Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 144, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1932 — Page 9

OCT. 26, 1932.

MAROTT BARES 'DOUBLE-CROSS' ON HOME LOAN Charges Watson, Cannon Took Site, Ignoring Offer of Free Location. Charges that directors of the Indianapolis home loan bank ignored an offer to locate the institution in the New City Trust building without cost, leasing instead ‘ inadequate” quarters in the former J. F. Wild Bank building at an expense of S9OO for the first six months, were made today by George J. Marott, Indianapolis capitalist. In letters to Representative Louis Ludlow, Fermor 3. Cannon, home loan bank director, and other directors of the bank, Marott charged the refusal constituted a "double cross’’ by Senator James E. Watson and Cannon. Marott pointed out that City Trust building site, fully equipped and ready for occupancy, was acknowledged to be the "best location in the city” for the bank. Move Called "Strange” "It is strange that the purpose of the home loan bank was to help distressed people, and yet the board denied accepting quarters so splcnidly equipped as those in the new City Trust building, or a location we have offered on the second floor, formerly occupied by Strauss & Cos., investment bankers, and offered rent free if necessary for one year and a small, reasonable sum thereafter,” Marott said in his letter to Ludlow. "There are more than three hundred people who have $640,000 of preferred stock invested in this building, who are distressed on account of their investment, yet this noble board of home savers rented of the FlPtcher American bank, owners of the Wild building, quarters which can not compare with those we offered, and are paying S9OO as rent for the first six months. "Something Is Wrong” "This does not smack of the policy of economy, and it smothers their newspaper article that they would have no salary until the bank operated with profit. Wq feel we have been double-crossed by Mr. Cannon and Watson, w T ho led the way to a unanimous conclusion that conveys ‘humbug,’ ” "If it is possible to interfere with the Home, loan bank making further lease than six months, we stand ready to give all or any part of our banking quarters and vault, on the second floor of the building, which are better quarters than they now have rented, rent free for at least a year, and possession at once. "I am stating this to evidence that something is wrong in the board ignoring our offer.” D. A. V. SPONSORS SALE Annual For - Get - Me-Nol Campaign Set for Nov. 11 and 12. Annual forget-me-not sale, sponsored by Disabled American Veterans of the World war, will be held Nov. 11 and 12, it was announced today following a meeting Tuesday night of Dr. Worthington chapter, of which Omer Stevens is commander.

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Crime Chief Gives Views of Dot King and Snyder Cases

