Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 170, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1932 — Page 8

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STATE VICTOR ON ‘CONFESSION’ OF HAMILTON Admitted Into Evidence at Trial After Clash by Attorneys. By rimes Special LEBANON, Ind„ Nov. 25.—The prosecution in the case of Louis E. Hamilton, charged with the murder of Lafayette Jackson in a holdup in Indianapolis, chalked up a victory Thursday when it succeeded in obtaining the admission by Judge Fred E. Hines of Hamilton's confession. Reading of the confession to a Boone county jury came after a bitter battle by defense counsel which started early in the afternoon, and was not concluded until after 3, when the jury was brought back into the room for testimony. The confession, which Hamilton admits signing, but claims was obtained by third degree police methods, was obtained about seventeen hours after Hamilton was brought back from lola, Kan. Wouldn't Sign Confession It was taken by Detective Edward Glenn, whose testimony as a state witness precipitated the lengthy legal battle. Glenn asserted Hamilton at first denied any connection with the crime, but when confronted by a confession of Charles Vernon Witt, J his alleged accomplice who has been sentenced to life imprisonment, agreed to talk. “I told Hamilton,” Glenn said, "that since Witt has tried to shove most of the blame on him, he ought to clear his conscience and tell the truth. “ ‘Hell,’ replied Hamilton,” Glenn testified, “ ‘l’ll tell you the truth and I won’t put Witt in it more than I do myself.’ ” ‘‘Hamilton then told us the entire story, but would not sign it until later,” Glenn testified. “Hamilton said he advanced toward the cashier’s cage of the Standard grocery in which Mr. Jackson was slain, while Witt stood guard inside the door with a sawedoff shotgun. Treated Fairly, Is Claim “Hamilton said he saw three or four men in the cage as he brandished a revolver, and told them it was a stickup. He w r as wounded over his right eye by a bullet and then started firing, pausing only to put another clip of eight bullets in his gun. Hamilton and Witt left the store without obtaining any money and drove to lola, Kan., pausing at Bainbridge to pick up Witt’s wife, Naomi." Glenn then identified the con- j session, and it was read to the I jury by Floyd Mattice, who is as- j sisting Herbert Wilson and Ben M. Scifrcs in the prosecution. Glenn declared Hamilton commented several times on the fair treatment he received at the hands of Indianapolis police. “I did not lay a hand on him and neither did any other officer, to my knowledge,” Glenn said, in denying the defense contention the confession was obtained by duress. Detectives Emmett Englebright, George Mueller and John Marren joined Glenn in denial that third degree methods were used. State Still Presents Witnesses Glenn and Mueller asserted Hamilton made no attempt to repudiate the confession even after he had talked to his attorney, Ira M. Holmes. Holmes had not concluded his cross-examination of Glenn when court adjourned Thursday. The state still has several witnesses to place on the stand. Chief among these is Miss Sue Sawyer, lola invalid, who was instrumental in obtaining the conviction of Witt. Chester Jackson, son of the slain man, who witnessed the shooting, j also will testify. Judge John W. Hornaday, who ; presided at Witt’s trial, ruled out j Witt's confession. Judge Brenton j Devol, Frankfort, who presided at | Hamilton’s first trial here in July when the jury disagreed, permitted officers to testify to oral statements | by Hamilton up to 9 p. m. of the day he was returned from Kansas. BANDITSTORTUR'e’AND ROB AGED BROTHERS Tair Subjected to Medieval Terrorizing by Gang: 51,285 Is Loot. Jiii l piled Press ELLSWORTH. Wis., Nov. 25Two elderly bachelor brothers recovered sufficiently today to help the sheriff seek four bandits who subjected them to medieval tortures In a successful attenyt to obtain their hoarded savings. Frank and John Guiser, both more than 60, were in their secluded farm house, ten miles from here, when the four bandits entered. “Where is the money?" demanded the robbers. “We’ll bump you off —you’re old enough to die. anyway.” • The brothers persisted in refusing to reveal their cache of bonds and cash. The bandits tied John and beat him on the head with a hammer. They kicked him in the face, but still he kept his lips closed. They did the same thing to Frank. The brothers were adamant. The extortionists then heated a poker and applied it to Frank, searing his flesh. He gasped the information the robbers wanted; they took $1,150 in Liberty bonds and $135 in cash, tied the brothers together and escaped. BICENTENNIAL ENDED WITH WREATH LAYING Celebration Goes on Record as One of Longest in History. By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—The George Washington bicentennial celebration takes its place in history as one of the longest celebrations on record. It began on Feb. 22. the 200th anniversary of Washington's birth. It ended Thanksgiving day when officials of the commission which directed the observance laid a wreath t the base of the Washington monument here. More than 700,000 local bicentennial committees were formed and < 000 communities here and abroad joined in the observance.

