Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 118, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1930 — Page 11

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GANGSTERS ARE KEPT ON RUN IN VAGRANCY WAR Two Yanked Into Court on Old Statute: Chicago Starts Bail Quiz. B'! t inted l‘rr> CHICAGO, Sept. 25.—50 many crusades, wars, drives, battles, investigations and campaigns against gangsters raged in Chicago today that the ‘beetle-browed” gentry hardly dared to stick their heads outdoors for fear of getting arrested. And even when they stayed quietly inside, in bed, police dragged them out to face one court or another. Johnny Genaro. notorious freelance gunman, for instance, was pulled from his peaceful slumbers by raiding detectives who hustled him to jail where he will await trial as a vagrant. Another of the city's ‘ public enemies,” Prank “Duke” Battaglia, went out for a stroll. Detectives sighted him, bundled him to court and the first thing he knew, Judge John H. Lyle "hac sentenced him to a year's i r iprisonment and had lined him J? 00 for carrying a pistol. Probe ‘‘Bail Trust” A county grand jury continued its deliberations concerning racketeers while a federal grand jury waa organized to hear reported sensational evidence about an alleged underworld ‘'bail trust,” organized to get criminal cohorts of ‘‘Scarface Al” Capone out of jail almost as coon as they got in. Federal agents summoned eleven fitnesses Ub testify concerning reports that Ralph Capone, brother of “Scarface,” was the backer of a bail bond concern accused of having “cornered” the bond business in the Untied States commisisoner's court. One Gets Business Court records revealed the John T. Lynn agency, representing the Grand Central Surety Company of New York, since April 4 had supplied bonds totalling $406,650 in 233 yases. The concern also issued in

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till United Perns SOUTH BEND. Ind.. Sept. 25.—South Bend officials today continued to question George Sherman Myers, 40, former convict, who three times has confessed he attacked and murdered 8-year-old Marverine Appel, and twice has repudiated his admissions. Police have regarded Myers as mentally unbalanced. Mrs. Eula Appel, mother of the slain child, has identified Myers as the man who had watched her children at play before the kidnaping of Marverine.

the county criminal courts bonds totaling $330,000. George E. Q. Johnson, United States district attorney, said the federal jury investigation was started primarily to learn whether Capone was interested in the Lynn agency.

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Mother of Nine Asks Divorce Un Times Soecinl HAMMOND, Ind., Sept. 25.—Mrs. Susan Kamen, mother of nine children, and wife of George Kamen for twenty-five years, has filed a suit for divorce, alleging cruelty.

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W. C. T. 11. TO ! OPEN PROBE IN BOOZE SCANDAL County Group to Attempt to Fix Responsibility for Conditions. An effort to fix the responsibility for “deplorable existing conditions” in the city of Indianapolis and Marion county as regards bootleg liquor will be made before the November election by the Marion County : Woman's Christian Temperance ■ Union. A resolution to this effect | was adopted by the W. C. T. U. in ; annual conference at the Meridian i Heights Presbyterian church I Wednesday. I The special resolution from the I convention, presented by Mrs. Grace [ Altvater. chairman of the resolutions committee, said: Whereas, a certain deplorable existing condition in our city has been brought to our attention the past week by the federal authorities indicting eighteen policemen and several civilians for violating ana con- | spiring Jto violate the prohibition | amendment; I “Whereas, these indictments rei suited from liquor found within our j state and county and transported j over state and county highways and, “Whereas, realizing that enforce- | ment not only of the eighteenth ; amendment, but of all laws, can only be brought about by co-operation of : those citizens who are interested in j improving conditions of the com--1 munity in which they live; therefore be it | “Resolved that women of our W. C. T. U. make every effort before, election day to learn upon whose shoulders the duty rests of preventing liquor from entering our state.”

JUDGE LENIENT IN BABY CASE Suspended Sentence for Abandoning Mother. Miss Rose Carpenter, 20, of 1713 Montcalm street, today is under suspended sentence following trial before Juvenile Judge Frank J. Lahr on a charge of abandoning her baby a month ago in the Union station. Mother of an illegitimate child, the youthful parent told Lahr she abandoned the baby because she “was up against it” and “took a chance on finding the child a good home” by thrusting it into the hands of a porter and making her escape. The child was held at the Indanapolis orphans home. Lahr found Miss Carpenter guilty of child neglect, suspending a six months sentence at the Indiana woman's prison. mm|p| POWELL SiGN CO.

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CALL TAMMANY HEADS IN PROBE OF OFFICE SALE Chiefs ‘lnsulted’ by Probers in Being Asked to Sign Immunity Waivers. Bu T’nitrd Pre&F NEW YORK. Sept. 25.—The grand jury investigating the existence of an alleged system of selling public offices has subpenaed every Tammany leader in Manhattan’' twenty-three assembly districts. Hiram C. Todd, special prosecutor, revealed today. They are wanted for questioning regarding the Tammany system of picking candidates for the bench. But before they are allowed to testify they will be asked to sign waivers of immunity, and if they consider that an “insult,” they can make the most of it, Todd indicated. Requests to sign waivers proved “insulting” to two high Tammany dignitaries Wednesday. John F. Curry, immaculately groomed chief of the wigwam, left

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WOMAN TAKES POISON Mrs. I.ucile LgeUiofT Kecovcrinjr at City Hospital. Mrs. Lucile Egelhoff, 20, of 431 North. Illinois street, was recovering today at city hospital from effects of poison taken Wednesday night. She was brought to the hospital by her husband, Jess, 27. • Rotary Club Meets Bn 7 ir'rjt Sncrinl NEWCASTLE, Ind., Sept, 25.—A banquet at which William F. Hodges, Gary, district Rotary Club governor was the speaker, closed a Group 3 Rotary session here Wednesday. Carl Bimel, Frankfort, president. Clubs represented were those at Anderson. Connersville, Muncie, Portland. Union City, Richmond and Winchester.