Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 72, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1928 — Page 14

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NEGRO ADMITS GUILT, GLEARS, DEATHPUZZLE Bootblack Says He Murdered Teacher to Rob; Watch Furnishes Clew. Dii United Press EVANSTON, 111., Aug. 14.—A complete confession to the murder of Miss Jennie Constance, 42-year-old postgraduate student of Northwestern University, was in the hands of Evanston police today. David Shanks, Negro bootblack, admitted killing the woman because the tips he received at his shining stand did not furnish him enough money, and he resorted to robbery. His arrest Monday night ended a search which had engaged citizens and police of this fashionable Chicago suburb for a week. A small bit of black ribbon with two gold clasps provided the slender clew by which the murder was solved. It was the band of a wrist watch worn by Miss Constance on the night she as beaten to death with an iron pipe as she was returning from the universitly library. Virtually every other clew in possession of detectives had turned out to be worthless. It appeared doubtful Monday if the crime, which had filled residents and' students of the small university city with consternation, ever could be traced. Chief Finds Ribbon Asa final resort, Police Chief William O. Freeman made a personal inspection of the murder scene and found the small black band. It ostensibly had been torn away from the watch and thrown carelessly to the ground. Relatives of Miss Constance identified it as hers and gave Chief Freeman a description of the watch. “Sooner or later it will turn up in a jewelry or pawnshop,” the chief said. Monday a 19-year-old youth entered an Evanston jewelry establishment and asked the watchmaker to change the initials on a wrist watch from “J. M. C.” to “L. T. B.” When he returned for it later in the day he was confronted by five detectives with drawn revolvers. Youth Admits Crime The youth, Lebert Bastian, told them he had bought the watch from a Negro who worked in his father’s shine parlor. Shanks was arrested immediately and admitted his guilt as soon as he was confronted with the evidence. “I needed money,” he said. “I’ve never made more than $8 a week here.” The circumstances of the murder had indicated it was committed by i a moron, but Shanks denied he had attacked the woman after killing her. The Negro was illiterate and had come here a few years ago from North Carolina, he said. Rewards Total §2,000 Miss Constance was head of the English department at the Bradley Polytechnic Institute of Peoria, 111. She was studying at the university summer school for a doctor of philosophy degree. Evanston citizens and President Walter Dill Scott of the university had offered rewards totaling $2,000 for the arrest and conviction of the slayer. CLOSE COUNTY OFFICES Employes Given Half Holiday for Annual Outing Wednesday. A half holiday Wednesday for county employes to attend the seventh annual county picnic at Broad Ripple Park was declared oday by the county commissioners. . The outing will start at 10 o’clock, most of the officials being required to stay at the Courthouse until after noon. The offices will be closed at noon, Central Standard Time, on which official business of the commissioners is transacted. Under the direction of Road Superintendent Luther E. Tex, a program of picnic contests and games has been arranged. Former Indiana Man Killed By Times Special BEDFORD, Ind., Aug. 14.—Word has been received here of the death by accidental electrocution of Wayne Lackey, 36, in Texas. He formerly resided in Lawrence County. His father, Eldridge Lackey, now living in Green County, will go to Texas to accompany the body back to Indiana for burial.

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AL’S FOE SEEKS TO BANLIQUOR Dr. Straton Told Church ln: Is Selling Whisky. By United Press Wbk GREENWOOD LAKE. N. 14—Dr. John Roach Straton, who has accepted the challenge of Governor Smith to debate on Straton’s charges that the Governor is a foe of moral progress today considered means of enforcing the prohibition law on church property he recently purchased. He was informed he said, that a bottle of whisky had been purchased at the Sterling Forest Hotel, which is on the property Dr. Straton purchased for the Greenwood Lake Christian Assembly. He had insisted to William Hecht, lessee of the hotel, that liquor and card playing be banned in the hotel. After hearing of the liquor selling charge, Dr. Straton went to Lloyd Seaman, a justice of the peace, who said he could do nothing inasmuch as the hotel was outside his jurisdiction. Then Sheriff Charles McCoach was advised and he told the New York pastor that the evidence would have to be submitted to a regular justice of peace at Warwick. Nothing further was accomplished overnight, but Straton insisted he would take action. Foe of Coolidge Hunted By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. 14. Northern Indiana is being search today for Albert Anderson, 54, as a result of his escape from the State Hospital for the Insane at Logansport, where he was committed after writing a letter to President Coolidge, threatening his life. Anderson escaped from the institution Saturday.

