Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1929 — Page 12

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WITNESS FROM j AUSTRALIA IS NEEDED HERE But SI,OOO Cost May Be Joo Much for County in | Catalog Fraud Case. Marion county prosecutors wondered today if SI.OOO should be spent to bring a witness from Australia to testify against A E. Ashkins. former Indianapolis man. who la under bond on a grand larceny charge in criminal court. Ashkins is charged with having sold various Indianapolis manufacturers "advertising space" in a catalog that was to be sent, to 1.010 companies and agents throughout the world. Deputy Prosecutor George L. Eggleston said a few copie of the "catalog" were printed. Posed as Australian Ashkms told local men that he represented Indents. Ltd., an Australian firm, with offices at Melbourne. Through his company the advertising book would be sent to clients of the company, who would solicit trade, and "no doubt, some \ery nice orders will be received Ashkins also told subscribers that hip company would display the advertised products in “the Indents 'building, at Melbourne.” it is alleged. Check by the Indianapolis Better "Business Bureau and Eggleston showed there is no such building. Letters have been received from several persons in Australia and Africa and towns and places in the Philippine.-. China and India where 'Ashkins claimed to have clients. In each instance the “clients’’ either had never heard of Ashkins or "were suspicious.” £ Witnesses Necessary Eggleston said the letters could not be entered in a court record in the case and it would be necessary to bring witnesses from one of the foreign cities. The only other courses open to the county officials is to try the case, and perhaps lose it, or nolle the charge against Ashkins. The latter move would not be in line with the requests of Australian merchants who have asked that the prosecution be carried out "to protect the good name of merchants of Australia.” MOTHER OF 14, SERVING LIQUOR TERM. PARDONED Evansville Woman Is Freed by Leslie After Three Years in .fail. Because six of her fourteen children are said to be dependent upon her. Mrs. Mattie Payne. Evansville, who is serving a one to five-year sentence at the women's prison for possession of a still, was pardoned Thursday by Governor Harry G. Leslie. She was sentenced in Vanderburg circuit court. June 28. 1926. Edward Leo Goebel, another Vanderburg county bootlegger, was also pardoned. He was sentenced to the Indiana state Harm for one year in June. 1926, but appealed the case and has never served. Robert Bennett, sentenced for burglary from Henry county, was paroled from the Indiana state reformatory for medical treatment. He is suffering from tuberculosis.

CONGRESSWOMAN CAN'T FORGET HOUSECLEANING Ruth Bryan Owen Fits t'p Capitol Office for Summer. 3?</ r m'c<t rtc<* WASHINGTON. June 14. Housecleaning. whether at home or in an office is r- woman's prerogative. Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen. Democrat ■member of congress from Florida has demonstrated to the Capitol At her office in the house office bud ling. Mrs. Bryan had the one win low draped in lace curtains durmg the early spring months. Came warm weather and. summer h'jusecleaning. The lace curtains were replaced by dark green drrpr: which gave a ~00l appearance to the political business office. Potted plants were placed in corners and pictures ot Florida palm tree- were hung on the walls.

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Strikingly imi'ar arc the death, mysteries in which these persons are involved, for verdicts Oi suicide have ations in the cases of W. B. Linn, lower left. Waiter Huntington lower right, and Horace Roberts Jr., and Ruth Wilson, shown above in the center. At the right is Miss Wilson s father, who found the bodies of the latter pair, and roper left is Prosecutor G. M. Hillman, in the investigation ordered by Supreme Justice Bodine of Trenton N. J.

Three Young Men and One Girl Dead: Striking Similarity Found. BY HORTENSE SAUNDERS M A Service Writer NEW YORK, June 14 -Suicide or murder? In a welter of conflicting evidence, puzzling testimony and seemingly irreconcilable facts, three of the most baffling recent mysteries—involving the shooting of four persons —remain unsolved. Within a few weeks three young men and one young woman, all members of prominent and well-to-do lamilies. havve been killed, and elements of striking similarity run through each case. Under storms of public criticism, further probes have tended to disprove the original verdicts of suicide. Student Shot Down First came the death of Walter Huntington of Windsor, Conn., son of a wealthy family and a studen at Harvard university. During a weekend visit to his home his body was found, neatly laid out in a field a few miles away. Authorities first called it suicide. Huntington was right-handed. He had been shot behind the left ear. The gun never was found, but bloody handkerchiefs were in his pockets. Was if murder or suicide in the double killing of Horace Roberts Jr. and Ruth Wilson of Moorestown. N. J.. early this month? At first it seemed obvious that Roberts had killed Miss Wilson and then shot himself. The fathers of both the slain supported this view. Stories in Conflict Roberts and Miss Wilson were found in her bedroom by her father when he returned from a bridge party. She was dead, and he was dying from bullet wounds. At first it was said they were fully dressed. Later it was admitted that they were unclothed. Originally it had been said that the father, unable to open the front door, had climbed to a porch roof, looked into his daughter's room and then returned to the front door, which he forced. State authorities say it was unlikely that Roberts fired the three shots into his own head after slaying the girl—two shots, yes, but the thiiu. which was the fatal shot, they still say. would have been impossible. But at the investigation concluded Friday it was decided that Roberts

had slain the girl and then killed himself, but even now doubt is voiced. Was it murder or suicide in the case of W. Bramwell Linn, son of Judge Will.am B. Linn of the Pennsylvania supreme court? The youth was found dead in his apartment on the eve of his graduation from Haverford college, where he was an honor student. He had been killed by a bullet from a .22-caliber rifle, fired through

