Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1929 — Page 25

MAI 24, 1929.

‘STOOL PIGEON’* TAKEN FOR RIDE BY GANGSTERS Taxi Driver Tells Story of Victim Pleading With Machine Gunners. Pti t mtrd frets CHICAGO. May 24. A gangster apparent!’, regarded by his comrades as a “stool pigeon’ was believed by police today to have been “taken for a ride," In connection with investigation of the kidnaping of Philip Blumenthal, wealthy ex-bootlegger, and the murder of two detectives on this case. Police say one of the kidnapers may have been Ernie Rossi, an A1 Capone henchman, and one of six men named by Police Commissioner John Rteges as slayers of the two detectives. A taxi driver, Melville Oliver, said hi? cab was forced to the curb and two man. one with a machine gun in his arms, jerked open the door, where the passenger a man of about 40 years, sat pleading for his life. Oliver -aid when the man with tHr*

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! PROPELLOR -KICK' FmTAL \rmv Yfcchanic Dies of Injuries From Backfiring Motor. 1 Bw 1 >nfd I’rrte COLLMBUS. 0.. May 24 - Sergeant Frank Deeman. 28. mechanic i attached to she Ninety-fourth purj suit squadron. Selfridge field, Mich., died here today, the victim of a i propeller which hit him wh£n aji i airplane motor backfired. ; Sergeant Gerald Miller, another squadron mechanic, suffered a i broken wrist when he attempted to pull Deeman from the spinning propeller. machine gun opened the door, his passenger begged: “Don t kill me, Ernie. I'm a | married man.’’ “Come on out—stool pigeon,” the j man addressed as “Errie” replied, Oliver said, or 111 kill you rfght I now.’’ When Blumenthal was kidnaped several weeks ago Detective Ray Martin posed as a brother returning $35,000 ransom. The ruse was discovered and Martin was shot to I death. Police have received several val--1 uable tips, including one telling where Detective Joseph Sullivan, who was investigating Martin’s murder. was killed several days ago. Gangsters mast have suspected the kidnaped man with being the “stool pigeon,” police said. Stege named four men as alleged slayers of Martin, and two as those who shot Sullivan to death in a beer flat owned bv Red" Bolton.

GRAF ZEPPELIN : BACK AGAIN IN HOME HANGAR Air Liner Makes Its Return Voyage to Germany Without Hitch, 1 /?</ L'nitjd /’ns* FRIEDRICHSHAFEN. Germany, May 24.—After an unsuccessful at- ! tempt to fly across the Atlantic to | the United States, the dirigible Graf ; Zeppelin was back in its home han- | gar here today, an object of gym pai thetic curiosity to the general popu- ; lace and a serious technical problem to engineers, who are bent upon solving the mystery of the motors I that failed over France, almost | causing a major disaster. The air liner arrived at 5:10 a. rq. ! today, as it had departed just eight j days before —flying easily and grace- | fully, the engines humming smoothly, : without a flaw. The large ground crew’ was on hand when the Graf Zeppelin emerged from the morning mists over Lake Constance. The landing w as made'easily. Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the ship, directing. The flight from Toulon, France, I w here the dirigible was forced to

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