Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 168, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1933 — Page 1

COPELAND IS BRANDED CITY BANK BANDIT Witness at Holdup Names Parole Violator One of Gunmen. MAINTAIN HEAVY GUARD Sat in Getaway Auto, City Resident Tells State Officers. A witness at the holdup of the Massachusetts Avenue State bank, whose name was withheld by police for fear he would be put on the "spotthis afternoon identified Harry Copeland, parole violator, as one of the bandits. The witness told Detective Chief Fred Simon that Copeland was sitting in the car. in which the bandits made their getaway, in front of the bank at the time of the holdup. John Dillinger, head of a mob of convict terrorists, is believed by police to have aided in the local bank robbery. Other persons who witnessed the holdup were to be called by city police to view Copeland. Witnesses to the $2,100 holdup of the Bluffton < O.) bank were to be brought to Indianapolis late today in an effort to identify Copeland. This afternoon Copeland was questioned by state police at the statehouse. He is held under heavy guard at police headquarters, but is to be returned to the Indiana state prison tonight or Friday morning. A leave of absence from the prison was granted for five days in order that state and city police might question him. The leave expires Friday night. CLOUDY AND POSSIBLE RAIN. CITY FORECAST Temperature Expected to Stay at Even levels. Dismal weather was expected to remain with the city today, tonight and tomorrow morning, with light rains possibly, according to the weather bureau forecast. The unsettled condition was expected to be cleared up probably by tomorrow afternoon. Temperatures were expected to remain about the same as last night and today. The lowest last night W'as 34 degrees. Weather conditions this fall and winter have been more changeable than for several years, changing more rapidly than usual, according to J. H. Armington, meteorologist. HOOVER AIDS DRAWN INTO MARKET PROBE Moving Picture Magnate Charges V. S. Records Were Changed. By l nitrd Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 23. Powerful political figures in the Hoover administration were drawn today into senate stock market investigations when William Fox testified justice department records were altered in an alleged bankers’ conspiracy to seize control of his moving picture empire in 1929. Fox said he appealed directly to President Hoover lor protection against "the conspirators." PLACES TO BE FILLED Death Removes Two Trustees of University of Notre Dame. By f nited Prrt • SOUTH BEND. Ind.. Nov. 23. The associate board of lay trustees of the University of Notre Dame will meet here tomorrow to fill vacancies created by the deaths of Albert R. Erskine and Edward N. Hurley. The board was organized in 1920 to hold, invest and administer endowment funds of the university. Times Index Page BLACK HAWK 21 Bridge 12 Broun 14 Classified 19. 20 Comics 21 Crossword Puzzle 19 Curious World 21 Editorial 14 Financial 15 Fishing 6 Hickman Theaters 17 Lippmann 15 Radio 16 Sports 18. 19 State News 16 Woman's Pages 8. 9

A Real Scoop WHY! A nation of sportsloving people asked and echoed the question. Arguments raged in clubrooms, drawing rooms, poolrooms and on the corners. Why? It all was occasioned by the spectacular tailspin which sent Notre Dame spinning from the gridiron pinnacle. Was it the fault of Coach Hunk Anderson? Was it in-ter-squad dissention. Was it that Notre Dame had gone "the way of all flesh?" * Youll find the answers In a revealing series of three articles. written by Dick Miller, noted Times' teo'ball expert, which start* in Monday’s editions. Miller will answer these questions and many others in this series, a real "scoop" for all football fans of all ages. Don't miss it—it starts Monday!

