Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 79, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1932 — Page 1

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SENATE SPIKES WRIGHT LAW REPEALMOVE Shift to Referendum Held Unconstitutional; Weiss Assails Action. G. 0. P. SCHEME WINS House Will Ban Approval; Cheering News Wired to Hoover. A few minutes after the Indiana senate dodged the issue of repealing the Wright bone dry law and substituted a "futile” referendum measure Wednesday afternoon, President Hoover was informed of the action. The Times today obtained information that Ivan C. Morgan, Republican state chairman, who sat through the entire senate battle, rushed to a telegraph office and wired Hoover at the White House of the senate vote. Although repeal of ’ le dry law Is contained in the G. O. P. platform. opponents of the referendum measure declared the Republicans had "refuted their stand at the first opportunity.” With Representative Jacob Weiss [(Dem.i, Indianapolis, author of the repealer, charging "rank insincerity” in the senate’s actions, an unofficial opinion from the attorneygeneral’s office today branded the referendum measure for the November election as "futile.” Weiss predicted the house of representatives never will pass the bill as amended by the senate. Attempt will be made in a conference committee to revamp the Wright repealer into its original form. The amendment to wipe out all but the enacting clause of the Weiss bill and substitute a referendum at the November election was offered by Senator Ralph Adams (Rep.), Shelbyville. Known to Be Unconstitutional Supporting his charge of insincerity, Weiss today disclosed the following: “I went to Senator Adams when I learned that such amendment was to be offered and pointed out that, as lawyers, both he and I knew that such referendums are impossible under the Indiana constitution and so have been held at least three times by the supreme court. "His answer to this was, ’Maybe that is what we want’. “I took that ‘we’ to mean the Republican majority in the senate. In such case I want to point out that Wright law repeal is the only thing upon which the Republican party in this state took a definite stand in its present party platform mid at the first opportunity it repudiated it.” Referendum Held Futile There is no state law or section of the constitution providing for the referendum, it was said at the at-torney-general's office. At the attorney-general's office it was said a referendum would not be binding on future legislative action. After refusing to accept the bill,which would allow doctors to prescribe whisky for patients, the same senators voted approval of a committee report for passage of the Kenny house bill, which frill legalize pari-mutuel betting. Vote on the Bill Those who supported the referendum amendment: REPUBLICANS (19) Adam* Miller Berkley Moorhead Iriediev Pell Harwell Sherwood Hoadley Shull Hoffman Slenker Holmes Southworih JV<ff Torohmten Lind ley Waller Martin DEMOCRATS <fi) Ballard Gorman Brewster I.ockard Druley Raber Total. 55. Those voting against it were: REPUBLICANS (9) Alldredte Niblaek Rarkett Rowley Brown Sims Clements Stcv Nejdl DEMOCRATS <l.\) Chambers Kehoe Clouser Ketchum Henniitan Morris Boors Perkins Drake Wade Gottschalk Williams Holman Total, The Adams amendment provides for submission of these questions to the voters: "Do you favor repeal of the Indiana state prohibition enforcement net? "Do you favor modification of the Indiana prohibition act to conform to national prohibition laws?” Adoption of the referendum proposal followed a two-hour debate, in which a motion indefinitely to postpone the bill was lost, 26 to 19. Morgan on Rostrum Morgan was on the rostrum with Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush ! when the bill was up for considera- I tion on second reading as a special' cider of business. Bush called Senator Lonzo L. Shull (Rep.), Sharpsville. As Shull i returned to his seat he whispered to j Senator Roy M. Friedley (Rep), Muncie, who moved that the bill be killed. In closing for his motion, Friedley charged that strong-arm methods had been used by “one man” to force the Wright law repeal plank in the G. O. P. platform and that the rank and file of Republicans are dry. He made it plain that the man he meant was Henry L. Marshall, Lafayette publisher and mentor of Governor Harry G. Leslie. Von Gronau Takes Off Ay United I'rent WAYZETA, Minn., Aug. 11.—Captain Wolfgang Von Gronau and three flying companions took off in their giant flying boat for Winnipeg at 11:23 a. m. today on a round-the-world tour.

