Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 258, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1933 — Page 12

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FREE LOVER OF WIFE IN DEATH OF BANDMASTER Strange Chicago Killing Goes in Discard of Murder Mysteries. BY SAM KNOTT l nited Press StafT Correspondent CHICAGO, March B.—One of the strangest cases in the annals of crime has gone into the discard of unsolved mysteries with the release of ex-Deputy Sheriff Carl Bradberry from charges connected with the slaying of Captain Edwin Schildhauer. The release Tuesday of Mrs. Frances Schildhauer's confessed lover brought an end for the time being, and possibly forever, to possible solution of a mystery as baffling ns any ever imagined by a fiction writer. Bradberry had been held on charges of obstructing justice. Authorities held him principally in the hope a “break” would come, and he would be needed. Freeing the former deputy was the equivalent of authorities admitting they had lost their long fight to find the slayer of the handsome bandmaster.

1,000 Persons Questioned Although more than 1,000 persons had been questioned in the case, Bradberry was the only one ever arrested. A hint that the case would be dropped came last week when a coroner’s jury finally decided Schildhauer met death “at the hands of persons unknown.” Schildhauer was captain of the band at Austin high school, one of the largest “prep” schools in the country. He was 6 feet 2 inches tali, weighed 210 pounds, had curly black hair, handsome features and a pleasing personality. Soon after he went to the school, he married Frances Birkenshire, beautiful girl graduate, whom he met while she was still a student. They lived in an Oak Park apartment below that occupied by Frances’ blind father and her mother. On the night of last Dec. 10, Schildhauer’s body was found where it had been tossed on a Cicero roadway in typical “gang ride” fashion. Reveal Home as ‘Love Nest’ About the same time, Mrs. Schildhauer reported he had been kidnaped by two men who overpowered him as he left their apartment. Revelation followed revelation. Mrs. Schildhauer, who is to become a mother in May, told police her home had been a “love nest” where guests traded husbands and waves. She admitted Bradberry was her lover. It was revealed that the bandmaster's life was heavily insured. The poliices were kept in his mother-in-law’s bank box. Many persons were drawn directly and indirectly into the case, some testifying they knew of indiscretions by the widow’, others of quarrels, others of the “strange” life in the Schildhauer and Birkenshire flats. Police announced many times they “felt certain” the case hinged on Mrs. Schildhauer’s love affairs. She contended he was killed by “rival musicians” and hired a private detective to solve the case. He failed.

MANY FIRE HAZARDS ORDERED RECTIFIED Fire Prevention Division Files Report With Safety Board. Building defects which might have caused 1,431 fires wore investigated and ordered rectified during February by the fire prevention division of the city fire department, according to a report filed today with the safety board by Chief Harry E. Voshell. The defects included wiring, heating devices, storage quarters, rubbish piles, structural faults, oil and gas stores and explosives. Inspections for the month numbered 4,216 with storerooms and offices leading in number of 1,414. A total of fifty fires were investigated as were thirteen false alarms. Rate Reduction Is Asked Seventy-five clients of th St. Meinrad Telephone Company, St. Meinrad, Tuesday petitioned the public service commission for rate i eductions.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to Albert R. Crawford, 3920 Lotnond nverne Clierrolet coa'h, 101-144 t 33(, from Ft. Wayne and Central avenues Harry Wolfla, Jr.. 08 South Butler avenue. Oldsmobile coach. 121-586 (32 1, from Market and New Jersey streets Joseph Herger, 615 Lockerbie street Oldsmobile sedan, 36-083 i33>. from in front of 615 Lockerbie street. Leo Murphy. 2158 Broaawav, Chrysler coupe. 128-666 <33u from twenty-first and New Jersey streets. Leßoy Williams. 2454 Central avenue. Apartment 1, Nash coach. 55-138 1 32* from tn front of 2454 Central avenue.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Crystal Flash Petroleum Corporation, SSB West Sixteenth streeL Ford coupe found In rear of 1406 Martindale avenue. Paul Aufderheide, 3328 Broadway, Ford roadster, found in rear of 3131 Park avenue, stripped. T. M. Harris, 1215 Broadway, Ford tudor. found at 2700 Columbia avenue. Alice Martin, 2426 Caroline street Nash coupe, found at 2100 North Alabama street.

