Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 64, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1931 — Page 2

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$50,000 LIBEL ■ SUIT FILED BY IRA M. HOLMES ftvers Reputation Damaged ? in Editorial bv ' * W. A. Shead. ' An editorial ■which appeared recently in the Indiana Democrat is basis for a $50,000 libel suit against Walter A. Shead, editor, and the Democrat State Publishing Company, filed today in circuit court by Sra m. Holmes, prominent criminal attorney. Holmes charges that his profession and reputation have been damaged greatly by statements in an editorial published July 2 by Shead. The suit quotes the editorial as saying ‘‘lra Holmes, a gangster attorney, long has run rampant over Marion county courts and has committed acts of contempt many times.” Holmes will seek redress against statements that he declares branded him as an attorney ‘‘employed by R gang of outlaws and other disreputable persons,” the suit Charges. Duties of an attorney under the state law are outlified in the suit and probably will be used by the plaintiff in court. These include: 1. To support the Constitution Snd laws of the United States and this state. 2. To maintain the respect that Is due the courts of justice and Judicial officers. 3. To counsel or maintain such actions, proceeding or defenses only as appear to him legal and just, but this section shall not be consrued to prevent, the defense of a person charged with crime, in any case. 4. Never to reject., from any consideration personal to himself the cause of the defenseless or oppressed. 5. To maintain inviolate the confidence, and at every peril to himself, to preserve the secrets of his client. 6. To employ, for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided him, such means only as are consistent with truth, and never seek to mislead the court or jury by any artifice of false statement of fact or law. PIPE THEFT IS PUZZLE Who, How and When 2.000 Feet Were Pilfered Is Problem. P/j United PreKH REDWOOD CITY, July 24.—Sheriff J. J. McGrfath wondered today who and, more particularly, how, and also when, someone stole 2,000 feet of pipe from the Mid State Oil Company premises here. Sections of the pjpe line were discovered in a San Francisco iron frorks, but the company insisted that it had purchased the pipe from a man named C. Vincent, who had posed as an official of the oil company. Charles White, manager of the concern, denied that there was any such person connected with the company.

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City Resident Dies After Operation; Other Rites Also Set. Funeral services will be held at 3 Saturday afternoon at the home for John Judah Brandon, 49, who died Thursday in Methodist hospital from complications following an abdominal operation. Mr. Brandon, associated with the General Advertising Company of Indianapolis, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Judah, and a grandson of the late Dr. Patrick Henry Jameson, member of an old Indianapolis family. he assumed the name of his maternal grandmother, Brandon. He was educated here, at St. Pauls school, Concord, N. H., and at Harvard. He lived here virtually all his life. Surviving him are the widow, Mrs. Muriel Brandon: two children. Barbara and John J., Jr.,

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his home, but was captured four hours later by local police. The slain agents were Walter M. Gilbert and John J. Wilson. This NEA Service, Inc., Times photo shows Adams with the po-

the father, and a brother, Henry J. Brandon of Hempstead, L. I. Three long residents of the city were numbered among those who died in the city Thursday. Funeral rites will be held at 2 Sunday afternoon for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Custer, 64, who died at her home, 15 North Gladstone avenue, after a short illness. John E. Mears, 63, died at the

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licemen who captured him early Thursday. Left to right: Sergeant Carl Ormiston, patrolman Raymond Keim, George Adams, motorcycle officer John Taylor and Sergeant Edward McGrath.

home of a daughter, Mrs. Madge I Chume, of Acton, and funeral services will be held at 2 Saturday afternoon. Last rites for Miss Carrie Brueggemann, a lifelong resident of Marion county, who died at her j home, 2152 South Ritter avenue, Thursday, will be at St. Pauls church at 2:30 Monday, and at the home at 1:45 Monday afternoon. Cat Mothers Rats BLUFFTON, Ind., July 24.—A cat, owned by Theron Lindsey, living here, killed a rat, then adopted two | young rats, offspring of the dead I rodent.

EXILED BOY NOT FEEDLE-MINDED, TEAM SAYS 'We’ve Got Worse Here,’ Asserts Instructor at Plainfield. (Continued from Page 1) “always understand the lessons the teachers give out.” But he doesn't know why he can’t learn. His desire to be like other boys and to have clothes that are not always overalls was exemplified when he reminded Superintendent Negus that he had not received his uniform cap—the cap worn by all boys at the school. “We’ll see that you get one, son,” declared Negus as he patted the boy’s shoulder. In telling of the $2 theft of tools from the smithy at Princeton—the theft that caused the exile order from Gibson county and later his resentencing to Plainfield —runs like this: “I was a-wanting some money. I went down to the blacksmith shop. I pushed on a door. It was open. I just walked in and picked up a few things and tried to sell them.” Just a simple procedure as far as John is concerned. It was as simple as the time he “swiped’* a chicken from a woman’s pen and sold it to another woman for a Sunday “fryer.” Just as simple a pro-

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Bullet Hits Man When He Runs From Car Driven by Police. Investigation of the shooting of Boyce Wharton, 27. Negro, of 938 Superior street, by police Thursday night was opened today by Chief Mike Morrissey. Wharton, according to police reports. ran when he saw a police cruising car approach in the 900 block. Superior street. Police officers pursued him and claim he failed to heed their demand to halt. cedure as taking milk bottles off of porches and drinking the milk sometimes, and selling the bottles for a “nickel apiece.” “But I didn't take the chicken from nobody I knew,” John defended. It’s one of the cardinal points of the acts he admits, “not taking anything from someone you know.” John doesn’t want to stay at the boys’ school. He wants to go back to his father’s home at Princeton or some place where the “officers don’t think I’m always stealing.” He's working in the onion patch at the school. His instructor, O. L. Cassidy, who knew John when he served his first term at the school, says he probably got in trouble because he’s headstrong. “He wouldn't care who it was, the Governor or a judge, he’d tell them

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56 ARRESTED ' AS COPS PUSH TRAFFIC DRIVE Anti-Accident Campaign Is Kept on the Go in City, State. Continuing their anti-accident drive. Indianapolis police Thursdav night and early today slated fiftysix motorists for violation of vehicle laws. Os this number, thirteen were charged with failure to stop at a preferential street and the others for failure to have lights or improper lights. Herman Brown. 2010 Houston street, was charged with reckless driving and failure to top after an accident, his car alleged to have been involved in a crash at Fall Creek boulevard and New Jersey street early today. Police said they found Brown at his home after R. W. Beach, 720 East Fall Creek boulevard, reported his car struck. No one was hurt in the collision. Orders to 419 other motorists in Indiana to have repairs made on their cars and have lights fixed as an accident preventative were issued Thursday by state police, working on roads in various sections of Indiana. Chief Grover Garrott warned that motorists who fail to dim bright lights in passing another car also will be the objects of the state campaign.

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