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VOLUME 44—NUMBER 79

Oldest I. U. Graduate Is Dead Here

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Vinson Carter VINSON CARTER, 92, oldest graduate of Indiana university, vice-president and counsel of the Fletcher Trust Company, and former superior court judge, died today in his home, 1034 North Pennsylvania street. He had been in ill health about six months. He was graduated from Indiana university in 1867 with Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws degres. He was admitted to the bar in Indianapolis the same year. Mr. Carter was a member of the Indiana house of representatives from 1380 to 1882. He was named to the superior court bench in 1898, and served in the judicial capacity until 1914, when he retired. He then became connected with the Fletcher Trust Company. n a MR. CARTER attended Earlham college two years prior to his enlistment in the Union at the start of the Civil war. He was a major in the Twelfth infantry, Company 3. For sixty-four years he was a member of the George H. Thomas post No. 17, G. A. R. Due to a wound, the effects of which he felt until his death, he spent the last years of the war handling supplies for the troops. For fifty-five years Mr. Carter was an elder in the Tabernacle Presbyterian church. He lived in his home on North Pennsylvania street forty-one years. u u HE was married to Miss Emma Maxwell of Bloomington whilp he was a student at Indiana university. She died in 1915. Survivors are Mrs. Herbert S. Wood, a daughter, who, with her husband, lived with Mr. Carter; Harold M. Wood, a grandsom, and Benjamin Carter of Mooresville, a brother. Funeral services will be held at 4 Friday in Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Burial, which will be private, will be in Crown Hill cemetery. RUSSIA MAY INCREASE PURCHASES WITH U. S. Huge Bond Issue Reported Planned to Gain American Recognition. By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—Soviet Russia is reported planning an international bond issue to obtain hundreds of millions of dollars, with the possibility seen that hope of increased purchases of American goods will speed up recognition by the United States government. The bonds would be distributed through the Central Bank of Moscow, and its correspondents in this country and other foreign nations. The Chase National bank of New York and the International Acceptance bank, it was reported, will handle the transfer of funds and deliver some of the bond certificates. If funds derived from the sale of such bonds were used to any considerable degree for purchase of American goods, they would inject new life into American trade which has fallen to a mere shadow of what it was with Russia in 1931. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 69 10 a. m 70 7a. m 69 11 a. m 71 Ba. m 68 12 (noon).. 72 9 a. m 69 1 p. m 74

Dwellers at Dump Are Quizzed in Murder of Recluse in Shack

From stories told by the strange inhabitants of a dump on Adler street, police today are attempting to reconstruct events surrounding the murder of Monroe Jackson, 51, recluse and former watchman at the dumping grounds, whose body was found lying in a pool of blood, late Wednesday in a shack on the dump. He had been stabbed to death. A knife wound was below his heart, police reported. It is estimated he had been dead more than twenty-

four hours. The body was found bv Orville La Follette, 21. of 520 West McCarty street, who told police Jackson had been a roomer in his parents’ home for many years. La Follette's mother, Mrs. Rosie Vaughn, and her husband. Paris Vaughn, who live at 517 Abbott street, are held by police under $5,000 bond for questioning. They arrived at the shack about twenty minutes after discovery of the body. Police stated this morning that Vaughn's explanation of his activities the last two days, was supported by his wife. Robert Bylock, operator of a coal yard on the Bluff road and owner of the dump, said he had employed

