Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 205, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1928 — Page 3

TJATST. 4, 1928.

HICKMAN’S LAWYER STARTS BATTLE TO CHEAT NOOSE

‘FOX' PINS ALL HIS HOPES ON INSANITY PLEA Attorney Will Travel Far for Evidence to Aid Youthful Killer. TRIAL SET FOR JAN. 25 Slayer Shrinks When He Faces Battery of Eyes in Courtroom. Bv United Press LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4.—Collection of insanity evidence to save William Edward Hickman from the gallows was begun today by Jerome Walsh, Kansas City lawyer. Hickman yesterday pleaded “not guilty by reason of insanity” to an indictment charging him with the murder of Marion Parker, 12. His trial was set for Jan. 25. • The arraignment was in Superior Judge Carlos Hardy’s court, which was jammed with armed men on the alert for demonstrations against the prisoner. The spectators, however, seemed more curious than vengeful, and there was no demonstration. Hickman’s whispered “not guilty” was barely audible to those surrounding him. He seemed nervous and shy. Pleads for Time Walsh, addressing the court, pleaded for thirty-five days in which to gather evidence that his youthful client was insane. “Your honor,” Walsh said, “I have no desire to delay this court. Yet I deem it a salutary thing for the entire Nation if this boy be proved insane. "I must have time to go to Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois to get the depositions which will show this boy abnormal.” Walsh presented the court with a mass of documentary opinions which held Hickman abnormal. After reading them, Judge Hardy ruled three weeks sufficient time to prepare the case, and set the trial for Jan. 25. Crowd Packs Room A crowd that packed the courtroom to capacity watched every move of Hickman, who toyed with his collar and twitched his hands. He occasionally glanced sheepishly at the spectators. Hickman was dressed in neat blue. For the first time since his attempt to strangle himself at Pendleton, Ore., he was allowed to wear a tie. His hair was combed neatly. He resembled a high school student. t No cameras were allowed in the courtroom, so the corridors through which Hickman was led were filled with smoke from flashlights. Hickman grinned foolishly at each boom. A grand jury, meeting at the same time to consider another murder indictment against Hickman in connection with the murder of Ivy Thoms, druggist, adjourned without action. Juvenile Court Holds Hunt Welby Hunt, 16, confessed accomplice of Hickman in the Thoms slaying, was held to be under jurisdiction of the juvenile court. This prevented grand jury action. District Attorney Asa Keyes announced he would ask the juvenile court to turn Hunt over to Superior Court and then would present the evidence to the grand Jury again. A long trial was seen as the result of Hickman’s insanity plea. Under the plea Hickman formally admitted the murder, and should be found sane would be liable to sentence of death without a jury trial.

PROTEST ON BALL PARK Remonstrance Is Signed by 350 Property Owners Near Proposed Site. I A remonstrance against the proposed baseball park on ThirtyEighth St., south of the State fairground, has been signed by 350 property owners, according to Oscar F. Smith, former works board president. Smith presided at a meeting at the Chateau Apartments Tuesday night when citizens discussed plans for fighting the location of the ball park along the boulevard. The petition will be presented to Mayor Slack Thursday. Attorney Edward D. Holt and State Auditor Lewis S. Bowan will be spokesmen for the objectors at the park board hearing Thursday. AUTOS HELP POACHERS Game Preserves Are Looted by Thieving Motorists. LONDON, Jan. 4.—Hunting from motor cars has become such a popular illegitimate sport in England that game is said to be noticeably scarcer. Poachers ride through game preserves, shoot from their cars, retrieve their kills and speed on before the police can halt them. Some persons are said to make a living in this way. COAL COMPANY ROBBED Two Bandits Blacken Faces to Make Entry to Office. Two young men stopped at a coal bin in the Eddie Grimes Coal Company yard, 105 Minkner St., Tuesday night, blackened their faces with coal dust and then held up the coal L company office. Mrs. Grimes, who was in charge, police one of the youths caran automobile wrench while the ,Hier flourished a revolver and that she lay on the floor of the counter. They took SIOO jfiSjbsh and checks from the cash

Detailed Denial of Scandal Charges Made to Her Agent by Ruth Elder

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Ruth Elder, ocean flier, was reported today free on SSOO bond on a four-year-old charge of misconduct with a Georgia evangelist. STORY ON PAGE ONE.

