Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1931 — Page 3

JUNE 1,1931.

BUTCHER FIEND IS SOUGHT IN GOTHAMKILLING Dismembered Body Is Being Recovered Bit by Bit, Scattered in City. By United Press NEW YORK, June I.—ldentity of a. fiendish "sex butcher” and his victim whose dismembered body Is being rcoverod bit by bit was sought after discovery of two packages Sunday containing additional parts of the butchered body. The head, two forearms, two feet and two hands of a man about 35 years old, with curly brown hair, apparently fastidious in personal appearance, were in the packages found early Sunday in a vacant lot at Morgan avenue and Ten Eyck street, Brooklyn. The victim had been dead at least two months, examining surgeons said, and police linked the discoveries, then, with discovery previously of other parts of a human body, March 27 and April 12. in approximately me same sections of the metropolitan district. Brutality Is Apparent "Extreme brutality of the butcher was apparent," police said, “from the manner in #?hich certain parts of the body were cut and hacked, as though with a meat cleaver or ax, leading to the conclusion the killing was a *sex murder’ of the most vicious type. The packages found were uncov- , ered by Policeman Cottlieb Gauler I and his father who had come to the vacant lot to seek top soil. One was wrapped in a New York Daily News of April 16, the other In a Brooklyn Daily Eagle of March 26. The head was in one package. Other parts were in the second package. Portions of Body Scattered Still a third package found nearby contained a silk shirt, several pieces of a man's silk underwear, and a pair of women’s bloomers. The man, apparently five feet six inches tall, weighing 160 pounds, had carefully manicured fingernails., Police believed other portions of' the same man’s body were those found March 27 and April 12, the first a thigh found wrapped in paper on the Brooklyn end of Williamsburg bridge. A few days later a large section of a human chest was found in a nearby lumber yard, and the next day at the foot of Grand street in the East river a human calf, a thigh and two upper arms were found. Part of a buttock was found April 12 in Glendale. Police theory was that the victim had been killed in New York, and the wrapped parts had been carried across Williamsburg bridge and thrown from an auto at intervals. GARAGE. TWO AUTOS DESTROYED BY FIRE Tail phone Lines in Vicinity Put < ut of Commission by Flames. Fre of unknown origin today destroyed a two-story garage and two automobiles in the rear of the residence of J. K. Cookenour, 1106 West Thirty-first street. Telephones in the vicinity were out of commission after the fire had destroyed lines. Firemen said they believed the fire was caused by spontaneous combustion originating from a large quantity of paint and supplies in one of the vehicles. Cookenour, however, said he thought the fire was due to faulty wiring. Canadian Catholic Bishop Dies By United Press QUEBEC, June I.—Preparations were being made today for funeral of Cardinal Raymond Marie Rouleau, 66, head of the Roman Catholic church in Canada, who died suddenly from a heart attack in his home at the archbishop’s palace Sunday.

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Everybody was happy when they sailed for a whoopee invasion of the European bright spots. But Texas Guinan, Broadway night club hostess, pictured here with some of her show girls, was alternately irate and hysterical when French officials boarded

DR. MAURICE BARRY ON HEALTH BOARD

Physician, a Democrat, Is Given 4-Year Term by Mayor. Dr. Maurice Joseph Barry, 3160 North New Jersey street, was appointed to the city health board today for a term of four years by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. Barry succeeds Dr. Frederick E. Jackson, whose four-year term expired today. After graduation from Indiana university medical school in 1903, Dr. Barry took up practice here and has been a resident of the city since. He is clinical professor of medicine at the Indiana university school of medicine, a member of the staff of the Methodist, St. Vincent’s and city hospitals and the city dispensary. He is former vice-president of the Indianapolis Medical Society, and a member of the Indiana Medical Society and American Medical Association, also the Indianapolis Academy of Medicine and Surgery. In making the appointment, Mayor Sullivan said he had solicited Barry to take the place after Dr. Jackson had asked that he not be considered for reappointment. Sullivan said Jackson left office with his high personal regards. Jackson completes his term of office also as president of the health board. It is likely one of the two Democratic members, Dr. Barry or Evans Woollen Jr. will be named president. Other members are Dr. -H. S. Leonard and Obie J. Smith, realtors, Repulbicans. Barry, a life long Democrat, has never held public office. His office is at 55 Stokes building. SUICIDE EFFORrTAILS Two Try Gas and Poison, But Are Likely to Recover. Suicide attempts of two persons failed Sunday. Police found Charles Rinehart, 66, near death from suffocation by gas in a tailor shop at South Illinois street. His condition was not considered serious at the city hospital. Despondency over marital troubles was given as the cause of the attempt. Mrs. pcrothy Brown, 29, of 501 South New Jersey street, was returned to her home today after she had swallowed a quantity of poison Sunday,

