Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1929 — Page 2

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LANDLADY, 71, HELD AS FIEND OF DEATH PLOT Aged Woman and Youth, 21, Confess Murder for $14,000 Insurance. Ru Un‘trd Prrm MACON, Ga.. May 31 —Possibility that a grandmotherly sort of lady, Mrs. Sarah Powers, 71. was the master mind of a murder and arson mill here confronted police today as they traced the past of a confessed plotter of an “insurance slaying ” The aged woman, portly, matronly. with bobbed gray hair and spectacles, was held with a 21-year-old youth, Earl Manchester, for the murder of James Parks, a printer. The two confessed piotmg the murder for a 8-14,000 insurance policy on Parks’ life, obtained four weeks ago by Mrs. Powers and naming her as beneficiary. Police, bent on learning the activities of the elderly rooming house proprietor during the last few years, already have discovered that two houses she owned mysteriously burned, the insurance being paid her; that Claude P. Burham, who accepted M *s. Powers' proposal to live at her louse, has been missing two years and that an insurance policy on his life amounting to $5,000 was obtained before his disappearance, and that E. E. Valentine, the agent who made out the policy on Burham’s life, was mysteriously shot a few months after Burham disappeared. The case has never been solved. Young Manchester, penniless and depressed, related that he had been "nagged into the murder" by the landlady, after he came to live at the rooming house she kept in downtown Macon. Parks was killed Monday night, after being inticed to a lonely spot by Manchester. Two bullets punctured his brain. After Manchester returned from the scene of the murder he told Mrs. Powers what he had done. His share of the insurance money was to have been SI,OOO. “That’ a good bey," he Quoted her a saying. “All I ever go* lrom her was a kiss, and I had ro commit murder to get that,” Manchester remarked after he had been placed in a cell. FATHER’S SWORD USED AS SUICIDE WEAPON Newcastle Man Kills Self Here With Lodge Sword. With a Knights Templar swore belonging to his father, Charles C Hoffman, 33, Newcastle, Ind., committed suicide at the home of hit parents. Mr. and Mrs. Alva R. Hoffman, 1317 Park avenue, Thursday afternoon. His body was found by his father, who. finding his bedroom door locked, climbed to the porch rooi and entered the room through a window. HofFman said his son had been ill several months and only recently was released from an Indianapolis hospital. Surviving, besides the parents, are a widow and three small sons, living in Newcastle. ROW ON FRENCH MOVIES Coty Takes Up Cudgels for American Films. By United Pregg PARIS, May 31.—The proposal of the French cinema control commission to permit but four Americanmade motion picture films to enter France for every French picture sold abroad is threatening to start an open war among the Parisien newspapers. After a meeting of the French cabinet Thursday, at which the proposed four-to-one quota was discussed. the perfume manufacturer. M. Coty, who is also a potent newspaper publisher, came out with a front-page smash in his Ami Du Peuple favoring the American side of the controversy. HOOVER AIDS AT WORK Law Enforcement Commission Selects Its Secretary. Pv United Pres* WASHINGTON, May 31.—The national law- enforcement commission recently appointed by President Hoover has announced the election of Max Lowenthal. New York, as secretary. His duties will include making statistical examinations and reports for the commission, now in session here. KILLS SELF AND CHILD Detroit Woman Seals Window* and Turns on Gas. Bu United Press DETROIT, May 31—After carefully sealing all doors and windows Mrs. Beatrice Otis. 21, placed her 3-year-old daughter in bed. then turned on the gas, and both were asphyxiated. Her husband said they had not quarreled, but his wife was despondent. LOCOMOTIVE IS STOLEN Heavyweight "Shoplifter" Land* in Montana Jail. SHELBY. Mont.. May 31—Shelby claims to have apprehended the world's prize shoplifter. John Hunter former locomotive engineer, was caught in the act of trying to “lift" a huge Great Northern locomotive from the shops here. He had started the engine before his plans were discovered, and he was unceremoniously transferred from the cab of the locomotive to a private berth in the city Jail. Vote Pension lo Widow BW United Pres s WASHINGTON. May 31. The house today passed and sent to the senate a resolution appropriating $19,000 for the widow of \ ’.late Representative John J. CaieVFtep., p a i who died ret#*Uv in Pana \a.

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