KIMBLE OFFERS ALIBIDEFENSE Theory That Sink Died of Accident Also Advanced. Bu Times Special DELPHI, Ind., Jan. 4. —Lloyd Kimble is fighting a charge of the first degree murder of Daniel Sink, 74, with an alibi and theory that the aged man was a victim of accidental death by fire in his home last Aug. 24. Defense testimony is being continued in Carroll Circuit Court today along the two lines. No opportunity to discredit Mrs. Jeanetta Taylor, the State's principal witness is being overlooked. There is no indication today of when Kimble will take the stand and apparently predictions when the trial was resumed Tuesday that the case would be in the jury’s hands late this week were in error, as the defense has yet to offer the greater portion of its evidence. Defense witnesses heard Tuesday included Earl Salisbury, 17, a neighbor of Sink, who testified the old man was addicted to drinking and describee the manner in which Sink started fires by using coal oil. Andrew Wise testified that at the time Mrs. Taylor said Kimble was with her, threatening her if she told about Sink’s death, he was with a threshing crew of which Wise was a member. George M. Frost and Mrs. Nathan Taylor, the latter the mother of Jesse Taylor, husband of the State’s chief witness, were the last persons on the stand before the State rested. They testified Taylor was a sound sleeper. This was in relation to the statment of Mrs. Taylor that on the night Sink died, Kimble came to her home and awoke her as she lay beside her husband in bed, but that Taylor was not awakened. The six States which do not have capital punishment are Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, Maine and South Dakota.

Truck Pilot Starts New Year as Good Samaritan

CHESTER ALBRIGHT, 334 N. Bolton Ave., nominates Everett Martin, 3318 Indianapolis Ave., as the first Indianapolis Good Samaritan of the year 1928. Albright had a lot of trouble starting his auto Monday, a3 many others did because of the cold. Several motorists passed by without offering to aid a fellow motorist in trouble. Then Martin came to the rescue in his laundry truck. After much work and trouble with a tow rope that insisted on breaking, Martin towed Albright’s car several blocks, and got It started. Albright offered to pay him, but he refused. “We just want your good will for our laundry,” he answered just as if he were a partner in the laundry. He Isn’t, because the laundry Is one of the largest In the

Harmless Buggy Ride With Evangelist in Georgia Started Village Gossip, Brought Ostracism, and Is Climaxed by Court Action, Girl Says. ffj. United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 4.--A heated denial of cliarges of misconduct made against her was contained in a letter sent by Ruth Elder, transAtlantic aviatrix, to her New York agent, Harry Reichenbach, he told the United Press today. A harmless buggy ride with an evangelist, the Rev. Hubert Jenkins, was the incident which gave rise to village gossip and, ultimately, to the warrant which was served on her, Reichenbach quoted Miss Elder as saying. “The incident occurred when Miss Elder was a girl of 17,” Reichenbach said. “She was living with her husband in Clayton, Ga., a town of about 300 persons, when the evangelist came to conduct a revival meeting.

WOMAN HELD AS HEAD OF STORE BANDIT GANG Richmond Police Arrest Four Others After Numerous Burglaries Bv Times Svecial RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 4.—Police believe a woman led a gang of five which has stolen goods worth several thousand dollars from local stores and have her and four alleged associates in custody. Mrs. Clara Breitenbach is the accused woman. Arrested with her is her son, Cecil Breitenbach; Gene Rogers, Wiliiam Hendrickson and Ralph Green. Police declare Green was caught in the act of stealing from the Union store here, his capture being the first onslaught on the alleged gang. One of the robberies credited to the five is that of the When store, where the loot was $1,500. womaiTdies in crash Mrs. Vivian Stone, formerly of Indianapolis, was killed in an automobile accident Tuesday at Toronto, Canada, according to word received today by William A. Pickens, local attorney, Mrs. Stone was an employe of tjie Graylynn Hotel about six weeks ago and was in Indianapolis Saturday before leaving for Buffalo, N. Y., Pickens says. A searph for Indianapolis relatives is being made by local authorities.

city and he is just one of many employes. He even refused to give his name, declaring that what he had done was nothing and that he had done as much for five others that day. Albright found out his name from the laundry company—and Martin, they said, is always doing things like that. So Albright believes Martin should receive credit and nominates him as a good example for the rest of Indianapolis this coming year. “For,” says Albright, “after all that’s all there is in life—doing something for someone else.” REFINANCE YOUR DEBTS NOW and repay as you earn. Low cost, confidential and quick. CAPITOL LOAN CO., 141% E. Wash.—Advertisement. .

