Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 89, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1934 — Page 1

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MASON ELUDES POLICE NET AS PAL IS CAUGHT Driskell, City Youth Held on Car Theft Count, Nabbed Here. HUNT ALLEGED KILLER Police of U. S. and Canada Join in Search for Slaying Suspect. Peace officers all over the United States and Canada today were on the watch Tor William H, <Willie> Mason, 34. Kentucky rowdy accused oT the machine gun murder of Indianapolis' Police Sergeant Lester Jones, following the capture here of one of the four men who escaped yesterday with Mason from the Hamilton county jail. Noblesville. The man captured is Lowell Driskell. 22. Indianapolis. Driskell. held at Noblesville on automobile theft charges, was recaptured without a struggle when he appeared at the corner of Twen-ty-fifth street and Central avenue, a spot he had frequented for years. He had not eaten since the sensational jailbreak and surrendered almost gratefully. His captors treated him to a steak dinner with spinach as an added attraction. Sheriff Frank Hatiery arrived from Noblesville a short time after Driskell's arrest and returned the young prisoner to his antiquated jail. Driskell told local police he had no idea where Mason —or any of the three others who fled with Mason and Driskell—had gone. He said that he and Mason separated as they fled down an alley near the Jail in Noblesville. Mason went one way and Driskell and Paul McKinney, 20, Ft. Wayne, under a three-to-ten-year sentence for housebreaking, headed toward Indianapolis. McKinney left Dnskell near Castleton, the latter said, (alls for Suit The others who participated in the break were John Martin. 36. Negro. Indianapolis, who was to have begun a one-to-ten-year sentence in the Indiana state prison yesterday for stealing cars, harness and chickens, and Frank Wallace. 50. Kokomo, held on a theft charge. Police here got their first word of Driskeil when, a few hours after the break, a dry cleaning establishment where the prisoner had a suit received a telephone call to deliver it to an address on College avenue. A squad car rushed to the address, only to learn that persons living there knew nothing of the call. Driskell. or someone phoning for him. apparently had planned to intercept the delivery’ boy. Next word came early in the evening when persons reported his presence at the corner where he finally was captured. Again squad cars went into action, but Driskell had vanished when the first policemen arrived. Stories in Conflict Lieutenant Donald Tooley and his squad kept watch, however, and Driskell walked into their hands. The prisoner said his first knowledge of the escape came when he was awakened by the noise made by the other prisoners in preparing for their escape. He refused to say who had the hacksaws used in the flight. His story is in conflict with Monroe Vare, 68. Sheridan, held at Noblesville on an arson charge, who told a Times reporter yesterday that he had known the men were plotting something for several days. Vare was the only prisoner left in the Noblesville jail at the time of the break. Aged, he not taken into the fugitives’ confidence, and they threatened him with an iron bar to assure his silence, he said. Served One Term The pisoner arrested here has served one term on the Indiana state farm and has been arrested previously on vehicle theft charges. Mason apparently had made good his escape. Though Driskell's story indicated Mason was without the traditional waiting friends m a highpowered motor car. no trace of him was found by Sheriff Hattery's aids and a state police detail which searched minutely the country surrounding Noblesville. It is believed that the men had more than two hours to get out of that city before their escape was discovered. Detective Chief Fred Simon of the Indianapolis police and Captain Matt Leach of the Indiana state police immediately circulated the alarm for Mason all over the United States and Canada. Police Phones t'sed The word that he had escaped was flashed over the state at dawn yesterday by the inter-police communication system devised by A1 Feeney, state safety director, which uses che phone system between various state police barracks. Sergeant Jones was shot down without warning in the Peoples Motor Coach Company's barns Feb. 7, 1933. when his squad answered an alarm that there was a fight there and surprised a gang of bandits in the course of * a holdup. Mason was captured some time afterward in a luxurious gang hangout m a typu - *!* old southern mansion near Erlanger, Ky 17 Drown in Bus Mishap B* lOr 4 Prtta ALGIERS. Aug. 23—An automobile sightseeing bus. carrying eighteen passengers, crashed over a parapet on the sea roed today and fell into the ocean. Seventeen of the passengers were reported drowned.

