Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1929 — Page 4

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FACES DEATH CHAIR FOURTH TIME IN KILLING Murder Suspect in Jail Five Years. Tried Three Times for Woman’s Slaying. BV HORTENSE SAUNDERS Service Writer BROOKLYN, N. Y., May 17—For the fourth time in five years, Harry Hoffman is being tried for murder. He Is gambling his chance for complete vindication against death in the electric chair. These five years, dragged out in Sing Sing and in Raymond street jail, have wrought great physical and mental changes in the man. From a husky fellow weighing 192 pounds, he has shrunken to a mere 117. His sight is failing, his hair is thin, and he is said to be tubercular. His philosophy is a bleak fatalism. He regards himself as a straw caught in a whirlpool of legal tactics. At each trial he has maintained that he never knew or saw Mrs. Walter Bauer, of Port Richmond, Staten Island, whom he was convicted, in the second degree, of murdering. Circumstantial evidence has a strong rase against Hoffman. If he is innocent, he certainly built up the most rickety and wobbly platform of ialse alibis and lies that ever collapsed under the prosecutor's ax. For fourteen years before his conviction, Hoffman was a motion picture operator, and ground out thrillers and mystery tales. But he probably never projected on the screen any situation that was more baffling that the one in which he himself is Involved. On March 26, 1924, Mrs. Walter Bauer, of Staten Island, wife of an electrician, and mother of two children, a woman of impeccable reputation and pleasing appearance, took her mother and her children

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out for a ride in her automobile. The machine became mired in a rut, so Mrs. Bauer left to find another car to tow’ her out. She never returned. An hour or ! so later, her body was found on a deserted road, beaten and shot twice with bullets from a .25 automatic pistol. Sketchy testimony pieced up the only clew, that Mrs. Bauer was seen {stopping a man in a Ford sedan—j someone overheard her ask him for a rope—and she had been seen to get into the car with him, probably | at his offer to take her to the nearest garage. | Circumstantial evidence was all against him—except motive. There never was any motive show-n. Hoffman admitted his lies as they were uncovered, and maintained they were a defense because he feared he would be associated with the murder. since he realized he filled the descrintion of the hunted man. ; Tanks were first used in warfare ; by the British.

NEW SMALLPOX TEST DISCOVERED BY DOCTOR Method Used to Determine Whether Vaccination “Takes.” (By Science Service) BOSTON, May 17.—A new test for determining whether a person is | susceptible to smallpox has been de- | vised by Dr. Sanford B. Hooker of the Evans Memorial for Clinical j Research and Preventative Medicine 1 here. Determining whether or not ! a vaccination, and especially, a reI vaccination, has been a “take” is ! often difficult. The uncertainty and j delay thus occasioned can be largely I avoided by the use of the new test ; which is a control that tests the I success of vaccination, but does not | take its place. “India is the only country that | has a greater number of smallpox i cases than the United States. As ! long as this unenviable condition exists, efforts to popularize and precisionize vaccination technic are warranted,” declared Dr. Hooker.

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FEARS TRAGEDY AS DIXIE STRIKE REACHES CRISIS Homestead Holocaust May Be Repeated In Mills, Says Labor Head. BY JOHN R. MORRIS. United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1529, by United Press) WASHINGTON, May 17. The j situation in the textile mills of ; Elizabethton, Tenn., rapidly is developing into a repetition of the horrible Homestead tragedy, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor said in an interview with the United Press. “The mill owners are displaying toward the workers the same obstinate attitude that led to the holocaust in the Homestead steel mills of Pennsylvania with a loss of life which hung over Andrew Carnegie like a shadow to the end of his days,” Green said. “Use of troops in the Tennessee dispute has proved a serious mistake.” . Green said his personal represen- ! tative, Edward F. MaCready, whom he had sent to Elizabethton, had found it impossible to negotiate with the mill owners. “Too many employers,” Green said, “persist in maintaining towards their employes a paternalistic and dictatorial attitude entirely out of keeping with the present day. “Such an attitude inevitably leads to dissatisfaction and trouble. Both employers and employes should insist upon frank and sincere discussion of their mutual problems on a basis of absolute equality.” Green outlined a basis for em-ployer-employe relations which he said could be expected to obviate serious industrial disturbances. Organization of both employers and employes is absolutely essential in modern industrial life, he said. Collective bargaining, which is the logical result of organization, is in the interests of employers, em-

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