Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 266, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1931 — Page 5

•MARCH 18, 1931

IDENTITY LOST. SGHROEDER IS iUSTNO.J4.SO4 Mobile Man Half Afraid as He Enters Indiana State Prison. BY EDWARD C. FYLKE He was Just another prisoner—this No. 14,504 —who stood uneasily at the clerk's office in the Indiana ctate prison watching his Identity sink behind a sea of gray walls. He was Harold Herbert Schroeder A man as empty of speech as a statue—who stood friendless and convicted at the portals of a prison where society was locking him away.

He was a different man now. You watched him with anew sort of sympathy. Here was the "big house” —and here was Schroeder. One, like the scythe of time, reaping years from a man’s life—the other, a man lost to his emotions. The color had fTed from his face, and that prison palor already was in his eyes. Here was Schroeder at the threshhold of this place where time stood still —at this home without the touch of home, giving up all these things that men fight for—a name, a past, a position. Thirty feet away was the doorway to that emptiness. And here was Schroeder—the slayer, the father, the son. Half-afraid, hesitant, he stood eyeing the corridor leading back to the gray pit. His elbows protruded through tattered holes in an old coat sweater; faded gray trousers bagged at the knee; trembling fingers rubbed across the stubbles of a three-d£,y beard. The past was gushing through his mind at the •‘tght of bars behind which no man ever is free. It, was but a matter of minutes until this unreality of prison became a reality. This Schroeder backed away as if

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to brace himself for the ordeal. No friends to part with—only three men who brought him to this place to spend the next two to twentyone years for voluntary manslaughter. A barred door swung open, like a giant mouth hungry for its prey. Schroeder squared his shoulders. There was nothing theatrical about the movement, it was spontaneous and genuine. The prisoner looked first at the open door, then at three men. He offered his hand and gritted his teeth as that hand was shaken. “Well, boys. 111 see you later.” Inside the door he did not glance back. He was Just another prisoner—- “ No. 14,504.’

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NAGEL FILM OPENS TODAY AT CIRCLE THE all-talking picture entitled “Today,” which has Conrad Nagel as its star, opened today at the Circle for an engagement of nine days. “Rango” had its final showings Tuesday. “Today,” which is based on the Broadway stage production of the same name that was written by Abraham Schomer and George Broadhurst tells of the trials of a young married couple suddenly plunged into poverty by a stock market crash. Conrad Nagel is supported by Catherine Dale Owen, Judith Vosselli, Drew Demarest, Julia Swayne Gordon and others. William Nigh directed. Briefly, “Today” deals with the young couple’s troubles after they

are caught in the market crash. The husband determinedly starts the struggle to win back his lost fortune, but the wife can not accustom herself to the commonplace exist-

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ence into which she is forced. She longs for the fine friends, the beautiful clothes and the parties of better days. A society friend

fans this longing into an intense desire, which leads to a startling and unusual climax. Rudy Vallee in Paramount Pictorial, Jack Benny in “Broadway Romeo,” Bimbo in an animated cartoon called “Tree Saps.” and a Paramount sound news reel Riake up the short subject program on the n< , Circle bill. Other theaters today offer: “City Lights ’ with Charlie Chaplin, at the Palace; “East Lynne” at the Apollo, “The Blue Angel” at the Ohio, James Hall at the Indiana, “Atlantic” at the Terminal. Rin-Tin-Tii: at the Lyric, movies at the Colonial and burlesque at the Mutual.

BOMB THREAT LEFT AT STORE Woman Owner Ordered to Leave SI,OOO in Box. “Black hand spectres” today stalked the grocery operated by Mrs. Edna Morrow at 1037 High street. Emblazoned with all the fearful insignia of dime-novel extortionist tradition, the following note was found by Mrs. Morrow Tuesday in a bread box: “Lay SI,OOO on the tray in the bread box tomorrow morning. If

you don’t will blow your store higher than a kite. “You know who. “P. S. No fooling, and no delay." Only suspect, Mrs. Morrow told police, was an unidentified man who' came to the store drunk Saturday and demanded that she buy him some coal. “You'd better pray, for you have a store today, but maybe not tomorrow,” he cautioned when she refused. Fanner Missing Hr/ Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., March 18.—A search is being made for Martin Kinkead, Montgomery county farmer, who disappeared after purchasing a quantity of rifle cartridges. Relatives entertain a fear that he may have committed suicide.

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