Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1932 — Page 2

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OUSTED COPPER IS ACCUSER IN LIQUOR TRIAL Drinking Parties Held at Anderson Police Station, Witness Says. • Continued From Page 1) fled about alleged drinking in the police station, charging high officials of the department participated. He hinted bribes were paid, law violators protected, and seized liquor distributed as gifts. With only twenty-three government witnesses testifying Wednesday, first day of the trial, the rose is not expected to go to the jury before Fridav. Government witnesses testified against the twelve defendants standing trial, including Riggs, Rirh, Joe Melcher Jr., son of a city official, who has pleaded guilty, and several alleged ' big shot" bootleggers. Twelve other defendants in the rasa have pleaded guilty and four have not been arrested The four include Mayor Jesse H Melleft, who is seriously ill. Mayor Im Aroused Mellett is charged with accepting protection money from bootleggers and with giving confiscated liquor to friends. Ralph Dailey, city Judge, testified that in March. 1931, he declined to accept a gallon of alcohol offered to him by Riggs and Rich, in Riggs office at police headquarters Maraska. who said he drank with Riggs and Rich and patronized speakeasies, testified he was dismissed from the force early this year, after having co-operated with federal dry agents. He said the charge on which he was dismissed was conduct unbecoming an officer and becoming intoxicated while on duty. He denied imputation of defense attorneys that he also was charged with selling liquor. Tells of Raid He told of a raid in which 386 gallons of alcohol were confiscated and stored In the chiefs office. "I saw the chief give Dr. W. H. Harrison, safety board member, and other friends, cans of alcohol, and asked him for some for myself, and he gave me a gallon," Maraska testified He testified that. Riggs and Rich were intoxicated "around police headquarters about two or three time* a week," adding that the two high officials often held "open house" in the station, rening drinks to policemen and others. Testifying on the governments allegation that, Rich received protection money each Monday, Maraska said Rich seldom attended roll call except on that day. Several Mondays, the witness said. Rich told him he had to go to the bank. Divided Bnow, He Says "I remarked that this wasn't pay dav," Maraska testified, "and Rich .-said It was for him, displaying a large roll of bills" On another occasion, he testified, he and Rich went to the Boyer filling station to look for Taffy Ray, suspected bank robber, and outside the station found a can of corn whisky, which, he said, they divided. He said he drank in various resorts operated by defendants in the conspiracy case, and charged that Bert Stinson, defendant and alleged liquor gang "brains," visited Riggs at city hall several times. Testifying that on frequent raids ordered by Mellett, all persons found in speakeasies were ordered takpn to headquarters, he said that on several occasions he found Blake Gwinn, son of a police sergeant, in raided places, and received orders to "leave Gwinn alone" Gwinn has pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge. Says He Was Struck On another occasion. Maraska testified, a telephone operator told of hearing a woman ask for pcJice. then the sound of screaming and the phone was disconnected. Going with other officers to the address given by the telephone operator, he said he found Kenneth Riggs, the chief's son, trying to force a girl, in night clothes, to go out with him. "When I tried to get him to leave, he swung at me and I popped him." Maraska said, adding that he believed the chief became his enemy because of this incident. Witnesses Wednesday afternoon included several officials from Marion, who told of arresting Ray Boyer and Closser Riggsby. defendants. with a car load of beer, and of Melcher attempting to obtain their freedom and release of the beer, asserting if "belonged to the mayor of Anderson ’’ Marion Mayor I* Witness The witnesses were Mayor Jack Edwards. Police Chief Lewi* Lindemuth. officer Roy Cox and T. A. Biddingcr. former deputy prosecutor E J. Rood, former Anderson policeman and probation officer, described an incident where he seized two cars at the Boyer filling station when he saw liquor being transferred, and told of interference by Melcher. which resulted lr two prisoners escaping. Shortly after seizing the liquor, he said, he was dismissed from the police force on charges of conduct unbecoming an officer. "For confiscating a carload of liquor?" Baltzell asked Rood, who said the charges were brought against him after he had aided federal investigators, admitted he was accused of contributing to delinquency. Robert Thrawley. a defendant, told of working at the John Bronnenberg farm still, discovery of which started the federal probe leading to the conspiracy indictment. He accused several defendants o