Hunter Scorns Gun; He Nabs Stupid Bunnies by Their Ears

Filling Station Operator Can Bag ’Em as Fast as Ordinary Nimrods. / Without benefit of buckshot or ; lead, or ev3n a saltshaker, there's ; a man In Indianapolis who has I bagged 200 rabbits in twenty years’ I time merely by plucking them by their ears and taking them home : to his frying pan. And with this week’s snowfall he was at it again and he scoffs at you hunters who pepper the cars off of a bunny at twenty paces. The rabbit-snatcher is Isaac N. Williams, 58, of 5866 Lowell avenue, operator of a filling station at Tenth street and Arlington avenue. Kills Them After He Gets Home He’ll bet you almost any amount within reason that he can go out, and pick up the first sitting bunny . he sees as easily as he picks onions | in his garden. Kill them sure he kills them ' after he gets them home. But their j execution is as tender as the one where the chicken gets the ax, and, on top of that, he pens some of the rabbit fricassees up, and only eats them when he gets hungry for a couple of dark legs smothered in gravy. Now all this might sound as if it was a nomination to a radio “tailstory” tale, but its authenticity is borne out by Williams’ brother, Superior Judge Joseph R. Williams, and other sportsmen of the city. They’ve seen the man, who pumps gas in car tanks, work magic on bunnies in the field where their shotguns proved to be just so much “banging away.” • Why He’s Rabbit Snatcher Let’s let Williams tell you how he came to be a rabbit snatcher, how he prefers it to shooting them, and how he does it. “Twenty years ago I was hurt. I’d been convalescing and walking around over fields and brush during rabbit season. I noticed sometimes the bunnies would run as I came toward them, and other times they’d stay squatted on their haunches. So I practiced, and found I could catch them in a certain way,” he explained. “Here’s the way; Rabbits by instinct will run only if you look at them, and walk toward them. So when I go to catch a rabbit, I w'alk toward him nonchalantly in a straight line, but a little to the right or left of him. I never look him in the eye. The rabbit sees me coming, but as I’m paying him no mind, he keeps on sitting there." He Bluffs the Bunnies “Then, added the bunny-bluffer,” just as I get alongside of him, I drop to the ground and literally fold up, and as I do so I throw my right or left hand back and grab him. You see Br’er Rabbit sees me coming first as a large huge object, but when I fold up beside him, I disappear and he thinks the danger is gone, and when my hand goes back I grab him.” Williams tells of hunting parties he's gone on in which he’s equaled the bag of other members by merely using this mystical straightaway walk, folding up quickly, and giving his hand a back-flip and grabbing bunny’s cars. First Hundred Are Hardest He admits that the first hundred rabbits are the hardest, but says he's teaching two of his nephews to follow in his snatching footsteps. They’re having pretty good luck at it for amateurs. “Don’t blame me now if some of the fellows whose names I’ve told you w'on’t tell about seeing me do this. They’re tired of telling it, and being called liars.

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PRANK, ‘GANG VICTIM’ SAYS Practical Joke, Police Told in Shooting Case. “Just a prank of practical jokers” was the explanation given police today for the reported shooting of an unknown man Wednesday night in the 1200 block, South Illinois stret. And according to the story he told at headquarters today Clifford Perry, 20, of 328 East Raymond street, was the victim. At the time of the shooting, police were told that two occupants of an automobile lifted a man from the street and placed him in an auto. The story of witnesses partially was substantiated when a man’s cap was found. Later investigation by police failed to solve the supposed crime. "I was the man picked up from the street,” Perry explained today. “A couple of my friends told me to meet them at a vacant house in the 1200 block, South Illinois street, that night. I went there, but just as I reached the front door somebody took a shot at me,” Perry explained. “I turned and ran into the street, where an automobile struck me,” he said. He explained that the driver carried him to the office of a physician, where treatment was given for bruises. BUSINESS RECOVERY OBSTACLES ARE LISTED Lavish Government Spending, High Taxes, and W’ar Debt Uncertainty. lly United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 25.—The Corn Belt Dailies, farm publications, stated today in their regular summary of the agricultural situation that three obstacles stand in the way of business advancement and recovery from the depression. These three obstacles, the summary stated, are lavish government spending and consequent high taxes, uncertainty regarding war debts, and out-of-line wage scales.