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VOLUME 45—NUMBER 168

Wets, Drys Applaud Drive to Stamp Out Bootlegger for Good

Make It Smart to Be Legal." This suggestion by The Times and other Scripps-Howard newspapers for a national civic slogan after repeal, to settle the liquor problem, today was indorsed by prominent Indianapolis citizens and visiting notables. Wet and dry alike see in this appeal to civic consciousness a logical approach to a grave social problem—the abolition of the bootI legger and all he represents. “I’m one of the few people in exi istence who never bought anything from a bootlegger.” says Princess i Cantacuzene, nee Julia Grant. Granddaughter of General Ulysses S. Grant and born in the White House while her grandfather was President, the Princess Canta- ! cuzene’s ideas carry a compelling weight. She is chairman of the American Legion auxiliary's national committee on national defense. “I never have been affiliated with ; either prohibition or an anti- : prohibition organization, yet I have J cherished a nearly resentment of j the prohibition laws,” asserts the princess. “I feel that the American i people have as much right to have j wine and other liquor on their ; tables as they have to bread and meat. “I am an earnest advocate of support of the Constitution of this country, and all laws based upon it. I therefore am bitterly opposed to patronage of a bootlegger, or any other violator of United States law's." ana ARTHUR GILLIOM—With prohibition definitely struck out of the Constitution, whatever is done in the w r ay of liquor control should be calculated to eliminate illicit traffic. nna AL G. FEENEY (state department of safety director) —Making j it smart to be legal undoubtedly 1 would aid greatly in remedying j conditions after repeal. The i bootleg mobs already have switched from the illicit liquor traffic to endeavors such as bank robbery and kidnaping. Citizens also should make it smart to proJ vide adequate budgets and refuse to allow their police departments to b. underpaid and undermanned. nap MRS. SYLVESTER JOHNSON— I long have favored the repeal of the prohibition amendment as the most effective method of bringing real temperance. Now that repeal is a fact, the greatest problem is an effective control of liquor disJ tribution. Although government j liquor may, for the present, be con- | siderably higher in price than that offered by bootleggers, this fact 1 should not deter us from obtaining i it through the proper channels. We must discourage the bootlegger. ana DR. JAMES A. CRAIN 'director National Prohibition Emergency i Commission i—l am, and always w-iil be. opposed to liquor traffic and revenue in any form, legal or illegal, | It has been smart to be illegal a I long time. The need now is to make it a vogue to be legal, not only in the matter of liquor, but in other | things as well. The same advice j in The Times editorial might be j applied to chiselers against the NRA 1 and in regard to poor relief. Let's j be smart ethically as w'ell as le- I gaily. aa a j IRA M. HOLMES (attorney)—l am j heartily in sympathy with the movement to make it "smart, to be i legal" by freezing out the bootleg- | ger. I believe that racketeering and illegal liquor selling already have i been dealt a body blow' by repeal With legal liquor selling at area- ; sonable price and co-operation on! j th e Part of the public, the bootleg-! ger will exterminate himself from ! the racket by cutting prices until j there is no profit left. BOOTH JAMESON (short story writer and nephew of Booth Tarkington) I agree with the editorial in The Times. It Is. of course, true that liquor should be purchased through the proper channels and should be controlled by experts so that bootleggers can be put out of business. There Is. however, great danger that the whole thing may be ruined by politics. A government tax is naturally necessary, hut it should not be so high as to let the gov- j ernment get too much profit, nor to make liquor purchases impossible for the citizen of limited means. a a p THOMAS A HENDRICKS (Indiana State Medical Association secretary'—lt will continue to be smart to drink bootleg liquor if the gov- 1 ernment does not meet the price of bootleg liquor. Legitimate liquor can not be overburdened with taxes, if the government expects the public not to take advantage of the economic condition. I believe the Rockefeller plan is the answer to the question. a a a COMMANDER HAYES (national leader of the American Legion)—lt is not only smart to be legal now. but it was smart to be legal before repeal. Had we not winked at violators of the law. and had we prosecuted the purchaser as well as the bootlegger we would have been rid of prohibition long before this. GOVERNOR PAUL*V. M NUTT— The same psychology which made it seem smart to violate the prohibition law well can be applied upon repeal to make it smart to be legal, j Only the habits of a people will make possible the enforcement of sane laws dealing with the liquor ! traffic. It will mean that the force of public opinion will be against the illicit buyer, as well as seller, cf, bootleg brands. Temperance and obedience should mark the new era, if our people really believe that it's smart to be legal.