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“Miss Elder and her husband invited him to visit them for a week. On weekdays, when her husband was at work, they had friendly chats together, and one day took a ride out into the country. Evangelist Runs Away “They had stopped and were sitting on a hillock at the side of the road, viewing the scenery when they saw a man approaching, driving some cattle. The evangelist, fearing to be seen alone with the girl, left her and ran into a nearby patch of trees.” Miss Elder then drove back to her home, Reichenbach said. A few days later she began to be snubbed by the citizens of the small Georgia town. Evidently the cattle driver or someone else had seen them together. “Ugly rumors began to float about,” Reichenbach continued. “To a young girl of 17, such misconstrued stories, coupled with rapidly growing social ostracism, began to make life miserable. Goes to Mother “Miss Elder left her home and went to her mother at Anniston, Ala. Later her mother succeeded in having her marriage annulled on the ground of her extreme youth. “With that, she thought the incident closed. She heard no more of it until Dec. 20. Alighting froma train at Atlanta, she was approached by a man whom she recognized as the sheriff of Clayton. ‘“My dear girl,’ he told her, 'I don’t want to embarrass you. I’ve been sent here from Clayton with a paper. It would be better for you to give me a short interview privately.’ Gives Sheriff SSOO “She asked him to go to the hotel with her to discuss the matter. Then, she said in the letter, she was told that if she would give him SSOO the incident would be closed and she would hear no more of it. She gave him the SSOO, she said, and he left.” Reichenbach then quoted Miss Elder as saying there was not an atom of truth in the charges of mis-* conduct. “I am sure that if my name had not become well known, nothing would have been heard of the matter,” she wrote Reichenbach.

Three to Seek Release Bv Times Svecial VERSAILLES, Ind., Jan. 4. Clarence Jackson, John Ryan and William Merhoff, charged with the murder of Deputy Sheriff Leonard Eads, will seek release on bond pending trial at a hearing here Friday. The accused will appear before Special Judge James A. Cox.

SHOWER LINDY WITH FLOWERS IN HONDURAS Whole Nation Unites to Pay Homage to American Air Visitor. Bu United Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Jan. 4.—Honduras united today in paying homage to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, United States ambassador of the air. From the time he landed in the Spirit of St. Louis on the flying field at 1:55 p. m. Tuesday and was showered with flowers, Tegucigalpa, from President Baranoa to the humblest citizen, gave tribute. The president arranged to decorate him with a gold medal and present him to the congress for further honors. Dodge War Zone Lindbergh will stay until Thursday noon, when he will leave for Managua, Nicaragua. He will fly via Leon, on the west coast, a little out of the direct flying line of 150 miles he had planned first. The new course will cause him to miss by some miles the ocotal country of the neighboring republic where United States marines and Sandino liberals are engaged in combat. Fear was expressed privately that there was danger of the rebels mistaking the plane for one of the Marine airships which have been bombing their positions, and firing on it. Showered With Flowers Lindbergh’s program from the time of Ids arrival was full. After a greeting by the president, the mayor and George T. Summerlin, American minister to Honduras, he was taken in triumphal procession through the city, riding under arches of flowers and being showered constantly by blossoms thrown from windows along the line. Artillery boomed, bands played the “Star-Spangled Banner,” and thousands cheered. The evening program included a dinner in Lindbergh’s honor at the American legation and a torchlight procession. COURT TOLD OF HEAVY GAMBLING DEN LOSSES Bets Ran High at Massachusetts Ave. House, Say Witnesses. Evidence showing large sums of money were lost at an alleged gambling house operated by Wiliam Maher, 702 Massachusetts Ave., was brought out by State attorneys in Criminal Court Tuesday afternoon during Maher’s trial. Judge James A. Collins will rule Friday. When arrests were made last April under supervision of John A. Royse, deputy prosecutor, it was charged Maher’s place was one of several operated by George Shockley, with headquarters at 309 Mason Block. Shockley will be tried Friday afternoon. Harry V. Underwood testified he lost about SB,OOO in bets made at Maher’s place. Other persons testified they lost sums of money in bets there.

