Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 312, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1928 — Page 3

APRIL 26, 1928.

WHIPPING POSTS FOR INDIANA URGED BY GRAND JURORS

ADVOCATE LASH AS CRIME CURB; ONE ISOPPOSED Beatings Recommended for Deserters of Wives and Children. NO, IS COLLINS’ VIEW Punishment Certainty Is More Desirable Than Severity, He Says. BY MORRIS P. MOORE The Marion County grand jury went on record today unofficially as favoring a return of the old-time whipping posts—as a crime preventive. Five of the six members of the inquisitorial body told newspaper men they favor such method of punishment, particularly for wife beaters, wife and child deserters and for the younger criminals of a more serious nature. It all started—this outburst of the five—when someone found a clipping from a Delaware newspaper setting out views of leading jurists and officials of that State defending the whipping post as now used. Only One Against Foreman E. .7. Gausepohl, 2363 Broadway, and Harry Cross, 5335 Ohmer Ave., took the lead, while the one who is against such corporal punishment is George S. Cottman, 336 N. Ritter Ave. James E. Fisher, 18 E. Fortieth St., sides with Gausepohl and Cross rather vociferously, while John S. Ellenberger, R. R. H., and James W. Haworth, R. R. 0.. the two remaining members, nodded silent acquiescence. “The fear of the thing we must instill,” said Cross. “We have about sixty wife desertion cases here a week,” added Deputy Prosecutor William H. Shaeffer. Costly to State “We can indict, have them arrested. and the court can exact a promise that they'll pay up, but they skip again. The county does not have the funds to chase down each one. “They can seek refuge in neighboring States and it would cost Indiana from SSO to SIOO each to return them here. “When they are placed in jail, certainly they can not pay, and while there, the families suffer even more.” “A good, sound lashing, inflicted not in public view, but in the recesses of the jail, would go far to minimize such cases. It does no good to put them in jail. They would fear the stinging tips of a long whip.” Called Dark Ages Relic Cottman differed with the other five, seeing the whipping post as a revival of “a brutal sort of punishment that failed in the dark ages.” “Hard labor would be far better, as a deterrent to crime,” he said. Criminal Judge James A. Collins also differed with the grand jury. “Certainty of punishment, rather than severity, is needed. Speedy trials rather than corporal punishment will deter crime.” Collins said. “The whipping post in Indiana would be a step backward in our civilization." Such a drastic change in the criminal code would necessitate action by the legislature. Mrs. Ethel Simons, 736 Bosart Ave., former president of the Kendall Dramatic Club, has been appointed director of women's activities of the Independent Voters' League, of which William A. Boyce, Jr., city clerk, is president.

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DESERTED HUSBAND ILL Mrs. Norma O’Connor Still Is Missing From Home Relatives of Mrs. Norma O'Connor, 32, of 626 E. Sixty-Third St., who disappeared from her home April 15. today asked that word her husband J. B. O'Connor is dangerously ill be broadcast in the hope she will hear of it and return. ORDERED ON BALLOT Three Precinct Candidates Win Court Fight. Names of three candidates for precinct committeemen, stricken from the lists by the county election board, were ordered back on the ballots today by Superior Judge Byron K.. Elliott in a ruling on suit brought by five candidates. Judge Elliott held that they filed in good faith in the precincts in which they thought they lived, and that their correct addresses were given. The three whose names go back on the ballot are Jesse A. Evans, 1324 N. Olney. Seventeenth precinct. First ward; William L. Jones. 1240 N. Oxford, Sixteenth precinct, First ward, and Charles L. Roush, 1520 Brcokside Ave., Thirteenth precinct. First ward. The two whose names will not appear on the ballot an Clyde Rickes. 842 E. Dr.. Woodruff Place. Twenty-second precinct. Ninth ward, and George L. Stivers, 1725 N. Oxford, Eighteenth., precinct, First ward. New Decatur County Map ft if tinted Pnsff GREENSBURG, Ind.. April 26. Stanton Guthrie, county surveyor, and Robert L. Meek, city engineer, are at work on anew map of Decatur County which will replace the old chart made in 1916. The new map will show new' roads and farms in addition to towns, streams and railroads not showm on the old one.

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NEW‘MANAGER LEAGUE INC.' IS SUED FDR NAME Original Group Seeks to Enjoin Organization's Use of Title. Suit to enjoin the newly-organized "City Manager League, Inc.” from the use of that name to "deceive, confuse and mislead” the public, was filed in Superior Court today by the Indianapolis City Manager League, the original organization supporting the city manager movement here. The complaint for injunction was filed by Claude 11. Anderson, executive secretary for the Indianapolis City Manager League in behalf of Frank E. Gates, league treasurer, and all members of the original league. Allege Fraud, Deceit The complaint sets out that the Indianapolis City Manager League was organized in July, 1927. “for the purpose of obtaining non-par-tisan. honest and efficient municipal administration for the city of Indianapolis by the establishment, of the city manager plan of municipal government." The City Manager League, Inc., says the complaint, was incorporated April 17, 1928. with the ‘sole purpose of fraudulently deceiving and misleading the voters . . . for the purpose of appropriating and I using to its own advantage the good name and reputation, prestige : and influence of these plaintiffs.”

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