Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 53, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1933 — Page 3

JULY 12, 1933.

CRUELTY REIGN REVEALED AT PRISON FARM Convicts Slugged, Starved; Sleep With Chains Riveted on Legs. (Continued From Page One) doctor to stanch the blood flow and sew up a neglected blood vessel. The series will show that Hoosierland has a torture-chamber for its petty offenders that is called the “Hole" and this “Hole" is synonymous with blackjackings, starved bodies, wrists bruised by handcuffs. It will tell of inmates stuffing rags and bits of cloth —picked up when no guard looked on —between chains and trousered legs to prevent chafing sores. Political Prisoner Punished One installment will deal with the life of the state’s first political prisoner and how his attempts to convert inmates of the farm to his cause brought down the mace of authority and placed him for days in a cell, fastened to bars. The inquiry and the affidavits will show how Governor Paul V. McNutt sent an investigating committee to the farm, how the tip got out via the farm grapevine, and how orders were sent to clean up before the probing committee reached certain sectors of the state farm. It will show how the committee, composed of Police Chief Mike Morrissey, Wayne Coy, secretary to the Governor, and Captain Matt Leach, of the state police, found men in chains and men in confinement on bread and water, but did not find other conditions, because of the farm's mysterious telegraph system. Guards Admit Blows Admissions of state farm guards that they struck men for dodging work will be given. It will be shown that for years inmates, regardless of race or color, have slept bed to bed, worked pick to pick. It will be charged in the affidavits that sanitary conditions of the farm in cooking, dairy, and sleeping quarters are far below par. One sworn statement charges that keepers have bribed inmates to aid them in hiding farm provisions so that the provender that should go to the tables of the inmates might be taken to the homes of the keepers. The Indiana state farm is termed an institution of correction, not punishment, by penologists. It is supposed to be a place where the petty misdeeds of a man are erased in the art of being taught to live a cleaner, finer life. Hall of Horror A recreational hall, a place of Stench and smoke and bedlam and men, is the one place of relaxation for the inmates on wintry Sundays, another affidavit will relate. The hall is called “Wreck” hall because it resembles this condition during a Sunday siesta of the farm's 1.000 inmates, the sworn statements will relate. The statements will charge that bribes were given guards and runners to obtain clean bedding, clean clothing, and other necessities of life for inmates. They will show, under a notary’s seal, how one inmate’s jaw was displaced by a hospital orderly because he became angered at the inmate during a medical examination. Food Called Bad The affidavits will declare the food is of poor quality, of little variety, and oh occasions has been contaminated. The Times will show that the cost of keeping an inmate at the farm is as high as that at other similar institutions or where a mass housing and feeding problem is present. It will show that the state farm has plenty of facilities and manual labor for supplanting purchased supplies for feeding inmates with farm-raised products. Life of Indiana's petty offenders, from the time of their conviction, dressing-in at the farm, to the day they peremptorily are told to sign waiver papers to obtain transportation back to the place of their conviction will be recited in the affidavits. Club Over Prisoners. It will be shown in the story as related by former inmates that the club of “We’ll take your good time away from you,” is held over them until they release the penal farm from all responsibility for happenings during their incarceration. Use of trusties in disciplining of the men and dependence on their word in violations of the farm's rules will be outlined in the affidavits. Throughout the affidavits and verbal statements of the former inmates is the expressed fear that, as some of them have been habitual petty offenders, they will suffer mistreatment if they ever are returned to the farm. The “crime horrible” of the farm is laziness, malingering, and failure to do a task, the sworn epistles will declare. Penalty Is Severe It will be shown that, despite the fact that escape from the institu- ! tion is easy and that the men are guarded loosely, the punishment for escape is chained legs or a bread and water diet in a cell with at good time earned taken from a prisoner. The sworn statements of the former inmates will demonstrate that, a man sent to Putnamville for a petty offense can be incarcerated for a period of time equal to that and longer than is given some inmates at the state reformatory in Pendleton. Lack of proper medical equipment with which to determine an inmates ailment, carelessness in handling hospital patients, failure to determine the physical or mental status of men incarcerated, will be indicted in the affidavits made to The Tunes. Trusties Direct Toil Guards will be shown sitting under shade trees, out of the boiling Indiana sun, while trusties, or "runners." direct the work of the inmates, report them for misdeamnors. One sworn statement will assert that water buckets of men laboring with pick, shovel and wheelbarrow