NAME CLASSEN NEW HEAD OF FAIRS GROUP Succeeds J. E. Green, Muncie, at Annual Convention. John H. Classen, member of the Lake County board of commissioners, was elected president of the Indiana Association of County and District Fairs Tuesday at the annual convention at the Severin. J. E. Green, Muncie, is retiring president. Charles Taylor, Boonville, was named vice president, and E. J. Barker, Thomtown, secretary-treas-urer. Bylaws were amended to combine positions of secretary and treasurer. The convention ended with a banquet. Mayor L. Ert Slack spoke and promised his support to any improvements at the State Fairgrounds. J. A. Terry, La Porte, member of the La Porte County Fair Association, spoke on the importance of boys’ and girls’ club. L. A. Pittenger, president of the State Normal School, eastern division, spoke at the dinner urging that county fairs have the pregress of the community as their theme. HELD FOR TRIPLE CRASH Drunk Driving Charges Are Filed; Three Cars Hit. Charges of drunken driving were placed against Pasquale Montani, 48, of 110 N. Riley Ave., Tuesday following a triple crash in the 2700 block E- Washington St. Montani’s automobile struck a parked laundry truck and then veered across the street and struck two cars parked there, police charged.

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Convertible Coupe to Cost $5 Less Than New Product of Detroit Magnate. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 4.—The long-looked-for price war on the lowpriced automobile seemed a reality today, with the announcement of a Whippet convertible coupe at $5 less than the corresponding model Ford. A week ago, President John N. Willys of the Willys-Overland concern, manufacturers of the Whippet, announced that the company was in a position to make another reduction if it was necessary to meet Ford’s prices. Another announcement Sunday of cuts of from $lO to SSO in the prices of the new and larger Chevrolet cars discounted the statement of officails of automobile concerns that the new prices “are not to be construed as indicating aprice war.” The Whippet prices, compared with the new Ford car, are: Ford. Whippet. Convertible coupe $550 $545 Four-door sedan 570 585 Two-door sedan 495 535 Coupe 495 535 Roadster 385 525 Touring 395 455 Another price reduction was made known today in the higher-price field when cuts of from SSOO to S7OO were announced in Packard eights. New Lasalle Costs Less Bu United Press DETROIT, Jan. 4.—-The Cadillac Motor Car Company has announced five new models of the La Salle car at reduced prices ranging from $2,350 to $2,875. The company said production for 1927 was 25 per ceiil above the previous year and that an increase of 25 per cent in 1928 was anticipated. KEEP SCOTT AT POST Assessment Clerk Remains at Job on Holt’s Orders. Chief Assessment Clerk Orville R. Scott, Republican, recently replaced by the board of works, continued in charge of the department today on orders of City Controller Sterling R. Holt. President Oren S. Hack recently announced Theodore Dammeyer, Democrat, would succeed Scott in the $3,600 post, Jan. 1. Scott took several days to explain the office routine to his successor. Meantime Holt learned of the work board’s appointment and ordered Scott to continue in the position thirty days or longer. Half of the salary is listed under the finance department and half under the works board. Scott was appointed by the city controller subject to the mayor’s approval. It was understood Holt and Hack, both Democrats, had split over the appointment but Hack explained the city controller desired that Scott remain in the office for a while to handle Barrett law bonds. Absence of Dammeyer since Friday was due to illness and he expected to return today, Hack said.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Mary E. Commack, Plainfield, Ind., Ford, 17-796, from Kentucky Ave. and Washington St. Arliss Blakey, 126 E. Pratt St., 592-522, from in front of that address. William Meier, R. R. 4, Box 333, Ford, 515-653, from Senate Ave. and Washington St.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Automobiles reported found by police belong to: T. Y. Hallum, 1226 Cornell Ave., Ford, found at 4400 W. Morris St. J. H. Johnson, 579 N. Belmont Ave., Ford, found at Clay City, Ind.

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Jazz Saves Life Bu United Press GALESBURG, 111., Jan. 4. “Hot” sheet music that had warmed the emotions of many dancers kept Robert Killeen, musician, from freezing in a blizzard. Thirty pounds of the music sheets went up in smoke to keep Killeen warm when his automobile was stuck in a snowdrift.