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IVB Smart to Be Legal!

BY EARL SPARLING Times Special Writer 'VJEW YORK, Nov. 23.—Alfred E. Smith, the man who more than any other fought to break the AntiSaloon League's hold upon America, i took up anew fight today—a fight to break the hold which rum runners. bootleggers and speakeasy owners obtained during the years of prohibition. "We've won the first fight.” he said grimly in his office high up in the Empire State building. “Now ! we've got to win the other. It behooves every patriotic citizen to secure his supplies after Dec. 5 in a thoroughly legal manner.” Years ago the happy warrior expressed his faith in the rank and j file of America. At that time he was certain tfjiat the American peo-

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MAKE it “smart to be legal,” L. E. York, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, declared this afternoon. "I am much interested in your editorial, ‘Make it Smart to Be Legal,’ ” Mr. York said. “No one who has at heart the best interests of his state and country, can object to such an editorial. On the contrary, he should give the whole-hearted support to see that 'it is smart to be legal,’ when applied to all laws. "During the past years, if such a slogan had been sounded forth by the metropolitan press and by the liquor lorces instead of ridicule and caricaturing in hideous cartoons those who stood for the enforcement of not only the liquor laws, but all laws, our country would not be in the condition in which we find it today. ana Notwithstanding th e fact that Indiana has the most liberal liquor laws of any state, these laws are violated openly and viciously almost any hour of the day and night. “Governor McNutt, in addition to his executive duttes, has usurped both the judicial and legislative functions of government and has led the way in nullifying certain provisions of the state liquor laws. “Mr. Editor, you need not be surprised to see crime at a zenith, drunkenness increase at an alarming degree, and the violation of laws generally, under such conditions as now obtain in our state. “We stand for the slogan ‘it’s smart to be legal,’ but we stand against liquor whether sold legally or illegally. “Obedience to and respect for the law can not be realized with our state and nation in partnership with liquor traffic which is the arch enemy of all laws."

TOWNSEND IS NAMED HEAD OF FAIR BOARD $3,600 Salary Saved for State in Move. Lie.utenant-Governor M. Clifford Townsend today took the $3,600 job of E. J. Barker, secretary-treasurer of the state board of agriculture, in an appointment announced by Governor Paul V. McNutt. Mr. Barker leaves the post Jan. 1. Lieutenant - Governor Townsend will serve without additional pay. He receives $6,000 a year. Governor McNutt, in his reorganization of the statehouse offices, named Mr. Townsend commissioner of agriculture when he first took office and today's appointment adds to his duties in that .department.

*HE'S GREATEST MAN I EVER MET.’ SAYS EDDIE OF PRESIDENT

By l nited Press ATLANTA. Nov. 23.—Eddie Cantor. stage comedian, says President Roosevelt is “the greatest man I ever met.” Stopping off here today en route to New York after visiting the President at his Warm Springs. Ga., retreat. Mr. Cantor said: "I am for him 100 per cent and whatever else you figure. He has the greatest personality of any man I ever talked with.”

