Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1933 — Page 3

MARCH 20, 1933

KILLS WIFE AND CUTS UP BODY; ENDS OWN LIFE Carpenter Slays Himself When Trapped in Auto by Police. (Continued From Page One) wrists. At this point a third officer appeared and the trio fought unsuccessfully to obtain the weapon. Weighing 235 pounds and powerful in proportion. Evans fought off all three while he alternately, grinned and snarled at his opponents. Two of the officers drew back and fired at his razor arm in an effort to disable him. but only pierced his sleeve. Blood was streaming from his self-inflicted wounds and a large crowd had gathered to watch the battle, when Evans made a supreme effort. Offers Money to Officers. Halting a moment in his struggle with the officers. Evans drew a roll of bills containing $152 and offered it to the officers with the plea, “Give this to my mother." Since he held the money in the .same hand with the razor, they told him to drop it to the street. Evans thrust the roll back into his pocket and slashed again at his throat. He severed his jugular vein and gasped out his life before he could be taken to a hospital. Notified by Cincinnati authorities, city police rushed to the Evans home on Congress avenue and there rletecled bloodstains that indicated Mrs Evans had been murdered in the bathroom and parts of her clothing burned in tlu? furnace. Work Done Skilfully Cincinnati doctors who examined the dismembered ports said the fourteen pieces were severed at points of the body where it would not be necessary to break or saw any bones. The body apparently had been drained of blood first. “Why did you kill her?" one of the officers asked Evans as they struggled. "She threatened to shoot me,” he replied. Congress avenue neighbors of the Evans, and Dorthy Hill, Negro maid, 918 Roache street, said the couple constantly quarreled and that there was “another woman in the case." Description of the woman, much younger than Evans, was given police by Mrs. Mayme Beck, 2928 Clifton street, Mrs. Evans’ sister, and the maid. Called “Charlie” Often The later said the woman frequently “checked up” on Evans by telephone, by calling and asking: “Is Charlie there?" If Evans was at home, the maid said, the woman would reply that she merely wanted to know and did not want him called to the phone. If Mrs. Evans answered, the mysterious woman would hang up, the maid said. Married thirty-two years, the Evans’ home life had been one of continual discord, at le.vst during their twenty-five years in Indianapolis, according to neighbors. Mrs. Evans is reported to have said that it had been ten years since she appeared in public with her husband. Mrs. Evans, for years, had operated a hand laundry in the basement of their home, while Evans engaged in the contracting business. He owned in the Congress avenue neighborhood, seventeen houses which he had built. Divorce Action Filed Two divorce actions had been filed by Mrs. Evans, the last one early this month, when Circuit Judge Earl Cox issued an order for Evans to pay $25 every two weeks to his wife, pending settlement. The first divorce suit was dismissed a year ago. Evans had moved from the home Saturday morning, telling the maid that his wife had said: “If you don't move, I will." Acordingly, lie moved some of his possessions to one of his vacant houses. These articles were tools and equipment he used \n his business. Detectives found in another of his houses a metal box containing ail the deeds to his properties. Officials have been unable to trace the car used by Evans to take his wife's body to Cincinnati. The 1932 plates about which he was questioned, leading to discovery of the murder, had been taken from his wife's oar. The tarpaulin covering (he*body is believed to have been taken by Evans from a floor sanding machine at his home. Known as Surly Bitter quarrels were frequent in the Evans home, according to neighbors, who knew Evans as a "surly and unfriendly" person. He passed persons he had known for years without speaking, it was said. Mrs. Evans had two pistols in her possession, but more than a week ago, took them to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Quillen. 1337 Congress avenue, telling them she was “afraid I might use them on him (Evans) and be sorry for it afterward." The Negro maid said, however, that Mrs. Evans had expressed the fear that Evans might use one of the guns to kill her and make the death appear suicide. Evans is survived by his mother. Mrs. Alice Hervey. Norwood. 0.. said to be wealthy, and a brother. Benjamin Evans. Cincinnati. Mrs. Evans is survived, besides her sister. Mrs. Beck, by two brothers. Robert LaVcll. Indianapolis, and Thomas La Veil. Wheeling. W. Va. She was a member of Holy Angels Catholic church. HUNT VANDAL ROBBERS A. and P. Grocery Is Damaged. Looted of Sfi9 in Cash. Police today were searching for vandal burglars who broke into the Atlantic and Pacific grocery at 2613 Shelyb street Sunday night and wrought more than SIOO damage in addition to stealing $69 in cash they found hidden in three different places. Not contenting themselves with taking the money, the intruders broke c gars and cigarets in two and jammed them into lard, and hurled butter against the walls of the store.