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EXPENSE OF COUNTY ELECTIONS SLASHED Primary and General Voting Costs $30,000 Less Than in 1930. Cost of primary and general elections this year was $30,000 less than in 1930, despite the largest vote ever cast in the county, Glenn B. Ralston, county clerk and election commissioner, reports. Extra election officials were necessary to serve the large number of voters, 30,000 more than visited the polls two years ago. The fall election cost $39,670, which was $1,073 more than the county council appropriated. Drastic cuts were made by the council in employes’ pay and printing costs. Ralston stated arrangements are being made to store voting machines in fireproof quarters. As a safeguard against loss of equipment, county commissioners have erected a burglar proof storeroom at the county yards. Several hundred dollars worth of election equipment disappeared between the 1930 and 1932 elections. DEFENDS PREPOSITION . TO END SENTENCE WITH And Teachers Told Good English Same as in Shakespeare’s Day. By United J’rrss MEMPHIS. Tenn., _ Nov. 25.Charles A. Lloyd, Asheville, N. C., told the annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English here today that contrary to popular belief, a preposition isn’t a bad word to end a sentence with. “That belief,” he said, “is just one of the many delusions concerning good English.” Others he cited included ; “That it is bad English to begin a sentence with ‘and’ or ‘but.’ “That good English never changes, that it is the same today as it was in Shakespeare’s day.” “The harm in these delusions lies not entirely in the ideas themselves,” Lloyd said, “but in the notion they give students that correct English necessarily is very unnatural.”

BUTLER VISIONS PROSPERITY IN DEBTDECISION Payments for War Called Handicap in Lifting Depression. (Continued From Page One) money with which to pay us debts owed from abroad. When we cease to loan, they must cease to pay. The whole situation is one which reflects grievously upon our practical capacity and our business sense. While this strangulation of the world’s agriculture, industry', and trade has been going on, our national annual earning power has diminished from some $82,000,000,000 in 1929 to some $37,000,000,000 at present, or more than 50 per cent. While we have been insisting on payments from abroad to be applied through our budget in reduction of taxation, our annual income tax collections have diminished by some four times the amount of the annual debt payments. Reflects on Business Sense In other words, the acceptance of these debt payments has been a burden and not a blessing, a loss, not a gain. If we got rid of them, trade would revive and the farmer, the wage earner, the industrialist, and the transportation company again would be able to earn a livelihood. These would all have income from which to pay income taxes, and the gain to the American people would be so enormous that sacrifice of the annual debt payments would be something quite negligible. Bungled From Start It is not necessary now to go over the whole question again, but it was bungled from the start by our government. We promptly should have accepted the principles of the Balfour note of 1922. The attitude which we have been taking for ten years is in flat contradiction to the declarations made on the floor of congress, when authority was given to our government to make the advances to foreign governments which are the basis of these debts. As Lord Snowden said the other day in London, the sums advanced by the United States government to the allies, which constitute the debts to America, were, in fact, America’s contribution to the cost of the war she had declared on Germany. There is no use in going back over that ground now. The economic and financial questions which have grown out of these pyaments are far too pressing for us to waste time now in discussing. It is right and proper that we should press upon the debtor nations genuine disarmament and thereby strengthen the cause of peace and relieve the taxpayers in every land, but we can not wait for the accomplishment of that. In the interests of our ow'n farmers, wage earners and industrialists, we need to act at once. In view of the opinion so volubly expressed at Washington by so many members of the national legislature, it is clear that probably the most practical plan to relieve the American people is to extend for six months more the moratorium

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You might think that after six marriages the seventh would be an old story. But not to Dr. Evelyn Vorwerck-Causman-Brumbaugh-Brinke-Schumacher-Heckman-Bamstorff. She was as excited and happy as a runaway schoolgirl bride when she married Carsten H. Barnstorff in Akron, 0., the other day. Bride and bridegropm are each 40, and it is Barnstorff’s third marriage, making ten between them. The bride is pastor of the Stead Memorial church, and the bridegroom a photographer. They are shown above.

