Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1929 — Page 23

DEC. 6, 1929.

SUSPECT FLEES; COP FIRES FIVE SHOTS IN CHASE Walter Conway Arrested Later and Booked on Vagrancy Charge. When a man he accosted to question took to his heels, Patrolman Michael McAllen gave chase early ihis morning and fired five shots at the fleeing man. He escaped, but police later arrested Walter Conway, 35, living in a barber shop at 524 Massachusetts avenue, on charges of vagrancy. He is being questioned in connection with the incident. Patrolman McAllen reported the man had a revolver in his hand, fine bullet fired by the patrolman in the chase from Vermont and East streets to New Jersey and Vermont streets shattered a plate-glass window in a store. Juvenile robberies held the attention of police Thursday night. Miss Olive Reed, of 709 Shelby street, reported three small boys snatched her purse, containing $4.50 in cash and a pair of sl2 glasses in the 1000 block on Fletcher avenue. Clothing, a gun and other articles valued at $260 were stolen from the home of David Reynolds, 2721 Highland place by burglars. A diamond ring valued at SI,OOO. a Masonic pin and other jewelry was stolen from the home of Mrs. D. C. Costin. 4218 Broadway, during the last two weeks while she was absent from home, she discovered Thursday on her return. Wilmoth Hiatt. 13. of 535 South

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Delaware street, returned from high j school Thursday afternoon and ! found someone had discovered the hidihg place of the key to his home and stolen $5 in cash. Moy Hong, laundry proprietor at 320 Indiana avenue, reported $7 ! stolen from his cash register. Burglars got $lO cash and gro- ! ceries valued at S4O from the Elner ! Applegate grocery, 506 Laurel street 1 Thursday night. Dr. E. D. Jewett of 1214 West , Thirty-fourth street, was held up . by a Negro who forced Dr. Jewett to drive to an alley near Illinois and Twentieth street, where the j bandit took sls and escaped, j Six Negro youths, arrested late ; Thursday, are said to have con- : fessed to entering the Louis KassefT grocery. 803 North Senate avenue, and the Louis Hider Grocery, 548 ! Blake street, recently. They are being questioned about other grocery' burglaries. The six are: HarI old Blakley, 13; Charles Epperson, 1 19; Claude Austin, 17; William Brown. 17, and William Holt, 19, all of 434 North West street, rear and ! Robert Brown, 22, of 537 Bright 1 street. DEALERS END SESSION General Motors Man Feature Talker at Implement Convention. Business conditions of 1930 were discussed at the closing session today of the thirteenth annual convention of the Indiana Implement Dealers in the Claypool. At Thursday’s meeting Floyd Allen of Detroit assistant to the president of the General Motors Corporation, addressed the implement men on ! present industrial conditions. Allen urged wage increases for | employes with the assertion “that 1 it pays in the long run to raise j wages.” He declared the depression j in the stock market will not proi duce any permanent effect on the ! nation.

INSANITY HOPE OF DEFENSE IN MURDER CASE Charles Brown Breaks Into Sobs When Picture of Wife Is Shown. With the state’s second degree murder case against Charles Brown, 45, completed, the defense today prepared to lay evidence before a criminal court jury that the

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defendant was insane at the time I he fatally shot his wife in the family home on South New Jersey street. Defense testimony intended to picture Brown’s wife, Mrs. Alma Brown, 45. as associating on several occasions with other men, w r as heard from the stand during the forenoon today. The state rested its case shortly after 10 a. m. Mrs. Gladys Smock, defense witness, linked Mrs. Brown with “a Mr. Charles Goady,” and testified she had reason to believe the tw T o “kept company.’’ Evidence to the same effect was given by other defense witnesses, Fred Bloodgood, 110 East Vermont street, and Mrs. Cora Morand, 59 Virginia avenue. The most dramatic moments in the trial came Thursday afternoon when prosecutors introduced a photo of the dead woman, the mother of four children, in an es-

fort to refute previous Inference by the defense that she had been seen In the company of other men. While jurors inspected the photo. Brown, sitting indifferently at the defense tatfle, burst into sobs. His step-daughter, Hiss Alvena Morrell, child of the slain woman, had identified the photo. Without emotion, she told the jury how she had arrived home before the smoke of five revolver shots had cleared and, kneeling besideJier dying'mother had tried to piece together events that led to the quarrel. . “She muttered incoherently,” the daughter testified, “and in a very

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heart attack. Bernard M. Myers, 73. of 725 Congress avenue, fractured his skull, according to city hospital physicians. He was taken to city hospital ancf later removed to the home of h*s daughter, Mrs. A. L. Kirk. 1115 Congress avenqc.