Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 261, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1931 — Page 1

GUN FOUND IN BROWN COUNTY MURDER RUINS New Clew Investigated in Attempt to Clear Up Death Mystery. FINGER BONE DUG UP Riddle of Third Body Still Unsolved; Lukewarm Search Made. A flngerbone and a rusty .25caliber automatic pistol today were viewed by state authorities as new dews Into the murders committed on the fruit farm of Lee Brown at Nashville, Ind., in December. The pistol, found by Roland Brown, the dead farmer’s son, lay in a jar of coal oil at the home of Arch Ball, ballistic expert of the city police department, awaiting examination late today. The pistol was brought to Indianapolis by Virgil Quinn and Charles Bridges, deputy state fire marshals, after a private search of the farm home ruins by Brown disclosed the xveapon within four feet of the spot where the corpses were found in the funeral pyre. Snow Delays Search Little importance is attached to the finger-bone, deputy fire marshals said. They believe the bone may be that of Lee Brown or of the body found near his side, which is thought to be that of Paul Brown, his son. The bone was turned over 1,0 Joshua Bond, Brown county coroner. Bunge served as guide to the farm home. He pointed out the spot where Lee Brown’s body lay. He seemed nervous and exicted as he conducted searchers on the tour, Charles Bridges, deputy state fire marshal, said. Quinn asserted today that drifted snow would make it impossible to search the ruins thoroughly for a third body until the first of next "week. While awaiting Ball's report, on the pistol found by the murdered man’s son, Quinn plans to seek expert advice regarding the possibility of Mrs. Brown’s body being consumed In the open fire of the farm home. “I haven't had enough experience with bodies burned by fires to know whether it could be burned totally,” he said. Cremation Takes Hours Morticians of Indianapolis today told Times reporters that it takes two and one-half hours of a torchlike flame to cremate bodies and, even after cremation, bones of the bodies cremated would remain. “No heat is severe enough to obliterate bones. Acids are the only means of destroying every vestige of a body,’ said one undertaker. Last week two Indianapolis physicians declared the bodies were that of two men. Quinn and other officers say the bodies arc Lee Brown’s and his son Paul. But Chester Bunge, hired hand of the Brown family and the only eyewitness of the crime, charges that Paul Brown killed his father and his mother and wounded Bunge, after chasing him a quarter mile. Suicide Is Theory Supposition of Quinn is that Paul Brown, after wounding Bunge, returned to the family home, fired the house and out-buildings, and. re-entering the home, committed suicide. But the weak link in Bunge's story is that he says Mrs. Brown was wounded and that she was in the home. Yet her body has not been found. Despite this knowledge, Brown county officers and Quinn persistently have refused to question Bunge again regarding his story. Bunge now is employed as a truck drived in Martinsville. Charles Bolte, investigator for the state bureau of criminal identification, desired to re-examine Bunge, but was balked at every turn, it is knowm. Cling to Bunge Story ’’Let's look over the ruins again and see what we can find,” was the chant of the officers defending Bunge's take. And now Bolte is out of the case. He has been placed on another investigation by E. L. Osborne, chief of the bureau. "I’ve no other men to send down there,” Osborne declares. Brown county officers accept Bunge's story and even Prosecutor Howard Robinson of Franklin, definitely says, “I’ve heard his story and I don't care to talk to him any more. The best thing that could happen in this case would be for it to end as a double murder and a suicide.” Probers Handicapped The bureau of identification is reported handicapped in probing Bunge’s story by lack of co-opera-tion of the officials of Brown county. “Wc have no right to detain a man unless coupiy authorities arc willing. But if necessary I’ll go to * ihe attorney-general's office in an effort to get Bunge questioned again,” Osborne said. The state police can not act in the murder due to their limited powers which permit arrests merely m automobile theft cases. • Albert Fowler, deputy fire marshal In charfe of the arson division, said his department might subpena Bunge to appear at the statehouse •Jor questioning after all angles of 'the case had been considered. Fowler admitted that Brown county officials hindered the probe. He said Quinn had been withdrawn temporarily from the investigation to probe a fire at Portland, Inti.