IVs Smart to Be Legal ‘We’ve Got to Win This Fight,’ A1 Smith Warns Nation

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1933

DEFENSE TO QUERY JONES CASE JURORS I Mason's Attorneys Will Begin Examination of Talesmen. STATE PASSES PANEL Seating of Dozen ‘Tried and True’ Expected Late Tomorrow. By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Nov. 23.—Defense attorneys were to begin examination this afternoon of a jury panel tentatively accepted by the state to try William Mason, charged W'ith complicity in the machine gun slaying of Indianapolis Police Sergeant Lester Jones. Starting the second day of the trial with nine men tentatively seated, the state w'as about to fill the twelfth chair as the noon recess neared. A dozen prospective Jurors were questioned during the morning, with two accepted, one peremptorily challenged and the remainder excused for cause. Scruples against capital punishment brought dismissal of the majority of jurors. Challenge Is Used The challenge was used against a prospective juror w'hose nephew had been indicted for murder in Hamilton circuit court. “I do not look for the jury to be completed until late tomorrow',” Marion county Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson said today. “The case will be recessed until Monday tomorrow afternoon, with Saturday used for the regular court business.” Pace of the tritl was expected to be slowed during the examination by Floyd Christian and Ralph Waltz, local attorneys, appointed to defend Mason. Defense to Make Fight It Is certain that the defense will not accept the jury passed by the state, in its entirety, without an attempt to eliminate several of the talesmen who answered the question on the death penalty with alacrity. The trial opened yesterday afternoon after Mason had announced he preferred to stand trial, instead of pleading guilty and following the lead of George Schwartz and Fred Adams, who were sentenced to life imprisonment Tuesday by Marion Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. Two other members of the alleged gang which shot and killed Sergeant Jones in an attempted holdup of the Peoples Motor Coach Company garage in Indianapolis, Feb. 7, are awaiting trial. Dean to Be Tried Later Harold Thompson is held in jail here, following his motion for a separate trial, made yesterday after he had been brought here from Indianapolis by Marion Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner. It is expected that Thompson will testify against Mason, or, at least, a purported statement by Thompson w'ill be introduced in Mason's trial. Edward (Foggy) Dean, alleged trigger man in the slaying, w'ill be tried in Marion criminal court, after Mason's trial is ended. The sixth man indicted in the murder, Edward Miller, has been exonerated and the charge against him will be nolled. He is held in jail here as a fugitive from Kentucky. Life Terms to Start George Schwartz and Fred Adams, who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder charges in the slaying of Sergeant Lester Jones, will be taken to the Indiana state prison tomorrow morning to begin serving life sentences. Schwartz and Adams admitted their guilt before Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker Tuesday. Parents and relatives of the two men were permitted to visit them and tell them "good-by” today. Sheriff Charles Sumner. John Boyce, chief jailer, and Detective Sergeant John Dalton of the criminal court, will take Schwartz and Adams in addition to other prisoners to the state prison. LINDBERGH MOVES ON Brings Big Plane Down at Azores After Flight From Horta. By United Press PONTA DELGADA. Azores Islands. Nov. 23.—Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh brought their big seaplane down in the harbor of Ponta Delgada after a brief flight in brilliant sunshine, from Horta, at 2:20 this afternoon.

ple would do away with prohibition whenever they were given the opportunity to vote upon it. He reaffirmed his faith in the people today. He is certain now that the people will do away with bootleggers and rum runners and all illicit liquor vendors. ana “TT is inherent in every good citizen to desire to be obedient to the law.” he asserted. “Repeal has given the opportunity to respect and obey the law again, and to see that others respect and obey it. The people now have the opportunity not only to be law-abiding, but the opportunity to help their country by increasing the taxation revenue so that the budget can be balanced. “Realizing that the government needs more revenue, and that he

EARLE WYNEKOOP, HUSBAND OF SLAIN CITY BEAUTY, ARRIVES IN CHICAGO FOR QUIZZING BY POLICE

‘Don’t Talk to Police!’ That Was Mother-in-Law’s Warning to Girl’s Father, He Reveals to Officers.

