Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 262, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1931 — Page 17

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BROWN PISTOL PROVES WEAK DEATH CLEW Expert Says Gun Can Not Be Traced to Possible Murderer. RUMORS ARE RAMPANT Search of Ruins Is Held Up: Wide Publicity Is Criticised. Hop- that the 25-caliber pistol found In thp ruins of the Lee Brown farm home at Nashville, Ind., might be traced to its purchaser and thereby clarify the mystery of the farm slaying was dispelled today by Arch Ball, ballistic expert of the city police department. Ball, after an examination of the mass of steel found at the home by Roland Browh, son of the di-id farmer, said, “It's condition is such that you can hardly tell it is a gun. I could not find serial numbers on it" He said the pistol was of 25callber and of Colt make. Search Is Halted 'Hie pistol, it W3s hoped by Brown county authorities, would pierce the veil of secrecy surrounding the Brown slayings. A search for a third body in the farm ruins is being held in abeyance pending the return of deputy state tire marshals. The state fire marshal s office began to comb the ruins for a. body, but halted the hunt after finding the pistol with the statement, ‘drifted snow will force abandonment." Publicity attending the searches have been thorn’s in the minds of Brown county officials, the deputy fire marshals, as well as the Brown family heirs. Rumors Rampant Roland Brown on several occasions has objected to newspaper men being near the ruins or within hearing of any probe in the case. Rumors of every sort are rampant in Nashville. Chester Bunge, eye witness of the crime, has not been requestioned by Brown county officials or deputy state fire marshals despite the fact that he skid Mrs Brown was In the farm home when Paul Brown, her son, went “berserk" and murdered her and her husband Mrs. Brown's body has not been found. . The two bodies found in the farm pyre are believed to be those of Brown and the son Paul.

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SENATE BILES SIGNED MARCH 12 S. B. 8) (Adams*—Providing for submission of two amendments to the state Constitution to the voters at the general election of 1932. S. B. 128 (Cuthbertsonl—Requiring publication once each week for three weeks of notice to nonresident defendant m divorce actions. ' K B 155 ißlenkeri—Licensing fur dealers by the state conservation department, ihe license fee to be paid Into the fish and name protection and propagation fund R B 164 iDrakel— Permitting a railroad incorporated in Indiana to purchase in fee a railroad held in lease and incorporated outside the state. R B 216 iglenker-Ketchuml-Fixing a uniform withdrawal date of thirty days preceding the primary election for all candidates. R. R 258 ißaber-Bleneri--FlxniK the penalty for embezzlement at five to fifty years Imprisonment and fine of $1 to SI.OOO where tnr amount taken Is above the value of $2,000 S B 272 ißrown-Rowley-Nejdl-Holman-Bolmesl —Requesting the Chicago regional tort commission to investigate and report on feasibility of establishing a permanent interstate port authority within the metropolitan district embraced by Lake Michigan shore line from Waukegan. 111., to Michigan CUv. Ind., and appropriating • 15,000 to pav for investigation. HOUSE BILLS SIGNED MARCH 12 H B 6 (Conner*—Places all operators of motor trucks for hire under control of the Indiana public service commission and requires them to obtain certificates of public conventepce before they can operate. H. B. 363 i Place i —Amends 1913 act. as amended in 1921. governing shipment of swine to provide that affidavits that, swine have not been exposed to anv infectious /ilsease during the five weeks preceding shipment shall not be required of persons whose stock has been vaccinated bv the Dorset-Nlles method at least four weeks prior to shipment. H. B. 310 (Gwin-Crawfordl—Amends- the state highway commission law to provide that on acceptance of one mile or more of ntw pavement the contractor shall be relieved of liability the same as if the entire contract had been accepted. H. B. 330 (Cory AnStanton-Eganl Provides for the election of school trustees and conduction of the business of the school city of Garv. H. B. 344 (Ale) Authorizes Jennings county board of commissioners to pav Edgar D. Kinder, contractor. $14,230.25 for work oa Flilltn Harceshetmer highway. H B. 366 (Dahling)—Amend public depository law to provide for payment, of 2 per cent interest, monthly on the basis of the minimum balance on deposit. The present law provides for the same rate of interest On basfs of the average dally balance. H. B. 440 (Nelson)- Provides that directors of guaranty ’oan and savings Rssocialor.s shall have the right to borrow funds not to exceed 20 per cent of the assets for the use of the association and amending the law to make the responsibility of stockholders the same as for banks. Strikes out the present provision that stockholders are responsible ".totntlv and severally" for double the par value of stock MISSINGEASTERN GIRL FOUND IN FAR WEST Mary Allen Discovered Wiring to Friend for Funds. By l/n * fed Frtss SANTA MONICA. Cal., March 13. —A two-day search for Mary Allen, 23, said to be the daughter of a wealthy Washington (D. C.) family, was ended today. She was found here wiring to a friend in the east for funds. She was in a highly nervous state and refused to tell why she disappeared. police said. Pending word from relatives she was held in technical custody here. She disappeared Tuesday night. HALL PRINCIPAL NAMED Radcliffr Graduate Appointed Head of Tudor Girls’ School. Appointment of Miss I. Hilda Stewart, Cambridge, Mass., as principal of Tudor hall, was announced today by trustees of the school. Miss Stewart is a graduate of Radcllffe school, and of the Harvard graduate school. She has been assistant to the principal at. a school in Cambridge. Miss Hazel D. McKee, acting principal, will return to her former post of assistant to the principal.

