Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 122, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1928 — Page 2

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‘FOR LOVE'S NEAR DEATH IN JAIL Youth Who Delivered Body of Girl to Police After Stabbing May Die. B V United Press 'KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 11.—A youth who stabbed his fiancee to death ‘‘because he loved her,” Wednesday, made a spectacular attempt to join her in death by dashing his head on a tile floor in the police station, and today his condition was repeated as dangerous. Glenn Jenkins, 20, was the S3O a month waiter who took the life of Miss Marie Young, 21, because of his intense love for her and probably because of his disappointment at not being financially able to marry her. The two had planned to marry Aug. 15, but the nuptials were postponed because of lack of funds. Expected to Die Doctors held little hope for Jenkins as he had fractured his skull in leaping from a second tier of cells, eighteen feet to a tile floor below. This was his second attempt at suicide for just prior to entering the police station Wednesday to tell them the dead body of his sweet-

heart was in his automobile, he swallowed some iodine. But the poison was not effective. Before his second attempt at suicide, police officers gathered part of the story of the tragedy from Jenkins. Jenkins told of making a date with Marie, whom he had known for more than a year. Then he went to a dime store and purchased a butcher knife with which he planned to stab her to death. On his way to see Marie the night before he bought iodine and a half pint of corn whisky. ‘‘Whisky always makes me crazy and I wanted to be crazy when I saw Marie,” Jenkins said. i Planned Death Scenes Half drunk, he met her and they went for the fatal ride. After driving for some distance, he plunged the knife into her abdomen. She cried out, urging him to take her to a doctor and asking him why he did not kill himself also. He -stabbed her several times, the last time just above the heart as he neared the police station where he gave himself up. In questioning the youth today, police learned the two had rehearsed murder scenes, which were suggested by the girl. ‘‘She always wanted me to kill her and then kill myself,” the loveslayer said. "About two months ago we sas a movie in which a girl died of poison. Marie said she would not want to die that way. She said she would rather be choked to death, and at times we would play around the house and I would choke her, just in fun and she would tell me she would not mind that way."

GIRL DREAMS BURGLAR; POLICE RUSH TO HELP “Victim” Seized by Foot; Search Reveals Nothing:. Police Lieut. Ralph Dean is going to buy a book on the psychology of dreams. For in the course of other police duties Wednesday night, Lieutenant Dean was called upon to rout a dream burglar. The dream burglar entered the room of Miss Clarice Overstreet, 3301 E. Twenty-Fifth St. He seized her foot. She screamed. Others in the house awoke and rushed to her aid. They called police. Lientenant Dean and his emergency squad sped to the scene. With drawn revolvers they posted themselves to seize the desperate criminal. “Where’s the burglar?” asked Dean. “Why he was here,” said Miss Overstreet. The windows in the room were closed. There was no way anyone might have entered. Dean realized he needed a dream book. “Yes, it must have been a dream,” admitted Miss Overstreet.

ORAL ARGUMENTS IN GAMING CASE HEARD Judge to Rule Tuesday on Felony Quash. Oral arguments on motions to quash indictments against Solly Epstein, Harry Burton, Joey Jacobs and Ray (Railroad) Smith, were begun this morning before Criminal Judge James A. Collins. The quartet was indicted for conspiracy to commit a felony after they are alleged to have substituted prisoners at the trial of persons arrested by police In a gambling raid on a place said to have been operated by Epstein. Judge Collins will announce his decision Tuesday. BURGLARS LOOT SALOON Burglars broke into the N. Neveleff dry beer saloon, 942 Ft. Wayne Ave., t irly today, ransacked the place nd took a bag of money from Its hiding place. Gerald Fulkerson, 1105 N. Pennsylvania St., discovered the robbery, but was unable to tell how much money was in the bag.

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A burning match—an ignited dress—death. Helen Sebern, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Sebern, 445 N. Gray St., died Tuesday afternoon from burns she received when she tried to hold a burning match too long. She dropped the match when it burnt her fingers, it lighted on her dress, and her clothing soon was in flames. Helen Kurrasch, 7, daughter of Detective and Mrs. George Kurrasch, 3109 E. Michigan St., who was playing with Helena, was ourned severely on the hands when she tried to beat out the flames. Helena is an only child. She attended No. 3 school.

LESLIE DUMPS ‘DEADWEIGHTS' Blames Both Parties for ‘Stephensorfism.’ Bp Times Special HUNTINGTON, Ind., Oct. 11.— Continuing his effort to unload deadweights which have impeded his candidacy, Harry G. Leslie, Republican nominee for Governor, in an address here Wednesday night, blamed Democrats as well as Republicans for the "bipartisan Stephensonism” which showed itself in the 1925 general assembly. “It was back of the Board of Education bill which I refused to hand down for passage in 1927,” he said. “It was behind the attack on the State highway department and sought to put that department into politics. It was the thing I denounced as speaker in 1925 when I drove its agents out of the House of Representatives.” It was D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Ku-Klux Klan, who went to Dayton, 0., rounded up the fliteen Democratic State senators whose departure stopped the legislature and blocked important legislation and induced them to return, Leslie declared. The Republican nominee’s speech boded ill for Stephenson’s chances of obtaining release from Indiana State prison by pardon, if Leslie is elected. "If I have anything to say about it,” Leslie declared, “and ; l believe I will, Stephenson will stay where he now is for the duration of his sentence.”

