Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 142, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1932 — Page 7

OCT. 2t, 1932.

WOMAN KILLED, MANY HUNT IN AUTO CRACKUPS Death Car Overturns After Narrow Escape From Side Road Collision. One woman was killed and nearly a score of persons were hurt, at least five seriously, in traffic accidents in the city and county during the week-end, according to police. A skull fracture incurred Sunday afternoon when the car in which she was riding with her husband overturned on state road No. 37, seven miles south of the city, caused the death a few hours later of Mrs. Ida strupe, 44. 4244 Graceland avenue, i wife of Cecil Strupe, * president of General Products, makers of percussion instruments. Her death raised the county trafflee toll since Jan. 1 to seventy-two. Strupe lost control of his car when another auto, driven on to the highway from a side road, narrowly missed the Strupe car. Strupe suffered severe head injuries. Charles Chase, 35, of* the Graceland avenue address, Mrs. Strupe’s brother, and Miss Florence Hill, 32, and Miss Fanny Hale, 44, both of 4246 Graceland avenue, were cut and bruised. They are in Methodist hospital. Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Strupe have not been made. Surviving her in addition to the husband and brother, arc a sister, Miss May Chase, of Terre Haute, and the father, William Chase. Another auto crash in the same vicinity resulted in serious injury of Dewey Hunter, 23, of 3929 English avenue, who was hurled through the windshield of a car driven by Conrad Hopper, 20, of 3748 English avenue, as it veered from the road to avoid collision with another car. Hopper was arrested for reckless driving. Others injured in week-end accidents: George Morrison. 49, of 1133 Larch street, head lacerations; Eugene Summa. 20, of 1228 North State avenue, leg bruises; Charles Clements. 19. of 1221 Newman street, back injuries: Miss Helen Booker. 24 of 1645 Ashland avenue, bruises and, head cuts; Sergeant W. H. Green. Ft. Harrison. head cuts; Patricia Hcllenbrandt, 3. and her mother Mrs. William Hcllenbrandt. of Muncle. cuts on the face and legs, and Mrs. Ossie Williams. 31. and her father, Charles Pressci. 75. both of 317 East For-tv-seventh street, bone fractures and internal inhirlcs. Cuts and bruises were received by Mrs. Nell Bamber. 58. of 1225 Finlev avenue; Kenneth Rllrv. 38. IJollvwood. Cal.; Mrs. Bert Peters. 35. of 3953 North Capitol avenue: Mrs. Nora Norris. 42. of 3502 Guilford avenue; Herbert Hogue. 33. of 920 Arbor avehue. and Miss Edna Moote, 228 East Vermont street, apartment 2. POLITICAL RALLY ENDS IN BRAWL; TWO HURT One Man in Hospital, Knife Wound in Breast; Condition Serious. Investigation of a brawl Sunday night at the Twelfth Ward Democratic Club, resulting in injury of two persons, one seriously, was being made today by police. Tom Gaynor, 28, of 713 Chadwick street, is in a serious condition at city hospital of a knife wound in the breast, and Walter O’Hara, 42, of 11 West Wisconsin street, incurred a broken arm. Although witnesses had fled from the scene of the fight as police arrived, police said they learned O'Hara incurred the arm fracture when shoved by a crowd of men into an auto. Gaynor, held in the hospital detention ward on a vagrancy charge, declined to name his assailant, police said. TYPHOID IS GAINING On Increase in Indiana During Last Two Months, Dr. King Warns. Typhoid fever is on the increase in Indiana, records of the state board of health disclose, and Dr. William F. King, director, today pleaded for better co-operation in preventing an epidemic. During the two months, 265 cases have been reported, Dr. King declared. For the same period last year there were but 128, making the number this year the largest for the last several years, he said.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Frank Heath. 1303 Congress avenue. Nash coupe from Senate avenue and Washington street. Clarence Payne. 601 Fletcher avenue. Ford coupe, from MOO West Tenth street. Louis Wien. 1227 North Mount street. Ford coupe. 25-739. from Alabama and Market streets. Harold Wysong 332 South Christian street. Chevrolet coach. 127-2-19. from in front of 332 South Christian street. William Hughes. 4065 Rookwood avenue, Chevrolet coupe, from 400 West New York street. Abels Fink. 535 North Capitol avenue Plymouth coupe, from c 35 North Capitol avenue.

