Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 297, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1929 — Page 5

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'TORCH' SLAYER EVADES FIRST DEGREE CHARGE Authorities Fail to Shake Self-Defense Plea; Exempt Student. nil :•>>{ l’r> WHITE PLAINS. N. Y.*May 3. \ nhorities of Westchester county are * ill determined to seek a first '•(free murder indictment against Karl Francis Peacox, but it was under, rood today they had gathered 10 direct evidence indicating that ‘he 21-year-old radio repairman deux lately had planned the slaying of his bride. Various reports have been circuconcerning infidelities in hich the studious radio worker •id his pleasure-loving wife were 'ported to have been engaged. But Peacox has denied that an| . ii influences motivated the killre. His confession, saying he acted n elf-defense, remained the prinipal evidence in the hands of inestigators. Frank H. Coyne, district attorney, aid he was not particularly in- ■ rested in newspaper accounts of • orrespondence between Dorothy Peacox and Eugene Bussey, a Johns Hopkins university student. Coyne said (hat if Bussey came to White Plains hr would talk to him but. that he would not seek an inerview. The prosecutor expressed ’hr opinion t hat Bussey, who said ; hat Mrs. Peacox was forward in iirr attentions to him, would be of no value to his case. Pcaeox was taken Thursday on a tour of scenes he visited when, after tiling his wife, he attempted to dis'isr of the body. The revolver Peacox used in striking the girl was identified. The party also visited the spot, where Peacox experimented with kerosene in burning his wife's cheap fur coat, | the connection being that the test ■ avc him the idea of trying to destroy the body by soaking it in kerosene and starting a fire. The slain girl was buried yesterday at South Norwalk, Conn. INDIANA ATTORNEYS TO ATTEND LAW INSTITUTE Jiidce Will Head Delegation to Washington Meeting. Chief Justice Clarence R. Martin of the Indiana supreme court will l ead a delegation of Hoosier lawyers who will attend a meeting of the American Law Institute at Washington. I). C . May 0-11. Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the United State supreifle court will deliver the welcome address and prominent lawyers of the nation arc on the program. The Indiana delegation will be composed ol George L. Denny and Herbert E. Wilson. Indianapolis: Charles E McCabe. Crawfordsville; B. F. Watson, assistant reporter of the supreme court; Professors James •I Robinson and Hugh E. Willis of Indiana university: Professor Thom- j as F. Kotiop of Notre Dame univers- ! ity and Roland Obenchain, South Bend. George W. Wickersham is president of the Institute.

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