Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 224, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1928 — Page 1

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KILLS FATHER AS HE LEAVES DAY-OLD BABY Hit-Skip Driver Flees After Auto Hurls Man to Death in Street. CHILD IS POISON VICTIM 2-Year-old Girl Swallows l Strychnine Pills; Crash Kills Teacher. (Pictures on Pace 1, Section *) Tragic death stalked into three In* dianapolis Ironies today. In one a child 2 yeaqs old ate poison tablets she thought were candy. In another, the father of a newborn baby was the victim of a hit-and-run driver. He was injured fatally while on his way home from the hospital where the baby was born last night. In the third, l veteran man teacher of the State School for Deaf was the victim of a motor crash. The poison tablets were fatal to Violet Hargraves, 2, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Hargraves, 1647 S. Meridian St. Eats Strychnine Pills Climbing on a chair, the child scraped ten of the chocolate-coated strychnine pills from the top of a buffet and ate them Wednesday. She died at city hospital at 5 this morning. The mother was prostrated at her home. The baby was sickly from birth and nearly died when 6 months old. relatives said. Two other older children survive. Leßoy Arnold, 23. of 2944 Schofield Ave., was the victim of the hit-and-run driver. He was in the 2900 block on Massachusetts Ave., on his way from city hospital. He died at the hospital early today. The wife, in the same hospital, had not been notified of the death. She*was to have been taken home today. The baby was born two weeks ago. Another child, Coral, 17 months, survives. Killed by Hit-Skip Driver Arnold, accompanied by George Parker, 2942 Schofield Ave., and George Tuttle, 2933 Hillside Ave., was driving on Massachusetts Ave. when the car ran out of gasoline. Arnold and Tuttle started toward a filling station when they were struck by a large touring car traveling at a high rate of speed. Arnold was hurled 150 feet into the gutter and suffered a fractured skull and internal injuries. Tuttle was injured slightly. Teacher Dies in Crash August Jutt, 60, of 5373 E. Washington St., a teacher at the State School for the Deaf, was injured fatally in an automobile crash in the 4300 block E. Twenty-First St., early today. Tire car in which he was riding, driven by Miss Leola Pfeifer, 85 N. Hawthorne Lane, collided with a truck driven by Charles Dyke, 38, 4319 E. Twenty-First St. Both cars were going west. Miss Pfeiffer started around the truck just as Dyke started to turn west, police said. Her machine struck a pile of dirt. Jut died at city hospital as the result of a fractured skull and internal injuries. Miss Pfeifer, city recreation department girls’ work supervisor, was not seriously injured. Oldest Teacher in School Jutt was the oldest teacher in point of service at the State School for the Deaf. Deaf himself, he came to the school from Jasper, Ind., his birthplace, when he was 9 and had been connected with the school ever since. The widow, a son, Wallace A., living ’at home; a daughter, Mrs. Sarah Duvall, Washington, D. C.; four brothers and a sister survive him. Funeral arrangements have not been made. For thirty years Jutt had conducted a Sunday School class at the school. William Reckert, 68, of 414 S. Meridian St., suffered a fractured right leg and body bruises Thursday when struck by an automobile driven by James O. Parks, 2846 Shriver Ave., at Maryanld St. and Virginia Ave. He was taken to city hospital. Other traffic victims: Mrs. Lucille Morgan, 28, of 4005 W. Washington St., body bruises and lacerations; Luther Harrison, 21, of 923 Arbor St., cuts; Miss Agatha Fitzfierald, 18, of 1268 Standard Ave., bruises.

LEAGUE COST $16,748 State Department Tabulates Expenses of Recent Participation. By United Trees WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.—Recent participation of the United States in League of Nations affairs cost $16,748.60. the State Department revealed today. The expenses were incurred in connection with conferences in which the United States participated last year. 21 Called in Graft Probe By Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., Jan. 26.—Two aldermen, three policemen and six women are among twenty-one persons called to testify Monday before the Lake County grand jury in a probe of alleged graft in the Hammond city administration.