SCENE OF MOST FIENDISH MURDER IN CRIMINAL ANNALS OF CITY

station at Market and West streets. Die robber escaped in an autonobile in which confederate vaited. Louis C. Meredith, 2421 North v ' - . Capitol avenue, resisted a Negro -wIl •obber, but was struck a blow on he jaw and failed to prevent loot >&■■■■■

HOLDUP VICTIMS ARE ATTACKED $37 Is Loot: Truck Taken but Is Recovered Soon After Theft. Victims of four week-end robberies were attacked when they resisted bandits who obtained $37 and a truck as loot. The truck was recovered soon after the robbery. A bandit with a mustache and who wore shell rim glasses obtained $30.01 from Earl Rodgers, 32, of 1419 West Pruitt, attendant of a filling station at Market and West streets. The robber escaped in an automobile in which a confederate waited. Louis C. Meredith, 2421 North Capitol avenue, resisted a Negro robber, but was struck a blow on the jaw and failed to prevent loot of $7 from being taken from a Standard grocery at 1604 North Senate avenue of which he is manager. The robber entered as Meredith was making change for a customer, Mrs. Jean Padou, 1332 North Capitol avenue. A blow in the face halted an attempt by Max Refkin, 14, to prevent theft of a truck belonging to his father which was parked in front of the family home at 952 South Capitol avenue. Leaping to the running board as a man attempted to drive the track away, the boy was struck in the face and fell to the street. The truck was recovered at Senate avenue and McCarty street. Awakened about 1:30 by a man w r ho said he wanted a hair cut, Charles Neal, Negro barber, was opening the door of his shop at 322 East Ninteenth street, when he turned to find the caller pointing a revolver at him. Neal tried to grab the weapon and was struck on the head. The man fled to an automobile in which a companion was waiting. Losers in other robberies were James Landrum, 32, of 518 Woodlawn avenue, $5 and $lO worth of street car tokens, and John Williams, 154 McLean place, S3O. PASTOR'S HOWIE ROBBED Bag of Old Coins Stolen From North Side Residence. While the Rev. Allen K. Trout was discharging his duties as pastor of the Bethlehem Lutheran church Sunday morning, a thief stole a bag of old coins from his home at 3840 Broadway, He told police he was unable to state the value of the loot. Returning home after an absence of a week, Mrs. James Canine discovered articles valued at $152 had been stolen. Entrance was gained by breaking a rear window.

Slaying Mere Breakfast Topic for Killer’s Sons

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Wallace McKinney. 4. (left) and Claude McKinney, 7. breakfasting today after their stepfather had slain a man who attempted to protect them and their mother.

‘Will He Get the Electric Chair?' Is Query of 7-Year-Old Lad. A room that held tragedy Sunday night for two little boys today was just a prosaic kitchen-bedroom in which the boys chewed tough breakfast beefsteak, and wondered what their stepfather would get for slaying a man in that room. "Will he git the e-lec-trich chair?” queried Claude McKinney, 7. of 447 East South street, in the rear. He was asking the fate of his stepfather. Robert McKinney, who shot and killed Finis England. 40.! when he attempted to protect the children and their mother from harm. j

Above—The peaceful-looking five-room bungalow is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Evans, 1321 Congress avenue, in which Evans killed his wife, Mrs. Ellen Josephine Evans, and cut her bedy into fourteen pieces to transport them to Cincinnati where his crime was discovered and he slashed himself to death. Lower, Left—Flash, the Evans’ collie, who was discovered on guard when city police went to investigate. Lower Right—Mrs. Evans, victim of one of the most brutal murders in the city’s history.