Among bis books In his library at home. Dr. Charles Norris. New Yorks chief medical examiner, recalls his most famous cases. Today he discusses these mvsferles with Earl Sparling—the Dot King murder, the Bnvder-Grav case, the Rothstein shooting the Louise Lawson smothering the machine gunning of Vincent Coll and the strange death of Mrs. Harry Fruendllch. BY EARL SPARLING Times Staff Writer (Copyright. 1932. by the New York WorldTelegram Corporation) “TT’S no good, old man.” 1 What, Doc?” "This thing of trying to make me into a detective. You’ll have Steve Donahue and Tom Martin razing me every time I meet them on a case.” Chief Norris was resting just now in his library, that comfortably cumbered place where he writes such thrillers as "The Bactericidal Action of Lymph Taken From the Thoractic Duct of the Dog,” and "Cases in Which the Bacillus Aerogenes Capsulates Was Isolated.” "It reminds me,’ he said, "of what that detective said on the Louise Lawson case.” “What did he say, Doc?” "You remember the case? In February, 1924, wasn’t it? They found her lying in bed, bound up, with tape over her. mouth. A simple case of robbery. Didn’t intend to kill her. She smothered to death. “Professionals, though, old man. Christopher Colombo, they didn’t care whether she smothered or not. They didn’t get much. There wasn’t much to get. “When I got there, the place was full of detectives. I couldn’t get into the bedroom. So I stopped In the living room. There was a vase of beautiful red roses on the table. I said, ’Where did these come from?’ “This detective, he said, ‘Aha. You’re beginning to sleuth, Doc.’ I said, ‘Sure, I am. There are so many detectives already here I can’t get in.’ ” tt tt tt THE chief pondered a moment. "It’s a real question how far a doctor should delve into detective work. He don’t view things the same way as the homi- . clde squad. Sometimes we see things others might miss. Sometimes we can be of help.” The Louise Lawson case by natural association brought up the murder of Dot King (also known as Dorothy Keenan), found dead in her New York apartment on March 15* 1923. “Another butterfly,” said Doc Norris. “We might have done something with that case if we had gotten it sooner. Her death was reported to police some six hours before this office was notified. Cassassa (Dr. Charles B. Cassassa, assistant medical examiner) got there late in the afternoon. He noticed right away something was wrong. He has eyes like an eagle, old man. An excellent observer. He calls me. I hurried up there as quickly as possible. “How any policeman could have thought it natural death, I don’t know. We should have been notified hours before. "There was a chloroform bottle at the foot of the bed. Her lips were burned with chloroform. I've never seen a body twisted into such a tortupus position, old man. "Her arm was bent up behind her back almost to the neck, a hammerlock. Her body was bent over on the side and her face had been almost buried in the pillow. She was a big, strong woman. "You remember a Philadelphia millionaire had been paying her expenses, had given her something like $14,000 in jewelry. He had been with her the night before, hadn't left until 2 in the morning. tt a >t “T>UT he didn’t kill her. He D wouldn’t have had the strength, old man. He was too small. It took a big strong man to bend that woman into the position we found her. “She put up a real fight. We might have solved that case if we had been called sooner. When we got there it was too late to determine the time of death.

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Dr. Norris in his library. Lower left, Ruth Snyder; above, Louise Lawson; right, Dot King, also known as Dorothy Keenan.

Rigor mortis already had set in. “If we could have determined the time of death several alibis might have blown up.” Other famous cases drifted into the conversation. What could the chief tell about the murder of Arnold Rothstein? “Not much, old man, except he probably was shot sitting in his chair in that poker game in the hotel. The wound ranged from the left downward. “He might have been shot on the stairway after he left the game. But I'm conxinced, old man, that he was shot without warning while the game was going on. “I doubt if it was any one playing as that time. Someone stepped up beside him while he was playing and let him have it.” The case of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray, who murdered Albert Snyder, the woman’s husband, March 20, 1927. “How that case was broken never has been told,” said the Chief. “Neall handled that one (Dr. Howard W. Neall, assistant medical examiner). A bright fellow Neall. A beautiful worker. “You remember that Ruth Snyder claimed her husband was killed by robbers. She* said she had fainted and was unconscious for six hours. “Silly. Stupid. Neail told the detectives that no one ever faints for six hours. She was lying. That was the first thing that put them on the right track, * a m “XTtTE did good work an that W case. Dr. Gettler analyzed the husband’s organs and proved she had been feeding him bichloride of mercury in whisky. “That didn’t work, apparently, so she tried to chloroform him that night. I suppose he raised up out of his sleep. Chloroform acts as a stimulant at first, you know. That’s why they had to. put a hammerlock on Dot King and push her head into the pillow. “Snyder raised up and they had to hit him with the sashweight. It came out later that after the murder she tried to get Judd Gray to drink some of the poisoned whisky. A nice girl, old man.” How Ruth Snyder happened to confess fits in at this point, a little known story. She had been taken to the police station, where she sat weeping and insisting her husband had been killed by robbers. A policeman who knew her, but had not heard of the case, came into the station house. “Why, what’s the matter, Ruthie?” he said. “What are you crying about?” She looked up and said, “I’m in trouble.” The policeman patted her on the back, probably thinking she had violated a traffic rule or something like that. “That’s all right, Ruthie,” he said. “Go in and tell them the truth. I’ll fix it up.” She took him at his word and confessed. * a THE famous cases, the obscure cases—Chief Norris has something to reveal in all of them, the inside story of crime in the most violent city iji the world. His observations are pointed in even such an unmysterious case as the machine gun murder of Vincent Coll, gangster, in a tele phone both. “I was very interested in that body. It was the "first machine