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r "|''HF. Misses Hilda, Leonora. Alma and Frieda Frohne, musicallyJL inclined daughters of a former Indianapolis minister, don’t mind being jollied b> their fiiends—but there’s a limit to everything. The girls, who gained fame as a singing quartet during and after their student days at Technical high school here, were puzzled while in Detroit a few days ago when their friends suddenly began asking them how they “enjoyed being in burlesque.”

They resented the remarks and the accompanying snickers, for not only was their father a minister, but so was their grandfather. and there are twelve ministers in their immediatel yfamily. The snickers were explained when Hilda, while walking on Woodward avenue, in Detroit, saw her likeness and that of her three sisters on the billboards of a burlesque theater. Using fictitious names, the billboard implied the four sisters could be seen doing “hotcha” numbers at the burlesque theater. Yesterday the quartet filed suit for SIO,OOO damages against the theater, charging damage to their reputations, mental anguish and humiliation as result of the unauthorized used of their phtotographs. The picture, according to wire dispatches, was taken in Npw t York where the girls were on Broadway as harmony sinegrs and was needed for theatrical work at that time. The young women are the daughters of Dr. J. C. Fronne. who served as pastor of St. Paul s Evangelical church from 1918 to 1928. Since leaving Indianapolis, the Misses Frohne have been quite successful singing in vaudeville and over the radio. PLAYGROUNDS. PARKS TO CLOSE ON AUG. 30 Eight. However, to Remain Open Until Labor Day. All but eight of the city playgrounds and parks will be closed for the year Aug. 30. the park board announced today. The eight to remain open until Labor day are Brookside. Willard. Riverside. Garfield. Ellenberger, Christian. Douglass and Rhodius. There are sixtyfive parks and playgrounds in the city. Times Index Page Auto News 6 Berg Cartoon 14 Bridge 4 Broun 13 Classified 19, 20 Comics 21 Crossword Puzzle 6 Curious World 21 Editorial 14 Financial . 18 Hickman—Theaters 19 Let’s Go Fishing 17 Pegler 13 Radio 10 Serial Story 21 Sports 16. 17 State News 15 Vital Statistics 18 Woman's Pages 4. 5

‘No Jail Ever Has Held Me Long, ’ Brags Youth Captured Here After Escaping From Five Military Prisons —Only Regret Is That His ‘Stickup Jobs ’ Weren’t Bigger

BY GRENVILLE MOTT Timr* Staff Writer Melvin Blanton has only one regret. who is 23 and hails from Camden. 0.. made some sort of history recently when he escaped from a military prison on Governor's Island in New York harbor. He confesses to having blazed a trail of petty crime across the country from then until a few days ago when he landed in the Marion county jail with two accomplices— Charles Hamilton and Theodore Hulbert— on charges of robbery and auto banditry. "Our only regret is that the stickups we pulled weren’t a lot bigger jobs.” Blanton told The Times today in an exclusive interview, in which he gave a hair-raising story of five escapes from military prisons in four years. Blanton, who attributes his start in crime to a four-months guardhouse sentence for intoxication shortly after he enlisted m the

JR. MECHANICS MEET IN CONVENTION HERE State Delegates Welcomed by Jesse McClure. The forty-third annual state session of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics opened today at the Lincoln with Paul Ford, state councillor, presiding. The 150 visiting delegates were welcomed by Jesse McClure on behalf of their Indianapolis hosts. William Church, Terre Haute, responded Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 66 10 a. m 71 7a. m 67 11 a. m 73 Ba. m 67 12 (noon).. 68 9a. m.t... 71 Ip. m 65

Kernel, Smith Gain on Krueger in Derby Race With less than 700 votes separating first and third place in the Brown Derby race for 1934. candidates seemed content to coast today. “Walgreen” Fred K. Krueger held tenaciously to first place, while Dr. Paul Kernel, president of the Hoosier Athletic Club, and Dr. Will H. Smith Jr., Cosmopolitan Democratic Club head, closed a gap on the leader.