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Friday the 13th Is One Bad Day for ‘Bon Bon * By United Press CHICAGO, March 13.—Michael <Bon Bon) Allegretti has brushed with “the law" before, accepting those incidents in a gangster's life with an air of superiority and indifference, but when federal prohibition agents walked in on him at the Metropole hotel Thursday night, he quivered with fear. With the gangster, who gave Scarface A1 Capone a start by persuading him to leave Brooklyn for the greater opportunities of Chicago, the agents found a young woman Identified only as "Betty Jane." "Don t tell the newspapers about her," the rough, tough exmanager of Ralph Capone’s Cotton Club, begged. "My wife is Irish and she'll kill me if she finds out." But the agents did tell the newspapers—and gangsters are superstitious—and today's Friday the thirteenth—and it looks bad for "Bon Bon.”

LIGHT PENALTY IS OFFERED TO FOUR IN GIN PARTY CASE

Prosecutor Suggests Terms of 2 to 21 Years for Draves Accused. By Times Special CROWN POINT, Ind., March 13. —The four companions of Virgil Kirkland, facing a life term In prison for the murder of Miss Arlene Draves at a liquor party in Gary last November, may serve terms of only two to twenty-one' years each, it is indicated by Robert G. Estill, Lake county prosecutor. The other defendants are David Thompson, at whose home the party was held: Paul Barton, Leon Stanford and Harry Shink. “I have discussed the matter with my chief depu y. John Underwood, who prosecuted Virgil Kirkland for the same crime, Estill said, "and we would entertain pleas of guilty to manslaughter. However, we have not discussed it with attorneys for the four and we shall expect them to make the suggestion to us first. “I do not believe the other four are entitled to the life imprisonment penalty voted by the Kirkland jury," Estill continued. “Kirkland was the girl's escort to the fatal party, he planned the attack he and the others made upon her and it was he who knocked her unconscious." Estill pointed out that another compromise is possible, conviction of criminal attack, for which the penalty is a prison term of five to twenty years,