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1932

WALKER FACES ROOSEVELT AT OUSTERTRIAL Conduct as Mayor of Biggest U. S. City Defended at Bar. CHEERED BY FRIENDS Hundreds of Admirers of Jimmy Throng Corridors of Albany Capitol. BY FREDERICK A. STORM United Press Staff Correspondent ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 11.—Mayor James J. Walker, a slight and sober figure, stood at the bar today before Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and defended his political integrity and conduct as the mayor of the largest city in the western world. Facing him in the dramatic political trial was Samuel Seabury, supported by a grim staff of six assistants, who, for two years, have pursued doggedly a trail of circumstances by which they hope to drive the popular mayor out of office. The ninety-sixth mayor of New York—and the first burgomaster &er to face trial for alleged malfeasance in office —was tight-lipped and serious as he entered the crowded judgment chamber. The mayor was given a rousing reception when he strode into the executive chamber ta 1:19 p. m. He was eleven minutes early. Supporters Jam Halls Hundreds of his loyal supporters, headed by men wtih whom he sat in the state legislature years ago, jammed the corridors and sought to pat him on the back as police struggled to make way. The crowd was motley. Giggling young women, bankers, legislators, district leaders and unemployed jostled each other. Walker was chafed with having accepted “gifts” and gratuities amounting to thousands of dollars, and with being unoble to account for approximately $1,000,000 alleged to have been deposited for him in the accounts of the missing Russel T. Sherwood, his purported financial secretary. Governor Roosevelt formally called upon the mayor at 1:35 p. m. to make his defense. Principals Dress "Quietly” Both Walker and his arch-foe, Seabury, were dressed in blue serge suits —a more somber touch than is usual with the dapper New York executive. In strange uniformity, Governor Roosevelt had abandoned his customary white silk to wear blue. There was silence as the crowd in the room settled down. "Before proceeding,” said the Governor "I think it will simplify matters if I read a statement.” He then read from the legislative manual those clauses which gave him authority to hear the charges against Walker and, if he feels the evidence warrants, to remove him from his $40,000-a-year job. Cites Right to Hold Hearing This gesture was significant. Friends of the mayor had, only two hours before, made a vigorous effort to have an Albany court declare the proceeding sirregular. Roosevelt read a short review of the case, summarized in a single typewritten page. The mayor, with his hand cupped to his ear in a characteristic pose, listened intently. "I do not believe it necessary,” the Governor continued, “to enter into any controversy as to my right to conduct this hearing.” GETS THEATER POST Ted I. Nicholas Named Business Manager for Civic. Ted I. Nicholas, head of the advertising department of the SkourasPublix theaters here, has been named business manager of the Civic Theater of Indianapolis, according to an announcement made today by Hale Mac Keen, director. Nicholas will take over the duties of his new post Wednesday, Aug. 24, following a vacation. Nicholas, formerly dramatic critic on The Indianapolis News, served as director of publicity and advertising for the Arthur Casey players at the English theater last summer.

Jackson for several years as watchman at the dump, but discharged him two weeks ago. When Albert Hooker, Mars Hill, new watchman, became ill, Bylock said Jackson approached him for the job. Bylock refused to rehire him and could offer no explanation for Jackson being in the shack, he said, “unless he just went to live there.” “All my life, Monroe took care of me. I was going to have supper with him when I found the body,” La Follette said. La Follette said the body was lying in the bedroom of the shack occupied by Jackson. A kerosene lamp was burning in the front room. A Negro known as “65,” and V

DEMAND CONSTANT TROOP RULE OVER MINING WAR ZONE

Dog Star Dies Rin Tin Tin, 14, Had Earned Master Millions in Motion Pictures.

