Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 188, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1931 — Page 8

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TWO SONS PLAY 1 INNOCENT PART IN'RAID'DEATH Suspect Falls Dead When! Confronted by Rum at ‘Conference.’ V Two boys are grief-stricken today for the pnrt they played Tuesday afternoon in the death of their father, Homer N. Ingcrsoll, 58, of 932 Bellefontaine street, a former circus employe, who had been selling liquor for two years to save his family from starvation. As Edward Ingcrsoll, 9, ran to school Tuesday afternoon he passed three men. “Buddy, where do the Ingersolls live?” one of the men asked. "Right there,’’ the boy said. "That’s my father's house," He ran on to school, not knowing that, when he returned three hours later, life would have left his father. They Were Cops The men were Sergeant John Eisenhut, Freeman Smock and Otto Fulton. They told Ingcrsoll they were police and were admitted by him; with the warning they must remain ' quiet because his wife, Bertha, was ill in another room. Ingersoll and the officers went to the kitchen Eiscnhut told him they had several complaints he had been selling liquor, but had no proof. Ingersoll clutched his chest as though in pain. “Don’t get excited,' Eisenhut said. "We aren’t going to arrest you. We haven’t any warrant. We Just want to talk this matter over with you.” 11l Two Years “I've been sick a couple of years,’- | Ingersoll said. As he talked to the officers, the basement door leading into the kitchen opened, and Chester, 18, stepped into the room. Police spied empty bottles on a stairway shelf. Accompanied by Chester the patrolmen went to the basement. Eisenhut continued his conversation with Ingersoll, telling him he had been informed the liquor was kept in a coffee pot in the kitchen. Again the basement door swung open. Chester and the officers came ! into the room. - One of the officers carried an empty gallon jug but the other carried one full of corn whisky. Falls on Table, Dead Ingersoll started, his eyes widened and he stiffened in the chair. He collapsed on the table—dead. Mrs. Ingersoll arose from her sick bed when her husband's body was carried into the bedroom. “He has been sick two years and hasn’t been able to do anything,” she sobbed to police and a Times Tcporter. “He sold liquor to keep us going. He has been doing it for two years, but he did it himself. He wouldn’t let Chester touch it.” Mrs. Ingersoll said the family had been poverty-stricken since her husband lost his job as an advance agent for Ringling Brothers’ circus. Before that, the family operated a grocery at Tenth street and Senate avenue. No Regular Meals “It's been hard going and now it will be worse without father,” Chester said. “I’ve been able to get w r ork a few days now and then, but it wasn't much. We haven't eaten very regularly lately. I don’t know what we’ll do now.” Edward was shocked by his father’s d4ath and today fondled a toy police badge and billy on which his father’s head fell on the kitchen table when he collapsed. “I didn’t know what those men wanted,” the boy sobbed. Ingersoll’s body probably will be taken to Washington, Ind., his birthplace, for burial. RUBEN’S BOND HALVED Baker Cuts Surety Asked for Bond Suspect to $7,500. Bond in the case of Sam Ruben, Chicago, alleged to be implicated in sale of bonds reported to have been part of the $64,000 haul made by New York bandits, was reduced from $15,000 to $7,500 today by Judge Frank Baker, in criminal court. Ruben is held with George Sheehan, Indianapolis attorney. It is charged they sold $6,000 of the bonds here. Two Charges Filed By Timet Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 16. Alexis Coquillard. local insurance dealer, has filed charges of intoxication and malicious trespass in city court against Louis LaFortune, formerly of this city and now living in Racine, Wls. LaFortune was arrested after police had been summoned to the Coquillard residence on complaint that he was attempting to force his way into the house. William Harris, a taxicab driver, was arrested with LaFortune. Auto Display Banned By Timet Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 16. Exhibition of A1 Capone’s armored automobile for an admission fee of 10 cents has been stopped here by police. The car, exhibited by Carl Felgar, Kansas City, was seized on the ground that a 1929 Indiana law forbids possession of armored cars, except by police or banks.

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Upper—Homer N. Ingersoll (left) and his wife, Mrs. Bertha Ingersoll. Lower—Edward, 9 (left), and Chester Ingersoll, 18.

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Hurled Fiancee From Auto to Her Death, Charge Made by State. By United Press RENO, Nev., Dec. 16— Nevada’s six weeks’ divorces, whirling roulette wheels and absence of dry laws—figured today in the trial of Dr. Carl P. Andre, young Fairmount (W. Va.) dentist, accused of slaying his asserted fiancee, winsome Mrs. Martha Hutchinson. A jury of twelve men chosen in the first day of trial began the hearing with a visit to the spot where the state charges Dr. Andre pushed Mrs. Hutctifhson, daughter of a Fairmount coal operator, from, his speeding automobile to her death. A few miles beyond the scene of the mishap was the Lazy Me “dude” ranch, owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., favorite retreat of divorce colonists where Dr. Andre and the girl assertedly quarreled on the afternoon of her death, Sept. 13. Prosecutors declare guests at the ranch, including Mrs. Grace Tibbett, divorced wife of Lawrence Tibbett, the singer, witnessed the quarrel and may testify. Mrs. Hutchinson was said to have followed the dentist here on his promise to marry her after obtaining a divorce. On arriving. Dr. Andre claimed she joined in the colony’s feverish search for pleasure at night clubs, dude ranches, and the Reno gaming rialto. The dentist has maintained Mrs. Hutchinson either jumped or fell from the rutomobile as it struck a bump. BICYCLIST INJURED An automobile driven by Kenneth Coelling, 20, of 1337 North Olney street, overturned early today at Twenty-fifth street and Arsenal avenue, after striking Mac Sachs, 50, of 2521 North New Jersey street, a bicyclist. Sachs was injured seri-’ ously and is in city hospital. Codling's car overturned as he swerved in an effort to avoid striking Sachs. Former Official Dies By Times Special HARRODSBURG. Ind., Dee. 16. i Funeral services will be held Thurs- ; day for Cleveland Heltenburg, 47, a former trustee of Clear Creek town - ship, who died at his home near here Tuesday.