DEFENSE OPENS IN AX MURDER Slayer of Girl Wife Offers Plea of Insanity. By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 13. The defense continued to introduce evidence today in the trial of Lawrence Johnson, 22, ax slayer of his wife, 16, "because T loved her.” He told arresting officers he did not wish to see her endure childbirth in poverty. Insanity is the defense plea. Evidence of the state was closed unexpectedly late Thursday with Police Captain George Marshall as the last, witness. He. related details of a confession Joiinson is said to have made shortly after his arrest. The first defense witness was William leban, Philadelphia, a guest in the home of Mrs. Anna Watts, mother of the victim, where the slaying occurred. PROMOTER IS SHOT Death Follows Mysterious Affair at Inn. By United Press ANNAPOLIS, Md.. March 13. Charles Valentine. 34, Baltimore boxing promoter, died in the hospital here today after a mysterious shooting in the deserted Polly Inn roadhouse early this morning. Valentine was found on the floor of the i”" which police said had not been used for some time. There was a bullet through his chest and cuts on his head. CRASH HALTS KIDNAPER By United Press TERRE HAUTE. Irto., March 13. —Ramsey Johnson had an unusual experience with a kidnaper, but failed to mention it to police until they Informed him they found his automobile overturned on a road near Paris, 111. Johnson told police he was kidnaped while driving to Terre Haute fttld was forced to drive toward Paris. As he drove, he said, his kidnaper scattered a white powder in the closed car. making him dizzy. The wreck followed and Johnson walked back home, abandoning his almost new automobile.

SCHROEDER ‘CRACKS,’ THEN REGAINS POISE, AS VERDICT IS READ

/ BY CARLOS LANE Iron nerves that sustained Harold Herbert Schroeder through his crime, long imprisonment and sensational trial were a-flutter today as vision of prison bars loomed hopelessly in perspective. They failed, for the first time since he prepared a Viking’s funeral for an unidentified man in his auto last May, in the tense, dramatic moment tliat preceded the verdict of a jury in criminal court Thursday night, a verdict he realized might send him to the electric chair. The rap of Judge Frank P. Baker's ga el scarcely was necessary to sail the crowded courtroom as the jurors filed Into the box with Schroeder’s fate typed on| sheet of white paper.

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HOLIDAY PARTY PLANS FINISHED Breakfast, Program to Be Given by Hibernians. Final arrangements for the St. Patrick breakfast at the Claypool Sunday and entertainment Tuesday night at Tomlinson hall were made today by leaders of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Mrs. Mayme Connell, county president of the ladies’ auxiliary, A. O. of H.. is taking a leading part in the affair.

Communion will be received by par t. icipants at 7:30 mass at St. John's cathedral before the breakfast is served. The Rev, Pierce Dixon of Shelby county. Timothy P, Sexton, county treasurer-elect, and Paul V. McNutt, dean of the Indiana university law fchool, will speak. James Hall, appearing at the In-

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diana theater, will be master of ceremonies during the program which will be broadcast over WKBF from 10 to 11 Sunday morning. Ed Resener, ciolinist, and Miss Cecilia O'Mahoney will appear on the program Movies and a, dance will be included in the Tuesday night celebration. Lieutenant Eugene Shine is in charge of arrangements. Tickets for the celebrations are on sale at Clark & Cade’s pharmacy and Alieter’s Catholic book store. 20-22 West Maryland street.

TERRIFIC BLAST SHAKESJULSA One Hurt in Explosion Seven Miles Away, By United Press TcLSA. Okla., March 13. Downtown Tulsa was rocked early today by an explosion of nitroglycerine in a torpedo company's warehouse two miles west of Red rock, about seven miles southwest of here. An 86-year-old man named Bridges, living near the warehouse, was cut about the face by flying glass when the concussion shattered his home. Several plate glass windows were shattered in -the city by the explosion. ROBBED OF ROMANCE Mail Order Mate Stole Jewels, Woman Says. By United Press MIDDLETOWN. N. Y., March 13. —A romance which blossomed in classified newspaper advertisements, resulted in the jailing of Steve J. Gustumski of Chicago today for alleged robbery from the woman who befriended him. Last fall, Mrs. Anna Backman of Warwick, N. Y., advertised for a mate. Letters swamped the postoffice and finally Gustumski was chosen. Mrs. Backman sent him carfare here and the romance continued until Gustumski left her—victim of a delusion, she said. Now Mrs. Backman has had him arrested, charging he stole her jewelry. She is 67 and weighs 300, while he halves both figures. Former Councilman Arrested HAMMOND, Ind., March 13. George Oswego, former East Chicago city council member, was arrested here, police reporting that they found 168 bottles of beer and five gallons of wine in his possession.