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SENIORS AT CENTRAL ‘SKIP' TO TURKEY RUN Juniors Assume Distinctions of Higher Class for Day. Seniors of Indiana Central college left classes behind today to journey to Turkey Run state park for their annual ".skip” day. Meanwhile, juniors donned senior class distinctions and took the seniors’ seats at regular convocation at the college. Recognition service for the fiftythree candidates for degrees was held in Kephart auditorium at the college Tuesday, with President I J. Good presiding Principal address was given by Dr. A. H. M. Rtoneeipher, college language department head. Ben Burchard, senior president, responded. Dean Virginia Cravens entertained the senior class and faculty members at tea in the afternoon in New hell, girls' dormitory. PLAN CHURCH CIRCUS Parade* and Aci Hatic Stunts to Feature Event Friday. Parades, acrobatics, tumbling and music will compose part of the program of the annual circus of the recreational department of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church, Friday night, at Thirty-fourth street and Central avenue. The event will be presented under direction of James B. Martin, recreation director. No admission will be charged. Some of the acts and features will be furnished by Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A , Butler Follies and Warren township school.

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GIANT WITNESS STIRS CHUCKLES AT BOOZE TRIAL Didn’t Make Disturbance: Just Tore Door Down, Says Ex*Copper. Peals of laughter sounded in federal court today as Ernest Newboy, former Anderson policeman, testified for the government in the alleged Anderson liquor conspiracy. Even Judge Robert C. Baltzell chuckled at Newby's testimony. Newby, a 6 foot 3 inch giant, testified that on one occasion he was called to act as "bouncer" at a meeting at which Mayor Jesse H. • Hick) Mellett, one of twenty-eight indicted by the federal grand jury in the alleged conspiracy, "bawled out" the tax board. Last Oct. 6, Newby testified, he was at the "booze joint of Raymond 'Scabby 1 Ross." one of the twelve j defendants in the case, "and I got pretty tight.” he related to the jury, under questioning of George R. 1 Jeffrey, federal district, attorney. Tore Down Door "I left Ross' place." said Newby, j and when I was on the street I i remembered a gambling joint near there. I went over and rang the buzzer, but they wouldn't let me in. I rang the buzzer again and they wouldn’t let me in, so I to- down the door and went upstairs. “Then I went back to Ross' and had a few more drinks, and then the cops came for me—l guess there was six or seven—and they told me to come along. I got mad. but I went along.” Newby said he later learned that Ross had turned in a complaint, and Newby admitted he declared he was going to tell all about Rosa in court. "I told Ross to his face," he said, that he wasn’t any good, that he never was any good, and that if my testimony would send him to the penitentiary he sure would go." No, Not Any Disturbance On another occasion, Newby related, he was drinking at the poolroorn of Albert, Abel, now on trial. “I got sore." he said, "and I called the police myself and went down to headquarters in the wagon." Attorneys wrangled over the .net that Ross had not been arrested at thp time Newby was taken to jail after the gambling house episode, and Joseph T. Marker, attorney for Ross, attempted to bring out that! the call to police was merely to arrest Newby for destruction of property. "Wasn’t It a fart." asked Markey. "that the police were called on a disturbance report?” “There wasn't any disturbance." answered Newby. "I just tore down the door." FEAR BRIDGE COLLAPSE Limit Span on Highway 31 to OneWay Traffic. Warned that a bridge spanning White river on state road No. 31 north of Bread Ripple is in danger of collapsing, the state highway commisson today stationed a watchman there with orders to permit only one-way traffic and to prohibit heavy trucks from cross- 1 ing. Repairs are expected to be made.

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By l nihil /*•> NEW’ HAVEN. Conn. May 12.—Rosa Ponselle. the Metropolitan opera star, underwent a serious operation at St. Raphael's hospital here today. Dr. William F. Verdi, performed the operation. A priest, the ReT. Jeremiah Curtin, waited outside the operating room to attend the soprano. An effort was made to conceal the star s presence in the hospital.

Miss Ponselle was on the operating table for two hours, and Dr. Verdi was exhausted when he came out- of the operating room. He refused to discuss the case. Carmella Ponselle. sister of Rosa and herself an operatic star, paced the corridor. The operation was said unofficially to have been for removal of a fibrous tumor. Miss Ponselle arrived here last night by automobile to be operated upon by her friend. Dr. Verdi, whose skill has won him fame in surgical circles. WOMAN'S RITES FRIOAY Mrs. Sarah Marple to Be Buried in Bethel Cemetery. Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Catherine Marple. 56. of 1616 Sharon avenue, will be held at 2 Friday in Speedway Boulevard M. E. church. Burial will be in Bethel cemetery. Mrs. Marple died unexpectedly Tuesday in the Medical Arts building. Heart disease is believed to have been the cause. Mrs. Marple lived in Indianapolis fourteen years. She was born m Lebanon, Ky.