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POWER PRIMERS IN SCHOOLS GOT OFFICIALS’ 0. K. U. S. Probe Reveals State Chief in Washington Paid for Services. BY CECIL OWEN, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Distribution of power industry pamphlets in the schools of Washington and Oregon with the approval of State school superintendents, was disclosed today in the Federal Trade Commission’s utility investigation. Payments of $l5O in $1927 to Mrs. Josephine Carliss Preston, then superintendent of public instruction in Washington, for aid in editing utilities pamphlets were revealed in testimony of Mrs. Clare K. Tripp, director of the Washington Industries Education Bureau. In Oregon, the pamphlets were indorsed by State Superintendent Charles Howard, Mrs. Tripp testified. Howard recommended to the schools the use of the pamphlets for classroom instruction after having them examined by school superintendents. The pamphlets, which Mrs. Tripp estimated reached a total of 50,000 high school students in the two States, were written by Norwood W. Brockett, publicity man for the Puget Sound Power and Light Company of Seattle, Mrs. Tripp admitted, though she was given as author on the cover of the pamphlet. TRETTON FUNERAL SET Widow Will Be Burled Saturday After Church Services. Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Trettton, 79, who died Wednesday at the home of hen daughter, Mrs. James F. Lynch, 415 N. Arsenal Ave., will be held Saturday at 9 a. m. at Holy Cross Catholic Church. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery. She was the mother of James P. Tretton, Indianapolis Street Railway Company superintendent. Mrs. Tretton was born in. County Kerry, Ireland, coming to Indianapolis at the age of 13. She was married five years later to James Tretton who died in 1900. Three other daughters, Mrs. John J. Mahoney, Mrs. J. A. Mahoney, Mrs. John F. Connor, survive.

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Body of Robber Shot by Former Sheriff Is Unclaimed. Bn Times Special CHARLOTTESVILLE, Ind., Oct. 11.—A grave in Six-Mile cemetery near here today holds the body of a man believed to be Herman Steele, Newport, Ky., who, with Dewey Colvin, also a Kentuckian, was slain on the National Rd. a short distance from here a week ago by Newman Guy, former Sullivan County sheriff. Relatives of Colvin claimed his body and took it <b Kentucky for burial, but no one showed any interest in disposal of the other body, and its burial was directed by Hancock County authorities. The double slaying resulted when the men slain and another who fled tried to steal Guy’s auto and force him to accompany them in transporting alcohol. A car the three had used was put out of commission when its gears were stripped. It is unclaimed in a local garage. RETURN SUSPECT HERE Lafayette Youth to Be Charged With Auto Theft. Herbert Blue, 18, of Lafayette, Ind., was to be brought here today to face a vehicle taking charge in connection with the theft of the automobile here Saturday night in which Marshall Bedford, Lafayette, was seriously Injured when tt crashed Into a tree on Morris St. road west of the city* early Sunday. Blue, arrested at Lafayette Wednesday night, was said to be riding with Bedford and disappeared after the crash. Bedford still is in a serious condition at the Methodist Hospital with a fractured skull. CUTS THROAT; DIES Bn United Press GREENWICH, Conn., Oct. 11.— Mrs. Anna Moore Flynn, mother of Morris B. (Lefty) Flynn, movie actor and former Yale football star, killed herself by slashing her wrists and throat with a razor in her home here Wednesday night, police announced today.

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Jesse f s In Bn United Press KENDALLVILLE, Ind., Oct. 11.—Jesse James, who claims to be a relative of the famous bandit of half a century ago, was sentenced to from one-to-ten years in the State prison at Michigan City in Judge Biggs’ court when he pleaded guilty to stealing tires, tubes, a dog, a gun and other articles from a garage west of here. James fled to Illinois, where he was apprehended several weeks ago. \ 7

STATE'S HOME OWNERS LEGION State Banking Commissioner Addresses Parley. Indiana has approximately 340,000 home owners out of a population of 3,000,000, Luther Symons, State banking commissioner today told members of the Indiana Savings and Loan League assembled at the Hotel Lincoln for their thirty-eighth annual convention. According to building and loan association, 42 per cent of the homes in Indianapolis are owned by families living in them; and 55 per cent of the persons in Indiana own their own homes. Ft. Wayne has the largest percentage of home owners with more than 80 per cent. In ten of the largest cities of the State having a total population of 1,000,000 there are 200,000 homes and 66,000 are owned by the families occupying them, Symons said. JIG’S NOT UP YET Ho hum. And still the marathon dance goes on. Twelve couples still were trudging wearily about the Tomlinson Hall dance floor at noon today, the 183d hour of the sleep-cheating endurance contest. Grimly desperately, the “hoofers” are keeping on their feet now. There is little dancing done, but the crowds don’t seem to mind.