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Acosta to Serve Five Days in Jail Violates Air Law by Low Flying in ‘Kidnaped’ Plane, Say Police. By United Press NAUGATUCK, Conn., Jan 26. Bert Acosta, famous aviator, was sentenced to five days in jail today when he was convicted of violating the State aerial traffic laws against low flying. Acosta appeared before Judge Frank Sears without counsel. He pleaded guilty and sentence was imposed immediately. Judge Sears also ordering the flier to pay court costs. The aviator did not appeal immediately and court officers understood he did not intend to do so. Acosta, who was a member of the Byrd flight to Paris and for years

one of the country's most noted fliers, was charged with violating C o nnecticut’s aerial traffic laws by flying too low over Naugatuck. He was arrested late last night and, unable to furnish SSOO bail, held for a hearing today. Witness told police Acosta had tried to fly under the Maple St. bridge and had endangered life by stunts over the city. Police said his plane was the same that disappeared from Teter-

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boro, N. J., on Monday after it had been attached in a civil suit. Despite his night spent at police headquarters, Acosta a former resident of Naugatuck, was in good humor when he appeared in court. He joked with newspaper men. Asked whether he expected to be sent to jail, he laughingly replied: “I guess they’re going to hang me.” Warned, Says Prosecutor Prosecuting Attorney Claremont I. Tolies told Judge Sears that Acosta previously had been warned against low flying and that there was no excuse for his actions of yesterday. Tolies pointed to the Connecticut law prohibiting aviators from flying over commmunities at an altitude of less than 2,000 feet except when landing or ascending. When the charge that he was attempting to fly under the bridge over the Naugatuck River was mentioned in court, Acosta said: "That charge is perfectly ridiculous. Flying under that bridge would have been impossible and it was perfectly obvious that I was not attempting to do any such thing. Tolies insisted that the flier, after being warned, had violated the State aircraft laws and argued that he should be punished according to the statutes. Judge Sorry, Too "I am sorry," Acosta said, “but of course I realize that an apology won’t do now'.” Judge Sears, in imposing sentence, remarked he also was sorry, but that there appeared no alternative. Acosta said the plane he was using when arrested was not one recently attached in New Jersey. “Reports that I came here merely to evade court action In New Jersev are absurd,” said Acosta. “I came here to visit friends.”

KLAN MASKS TO 60 Order to Abandon Visor Use After Feb. 22. Five Marion County Klaverns of the Ku-Klux Klan have received the official notice from national headquarters which forbids Klansmen to mask after Feb. 22. The order applies to all Ku-Klux Klansmen throughout the country. While the order will continue to wear the white robes and hoods the visors will not be pulled down. It means the abolition of membership secrecy, as hitherto masks were worn both at Klavern meetings and in parades and other public demonstrations, according to those who have heard the order read in Klan meetings. A 4,000 word statement regarding the order was issued by Dr. W. A. Hotalen, imperial lecturer and Klan evangelist of Birmingham. Ala. The action will signalize the abolition of secrecy and will be taken on Washington’s birthday, the day that all Klansmen receive the trio, or third degree, of the order, as provided in the constitution adopted at Atlanta, Ga., six years ago, Hotalen said. FLIVVER PLANE IN AIR Brooks Leaves South Carolina for Washington, D. C. By United Press SPARTANBURG. S. C., Jan. 26. The two-cylinder flivver plane piloted by Harry Brooks left here at 8:47 a. m. (E. S. TANARUS.) for Washington, D. C., a distance of 400 miles. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 15 10 a. m 14 7 a. m— 14 11 a. m— 16 8 a. m 13 12 (noon).. 17 9 a. m.... 13 1 p. 19