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PENAL. CORRECTIONAL POPULATION GROWS State Is Caring for 19.678 Persons in Twenty Institutions. Indiana is caring for 19.679 persons in its twenty penal and correctional institutions and admissions are constantly increasing, according to a tabulation today by John A. Brown, secretary of the state charities board. There were 785 more persons put under state care the first quarter of 1932 than fo:* the same period last, ypar, the Brown report shows. Mental cases consigned to institutions increased by 312, hospitals and schools 162, and penal and correctional institutions 311. Total number of mental cases now under state care is 9,977. Os the total there are 5.039 male and 4,938 female. State wards in the soldiers’ home orphanage. Indiana university hospital. and the schools for the deaf and blind number 2,388. Penal and •orrectional institutions have a total population of 7.314. there being 6.760 male and 554 female prisoners.

FROGS TO HOP IN MARK TWAIN COAST CLASSIC City Slickers Are Warned to Avoid Trickery Against County Croakers. Vnitrd Prrs* ANGELS CAMP. Cal, May 12. Grizzled miners east worshiping eyes today on a stable of lean frogs, chosen to uphold the tradition of the Gold Hills in the Calaveras frog-jumping contest. As marsh croakers began ariving from far and near for the great classic, to be held Friday and Saturday. the man of Jackass Hill realized it was going to be purely a class struggle—the city frog against the country frog. "We are all putty sure of our Warty Jim and that tother critter. Yumping Yimminy, over thar," a veteran frog trainer from Calabasas opined. "Yumping Yimminy, especial oughta do us proud. He got his trainin' over in them Alps across the big drink, which I reckon accounts for his yodel.” H*> bit off a mine-shaft portion of rut plug and shifted uneasily, City Frogs Lack Stamina "Nawthin’ this side o' Mokelumne kin take the measure of Jim and Yimminy when they gits proper course o’ trainin' leapin’ from mine shafts.’’ he boasted "But I hear some city fellers got a passel o’ frawgs which bin in flivver traffic on the main streets. "I heard one frawg was named Pedestrian account o' how he got so expert like in dodgin’ these here autymobeels. Now' us boys races our varmints fair and square. We don’t aim to take unnatcherl advantage of nobody, but 1 kin tell ye this, stranger, and you mind it: "Them city frawgs ain't got the stamina for one of our he-men jumpins. They was made for eatin' and some o' the boys understand most of ’em is rounders and mebbe a mite dissolute. "The only thing we are on the lookout fer Is some city trick. Our vigilantes are going to keep things open and aboveboard, and my advice to them meterolopitan dudes is to watch their step." Drink Beer, Eat Cheese The prides of the cittes. O'Susanna from Hollywood, and Barley Hops from San Francisco, didn’t have much to sav, and neithei did their trainers. Like in a gang fight, actions spoke louder than words. While the Gold Hill puddlehoppers were dining on raw' bear steak topped off with sour dough, their city foes guzzled beer, with Gorgonzola cheese, and crackers. When Mark Twain started the marsh kangaroo Olympic, back in the 80s, the leapers had to shift for themselves. Now, they have their own cages and for O'Susanna they imported a harmonica player so she can hear the "Wreck of the Old 97,” played as she gathers strength for her big leap. Speed Costly, Boy Genius Learns by I nitrd Prr*t CHICAGO.. May 12.—When Gordon Fairbanks, 14. boasted to policemen he had gone twenty miles an hour in a home-made automobile powered with a one-cylinder engine borrowed from a washing machine, the officeis said he would have to buy a license.

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FILE RUSCHAUPT WILL Entire Estate, Valued at $6.2.541, la to Widow. Entire estate of Charles F. Ruschaupt. former part owner of the Indianapolis baseball club, was left to his widow. Margaret L. Ruschaupt, by terms of a will filed for probate Tuesday. The estate is valued at S6JSO. The widow wa* named executrix.

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