The room already was quiet, saturated with the calm that attends upon a fury, whether of physical elements or human passion. stepped briskly to the table at which already sat his sister and his brother, with defense counsel Ira M. Holmes. From the crowd of spectators in the rear, a small woman slipped into the area inside the rail. It was Mrs. Schroeder. a an 'T'HE jury was filing in. Swifty she stopped and kissed her husband, a lingering, despondent caress. Then she took the seat her husband's sister vacated, by the side of the accused man. Schroeder nervously snatched a pink tinted newspaper from the table. He glanced at the front - ....

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1931

STEEL PLANT WORK TO COST TEN MILLIONS Inland Will Enlarge Plant at East Chicago With Strip Mill. FIFTH FURNACE FIRED Gary Production to Be Larger; Hammond Firm Gets Brake Order. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times Granting that the steel trade is the barometer of trade, developments of the last week justify a belief that business conditions are rapidly improving, Among the developments was the announcement by the Inland Steel Company that it will spend $10,000,300 expanding Its plants at. East. Chicago, including a continuous strip mill Work will be started in thirty days. Completion is set for eighteen months hence. During the week the fifth of the twelve blast furnaces of the Illinois" Steel Company's Gary works was fired, the second put in operation since Jan. 1. This means an increase of about 50 per cent of normal operating capacity. Twenty-five of the plant's forty-nine open hearth furnaces are in operation, The clasp brake .department of the American Steel Foundries’ Simplex plant at Hammond has booked an order to provide brakes for 1.050 ninety-ton steel cars for the Bessemer & Lake Erie railroad. IVfuncic Company Gains With 2,000 already on its pay roll the Warner Gear Company announces that an order for transmissions from the International Harvester Company will necessitate increasing the force. The Studebaker Corporation, South Bend, is increasing production 50 per cent! A' new foundry is being built for the Sibley Machine Company. Increased production continues for the Auburn Automobile Company with plants at Auburn and Conner-s----ville, and employment in both cities is approximately 3,850, against 1,085 on Nov. 1. Seventy-five men will go to work Monday as plant No, 1 of the Brazil Clay Company resumes operations. The force will be gradually increased to 150, company officials an - nounce. The plant had been idie a year. The Oriental Brick Company has reopened its plant at Craw fordsville, giving employment to fifty men. Canning Factory Sold The Nass Corporation * with canning plants at Sunman, Ind., and Coshocton, N. Y„ has purchased the factory of the Greencastle Canning Company and will operate it during the coming season. Art Marion, Ora Drischel, general manager of the Indiana General Service Company, announces it will spend $131,000 for repairs and improvements. Os the sum, $90,000 will be used in work at Marion, A gain of 17 per cent in new business was made in February by the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Ft. Wayne, over the same month in 1930. Insurance of the company in force March l was nearly $900,000,000. City to Spend $355,000. The city of Ft. Wayne has awarded a contract for construction of a filtered water reservoir at Three Rivers park to cost $355,000. The Buesching-Hagerman Company, Ft. Wayne, has the contract. Ulen & Cos., international financing and construction firm, with headquarters at'Lebanon, announces net income for the year ended Dec. 31 was $1,040,529, against $1,327,423 for the preceding year. The regular quarterly dividend has been declared, payable April 15. At the end of 1930, uncompleted business on the company’s books totaled $27,000,000. Eaton Line, Tnc., successor to the Eaton Chair Company, announces its factory will be in operation March 23. ILLINOIS LEGISLATORS VISIT STATE SCHOOL Lawmakers Investigate Budget of $11,700,0G0 for Two Years. By United Press CHAMPAIGN, 111., March I?. The high cost of higher education, as represented in the University cf Illinois budget requesting a biennial appropriation of $11,700,000 was investigated personally today by more than one hundred members of the state legislature. Coming here by special train, the legislators were thrilled by the sight of 10.000 students crossing the campus at one time, were served buttermilk' at the university farm, and learned that Illinois, with 14,§96 students registered, now is the third largest university in the country.

page, thumbed other sheets, but read riot a word. While a clerk called the jury roll, he held the paper without looking at it. It fluttered, shook, and crackled as his nerves collapsed. As he read the verdict, the clerk's words were the only sound in the room. Hysteria clutched at Mrs. Schroeder as the swift realization that her husband must spend from two to twentyone years in prison broke in her tortured mind. With a little cry she hurled herself at Schroeder. her arms around his her face buried in his shoulder. Schroeder’s face, impassive through his long ordeal, chameleon-like flashed to those who watched, joy and despair, regret and sorrow, and all the pangs of a dased human bgag.