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Winifred Westover Rises to 160

BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer HOLLYWOOD, Cal., June 14. There have been innumerable instances of celluloidia’s beautiful maidens taking off from five to fifteen pounds of weight to get a particularly desirous role. But Hollywood today is gazing upon the first actress who actually has to gain weight for the same reason. The actress is Winifred Westover, divorced wife of William S. Hart—and she has gained forty pounds in the last two months. There’s a mark to shoot at, girls. Miss Westover’s normal weight is 120 pounds, but when she stepped on the scales just befqre starting her first day’s work in ’’Lummox," the indicator stopped at 195 pounds. Os that thirty-five pounds can be charged off to her costume, leaving her own weight at 160. “Girls who think they have a hard time taking off five pounds in order to retain their shapely figures should try to put on weight once—then they would experience a real hardship,"’ declared Miss Westover. “I have dieted and gone through various forms of exercise to reduce on numerous occasions, but I never concentrated on it as I have had to in my campaign to gain weight for this picture. "During the last two months 1 have become actually lazy through purposely avoiding all Kinds of exercise to gain weight and lose my figure. I have just been loafing and eating all the sweet. and other fatproducing foods I could. ■When I finish the picture I naturally will have to exercise and diet to regain my figure again. But that won’t bother me in the least. "Aft ;r the way I have had to eat, fire full meals every day, in addition to candy and other sweets, it will be almost a pleasure to go without eating for a while.”

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the back of his head. There were no powder burns on the body. At first it was announced that the gun was found in another corner of the room. Later it was revealed that the gun was not even found in the room when police arrived. A note found in the room indicated suicide, but the murder theory persists. There were bruises on the body, and much valuable evidence had been removed or destroyed.

Miss Westover’s role of a servant girl made it necessary for her to gain the additional weight in order to assume the correct appearance and posture of the drudge she portrays. Specially made shoes soled with fifteen pounds of lead will give her the big, shuffling feet of the character in Fanny Hurst's novel. Twenty pounds of additional lead weights concealed in various parts of her dress aid materially in giving her the necessary stooped posture.

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CLEWS GALORE FAIL TO TRAP DEATH FUGITIVE Radio Operator Still at Large on West Coast After Fleeing From Ship. Ha I niteil l’r< SAN FRANCISCO, June 14. Craftier even tlian William Edward Hickman, "The Fox." who terrorized the Pacific coast for a week in December, 1927, William Loren Tailman, 23. Los Angeles murder suspect, made authorities dizzy today as they rushed here and there in response to scores of clews from persons seeking rewards. Tallman vanished from a ship in San Francisco bay a week ago. Detectives were traveling in circles looking for the handsome radio operator, who probably could unravel much of the mystery surrounding the “brick bat” slaying of pretty Mrs. Virginia Patty, banker's wife, in Los Angles. Nine times in the last few days squadrons have turned out fixe firemen answering a third alarm, because of similarity in physical characteristics between innocent persons and the suspect. Traffic was halted and the sidewalk in front of a local theater jammed with blue coats and reporters when someone said Tallman was watching the show. An unconscious man in a gasfilled room attracted a score of San Francisco’s best detectives, just as had the body of a man in San Francisco bay, w’ho tallied in nearly every respect, except finger prints, I with the man who has been missing j more than a week since vanishing j from his stateroom on the S. t>. j Admiral Benson. Motorists have been chased in | Astoria, Ore., where water-soaked : clothing of a traveler aroused sus- ! picion. In Los Angeles a young man an- ! swering the description of Tallman 1 tied a woman to a chair with towi els and in Marin county, near here j a youth acted “nervous”—both epi- ! sodes attracting wide attention from ! speeding police squads. | Another instance which aroused ! authorities was at Monterey wher ! a body was washed ashore and then ! swept out to sea again.

Crane Falls, Kills Man E/i Times Special SOUTH BEND, June 14.—Peter Danculovitch, a foreman at the Edward’s Iron works in this city, lost his life Wednesday when the brakes on a giant crane boom he was guiding with the pressure of his hand slipped and he was crushed beneath a ton of metal. Danculovitch was directing a gang of men erecting anew warehouse for the iron works. Astronomy is popular with Canadians. Many of them have concrete "bases erected in their yards to take a night-sky telescope.

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