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Winks Tell By United Press NEW YORK, March 12. Pinky, blase alley cat, stood on the witness tabic before Slagistrate Michael A. Ford. “Come, Tom, jump!” an exhortation repeated fifteen times ,with more than ordinary fervor by John Bonner, Negro, who said the cat was his Tom, brought no more than the blinks of a cat-around-town who had been out for a night of it. “Pinky, wink at the judge,” Miss Catherine Borrho, who likewise claimed ownership of Pinky, alias Tom, commanded in an effort to prove her point. She previously had explained Pinky was somewhat of mouser, and also an amateur pianist. Pinky slyly winked at the judge, first one eye, then the other, and the judge succumbed. “It’s your cat,” he told Miss Borrho.

TRACE CLEW IN CHILD KILLING Search Hills for Elderly Brooks Murder Suspect. By United Press SAN DIEGO, Cal., March 12. The behavior of an elderly man who talked incessantly of the disappearance of Virginia Brooks several hours before her dismembered body was found cast suspicions upon him today as police and deputy sheriffs searched the hills, for him. The hunt started when Bill Williams and L. O. O’Dell, living near Escondido, reported that an elderly man they picked up near the Poway grade Tuesday talked about the mysterious disappearance of Virginia, but left the automobile when it started down the Murray Canon road, near where the body was found later that day. “I won't go down that road under any condition,” the man said, apparently in fear. It was this same man, Williams and O’Dell said, whom they saw near Oceanside nearly three weeks ago with a small girl bundled up in blankets. The men were positive of their identification in telling their stories to deputy sheriffs.

200 DIE IN BLAST Careless Chinese Soldiers Blamed for Blast. By United Press SHANGHAI, March 12. Two hundred passengers lost their lives today in an explosion aboard the river steamer Pachi, the Shanghai harbor master officially announced. The Pachi was a total loss. The accident occurred Wednesday night off Big Tree beacon, sixty miles from Shanghai. . One hundred soldiers are said to have boarded the ship at Woosung and virtually took possession. The captain asserted cigarets, carelessly thrown by the soldiers caused the fire and the explosion. LETS PLAYmUeTUfIRE GUN: BOY, 11, IS SLAIN Childs Finger Slips on Trigger and Older Lad Falls Dead. By United Press MILFORD, 111., March 12.—1 t was a proud moment for 5-year-old Francis Borror when Lawrence Goodhue, 11, said he would let Francis fire his .22-caliber rifle. Lawrence placed the gun in Francis’ hands and started to explain how to shoot a can off a nearby fence. Francis’ fingers slipped, discharging the rifle, and Lawrence fell, wounded fatally. Neighbors found Francis hiding in a coal shed. FIREBUG MANIAC IS” SLAIN BY TROOPERS Set Three Buildings In names; Tried to Hamper Blaze Fighters. By United Press MORRISTOWN, N. J„ March 12. —An unidentified maniac, who set fire to three buildings on a farm near here and then tried to prevent firemen from extinguishing the blaze, was slain today by state troopers who fired to frighten him. Damage to the farm buildings was estimated at between $40,000 and $50,000.

HOLDS KEY TO GIANT GAMBLING RACKET—BUT HE CANT BE BRIBED

BY ARCH STEINEL A MILD-MANNERED man with a touch of humor in his eye holds the key to one of the city's biggest rackets, gambling on bank clearings. He is G. C. Calvert, manager of the Indianapolis Clearing House. 915 Merchants Bank building. And. as he sits rocking backward and forward in his office swivel chair, one would hardly suspect that attempts had been made to bribe and intimidate him into ‘ selling out” to clearing house pool racketeers. One would not think that his gentle tones for two years curtly said "No” to attempts to give him anew automobile or *SOO just to change city bank clearings for a day and effect a coup for operators of a certain city pool.

