Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 131, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1931 — Page 3

OCT. 10, 1931

MOB VENGEANCE ECHOED BEHIND SCHOEN KILLING Patrolman’s Murder Most Involved of Score in Decade. (Thin it the second of a series of stories on twenty-one. unsolved murders in Indianapolis in less than ten years.) Hvi body wp,3 found lying face down, but a few step?, from his home. The slayer’s bullet had entered his back, ranging upward on the left side and lodging near the heart. Patrolman Norman Schoen had been murdered. The slaying of Schoen was one of several murders of police officers which have occurred in the last few years. Their names have been added to the list of unsolved slaying mysteries in Indianapolis in less than ten years and, with those of other citizens, make the total, twenty-one.' Other police officers who were slain had an opportunity to see their killers. But Schoen had no chance. Vengeance Is Rumored He was walking on the sidewalk approaching his home about 11:30 the night of March 6, 1928. A coupe was parked on the wrong side of Irvington avenue and from it came a shrill whistle. And then a shot. Schoen’s body was found a few minutes later after the car, carrying the slayers, had disappeared in the gloom. Rumors came from the underworld that the slaying w'as gang vengeance. From other sources, came reports that men in Indianapolis, who generally were not associated with rackets, had ordered the slaying. The day following the murder, Claude Worley, then police chief, personally offered SIOO for the capture of the killer. That same day an Indianapolis business man boosted the reward total another SIOO. But, never after the coupe disappeared cast on Washington street was any trace of the murderer found. Burglar Theory Dropped Theory that burglars, interrupted in their work by Schoen, had shot him in their escape, w'as discarded by police. Ten detectives were assigned to the case, but the knowledge that the underworld seemed to possess never found its way to channels of justice. When his body was found near the curb, Schoen clutcUed a flashlight in his left hand. His revolver was in his pocket, untouched. It is probable that Schoen’s flashlight would have given him an opportunity to dodge that, bullet or perhaps thrown light on those guilty of his murder? Turning back the pages of unsolved murders to Jan. 3, 1925, seven other names appear. One is that of another police officer and among the list is that of a former policeman. Grocer Slain in Store Those seven murders occurred in these fashions: Harry Blythe, 2110 Singleton street, was carrying out his duties as a grocer Jan. 3, 1925, when two gunmen entered his store. They demanded money and Blythe’s refusal i\ J as answered by five bullets that killed him before his body struck the floor. The night of Jan. 22, 1925, James Lucas, a former policeman, was driving his car into his garage in ihe rear of his home at 3222 College avenue. Trained in police methods, he resisted the robber who leveled a gun at him. He was shot and died the next day. Harry Keeley. living on North Meridian street, left a theater on Illinois street and walked east in Vermont street April 19, 1925. A woman met him and walked sevei-al feet with him. Carter Killing Mystery Suddenly she was heard to scream: “I'm going to get mine, now.” Keeley died the following day from bullet wounds. Then following the murders of Rufus Webster, Harry Nutter, street car conductor and Dahlman Deßolt, insurance collector, slain in robberies in the year from Jan. 4. 1926. to Jan. 5. 1927. And these killings, like that of patrolman Charles Carter, never were solved. Carter stopped to question a man on his beat May 7. 1927. Two days later he was dead, the victim of a revolver whose owner probably never will be discovered. (To Be Continued)