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Lent Given Special Stress This Year in Passion Play Village

Stirring with Lenten activity . . . the tiny Bavarian village of Oberammergau prepares for next summer’s 300th anniversary of its famous Passion Play. . . Alois Lang, left, and Anny Rutz, right, are leading candidates for the parts respectively of Christ and Mary.

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CROOK SUSPECT ill IN CRASH Captured After Auto Rams Rail Crossing Signal in Police Chase. Alleged criminal activities in Rushville and Shelbyville were traced Tuesday to Wayne Schaef<fer, alias Wyatt Jeffries, 27, of Newcastle, who was arrested here Monday night when a stolen automobile he was driving struck a railroad crossing signal. Schaeffer is held n the detention ward at city hospital recovering from injuries'received in the crash, which followed a police chase at sixty-five miles an hour on Southeastern avenue. Jewelry iound in the car is believed to belong to Mrs. E. Steiner, Shelbyville, whose home was entered Monday night. Schaeffer is said to have admitted escaping from jail in Rushville, where he is wanted on bank robbery charges. Miss Marian Wittle, 22, of 3860 North Temple avenue, reported to police early today that her purse containing $4.50, valuable papers and the keys to her automobile, had been stolen from the kitchen of a restaurant at Thirty-eighth street and Keystone avenue. Police were investigating the theft of approximately 200 gallons of gasoline from trucks in the D. and D Transfer Company garage, 338 West New York street. John Swanson. Negro. 23. of 2200 S Yandes street, was arrested on petit j larceny charges Tuesday night | when police found him with a quan- | tity of groceries stolen from the William H. Wendell Company, 441 I East South street. The food was I returned to the company.

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Attempt to Realize on Property Will Be Made at Auction. In an attempt to redeem school leans totaling SIOO,OOO, County Auditor Charles A. Grcssart will sell, at public auction March 27, real estate on which the loans were made. Some of the loans, no portion of which have been repaid, are thirty years old. Majority of them, however, were exsccuted during a real estate boom in 1928 and 1929. The auditor is empowered to loan the common school fund, with real estate as security, but the county must secure interest and principal, if borrowers fail to repay. Borrowers Ignore Notices The sale to the highest bidder wall be held at the south door of the courthouse at 9 a. m., Grossart said. Borrowers have ignored repeated notices from Grossart demanding they arrange to pay' interest or principal of loans, he declared. “We will meet persons who have borrowed this money more than half w’ay in view of economic conditions, but unless these persons respond to our notices, the only thing left for us to do is to offer the property for sale,” Grossart said. Foreclosing 150 Mortgages The county is foreclosing about 150 mortgages for loans, most of W’hich are secured by two or thr:e pieces of real estate. One loan, how’ever, was on thirty-six vacant lots. Money from the school fund, it was disclosed a year afo, was used to promote a subdivision, Rainbow Ridge, near Speedway City. This “real estate bubble” took $61,360 from the common school fund in 1928 and 1929. Grossart attempted to sell the scores of unimproved lots in Rainbow Ridge last year, but failed. MRS. LIZZIE POLLARD IS TAKEN BY DEATH Funeral fer Widow of Civil War Veteran to Be Held Thursday, Funeral services for Mrs. Lizzie Pollard, 71, widow of Adam Pollard. Civil war veteran, will be held at 2:30 Thursday in the J. C. Wilson funeral home. Burial wall be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Pollard, who was born in Indianapolis, died Tuesday in her home, 730 Terrace avenue. Mrs. Pollard was a member of the Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary of the G. A. R. PRESIDENT RE-ELECTED Charles Reed Again Is Head of Tech Boys’ Concert Club. Charles Reed has been re-elected : president of the Boys’ Concert Club at Technical high school, according to an announcement by J. Russell Paxton, director. Other officers of the club are Wallace Steele, vice president; Joe Sims, secretary-treasurer; Frank Nauta, sergeant-at-arms, and James Quinn, librarian.