SCRIPPS URGES RECORD CUT IN LABOR’S HOURS Shorter Working Day ‘Than Ever Dreamed of’ Seen as Future Need. WEALTH SHIFT IS VITAL Advocates Drastic Change for More Equitable Distribution. By Scnpps-lloward Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, March 12. J Warning of serious consequences—i even dictatorship—unless ways are J found to relieve permanently the ; present economic situation, which permits of cycles of depression, was given today by Robert P. Scripps, president and editorial director of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, in an address at the progressives’ conference here. Two basic reforms were put forward by the speaker. They were: 1. Shorter hours of labor than ever have been dreamed of. 2. A much more wide distribution of wealth—through wages or otherwise—to permit increased luxury consumption, and increased luxury employment.” “As I see it, gentleman,” Scripps said, “the alternative is the goosestep, one way or another, and Lenin or Mussolini makes mighty little difference. Views Usually in Harmony “For two reasons I am especially grateful for having been invited here,” said Scripps. “In the first place, I am happy to meet again and talk with men who have been my friends, and whom I have admired for a long time. “In the second place, I am happy to be able to register the keen and particular interest of the ScrippsHoward newspapers in the problems here under discussion, and in the sort of legislation that can be expected from the so-called maverick legislators here assembled. “Editorially, we do not agree with all of .them all the time, but the fact is we find ourselves plugging for most of them most of the time. | The special question of this ses-sion-unemployment and industrial stabilization—is one I have been j writing a lot about lately, and I am : not going to bore you by rehashing twenty or thirty columns of material already printed. However, Ido want to relieve myself of one thought. Vital Question Cited “In leading this discussion, Senator La Follette is tackling a problem that goes directly to the heart of a vital question: Can the institution of democracy survive the age of science and the machine? “For science and the machine are here to stay, and must be exploited somehow. And under our present loose and anarchistic industrial system, they are not being exploited efficiently, from the standpoint of most of our people. “When increased per capita production, on the farm or in the shop, means not plenty, but unemploy(Turn to Page Sixteen)

CAPONE CLUB RAIDED Federal Officers Break Safe in Search of Evidence. CHICAGO. March 12.—Deputy marshals and prohibition agents descended today on the Cotton Club, Cicero night club owned by “Scarface Al” Capone's brother Ralph and demolished the club’s safe with sledge hammers and acetylene torches. They were reported to have been looking for evidence for income tax fraud prosecution the government is understood to be preparing against Al Capone. “I. O. U.” memoranda and other documents found in the safe were carried away for close examination. Jacob Speilman, manager, was arrested. He said he did not know the combination of the club’s safe. Two hours later, after a stubborn attack with torches and heavy "hammers the safe was opened. Baker’s Father-in-Law Dies By United Press POTTSTOWN, Pa., March 12. Howard Leopold, 81-year-old father of Mrs. Elizabeth Wells Baker, wife of the former secretary of war, Newton D. Baker, died at his home here. Mrs. Baker and his two sons, Ralph Leopold of New York and Leroy Leopold of Washington, were with him when he died.

/CALVERT has no fear. He can not be bought and he can not be bluffed. “Nor are we going to suspend the publication of figures on city clearings if we don’t have to,” he says as the suspension of clearing house reports in New York City and Columbus, 0., were broached.

Only Calvert and his feminine secretary know the digits of today's clearings and debits before their noon release to newspapers

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Nearly $3,000 worth of excellent liquors confiscated by deputy sheriffs Wednesday night when they raided a mansion on Eightieth street, west of College avenue, were guarded today at the county jail. John B.

SENATOR WILL SEE PHILIPPINES Arthur Robinson to Probe Independence Plea. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 12.-Sen-ator Arthur Robinson of Indiana, ranking Republican member of the senate territories committee, will leave here Friday for a thirty-five day stay in the Philippines, investigating conditions there. Robinson said after a call at the White House today that he intended to inquire into the proposals for Philippine independence, now pending before the territories committee. “I want to study the economic situation there,” Robinson said, “to see if the islands have reached the point of economic independence. I want to find out whether they can resist immigration in case w?e pull out. “They have by far the highest standard of living in Asia. “I want to find out if independence would not sink them to a lower standard. “I also want to see what possible injustices might be wrought upon our own people in the islands, if they were cut loose.” Robinson said he would sail from Norfolk, Va., stopping at Guam and Hawaii and perhaps going on to China and Japan after visiting the Philippines. 500 ARE EXPECTED AT BEEFSTEAK DINNER Columbia Club to Honor 25-Ycar Members With Annual Fete. More than 500 members are expected to attend the forty-first annual beefsteak dinner of the Columbia Club tonight at the club in honor of members who have belonged more than twenty-five years, it was announced today by Wallace O. Lee, assistant chairman of the entertainment committee. The toastmaster will be Governor Harry G. Leslie, who will introduce the speaker, Edwin P. Morrow, former Governor of Kentucky. Special dancing and singing acts will be presented. CHURCH CAMP BEACH ‘COVERED’ BY BOTTLES Fleeing Rum Runner Throws away Cargo of ‘Silver Dollar.* By United Press OCEAN GROVE, N. J., March 12. —Clam diggers dashed into the surf of this Methodist camp meeting association community today. Motorists who head'd the good word flocked to the beaches; and residents with a knowledge of offshore currents rushed to Be.mar, nearby. High tide had scattered number-> less bottles of “Silver Dollar,” and “Golden Wedding,” thrown over by a rum runner evading coast guardsmen. The sands had been picked clean within a few hours.

