Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 181, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1930 — Page 14

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FOUR ESCAPED MANIACS ARE BASK IN CELLS Young Detective Captures Matteawan Prisoners in New York. I'. ' i lilted Press NEW YORK. Dec. B.—Four of the even maniacs who made a spectacular escape Thursday from the state hospital for the criminal insane at Beacon, N. Y.. were back in the hospital today through the quick work of a young, third-grade detective. George E. Wobber, assigned to Brooklyn headquarters, held the four desperate men and a woman at bay for nearly half an hour in a bare, dimly lighted apartment before dawn Sunday until other detectives arrived to arrest them. Four are Recaptured The four recaptured are William H. Nelson, 31, the insane burglar who escaped two weeks ago and returned to liberate six other inmates; Harry Gordon, known as the “mad butcher of Rochester,” John Biggins, 30, and Frank Gambill. The woman arrested with them, charged with harboring criminals, was Mrs. •Marie Ockenfels, 30. Wobber, with three other detectives, traced the maniacs to the Brooklyn apartment, which was rented by Mrs. Ockenfels, and found only Mrs. Ockenfels and her sister at home. Wobber went Into the apartment and talked to the women for more than two hours, while his companions waited outside in the hallway. While he was there the four maniacs returned. Nelson, upon •seeing the detective, produced a pistol and covered him. “Hold on there,” said Wobber, who had not reveiled his identity. “Be careful with that thing—you might hurt somebody. Put it awav, I’m O. K.” Away on False ClewNelson, apparently convinced, put the gun in his pocket. Wobber immediately pulled his own pistol and covered the men. He called to his companions, but discovered they had gone away on a false clew. They had followed a watchman in the building who had leit shortly before. The detective forced the maniacs lo lie face downward on the floor and stood over them until Ills companions returned. The four men said they had parted company with the other escaped maniacs, Frank Van Der Kuylen. Joseph Kaylor and Anthony Ahoy, because they were “too mean and desperate.”

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WIVES OF GANGSTERS FACE SERIOUS CHARGE Accused of Hiding Alleged Thief Wounded by Police. Young wives of two gangsters were held on vagrancy charges today. accused of aiding an alleged vehicle thief to escape after he was wounded by police. The fugitive, Hobart McDade, 18, was captured Friday, with wounds in the leg and groin, and named wives of Theodore Geisking and John Gauley as Samaritans who took him to their home and provided medical attention for his j wounds. McDade, and his brother, Joe, 1 were in a stolen car when a police j squad under Sergeant Dan Cum- | mings gave chase Thursday after- j noon. Wrecking the auto, the brothers ran. Joe was captured, and police fired on Hobart, who was captured next day in Clayton, and brought here. Burns Fatal to Negro Woman Mrs. Alsonia Flourney, Negro, 47, of 930 East Thirteenth street, died Sunday at city hospital from burns suffered when kerosene exploded as she was starting a fire in her home Thursday night. Safe Looted at Anderson By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind.. Dec. B.—Loot consisting of S3OO in cash and checks for S6OO was obtained from the safe of the Bailey Coal Company here.

SLAYER OF 2 * CAPTURED IN BULLET DUEL Oklahoma Assistant County Attorney, Shot During Fight, May Die. By United Press PAWNEE, Okla., Dec. B.—Jess Powell, 65-year-old ft rmer, alleged killer of a deputy sheriff and an 18-year-old boy was captured at Ralston today after a gun battle in which Lewis Raba, asssistant county attorney, was shot three times. Raba, who was a member of the posse seeking Powell, may not live. Sheriff Allen Jones said. Powell was named as the slayer of Ed Hartwick, Pawnee county under-sheriff, who had gone to his farm to arrest him on a charge, of slaying Floyd Bell, 18, and wounding Marion Kendall, 20, Sunday.Powell was said to have shot the two boys without warning when they went to his farm to return a log chain borrowed several days before. Powell was located in Ralston early today. A posse encountered him on a sidewalk in tile business district. He allowed members of the posse to approach, indicating he wished to surrender, Sheriff Jones said. Instead, however, he started shooting, wounding Raba seriously, according to Jones. Powell was taken to the Fawnee county jail. Murder charges will be filed against him, Sheriff Jones said. LAUD BOY VIOLINIST By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. B.—Jacques Lamer, 14, Pittsburgh violinist,% was received favorably Sunday night when he appeared as soloist with the Manhattan Symphony orchestra. He played the Bruch Concerto in G minor.

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