‘VERY SICK MAN’ STILL IN HANDS OF KIDNAPERS

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Upper Left—August Luer, 77. millionaire retired Alton (111.) banker, who still is in the hands of kidnapers. Appeals of his son to free a “very sick man” remain unanswered. Upper Right—Mrs. August Luer, 75, severely beaten when she tried to help her husband during the kidnaping. Lower—The Luer home at Alton, which was invaded by the gang. STORY ON PAGE ONE.

have been kicked over ruthlessly and the inmates forced to go without water because of some insult that could not be traced to one malefactor by the guard and “runner” in charge of the labor gang. Men . . . sweaty men, sometimes wearing the same clothes for an entire week without being able to change them. Vermin . . . beatings . . . verbal abuse, with fight words in any man’s country . . . weakness from diet in the “Hole” . . . bribes for favors ... all will be told in the sworn statements. Pleas Are Jeered Men . . . sometimes wincing, crying. at blows . . . warding off the swish of the cane with upraised arms . . . begging not to be placed on “bread and water” . . . protesting their illness . . . but unheard except for . . . Birds sing freely in the tree tops where the Indiana state penal farm juts from a hill-top and down its side. Passing vacationers on U. S. road No. 40 halt to look at the clean new brick buildings and dormitories, to take pictures of the busy rock quary with its ore cars traveling ever up and down the crusher tipple. Blue-overalled men, inmates, are all about. Curious eyes of the passerby look at them. Eyes look back at them. Mouths are clamped shut. But in the sworn statements in possession of The Times those

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mouths have opened, those eyes are transmitting their vision, of what happens in the hills of Putnam county when all seems peace and quietude. As they tell of Indiana’s gang of chained men. Next: “A Farm Inmate’s Welcome” —the boot. Another gripping instalment of the horrors faced by prisoners at the state institution. HERO IN CLASH WITH BANDITS_FOUND DEAD Aged Man, Wed Recently, Succumbs in Closed Garage. By United Press ST. LOUIS. July 12.—Thomas McMunn, 72, whose heroism in routing two bandits last December led to a romance culminating in his marriage at Chicago last week, was found dead in a garage at. the rear of his home Tuesday. The motor of the car was running and all doors to the garage were closed. According to McMunn’s daughter, Mrs. Edward Bickel, her father had gone to the garage to icpair the car preparatory to motoring to Cleveland with his bride, the former Mrs. Evalyn Raymond of Philadelphia. The aged man’s romance with Mrs. Raymond was conducted through correspondence when she read accounts of how McMunn had beaten, with his fists, two bandits who attempted to rob him.

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BOY, 12, SAVES BROTHER FROM DEATHIN RIVER Braves Treacherous Waters to Drag 11 -Year-Old Lad to Beach. (Continued From Page One) I ' say that this particular spot is so deep and so treacherous that very ; few experienced swimmers enter it. Mrs. Donahue, watching the boys from the bank, saw her son disappear, come up once, and go down again without an effort. “I am sure my heart stopped beating," she said, “and then Frank jumped in. It seemed as if the two were under for hours when I saw Frank come up with his hands caught underneath the twisted I shoulder straps of Larry’s bathing suit." Pulls Him 100 Feet When the boy fell, he was struck on the stomach by a rock which | knocked the breath from him, and i he was unconscious until first aid i was administered by life guards. “If it had not been for that,” : said Mrs. Donahue today, “I doubt ;if Frank could have saved him alone. I know how Larry would | have struggled and fought.” Frank pulled his unconscious brother across approximately 100 feet of deep and dangerous water. “I dropped him once, ’ said the youngster. “He went down, and I thought I’d never make it that time. But I remember that I had to stick with him or drown with him.” And Frank stuck. Given Immediate Attention Life guards observing the rescue said that they thought the two were playing, so made no move to aid. When Frank had his brother up on the beach, he was given immediate medical attention by the guards and regained consciousness in a short time. Frank learned to swim at the Willard park pool. He is an excellent swimmer. Larry and Frank have two brothers Leo, 14, and Harry, 13, and a sister, Mrs. Gertrude Hill. AH the brothers are Times carriers. The three younger brothers are pupils of St. Joseph’s school from which Leo was graduated in June. He will attend Cathedral high school In the fall. All are members of St. Joseph’s church. LEGION POST ELECTS Fred Foster Named President of Hugh Copsey Group. Fred Foster was chosen commander of Hugh Copsey post, American Legion, at the annual election of officers held Tuesday night. Others chosen are Herman Herr, first vice -commander; Ralph Martin, second vice-commander; Howard C. Smith, adjutant; Chester Swift, finance officer; Louis J. Weigand, service officer; Emil Swift, chaplain; Armen Bottles, sergeant-at-arms; Matt Harris, athletic officer; Dr. Roy Kopp, historian; Robert Davis, state convention delegate, and Smith, alternate. SLEEPS THROUGH FIRE Watchman Dozes On, Wakes to Find Water Surrounding Him. By United Press M'PHERSON, Kan., July 12. — Fire recently destroyed buildings and property here valued at several thousands of dollars. It was learned that a night I watchman in one of the supply I houses damaged, slept through the ! entire incident, and when he awaki ened on the cot in the basement I the next morning, found himself [ surrouded by water.