and their knowledge doesn’t weigh heavily on their minds despite the thousands of dollars that change hands when they free the numbers to the press. n n “'\7'ES, the racketeers have tried to bribe me and also my secretary,” said Calvert. "One man called me on the phone. He wanted to see me on a business deal. I shut him off. The next time he wanted to take me to lunch. He said on another occasion: ‘How’d you like to have a new car?’. "He phoned again when he was cut off the line and said he'd give me SSOO just to change the clearings as he dictated one day,” Calvert related. “I got so I knew Iris voice. He pronounced ray name with a broad 'a.' He'd call me up at

John B. Boyce (left) and Herman Rikhoff

Boyce, chief jailer, and Herman Rikhoff, road patrol chief, comprised the first guard staff. The liquors are shown ranged on shelves. The variety includes intoxicants ranging from beer to cognac.

Expensive Imported Liquor Seized; Two Dogs, Cat Only Guardians. In possession of an assortment of expensive imported liquor, deputy sheriffs today were seeking tenants of a mansion from which the contraband was taken Wednesday night at Forest boulevard and High drive, north of Broad Ripple. Although lights burned in the living room of the big home, circumstances within led raiding officers to believe the occupants had been absent some time. Locked in a bathroom were two thoroughbred dogs, while tied in the kitchen was a prize-winner cat. All were almost starved. In the basement the raiding squad found the booze cache, and their find included 110 quarts and 178 pints of Canadian and Scotch whiskies, brandy, cognac and wines; 667 bottles of imported beer and ale, and five gallons of alcohol, representing value of about $3,000 on the retail market here. The home was leased to Claude and Nellie Bittrolff, records show. Letters in the house were addressed to Bittrolff at several local addresses, indicating he changed his living place frequently.

MOTHER TAKES BABY CARRIAGE; IS FREED Woman Given Choice of 6 Buggies Sent Her by Sympathizers. Bit United Press WASHINGTON, March 12. —A destitute mother, whose name police refuse to divulge, appropriated a baby carriage that didn't belong to her,' so she could take her baby for a ride. . Within a few horns, freed by the owner of the buggy, she was able to take her pick of six assorted carriages sent to the police station by sympathizers. MOONEY BILL BEATEN Wisconsin Senate Kills Resolution Asking for Pardon. By United Press MADISON, Wis., March 12.—The Wisconsin state senate defeated, 17 to 16, today a resolution asking the Governor of California to pardon Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, convicted of murder in San Francisco’s preparedness day riot in 1916. The house had adopted the resolution. wolFrackef charged Kill “Tame” Animals in Minnesota for Bounties, Is Claim. By United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., March 12. Senator J. V. Weber of Slayton, has introduced a bill in the state legislature under which state bounties would be paid only on “wild wolves.” Weber charged that many persons in Minnesota operate “wolf farms,” kill off part of the crop each year and collect the bounties. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 25 10 a. m 37 7a. m 27 11 a. m 40 Ba. m 32 12 (noon).. 41 9a. m 35 Ip. m 43

home. Then one day he got bolder. He came into the office. I was busy. My secretary talked to him. He offered her S2OO weekly just to dictate the figures to be published dan/. She refused angrily and he left without seeing me. “Well, the telephone calls kept up until finally I became angry

and told him if he didn’t stop I’d have the phone monitored and call the police. His calls stopped,” Calvert said.