By Times Special CHICAGO. Nov. 23—‘Don't do much talking to the police” was the cryptic warning he received from Dr. Alice Wynekoop when he arrived'here to aid in investigating his daughter's murder, B. H. Gardner. Indianapolis flour and salt broker, revealed today. Mr. Gardner disclosed Dr. Wynekoop's alleged strange behavior when he conferred with police in an effort to give them additional clews to the killing of Mrs. Rheta Wynekoop, 23, his daughter and daughter-in-law of Dr. Wynekoop. The Indianapolis broker said Dr. Wynekoop called him aside on his arrival and in whispered tones, said: "Don’t do much talking to police. When you do. be sure to tell them your daughter has not been well, that she had been ill considerably lately, and don’t forget to tell them her mother had died of tuberculosis.” aaa a a a

MR. GARDNER told police he was unable to account for Dr. Wynekoop’s behavior and went to the Fillmore police station to confer with Captain John Stege, ace crime investigator, in whose hands the Wynekoop murder mystery has been placed. Revealing details surrounding the wedding of his daughter to

a * * “T OPPOSED the marriage because the boy didn t have any money or 1 any prospects. However, after they notified me. I came here for the wedding dinner.” . ~ . .. Mr. Gardner said he did not arrive in Chicago in time for the wedding ceremony at St. Alban’s church. He spent the night in the Wynekoop home after attending the dinner. Mr. Gardner said. Finding the atmosphere of the Wynekoop home "uncongenial, Mr. Gardner said he had not been back since.

The Indianapolis broker said he and Mrs. Gardner returned to Indianapolis and a few days later were puzzled to receive a request, from Dr. Wynekoop that he send his daughter numerous pieces of furniture. His daughter frequently intimated in her letters to him, the need of funds, Mr. Gardner said, and he often sent her checks. Mr. Gardner said that for some time after the wedding his daughter's letters expressed happiness. She wrote long, newsy and affectionate letters, he said, at first, but her letters stopped lately. Mr. Gardner said he received a brief and curt note from nis daughter about a month ego, but aside from that had not heard from her for about four months.

LEE TRACY IS FIRED FOR MEXICAN BRAWL Film Actor Blames Drinks for ‘Balcony Scene.’ By United Press HOLLYWOOD. Nov. 23. Lee Tracy will find himself out of a job when he returns home tomorrow, the “goat" in one of the most unlucky film enterprises in recent years. He was summarily discharged by Louis B. Mayer, head of the M-G-M studios within an hour after reading Tracy’s facetious account in a United Press dispatch from El Paso of his now famous balcony stroll. Tracy freely admitted that he was "feeling the drinks” after a cabaret party when he hailed a Mexican parade from his hotel balcony, but denied that he was unclothed. The dismissal was announced in a telegram Mayer sent President Abelarde Rodriguez of Mexico,

Skilled Labor to Get Relief Work in City

Selection of skilled workmen from the unskilled workmen on city and county re-employment projects was started today by city and county officials. Those classified as skilled workmen and given work requiring hour, instead of the 50 cents an hour, instead of the $0 cents an hour paid for common labor on the projects. Hundreds of those classified as skilled laborers will be assigned tomorrow and Saturday by Louis C. Brandt, works board member, in construction work in repairing and reconditioning Tomlinson hall, po-

can do his part only by buying his supplies legally, no good citizen will patronize a bootlegger after repeal.” Mr. Smith looked out the windows of his lofty office—reminiscently, as if thinking of all that has happened since he first began his fight against the eighteenth amendment and of what the fight had meant to him. In 1923. as Governor of New York state, he had signed the MullanGage state repeal law. In 1928. when the Democratic national platform was evasive, he. as Democratic candidate for President, had telegraphed his own forthright platform immediately after nomination: “The equal and even enforcement of the law is the corner stone upon which rests the whole structure of Democratic government ... It is well known that I believe there should be fundamental changes In

young Earle Wynekoop in 1929. Mr. Gardner disclosed that he had opposed the union. "It was at a concert in Indianapolis four years ago that I first met Earle. A few days later, he persuaded me to allow Rheta to accompany him to his mother s home in Chicago. Then I heard they were to be married.