Shortly before the vote count was made, Dr. Smith grabbed off second place, and then in a last-minute splurge to get Monday's ballots in on time. Dr. Kernel stepped back into second. The busy doctor's forces, however, declared that they are only spoofing the “Kruegerites” and that in the argot of the flapper—“they ain’t seen nothing yet.” Steinsberger Steps Up “Grocer” Fred W. Steinsberger. president of the Indianapolis Meat and Grocers Association, was the only candidate to step up the ladder. Mr. Steinsberger scaled the Dave Mitchell golfing gang like an Alpine mountaineer escalating up the Matterhorn. The “Steinsbergerians” are confident. They say the race is “in the bag” and it's their bag. Other contestants for the felt crown and the silver plaque, in addition to the right to speak before a grandstand crowd at the Indiana state fair on Sept. 6. just crept alo. 7 in the standings. Monday Ballots Void Voters of “darby” ballots are warned to look at the date on each ballot to be sure that they are not void. Monday s ballots are void now . Tuesday's ballots are good until 4 p. m. tonight. Yesterday's vote coupon will not

army, feels that filling stations are "pretty small fry.” He leaned against the bars nonchalantly as he told the story of his escapes from military jails. "My first escape.” he said, “was from the army jail in Stockade, Ky. When they caught me they increased my sentence, so I decided to get away again. I iammed' out of there that time on Jan. 2, 1932. It was pretty cold and they had us build a fire near our work, which was cracking rocks with a sixteenpound sledge hammer. "One of the sentries sent me to get some oil from a nearby cache and. when I saw my chance, I ran. It was only 200 yards to some woods and he had four good shots at me, but the only scratch I got was when I fell and bumped my knee. “When they got me after that one, they stuck me in the jug in Ft. Thomas, Ky. I guess they thought that would hold me. but I got out pretty soon—April 7, 1932. it was.” "I could get out of those army jails pretty fast, but they were al-

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1934

‘HUEY MY PAL,’ GAMING ‘KING’ TELLSJORLD ‘Frameup,’ Roars Long, Pointing Accusing Finger at Walmsley, Aids. THEY JUST CHUCKLE For Move Puts Kingfish Right on ‘Spot’ in the Election. By United Prexx NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 23.—Senator Huey P. Long, who has assumed the role of guardian of public morals since the start of his “war” with the New Orleans city administration, found himself in a most embarrassing position today. A. G. Rickerfor, alleged “king” of the lottery ring of New Orleans, today announced his political support was with the “Kingfish.” Long immediately shrieked ‘‘foul play,” and accused the city administration, led by Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley, with hatching a deep, dark plot to sully his reputation. “Let him (Rickerfor) open one of his damned dens down theitf,” Long angrily exclaimed, “and w"’ll show him whether he is with us or not. “I don’t see why he didn't say that Walmsley and other city officials were with us, too,” he added. Using the “horrible vice and gambling conditions of New Orleans” as a basis. Long launched his attack on the city administration several weeks ago. During this time he loudly cried out against the "terrible sins of the city.” This led directly to his goal of a special session of the legislature, which, under hife direction, passed twenty-six “spite” bills stripping (Turn to Page Three) POISON CLAIMS LIFE OF CHILD, 18 MONTHS Son of William Riedys Dies in St. Vincent’s. Robert Riedy, 18-months-old son of Wilbur and Helen Riedy, 5520 Broadway, died today in St. Vincent's hospital from poison he drank accidentally yesterday. He is survived by his parents and two brothers. Wilbur Jr., 6, and Barth, 9 months. Funeral services will be held in St. Joan of Arc church with burial in Holy Cross cemetery.

THE STANDINGS Fred W. Krueger 14,507 Dr. Paul Kernel 13,886 Dr. Will H. Smith Jr.... 13,866 Fred W. Steinsberger ...... 12,547 Dave Mitchell 12,392 Jim Clark 8.080 Clarence I. Baker 6,105 , Wajter Pritchard 3,865 Sid Easley .... • 2,987 George Ritter 2,804 Addrd starter* with more than 1,000 votes and less than 2,804 follow: Frank W. Quinn, Harry Gold, Jess McClure, Elias W. Dulberger, Russell E. Clift, Jim Custard. Henry Ostrom. see the wastebasket until 4 p. m. tomorrow. Booby-prize headhunters, with low scores, are warned that they’ll be tossed out on their ears after 4 p. m. Saturday if they do not have 5,000 votes. The skull-measuring with the taking of photos of the ten leaders will be held next week. With The Times daily for the standings and sudden brain storms of jo-Jo. the dog-faced judge, who might get tired counting. Vote daily! Vote as many times as you want to for your favorite. Today's ballot is on Page 2.