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While telegraph wires burned with the news of his impending separation from Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks was reported to have visited Lady Ashley (above), ill in a London hospital. Formerly Sylvia Hawkes, she was a leading actress on the English stage. CONCERTS TO BE GIVEN First of Series of Ten Is Planned for Tonight at Rhodius. First of a series of ten free concerts in parks by the Young People's Civic orchestra will be given tonight at the Rhodius park community house, and the second Friday night at the Riverside park shelter house, across the river from the main portion of the park. The orchestra is sponsored by the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs and the accident prevention bureau of the police department. Leslie Troutman directs the orchestra. Soloists for the concerts tonight and Friday will be Misses Dolly Snyder and Juanita Marvel, singers; Charles Mazey and Buris McMahon, trumpets; David Chapman, saxophone, and Wilmer Slagle, Mary Rosalyn Bolster, Eleanor Snapp, and Rose Mary Albers, dancers. FACES SWINDLE COUNT Suspect Charged With Working Short Change Racket. Charged with working a short change racket on local merchants, Linn Ross Hersey, 28, Omar, N. Y., was arrested Tuesday in a grocery at 2528 East Michigan street. Police arrested him after James H. Peterson, store proprietor at 3704 East Michigan street, and Julia Marsh, clerk in the grocery at 2528 East Michigan street, complained that Hersey had swindled them of 25 cents each. Child Swallows Safety Pin By United Press WARSAW, Ind., July 12.—Anxiety over the condition of 3-year-old Donna Jean Wiggs who swallowed a safety pin here was allayed after an x-ray revealed that the pin was closed. Physicians said the child's condition was not serious.

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FILM CONTEST VICTORSNAMED Thousands of Answers on Star Identifications Are Received. Tremendous interest was aroused in The Indianapolis Times-Loew's Palace theater star identification

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puzzle contest, conducted ln connection with the current screening of “Made on Broadway.” with Robert Montgomery and Sally Eilers. There were approximately 3.500 entries, more than the judges anticipated. Twenty pairs of tickets were the prizes for the winners. Under v rules of the contest, the judges were to make the awards on neatness if more than twenty were correct. Stars represented in the identification layout published in The Times included Joan Crawford Helen Hayes. Madge Evans, Norma Shearer and Marion Davies. The following were declared win-

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| ners of the twenty pairs of tickets to see “Made On Broadway": | George V. Hockersmith. 1517 North Eu- ■ clld avenue: James Demetrius. 336 Bright i street: Aline McClain. 1308 East Ohio street: Mrs. Henrv Bott. 1030 Hamilton avenue: Ann Nolan. 1016 Tecumseh ave- ; nue: Helen Harmon. 33 Johnson avenue; Kenneth Duncan. 320 Henncks Place: Pat M.-Fadden. 835 West drive. Woodruff Place: Miss Viola Duckworth. 2422 Sherman drive Helen Price. 3915 English ave- . nuc. Mrs. T. J. White. 625 North Gladstone avenue. Miss Cather-ne Pattlson. ’.627 Milburr street; Mrs W.Uiam Freeman. 2410 North P.erson avenue. Roberta Bowsher. 240 Whittier Place Louise Balav. 3637 Kenwood avenue. Dwicht Billings. 3465 Carrollton avenue Miss Jewel Smith. 1131 Circle Tower building: Helen Heger. 1 646 North Jeffersor avenue: Miss Mabel Buchanan. 433 North Fulton street, and ; Helen Scanling. 3422 North Capitol ave- | nue. I Palace tickets have been mailed to wm-