Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1928 — Page 21

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[WIFE DOUBTS ■ MISSING MATE |U$ INSTREAM ||? Husband, Silent for Years, Has 'Run r Away.’ BT ROBERT BEARD Silence may be golden, but two years cf it across the table from the man you wash shirts for does not lead to domestic bliss, thinks Mrs. Sarah Wood, R. R. 0, Box 548, near Edgewood. Mrs. Wood, mother of eleven and with thirty-three years of married life behind her, pondered on these things today while she and police wondered, dubiously* if her husband, Gilbert L. Wood, 50, really did Commit suicide Thursday. A note in his clothes found on the Illinois Central bridge over the White river said Wood ended his life in the river because of domestic difficulties. “We had them all right,’’ Mrs. Wood admitted, “but I don’t think Gilbert took his life. I can’t help but think he has run away from me and the children.” On her complaint, Wood twice was summoned into court for nonipupport* once bringing a number of witnesses to testify to his good character and habits. He left home Tuesday morning. “He hadn’t spoken a word to me in two years, except to cuss and rag me once in a while,” said Mrs. Wood. “I talked to him, but he wouldn’t answer. If he had anything to say to me he’d tell one of the children to tell me. When he’d give us $2 or $3 sometimes, he’d hand it to ahem to hand to me. L “Christmas, when the children! I'ere home—five of the eight living! lire married, you know—l tried so

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hard to make up. I even played checkers with him, but still he wouldn’t talk.” “How did you know when it was your move?” she was asked. “I had to watch him,’ Mrs. Wood replied. That wasn’t the only watching Mrs. Wood did. Watching the contents of his pockets, she ran across a letter which leds her to believe her husband may have joined a carnival company with which he travelled nine years ago. Recently he built a tourist cabin on his car. The auto also is missing. Once there was a woman’s picture, but a wifely query brought the explanation he had picked it out of some trash at the shop. Mother and children are picking peas and doing washing to keep something in the cupboard. Police, for the time being have changed

their mind about dragging the river. - The uncertainty of her husband’s fate is what worried Mrs. Wood. “I’d rather know he was drowned,” she said, “than to live and wonder what’s happened to him. “He used to be jealous about me, and I guess I was about him, but after a couple’s got to be 50, been married thirty-three years and had eleven children, it’s no time for either one of us to be gaddin’ around, nor committing suicide, either." * Mexican Bandits Repeat Attack Bu United Pre MEXICO CITY, June 29.—Eandits have attacked the town of Salamanca, in Guanajuato State, for the third time within the last few months, a dispatch to the newspaper Grafico said today.

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GEAR SHIFTING ELIMINATED BY NEWJNVENTION Device Also Automatically Changes Speeds; Controlled by Throttle. By Science Service QUEBEC, June 29.—A new transmission for automobiles tfiat eliminates shifting of gears and auto-matically-changes speeds was described to the .Society of Automotive Engineers here today by its inventor. D. Sensaud de Lavaud, a French engineer. Automobiles operating on the streets of Paris fitted with this new transmission have convinced M. de Lavaud that his device is not only 'sound technically, but can be applied commercially to motor vehicles. Development of the transmission has required seven years. Because with ordinary gear shift cars, the driver never operates continuously at the most efficient relation between speed of engine and wheels, M. de Lavaud claimed that the automatic transmission will increase the average speed possible and effect a fuel saving of more

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