston was asked by Judge Shook whether he approved of his client’s statement. “I would suggest,” Elston replied, “that your honor not require me to make any statement about that at the present time. I want to consult with him (Remus) about it too.” The court then said it was “absolutely essential” that he know by Saturday morning the attitude of the defense.* The defense gained permission to write into the ruling that Remus “at all times entertained no objections to an examination, either mental or physical in the county jail. The nerves of Mrs. Anna Ryerson, sister of Remus, gave way today while she was testifying for the State at trial of her brother on the charge of murdering his wife, Imogene. She had been under tremendous strain. Her cheeks were colorless and her lips were tightly compressed. Finally she burst into tears and sobbed: “It’s terrible. Just terrible!” Her further words were unintelligible. She cried uncontrollably. The court ordered a brief recess so that she could regain control of her feelings. She said she had heard Remus’ voice at the latter’s home the night before the killing. She was certain she had not seen or heard George Klug, her brother’s chauffeur. Then she described how she had prepared breakfast the next morning before Remus went forth to kill his wife. “I said, speaking of the divorce suit, ‘This is going to be your big day today,’ and he replied, ‘Yes, Anna, St is,’ ” she went on. “But you knew that something was going to. happen that morning?” pursued Sibbald, assistant prosecutor. Spectator Faints ( Charles H. Elston, co-couifsel for the defense, leaped up. “I object,” he said. “The prosecutor has no right to cross-examine a witness who is trying to help the state and—” but Elston got no further. Mrs. Ryerson began to cry, and even when Judge Chester R. Shook leaned over to comfort her, she wept and sobbed for some minutes. To add to the excitement a man who had been standing in the corridor hoping for admission to the crowded courtroom fainted and a doctor was called to attend him. Cat Comes Back—After a Year Bu United Press WATERTOWN, N. Y., Nov. 25. Just a year after it had disappeaied from the home of Mrs. Eva Jones of Hailsboro, nr house cat returned and went immediately to its accustomed lounging place.

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FALL KILLS SOLDIER r Thrown From Rumble Seat of Automobile. Private Virgil Armstrong, 24, of Valparaiso, Ind., stationed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, died today after falling from the rumble seat of an automobile three miles east of Indianapolis on the Pendleton pike. Armstrong was said by authorities at Ft. Harrison to have been returning to his post from the city in an automobile owned by a civilian attache from the fort. He is believed to have lost his balance when the machine swerved around another car on the road. Coroner C. H. Keever began an investigation. Fixed Bayonets End Grid BOSTON, Nov. 25.—The field was cleared by soldiers with fixed (bayonets after the annual football game between Revere and Winthrop High Schools at Fort Banks, when fist fights developed among spectators.

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000ZE CHARGE INSPIRED 01 MAN AND DRY CHIEFTAINS, GILLIOM STATES IN LETTER One Witness, Active in Demanding* Inquiry, Had Held Conference With Shumaker, Editor Says. DEFENDS HIS PURCHASE OF LIQUOR Bought Whisky in Effort to Save Life of His Sister, and for No Other Purpose, His Statement Declares. .Declaring that the investigation of the use of whisky foil his sister when she was near death in a Decatur hospital was prompted by representatives of the Ku Klux Klan and the AntiSaloon League, Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom today sent to Prosecutor John Kelly of Adams County a letter giving in. detail the facts. The letter of Gilliom showed that when he reached the hospital his sister was in a dying condition.. He offered any aid to the physician in charge, asked whether other physicians should be called in consultation, suggested oxygen and blood transfusion'might be needed, an,l in response the physician asked him to procure whisky, not obtainable in Decatur.