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Stolen automobiles recovered bv police belong to: Louis ilia. 123 North Noble street. Ford truck, found at New Wrecking Company. Olin T. Arbaugh, 3137 Northwestern avenue. Chrvsier sedan, found at Locke and Colton streets, stripnact of tires Ford truck. M-1809. found at 1030 South Capitol avenue J. Moodv, 778'i Indiana avenue. Hudson eoacn. found at Southeastern avenue and Peasant Run. Hoosier Flectric Refrigerator Corporation. 914 North Meridian street, found at oo West Tenth street. Francis Beik. 3835 Winthrop avenue DeSoto coupe, found at Michigan and' Meridian afreets. R. C. Holland. 2340 North Alabama street. Ford coupe, found at Maywood, stripped Chevrolet coach. 51-633. found at 3400 West Vermont street, stripped of battery

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THE MAN WITH A WOMAN’S LEG

He Thought He Was a Murderer, but Proves Innocent

A man is found dumping a strange bundle in the river. It contains the dismembered body of a woman The doISXMZ,y’ h “’- • SS2B Ain't!!! 1 wa ® Norris ’ conclusion? How Tn d teri.v^ V ni that , his solution was true? It s discussion with Earl Sparling Wom n's 7 he Man wh th* questions. * h * answers thes * BY EARL SPARLING Times Staff Writer (Copyright 1932. by the New York WorldTclrgram Corporation) “'T'HE queerest case I ever A handled, old man, was that fellow w'ith the woman's leg.” Long inured to earthly horrors and thereby a bit Olympian in viewpoint, Chief Norris chuckled in his whiskers. “A queer case,” he chuckled. “He was in deep, poor fellow. He had been dumping arms and legs in the river all morning. They caught him with the last leg. I guess I saved him from the electric chair.” The story goes back to Nov. 30, 1926. That day, about 7 a. m., a rainy, wintry morning, Policeman James Anderson noticed a man going toward India Wharf, in Brooklyn, with a bundle on his shoulder. Something about the fellow caused the policeman to look twice, just why he never was able to explain. Possibly because the fellow looked twice at him, always a suspicious circumstance with harness officers. “Hey, there! What you got in that bundle, Johnny?” ’ The man halted abruptly. “Just my working clothes.” The policeman thought the fellow’s voice sounded a bit jumpy, but voices often do when answering harness officers. “Where you making for?” “I work down on the next pier.” “O. K., Johnny.” Policeman Anderson turned away, started up the street. There were better things to do on a rainy morning than stand palvering with a waterfront hunky. But some sixth instinct caused him to look back before he rounded the corner. a a u THE fellow had halted on the edge of the wharf and was depositing his bundle on the stringpiece. Nothing exactly questionable about that, but how come he was keeping his eye peeled on policeman Anderson? The fallow was too darned interested in the looks of a harness officer. Policeman Anderson got more interested himself and started back toward the wharf. With that, the fellow kicked his bundle into the river and began running. “A-ha,’ said the officer to himself and opened up on the fly with his revolver. Policeman Louis Vitalo heard the firing several blocks away and raced down to the wharf just in time to head off the quarry and grab him. "What was in that bundle, you mug?” puffed policeman Anderson. "Nothing.” grunted the mug, squirming in policeman Vitalo’s tight grip. “Nothing? You told me a. few minutes ago it was clothes?” “Yes, it was my clothes.” “So, you're throwing your working clothes away? A thrifty guy, hey? What’s your name, Johnny?” The man fell into sullen silence. Not another word could the two officers get out of him. “All right,” said Officer Anderson. “We’ll take you over to the station and see how you feel after a little workout.” They worked on him quite a while at the Hamilton avenue station in Brooklyn. At first he refused to give his name. Later hs changed his mind about that and gave both his name and address. The officers investigated and found both fictitious. “Hey,” beamed policeman Anderson. “Looks like I got something here.” a a a HE and others from the Hamilavenue station began dragging the river for th£ mysterious bundle. They worked a long time and found nothing. Then along came a taxicab driver who had witnessed the end of the chase and the arrest. “What you got Trapia for?” inquired the driver, innocently. "What’s that? What you say his name is?” "Francisco Trapia” said the driver. “He's a longshoreman. He lives over at 56 Sackett street.” The officers hurried over to that address, broke in, tramped through to the kitchen and found something that sent them out for fresh ‘ air. Propped in one corner was the headless torso of a middle-aged woman. Nearby was the dissevered