By United Press Hollywood, cal., Aug. n.— Rin Tin Tin, greatest of animal motion picture actors, pursued a ghostly villain in a canine happy

hunting grounds today. There, if such an animal heaven exists, the weight of his fourteen years was lifted, and a reward of strength flowed through legs paralyzed by age. Rin Tin Tin died Monday. More than 100 years old, as compartive human age is measured, the big German Shepherd dog lay down

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in front of his master, Lee Duncan, with whom he had been romping. His brown eyes looked up for a moment, questioningly, then closed. Duncan found he was paralyzed. A veterinarian said Rin Tin Tin died from natural causes. Duncan told the Mascot Studios, which held his contract. Wednesday night. Word went over Hollywood as if a great human star had been stricken. Rin Tin Tin’s earnings for his master were estimated in the millions of dollars. He had worked in pictures for thirteen years, showing a remarkable intelligence before the camera, demonstrating an ability to act ferocious one moment, and gentle the next. HITLERTODEFY HINDENBURG BID Report Adolph Won’t Stand for Strings to Offer. By United Press BERLIN, Aug. 11.—President Paul Von Hindenburg, confronted with a rising tide of Fascism and the menace of Adolph Hitler’s mobilizing “strom troops,” will grant an audience to Hitler Friday to offer him the chancellorship. Rapid developments of the last few days have brought the Fascist leader at last to his goal. Von Hindenburg, however, was expected to attach four conditions, and it was doubted if Hitler would accept. The conditions are:: The constitution must be respected. The Fascist militia must not be employed as auxiliary police. There must be no equality between the Fascist militia and the reichswehr, or regular army. There must be no party government relying on the “storm” detachments for support. Great suspense over the outcome of the audience prevailed. Von Hindenburg first will do his utmost to persuade Hitler to renounce his claim to the chancellorship, and agree merely to Nazi participation in the cabinet. Hitler was not expected to agree. Meanwhile, the thirteenth anniversary of the proclamation of the German constitution was observed officially today under strange cir-

cumstances. BONUS ARMY TO MOVE Chicago Detachment Is Ordered to Leave Firetrap. By Times Special CHICAGO. Aug. 11.—The Chicago bonus army will start evacuation today. Ousted from the building in which they have been staying, the veterans will go “somewhere,” said Howard W. Tower, their commander. The building has been condemned as a firetrap. Police will be present to watch the retreat.

giving his name as Bob Woodson, 32, who also lives on the dump, about a block from Jackson’s shack, told of La Follette running from the shack and calling for aid. Charles Winstead, 64, another inhabitant of the colony, told police he had seen Jackson about 6:30 Wednesday night sitting in front of his shack with his dog Trixie playing at his feet. Trixie, a poodle, had been Jackson's companion for a number of years and a “good watchdog,” barking whenever strangers approached the shack, police were told. None of the persons on the dump heard the dog barking Wednesday night. Police cast discredit on robbery as a motive for the murder, following discovery of a letter written by Jackson to a brother, Thompson, in Birminfham, Ala., asking for assistance. The letter, without a street address, had been returned undelievered by the postoffice. V

Coal Operators Urge Leslie Declare Permanent State of Martial Law. Demand that the Indiana national guard be on constant duty at coal mines where disorders have occurred, or are expected to occur, was presented today to Governor Harry G. Leslie by the Indiana Independent Coal Operators’ Association. It is made clear that the independent operators have nothing in common with the Indiana Coal Operators’ Association, and that they will nbt consider as binding upon them any agreement regarding wages or working conditions which may be entered into by the latter organization and the United Mine Workers of America. Employes of the independent operators, it is asserted, are either nonunion or members of the Associated Miners Union of Indiana. The independent mines, the statement continues, are operated on a hand basis or partly mechanized, and should not be subjected to conditions imposed on fully mechanized pits. Interference Is Charged United Mine Workers of America members and officials are charged with interfering with operation of independent mines by “unlawful, armed intervention by large numbers of men,” in the statement. There has been a complete demonstration, it is declared, that “protection can not be afforded by the courts,” and it is pointed out that disorders have occurred at mines while federal court anti-picketing injunctions have been in force. Disorders at the Hoosier mine, near Dugger; the Dixie Bee mine, near Pimento, and the Vermilion mine, near Clinton, are recalled in supporting a contention “that all judicial authority, both state and national, has been trampled under foot by the armed picketeers of the United Mine Workers of America.” Many Sign Statement Failure to keep state troops on constant guard, will cause the executive department of the state government to be a party indirectly “to achieving the objects of these unlawful, armed activities.” Companies signing the statement and their mine properties include the following: Bicknell Coal Company, Panhandle mine, Bicknell; Vermillion Coal Company, Vermillion mine, Clinton; Black Diamond Coal Company, Hoosier mine, Dugger; Somerville Mining Company, Somerville, and Oak Hill Coal Company, Eagle mine, Terre Haute.

