Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1933 — Page 2
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‘BLACK MAGIC CURSE’ FEAR PUCES WOMAN IN SHADOW OF CHAIR FOR KILLING MATE Clandestine Love, Greed for Gold and Threat by ‘Witch’ Lead to Brutal Murder of 70-Year-Old Husband. BY JOSEPH S. WASNEY I'nlted Tress Staff Correspondent SUNBURY, Pa., Feb. 20.—Fear of a “black magic curse” has placed Mrs. Mary Stancavage, 49-year-old ItalianAmerican, in the shadow of Pennsylvania’s electric chair. The superstitious, siild-mannercd woman now is under sentence of death in the Northumberland county jail here, charged with beating her aged husband, Jacob Stancavage, 70, a retired miner, to death with a hammer.
Clandestine love, greed fori gold and a witches’ curse, led Mary and Clement Kieselef- j ski, 52, crippled step-son of. Jacob Stancavage, into one of j the most brutal crimes in this] section in history. Mary was a widow. She washed j clothes for Jacob and Clem. The trio became friendly. Last spring Clem suggested that Mary and Jacob get married. Stancavage was a widower and lonely, Clem was a helpless cripple, and Mary was homeless. Threatened With ‘’Curse” The wedding took place and the three lived at Jacob’s home in Shamokin, All when went for a while. Then Clem began to wield an uncanny influence over the household. Mary and Clem entered an agreement to kill Jacob so they could have the house to themselves, according to trial testimony. The woman testified that Clem “threatened to place a curse of blindness” on her unless she killed her husband. First they planned to kill Stancavage with a razor, and later they planned to administer poison to the man. Both times they lost their nerves. “Clem always urged me to kill him so we could have the place alone,” Mary testified. “He had a hammer, which I put in a closet. “I went down to the kitchen that night. Clem was in his room. He called through the open register, ‘Tonight’s a good night to kill Jacob. Barsh was out in the back yard. He has a bad record. They will suspect him.’ “I went down to bed. I could not sleep. I heard the clock strike one. I got up and put the hammer beside the bed. All was quiet. “I waited and got up again. My! husband was sleeping on his left side. I struck him on the side of the head with the hammer. “He Was Still Kicking” “I went over and told Clem. We came back. My husband was sitting up, trying to put on his trousers. “I took the hammer with both hands and hit him on top of the head, as hard as I could. "Then Clem hit him in the small of the back. We went out and had a couple of drinks. “We came back to see if Jacob was still alive. He was still kicking. “Clem hit him a couple more times until he lay still.” The murder took place exactly seven and one-half months after the wedding of Jacob and ‘Mary. Mrs. Stancavage and the stepson told police a story about someone breaking into the house. Mrs. Stancavage was tied to a chair and the cripple locked in a room. Clem crawled out of a window to give the alarm. The woman broke down under cross-examination, confessed to the brutal slaying, and pleaded guilty to murder, without a jury tri 1. Judge C. K. Morganroth sentenced her to die in the electric chair. Kieselefski was allowed to plead guilty of second degree murder, and was sentenced to serve from ten to twenty years at solitary confinement in the Eastern penitentiary, at Philadelphia. AGED CITY~MAN DEAD Emmor Borton, 80, to Be Buried Tuesday at Memorial Park. Funeral services for Emmor Borton, 80, who died Friday at his home, 824 Paxton place, will be held at 2 Tuesday in the Ragsdale and Price undertaking home, 1219 North Alabama street. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Williapi A. Shullenberger, pastor of the Central Christian church. Burial will be in Memorial Park. Mr. Borton, a wood turner, was a member of the Red Men’s lodge and the Central Christian church.
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COUPLE WEDDED ON MONUMENT Marital Rites Performed 228 1-2 Feet Above Downtown Area. Anew use has been found for the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ monument as result of the wedding of Miss Anita Hall and Frank Walker on the monument balcony, 22812 feet above ground, Sunday afternoon. The marital rites were performed by the Rev. F. T. Taylor, East Park M. E. church pastor. Both bride and bridegroom admitted they were nervous, contemplation of the possibility of the balcony giving way and plunging them 228 1 2 feet to the earth, adding to the usual tension of a couple about to enter the bonds of matrimony. Having the wedding from the lofty perch was decided on W'hen it was found finances would not permit having the ceremony performed in an airplane, Walker explained. Walker, a representative of the Hook Drug Company, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Walker, Columbia City, and the bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Hall, Roachdale. They will be at home at 831 North Tuxedo avenue.. CITY WOMAN SAVED FROM SMOKE DEATH Nearly Asphyxiated in Home; Revived by Firemen. Smoke from a furnace fire nearly caused the asphyxiation of Mrs. Anna Dobyns in her home at 315 East St. Clair street today. The fire department rescue squad was called to the home and revived Mrs. Dobyns. She refused an offer to go to city hospital. Police were told that Mrs. Dobyns had gone to the basement to refuel the furnace fire, but finding it near- ■ y out, had added kindling and paper, and the house filled with smoke.