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Dr. Charles Norris, with piercing eyes, studying a murder mystery clew in his laboratory.

head. The arms and legs were missing. “Well,” beamed policeman Anderson when he had finished gagging. “Did I get something?” They dragged Trapia over from the station house to look at his handiwork. Trapia lost his stolidity. He went to pieces, shook, sobbed. “I did it,” he screamed. ‘I cut her up. I threw her legs and arms in the river. I was going to throw the rest away tonight.” a tt a SITTING in his library, sur-i rounded by his volumes in three languages, his medical books, his books of poetry, his books of history and travel and great literature, Dr. Charles Norris, chief medical examiner, chuckled in his beard. “It was just about that time that I arrived. Charlie Lieberman, my chauffeur, was with me. The place was full of detectives. “Apparently none of them recognized me. I'm not as well known in Brooklyn as in Manhattan. I don't get over there on cases so much. “I guess it was a bit surprising to the detectives. I didn’t realize it at the time. I didn’t see how strange it was until much later when they told me about it. “You can see how it must have struck them. I walked in, had a look and the first thing I said was, ‘There's no cause of death here.’ ” That struck the houseful of detectives all right. They looked at each other and .then at the tall, bearded stranger. “What did that guy say,” murmured one of them. “A woman without no head and legs, and he says there’s no cause of death.” But the bewilderment of the detectives and harness officers was just beginning. a a a Doctor norris lifted the dissevered head by its hair and turned to his chauffeur. “What do you think, Charlie —it looks like gas, doesn't it?” “Sure, it’s gas, chief,” said Charlie. Whereupon the tall, hulking figure with the gray Van Dyke marched out, followed by Charlie. One of the detectives grabbed the chauffeur at the door. “Say,” growled the detective,

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“who is that big ‘mug you’re with?” “ThatT’ said Charlie, “is Chief Medical Examiner Norris.” "Oh. Well, did I hear right? Did he say this was a gas case?” “Sure,” said Charlie. “It’s gas. If the chief says it’s gas, it’s gas.” The detective looked at the torso on the floor and said, “Well, I’ll be damned.” The police and the district attorney refused to believe it. The dead woman was identified as Mrs. Anna Fredericksen, 42, mother of three children and wife of a laborer. Travia, 44, was charged with first degree murder. The court assigned Alfred E. Smith, Jr., son of the then Governor, to defend him. a a a 'T'HE case was fought bitterly. A The district attorney painted the longshoreman to the jury as a fiend, a barbaric brute. Dr. Alexander O. Gettler, city toxicologist, who had made a chemical analysis of organs after Chief Norris had pei formed a general autopsy, took the stand and testified Mrs. Fredericksnn had died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Travia was acquitted by the jury. “It was a very interesting case,” ; said Doc Norris, sitting in his comfortable library six years later. “The truth is the poor fellow really thought he had murdered the woman. “They had been drinking heavily and both fell into a stupor. They probably had the kitchen stove burning for warmth. Carbon monoxide was generated in the closed room. He awoke in the morning and found the woman dead. “He still was half drunk and dazed by the carbon monoxide. The woman was dead. In his state

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of mind he figured he must have killed her some way. “The only thing he could think to do was to dispose of the body. He gqt a chisel and a knife and started to work. a a a we had proved how she died, it all came clear to him. He told his story in a straightforward fashion at the trial. But that • wouldn't have helped him much without our findings. “That shows how important a scientific laboratory of legal medicine is in this city. Very few citizens, and very few politicians, too, ever idealize.” “How did you know it was gas, Doc?” “Simple, old man. Gas poisoning always leaves a pink discoloration on the skin. The blood shows a pinkish tinge, too. “Charlie knew it the minute he saw it. Charlie has been with me more than ten years now. Drives me around and takes my notes at the scene. “He has picked up more knowledge of practical pathology than a lot of those who write books. An excellent boy, old man.” “Travia must have overwhelmed you with thanks when he got out, Chief.” . “Poor fellow,” sighed Doc Norris. “He didn’t have a chance. The moment he got free of the murder charge they arrested him for disposing of a dead body. He got two or three years for that.” Next —Dr. Norris will discuss the strange death of a wealthy clothier. Grease stains call for prompt first aid, for after a time the grease is much harder to remove.

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