Leisure Hour Clubs Set

New Attendance Record

More Than 14,000 Persons Entertained by Groups During Week. LEISURE HOUR CLUB TONIGHT Tomlinson ball (special program). TUESDAY Tomlinson Halt (special procram), Garflelil Park community house. Mt. Jackson Club, Harvest avenue and Fleming street. Michigan and Noble Club. WEDNESDAY Brookside Park community house. J. T. V. Hill community house. Rhodius Park community house. THURSDAY Crispus Attucks high school. FRIDAY Christian Park community house. Fletcher Place community house. Ft. Wayne and Walnut Club. Municipal Gardens community house. Nebraska Cropsey Club, School 22. at 1251 South Illinois street. Oak Hill Club. School 38, at 2030 Winter r. venue. School 5, at (512 West Washington street. School 16. at 1102 West Market street. School 26, at 1301 East Sixteenth street. School 34, Kcllv and Boyd streets. Michigan and Noble Club. More than 14,000 persons were entertained in Leisure Hour club programs in the last week, according to figures compiled by Dwight Ritter, manager. This is the largest at-

‘Maybe he'll git out," added Wallace. 4. as he chewed on a piece of bread. "I don't care, if he don't come back. He starved us." put in Claude, as he gnawed at a steak bone. "I woke up when the first shot was fired and crawled under the bed. I was scared and cried,” said the boy as he chewed. "He whipped us lots." Claude added. "There's where the bullet went in the wall." "Me, too.” chimed in Wallace, looking at his brother's pointing linger. The subject was dropped. The beefsteak was taken up. It was chewed loudly. Life had dropped back again into the groove of eating and sleeping in one room.

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tendance for one week since the beginning of the clubs. New programs are needed, according to Ritter. Various church groups have been co-operating in supplying plays. Among these are Broadway Players, from Broadway M. E. church; Central Players from Central Avenue M. E. church; Drama Club of St. Paul M. E. church; Sutherland Presbyterian church; Brookside United Brethren church; Drama Club of Central Christian church; Second Reformed church; Merritt Place Players from Merritt Place M. E. church; Christian Home Builders class from Southport M. E. church; Prospect M. E. church; Drama Club of East Tenth Street M. E. church; Social Adventure Club of Third Christian church, and the Irvington Mummers of the Irvington Presbyterian church. Other organizations supplying Leisure Hour programs are the dramatic club of School 85, the Mothers’ Chorus of School 41, the dramatic department of Shortridge high school, Orchard school and School 82; the Garfield Players, the city recreation department, and the Indianapolis Cubs Rrecreation Club. Private teachers of dramatic art and dancing also have contributed to the programs. Melvin Berryman’s play acting class has presented a one-act play at practically every Leisure Hour Club. Programs have been given by Mrs. Joe Kettery, the Duvall Music Studio, Joyce Comstock and his Twilight Club boys, the North Side Kiddie Revue, the Houser Studios of Piano and Dancing, Miss Jacque Lacker, the Wild Sisters and the Normal college of the American Gymnastic Union. Programs may be arranged by getting in communication with the Leisure Hour Club management, in the Majestic building. Sergeant Frank Owen of the police accident bureua, will be in charge of a program tonight in Tomlinson hall. HUSBAND DIES: WIFE ENDS LIFE BY POISON Couple, Inseparable for Fifty Years, to Be Buried Together. By United Press SOUTH BEND. Ind., March 20. Inseparable for fifty years of married life, Ole P. Noisom, 73, a jeweler, and his wife, Ingaborg, 72, lay side by side in a funeral parlor here today. Noisom died Sunday night from a herat attack. Fine minutes later his wife committed suicide by drinking poison. Relatives discovered that Mrs. Noisom had made her burial dress by hand, and laid it out beside the burial suit of hre husband.