MAN CRUSHED IN ELEVATOR SHAFT Newton Brown Dies at New Power Plant. Newton Brown, 1531 Madison avenue, was killed almost instantly today when he was crushed by an elevator in a shaft used in construction of the Indianapolis Power & Light Company's South Harding street plant. Fellow employes told Coroner Fred W. Vehling that Brown, who was standing on a ledge on the elevatoi shaft, fifty feet high, leaned in the shaft as the elevator descended. His head was crushed. He plunged to the bottom of the shaft. The body was sent to the undertaking establishment of Coroner Vehling pending attempts to locate relatives, believed to live in Crawfordsville.

WOMAN IS BURNED Naphtha Fluid Explodesf Garages Destroyed. Ignited by friction, naphtha burned the hands and face of Mrs. Charles Gardner, 129 South Drexel avenue, the flames following its explosion destroyed two private garages with a total loss of about $1,400. Mrs. Gardner was using the fluid to clean clothing in her garage. After the explosion she ran screaming into the yard, her arms enveloped with liquid flame that she stifled by wrapping her apron around them. Her face was burned slightly, and after first aid by neighbors and firemen she was treated by a physician. The Gardner garage burned to the ground, with a quantity of household furniture in it. A garage next door, owned by Otis Dyar, 127 South Drexel avenue, caught fire and was damaged S4OO. YOUNG GIRL TAKEIT ON ‘PARTY,’ IS CHARGE Uncle One of Four Men Held on Delinquency Counts. Four men were held by police today after they are alleged to have been involved in a drinking "party” in which a 15-year-old girl participated late Wednesday. According to Sergeant Harry Smith, neighbors found the girl in a stupor at the side of a house at 573 Jones street. Authorities allege the £irl was brought there by her uncle, Otto Powell, 29, of 570 West Morris street. The men, in addition to Powell, all of whom are charged with vagrancy and contributing to delinquency, are Leßoy Highfield, 19, of 852 Bradshaw avenue; Woodrow Dailey, 18. of the Jones street address, and Edgar Dailey, 28, of 530 West Morris street. The girl is held at the detention home.

HE said the racketeer told his secretary he was more interested in changing the clearing house figures than in obtaining advance information on the figures before their release. Numerous phone calls have been received by Calvert and his secretary requesting information on the daily figures. "What are the clearings? I want to know if I’ve won,” is the common phone request Calvert says. "Our continued refusal to release the clearings except to the newspapers has halted many of these calls,” he says. HE is not worried by past intimidations or problematical ones of the future. He’s sure in the knowledge that as he and his secretary are the only ones computing the figures daily that those figures are as accurate as modern adding devices can make them.

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ARGUMENTS ARE ENDED IN TORCH DEATH TRIAL; CASE TO JURY THIS AFTERNOON Electric Chair Demanded for Schroeder; Mattice Makes Final Plea for Conviction of Mobile Man. HOLMES ASSAILS STATE EVIDENCE Winkler Branded Liar; Other Witnesses Forced to Testify in Exchange for Protection, Attorney Says. BY EDWARD C. FULKE After nine months’ waiting, Harold Herbert Schroeder, 35, former Mobile (Ala.) garage man, this afternoon will have his fate placed in the hands of twelve criminal court jurors, who may either convict or acquit him of the torch car murder. Schroeder, stoic as the last stages of the trial progressed, may know in a few hours whether he must pay with his life for the alleged murder and burning of an unknown man. The charred body of the victim was dragged from Schroeder s flaming sedan on the High School road early on May 31. When court adjourned at noon the desperate battle that has lasted fourteen days was ended.