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: rhtTlp Mlcell Jr.. 525 Stephens street. Auburn sedan. 763-237. from Illinois and Market streets. Louis I. Bland. 2613 Southeastern avenue. Star coach, 2-613. from 26 East Maryland street. „ , Henry Franke, 312 North Colorado avenue Ford coupe. 95-664, from Virginia avenue and Washington street. E. H. Brown, 1020 East, Michigan street, Nash sedan. 91-214 from 1020 East Michigan street. BACK HOME AGAIN Stolen automobiles recovered by police 0 White. 814 Seville avenue. Overland sedan, found at 1100 Oakland avenue. Paul Eastburn. 3339 East Michigan street Chevrolet coach. found at Thirteenth street and Parker avenue. Commodore Taber. 517 Holly avenue, Chrysler coupe, found at Comer avenue and Shelbv streets, automobile wrecked. Herman Arshopskv. 0072 Park avenue. Chevrolet sedan, found at Virginia avenue and Maryland street. Oldsmobile coupe. no license. no certificate of title found at Georgia and East streets. Overland coach. 742-115 found in front of 1126 Oakland avenue. Chevrolet sedan. 86-931. found on Thirteenth street, near Oakland avenue. Buick sedan. 95-269. found in front of 5851 Shelbv street. Marv Whitnev. 633 West Vermont street, Nash sedan, found at North street and Senate avenue. Albert earner, lilt Charles street. Ford coupe, found in Eagle creek bottoms near Road 67 and Rayuond street. Harry Pritchett. 723 Harrison street. Ford coupe, found in Eag'.e creek bottoms. Road 67 and Raymond street. Studebaker touring. 764-243 and 737-214. found on Hanna avenue between Carson and State avenues. Murder Witnesses Called Hu United Press BROWNSTOWN. Ind.. Oct. 10.— Subpoenas for witnesses for the trial of John and Pleas Spurlock, brothers, which will open Wednesday. are being served today by Sheriff Milt Trinkle of Washington county. Te Spurlocks will be tried on a charge of murdering Patton Gibson, 69, Dec. 14, 1939.

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CITY FIRM WINS TOP ARCHITECT LIBRARY PRIZE Pierre & Wright Awarded First in Competition for State Structure. The new state library to cost $1,000,000 and to be erected at the southwest comer of Ohio street and Senate avenue, will be designed by Pierre & Wright, Indianapolis architects. This announcement was made today by a jury of awards which selected the local firm's design for first place. The architects will receive $,2000 and be awarded the architect’s contract as first prize. Second prize among the thirtyseven Indiana architects who competed was given Walter Scholer of Lafayette. The award is $2,000. Paul Cret, famous Philadelphia architect, was awarded $2,000 for his design, the only out-state plan to be submitted. Edward Pierre, senior member of the winning firm, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Pierre, Ft, Wayne, The new library building, construction of which will be started soon, will be two stories, of Indiana limestone and will conform with the architectural design of the statehouse. Others awarded prizes for their designs: Joseph R. Wildermuth, Gary, third, SI,OOO, and Harrison & Turnock, Lee Burns and Edward Jones and McGuire & Shook, all of Indianapolis, honorable mention, SSOO each. Judges were Edgerton Swartwout and Raymond M. Hoed, noted New York architects, and Milton J. Ferguson, Brooklyn, N. Y„ city librarian, with Arthur Bohn, local architect, acting as architectural adviser. Home-Coming at Church By Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind., Oct. 10.—Homecoming day will be observed Sunday at the Second Mt. Pleasant Baptist church, of which the Rev. Paul J. Christensen is pastor. The principal speaker will be the Rev. G. C. Mitchell, North Vernon, director of, evangelism for the Indiana Baptist convention.

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CARRIER PIGEON MAKES FLIGHT OF 2,000 MILES Returns to Long Island After Escaping in Venezuela. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Carrier pigecn No. 1303, once owned by John P. Lehrer, of Elmcnt, L. 1., following the instincts of his kind, flew home to Elmont when he found the door to his cote had been left open. That would be an unusual event for a carrier pigeon, under ordinary circumstances, but it so happens that the cote from which No, 1,303 escaped was along the Orinoco river, in Venezuela, something like 2,000 miles away. Number 1,303 had been taken to

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Caracas several months ago. In I company with seven other carrier ! pigeons, by John Brophy, general manager in Venezuela for the Venezuela Speculating Company. The company’s searches for new oil land take men back into the bushy country of Venezuela over streams, lakes and mountains where I sturdy burros are the only means of | transportation. There is no tele- ! graphic communication. Brophy thought pigeons would expedite messages so he had Charles Tetsold, Brooklyn optician j whose hobby is pigeon racing, obtain an experimental four pair as the I nucleus for a regular pigeon mesI senger service. Two of the birds escaped. Later, Brophy told the United | Press, he was informed that a i banded pigeon had been found dead j near Caracas. Nothing more was heard of the other. But a few days ago, Lehrer, No. 1,303’s former owner, chanced to see the bird he had believed to be far away, pecking away at his feed with the ordinary stay-at-homes. The bird did not seem to be especially tired. Now Tetsold. who obtained the bird from Lehrer for Brophy, says he wants to get No. 1.303’s parents. | ‘Any pair that can breed a bird like 1 that No. 1,303 certainly is worth | having.”