ways catching up on me. The next time they sent me to Ft. Benjamin Harrison, that camp right near here. Hulbert and Hamilton, the two guys I got caught with the other day, were in there, too. Well, for six months we tried to escape from that joint. We caused so much trouble that they put a special guard inside to watch us.” Blanton got around this, he says, by winning the guard’s friendship and then keeping him talking in the rear of the guardhouse one day while Hulbert and Hamilton climbed a waterpipe in front and opened a hole in the roof with daggers the trio had made from old files. "Finally,” he chuckled, “I let the guard go on about his business and, when he was out of sight, we all went out that hole like a bat out of hell. We got a full hour's start on them and they never did catch Hamilton until the other day.” His next arrest, Blanton said, was the result of treachery on the part of a "friend,” who tipped off the police. This occurred in Eaton, 0.,

PRESIDENT ATTENDS FUNERAL OF SPEAKER RAINEY

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President Franklin Roosevelt is shown in automobile with Senator William Dieterich of Illinois, as they arrived at Walnut Hill, country home of Henry T. Rainey, for the funeral yesterday of the late speaker of the house of representatives.

Mediators Fail, Chicago Tieup Feared Inevitable 20,000 Street Car and Elevated Workers Anxious to Strike in Sympathy With Bus Union. By United Prexx CHICAGO, Aug. 23.—Threats of a general transportation strike in Chicago became more menacing today as efforts to bring about peaceful settlement of a union bus drivers’ walkout reached a deadlock.

JAPAN LIBERAL HERE RAPS WORLD RULERS Leaders Mental ‘Eunuchs,’ Visitor Declares. “The governments of the world are in the hands of intellectual eunuchs,” according to Dr. Rokuichiro Masujima, noted Japanese lawyer, philosopher and liberal. Dr. Masujima started for his homeland today, following a visit with Albert J. Beveridge Jr., Republican candidate for the state legislature in the fall elections, whom he knew in Japan. Dr. Masujima, known in his own country as a great liberal, despite his 77 years, believes the world has become degraded since the World war. “Corruption and petty jealousies,” he said, “have played an important part in the gradual but noticeable change that has come over both the Occident and the Orient. Those at the head of government are corrupt and spineless, intellectual eunuchs. “It is up to the youth of the world to remedy this situation,” Dr. Masujima said. GYPSIES SUSPECTED OF ROBBING PAINTER Missed Wallet After Talk With Women, He Tells Police. Two gypsy women, traveling in a sedan of expensive make and of ancient vintage, are suspected of having robbed Frank Muir, 58, of 3420 East Twenty-fifth street, a house painter, of his wallet containing s2l while he was work today on a house at 2279 North Talbot avenue. Mr. Muir told police the women approached him and said they would like to tell his fortune. He said he told them he was not interested, but that they stayed near a bench holding his street clothing for some time. After they had left, he discovered the theft. SAM JACKSON NAMED SPEAKERS' BUREAU HEAD Ft. Wayne Attorney Is Given State Post. Sam Jackson, Ft. Wayne attorney, w’as named chairman of the Democratic state committee speaker’s bureau by Omer S. Jackson, state chairman today. The Ft. Wayne attorney is a prominent party worker in Allen county and northern Indiana. Approval of the appointment was given by Alex Campbell, Allen county 1 chairman.

where the "friend” operates a beer parlor. “This fellow sent word for me to go to his place for a party,” Blanton recounted. "When I got there, I was received by the bulls.’ ” He told of returning to Eaton, after his escape from Governor’s Island, to settle the score with the "friend,” but said he found him in jail on a minor charge. “I will take care of that guy one of these days,” he added. “Well, anyway,” he continued, "after they got me this time in Ohio they figured they would put me some place where I couldn't get away so they sent me to Governor’s Island in New York. They had caught Hulbert and he was there, too. “I can't tell you how, but we were in touch with Hamilton all the time we were there. Then one night Hulbert escaped by swimming Buttermilk channel to the mainland. He kept in constant communication with me by our secret method and finally our chance came.

The strike of drivers of the Chicago Motor coach Company, in progress eight days with intermittent sluggings ana the stoning of several omnibuses, held the key to a general strike. Union leaders of 20,000 street car and elevated workers said feeling was running high among their men for a “sympathy strike” in support of the bus men’s demands for union recognition. The executive board of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Empoyes of America. meeting in Detroit, postponed consideration of the sympathetic strike which would paralyze transportation facilities serving 2,000,000 persons. The postponement was ordered pending outcome of federal mediation attempts here. Two representatives of the federal labor board today abandoned hopes of ending the bus drivers’ strike and indicated that the dispute would be handed over to the national labor board. They reported “absolutely no progress” to Washington.

