Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1931 — Page 14
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CITY MAN FINDS ERRANT WIFE IN ANDERSON JAIL Regains 8-Year-Old Girl Left With Friends Under False Name. By T i*m Ppecifil ANDERSON, Ind. June 17 —Four months ago, Mrs. Carl Henson abandoned her husband in Indianapolis Henson, a grocery manager, came home one night only to find his wife, his automobile and his 8-year-old daughter, Emma Mae, gone. Henson, frantic, did not know which way to turn, but finally received a “tip" that his wife w’as in Anderson Police here, however, were unable to trace her and Henson lqst hope. Caught In Raid Finally, a. liquor raiding squad arrested a man, a woman and found a child, at a w’est side house The woman said her name was Elizabeth Thompson, the man, Edgar Blake The woman insisted that her child be placed in the home of Albert Neff. Police consented and when the woman came to trial she was con--I’icted and sentenced to thirty days in tail A search of her effects revealed her to be Mrs. Henson and the Indianapolis man came rushing here. He went to Neff s home. There he found his daughter. He was overjoyed. More Charge# Waiting Then he found his automobile. Neff had been using tt as a jitney bus and had been fined once by lota 1 authorities for operating an automobile with improper license plates . . Henson headed homeward for Indianapolis in his automobile, his daughter by his side „ Neff was held in custody. Baker pleaded not, guilty and wall face trial, and Mrs Henson faces an unhappy trail. Frank Miller, Marion comity juvenile investigator, filed with police officials here a claim for her as soon as she has completed her term. Miller asserted four charges are. pending against her in Indianapolis. U. S. MAYORS RETURNING Prohibitionist Member of Party i Draws Criticism for Conduct. By United Press ABOARD S S. TLE DE FRANCE, June 17.—The party of American mayors who have been visiting France as guests of the government were on their way home today with nothing to do until they reach Nexy j York but sleep and rest after a strenuous month "over there.” Mayor John H. Porter of Los Angeles, the most ardent prohibitionist in the party, w’as the center of at- 1 tention again He rejoined the party at Plymouth. England. Tuesday night, after a trip to Germany. Some of the members of the group were slightly cool to Porter, w ho was criticised because, while a guest of the French government, he had left the tour for four days in Germany. SECURITY ISSUE ASKED Vincennes Water Company Seeks Approval for $56,000 Project. Petition has been filed with the j public service commission by the j Vincennes Water Supply Company asking for authority to issue $56,000 ! in securities. The funds to be derived are to be used to reimburse the company’s treasury for improvements and additions made to the Vincennes water system during the last few years. Former Official Acquitted B'i Timea Special MUNCIE, Ind. June 17.—Maynel Dalby, city clerk of Muncie for , eight years, was acquited by a Delaware circuit court jury Tuesday night of a charge of embezzlement The jury took eighteen ballots.
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* National Guardsmen Quit BbL jH pumping an abandoned quarry hole ‘ | in search of the body of Earl Trues- 1 dale, 21. w-ho is believed to have Th e bodv of Thelnm Woods. 17.
National Guardsmen Quit Ohio Duty Because of Hunger. By Vmtei Press LIMA, O, .Time 17.—Work of pumping an abandoned quarry hole in search of the body of Earl Truesdale, 21, u'ho is believed to have been murdered with his sweetheart, Thelma Woods, 17. was in the hands of county authorities today after volunteer national guard workers walked from their posts because they were “hungry." While hundreds of spectators lined the brink of the quarry, expecting searchers to recover the youth’s body, one guardsmen mounted a stump and declared authorities had not provided them with sufficient food Accompanied by twenty-four companions the speaker walked from the premies County authorities, however, continued the task of dragging the xvaters which yielded the body of Thelma last week after she and Truesdale had been missing since Memorial day. Grappling hooks were being employed in an effort to raise a heavily weighted object located in one section of the pond. The object, which repeatedly has eluded attempts to raise it, may be the body of the young farm hand, officials believed.