Gilliom then rode to Ft. Wayne, procured a pint of whisky, and turned it over to the doctor. Some of it was used as medicine. Two of the witnesses before the grand jury Wednesday, who have been active in demanding the indictment of Gilliom, are C. L. Walters and A. L. Ray. Former Klan Official The ’’black book” of Stephenson in which he recorded the list of all officers of the klan during his regime in 1923 contains the name of Walters as the Klokard of the Klan for that county. It is known that Ray, three days before the first public demand for an inquiry into the Gilliom incident was made, drove to Bluffton and conferred with Dr. E. 3. Shumaker. This information comes from an editor to whom Ray made the statement concerning his activities. Details His Case Gilliom’s letter follows: “I became informed of the necessity of a setious major operation for my sister, Emma Gilliom, several days before Dr. C. C. Rayl performed the operation,” wrote Gilliom. “I then kept in telephonic communication with relatives concerning the condition of my sister, and was informed by telephone early in the morning of Sunday, May 22, that she was in an alarmingly critical condition, which was steadily getting worse. “I immediately left my home at Indianapolis and arrived at the Decatur hospital by taxi from Bluffton about 1 p. m. I found my aged parents, several brothers and sisters, some from a distance, and other relatives gathered in the reception room of the hospital, most of them in tears. '“I learned my sister was in a most critical condition, unconscious part of the time, writhing in unspeakable agony. “Desiring to assist in any way possible to save my sister’s life J asked to see Dr. Rayl, who was in constant attendance. After learning from him that he was contemplating a further emergency operation, I suggested that if he desired to call a consultant specialist of his own choosing, I would gladly pay such expense If necessary. Doctor Asked for Whisky • “Later in the afternoon he did call in a consultant 'from Ft. Wayne. I also told the doctor that I desired to be useful in any way he could suggest, I informed him of my experience in which blood transfusion, oxygen, whisky and other last effort means were employed to save the lives of several of my children the year before, and I offered to get, or arrange, for anything he might suggest in the case of my sister. “He advised me he. was equipped with everything he needed, but that whisky would be helpful if he had it. He did not know where whisky could be gotten and neither did I. But I advised the physician that I would make an effort to locate some. “Under these circumstances and for the sole and exclusive purpose of attempting to supply a medicine deemed helpful by the physician in his vigilant and desperate effort to combat death, I set about in a frantic search for a small quantity of whisky, “It became necessary to spend the

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entire Sunday afternoon, including a trip to Ft. Wayne, in a search for this medicine. I located a personal friend at Ft. Wayne, who in turn inquired of his own neighbors until he found a pint of whisky in the private home of a neighbor. “I took this to Dt. Rayl at the hospital at the end of a seven-hour search. This is the only whisky I procured for my sister, and it was procured under the circumstances stated and for the exclusive purpose of medicinal use, to be administered by the attending nurse under the supervision of the physician.” “I am informed that some of this whisky was used for my sister and that it appeared to act as a beneficial medicine. How much was used, and what became of that not used I do not know. “I had absolutely nothifig to do with the whisky after I gave it to the doctor, and the only relation I ever sustained to it was that I already described herein.” Urges Honest Inquiry “There has at no tifne been any secrecy about this on my part. Any brother of a sick sister who would not have done what I did would not be a normal human being. “My sister not only had a right in her critical plight to expect of me that I do all things helpful to her physician that might aid her in her fight for life, but it was my absolute duty to do so. Nothing done by myself, the physician or the nurse violated any law. “But I am informed that intolerant representatives of the KuKlux Klan and of the Anti-Saloon League are demanding indictments because whisky was so procured and so used. Believing you would desire a statement of the truth of the facta under investigation, I am sending you this statement for your use. Wants to Show Truth “If the name of the State of Indiana is to be used at the instanca of intolerant bigotry, to persecute anyone for cooperating in an effort to save the life of a citizen, I think those asked to thus act for the State should at least be informed of the truth before they do act. “May it be understood that this statement is not made to discourage but rather to encourage an honest investigation into the truth of the facts.” Gilliom Quiz Near End 1 DECATUR, Ind., Nov. 25.—The Adams County grand jury today adjourned its session until 9 a. m, Monday when it is expected a report will be made on the investigation involving Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom’s act in obtaining medicinal whisky for his sister, Miss Emma Gilliom, while she was a patient at a hospital here last summer. WARMER WEATHER FOR SATURDAY IS FORECAST. End Is Expected. There is more good news for cold weather haters and bad news for those who sell fur coats and such, in Weather Man J. H. Armington’s forecast today. We will have “soft” weather, which means moderate to warm temperatures, tonight and Saturday, said Armington. Temperatures probably will be at least 10 to 12 degrees higher on Saturday than today, he said. But it likely will be cloudy. Today’s 7 a. m. temperature of 37 was 2 degrees above normal. Thursday’s temperature average was 50, 10 degrees above normal. Flier Who Killed Pony Fined Bu United Press WASHINGTON Nov. 25.—Stueart Giss, charged with violating air traffic rules, because he killed a pony in flying low over a commercial field here, was sentenced today to pay a $25 flue.