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FLOOD PERIL IN STATE GROWS; ROADSBLOCKED White River Rising Steadily Here; Warnings on Other Streams. (Continued from Page One) latter point, the water is expected to reach a stage of twenty-one or twenty-two feet. With a flood stage of fourteen feet, a crest is expected to reach sixteen at Vincennes. White river was near the flood stage at Anderson and is expected to reach about one foot above. Narrow escape from drowning in the Ohio river at Evansville was experienced by six persons today. After an automobile in which they were riding was swept from a side road by water, Mrs. Hallie Bales, 32. and J. A. Lannert, Evansville, extricated themselves and clung to posts until pulled from the water. Four Aturgis <Ky.) residents were rescued by firemen after an automobile in which they were riding was stalled on a water covered road. The occupants of the car were Mrs. W. L. Davis, 50; Miss Frances Kirkman, 18; W. Leatcraft and Mrs. Dan E. Griffin, 37. About twenty families have been forced to abandon their homes at Madison where the Ohio river is at 50.3 feet. Pennsylvania railroad yards are flooded. The water is two feet above flood stage. tVabash River Rising Several families have left their homes at Aurora and about fifty j business places are closed due to high water. Crest of the flood is ; expected by night. Homes and factories in a lowland : section of New Albany are flooded j by water from the Ohio river, and the stream continues to rise. River men at Evansville predict the Ohio will reach a stage as high as prevailed during flood conditions in 1927. Farmers in the lowlands adjacent to the city have been warned to move. At Terre Haute the Wabash river ! is expected to rise within two feet i of the eighteen-foot flood stage. Between Terre Haute and Indianapolis several streams are out of banks. State Highways Flooded Flooded reads as reported by the state highway commission are: No. 1, water over road at Mississinewa river, good detour; No. 3, closed at Paris Crossing; No. 9, closed south of Fountaintown; No. 31, traffic being towed Through water north of Seymour; No. 35, closing expected between Palmyra and New Salisbury, and closed now west of Brownstown; No. 37, White river expected to rise over road at New Salisbury; No 42, closed from Cloverdale to Eminence, and closing expected southeast of Spencer; No. 45, closed south of Rockport; No. 50, closed at Medora; No. 50. closed between Aurora and state line; No. 56, closed at junction with 156 south of Rising Sun, and east of Madison to Vevay; No. 58, closed between Freetown and Columbus; No. 62, closed between White Cloud and Leavenworth; No. 66, fifteen inches of water between Cannelton and Rome, and between Troy and Tel City; No. 67, closed from Spencer to Martinsville; No. 62. wate’- covers road south of Centerton; No. 156, flooded at junction with No. 56, and closed from Rising Sun to Vevay; No. 245, closed from No. 70 to No, 162; No. 250, closed from Brownstown to Uniontown, and No. 350, closed from Aurora to Milan. Road 42 is the only route open north from Cincinnati, the commission announced. LOSES DAMAGE SUIT Operators of Building Win Verdict Against Woman. Mrs. Maude S. Guffin today lost her suit for damages against the Mercantile Realty and Investment Company, operating the State Life building, when a superior court jury returned a verdict for the defendant. It w r as alleged by Mrs. Guffin in her suit that a broken arm she incurred in a fall in the building Jan. 29, 1932, was due to failure of the operator of an elevator from which she stepped at the seventh floor, to halt it even with the floor.

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1. Yes. Many young men and women have been saved from a downward course by timely, quiet warning from “the old man” that they were spending more money than their salaries justified; were taking too many joy rides to do their work well, or were beginning the hip flask or speakeasy habit. Where employers do it with judgment, it is a strong moral corrective. 2. No, for three reasons. First, she loses her sister's love—a priceless possession: second, where a woman just as easily can do so she should try to marry a man nearer her own age, since statistics show such marriages are slightly more likely to turn out happily—not much more likely, but worth this younger woman’s consideration; third

Four Teams to Battle in

Roller Polo Semi-Finals

Times Tourney Play Will Be Resumed Wednesday at Tomlinson Rink. Two replayed games in The Times junior roller polo tournament at Tomlinson hall Sunday afternoon returned the Black Peppers and the Squeeks victors. They advanced into the semi-final contests that will be played Wednesday night in the same hall. The Peppers will clash with the East Side Ramblers at 6 p. m. and the Squeeks will battle the Holy Cross Flashes at 6:30 for the right to play in the championship final game next Sunday afternoon at 1:45. The Black Peppers, who were defeated last Wednesday night by the Riverside Juniors, reversed the score Sunday and v;on after seven and one-half minutes overtime clash, 4to 3. The Juniors had defeated the Peppers, 3 to 1, Wednesday night, but an ineligible player, over age, took part in the Riverside lineup. The game was ordered replayed The Sqeeks, w-ho defeated the St. Anthony Panthers on Wednesday night, and also used an ineligible player, w-ere able to repeat their victory Sunday, 4 to 0. “Peanuts" Berling and Dowd each scored goals in the first period to give the Peppers a 2-1 lead after Cleft scored for the Riversides. The Peppers again punched another into the net in the third period. Dow r d again getting the point. Just a few- seconds before the regular time elapsed R. Clift scored two points for the Riversides and tied the score. In the overtime the two teams battled nearly eight minutes be-