BROKEN-BONED BABY MALNUTRITION VICTIM Hospital Authorities Reveal Cause of Death. Caroline Ruby Mercer, who was born with fifty broken bones, but lived for more than three months, died of malnutrition, authorities of the James Whitcomb Riley hospital for children informed the city health board today. Private funeral services for the infant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hansel Mercer. 404 North Chester street, were held this morning with burial in Greencastle. Baby Caroline died Tuesday. The infant’s strength* was so taxed by a recent development that she was unable to take food. CAMPAIGN IS LAUNCHED AGAINST STATE CAFES Cleanliness and Fair Measure Are Goals, Says Lang. A campaign to clean up beer taverns and insure proper weights and measures of beer was launched today by Martin L. Lang, state food and drug commissioner. In answer to complaints of dirty coils in draught beer sets, the state health board has framed regulations that will be enforced by inspectors under Mr. Lang, he said. Honest measure of beer will be enforced by the inspectors, Mr. Lang, who is also commissioner of weights and measures, announced. He said that some establishments are advertising one content and selling another.

“I and two other prisoners were sent with four sentries to the end of the island to do some digging. Well, Hulbert rowed across the channel and stuck up the sentries with one .38 revolver and gave ms another and we disarmed them and started to take it on the lam. Just then along came a big army car with two lieutenants and a sergeant and a chauffeur. We stopped the car and made it turn around and drive back. Then we beat it in the row boat. “The other prisoners just stood around and watched. They didn't have anything to do with it.” By agreement they met Hamilton and then, according to Blanton, the trio held up "a few small joints” because they needed money. They started across the country, robbing as they came. “When we pinched the license plates off the chief of police's car in Greensburg. Ir>d.. we really needed some plates.” Blanton laughed. “We didn’t know it was the chiefs car, but we did know it

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POLITICIAN’S SON JAILED IN BRUTAL MURDER OF CO-ED Suspect Reiterates Innocence After Viewing Dead Girl’s Body at Death Scene Accompanied by Police. ADMITS VICTIM RESISTED ADVANCES Insists He Did Not See Girl Athlete After She Fled From Car; Friend Is Released After 36-Hour Grilling. By United Prexx BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 23.—Harold Taylor. 28-year-old unemployed son of a former city controller, was jailed today on murder cnarges in the brutal slaying of Faye New, 19-year-old Howard college co-ed. Police Chief Luther Hollums said he would ask a warrant charging Taylor with choking and then stabbing the young woman to death because she repulsed his advances. The warrant was to be sought immediately on opening

VETERANS HEAR MINTONJPLEDGE Democrat Senate Candidate Promises Aid: Flays Chiselers. BY BASIL GALLAGHER Times Staff Writer. Veterans throughout the state are watching with interest the senatorial campaigns of Sherman Minton, Democratic candidate, and Arthur R. Robinson, Republican incumbent, as legionnaires prepare for the state convention at Gary next w'eek. At the Gary meeting, the sentiments of the veterans will be sounded out thoroughly. Senator Robinson and Mr. Minton will be present, together at an American Legion dinner, though political speeches will be barred. But political observers declare that the meeting of the candidates will be of vital interest, inasmuch as representative veterans undoubtedly will show their political hands at the meeting. Realizing the potential danger of allowing both candidates to speak at the dinner, V. M. Armstrong, commander of the legion's Indiana department, has barred all political speeches. The Gary meeting will mark the third time since the start of the senatorial campaign that the candidates have faced each other at (Turn to Page Three)

MERCURY TO TAKE TUMBLE TOMORROW Cool Wave Predicted for City Tonight. Coming like the first breath of an early fall, the cool wave which has swept over the United States this week settled in Indianapolis today with a promise of even lower temperatures tomorrow. J. H. Armington, local meteorologist, said he expected the mercury would hover around 55 to 60 degrees tonight and tomorrow and might sink lower. The cool wave, part of the freak weather experienced here this summer, comes on the heels of the hottest wave ever known to weather authorities in Indianapolis. SON-IN-LAW HUNTED FOR STABBING AFFRAY Wife's Father Wounded During Family Quarrel. Police today are searching for Norman Short, 22. of 827 Laurel street, who is alleged to have stabbed and critically wounded his father-in-law, Adolph Squire, 45. of 251 Hendricks place, in a family quarrel last night. Mr. Squire is in city hospital suffering from wounds in the abdomen.