MILLIONS BOW TO GANDHI

Wisp of Man Is Idol of Multitudes

BRIAND PLANS ITALIANPARLEY Treaty of Friendship Is Believed Near, By United Press PARIS. March 13.—Foreign Minister Aristide Briand was understood today to have instructor Ambassador De Beaumarchais at Rome to reopen as soon as possible negotiations with Italy regarding the Lybian frontier and the status of Italians born in Tunisia. Should agreement be reached on the questions, which have been two outstanding points of friction between Italy and France, it was said Briand might begin negotiations for a Franco-Italian treaty of friendship. , Hope of settling the chief questions between France and Italy was expressed recently by Briand in describing the new naval accord as merely a "prelude” to the ending of all problems between the two nations, which had been considered by many observers to be the leaders of new rival camps forming throughout Europe. WANTED! 3 ESCORTS Co-Eds Find Shortage in Men for Prom. By United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn.. March 13. An Alarming shortage in man power for the Mt. Holyoke college junior prom was revealed in a paid advertisement appearing in today’s issue of the Yale Daily News. The advertisement reads: “Wanted: Three men for Mt. Holyoke junior prom, week-end of April 24. Must be tall, good dancers, and of pleasing personality. At least one car required. Photographs must accompany applications. None lacking a sense of humor need apply. Address Drawer P, Yale Station.— Adv.” E X PANS lON PLA NS HALT By Times Special MUNCIE. ind., March 13.—Action of the Indiana assembly in reducing the budget of Ball State Teachers college here forces a halt in the expansion program of the institution, President L. A. Pittenger says. The college, during the next two years, will consolidate gains it has made in the last few years and enrich its offering to students instead of expanding and increasing offerings, Pittenger said. The college was given $400,000 a year for operating expenses.

"'lll7'E find the defendant guilty " * of voluntary manslaughter. The clerk’s voice halted an instant before reading another paragraph of the verdict, but his words were lost to the group around Schroeders table. The shock of the climax to the trial struck Schroeder like a rifle bullet. His head sank, his underlip quivered, and he wept with his wife. But not for long. Realization that no longer would he tortured with thoughts of a grim oak chair in state prison at Michigan City flooded him with happiness. Then he was despondent again, as Mrs. Schroeder shed her hat, let blonde curls disarrange themselves about her head, and climbed into her husband's lap, laying his face with her tears.

This the first of s, series of four ex

elusive stories on the life of Mahatma. Gandhi, written by Milton Bronner, European manager for. NEA Service and The Times. BY MILTON BRONNER NEA European Bureau Manager (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service. Inc ) Mohandas karamchand GANDHl—Mahatma Gandhi —a little wisp of brown humanity, almost, skeletonic in his frail body, clad only in a white loin cloth, bare-footed, bespectacled, with graying hair a,nd mustache and almost toothless mouth—is one of the most striking figures in the history of today, and also in the history of all time. There have been great writers and thinkers, like Voltaire and Goethe, who in their day by the written word affected the lives and thoughts of millions. There have been warlike’ and tyrannical kings and emperors who ruled over nations. But Gandhi beats them all. Still alive, still going strong, armed with neither a potent, pen, a golden sceptre or powerful lethal weapon, he is enshrined in the hearts of the majority of the 350,COO.OOO brown, people who seethe in the towns and villages and farms of the vast subcontinent of India. He has done it with the force of ideas. He has inflamed the imagination of his fellow countrymen. He has imbued them with a passionate longing to be masters in their own house. At a word from him countless thousands will declare a “hartal”— a national day of mourning—and lay down their tools. At a nod, they will declare a day of fasting. tt tt a THE man is strange, according to western conceptions. Capable of having earned large sums, he has given up all money making, lives in the barest of rooms—when not in jail—dines on fruit and vegetables and nuts and goat’s milk and water—leads the life of the poorest of the poor, the humblest of the humble, which he emblemizes with (Turn to Page 21) WOMAN KILLS MATE: JIM REED IS HIRED Claims Accidental Shooting of Wealthy Building Contractor. By-United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 13. Former Senator James A. Reed's successful defense of Mrs. Myrtle A. Bennett, charged with the "bridge game” murder of her husband, brought him another case today. Mrs. Harry C. Mosby, 45, who told police she accidentally shot and killed her wealthy husband, a building contractor, today, immediately arranged to have Reed represent her. Mrs. Mosby said she shot her husband when a .32-caliber automatic revolver discharged as she was handing it to him. They were planning a trip in the country for target practice, she said, when the accident occurred.