WORLD-WIDE ' CHURCH UNITY DRiVEJRGED Report to Episcopal Parley Stresses Desirability of Union. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Renewed efforts toward world-wide unification of all'Christian churches were urged in the Episcopal joint commission on faith and order report presented to the house of deputies at the general convention here, it was revealed today. The report urges that churches continue to operate as individual units but agree on a basic principle of general belief. The report was sponsored by Bishop Brent of western New York, who presided at the Lausanne world conference a year ago. The commission recommended the 100 different churches, which participated in the conference, be notified that the Episcopal church believes in the continuance of efforts to establish Christian unity and other denominations be advised the Episcopalians would be willing to participate in another world convention. The house of deputies started immediate work on prayer book revision. A committee of 20 Protestant Episcopal bishops headed by Bishop Page of Michigan, met Wednesday night to discuss the divorce evil before presenting their report to the general convention. RESTAURANT OWNER IS FINED FOLLOWING RAID Alva Ritter, 37, proprietor of a restaurant at 546 S. West St., was fined SIOO and given a suspended 30-day jail sentence on a liquor law violation charge in municipal court this morning. His restaurant was raided recently by police and Federal agents who did not have a search warrant. The raiders asserted they had seen the prohibition law violated, and Judge Pro Tern. Charles Karabell ruled the search was legal. Sara Richardson, an employe at the restaurant, also was fined SIOO.

Dry Brother Tennesseeans Held at Muncie With Liquor for’ Kinsman. 0

MUNCIE. Ind., Oct. ll.—Liquor from "down in Tennessee” being brought here by E. L. and Nelson Hammond as a gift to a brother they intended to visit has caused them trouble. Patrolman Wiley West and State Policeman Sharp were standing on a comer at peace with the world wh&i the Hammends in an auto paid no attention to a traffic stop sign. The officers approached to reprimand them, but the Hammonds sped away Shots were fired to frighten them, but they only went faster. As they sped, they tried to empty a Jar of what police say is "mountain dew,” but an ounce of iit remained when the officers finally caught the brothers in a vraffic jam. They are awaiting trial on charges of violating the dry law. CHANGE TO MEET AL Farmers Invited to Reception Here Oct. 20. Indiana farmers will have an opportunity to greet Governor Alfred E. Smith when he visits Indianapolis Saturday, Oct. 20. Farm men and women of the State were invited by R. Earl Peters, State chairman, today to attend a reception for the Governoi at the Claypool. * The farmers’ reception will precede or follow Governor Smith’s address at Cadle Tabernacle. The hour remains uncertain, pending definite word of the nominee’s arrival here, Peters said. CHILD STILL IN COMA The condition of Betty Mappingly, 730 Dorman St., who is suffering with sleeping sickness at Riley Children’s Hospital, was unimproved today, according to Dr. Florence, Brown, attending physician. She has not become completely conscious since arrival at the hospital in a state of coma two weeks ago. Liquid food is being administered.

OCT. 13, 1928

HOPE TO SAVE RICKMAN GIVEN UP BY_FATHER Believes Son Will Hang, but Still Thinks Young Killer Is Insane. Bn United Press EL PASO, Tex., Oct. 11.—Thomas Hickman, father of William Edward Hickman, has abandoned hope that his son might be saved from execution for the murder of Marion Parker in Los Angeles and will make no appeal for clemency to Governor C. C. Young of California. "I believe my son will hang,” said Hickman today. "Any attempt I might make before Governor Young would be futile. Because of the political nature of his position and the nearing election he could not take action to commute the sentence.” Hickman, employed at the El Paso railroad yards, still believes his son is insane, as pleaded unsuccessfully at the youth’s trial. “It is just as great a sin for a State to snuff out a life as it is for a human being to kill anothe," he said. "California will be as much a murderer as my boy.” BICYCLE THIEVES BUSY Police Receive Reports of Three More Bicycles Stolen Thursday. Three bicycles were reported stolen to police today. Salvadore Glee, 930 Greer St., said his bicycle was stolen from the rear of his home. F. M. Rude, 242 N. Randolph St., reported his bicycle was stolen from Rural and Washington Sts. Arthur Basey, 1813 Brookslde Ave., reported his bicycle taken from 30 N. Pennsylvania St. Warned to ‘Tone Down’ Shows Managers of the Colonial and Rialto Theaters were called before Police Chief Claude M. Worley today and ordered to “clean up” midnight shows at their theaters. They were wr.rned shows would be stopped unless they are ‘‘toned down.”