was a copper’s. Boy, I bet it mace him mad!” Blanton's story was drawing to a close. “The night we got caught, we had decided we were going to celebrate and drink five beers each,” he said. “Well, we went to a joint and the next thing we had drunk a quart of whisky, too, and we were all liquored up. • “We drove through four or five red lights before a cop taw us and told us to stop. We tried to get away, but they caught us and the next morning the dicks put the finger on us in the showup room.” He was asked if he expected to escape again. “Well, I couldn't say as to that,” he protested, “If the army sends us out to that prison on Alcatraz Island. near San Francisco, we may never get away again. But, then, maybe somebody will show up in Miss America XII and haul me away. “Ive always escaped so far.”

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of court today. A. B. Cain, a close friend of Miss New, who admitted to ! police he followed the girl and her companion on an automobile ride from which the girl student never returned, was ! released after more than thirty-six hours of questioning by police. Taylor went to jail with an often reiterated denial of guilt on his Ups. Miss New’s body was discovered yesterday afternoon in a ditch beside a cornfield after a search of several hours by police, citizens, Boy Scouts and airplanes. Her throat was slashed twice, apparently with a small knife. An autopsy revealed that the girl also had been choked. Tests were to be made today to determine if the crime of assault had occurred. The searchers who found th body followed Miss New’s tracks from the place where she fled from Taylor's parked automobile to avoid his advances. Larger footprints of a man parelleled those of the college girl. Near the ditch into which the body was thrust were indications of a terrific struggle. • Evidence of Struggle The 142-pound girl-athlete had made a determined defense against her assailant. The man's footprints led back toward the spot where the machine had been parked, it was said. A shoe of the size worn by Taylor would fit the tracks, police said. One of Miss New’s pink garters was found several yards from the body. Her class ring had been wrested from her finger. It lay beneath the body. Police took Taylor and Cain to the scene of the discovery. A sheet covered the body. Taylor was brought up first. His wrists wore handcuffs. Coroner J. M. Evans pulled the sheet from the body. Miss New's dark, unclosed eyes stared up vacantly. Taylor gasped. “Oh,” he muttered, “my God.” “Is this the girl you took riding?’* asked Defective McCoy Helton. “Yes,” Taylor faltered, “yes, this is the girl.” “Why did you kill her?” another dective demanded. “I didn’t kill her! I didn’t do it!** Taylor shouted. “How can you say that?” the detective pressed. “How can you stamd there and say that?” . “Take me away,” the accused ma:Li replied. “I can't bear this.” Taylor asked Detective Chie(f Paul Code to compare the tracks of a man found near those of Miss; New with his own. Cain was brought up. Coroner Evans again removed the sheet. Cain would not look. “Look down, Cam,” snapped the coroner. Cain took a brief glance. He collapsed and fell beside the body. “Is that the girl you followed last Monday night? the coroner asked. Admits Fol owing Couple “Yes,” replied Cain. “I followed her and that Taylor boy out to Georgia road, but I lost the trail.” Cain had admitted that he fol- ! lowed Taylor's car when he learned That Miss New was going for a ride with him. He said he was both apprehensive and jealous. Taylor persists that he did not j follow Miss New when she fled from his car. His story: He met Miss New when she came to an automobile service station to summon repairmen to fix a tire on the car of Mrs. Homer Reaves, with whom she had started for a ride last Monday night. He re- | turned to Mrs. Reaves’ car with Miss New, removed the tire and took Miss New back to the station with him. The two went for a ride while the tire was being repaired. They returned as Cain, who had been summoned by Mrs. Reaves, was placing the tire on her car. They asked Mrs. Reaves to accompany them on another nde. Mrs. Reaves declined and they left alone. Taylor drove to a barbecue stand and they ate. He then drove to a section of woods and parked the car. Barking of dogs annoyed them and they drove to another wooded section ne*r Ruffner Mines, a desolate section of deserted mines. Taylor’s advances angered the girl. She left the car, ! leaving her purse and the belt of 1 her dress. Taylor called to the fleeing girl to return, but did not get out of his car. She ignored his i calls and darkness enveloped her. He returned to town. .