Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1931 — Page 16

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CRIME PLAYED LOSING CAME IN CITY LAST YEAR Most of $1,501,854 Loot in Robberies Recovered; Many Sentenced. Grime played a vlrlous. but losing game against Indianapolis police, detectives and municipal courts during 1930, reports of those departments revealed today. It entered the ranks of the mil-lion-dollar industries, but its profit •was only slightly more than $200,000 in merchandise and money, while against that the court records show many persons punished for offenses. Total loot, during the year amounted to $1,501,t-54.42, of which $1,162,527.35 was recovered, while in 1929 property worth $1,583,213.02 was .stolen and $1,272,880.10 recovered by the men working under Police Chief Jerry E. Kinney and Detective Chief Fred Simon. One Murder Not Solved Os the twenty-seven murders in the city during the year only one has not been solved. That was the shooting of Lewis Davidson, a grocer, as he walked away from his store one Saturday night several weeks ago. One noticeable reduction in a crime against which police long have warred was seen in reports of Jacob W. Tolin and William Davidson. clerks of municipal courts three and four, respectively. It was in drunken driving. While 649 persons were arrested on that Cliargc in 1929. only 186 appeared in court on that count during 1930. Drunk Charges Fewer Last year 1.486 persons were charged with blind tiger, compared with 1.657 in 1929, and 3,696 were charged with intoxication, against 4,041 in 1929. In municipal court three there were 13,990 cases filed last year, and 11,420 in court four. Judges Paul C. Wetter and Clifton R. Cameron pointed out there is an average of two and one-half charges filed against each person in court. The two courts received $224,831.50 in cash in 1930, of which $152,696 was in appearance bonds. Os the remaining $72,135.50 fines and costs, the city got $5,837 for ordinance violations, chiefly traffic offense. Suicides Were High Os the 2,953 autos stolen in the city in 1930 there w'ere 2,737 recovered, and eighty-five cars stolen from other cities also were found here. Arrests were classified on the police books as follows: Manslaughter, 5; vehicle taking.

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AUTO PLUNGES IN DEEP DITCH; DRIVERUNHURT Engineering Firm President Barely Averts Crash With Freight Train. Daniel B. Luten, 60, of 3357 Ruckle street, president of Luten Engineering Company, escaped injury early today when his sedan plunged fifty feet through a tenfoot ditch along Brookville road east of the city. He said he failed to see a freight train across the road on the Pennsylvania tracks until he was almost upon the crossing. Clamping on the brakes, Luten felt the car swerve and plunge into the ditch. Stepping from a street car at Illinois and Washington streets at 1 this morning, Charles Saunders, 23, Greencastle, was struck by an auto driven by Edmond Wood, Mt. ComSHAVE lse CAME BARBER’S U/ilYl£!i SERVICE 140 N. ILLINOIS ST. OrrOSITE LYRIC THEATRE > Gold Crown, hGuIIk Bridge Work. ** l ’ er toot b rainless EiVrapb tracting. 50c Kxtrartfng lilllllnilflj Free When rwmm Blates or m* jjjßHHßj* Bridges Art HHK Ordered. THE PEOPLES DENTISTS 36T4 W Wash. St. Examination Free

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WORLD COURT BACKED Peace Group Members Urged to Ask Senate to Act on Protocol. David M. Edwards, secretary of the Indiana Council of International Relations, has written all mem-

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