THOMPSON AID IS TARGET OF GANGES BOMB Chicago Vice-Mayor’s Home Wrecked by Explosion in New Outbreak. CITY GETS CHALLENGE Second Blast Perils Another Frfend of ‘Big Bill,’ Leader in Party. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 26.—Gangland, battling for its life, today declared war on the city of Chicago. That was the interpretation placed by police on the bombing shortly after midnight of 'the home of Charles C. Fitzmorris, city controller, second in rank to Mayor Thompson, and former police chief. A second bomb exploded early this morning between the home of Dr. William H. Reid, a power in the Thompson political machine, and John P. Allen, Thompson supporter and recent candidate for alderman, whose former home in another section of the city was bombed several months ago. The bomb might have been intended for either Reid or Allen, but police inclined to believe it was directed at Reid. No one was injured by the bombs. Furniture Is Damaged Fitzmorris’ home w r as partially demolished. The bomb, believed to have been thrown from a motor car, exploded on the porch, tearing away part of the foundation of the house. Windows were broken, furniture damages and fixtures torn away. Fitzmorris, Mrs. Fitzmorris and, their son, James, were in the house at the time. The bomb aimed at the* Reid home landed in the back yard of the Allen home. A fence between the two houses was torn down, and windows in the neighborhood broken. Dr. and Mrs. Reid were entertaining guests at the time. Crack investigators of the police department were turned on the hunt for the bombers today. Police were reticent about details, but' persons familiar with the affairs of Gangland saw great importance in the bombings. Gang Leaders Resentful Back of today's attack, they said, lies a long and confused trail of ' politics, gang influence and Chicago's growing self-consciousness, arising from the merciless sarcasm to which the affairs of Gangland has exposed the city. The gang leaders have observed the growing indications o£ their unpopularity, and have grown resentful. They have no intention of relinquishing a fertile source of wealth to civic pride. Today’s bombs w’ere interpreted as being Gangland’s warning that it will not quit without a fight. To have bombed Mayor Thompson’s home, it was pointed out, would have brought down too tremendous wrath upon the gangsters. Besides, it is guarded. So is that of Police Chief Michael Hughes. Home Unprotected But the home of Fitzmorris, whose controllership makes him vice-mayor, was unprotected, as were the residences of Reid and Allen. For months there has been an increasing belief that the city administration had set out definitely to get rid of the gangsters, the ban on gambling being tne main indication. At first, it was believed the gambling ban w r as temporary, but the gambling houses remained closed. The treasuries of the gangs grew empty. And it was noted that crime commissions and civic organizations had begun an active campaign of propaganda to establish Chicago as a city without more than its share of criminal activities.

HITS MIGHTY LOBBY Power Interests War Probe, Walsh Claims. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—The greatest lobby ever organized here is opposing investigation of the power industry, Senator Walsh (Dem.), Montana, charged today at the last hearing before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee on his resolution for such an inquiry. “I had hoped to conduct an impartial ivestigation bringing out the good as well as the bad facts, but the presence of this great power lobby has forced me into the role of prosecutor,” Walsh said. “It is plain to see that the good will be adequately cared for by the lobbyists.” Walsh said he is not opposed to big business, as such, but does oppose the trend toward monopoly in the public utilities field. He read several letters supporting his contention that Federal investigation of Ipower companies is needed. *

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It’s No Joke Uncle Sam Means to Go Through With War in Nicaragua.

BY MAX STERN Staff Correspondent Srripps-Howird Newspapers Managua. Jan. 26.—“Ei Tio Sam.” as your Uncle Samuel is called down here, means business in Nicaragua. The strafing expedition of United States Marines against the diehard rebel general, Sandino, may not be war, but it was all the martial aspects of a modern invasion. Three gunboats lie off Cor in to. From them, day and night, sweating natives unload provisions. Bugles sound at dawn over a score of camps, from Granada to Ocotal. Giant Fokker planes leave here twice daily w r ith officers and provisions for the front, doing in an hour what It takes oxcarts, the Nicaraguan common carrier, three days to do. Marines’ pack trains wind northward over dusty roads and perfumed mountain trails. From Ocotal bombing planes patrol the wild and wooded mountain slopes of El Chipote, Sandino’s former stronghold of tanglewood and caves, now occupied by United States forces. * * m SANDINO is playing a game with the dice loa< ?d against him. Believed to be wou ded and commanding scattered forces of guerillas, he has three choices: Escape, surrender or death. Apparently he realizes this, for friendly Honduran papers just have printed what purports to be the Sandino oath. “I swear by my country, my honor and my family.” each Rebel must vow, “to perish in this straggle, w’hich the dignity of citizenship demands.”