NEW PHONE CO. OFFICER NAMED Harry S. Hanna Appointed Vice-President Today. (Photo on Pp.se 17) Directors of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company today named Harry S. Hanna, of New York, vicepresident in charge of public relations and personnel to take the place left vacant by the death of R. C. Rottger. Mr. Rottger died suddenly Oct. 10. Mr. Hanna has been general commercial problems engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, general offices in New York. For the past few months he was director of exhibits of the Century of Progress exposition of Chicago. He will take over his new duties in Indianapolis within a few weeks. He is married and has one son. DEMOCRATIC LEADER DIES IN AUTO CRASH Woman Passenger Hurt; Victim Was Township Trustee. By United Press HILLSBORO. Ind.. Nov. 23.—William E. Brant, 53, trustee of King township. Fountain county, and well-known Democratic worker, was killed instantly in an automobile collision near here yesterday. Mrs. William Shade, passenger in Brant’s car, suffered serious injuries. Both victims lived in Hillsboro.

lice station, three fire stations and construction of anew Flower Mission tuberculosis hospital building on city hospital grounds. Between 1,000 and 2.000 men will be assigned tomorrow to flood protection work on White river and Fall creek, this work having been delayed to permit construction of runways for wheelbarrows. Several new local projects, which will add about 218 men to the list of employed, were approved last night by the state public works division, including five school improvement projects, and improvement at the Indiana national guard airport.

the present provisions for national prohibition, basfd on the fearless application to the problem of the principles of Jeffersonian Democracy . . . Common honesty compels us to admit that corruption of law enforcement officials, bootlegging and lawlessness are now prevalent throughout the country.” a a a IT had been a long fight. And what if the fruits of the victory were only a continuation of the nightmare prohibition had produced, continued corruption, botlegging and lawlessness? Down under his high windows tumbled vast city in which some 30.000 speakeasies still were vending hard liquors supplied by armed gangs. “I don’t think bootlegging is going to be a enter-

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Talks to Mother Before Being Rushed to Face Questioning of Bulldog-Like Investigator, Captain Stege. RELATIVES GRILLED ONCE AGAIN * ‘Some One in That House Knows Who Did That Murder,’ Is Assertion of Famed Police Prober. By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 23.—Earle Wynekoop, white-faced and with jaws clenched, was taken to the morgue this afternoon to view the slain body of his beautiful 23-year-old wife, Rheta. Captain John Stege escorted the young husband on his tragic visit after brief questioning failed to reveal any new clews in the strange murder. (Photos and other details on Pages 3 and 19) By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 23.—Earle Wynekoop, 27, collegiate appearing husband of slain Rheta Wynekoop, talented Indianapolis beauty, arrived this afternoon to submit to questioning in the strange operating room murder case. Wynekoop, a bit haggard under the strain of his wife’s sensational death, dodged police and reporters on his arrival in Chicago, but immediately went to the gloomy family residence where he conferred briefly with Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop, his mother. He then was rushed to the Fillmore station for questioning. Upon his testimony police had great expectations of clearing up half a dozen strange discrepancies in the stories told by various witnesses.

WITT REPRIEVE WILL BE DENIED. IS BELIEF Jackson’s Slayer May Die at Any Time After Midnight. Reprieve for Charles , Vernon Witt, slayer of Lafayette Jackson, Indianapolis grocery-qjjain operator, is expected to be denied this afternoon by Governor Paul V. McNutt and Witt will be electrocuted early tomorrow' morning. He can be executed at the Michigan City state prison at any time after midnight tonight. Attaches of Governor McNutt's office forecast denial of the reprieve. Louis Hamilton, co-partner cf Witt in the crime, has been given a stay of execution from the death sentence until May of 1934. The two men were to w r alk to the chair together. 100 IN BRUSH FIRE ARE REPORTED SAFE Canyon Traps Men Engaged in Battling Blaze. By United Press PASADENA, Cal., Nov. 23.—Fears for the safety of 100 fire-fighters, reported trapped in Haines canyon, were allayed today when officials reported that the men were in no immediate danger. Although almost completely surrounded by the flames of the brush fire raging in the hills since Tuesday night, the canyon was considered safe. ROCKEFELLER, 94, WINS IN BATTLE WITH GRIPPE Announced as Recovering After Being 111 Nearly Week. By United Press TARRYTOWN, N. Y„ Nov, 23, John D. Rockefeller, now 94, is recovering from an attack of grippe at his Pocantico Hills home here, it was learned this afternoon. The aged millionaire developed a temperature last Friday and was ordered to bed. Absolute quiet was maintained about the grounds adjacent to the mansion, leaving the impression Mr. Rockefeller's illness had been serious at one time. Members of the family continually were visiting the home, particularly John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 36 10 a. m 37 7 a. m 36 11 a. m 38 Ba. m 35 12 (noon).. 38 9a. m 35 Ip. m 38

