Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 287, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1930 — Page 14

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JURY CONDEMNS 3 BANK BANDITS TO PAY LIVES Trio Doomed to Gallows in Colorado Month After Killing Officer. BV CLYDE G. BYER Cnited Pres* Staff Correspondent EADS, Colo., April 11.—The Manter bank bandits, condemned to death on the gallows by a Jury Thursday night, realized today that further fight was futile and revealed for the first time which killed Deputy Sheriff Coral A. Hickman. They declared that previous accounts of the murder, including the one, at their trial, were “doctored” on the theory that the state, unable to establish which one did the killing, would fail to obtain a hanging verdict. “Midget” Takes Whole Blame Claude Ray, 24, midget member of the gang, took the entire blame for Hickman’s death and the other bandits, John Walker, 42. and Andrew Halllday, 22, substantiated his story. “I was Just out of the pen,” Ray said. “I had not had a dime for years but the day of the murder, I had $2,000 in my pocket which I got in the Manter bank robbery and I didn't intend to give it up. I shot Hickman.” The three men were doomed to the gallows Thursday night less than a month after they had fled out of eastern Kansas after robbing the bank of Manter, shot Hickman, and had been captured near Jetmore, Kan. Jury Ponders One Hour The extreme penalty under Colorado law was assessed the trio by a jury of ten ranchers, a garageman and a shoemaker which deliberated only one hour and ten minutes. The bandits paled as the verdict was read. Mrs. Hickman, widow of the slain man, sobbed "thank God.” Hickman was slain on March 14 when he attempted to stop the bandits, who were fleeing from numerous posses organized in western Kansas and eastern Colorado after the bank robbery.

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MATA SURE WAS VERY SWIFT WAR ACTRESS Another Story of a Courtesan and World War Spy Jumps Into the Best Selling Class of Nonfiction. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN YEARS after the w'ar, it seems that we are getting much nearer to the actual background of the war than ever before. That is being made possible by the publication of many books, mostly nonfiction, concerning spies. In this department, I have told you about several of these spy books. We are interested today in “Mata Hari,” courtesan and spy, by Major Thomas Coulson It has been published by Harper and Brothers, sells for $3. and, according to Bretano’s six best nonfiction list, this one is a member. You will recall when I reviewed “Espionage,’’ I told you that Mata

Hari was seriously considered as one of the leading spies but that another spy, “The Lady Doctor,” seemed to have the edge on Mata. But when I read Major Coulson’s complete story on the life of Mata, I begin to realize that Mata probably was the leader of all the spies. When T read in this book that Mata Hari was accredited with being responsible for the death of 50,000 fighting, I began to realize that this dangerous woman was more dangerous than cannon, artillery or bombs. When Mata betrayed French and English soldiers to death, she did it on a wholesale basis. When Major Coulson shows that this spy was the mistress of high French war officials, that even ambassadors made silly fools out of themselves for her smiles and a look at her body, I began to realize that this dame must have been a modern Cleopatra. She didn’t use a barge but she did employ about everything to civilization to get war secrets out of the French and English. Major Coulson answers the question why the French authorities were powerless to jail this woman when they only had circumstantial evidence. And when I remember that people were arrested for hording sugar in this country. I laughed out loud at the French officers who were afraid to arrest this dame because some cheap bozo in high authority in Paris was a playmate of the brown skinned Mata. Mata is probably the only spy who made “theater,” exciting theater out of war. She built a legend around her naked dancing before the war, made a nasty cult out of it and attempted to dignify her religion by calling upon certain pagan Gods.

And some of the ultra-crazy alleged intelligent cult mob followed this woman in her orgies and some actually today defend her as a priestess of the cult. Bunk and rubbish. She should have had her head blown off many months before the frightened French officials, fearing the public then, did order out the firing squad and sent this woman out of this world at least. Read “Mata Hari” and find out how some high officials during the war made consumate fools out of themselves. And I feel that some of these officials should have walked with Mata to her last sleep. I recommend this book to those who want to get the facts. ts n o Tonight at English’s, the Wisconsin Haresfoot Club offers its annual show. Other theaters today offer: “Wide Open” at the Lyric, the Charlie Davis band and “The Benson Murder Case” at the Circle. “Honey” at the Indiana, “Son of the Gods” at I the Ohio, “The Girl Said No” at I the Palace, “The Green Goddess” at the Apollo, burlesque at the Mutual, and, George Fares at the Colonial. STORES HELD LIABLE Hu I'uitrd Press NEW YORK, Aprl 11.—Depart- ; ment stoves are liable for injuries; its patrons may receive in a bargain \ rush, under a rulin" of the appellate | division of the supreme court here.; Justice Hetherington held that if the store? advertises a bargain sale, it must put a rail around its windows or pay damages if someone is pushed through them.

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