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Sheriff, However, Silent on Medlock Case. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. 26. An arrest in the Ellis A. Medlock murder case within the next few days was hinted as a possibility today, although Sheriff Vv. S. Curry refused to comment either on that point or on a newly advanced theory that Medlock was an accident victim. Tire sheriff has closely questioned Medlock’s widow and his parents regarding his bootleg liquor customers In the hope that a clew might be developed. The widow' has admitted that when her husband disappeared Jan. 13, he left home to deliver some whisky. Some citizens of Kirksville, near the Medlock farm home, are inclined to believe the man was an accident victim. They assert that on the night of Jan. 13 he was drunk and say he might have climbed into a tree, accidentally set his clothing afire and fell, striking a limb. This would account, they claim, for a wound on Medlock’s head. Those holding the accident theory assert Medlock had said Federal dry agents were on his trail and that he intended “to climb a tree” to elude them. They also say he stopped at home of several acquaintances the night of Jan. 13 and borrowed matches. URGES ROOD PLAN Davis Wants One-Man Control of Army Proposals. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Oneman leadership of Mississippi flood control and Federal loans to help States bear their share of such work were urged on the House Flood Control Committee today by Secretary of War Davis. Davis advocated adoption of the Army engineer plan as “simple, comprehensive and flexible.” Federal Government loans to States to meet their 20 per cent local contributions, as provided by the plan, would meet criticism now made on the grounds that levee districts are bankrupt, he said. Davis’ recommendation for oneman control would subordinate the Mississippi River Commission, which now' has large powers, and place control in the Army engineers under the War Department, or directly in the hands of Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, Army engineer chief, who came into controversy with the committee Wednesday. SET AIR MARK ATTEMPT Chamberlin Will Try Again Early Next Week to Break Record. RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 26.—Clarence D. Chamberlin and his co-pilot, Roger Williams, will make another attempt next week to break the world’s endurance flight record of 52 hours and 23 minutes. The flight will be made here, according to A. R. Martine, of New York, Chamberlin’s backer. Martine said Monday or Tuesday has been tentatively chosen for the takeoff. Richmond will offer better weather than New York, where Chamberlin made previous efforts to shatter the record, Martine believes.

PAPERS IN OIL CASE STOLEN, BURNSCHARGE Famous Detective Asserts His Rooms and Those of Aids Were Looted. REPORT WOMAN BEATEN Witness Slugged, Bound and Gagged, Letter Taken, Court Told. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—William J. Bums, famous detective charged today that his hotel room here and the rooms of many of his operatives have been rifled in the last few days. Burns said a document in connection with the Bums-Sinclair contempt trial was missing from his room. His statement followed announcement to the trial Judge that Mrs. Jeannette Lantz, 21, a defense witness, had been beaten, bound and gagged last night. The letter allegedly was stolen after Mrs. Lantz was beaten In her hotel room, concerned William J. McMullin, now on the stand in the trial. Charles A. Douglas, attorney for William J. Bums, related the attack to Justice Siddons in court at the opening of today's session, adding that he made no charges. Called Inappropriate United States Attorney Peyton Gordon objected that introduction of this information "was entirely inappropriate” and “near insinuation.” Justice Siddons said he assumed the police would handle any matter of a criminal attack and he had no doubt the courts would do their duty, but he would take no action. Douglas said the assault was made last night while Mrs. Lantz’s husband was at dinner. She was feeling ill, so Lantz went away, locking the room as he left. Someone entered. appa:ently with a pass key, Douglas said and immediately commenced striking her. She was taken to a hospital for treatment, but is understood to be in the hotel now. Burns detectivw witnesses in the present trial, said she would have strangled to death had the gags not been removed shortly after her husband found her lying between the twin beds in the room.

Called to Impugn McMullin Mrs. Lantz is one of several witnesses called, it is understood, to impugn the character of McMullin, who, w'hile serving as a Burns agent in shadowing Fall-Sinclalr trial jurors, kept the Government informed of his activities. She is the wife of a Milburn (Pa.) traffic officer. Washington police said no report of the asserted attack had been made to them and they would not investigate unless called on to do sc. Burns’ lawyers charged at the trial today that McMullin was a bigamist and perjurer. After getting him to admit he had been married three times, they charged he wed his second wife before his first wife divorced him. They also charged he swore to a false statement—that he had not been married before—in applying for license to marry his third wife. yHe married the first two women in San Antonio while he was in the army, they said. Subpoenas for Dozen Subpoenas for a dozen new witnesses in the Senate Public Lands Committee’s renewal of the Teapot Dome oil scandal investigation were issued today by David Barry, ser-geant-at-arms of the Senate. The witnesses are expected to appear when the committee resumes its hearing next Tuesday.. The new list of witnesses is understood to include Department of Justice officials who conducted an investigation of the $3,000,000 Liberty bond profits of the mysterious Continental Trading Company of Canada, organized by oil men for some purpose yet undisclosed. Harry F. Sinclair, the oil man charged with turning over $233,0Ct) in bonds to former Secretary of Interior A. B. Fall soon after Fall leased him the naval oil reserves, will not be called by the committee for the present. FAVOR FARM NOMINEES Senate Committee Reports Favorably on Coollidge’s Choice. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—President Coolidge’s nominations of three members of the Federal Farm Loan Board were ordered favorably reported to the Senate today by the Senate Banking and Currency Committee. The committee vote was 10 to 4. The nominees are Eugene Meyer, George H. Cooksey and Floyd H. Harrison. $5 Month for 12 Years; Sues By United Pfess BROOKLYN, Jan. 26.—Claiming that she served twelve years and got an average salary of only $5 a month, Mrs. Mary Devlin, nurse to Dr. Mary C. Sparr, noted woman physician, has sued her estates for $10,500.