$5 Wage Pact Signed By United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug. 11.— The Illinois coal fields, stagnant since last March, today surged with activity as mine operators prepared to send nearly 42,000 men back to work. The men will go back to the coal pits as a result of anew wage agreement, providing a basic $5 a day scale signed by officers of the United Mine Workers Union in a sensational climax of a long-drawn dispute. The contract was signed after union officers announced tally sheets of a secret poll of the membership on the proposed scale had been stolen. More than 300 mines, which have been shut down, are expected to reopen within a month. Indiana Hope Renewed By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 11.— Hope mounted high for a renewed agreement between operators and union coal miners in Indiana, on the heels of the sudden agreement in Illinois, whereby miners of that state return to the pits at a basic wage of $5 a day. Abe Vales, president of District 11, United Mine Workers of America, said today that the Illinois agreement “would no doubt have some bearing on negotiations in Indiana.” JOHN GILBERT WEDDED Screen Lover Is Bridegroom for 4th Time; Marries Virginia Bruce. By United Press HOLLYYWOOD. Cal., Aug. 11.— John Gilbert, famous screen lover, was a bridegroom for the fourth time today, married to Virginia Bruce, 21, a blonde beauty on the threshold of a motion picture career. The nuptials took place at dusk Wednesday night in Gilbert's bungalow on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot, a site selected by the couple for romantic reasons. It was on stage No. 22, just across the street from the bungalow, that they met a few months ago when Miss Bruce went for a screen test and Gilbert, gazing from a window of the bungalow, saw her enter and followed to seek an introduction.

‘Blondie of the Follies > Starts in Fridays Pinks “Where do we go from here. Blondie?” When you travel with Blondie, you go lots of peaces, at a speed that will make you dizzy. This queen of Broadway and New York’s night life is an idol whose every move interests thousands, but hidden from pleasure-maid, fair weather admirers is the intensely human, heart-gripping drama of Blondie’s private life, her pursuit of happiness. It is an amazing story of an amazing glamorous show girl, who rises from the obscurity of a squalid home to the pinnacle of the theatrical world. Read the first instalment of this smashing serial hit, “Blondie of the Follies,” in Friday’s Pinks. It will appear only in The Times Pink editions.

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HIGH SCHOOL GIRL SLAIN IN MIDNIGHT MYSTERY CRIME; ESCORT WOUNDED

DEATH ENDS DREAM

Career Planned for Slain Girl

Margaret Lela Byers

THE shotgun charge which killed pretty 17-year-old Margaret Lela Byers Wednesday night, also blasted her family's hopes and plans of a career which gave every promise of reaching the heights. The entire community surrounding West Newton was stunned by news of the girl’s death and the wounding of her companion, Kenneth Perkins, 19, in a purported attempt to capture bandits who had raided the home of Herman Voight on the High School road, north of Tenth street. Perkins probably will die, hospital physicians say.