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NEW COFFIN GOLF COURSE AMONG BEST Beautiful Links to Develop Into One of Finest in City, Experts Say. With construction work practically at an end, greens and fairways seeded and already showing the evidence of a future velvety turf, the new Coffin golf course revealed evidence today of developing into one of the city’s best links by the middle of next summer, when it probably will be opened for use. William H. Diddel is designer and biulder of the new course. It includes land of the old Coffin course not inloved in the sale of a site to the government for a veterans’ hospital and extends back into land adjacent to White river. The new course will be ready to

Ibe turned over to the city soon, ! Diddel said today. Eighteen new bent grass greens, as large or larger than any in the i city, and 6,657 yards in length, involving shots to test the ability of any par shooting golfer, makes the course championship layout. Because the course is not as long in yardage as some championship ' courses does not mean that it will | not be difficult, Diddel said. For instance. there is one hole. 181 yards long, a drop shot from tee to a green, | trapped in front, and with lake on j the left and back of it which requires a perfect pitch. Another hole involves a 125-yard water carry, with no opportunity to play around to the green. It requires a well-hit ball. Another has a 150-yard carry over water. The 405-yard twelfth hole has a stream J in front of the green. ] Contour of the land on one par five hole, where the green is set in the side of a gravel pit bank, is such that a well-hit shot gets the player around near the gTeen, while a lag shot holds him TOO yards back. Tire first two holes are directed about the same a? they were on the old course with big new greens on both holes. More air will reach the second green which has been a bugaboo in the past, because it is

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situated at the base of a steep hill cutting off south west breeze. Yardage on the first nine will be 433, 406, 147, 520, 161, 351, 572, 412. 444. for a total of 3.446. On the second nine, the present short tees make it somewhat short, but five new back tees wiU add 100 yards. The holes now measure 515, 357, 390, 197, 421, 176. 479, 366, 202. The tenth is to be lengthened to 535. the twelfth to 405 the thirteenth to 235 the sixteenth to 495 and the eighteenth to 215. Total yardage on the second nine is 3,103. The total course yardage will be 6.549 short and 6.651 long. A. C. Sallee and park board members said that the eost of the course probably will be about two-thirds of what first was anticipated. “M:de work” labor used in clearing the low lands of trees, stumps and cleaning up of marsh land brought this saving, they said. Electricity Burns Man By Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., Oct. 10.—William Adams, 44: city electric light plant lineman, is recovering from serious chest burns suffered when he came in contact with a high voltage wire. John Rogers, working with Adams, saved Adams from electrocution by pushing him away from the wire.

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‘FIND' HALF MILLION By United Press NEW YORK. Oct. /.—Mrs. Ida Mayfield Wood, the little old lady who once was the belle of New York, and in whose room more than $400,000 in cash was fourrd this week, had another 5500.000 on her person which escaped the search of her guardian, it was revealed today. The half million dollars was contained in an. old-fashiOned pouch. The pouch dropped Thursday from within the manfold under dresses that Mrs. Wood wears. Mrs. Wood, 93. recently was deemed incompetent by the courts and relatives appointed her guardians. Cutler Woma* Hilled By Times Special CUTLER. Ind.. Cct. 10.—Injuries suffered in an automobile accident while en route to Florida were fatal to Mrs. Alvin Peterson, 69. of Cutler. Old Injuries Fatal By Times Special LINTON, Ind., Oct, 10.—Frank Earle, 64. is dead of injuries suffered in a coal mine accident a year and a half ago.

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