Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 304, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1931 — Page 8

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PARDON BOARD DENIES SEVEN PAROLE PLEAS Rule Applications Are Brought Too Soon After Imprisonment. by United Prtnn MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., April 30. —The Indiana pardon board showed Itself strongly opposed to leniency for prisoners as hearings of clemency applications opened. In seven cases heard all pleas were denied. Included in the list were two convicted murderers seeking parole. The board held that most applications were brought too soon after incarceration. Those whose petitions were denied were: Andrew Combs, Greene circuit court, sentenced on a charge of murder, Feb, 10, 1922, life, whose parole was denied despite 1,100 petitioners; Jack O’Connor, former Purdue graduate, sentenced from Marion circuit court, criminal assault, Jan. 9, 1929, commutation denied; John Landreth, Lawrence circuit court, murder, Sept. 29, 1927, denied temporary parole, and Otha Brodie, Greene circuit court, assault, Dec. 21, 1929, denied commutation. Denied Pardon or Parole Henry Miller, sentenced in La Porte circuit court Oct. 4, 1930, to ten to fourteen years on a robbery charge, was denied either a pardon or parole. Homer Groggens, sentenced in Vanderburg circut court April 6, 1914, to life imprisonment on a murder charge, was denied a parole, as were Grover Hinds, sentenced in Monroe circuit court Oct. 15, 1930, on a charge of transporting liquor, and Perry Lynam, sentenced in Hancock circuit court March 3, 1915, to life for murder. Two Granted Continuances Francis Bruczissi, sentenced in St. Joseph circuit court June 9, 1925, to life for murder, was granted a ninety-day continuance for further study, before action on his plea for a pardon. William Middleton, sentenced to a five to twenty-one years in Putnam circuit court April 19, 1929, on a robbery charge, likewise was granted a ninety-day continuance, pending further investigation. OPEN DRIVE ON REBELS Operations on Isle of Madeira Is Begun Successfully. LISBON, Portugual, April 30. Operations against the rebels in the island of Madeira have begun successfully, the ministry of marine announced today. Military action indicated the truce had expired which had kept hostilities suspended for two days.

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'T'ALK about storms in a teacup and biggest laughs of the year, the palm for this sort of thing should go to the American Legion, which allowed itself to be stampeded into a hysteria of red-baiting fulminations about Dr. Oxnam and De Pauw and appointed an investigating committee. Outside of the few professional “paytriots” and others of their kind, the people of Indiana are getting a healthy horse laugh out of the affair. “It’s the only cause for humor since the depression,” said one of the attaches at the Chamber of Commerce today. “What’s all this flag waving about?” seems to be the question every one is asking and the answer must be that somebody or other wants to get Dr. Oxnam ousted. tt u tt None seems to take the American Legion investigation seriously and consensus is that the members of this organization are sore because that well-known “professional American,” Representative Hamilton Fish, declared at a dinner here that the Veterans of Foreign Wars are outdoing the Legion in the big red-baiting act. What the Legion probers expect to find is problematical. It may be that they hope a visit to Greencastle will show that the red flag is flying off the staff from which the national emblem should hang, or that incomprehensible and now outmoded tome of Karl Marx, “Das Kapital,” is supedseding the Bible; or perhaps the “Internationale” is being sung in chapel instead of the De Pauw school song. tt tt u Politicians are interested in noting that two members of the probe committee are Judge Harry O. Chamberlin, who may become a candidate in 1932 for re-election to the circuit court bench, and State Senator Joe Rand Beckett, that grave young statesman, who it is rumored, envisions himself in some great public office, the higher the better. Incidentally, Beckett’s term also expires in 1932. Instigating the entire OxnamDe Pauw-Red affair, it is charged, is naval reserve officer and banker Felix T. McWhirter, who, statehouse records show, did pretty well in the national guard Armory business. The only saving grace about the entire affair is that Dr. Oxnam is getting people to thinking who never thought before, and a comedy relief has been afforded Hoosierdom.

YOUNG MOTHER 'NOT GUILTY' OF I CHILD NEGLECT Katherine Stearns, Freed, Then Files Suit, Asking for $5,000 Damages. A young mother took the offensive I today in a battle to keep her babyafter she was found “not guilty’’ on j child neglect charges. Miss Katherine Stearns, 18, of 1112 ; North Jefferson avenue, the girlmother, filed suit in superior court ! 5 charging her accusers, Mr. and i Mrs. Charles Robards, 209$ South ! Emerson avenue, with malicious prosecution and asking $5,000 damages. Miss Stearns’ trial before Special Judge Frank A. Symmes in juvenile ! court on child neglect charges, ended today when Judge Symmes j held, “The baby was not dependent ' and not neglected.” The baby is Betty Jeanne ! Stearns, . The state, at the behest of Ira Holmes, counsel for Mr. and Mrs Robards, sought to dismiss the charges against Miss Stearns. Erve Hanford, the mother’s attorney, protested the dismissal and

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requested a finding on the child neglect counts. Mr. and Mrs. Robards are legal guardians of the child. They alleged in the child neglect affidavits that the child was taken from their home on Dec. 17, 1930, by the mother. Miss Steams says she does not know where the child is at the present time. The next legal hurdle in the case will be the writ of habeas corpus hearing pending in circuit court which demands that Miss Stearns produce the child in court. In the damage suit filed today Miss Steams through her attorney alleges that she has been prosecuted by the Robards’ unjustly. She charges newspaper publicity has caused her to lose a position as a waitress at Sl7 a week and that in the past three years she has been subjected to surveillance by detectives. The suit also charges that the affidavit upon which the writ of habeas corpus is being sought, says that the child is in her legal custody and care. The affidavit was sworn to on Dec. 22. It alleges that the detectives who shadowed her spread malicious rumors regarding her character. The habeas corpus hearing will be held May 4 before Judge Harry O. Chamberlin.

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SUICIDE RIDDLE STILL MUDDLED Coroner Tracks Down Clews in Woman’s Death. Efforts to solve the mystery surrounding the suicide of a woman in an apartment at 2110 North Meridian street Saturday still were : blocked by ramifications today. Coroner Fred W. Vehling’s latest clew to the woman’s real identity led him to believe a man in Van Horn, Tex., knows her. On Oct. 7, 1930, a money order was sent to Mrs. Annabel Sawyer, and was cashed at the Bankers Trust Com- ; pany. The woman has been identified as : Lillian Wilmer, Annabel Sawyer and Lillian Sawyer by persons for whom ! she is supposed to have worked as i a domestic. Others have identified the body as that of a woman who operated ! a beauty shop in Orlando, Fla., six ‘years ago, as Lillian Wilmer.

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