NATION AWAITS HOOVERJSSUES Term to Be Defended in Acceptance Speech. BY MARSHALL M’NEIL Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. The record of Herbert Hoover’s four years and of his administration formed the background today as he came to his second notification ceremony, to learn formally that he has been again nominated for the presidency by the Republican party. Tonight in Constitution hall, surrounded by his friends, Hoover will again accept the nomination, name the issues upon which he will run, defend his administration, and lay down a further program for the next term. His new views on prohibition, international debts and trade, and unemployment will be listened to most closely. The scene will be vastly different from that of exactly four years ago at Palo Alto, Cal., where Hoover accepted his first nomination. The air was bright with prosperity then. Ten million or more persons have lost their jobs in this country. Our foreign trade has dwindled to a fraction of its former size. Credit has shrunk; the stock market has slumped to depths few imagined. But at the moment the stock market is beginning to rise. Four years ago Hoover said: “The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.” Tonight he is expected to discuss the issue of unemployment and its relief. Four years ago Hoover said: “The most urgent economic problem in our nation today is agriculture. It (Turn to Page Seven) CITY MAY GET VIEW OF METEOR SHOWER Indianapolis Residents Have 50-50 Chance, Says Armington. (Other Details, Pare 3) “Indianapolis residents have a fifty-fifty chance of getting a good view of the meteor shower tonight,” said J. H. Armington, chief meteorologist of the Indianapolis weather bureau today. “It’s about even money that the clouds will open up sufficiently to afford a good view of the heavens,” he explained. “There are hundreds of places in and about the city from which a person may get a good view of the spectacle, in case the skies are clear. Any location which gives a good view of the northeastern sky, and which is not too close to city lights will be suitable.” SAVE IMPRISONED HEN Chicken Trapped for Forty Days Without Food and Water Lives. By United Press LINTON, Ind., Aug. 11.—A i Rhode Island Red hen, imprisoned t without food or water beneath the floor of a coal house at the home of E. H. Cardwell, for forty days, was recovering today. Cardwell said the hen was reviving under a carefully planned diet, and apparently would regain normal strength.

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Both young people are wellknown in the community. In talking of the shooting, neighbor: called attention to the great difference in the lives of the girl and the boy, which, instead of separating them, seemed to provide a means for their mutual attraction. Margaret was the sheltered daughter of a well-to-do farm family. Orphan, Works for Board Kenneth is an orphan, making his home among farmers of the community, where he worked in the fields for his board and spending money. Racked by sobs, the grief-stricken mother, Mrs. Kate Byers, sat this morning on the porch of her large home near West Newton and tolc of her plans for her daughter’: graduation next June. By her side sat Hershell Byers husband and father, mutely listening to his wife, while his hands large, twisted and gnarled from s life spent in farming, gripped the arm of a porch swing until il creaked beneath the pressure. “We had a party for her a week ago Tuesday, Aug. 2. It was hex 17th birthday,” the mother said “She was eager to begin school this fall. We have anew school building and her class is the first to graduate from it. Planned Trip to Park “She was the sweetest girl,’ sobbed Mrs. Byers. “Every one liked her. And she was a good girl. She never stayed out late and I knew exactly where she was going and who she was with. “She told me last night that she would be late. With Kenneth, she was going to Brownsburg, and then they planned to go to Broad Ripple park. Usually she would get in about 11, but I didn’t expect her last night until later. I waited—and she didn’t come.” Tense with emotion, Mrs. Byers then related the hour-long minutes of waiting for her daughter to return. “I sat up for until 11:30, when I dozed off. I don’t know exactly when it was, but I was awakened after midnight, when William and Charles (two sons employed in Indianapolis) came home. When we found out Margaret wasn’t home yet, we were worried dreadfully. “The boys paced the floor, and just had planned to search for her, when the officers came and told Informed that Voight was under (Turn to Page Seven)

COURT RULES TERM, ‘SEX APPEAL,’ LEGAL Berlin Judges Decide Woman Is Not Slandered by Remark. By L nited Press BERLIN, Aug. 11—Three solemn Berlin judges today handed down a decision holding that it is not illegal for any one to publicly announce that a woman has sex appeal. The ruling attracted wide attention since it was made in the case brought by Fraulein Tony Sender, one of the most prominent women in Germany. She is 44, unmarried, and a member of the reichstag. Frau Sender charged that when she was credited with possessing sex appeal she was slandered. “This is a curse,” she added, “and I am outraged.” The court admitted that the expression, as used, was “infelicitous : and not in very good taste,” but refused to regard it as insulting.