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FALLS STUNT FAILS Barrel Is Imprisoned in River by Whirlpool. By United Press NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, June I.—William (Red) Hill was ‘‘all caught up” on his river stunts today. Hill swore off river stunting after he finished his trip in a barrel from the gorge whirlpool to Queenston Sunday, refusing to take the Niagara’s dare when it imprisoned him in the whirlpool more than two hours Saturday and halted his scheduled ride at the halfway mark. “Now,” Hill said when he climbed from the barrel at Queenston, “I’m all caught up. I’ve finished stunting on the river.” He had nearly drowned Saturday afternoon when his whirlpool-bound barrel leaked, filling to his shoulders before his 18-year-old son, William Jr., swam through the swirling waters to fasten a safety line to the 1,700-pound craft.

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Awaiting Final Ruling on Entrance to France. By Times Special LE HAVRE, France, June 1. Texas Guinan, saddened but not yet defeated by the inhospitability of France to her and her “little girls,” waited in a ramshackle h&tel today for final word from Paris whether she and her troupe officially can enter the country. Miss Guinan indignantly denied she was suffering from a nervous breakdown. She said she played poker until midnight and was up early today. “I should have had a breakdown,” the entertainer said. “I couldn’t even draw a pair of dueces.”

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DEATHS OF 19 ARE PROBED IN POISONING CASE \ Woman’s Possible Victims May Have Been Slain for Insurance. By United Press CHICAGO, June I.—Deaths of nineteen relatives and friends of Mrs. Margaret Summers were investigated today by authorities compiling evidence to be presented a grand jury with a request that murder charges be returned against the white-haired woman. Four of the deaths were caused by arsenic poisoning, a coroner s jury held after the bodies were exhumed and examined by medical experts. C. Wayland Brooks, assistant state’s aattorney, said evidence showed several others died “mysteriously.” Mrs. Summers was accused of causing the four deaths to collect insurance money. Her husband, a nephew and two roomers at her home were the victims named. They died within the last three years. Four other husbands, a lover, two brothers and a small daughter were among the fifteen others who died mysteriously, according to a statement made to prosecutors by Mrs. William Meyers, Mrs. Summers’ stepmother, of Effingham, 111. Brooks said he ; might subpena Mrs. Meyers to tell her story before the grand jury. The investigation today had extended over the past twenty-five years of Mrs. Summers’ life, starting with the death of her first husband, James Lynch, and a 3-year-old daughter. Names of other persons believed j to have been possible victims were j found on a page torn from a Bible. Dates of death and amounts of insurance carried were lisced with the names. The list included the names of the husbands, of a street peddler who died in 1928, and the nephew, Thomas Meyers, who died two weeks ago. 1

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By United Press MIDDLETOWN, Conn., June I.—A girl who helped two men hold up a pharmacy Friday night, has been identified from police circulars, as Marion Roberts, red-haired show girl friend of Jack (Legs) Diamond, New" York racketeer.

11l Health Causes Suicide

DECATUR, Ind., June I.—Despondency over ill health caused j Charles H. Hayslip, 69, to commit j suicide by slashing his throat with; a penknife at the Elks home here, j where he resided. Pie formerly j owned a hotel and theater here.

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Motor Club Convene

Delegates from more than 1,100 motor clubs today are attending the thirtieth annual convention of the American Automobile Association at the West Baden Spring hotel at West Baden, Ind.

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GREEN PLEADS FOR DIVISION OF WORKERS' JOBS Labor Chief Is Speaker at Dedication of Barbers’ Union Home. Every worker’s right to a Job-part-time, if necessary—was defended stoutly by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, in his speech at dedication of the new home of the Journeymen Barbers’ International Union of America. Delaware and Twelfth streets, Sunday. “Emplojment must be distributed evenly among all wofkers,” Green declared, “whether industry is forced to a five-day, or a four-day week, or even less." The labor head called on President Hoover to call a conference of national industrial, labor and economic leaders to shape up anew economic code insuring a fair share in labor for all workers. Unless such a change is accomplished. Green said, serious national unemployment will persists. “The whole inequality is rocked in human selfishness and greed, he declared.” We cannot continue in this manner. There are to many industrialists who believe that because God worked six days in building the world they must work their men six days. Under present production methods this is unnecessary and impractical. Society does not owe any man a living, but it owes him a chance to work with the same security in his job that stockholders have in their 'investments.” United States Senator James J, Davis, former secretary of labor, made a vigorous declaration against wage reductions, and related that the “public forum” discussions of barber shops often echo in state legislatures and the halls of congress.