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gun case I’d seen. We haven’t had many of them here in NeW York, you knqw. Coil’s body nad at least eighteen bullet holes. It was almost impossible to trace the wounds. Terrible things, machine gun bullets. They leave a hole as big as the bottom of a teacup, as if the flesh had been hacked out with a hatchet. The police must be careful. One man with a weapon like that could stand in a second floor window and wipe out an entire emergency wagon of police. The emergency wagons are open, unprotected. The men wouldn’t have a fighting chance.” All kinds of cases—but it is the obscure ones which seem to demonstrate best what the medical examiner’s office can do. Take the case of Mrs. Harry Fruendlich, 31, who was found dead in bed in her tenement flat at 270 Delancey street, Nov. 13, 1923, tt tt tt THE room was filled with gas. A broken chandelier lay at the foot of the bed. Apparently the matter was simple. The chandelier had come loose from the celling and flooded the room with gas while the woman slept. Dr. George Hohmamf was the assistant medical examiner who went to the scene. He ordered the body to the morgue for autopsy. That night the woman’s husband was arrested for murder and subsequently was sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing. "Dear old George,” sighed Chief

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Morris. "He was wonderful. Poor boy, he’s dead, too, now.” “But what first made him suspicious the woman hadn’t died from gas, Doc?” “It was simple, old man. There were five children. One of them had been there in the room with the mother, a 14-months-old baby. “A child is more susceptible to gas than an adult, and the baby was alive. Anyway, how could that chandelier have fallen to the floor without awakening the poor woman? Impossible, old man. “We made an autopsy and found she had been strangled. There wasn’t a trace of gas in the chemical analysis. The husband choked her to death and then to cover it up pulled the chandelier down.”

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WICKERSHAM'S ! MOONEY PROBE j REPORT BARED! Long-Suppressed Document Published as Book for Sale to Public. BY MAX STERN Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Out. 26.—The long-suppressed Wickersham commission experts’ report on the Mooney-Billings trials was published today as a book. Issued by the Gotham House. Inc., and for sale to the public the report is expected to’ have even I wider circulation that it would have : as a congressional document. The document originally was planned as an important part of the Kenyon report on “lawlessness in law enforcement.” The Wickersham commissioners refused to make it public on the ground that the government should not intervene in a state case. Liberal senators joined in demanding that President Herbert Hoover produce the Mooney-Bill-ings portion of the report. He sent it to the senate. There all efforts to have it printed as a federal document failed. Second Intervention Telegrams, urging that it be printed by a private publisher were signed by Clarence Darrow, Roy W. Howard, Norman Hapgood, Fanny Hurst, Oswald Garrison Villard, Arthur Garfield Hays and others. In an introduction Senator Burton K. Wheeler likens the MooneyBillings scandal to France’s Dreyfus case. * This is, Wheeler shows, the second time the federal government has intervened to aid in the liberation of the two California labor leaders. The first time was in 1918, when Woodrow Wilson saved Mooney’s neck by asking California’s Gov- | ernor Stephens to give him anew trial. ; The second time was when the | Wickersham commission experts, Dr. Zechariah Chafee of Harvard, Carl Stern and Walter Poliak, turned in their report.

Flagrant Law Violations "There were flagrant law violations of the statutory law of California by both the police and prosecution in the manner in which the defendants were arrested and held incommunicado, and in the subsequent searches of their homes to procure evidence against them,” the report concludes. The report, writes Wheeler, “should have been printed with the original Wickersham report. Its publication now will, I fervently hope, aid in .freeing these victims of judicial tyranny and wiping from our national escutcheon this ugly stain.” Bridge Contract Awarded Henry V. Hay Company, Boonville, has been awarded a $4,465.38 contract for construction of two bridges on State Road 68, In Warrick and Spencer counties. Award was made by the state highway commission.