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she has many more chances ahead than her sister. 3. A complete answer to this is the story of the boy who stood at the end of a long line of appiicaiTts for a job. The manager was surprised by the following note brought by his secretary; “I am the boy at the end of this line. Don't do anything until you see me.” He got the job. True, the job was there, but this boy created the opportunity to swing it his way. An employment manager said to me: “Nearly all the key men and women in this great business made their own jobs. They made opportunities by working out methods for savings and pi-ofits. They helped us to build up the business, instead of waiting for us to find things for them to do.” Young men and women this may be a hint worth thinking about.

fore Snodgrass, Pepper center, counted. In the Panther-Squeek game. Boring and Smith each punched the ball into the net during the first period for the Squeeks. After a scoreless second period, Boring came back with another score and Elstrodt counted before time elapsed. The Panthers failed to score. Prizes in the tourney, complete equipment of skates for winners and runners-up, are being donated by the Kingston Products Company, makers of high-grade skates, Kokomo. NAB KNIFE-SLAYER SUSPECT IN HURRY Arrested 14 Minutes After Woman's Murder. Fourteen minutes after report of the murder of Caroline England, 27. Negro, 323 West Vermont street, had been broadcast by the police radio. Clay Terrell. 49, Negro, 512 West Vermont street, was under arrest on a charge of being the killer. The slaying victim was stabbed several times in the left side and died almost instantly. At 2:31 this morning the report was on the air. Terrell was under arrest at 2:45. Officers saw Terrell walking at St. Clair and Pennsylvania streets and halted him. His hands were bloody, they reported, and a search revealed a blood-covered knife in a pocket.

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MURDERS RIVAL IN BATTLE AT I HOME OF WIFE Jealousy Is Blamed for i- Slaying: Killer Held by Police. (Continued From Page One) talk to England about the threat to Gregory, kicked in a door. He asserted he was struck on the head by England, who was armed with the poker, and fell to his knees. McKinney stated he then fired two shots from a revolver to frighti en England, but instead the other man came toward him with a knife lin his hand, and he fired again. The bullet found its mark. England sank to the floor, crying: “You've got me. Bob. I forgive ! you.” England died within a few minutes. McKinney, holding the revolver, backed from the house. He said he | threw the weapon over a fence surrounding a south side factory. Police failed to find it. The slayer was treated at city hospital for a scalp wound and returned to city prison where he is l held on murder charge. The McKinney couple was married twenty years ago. After several separations. Mrs. McKinney married another man. living with him ten years. On his death, she and McKinney lived together again, parting four months ago. Mrs. McKinney in a statement to police denied there was any basis for her husband's jealous attitude toward England.

DIRECT TAXATION IS URGED BY BECKETT Four-Fold Program Set Out by Former Senator. By Timm Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., March 20. Substitution of direct for indirect taxation was one of the planks in a four-fold tax program advocated here today by Joe Rand Beckett of Indianapolis, former state senator, speaking at a luncheon of the Rotary Club. He also advocated the “pay as you go” method of financing public improvements and urged a ban on all long-term bond issues. Beckett's other two planks are a change in total government cost in ration to the income of the inhabitants of a given unit, and a system of levying on business which would tax only the price of the finished product. He devoted much of the speech to condemning indirect taxation, citing the Indiana gasoline tax as "a glaring example." He declared such a tax places the consumer *n a position where he does not know “if he is buying the finished product or supporting government. The consumer is hoodwinked, misled. The disadvantage goes both to business and to the consumer. Business required to add governmental cost to the finished product that it sells, and the consumer is unable to recognize the ever-growing cost of government. GET LOOT IN PURSES S6O Taken Over Week-End, Say Reports to Police. Purse snatchers obtained S6O in loot during the week-end. Mrs. Beulah Werler, 1132 North Illinois street, reported to police that her purse, containing $55, was grabbed Sunday night by a Negro while she was walking in the 14001 block North Illinois street. Purse containing about $6 was snatched from the grasp of Mrs. Emil C. Rassman, 1120 North Pennsylvania street. Apartment 124, while she was walking Saturday night near her home.

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