INSULL WOULD MAKE BUSINESS PAYJOR ART Buys Block Just Outside of Chicago Loop to Erect ‘Opera Skyscraper/ Bu United Press CHICAGO, Jan, 4.—A plan to make business pay for art was revealed by Samuel Insull today, following purchase of a square block just outside the Loop as a site for a combination opera house and office building. Insull, who is to the Chicago Civic Opera Company what Otto Kahn is to the Metropolitan in New York, believes revenue from offices in the upper stories of the skyscraper will pay the opera company’s annual deficit, now borne by guarantors. The deficit amounts to about $400,000 a year. Architects are at work on plans to reconcile the type of architecture appropriate to an opera house with the necessities of skyscraper construction. STATE FARM BUREAU MAY PURCHASE HOME Name Committee to Consider Buying Office Building. Removal of Indiana Farm Bureau Federation headquarters from rented quarters at 16 N. Senate Ave., to a permanent home of its own is under consideration by a committee appointed Tuesday by President William H. Settle of Petroleum. At the closing session of the twoday quarterly conference of directors here, Lewis Taylor of Newburg, L. L. Needier, federation secretary, and William Bosson of Indianapolis, were named to investigate feasibility of purchasing a home office building. They will report at the next quarterly meeting. Directors voted continuance of federation efforts on the 1927 program but did not adopt any new policies. The federation is pledged to continue its support of the} Mc-Nary-Haugen farm relief measure. ‘THRILLER’ IN BALCONY Forget Film Melodrama When Late Hubby Shoots Mate's Escort. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 4.—Melodrama was suddenly transferred from the screen to the mezzanine balcony of one of Chicago’s most gilded theaters Tuesday night when an angry husband opened fire on his wife’s escort. The audience of 2,000 started a stampede for the exits, but was quieted before anyone was injured. Meanwhile, the husband, John J. Mulkern, real estate broker, had been disarmed and was engaged in a fist fight with Albert Solomon, taxicab driver, who had escorted Mrs. Mulkern to the theater. The three were arrested.

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18 PROMOTED; REDUCE 15 IN FIREMENSHIFTS Three Changes Also Are Ordered in Police Department by Safety Board. Eighteen promotions and fifteen reductions in the fire department and three police force changes were ordered late Tuesday by the board of safety. Announcement followed an allday session of the board and several conferences with Mayor L. Ert Slack and Assistant Chief Harry E. Voshell and Fire Chief Jesse A. Hutsell. Voshell, who succeeds Hutsell April 1, had been in conference with the board until midnight Monday night checking record of firemen. President Fred Connell, Robert F. Miller, Republicans, and Ira P. Haymaker, Democrat, voted unanimously. Ira Haymaker, Democratic leader, said the board had endeavored to make ranking fire force officers half Republicans and half Democrats. Democrats for the most part benefited by the changes, only two being reduced. Nine Democrats and nine Republicans were promoted. Name 3 New Captains Promoted from private to lieutenant: Harry W. Pruitt, John Daugherty, Edward Moore, Eugene Mezger, John Lanahan, George James, Jesse B. Ray, John Feeney, Charles Milender, Frank Kissel, Virgil T. Fergason, Carl Sims and Joseph Wilhelm. Lieuts. Harry Campbell, Peter Baskerville and John R. Miller were named captains, while Privates Edward Webber and Irvin Fossate were promoted to chauffeurs. Capts. Charles Gregory, Robert Newby and Everett Tatlock were reduced to lieutenants. Lieutenants reduced to privates: Julius Buscher, Arnie Clapp, Charles James, Charles Lesser, Ray Metcalfe, David Sprinkle, Niles Thompson, Ralph Tyner, Michael Hyland, Harry Gebhart and Ross Herron. Promotions of Police Police promotions: Patrolmen Harry Kernodle and Marion Van Sickle to sergeant; Patrolman William Brickley to detective sergeant. Kernodle and Brickley are listed as Democrats. John T. O’Brien, Lawrence E. Fanning, Peter J. Welch, Rufus Wiggins, Democrats, and Hugh M. Baird, Republican, were appoin f ~d patrolmen. ASK $17,200 DAMAGES Four Suits Are Filed Against Driver For Injuries to Boys. Four suits asking $17,200 damages were filed in Superior Courts Tuesday afternoon against Sumner X. Pallardy, 35, Route C, Box 433, for injury of three boys Nov. 27 at Harding and Raymond Sts. They were filed by James H. Hughes, 643 Holly Ave., and Charles Roark, 814 Arbor Ave., fathers of the boys. According to the complaints, the boys were injured when an auto driven by Pallary collided with a car driven by Wayne H. Payne, 1043 Reisner St., and careened into a cider stand on the corner in front of which the hoys were standing. Donald Huge, 13, and TJelmar Roark, 12, were seriously injured, and Arlie Roark was slightly injured. 15,000 th Case on File Bu Times Special GARY, Ind., Jan. 4.—Case No. 15,000 has been filed In Gary Superior Court, which was established eleven years ago. The 15,000 th case was the divorce suit of Lucy Hinton against Lloyd Hinton.