Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1929 — Page 2

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YOUTH ADMITS SLAYING COUPLE TO GETMONEY Trailed Through ’Sweetie’ to Own Home: Found in Attic. Bu United Press CANTON, 0.. Jan. 9.—Captured In Newcastle. Pa., Edward Kaltenbaugh, 21-year-old Grove City 'Pa.) boy, confessed to police early today that he murdered John Oser, Canal Fulton dairyman. *and his wife. Bertha, last Saturday night. The boy was taken into custody late Tuesday night by a group led by Deputy Sheriff A. B. Ball of Canton. Kaltenbaugh. who had been employed at the Oser place until Saturday, was returned to Canton today. Girl Leads to Arrest Robbery was his sole motive, the youth said. His downfall was brought about by a Newcastle girl, Gladys Esty, 18. who. he told Ball, “was his sweetie.” Eddie was trailed to Newcastle and later to the home of Miss Esty, with whom lie spent two hours Monday night.

From the Esty home Ball and fel-low-officers w r ent to Kaltenbaugh’s home. Refused admittance by the be /’s mother, the officers forced their way into the house and found Kaltenbaugh hiding in the at%ic. Oser was shot dow r n as he worked V his milk barn. His assailant then crept up to the house, two hundred feet distant, and fired at Mrs. Oser, who was pieparing herself and their 1-year-old baby for bed. Batters Down Door Tire first bullet missed the woman and she slamtned and bolted the door The killer battered down the door, kffied Mrs Oser and dragged h er body to a spot back of the farm uafage where it was later found, frozen. Kalrenbaugh's alleged confession, told how ne had seen the dairyman carrying large sums of money. After the slaying he searched the farmhouse but found only S2O. OFFICERS ARE INSTALLED New Riverside Civic Group Chooses John Mutschlcr As Ilcad. John Mutschler, new Riverside Civic Association president, and other officers were installed Tuesday night at South Grove clubhouse. Other officers are: William Yager, vice-president: Mrs. L. E. Hobson, recording secretary; Mrs. S. L. Wolfia, corresponding secretary, and George Ruwe, treasurer. OLD BELIEFS DISCUSSED Church Institute Theme Is Dis- * carded Religious Ceremonies. Religious ceremonies and beliefs discarded by churches as antiquated wr>re under discussion Tuesday and today at a meeting of the Central Indiana Christian institute at the Mars Hill Church of Christ. Election of officers was on today’s program. ■ -

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Marriage Branded ’Crime’ by Welfare Worker in Illinois Town. ! Bu United Pres* I CARBONDALE. 111.. Jan. 9.—The 1 lage of Carbondale debated heatedly today the marriage of a ; blind. 54-year-old Pentecostal minister and one of his faithful Sunday 1 school pupils, said to be only 11 ; years old. The. Rev. Joseph Benton, sightless ! lor the greater part of his life, was ! married last week to Selinda Glendenin. In obtaining the license SeI linda gave her age as 17, but schoolj mates declared she was only 11. Opponents of the marriage charged ; the minister had exerted religious ' influence to gain marriage consent !of his child-bride. Mrs. Minnie Smith of the Illinois j Children's Home and Aid Society declared the marriage a “crime ” Others, members of Benton’s j church, contended the marriage was j proper and denied charges tnat j Mrs. Benton was only 11. Balcony Falls; Two Are Hurt ABINGDON, 111., Jan. 9.—Twenty •persons were injured when a bal- ; cony in St. Albans gymnasium colj lapsed during a basketball game I here Tuesday night.

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PATIENT GULPS: NO OPERATION Boy Swallows Nickel as Doctors Stand Ready. Trim nurses stood ready with anesthetics. Doctors, instruments poised, stood ready to start the operation at Methodist hospital this morning. John Edward Pyle, 6, Tipton, Ind., lay on the operating table facing removal from his throat of a nickel he accidentally swallowed partially Tuesday. He was rushed to the hospital here during the night when efforts to dislodge the coin in Tip- ' ton failed. The stage was set and John Ed-

ward was ready for the ordeal—he gulped. A grin spread over his countenance. Puzzled doctors asked whai was so funny. John explained he/had swallbwec the nickel. He went back home today after a little rest. HOLD LAST RITE FOR RUSSIAN GRAND DUKE Funeral Services for Exiled Nobleman Take PJace in Cannes, France. Bu United Press CANNES. France, Jan. 9.—Funera services for Grand Duke Nicholas leader of the czarist restoratior movement, were held today at the Russian church here. The grand duke's body was bi /ught here Tuesday escorted bj members of his family, intimate friends and numerous Russian emigres, who had gone to Antibes when they received word he had died there Saturday.

FLAMING BLAST DESTROYS HOME Chicago Gang Blamed for Crime in Indiana. LONG BEACH, Jan. 9.—The summer home of John H. Tyrrell, Chicago lawyer, was destroyed by fire here today, believed to have originated from a bomb toss'ed by Chicago gangsters. Just.prior to the fire, neighbors said they heard a blast, which shattered windows, ripped pictures from walls and tore doors from hinges. No one was in the house at the time of the explosion, as Tyrrell makes his home in Chicago during the winter. Loss is estimated at $15,000. .Local authorities said, the lawyer

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JAN. 9. .1929

VETERAN SAW COMPANY EMPLOYE QUITS AT 71 Retires From Atkins Job After 59 Years of Service. Dominoes and fishing will replace saws and work in the life of Charles F. Aumann, 71, who retired from the E. C. Atkins & Cos. sqw works Tuesday after fifty-nine years of service. And one other thing he will do—“stay at home with my wife”— at 637 Home place. Aumann started work for Atkins March 10, 1870, his twelfth birthday, when the company occupied a small frame building on their present site. His two sons are veterans in the saw business. Carl F. Aumann, 43, has been with Atkins twenty-seven years, and Edward F. Aumann, 38, has been there twenty-two years. Aumann will be the guest of honor Jan. 26 at the annual banquet of the Twenty Year Club of Atkins.