HOOVER SNUBS WRITERS Delegation Refused Audience to Voice Bonus Eviction Protest. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Efforts of a delegation of writers to see President Hoover to protest against methods used in eviction of bonus marchers met with failure Wednesday. The President declined to receive the “intellectuals,” among whom were Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Frank and William Jones, Negro editor. The delegation left, criticising the President for giving audiences to Boy Scouts and politicians and refusing them a hearing.

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West Newton Student Dies in Roadside Ditch: Youth in Serious Condition. MISTAKE, SAYS KILLER City Man Held in Death Case Declares He Was Shooting at Bandits. Her body torn by a shotgun charge, a 17-year-old high school girl died in a roadside ditch shortly before midnight Wednesday, and her 19-year-old escort is in city hospital today with a wound which is expected to prove fatal. Mistake in identity by a man seeking revenge following a holdup apparently led to the slaying. The dead girl is Miss Margaret Byers of West Newton. Her escort was Kenneth Perkins, 19, R. R. 18, Box 610. Herman Voight, R. R. 2, Box 419-F, fired the fatal shots. In a statement to police, Voight declared he acted in the belief that he was attacking two men whom he said robbed his wife and the wife of Walter Thompson, Speedway City, as they started to leave the Voight home in the Thompson automobile. Police said they found 300 quarts of beer and a gallon of whisky in the Voight home. Besides Voight, police are holding Maurice Cochran, 31, of 3510 West Sixteenth street, identified as the driver of an automobile said to have been sighted near the scene of the slaying. He was identified a s one of two men who committed the robbery preceding the tragedy. Mrs. Thompson was released today on her own recognizance. Near Schroeder Crime Scene The shooting occurred on the High School road near West Tenth street, about a mile from the scene of the slaying of a stranger for which Harold Herbert Schroeder is serving a prison term. Perkins said he and Miss Byers went to Brownsburg in his automobile early Wednesday night, leaving there about 9:30 and going to Broad Ripple park. Later they went to his home three miles east of Clermont, leaving about 10:45 for the Byers home. At the point where the shooting took place, Perkins says, two men armed with revolvers leaped from a parked automobile to the running board of his car. They forced him to stop, commanding, “Stick ’em up.” He and Miss Byers were forced to alight from the car. Fires With Shotgun Before the two men could make another move, a third man armed with a shotgun appeared from a field and fired twice, Perkins asserts, and he and Miss Byers fell into a ditch at the side of the road. The thirej man was Veight. Statement of Voight is that he and his wife, their two children, 13 months and 3 year old; Walter Thompson and his wife Frances, entered the Thompson car about 11 to go to the summer cottage of the Thompson’s at Freeport. As the car was started, two young men armed with revolvers sprang from a weed patch and ordered the families from the car. Voight says his wife was robbed of $26, and that SSO was taken from Mrs. Thompson. Starts After Robbers Voight says that, after the robbers left, he obtained a shotgun and went in search of them. He relates that on seeing two men near the Perkins automobile, he fired twice. He asserts he was not acquainted with the youth or the Byers girl. Three persons at the Mt. Auburn kennels, a short distance from the slaying scene, told police that they heard shooting after an automobile said to have been driven by Cochran stopped in front of the place and a girl alighted, telling the driver she would return soon. Within a few minutes the car reappeared and the girl was picked up.

Delay in Investigation. Investigation of the case was started after considerable delay Office of Sheriff Charles received a report of an accident at to send Ut n ° deputy was available Second report, advising of a shoot- ™ ™f CeiVed at 12:44 this m°rrimg. Following the first report however, police took up the else when advised that a deputy sheriff was not available. and Ws brother Ernest, 26 of the same address, were arrested March 17, following a fight. *i^f nest was given suspension of a $l fine and thirty-day jail term on a charf.T of assault and battery, and charges of vagrancy against himself and his brother were dismissed.

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