TWO WOMEN HANGED Poison Killers Faint When They See Gallows. By United Press BUDAPEST, June 17.—’Two women participants in the mass poisoning of Theiss valley, one of the strangest and most ghastly chapters of modern crime, w'ere hanged today at Szolnok, Hungary. They were the wife of Laszlo Szabo and the widow of Balint Chordas, sentenced for poisoning Frau Szabo’s father and uncle at Tiszakuert in March, 1925. Both fainted when they saw the gallows, and they were hanged simultaneously while unconscious. By the Hungarian method, the victim’s feet are drawn apart by two assistants while a supporting stool is knocked from under. The hangman holds the victim’s face with a handkerchief, turning it from side to side until convinced death has come, when he lifts his hat and informs the president of the court that sentence has been carried out. Train Used by Suicide By United Preset PLYMOUTH. Ind., June 17.—Clifford Bell, 57, Plymouth, was killed instantly when he flung himself into the path of a Panhandle passenger train near here.
The body of Thelma Woods, 17. right,, mysteriously missing since Memorial Day e.ve. when she went riding with a boy acquaintance, was, found in the debris at the bottom of this abandoned stone quarry pool at Lima. O. as it was emptied by pumps thirteen days after they vanished. The girls’ hands and feet w r ere lashed together. Earl Truesdale, 20, her escort on the fatal wide, still is missing and searchers believed he also was slain.
2 HURT IN CRASHES : i Pedestrian, Passenger in Mishaps Tuesday. Two w’omen suffered cuts and bruises in motor car accidents Tuesday night. Mrs. Jessie Steel of 343 North Noble street sustained cuts and bruises- when she was struck by a hit-and-run driver at Noble and Washington streets. Bystanders said a. roadster with two youths in -It struck Mrs. Steel. She w r as given emergency treatment and taken home. Miss Ellore Sutton, 17, of Anderson, suffered lacerations, when a car driven by Orville Shaul, Anderson, collided with an automobile driven by Charles B. Showalter, 323 Leslie avenue, seven miles east of the city on the National road. Miss Sutton was riding in Saul’s car. She was taken to the fcity hospital. Her condition is not’ dangerous. City Yale Student to Be Graduate Russell Belknap Bass, son of the Rev. and Mrs. B. W. Bass of Indianapolis. will be graduated from Yale university this week. He was graduated from Technical high school and Butler university.
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BELGIAN BEAUTY WINS CROWN OF 'MISSJNIVERSE' $2,500 and Broadway Contract Reward Galveston Bathing Girl Victor. By United Press GALVESTON. Tex, June 17Miss Netta Duchateau of Belgium, a brunet, celebrated her selection as “Miss Universe.” the most beautiful girl in the world. A $2,500 cash prize, the silver plaque symbolic of her title, and the Broadway theatrical contract which go with her triumph as winner of the twelfth annual international beauty pageant, were awaiting the new “Miss Universe” at a dinner today at the Hotel Galvez. Miss Duchateau won over • Miss Anne Lee Patterson of-Ludlow. Ky., “Miss United States," and seven other entrants from foreign lands. Six judges thought long and seriously before they announced their choice, agreeing that all the entrants . were charming girls and “ought to w’in something or other.” Miss Lena Thomas, a brunet from Memphis, was chosen as the third most beautiful girl in the entire pageant, placing just below the titian-haired, hazel-eyed “Miss United States.” Baroness Daisy Freyburg, “Miss Germany,” noted for the platinum blonde hair which hangs to her hips, won fourth, with Miss Pat Hall of Atlanta. Ga.. fifth. Miss Duchateau is the second girl to take the international title to Europe. Lisl Golbarbeiter of Austria won the honors two years ago The pageant will close tonight when all the entrants from all the cities, states and countries will meet for one grand show of beauty. _ Missing Man Returns By United Press ARGOS. Ind. June 17—Henry Flora. 64. farmer living near here, was home today after a 36 hours absence which caused a. countrywide search. Flora was in a. dazed condition and was unable to explain where he had been. Sun Stroke Fatal MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, June 17 —Benjamin Stoll. 55, a city street department employe, was the first heat victim of the season. He suffered a sun stroke while on duty, and died in a hospital,
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Tuesday night at a dinner for ths Fifth division of the Railway Mail Association. A dance followed B. G. Burris. Cincinnati, was reelected president. Other officers are F. W. Bretz. Columbus, o , vicepresident; J. M. Bosicr, New Albany, secretary.