declared on June 20, 1931, and then to sit down with the nations which are our debtors and work out an agreement of the same sort and kind which those nations entered into with the German government at Lausanne on July 8, last. If this were done and quickly announced to the world, the clouds of depression would lift with a swiftness which would be surprising indeed. Every American citizen would benefit, whether on his farm, in nis shop, in his factory, on his railroad, or in his public utility corporation. The notion that there is something about this matter which is of peculiar advantage or concern to international bankers is ridiculous. Tlie advantage and concern are for the American people as a whole. CHAMBERLIN SPENDS $1,211 IN JUDGE RACE Total Expense of National Party in County Campaign Is $206. Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin’s unsuccessful race for re-elec-tion cost him $1,211, according to the expense statement he has filed with Glenn B. Ralston, county clerk. His statement listed a $650 contribution to the Republican county committee and a $235 contribution to the Republican Union, an organization opposed to the county committee. Total expense of the National party was $206, according to the county committee’s statement. Unpaid bills are listed at $60.35. Other expense accounts on file are: William Clauer. successful candidate for county treasurer, $660; Dow W. Vorhies, reelected commissioner from the Third district. $347.50: E. Curtis White, state sen-ator-elect. slls. and Llovd Clavbombe, Republican candidate for state representative. sllO. Candidates and political organizations have until Dec. 8 to file expense statements.

VETERAN GITY DOCTOR DEAD M. C. Leeth Served Here for Forty Yea r s. Dr. M. C. Leeth, practicing physician in West Indianapolis for forty years, died Thursday afternoon in his home, 1260 Reisner street. He was stricken with cerebral hemorrhage in the morning while driving downtown from the Blaine Avenue M. E. church with his son, Herman B. Leeth. Born in Arkadelphia, Ala., he attended the University of Tennessee, Rush Medical colege, University of Chicago, and Berlin university. He had offices at 1626 Howard street. He left his general practice in 1909 to become vice-president and medical adviser of the Public Savings Life Insurance Company. He returned to his practice during the World war. Besides being a member of the Blaine Avenue church, he belonged to twenty-four fraternal organizations, including the Masons, Red men. Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. Funeral services Monday morning in Flanner & Buchanan mortuary will be folllowed by burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Cartoonist Will Speak John Edward Bockewitz, Redpath bureau cartocnist, will be the principal attraction of the Y. M. C. A. “Big Meeting" to be held Sunday afternoon at 3 at Keith’s theater. Music wil be provided by the Firemen’s band, directed by J. A. Moore. He appealed to the Chinese and Japanese to help the league find an equitable solution.

JNOV. 25, 1932

BODY OF SLAIN WIFE IN WELL, INFANTTT SIDE Former Boarder at Home Arrested in Grewsome Ohio Mystery. By United Press WEST UNION, 0.. Nov. 25.—A tangle of facts was laid in orderly pattern here today by authorities, who sought to dispel mystery surrounding the last days of Mrs. Josie Haws, and to learn the story of her death. The woman's body was found in a well near her northern Adams county home. A bullet hole wis in the head, a string around the neck. The skeleton of an infant was found with the body. Sheriff Harry Cole started with the disappearance of Mrs. Haws from her home last June 29, learned she was the mother of six children, then, following arrest of Virgil Yankie, 28, revealed facts uncovered as he pressed uis investigation. Disappearance Left Secret Yankic formerly was a boarder at the Haws home. Mike Haws, the husband, had not reported his wife’s disappearance, saying she had left before and he had expected her to return. Annie Haws, a daughter of the slain woman, w r as found at the home of Yankie and his father at Yellow Bud, Ross county, where the arrest was made. Mrs. Haws had been sought on a warrant charging her with contributing to the delinquency of Annie. Yankie once was arrested on a robbery charge, but a grand jury dismissed his case. Haws identified the body. Murder, Says Coroner Coroner M. L. Purdin believed Mrs. Haws was murdered. The body was found by a hunter. Sheriff Cole had no clew to identity of the infant which apparently met death with Mrs. Haws. Both Yankie and the girl Annie, were under close questioning today. as authorities attempted to fill in details of the strange story and bring forth some explanation of the fr/i’s they had discovered. The bodies were found Thursday. Yankie was arrested today. DRUNKEN MAN’S PET PARROT RESISTS COPS Abusive Language, Assault on Officers and Mayhem Among Charges. By United Press HEMPSTEAD, L. 1., Nov. 25. Harry Williamson’s pet parrot, accompanying him to the police station when he was arrested on a charge of drunkenness, laid himself open to the following charges: Using foul and abusive language, resisting an officer, assault on an officer, public obscenity and mayhejji. The bird, perched on Harry 3 shoulder, swore at the officers, shouted inprecations, bit three policemen, and finally was quieted only by being shoved into a private cell, made out of a wooden box.