The sister wept. Schroeders brother, Ernest, of Evanston, 111., quieted her. nan BEHIND the rail the crowd packed tightly and refused to leave the room. A bailiff ordered them out, bat from the front ranks several women slipped inside to scurry to the table where the Schroeder family was grouped. They muttered low words c-f sympathy, kissed the sobbing wife, shook hands, and ended their long vigil in the courtroom. The crowd sifted away. Behind Schroeder stood two uniformed policemen. Count attaches and newspaper men milled around in the courtroom, but the family group, most of them in tears, remained in their places. ’’How do you feel about the verdict?" he asked.

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WOMAN SLAIN; HUNT HUSDAND Blasted Romance Believed Behind Tragedy. By UifUrd press CLEVELAND, March 13.—Hie body of Mrs. Margaret Yaratch, comely 27-year-old suburban telephone operator, twice a divorcee, was found on a lonely west end street early today, her side pierced by a bullet and her face battered beyond recognition. Police today were searching for her third husband, Leo Yaratch, 26, formerly of Corry, Pa., whom the woman deserted two weeks ago after a romance that lasted only nine months. Yaratch appeared at the home of his brother, Adam, shortly after the slaying, according to detectives, asked for money and said: “I've killed my -wife.” Shortly after his wife had deserted him, Yaratch was said to have told her brother, Alexander Beve, that he would kill her unless she returned to him soon. A .32-caliber automatic, which investigators said was identified as Yaratch’s, and an exploded shell were found near the slain woman's body. The clip had oeen removed from the gun. 2 KILLED BY TRAIN Women Lose Lives at Spencer Crossing. By United Press SPENCER,.Ind., March 13.—Two persons were killed and two injured seriously Thursday when an automobile was struck by a train at a crossing here. The dead: Mrs. Alla McClaren, crushed skull, and Mrs. Marion Sheppard, internal injuries. The injured: Mrs. Fred Bayh, broken leg, and Mrs. Rolia Hughes, cuts and bruises about the face. Mrs. Hughes is the mother of Mrs. Sheppard. Witnesses said the driver, Mrs. Sheppard, apparently did not see the train, which was traveling at reduced speed. Fish Killing Alleged By Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind.. March 13.—A warrant has been served for arrest of Ralph Stricklcr. Ladoga Canning Company superintendent, on a charge that refuse dumped from the company's factory caused death of many fish in Raccoon creek.

“I don’t see . . . what concern that is of yours,” he replied, his voice choked with emotion. a a a LATER he was more talkative. "If it hadn't been for Ira Holmes, I’d be a free man,” he declared. "He's nuts. I tell you the man. is absolutely crazy,” Holmes said. "I contended that all the time.” Schroeder’s willingness to talk about the verdict increased after he was lodged in jail. Free from any further worry about penalties for the crime the state charges he committed—that of slaying a man and burning the body beyond hope of identification to collect insurance—he offered to tell the real story of the crime “ “111 give you a good story for fifty grand—or a pint o< liquor," he offered. Neither was Available.