CONTRACT BRIDGE This Is the fifth of * series of srtlc'.ef bv Wilham E McKennev exploiting the ono over one system for contract bridge the svstem employed ov practically every expert In the country. BY W. E. M’KENNEY Secretary American Bridse League THE majority of original bids at contract bridge are suit bids of one. At auct’on bridge we, in reality, bid against our opponents, endeavoring to buy the contract as cheaply as possible, while at contract bridge we must bid for our partner, so that partisanship bidding may progress on a constructive basis and thereby safely reach the correct final contract. There was an old established principle at auction bridge that dealer and second hand could open with less strength than that quired for a third or fourth hand opening bid, and this principle was carried over into contract for a short time. Today, however, after we have had opportunity to study contract bridge thoroughly this bidding principle is changed completely in the one over one system of bidding. * n tt TO open with a first or second hand bid is laying the foundation for a game or slam contract. The requirements for an original suit bid of one first or second hand are: First. Two and one-half to three high card tricks. In other words, you assure partner that even though your side does not win the final contract, your hand will be able to take from two to three tricks defensively. Second. Your hand must contain a biddable suit. A suit, to be considered biddable, should be as strong as the following:

(a) Any six-card suit. (b) Any five-card suit headed by jack ten or better. A five-card suit headed only by the ace, king jack, or jack ten, should not be rebid unless supported by partner. (c) Any four-card suit headed by j ace, jack, nine or king, queen. There are times when a king jack ten x suit may be bid, especially when the hand does not quite meet the j requirements for an original no trump bid, but contains too many i high card tricks to pass. tt a it THESE requirements for a biddable suit are entirely for j original bids. There are times when, on the second round of bidding, weaker suits may be shown. Third—Not only must the hand contain two and one-half to three high card tricks and a biddable, suit to open first or second hand, but in addition the hand must contain a rebid. In other words, the original bidder must be in a position to handle any bid that partner may make — either by rebidding his own suit, supporting partner’s suit, showing a second spit, or bidding no trump. a it TAKING into consideration the especially high requirements for high card tricks, you will realize the great strength required for first and second hand opening bids in the one over one system. ’This is one of the most important factors in the system and must be striqtly adhered to. - It is only by strong original bids that a sound foundation can be laid for game and slam contracts.

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EXILED ENEMIES ARE PARDONED BY MUSSOLINI Opens Italy’s Doors to Old Foes With Condition They ‘Behave/ By United Prat , MILAN. Italy, Oct. 26—Fascist Italy was open today to its political exiles. Premier Benito Mussoliry, apparently secure in his belief of the unconquerable force of his dictator- . ship, extended the olive branch to; thousands of former foes of his regime, provided they renounce the error of their ways and co-operate with Fascism. At the same time, he predicted a. universal Fascist triumph in Europe and a century of Italian power, _ with Italy returning “for the third time” to direct human civilization. The dictator's speech at Milan, in celebration of Fascism’s tenth anniversary, was received with satisfaction by the country. It was hailed as a harbinger of anew era of peace and brotherhood under a more tolerant Fascist regime. Thousands of relatives of the exiles prepared joyously to receive them home, convinced of the futility of tilting further against the Fascist windmill. It was estimated the amnesty offer would affect 2,000 exiles in France, 300 in Belgium and Luxembourg, 500 in Switzerland and 500 in the United States and South American republics. The premier did not specifically say what would be his attitude toward those island prisoners definitely in custody for political offenses, although it was expected a more lenient policy would be adopted. Mussolini tempered his announcement with a plain warning, however, that those who returned must behave.

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