Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 166, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1931 — Page 15

NOV. 20, 1931

DEATH CLAIMS ‘ROPES' O'BRIEN, THWARTS FOES Famed Hanging Prosecutor Passes Peacefully; Life Often Threatened. H'.l L nitcd I'rrnu CHICAGO, Nov. 20.—The desperadoes who swore vengeance on James C. Ropes" O’Brien today found themselves cheated of revenge, for Cook county’s most famous “hanging” prosecutor had died at home of heart disease, the death threats unfulfilled. For eight years the brilliant assistant state’s attorney was feared and hated by the underworld as no other prosecutor in Chicago’s history. His peaceful death at the age of •17 Thursday afforded a striking contrast to dozens of death threats made by friends of the seventeen men sent to the gallows through his prosecution. Almost as lamous as O'Brien’s nickname of "Ropes” were his flaming red ties. He started wearing them when he began his career in the state’s attorney’s office. A friend asked him once why he affected th crimson neckwear. “It means a death sentence,” O’Brien answered. And it was a fact that each time he wore a red cravat throughout a trial he won a death sentence. In recent years, O’Brien had left the state’s attorney’s office to engage in private practice. But during the period from 1912 to 1920, O’Brien handled most of Chicago’s noteworthy murder trials. When gangsters killed William McSwiggin, colorful young assistant state’s attorney, O’Brien was recalled from his private practice in an effort to solve the crime. In this, he, like the other investigators, was unsuccessful. TWO IDENTIFIED AFTER NUMEROUS ROBBERIES Alleged Archerville Store Bandits Held In Illinois. By Time* Special ARCHERVILLE, Ind., Nov. 20. Robbery at the Harry Pritchard store here, the night of Nov. 3, when cash, jewelry and merchandise valued at S3OO was taken, is believed solved with arrest at East St. Louis, 111., of Norman Cravens and Theron Brown. A third member of the band escaped. The two have been taken to Danville, 111., to face charges for participation in crimes at Westvilleand Vermilion Grove, 111., where it is alleged they admitted robberies and stole an automobile from the home garage of Jack Walblay in Westville alter terrorizing Mrs. Walblay. Cravens and Brown were identified in the county jail at Danville by Pritchard and his employe, Walter Drummond. They picked the men out of forty prisoners. In addition, Cravens has also been identified by Mrs. Dan Young, wife of the receiver for the Central Trust and Savings bank of Attica, as the bandit who bound and gagged her in her home the evening of Nov. 7 while he ransacked the house. WHITE WALLS IN BARN Porcelain Being Used in Structure Occupied by Cows. By Times Special CONNERSVILLE, Ind., Nov. 20. Cows on the farm of J. W. Reichle, near here, should be contented. A barn in which they are housed is being given an interior finish of white porcelain. The floor is of concrete. Stanchions are painted white. Hogs on the farm also have no cause for complaint. Their pens are being faced to a height of thfrty inches with the porcelain.

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BANDITS SHOOT COP, ESCAPE WITH LOOT Open Fire as Michigan Police Chief Demands Surrender. By United Brens TRENTON, Mich., Nov. 20. Police Chief Harry H. Crooks, of Trenton, was shot and wounded early today by one of four men he was trailing after the holdup of the Trenton bus terminal. The bandits escaped toward Detroit. Physicians at Wyandotte general hospital said the chief was shot through the mouth and ear. Overtaking the bandit car several miles from Trenton, the chief ordered the driver to halt. The car stopped, and as Crooks approached, one of its occupants opened fire. The chief fell wounded as the robbers continued their flight. The quartet robbed the terminal of S6OO earlier this morning, and kidnapped August Kowalkie, night bus dispatcher. The dispatcher was blindfolded, and tossed from the speeding car. ‘GAG PLoT r is~ CHARGED Jobless Leaders Name Police Chief, Sheriff in Habeas Corpus Plea. A petition for writ of habeas corpus has been filed in superior court five on behalf of two alleged organizers of the unemployed, Joe Campbell and William Leftridge who are held in jail on charges of mailicious trespass and obstructing legal process as a result of meetings they held Wednesday. Bond on the two men who are in jail has been placed at SI,OOO each. They charge their arrest was prompted by a “plot” by Police Chief Michael Morrissey to prevent them from addressing meetings. Sheriff Charles Sumner was named as a co-defendant in the writ. FIGHTING PAIR PINCHED Two Pints of Liquor Found in Auto, City Police Charge. Investigating reports that a man dragged a woman into an automobile, police early today found James Biebold, and his wife Gertrude of Louisville, fighting. The battle was taking place in their car parked in the 1900 West Washington street, police said. Biebold was charged with blind tiger and assault and battery. Police said found two pints of liquor and wine in the car.

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