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Although he is one of the youngest members of the senate, Senator Jacob Weiss palis), already is planning an even earlier political start for his son, Richard Lawrence Weiss. Throughout the week “Dick" has been serving as a senate page. He is 9.
Back on Perch, Birdie! Perkins Thwarts Senator’s Vote on Bill and Saves Them From Kidding. Senator Chester A. Perkins (Dem., South Bend), who has assumed the role of Cato the Censor, during the present legislative session, prevented the senators from “getting the bird” Saturday by thwarting voting to final passage, a bill that had been advanced only to second reading. Incidentally, the bill was the red bird bill. It was on the program for third reading and Senator Leo X. Smith (Dem., Indianapolis), called for final action. Before Smith had .time to explain that the red bird is a native Hoosier and not a Communist, Perkins had the floor. He charged that there was an attempt being made to put the red bird over on the fly.
“I attempted to amend this bill on second reading and change the red bird to a blue bird and failed,” Perkins explained. “To prevent the red bird from being killed at that time, a move to indefinitely postpone the bill was made, and the bill left on second reading. “Now how did it get on third reading?” he asked. “I suggest that we discharge the whole committee on correction of the senate journal.” Experts peered into the journal record. There they found that Perkins was right, and Smith apologized for calling down the bill. “The red bird still has a chance to live,” Lieutenant-Governor M. Clifford Townsend commented as the matter was settled with the bird bill left perched on second reading. PERU ASKED TO SET FREE NOTED SCHOLAR American Liberals Join in Plea for 'Famed Anti-Imperialist. By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Charging that Victor Haya de la Torre, internationally known scholar and anti-imperialist, now is detained incommunicado in a Peruvian prison, a petition urging his realese has been filed with the Peruvian embassy here. Among the were Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago; John Dewey, Columbia university; Waldo Frank, author; Jeanette Rankin, first woman member of congress; H. L. Mencken, editor and author; Paul Kellogg, editor of the Survey Graphic, and Hubert Herring, executive secretary of the committee on cultural relations with Latin-America. Senor de la Torre has done much for Latin-American prestige. He belongs to the same international school as Romain Rolland, Senor Unamuno, Manuel Ugarto, and others. The congresses of Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica and Ecuador have protested against his imprisonment. He is a native of Peru. The petitioners suggest he might be liberated on condition that he leave the country at once.
WEXT DAY she calls MRS. R. IS SO ATTRACTIVE _ TOO BAD SHE'S A LITTLE CARELESS AT TIMES. HOPE SHE GIVES ME A CHANCE TO HINT \ ABOUT "B.O."
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MRS. W. 0. LONG IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Prominent Clubwoman Is Taken After Brief Illness. Following a brief illness, Mrs. Elizabeth Lorn?, 64, of 2110 North Alabama street, prominent in club and civic affairs, and the wife of William D. Long, president and treasurer of the William D. Long Oil Burner Corporation, died Sun-
day at Methodist hospital. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 Tuesday in the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary, 25 West Fall Creek boulevard. Cremation will follow. Mrs. Long was a member of the Daughters of American Revolution, the League of American Fen Women, Woman's Department Club,
the Southern Club, Epsilon Sigma Omicron, National Business and Professional Women’s Club, Daughters of the Confederacy, Kentucky Folk Lore Society, Guild of Seven Seals Chautauqua, Literary and Scientific Circle of New York, Woman’s Rotary Club, Huguenot Society of South Carolina and an honorary member of Phi Beta, professional fraternity of music and dramatic art. Burial Rites Are Set Funeral services for William Woodall, former resident of Indianapolis, who died last Wednesday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. Felty, in Mt. Carmel, 111., were held in Mt. Carmel Pentecostal assembly Friday. Burial was in Fairview cemetery, Linton, Ind.
THE WATER IS SO HARD HERE. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TOILET SOAP TO USE WHY NOT TRY /UFEBUOY... LATHERS BEAUTIFULLY IN ANY WATER. BEST OF ALL IT KEEPS ONE SAFE FROM "B.O."