I prize from now on,” he predicted, ! his eyes narrowing. “Now that the eighteenth amendment is repealed | there is no reason why any decent j citizen should lend support to any group seeking to violate the law. Americans are a patriotic people. If f the laws are right, they will see to it that they are obeyed. “Every American who buys his supplies in a thoroughly legal manner will know that he is directly [ helping his government and discouraging disobedience of the law. "Even if the taxation of liquor becomes so great that the bootlegger will be in position to tempt the people to avoid payment, the good citizen will prefer to support his government rather than to support any group attempting to cheat the government. Bootlegging will die a natural death.” m

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Members of the family, many of them physicians to whom death comes without j emotion in the daily routine of their duties, awaited with suspense the arrival of Earle. This suspense was heightened by mounting evidence that conflicted with the story of the "perfect” marriage of Rheta and Earle which they had told. Stanley Young, companion of Earle on his projected photographic tour of the west, revealed the hus- ; band spent the night before the murder in the company of another I woman, who, like his wife, was | auburn-haired. t This revelation came after a letj ter from one of the young man’s j friends previously had indicated the j husband’s interest was not confined to his pretty wife. Statements Are Conflicting It was in contrast also to the statements of the young man’s mother, steel-nerved Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop, who bad dej scribed the marriage as “idyllic” I and said the coming of her daugh-ter-in-law into the grim brick mansion was “like a ray of sunshine and happiness.” The suspense of police officers was equally great as they counted upon Earle’s story to substantiate or break down the carefully woven theories of who shot the Titianhaired young woman to death as she lay nearly nude on an operating table in a musty basement room. New theories sprouted every hour in the fervid imaginations of the detectives assigned to the case. Such a mysterious story-book murder had not fallen their way in many a year. All Virtual Prisoners Those of the Wynekoop family I who returned to the tragic house after hours of questioning were virj tual prisoners within the shadowed j walls. They were not allowed on the ground floor where the body was found. Two policemen were sta--1 tioned outside and inside to watch their communications with each | other and the outside world. Gruff Captain John Stege, veteran murder investigator, clung to his j theory that: “Someone in that house knows who killed Rheta Wynekoop.'” He had his own theory as to how the murder was committed. "The girl was killed by someone in whom she had confidence. She undressed as if for a medical examination. I believe she was chloroformed and then shot.” Arrives by Train The husband arrived in Chicago by train from Kansas City and immediately took a taxi to the W”nekoop home, where ne conferred in the presence of a police officer with his mother regarding funeral arrangements for his wife. Wynekoop then was rushed to the Fillmore street police station. Dr. Wynekoop and other members of the family were questioned again early today by Captain Stege, known as “the bulldog” among Chi(Turn to Page Nineteen) DEFENSE ATTACK ON JURY SYSTEM FAILS Judge Denies Quash Motion in Scottsboro Case. ■ By Vnited Pnrtg DECATUR, Ala., Nov. 23.—Efforts of defense counsel in the Scottsboro assault cases to assail the Alai bama jury system on grounds of exclusion of Negroes from jury duty, failed today when Judge W. M. Callahan denied a motion to quash 1 a Morgan county venire called for third trial of the defendants. ix