Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 184, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1929 — Page 5

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RIDDLE ‘DEATH’ STIRS STRIFE IN OZARK HAMLET Man ‘Back From Dead’ Will Be Central Figure in Dramatic Trial. BY DUKE MERRITT Fnltcfl Prrss Special Correspondsnt MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ark.. Dec. 12. —Melodrama vivid as an “Our Nell" play welled up today in the maelstrom of mystery and hatred swirling in this hamlet of 500. nestled in an arm of the purling White river, where the blue mountains look down in patience at the goings on the hill folk in the Connie Franklin case. Two startling statements, one by Sheriff Sam Johnson, the other by attorneys defending five men who will go to trial Monday on charges of murdering Connie Franklin, gave the unfolding plot of mountain romance, feud vengeance, and possible murder a surprising twist. “Connie Franklin was not doing right by Tiller Rummer, his 17-year-old sweetheart, because he already had a wife and two children. They could tell whether Mountain View’s man of mystery speaks the truth when he says he is not a ‘hant,’ but Connie Franklin himself, come back from his wandering to save his friends from conviction.’’ Defense Claims Alibi That was the sheriff’s plot thickener. lie revealed a search for the wife and children had been unavailing, although records of the asylum where Franklin once was an inmate attested to their existence. The defense countered with the claim of a perfect alibi. Connie Franklin, tipsy from too many swigs at a jug of Ozark moonshine, fell off his mule and cut his head the night Tiller Ruminer claims he was taken from her side and burned to death. At the hour of the asserted murder he was at S. H. Greenway’s cabin, having his head bandaged, attorneys for the five defendants declared. The bloody overseas cap that Franklin left in the road after toppling from his mule is all the grand jury had to go on, other than Tiller’s wild tale, in bringing indictments, the defense contends. Excitement in Mountain View rose to fever pitch. Men fought with their fists in the streets; women pulled each other’s hair; sheriff’s deputies, heavily armed, broke up brawls and took pistols and squirrel guns from irate townsfolk and tallwhiskered men from the hills. Drama Near Climax Perhaps never before in American history had such a situation existed. Perhaps it could not exist anywhere except in the feud-torn hills of the Arkansas Ozarks, where men and women live in an almost unbelievable world apart, with night riders ruling by whip and gun, and moonshiners plying their traffic, Unmindful of the outside world. Monday, in the Mountain View courthouse, the last act of the drama is scheduled to begin. While twenty extra deputy sheriffs keep guns trained on the courtroom to prevent the outburst of feud hatred feared, a man who claims he is Connie Franklin will appear in flesh and blood to declare he is “feeling fine, not a hair of my head harmed.” Against that claim the state will present the story of Tiller Ruminer, the fact that neither she nor her father recognized the man as Connie Franklin, and the stories cf mountaineers who claim to have seen the crime committed. Brother will confront brother as Hugh Williamson directs the prosecution and Benny Williamson leads the staff of defense lawyers. State Employe Hurt F.n Times Special PENDLETON. Ind.. Dec. 12.—R. J. Kennedy, foundry superintendent at the Indiana reformatory, suffered a broken collar bone wheu his automobile skidded and overturned on state Road 67, near Ingalls. He was taken to a hospital at Anderson. Glen Harrol, who was riding with Kennedy en route to Jeffersonville, sustained injuries to a foot.

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MARMON DISPLAY ON Dealers Make Room for Public at Show. i Dealers and distributors of the Marmon Motor Car Company had returned to their homes today from the 1930 Marmon Roosevelt jubilee, held here the first three days of this week. With their departure, the Marmon factory staff turned its attention to greeting Indianapolis citizens at the public open house in the Manufacturers’ building at the state fairground, where 1930 Marmon-built models are on display. Dealers attending the jubilee Wednesday inspected the Marmon factory and heard G. M. Williams, Marmon president, as speaker at a final luncheon at the fairground. $500,000 PROJECT AIDED Park Board Given Control Over South Bend Plaza Plans. Bv Times tip trial SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 12. With transfer of authority over a proposed area for a municipal plaza from the city council to the board of park commissioners completed, rapid progress is expected in the $500,000 project to improve the western and principal rail entrance to the city. The council transferred its Jurisdiction to the board through adoption of an incorpating bill. By provisions of the ordinance the board will have exclusive control of the two-block area opposite the new Union station. The area will be improved by the removal of the present buildings and the landscaping, according to plans of Robert Whitten, New York landscape architect. 3 HELD AFTER CRASH Noblesville Officers Find Liquor and Revolver Near Auto Wreckage. Bv Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Dec. 12. Albert Ellis and Edward Carter, Flint, Mich., and Benjamin Murray, Terre Haute, are in a hospital here with injuries as the result of an automobile accident on federal road No. 31 in the northwestern part of Hamilton county. Murray was driving. He claims the car skidded. It ran over on the wrong aide of the road and crashed into a large truck, filled with celery, driven by Melvin Harney, Decatur, Mich. Local officers say they found two bottles of white mule and a revolver lying on the ground near the scene of the accident. All three men in the hospital are under arrest. Federal Charge Likely By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind.. Dec. 12.—Harley Coates, 24. Muncie, probably will be turned over to federal authorities for prosecution on a charge of taking a stolen automobile from one state to another. Arrested here for carrying a concealed weapon. Coates admitted stealing an automobile in Piqua, 0., Nov. 14, and driving it to Muncie. Gasoline to operate the car was stolen, he said.

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HEADS LOCAL 40 AND 8 Saxton Takes Office of Legion Play House Organization. Everett F. Saxton, newly elected chief of Indianapolis Voiture, No. 145, La Societe des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux, social and honor organization of the American Legion, today prepared to succeed Roy L. Bailey in duties of that office. Resolution was passed by the organization at the meeting Wednesday night to aid the Seventh district legion department in its efforts to bring about removal of churches on the World war plaza site, so that the memorial can be completed. School Dedication Friday Bv Times Special FAIRLAND, Ind., Dec. 12.—The new Brandywine township consolidated school building here, erected at a cogt of $117,000, will be dedicated Friday. The speaker will be R. R. Roudebush, assistant state superintendent of public instruction. A physical training demonstration by pupils will be one of the features of the program.

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