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Mrs. Helen M. Basora A BROKEN butterfly who may never dance again—and very glad of it. This is Mrs. Helen M. Basora of Chicago, former Ziegfeld Follies dancer, w’hose broken leg is mending at the home of her sister, Miss Dana Quinn. 1433 N. Pennsylvania St. She suffered a compound fracture of her left leg and a break of one arm when the automobile she was driving to St. Louis to fill an engagement crashed through two fences and a tree at Pocahontas, 111. “Sorry that I can't dance!” she exclaimed. “I should say not. I’m delighted and so is my husband. Every one is so lovely to me that I have enjoyed the eight weeks off my feet. I’ve danced enough, anyway.” Mrs. Basora left the Follies last March after a career of five years.

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TRACK DELAY IS LAID TO POLITICS Engineer Doubts South Side Elevation This Year. The long delay in the elevation of the Belt railroad on the south side is result of the present tangle in local politics, according to T. R. Ratcliff, chief engineer of the Indianapolis Union Railway Company, who spoke to the Indiana Engineering Society convention at the Lincoln today. “It looks as if no work will be done this year,” said Ratcliff. "Contractors naturally are hesitant about making city contracts when there is a question of them being legal.’ ' The Indianapolis Union Railway Company has completed the design o fa bridge to carry the elevated tracks over White River and will let the contract as soon as the city has completed the work of changing the White River channel, he said. Louis W. Brack, Herschel Wray, South Bend city engineer; Warren Howland, PUrdue University; R. E. Mills of the Purdue experimental station, and Lewis S. Finch, local engineer, also spoke at today’s sessions. Col. George B. Pillsbury, U. S. A. of Detroit, will address the annual abnquet this evening on “Flood Control of the Mississippi River.” COOUDGE TO BE GUEST President to Be Visitor at Annapolis Celebration in May. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—President Coolidge today accepted an invitation to attend a celebration May 15 at St. John’s College, Annapolis, Md., in commemoration of the Annapolis convention of 1786, according to Senator Brace of Maryland. The Annapolis convention is considered by historians to have conceived the American Constitution. Governors of the thirteen original States also are expected to attend. FRENCH CONTINUE DASH Trans-Atlantic Fliers Off to Guatemala From Panama. By United Press COLON, Can&l Zone, Jan. 26. Dieudonne Costests and Joseph Le Brix, French trans-Atlantic aviators, left from France field at 6:45 a. m. today for Guatemala, continuing their Central American tour.

Seek ‘Avenging Phantom/ Believed by Police to Be Lunatic. Police today added a man they believe is a lunatic to the list of queer marauders they are seeking. A man who left a death note at a door step was the latest to join the ranks of the "Mournful Bandit” and the “stripper bandit” who have engaged the attention of police for a few weeks. Someone knocked on the door of Roy Macey, 5502 N. Delaware St., Wednesday night. Miss Ethel Wilson, nurse, went to the door. She found this note ip the porch: “Beware: Death lurks at your door. Tonite you shall witness the power of the Invisible Realm. (Signed) Tire Avenging Phantom.” The note bore a crude drawing of daggers and was stained either with blood or red ink. About thirty minutes after the note was left there was another knock on the door. Miss Wilson did not answer. Two hours later Macey was in the garage at the rear of his house. A youth came up the alley and asked him if he knew a peculiar looking man had just passed. The youth said the man had followed him for several blocks. Searching the neighborhood, Macey saw a man he believed might have been the prowler at FiftyFourth St. and Washington Blvd. The man disappeared before Macey could scrutinize him. HITCHCOCK CANDIDATE Former Nebraska Senator to Stay in Democratic Race. By United Press OMAHA, Jan. 26.—Former Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock said today he will remain a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, respite the withdrawal of former Governor Charles W. Bryan from the race for the State’s indorsement. Bryan’s withdrawal and Hitchcock’s action in permitting his name to remain on the primary ballot were regarded as indicating that the long standing breach between the Bryan and Hitchcock forces had been healed. PICK LINCOLN "SPEAKER Former Ohio School Chief Will Address Memorial Dinner. Oscar T. Corson, former Ohio State superintendent of public instruction, will speak at a dinner of the Indians Lincoln Memorial Association at the Lincoln Feb. 10 In an early celebration of Lincoln's birthday. His subject will be “Abraham Lincoln—His Words and Deeds.” Reservations may be made with H. W. Glossbrenner, 4037 Guilford Ave.