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Oberammergau Is Offering Thanks for Anniversary of Plague End. BY MILTON BRONNER European Manager, NEA Service LONDON, March B.—Lent, a period always observed with great piety in Oberammergau, is being given special stress this year in Bavaria’s famous little mountain village. This year of all years the villagers are greeting the Easter season with greater ceremony than usual, because this is the 300th anniversary of the great plague from which they believe they were saved by mass player. They already are preparing for next year's re-enactment of the Passion Play, just as their ancestors vow’ed to do wmen the plague subsided, and as they first did in 1634. In A.pril begins the holy year instituted by the pope. Further, the Passion Play is itself a re-enact-ment of the events of holy week, and this summer the actors who wall play the roles next year will be chosen by vote of the villagers, as always has been their custom. Already candidates for some of the roles are beginning to let their hair and beards grow, for no makeup is allowed for the roles, and to be elected the actors must look as well as act the part. Thus, Lent, culminating in holy week and Easter, is being especially observed this spring in the little mountain village which has won world renown for its Catholic piety. And greater than ordinary fervor is going into their preparations for the miracle play which they still enact regularly to fulfill a 300-years’ vow.

FREEDOM NEAR FOR UQOOR PRISONERS First Batch to Be Released After Meeting. First of the so-called “political” i prisoners under repeal of the Wright : bone dry law, are expected to be | given their freedom at a meeting of trustees of the Indiana reforma- | tory Thursday night with Wayne | Coy, secretary in charge of penal j affairs for Governor Paul V. McNutt. Check of records of the institution revealed only eight prisoners are eligible to be released. It had been expected there was a large number. Coy will meet Tuesday with Indiana State Farm trustees to act on cases of inmates serving terms for Wright law violations. Later, meetings will be held with the pardon board of the Indiana state prison. A total of about 325 are eligible for release in state penal institutions, it was said. STATE LAW IS ‘MODEL’ Bank Control Act May Be Adopted, Kansas Governor Says. Asserting that Indiana’s new state bank control act is a ' model law,” ! Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas, | today wired Governor Paul V. Mc- | Nutt for a copy of the act for posI sibie adoption in Kansas.