‘TORCH MAN’ MOCKS SEARCH FOR ‘VICTIM’ Curses and Snarls Greet Mother's Appeal to Schroeder. ‘IMPOSSIBLE,’ HE SNEERS Uses Stock Phrase for All Queries Directed at Him. BY ARCH STEINEL Hundreds of mothers of missing youths, youths who hitch hiked on a balmy May day of 1930 and “thumbed' for rides, can put their liearts of mourning in the casket of the body found burned on the High School road, as far Harold Herbert Schroeder is concerned. Hundreds of mothers could have filed bv the cell-block in the Marion county jail today and held up photographs for Schroeder to see and they would have gotten the answer that one mother got today: “Its impossible for it to bo him.'’ The Schroeder of the trial and Friday night is today the Schroeder the prosecution painted in their plea for conviction. Mocks at Motherhood He is hard as the steel bars he grips. The suave gentleman of the southland is gone out of him. He curses with every breath. He mocks at motherhood that wishes vainly to know “whether this picture of my son could be the boy that rode with you.” Shortly before the Schroeder jury contemplated his fate Friday night, Mrs. Louise Crooks, R. R. 2, Box 673, showed a photograph to Judge Frank Baker of her missing son, Harold Webb. She said he attended a Catholic school in Vincennes. She said he might be wearing a rosary similar to the one found near Schroeder's car. “It's a Bunch of Bull" Shown a photograph of the youth Friday night after his conviction Schroeder said, “I never saw that man." Today an enlargement of the snapshot was brought to him by The Times. Standing in his underwear, without his customary tortoise-shell glasses on, Schroeder barked at his visitors, “I don't want to see anybody, I don’t know.” “But we're newspaper men. We've got a picture of a boy—an enlargement—and the mother tells a story that shows it might possibly be the hitch hiker that rode with you?” was the retort. “Yeah, you want me to see it so you can put a bunch of bull in the paper. Hundreds of them have said the same thing. It's just a lot of foolishness,” he shouted angrily. “Impossible to Be Him” “But this mother’s story sounds plausible.” he was answered. His curiosity seemed to cause him to hesitate. Then: "Let me see it?” A deputy sheriff handed him the picture. He fingered it. He looked at it closely. “It's IMPOSSIBLE for it to be him,” he replied as he handed the photograph back. “Are you still angry at Holmes, your counsel, because you were convicted?” he was asked. Uses Same, Stock Answer “None of your business,” he remarked. Queries whether he slept well, what he thought about the verdict, what he ate for breakfast, received the same six-w r ord replies. Blasphemy of other prisoners backed him up. Society, if tossed into that jail bull pen, would have been tom to bits just as Schroeder tears to bits any possible identification of the unknown hitchhiker who rode with him that May day back in 1930. TWO BOARDS OUSTED Michigan City Council Abolishes Works and Safety Groups. By United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., March 13.—The boards of public works and safety have been abolished by the Michigan City council, and their duties transferred to a board consisting of Mayor H. B. Tuthill and two councilmen. The action is said to have been been taken to defeat an act of the seventy-seventh Indiana general assembly, placing the city's water department in the hands of a board of five trustees. The bill was sponsored by the city's banks. LORD PRIVY SEAL~DEAD Hartshorn, Deputy Leader in House of Commons, Succumbs. By United Press LONDON, March 13.—The Rt. Hen. Vernon Hartshorn, 58, Lord Pnyy Seal in the MacDonald government and deputy leader in the house of commons, died today. He succeeded J. H. Thomas as Lord Privy Seal last year, when Thomas was made secretary of state for the dominions. BOY IS CUT - SEVERELY Bicycle Crashes Into Truck; Lad Sent to City Hospital. Floyd Washburn, 16, of 1027 \ Blaine avenue, Cathedral high school pupil, today suffered severe head cuts when the bicycle he was riding crashed into a truck driven by Wesley C. Emrich, 39, R. R. 3, Box 64. at Kentucky and Oliver avenues. Washburn was sent to city hospital for treatment. Man and Wife Die LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 13. Within twelve hours, Christian Gerber, 83, and his wife Josephine, 77, died at their home east of here. He was a victim of pneumonia. Heart disease was fatal to Mrs. Gerber. a