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SELECTION OF HICKMAN CASE lURY STARTED Defense Loses Two Tilts at Session Opening; Judge Refuses Change. YOUTH SITS UNMOVED Mention of Death Penalty Brings Only Sign of - His Agitation. By DAN CAMPBELL United Press Staff Correspondent COURTROOM, LOS ANGELES. Jan. 26.—The fight over selection of a jury to* hear the trial of William Edward Hickman for the murder of Marion Parker began before Judge J. J. Trabucco in Superior Court here today. Jerome Walsh, chief defense attorney, lost two tilts in preliminary motions before the questioning of prospective jurors W’as started. Most of those examined at the start had formed definite opinions on the case. The jury’s sole duty will be to determine whether Hickman is sane and can be sent tc the gallows for the crime Judge Refuses Change If he is found insane, he will be sent to a hospital for the criminally insane. Judge Trabucco overruled an objection to Iris presiding at the trial on the grounds of prejudice—-the same objection w’hich caused Judge Carlos Hardy to withdraw yester* day. Judge Trabucco also refused to admit Walsh’s objection to the statement of District .Attorney Asa Keyes that Hickman, by entering a plea of not guilty on the grounds of insanity, had admitted he committed the crime. The jury box then was filled with twelve prospective jurors and opposing attorneys began questioning them. Four of the twelve first called to the Jury box were women. It was indicated early in the proceedings that the selection of a jury probably would be a long drawn out task.

“Death Penalty” Stirs Youth The defense fought every step of the way to gain advantages for the youthful criminal. Hickman sat unmoved during the initial clash over the jury. Only when the words "death penalty ’ were repeated in the argument did he show interest. Then he appeared to slouch deeper in his chair. Excitement again spread through the Hall of Justice as Hickman was led from the jail to the courtroom. He appeared more self-possessed than he did yesterday. There was a terrific jam in the corridors just outside the room where Hickman’s fate will be decided, and policemen battled with the crowd to hold it in check. One aged man fainted after stnding in line for hours, in the hope of getting one of the'few seats available for the public. Keyes Reads Indictment Asa Keyes, district attorney, read the indictment against Hickman. It charged him with abducting Marion Parker from the school she was attending, holding her a prisoner for two days while demanding ransom from her father, and then murdering her and dismembering her body. Hickman listened to the reading of the indictment with no change of expression on his pale face. A statement from Keyes that Hickman automatically had admitted the crime by entering a plea of not guilty on the grounds of insanity brought objection from Walsh The objection was overruled without hesitation. A. J. Bell, prospective Juror, who said he seldom read newspaper editorials, was questioned at great length by Walsh. Walsh read a long list of questions covering the grounds of prejudice and his degree of interest in the case. Bell said he had followed the case only casually in the newspapers. He had formed no opinion as to Hickman’s guilt or innocence, he said. At no time had he even discussed the case with anyone but his wife, Bell said. At the conclusion of the questioning the juror was challenged for cause and Judge Trabucco overruled the challenge. FREE WOMEN IN DEATHS Chicago Juries Acquit Two on Charges of Murder, By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 26.—Two women were acquitted of homicide charges here Wednesday. Mrs. Rose Franks, charged with killing her common law husband, Paul Emerich policeman, because he abused her, was found not guilty by a jury after 15 minutes deliberation. Mrs. Mary Cernick was acquitted of beating Mrs. Theresa Shubat to death with a stove shaker. Cheap Book Pays Dividends By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—William B. Given bought an old dictionary for 15 cents in a second-hand bookshop. Glued between two pages he found one $5 go*4 piece and a rare $3 coj.n, both minted before the Civil War.