TWO ARE HELD AS KIDNAPERS DF MILLIONAIRE Bragging Remarks Heard by Cop Leads to Capture of Boettcher Suspects. BY CLYDE G. BYERS t'nitfd Pres. StafT Corrrspondrnt DENVER. March 7.—A former ! trainman on a Canadian railroad. ! and an insurance agent, stood ac- : cused today of kidnaping Charles Boettcher 11, Denver millionaire, and collecting $60,000 for his release. Arthur Youngberg, 37. brakeman of the train crew, and Carl W. Pearce, 36, the insurance agent, W’ere under arrest. Authorities hunted Verne Sankey, 41, and Gordon Elkhorn, 33, former engineer and fireman, believed to have fled to Canada wdth most of the money. John H. Wells, patrolman, w ? as promoted Tuesday night to the rank of detective because he fitted a bragging remark of Pearce's into the jig-saw pattern of the kidnaping. Pearce professed to speak authoritatively about the kidnaping of which all Denver talked during the seventeen days the young millionaire was held in a remote ranch house in the South Dakota hills. Cop Gets Into Gang Wells overheard Pearce, in the best detective tradation swdtched to plain clothes, made friends with Pearce’s sweetheart, and had himself introduced into the inner circle of the alleged kidnap ring. Pearce and his sweetheart, Mrs. Ruth Kohler, 39, were seized. Mrs. Kohler’s sister, Mrs. Verne Sankey, was taken into custody, as were Mrs. Kohler’s two daughters, Miss Merelyn Kohler and Mrs. Pauline Coughlan. The latter two were held merely to prevent leaks of information which they might have divulged. Questioned for hours, Pearce, Mrs. Kohler and Mrs. Sankey revealed all the intricate details, police claimed. These sent detectives in two airplanes to Sankey’s ranch, fifty miles south of Chamberlain, S. D., to aid Sheriff George Carroll of Cheyenne, Wyo., and aides in a raid which they expected to yield the kidnapers. Only One at Hangout Only Youngberg was found. Sankey and Elkhorn had fled. The money was gone. Youngberg tried to commit suicide by slashing his throat and wrists with a razor in his cell at Chamberlain. He was started back to Denver by train Tuesday and was said to have confessed to Detective Chief William J. Armstrong. The kidnapers will be prosecuted under the new and drastic federal kidnaping law because they carried young Boettcher from Colorado through Wyoming and Nebraska to their hideout. Sankey, police claim, made several trips back to Denver with notes from young Bottecher which were delivered with ransom instructions typed by Pearce to the millionaire’s father, Claude K. Boettcher, before the ransom was paid and the victim released last Wednesday night. Wanted Bonfils as Victim Part of the ransom money $1,400, was found in Sankey’s home here. .. The ranch hideout, owned by Sankey, fit the description given by young Boettcher of his prison, including a burned carpet, which Boettcher damaged with a lighted cigaret so he could identify it later. Mrs. Kohler said Boettcher was | selected after the death of Fredej rick G. Bonfils, wealthy publisher, j whom they had planned to kidnap for SIOO,OOO ransom. Sankey, Elkhorn and Youngberg worked together at Rainey River, Ont„ before embarking on what authorities said was a career of bank robbery with headquarters at the South Dakota ranch. Ten per cent discount for all cash ads placed at Times want ad headquarters, 214 West Maryland street.

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HOME CONTEST ENTRIES GAIN Northern Indiana Schools Join in Race for Times Awards. Evidence of the state-wide interest in this year's miniature Model Home Contest, sponsored by The Indianapolis Times in connection with the Home Complete Exposition to be held at the stats fairground April 22 to 29, has been heightened by entries of schools from Gary, Hammond, La Porte and Lebanon, which heretofore have not participated. G. E. Wulfing, vocational director of Gary schools, in writing to The Times, states: “I have seen some of the work that has been turned out by pupils, and feel that it is valuable, and that you are to be commended for its promotion. “We would like to enter a few* models this year. We do not expect to capture all prizes, but seek a starting point in creating an interest along local students.” Frank Cantwell, director of this year's exposition, said that the committee headed by Ray Monaghan, was making preparations for an elaborate display of school’s entries. The student winning first prize receives a vacation trip for one week to Washington, with all expenses paid. A silver trophy will be awarded to the school in Indiana which receives the most honorable mentions.

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WAY PAVED FOR CITY TO MEET CO. PRICE 50-Year Bonds Legalized by Measure Signed by Governor. Bonds bearing 6 per cent interest. now can be issued for a fiftyyear period bv the city of Indianapolis to provide the purchase price for the Citizens Gas Company under the 1905 trust agreement. The latest law legalizing the issue was among bills signed Tuesday night by Governor Paul V. McNutt. Seven more were signed todav. making a total of 145 still awaiting action. McNutt said he will dispose of them before the deadline Saturday midnight. Among those signed today is a measure reimbursing the state general fund, by $152,303, for money lost in closed banks and another raising the entrance age limit at the Indiana boys' school from 16 to 17. McNutt also signed the bill reducing interest on $20,000,000 of permanent school funds loaned on real estate by the counties from 6 to 5 per cent interest. Another measure signed permits the state highway commission to assume 80 per cent of the financing of grade separations. Railroads will pay 20 per cent. Previously, the cost was split 50-50. Gasoline tax money now can be used by counties to meet road bond maturities and interest charges under provisions of another bill given the Governor’s approval.