State’s final argument was completed at that time and the jury was prepared to receive the case before 3 p. m. In. the spot where hundreds befote him had sat through tense moments of waiting, Schroeder was to hear Judge Frank P. Baker read his instructions and surrender the case to the jurors. Mattice Attacks Story Floyd Mattice, chief deputy prosecutor, stood before the jury from 9:30 a. m. until noon, making the state’s last attack on Schroeder’s story that the unknown man died of a broken neck in an accident. “There never was a case in the history of the court where a defense attorney had so little to work on to save his client’s neck,” Mattice declared. “All the evidence of guilt that was smeared on the countenance of this convicted man has been smeared by himself. “Schroeder’s scheme was a nefarious one, and the factor of his undoing was the fact that his friend was discovered while his fleeing tracks still were hot,” Mattice said. Resorted to Shams “He had no defense. He resorted to shams—cast suspicion on the authorities who arrested him, and lied before and during his trial.” Mattice closed his final argument shortly after 12:45 p. m., not leaking a plea that Schroeder be sent to the electric chair. He said the state is not “apologizing” for receiving the case from the former administration. Mattice displayed the knife with which, he said, Schroeder stabbed the unknown man whose body was found in the car. Airplanes that zoomed over the courthouse in the closing minutes of the state argument caused Baker, at one time, to rap for order. Through the entire session Wednesday, attorneys reviev/ed evidence heard from the stand for the last thirteen days. Prosecutors completed the first half of their closing argument, and Schroeder’s attorney, Ira Holmes, finished his argument at 4:45 p. m. Holmes argued four hours in an effort to shatter the wall of cir-

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curastantial evidence laid around the Mobile man by almost two score state’s witnesses. Schroeder’s fate goes to his peers with the testimony of two alienists that he is not and was not insane May 31 when he fired his sedan that contained the body of a man. Jurors Wednesday heard Prosecutor Herbert Wilson demand the death penalty for Schroeder “and nothing else.” Winkler Called Liar “Only death in the electric chair will right the wrong of a crime of this magnitude,” Wilson stated. Holmes voluably protested “sending any man to the chair on circumstantial evidence.” Holmes branded George L. Winkler, former sheriff and chief state’s business, with “deliberate lying.” “When Winkler sat in this witness chair and told you jurors that Schroeder admitted the unknown man groaned just before flames enveloped him, he lied. To my mind, he merely was chasing a dream of being another Sherlock Holmes. “It is no crime in the state of Indiana to burn a dead body. When w Schroeder told authorities the unknown man died of a broken neck, I believe he was telling the truth.” Wife Weeps in Court Through arguments of the attorneys, Mrs. Leah Schroeder, sitting beside her husband, wept silently. When the state asked the death penalty, she stared stoically at the floor. Schroeder’s mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Schroeder of Clarion, la., wept silently. Four sisters and a brother of the Mobile man heard the plea. Miss Gertrude Klttrell, Mobile sweetheart of the accused man, was drawn into the fray when Holmes pounced upon her absence as a state’s witness. “Where is she? V’hy didn’t she come here to tell you about the illicit love the state charges to Schroeder. Schroeder may have transgressed, but all his transgressions have been forgiven,” Holmes said. Holmes charged that ■witnesses who testified to Schroeder registering at the Meeker hotel under the name “H. G. Flow” were compelled, for political reasons, to appear on the stand. Hits Hotel Reputation “They had to obey the dictates of authorities who gave them protection,” Holmes charged. These witnesses testified that Schroeder acted suspiciously from the time he registered May 24, until he left, with his bill unpaid. At one time, they testified, Schroeder had an unidentified woman in his room. “This was not a hotel, it was an assignation house, and these people tell you of it because they didn’t get money from Schroeder for use of vhe room,” Holmes charged. Prosecutors charge Schroeder burned the car and the man to make it appear he (Schroeder) had died, and that $22,500 insurance on Schroeder was to be divided between Schroeder and his wife. Management of Meeker hotel protested this morning to Wilson against Holmes* statement. Mattice, in the final argument, branded Holmes’ assertion ‘'grossly unfair.” DOG RESCUED FROM~ DEATH WINS PRIZES Two Weeks Brings Greyhound From Pound to Show Honors. By United Prt*9 ST. LOUIS, March 12.—Two weeks ago E. J. Burke saw an unkempt greyhound in the humane society’s “death chamber,” liked the dog, obtained ter, named her “Patches,” and took her home. Today the same dog, now called “Patches Queen,” was on exhibit at the Mississippi Valley Kennel Club's show and had three blue ribbon* decorating her cage. JOHN W. HANAN DEAD Federal Judge in Wilson Regime Succumbs at Lagrange Home. Word was received here by friends today of the death of John W. Hail an, in his home at Lagrange. Mr. Hanan; prominent politically in the state, was a federal judge in the Panama Canal Zone during the Wilson administration. Funeral service* are to be held in the Lagrange home Sunday.