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'REPEAL DEFICIT WITH DRY ACT,' IS WET SLOGAN Revenue Slump Spurs New Attack on Prohibition in Congress. By Scrippt-Hoicard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON. Dec. 16.—“ Repeal the prohibition act and with it the deficit” will be the fighting j slogan of wets in congress this winter. With the new session only a week old it already is apparent that the relationship between prohibition and the pocket-book is going to be stressed as never before in the coming months. A billion dollars of the deficit could be wiped out by repeal of the eighteenth amendment, Representative A. J. Sabath, of Illinois, believes He has fired the first shot in the economic attack upon the dry law with a repeal bill which sets forth in its title that it is designed “to reduce taxation by obtaining for the government instead of bootleggers, revenue from the sale of medicinal j beer and wines.” Billion Dollar Revenue Seen Sabath estimates that return of light wine and beers would mean a revenue of half a billion dollars annually for the federal government In taxes. To legalize the use of liquor under some such system as Sweden’s Bratt plan, at the same time ridding the federal government of its annual bill for prohibition enforcement, would mean another half billion dollars in the treasury, he believes. Drys as well as wets have felt the persuasive force of this practical argument against prohibition in recent months. Representative William E. Hull, of Illinois, heretofore a dry, in a speech in the house, stated that the economic situation largely has been responsible for revising his viewpoint, adding “I know of no way where a tax could be distributed so evenly over the country or made with better consideration than a tax on beer.” 66,000,000 Barrels in 1914 Hull, using as a basis the amount of beer brewed in 19-14, which was 66,000,000 barrels, figures that a $5 a barrel tax would yield the federal government revenues amounting to $33,000,000 annually. This is a conservative estimate compared with that of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. It assumes that the tax of $6 a barrel imposed on beer during the war would remain. Figuring then from the assumption that the per capita consumption of all liquors would remain what it was before prohibition, it estimates that the probable federal revenue from alcoholic beverages would amount, each year, to $906,402,224. This, of course, presupposes repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the return of liquors as well as wine and beer, while Hull’s estimate took into .account beer only. In 1919 the federal government actually did collect $484,000,000 in liquor taxes, comprising 10 per cent of its total revenue. In connection with the question of revenues, the cost of prohibition enforcement is being considered. ; The bureau of prohibition spent ' $11,369,000 last year and will spend | approximately the same amount j this year. 1 Expenditures on account of prohij bition in the federal courts and I prisons, the coast guard and the bureau of industrial alcohol run the cost of enforcement up to $45,000,000.

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STARVES SELF TO FEE? BABY Girl-Mother Collapses in Toledo Street. Bp United Press TOLEDO, 0., Dec. 15.—A 19-year-old mother who spent her last dime for food for her baby and then collapsed from hunger, today lay in a ■ Toledo hospital, reading the want ad columns in a resumed search for a job. The girl mother, who said she was Mrs. Betty Stahlhurt of Hammond, Ind., was found unconscious on a sidewalk, clutching her 2-year-old son Billy to her breast. She had not eaten for two days. Only a few minutes earlier, she walked into a restaurant. “Just some milk and cereal for the baby,” she told the waiter. “That will be a dime, won’t it? I'm not hungry." After the child had eaten, she picked the last dime from her shabby purse, talked out into the wintry night and collapsed. . * Refreshed by food and warmth, the girl said her parents in Hammond refused to take her in unless she deserted her jobless husband. After visiting friends in Cuyahoga Falls, 0., she returned to Toledo, where she tramped the streets in a futile quest for a job. GROCERY IS TO OPEN Sears-Roebuck Will Hold Formal Celebration. Formal opening of the new basement grocery of Sears-Roebuck & Cos., will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The store, located in the southwest section of the basement, is equipped with electric refrigeration in meat, fruit and vegetable departments. Full lines of canned goods and staples are offered at bargain prices. These lines Include local and nationally advertised merchandise. Pastries and bakery goods fresh each day are available. Fresh and smoked meats of all kinds are offered in the butcher shop. Delicatessen goods will also be sold. Man’s Body Found By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 16. Police are attempting to. learn identity of a man whose unclothed body was found in a wooded tract along the St. Joseph River. He apparently had died of exposure while taking a bath in the stream. A vest pocket dictionary with the name Theodore J. Meckling written in it and the initials “W. J. K.” tattoed on the right arm are discordant conflicting clews.

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home until Conner is released front Vermont state prison, where he if serving a sentence for forgery. “I have no regrets.” Miss Gledhill said. “I loved Ernie (Conner). I shall always love him. I love my baby and no one shall ever take him from me. Ernie is paying his debt to society. In a short while he will be free. We are going away and he is going to make a man of himself again.” Child Dies of Diphtheria Bp Times Special BEDFORD, Ind., Dec. 16.—Diphtheria caused the death of Betty June Hill. 2, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hill.