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SIX PHYSICIANS i ADDED TO CITY HOSPITAL STAFF Named to Handle Calls for Out-Patient Service by Board. Heavy demand for out-patient service from city hospital led today to appointment of six addi- 1 tional practicing physicians to the staff and a reorganization in the method of handling cases. The new program was formulated by the board of health at the hospital Sunday. Division of the city into eight ! districts with a practicing physician | in each area handling out-patient calls f-om the city dispensary is expected to increase capacity of the department, the board declared. Previously, out-patient calls were handled by two practicing physicians and two internes. Under the new arrangement, internes will remain in the dispensary at the hospital to handle patients able to call for treatment. Physicians handing out-patient! calls and their locations are: Doctors Harry Rabb, 1204 East Tenth street, and Carl Reifeis, 1)7 j East Palmer street, retained under l the former plan, and Doctors E. J. Mathews, 4612 East Tenth street; John Parker, 15 North Oriental street; E. W. Scheier, 1706 Prospect street; Martin Ruth. Reisner and Howard streets; Maurice Kahler, 3611’2 West Michigan street, and Paul Furgason, 3110 Clifton street. Calls will be referred to the physician in the district through the dispensary. Requests are to be made to the dispensary as usual, it was | said. The board took under advisement j a plan submitted by the Marion County Medical Association under which services would be provided by any physician in the city. Payment for the services would be made by prorating the amount appropriated for out-patient calls on the basis of the number of calls made by each doctor. Although receiving careful consideration, no action was taken on the plan because it was felt that there remained many organization details still to be perfected, the j board said. TUBE TO TREAT CANCER G:mt X-Ray Equipment Will Be installed in Chicago Hospital. L‘y Science Service SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Feb. 20. —Cancer soon will be treated at Mercy hospital, Chicago, with a giant X-ray tube, with a voltage of 800,000 and a radiation output equivalent to radium worth $75,000,000. The new’ tube is about to be . shipped from the General Electric I laboratories here. The 800,000-volt | instrument has several times the energy rating of the cancer treatI mg tube installed about two years ago in Memorial hospital, New York. The tube itself is fourteen feet long and it is being installed in such manner as to assure comfort and safety of patients and the hospital staff. • P. J. Lauck rented a four-room bungalow from a Times Rental ad. If your property is vacant, call RI-551.
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OGDEN L. MILLS TO TALK HERE APRIL 29 G. 0. P. Editors Will Hear Treasury Secretary. Ogden L. Mills, secretry of the treasury, will address members of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association at a dinner April 29, which will conclude the annual convention. Location of the meeting has not been decided. However, much of the convention, w’hich will be held April 28 and 29, will be devoted to mapping a program for the annual convention of the National Editorial Association to be held here June 5 and 6. Details of plans for the national meeting will be outlined by Walter H. Crim, Salem, chairman of arrangements, and Harry O. Rutledge, Chicago, national executive secretary, at a luncheon of the Republican editors, April 28. Following the national convention
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delegates will cover many points of interest in an auto trip over the state June 9 to 13 and on June 14 and 15 they will visit the World's fair. ■SLAPSTICK’ STOPS FIGHT Man Is Cut by New Type Police Billy; Two Are Arrested. After being forced to use his “’slapstick” in an attempt to halt a brawl in a restaurant at 455 East Washington street, early today, patrolman Charles Hosciago subdued two men w’ho were arrested on charges of drunkenness. When struck by the new type police billy, Burns St. Clair, 23, of 407 South Alabama street, one of the prisoners, suffered a cut on the back on the head. He was treated at city hospital. Additional charges of resisting an officer and vagrancy were placed against him. Leslie Meister, 29, of 1850 Applegate street, was the other prisoner.
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UTILITIES NEED REFORMS, SAYS OWENDJOUNG Simplified System for Corporate Structures Held Necessary. fly Scripps-U award V nrspaper Alliance WASHINGTON. Feb. 20.—Reform of the public utility industry was proposed by Owen D. Young chairman of the board of General Electric, while testifying here before the senate banking and currency committee. Young said he would like to see simplification of the corporate structure of utility groups so that not more than one holding company will be imposed upon operating companies. He also favored prohibiting loans from operating companies to the holding companies above them, and limiting issuance of bonds of holding companies to 50 or 60 per cent of their investment in operating companies. If state laws do not provide for full publicity of holding company affairs, he believes the federal government should provide this sendee for protection of investors. Young laid blame for the Insull collapse to complicated corporate structure, confessing “to a feeling of helplessness” when he attempted to understand it. He made of this situation a defense of Samuel Insull, telling the committee he believed Insull "was very largely a victim of that complicated structure which got even beyond hispporerw r er to understand.” “Insull created it, didn't he?” said Chairman Peter Norbeck (Rep., S. D.). Young, not replying directly, commented that the corporate structure had reached a point where it was “impossible to get an accounting system that wouldn't mislead even the officers.” “If I'm right in thinking Insull was not able to understand his organization. how can the ordinary investor, especially the one buying shares of the top holding companies, do so?” said Young. ONE C ENT AD AY PAYS~~ UP TO SIOO A MONTH The Postal Life & Casualty Insurance Cos., 1796 Dicrks Building, Kansas City, Mo., is offering anew accident policy that pays up to SIOO a month for 24 months for disability and $1,000.00 for deaths —costs less than lc a day—s3.so a year. More than 150.000 have already bought this policy. Men, women and children eligible. Send no money. Simply send name, address, age, beneficiary’s name and relationship mid tlicy will send this policy on 10 days’ FREE inspection. No examination is required. This offer is limited, so write them today.—Advertisement.