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START V. F. W. DRIVE Name 19 Committees to Canvas for Funds. Nineteen special committees were organized Monday to canvas business groups of Indianapolis in an effort to raise the balance of the $12,500 budget for the twenty-ninth annual national encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars here Aug. 26 to Sept. 1, at a noon luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce. Robert H. Bryson, chairman of the fund committee, and C. E. Durnell, vies chairman, report $6,000 received. The Monday meeting was called by Mayor L. Ert Slack, and Walter T. White presided. Governor Ed Jackson gave $3,000 from his contingent fund and the women’s auxiliaries and local posts gave $1,350, it was reported. The Republican State committee sent $200; Irving W. Lemaux, $100; mail contributions, $230; Hook Drug Company, $100; George J. Marott, $500; Louis Borinstein, $100; Jacob Wolf, SIOO, and theaters sent $350 as part of their contribution.

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FORMER CITY WOMAN SCORED IN BIGAMY SUIT Charges of Common Law Marriage Dismissed in N. Y. Court. Bigamy charges pressed against a New York man by Mrs. Pearl Sommer, former Indianapolis woman, were dismissed and scored as “nothing but a shakedown and an attempt at blackmail” by a magistrate in Tombs Court, New York City, advices from that city related today. A native of Indianapolis, where her parents and a daughter reside, Mrs. Sommer was the wife of Allen Sommer, 904 * Udell St., until Sommer won a divorce last January. They had been married ten years. Before their marriage Mrs. Sommer was the wife of Sherman Hayes, also of Indianapolis. William J. Nunnery, board of transportation inspector, New York, was the man with whom Mrs. Sommer alleged she lived as common law wife from March, 1925, two years after she left her husband here, until June 30, 1928. Brandishes Horsewhip Nunnery married a Miss Dorothy M„ Feitz at New York July 2 this year. Shortly afterward, Mrs. Sommer gained access to the newlyweds’ home in Queers, brandished a horsewhip at Mrs. Nunnery and wrecked part of the furniture. She was taken to the Long Island City Court charged with malicious mischief, but was dismissed. Then promptly followed the bigamy suit, Mrs. Sommer claiming to pe Nunnery’s common law wife. It was the first case of its kind in the New York City courts. Judge Scores Woman At the hearing before Magistrate Hyman Bushel, Mrs. Sommers, clad in a stunning costume of scarlet, marshalled a number of witnesses who swore that she had been introduced as Nunnery's wife. After a week’s consideration. Magistrate Bushel denounced Mrs. Sommers, declaring he no more believed she was the common-law’-wife of Nunnery than she was "of the King of Persia.” He told her, dispatches said, that she should consider herself lucky she was not charged with bigamy herself, on her own testimony. Charges Blackmail Plot “In the language of the street," the magistrate added, “this is nothing but a shakedown and an attempt at blackmail." Mrs. Sommer’s admission she was married ten years ago and that the marriage was hot dissolved until last January rendered her a bigamist herself, if the charges against Nunnery were true, the court pointed out before dismissing the charges. SEEK PADLOCK ORDERS Five Liquor Suits Filed by Attorneys for S2OO Fees. Liquor padlock orders for a year are asked in five suits on file in Superior Courts today. Defendants are Mrs. Benny Roland, 1240 Barrow St.; Finis Wagner, 1210 E. Fifteenth St.; Prudie Moore, 1674 Northwestern Ave.; Ed Early, 1426 Yankes St., and Clifford Jackson, 1438 Mills St. Suits were brought by Paul E. Rhoadarmer and Will S. Sparks, attorneys, asking S2OO attorneys’ fees in each case.

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$5 Tomato By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Aug. 14. Chester Peale has paid for a $5 tomato. He hurled the tomato at an auto occupied by Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Bowers, Sharpsville, and a dress worn by Mrs. Bowers was spattered. Peale paid the $5 as damages.

FEDERAL WHISKY LAW Officials Ask to Distill More for Use Five Years Hence. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Even the Government’s supply of medicinal whisky is getting scarce. Officials- estimate that there is only five years’ supply at present, and are asking for permission to distill more in order to age the product before it is sold. Running Board Rider Killed By Times Special EAST CHICAGO, Ind., Aug. 14. Phillip Zieliski, 23, was killed when thrown from the running board of a car driven by Vincent Rafalski, against another machine. Rafalski was arrested.

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