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SUSPECT AT HOME DURING KIDNAPING, HAUPTMANNS SAY Prisoner’s Wife Supports Story He Called for Her at Bakery Where She Worked the Night of Crime. FRIENDS NOT CERTAIN AS TO DATE % * Former Employer of Mate Says Alien ‘Usually’ Called Tuesday Nights; New Jersey May Offer ‘Ace’ Witness. By United I’ri ti NEW YOLK, Oct. 15. —Bruno Richard Hauptmann and his faded blonde wife, Anna, swore with desperate fervor in supreme court this afternoon that Hauptmann was at his home in New York on the night the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped and murdered in the Sourland mountains of New Jersey. The man charged with the murder of the baby testified in his own defense at a hearing before Supreme Court Justice Ernest E. L. Hammer, who was asked by J. K. Fawcett, defense counsel, for a writ of habeas corpus to prevent extradition of Hauptmann to New Jersey.
Pale and sometimes con-| fused by questions, the prisoner said that he spent March 1, 1932, looking for work in New York and that in the eveninsr # he called for his wife at the Bronx bakery where she worked and they went home and to bed. By referring to checks, one dated March 1. 1932. his counsel led Hauptmann rather uncertainly through his activities on the day of the kidnaping. “Did you go down to the Reliance ' Company that day, March 1, looking for a job?” Mr. Fawcett asked repeatedly. Question Is Reframed There was an argument in which Mr. Fawcett and Attorney-General David Wilentz of New Jersey discussed the question. Hauptmann, his fingers outstretched. finally turned to Justice Ernest E. L. Hammer, who had the query reframed. Hauptmann couldn't answer exactly. Finally Hauptmann said he looked j for work and at 5 p. m returned home and changed his clothes. He then went to Frederiksen's • bakery, where he had supper with his wife. Q —What time was that? A—Between 6 and 7 p. m. Q —Was Frederiksen there? A— No. I had supper there. Q —Then what did you do? A — We went home—my wife and I. Q —Did you sleep at home? A— Yes. Q —You were there next morning? A— Yes. Wife Supports Story Mrs Hauptmann swore to the same story. Mr. Fawcett intimated at the noon recess that he might introduce another witness to testify that Hauptmann was m New York at the time the infant son of Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh was stolen from its nursery. Attorney-General Wilentz. a dark, aggressive little man who frequently cracked questions at witnesses with startling rapidity, also hinted that he had an ace in the hole, but that the appearance of his witnesses j would depend on what was testified In behalf of Hauptmann. All of the morning session wit- ; nesses were called by Haptmann's attorney and Wilentz was reluctant to call any who would disclose his evidence, unless such action became necessary to his demand for extradition. The only other witnesses at the morning session were Christian Frederiksen. who ran the bakery: where Mrs. Haptmann worked, and his wife. Kate Fdedenksen. Hauptmann, dressed in doublebreasted greyish suit, blue and white j tie an tan shirt, appeared to have steeled himself for today's ordeal:
THE STOLL CASE On® of the greatest news stories to break this year is the kidnaping ot Mrs. Alire Stoll, wealthy young Louisville woman. who now has been held almost five days by the maniac who invaded her home. The Indianapolis Times has given its readers an outstanding service in the coverage of the case. Within a few hours after the kidnaping was made public Wednesday. John T. Hawkins, Times staff writer and photographer. was on the scene. In he afternoon edition Thursday. The Times presented the first exclusive pictures of the kidnaping scene and the principals. Since then The Times daily has given its readers comprehensive coverage and full photographic accounts of the crime. Two staff men. Harold LaPolt and Tipton Rlish. are assigned to the story. The Times is the only paper in Indiana which is represented by stafi reporters although press associations have increased their staffs and at least one New York paper is represented. You will get the real story of the kidnaping by reading The Times daily until the crime is solved.
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RICHBERG HERE FORJDDRESS Large Audience Expected to Hear New NRA Chief in the Murat. Donald Richberg, new NRA boss, who will speak at 8:30 tonight in the Murat theater under the auspices of the liiaianapolis Chamber of Commerce, arrived in the city at noon today. At 6:30 tonight he will be the guest of chamber directors at a dinner in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. He will speak informally to the directorate. Mr. Richberg, executive director of the national Emergency council and director of the industrial emergency committee, is the first speaker of a line of prominent persons to be brought here by the chamber. Ogden Mills, treasury secretary under Herbert Hoover, will speak Oct. 25. Louis J. Borinstein. chamber president, will preside at tonight's meeting. The Murat Chanters, a musical group directed by Arthur W. Mason, will give a program preceding Mr. Richberg's address. Advance inquiries indicated that a large crowd will hear Mr. Richberg's address. HIGH COURT DENIES HEARINGFOR CAPONE Gang Czar Loses Final Plea for Liberty. By United Prrnn WASHINGTON. Oct. 15.—A1 Capone today lost probably his last plea for liberty from the federal penitentiary, where he is serving ten years of the eleven years of sentence imposed on him in Chicago for failing to pay his income taxes. The supreme court, td which the czar of Chicago gangdom carried his fight for release, turned a deaf earl yto his habeas corpus fight wheih was begun while he was still in Atlanta penitentiary and which he lost in two lower courts. Capone recently was transferred to Alcatraz prison off the California coast. SUPREME COURT BARS MAIL CONTRACT APPEAL Refuses Request to Review Farley Action on Cancellations. By fit itrd Print WASHINGTON. Oct. 15.—Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc., today was refused supreme court consideration of its appeal attacking Postmaster-General James A. Farley's cancellation of air mail contracts. The company appealed from the southern district of New York federal court ruling which refused enjoin the cancellation order. VHoosier Killed by Auto By United Prenn ELKHART. Ind., Oct. 15.—Aaron Klase. 66. was killed yesterday when struck by an automobile while walking along the Elkhart-Bristol highway near his home here.
BY ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE JR. THE establishment of the first systematic police force dates back to the of Rome when the names of Catiline. Cicero and Caesar graced the pages of history. In those days Rome, built of wooden frame houses, offered a great fire hazard and cases of arson became so common that precaution had to be taken. Crack Roman legionaries were assigned to the city primarily, as firemen, but also as policemen. Their duty it was to protect, as well as to fight fires. This force was the be-
DEATH CLAIMS CHARLES GOFFIM Civic Leader and Business Man Succumbs Here at 85. Charles E. Coffin, 85, of 1213 North Meridian street, prominent civic leader and business man, died at his home early today after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at 2 Wednesday afternoon at Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Burial will be in Crown Hill. As president of the city works board under former Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank and park board member under Charles Jewett and Thomas Taggart, Mr. Coffin was instrumental in instituting the municipal golf course system here. The Charles E. Coffin golf course is named after him. Mr. Coffin was a member of the park board twenty-three years and was in office when grounds for Riverside and Brookside parks were purchased and Pleasant Run parkway and Kessler boulevard were designed. Mr. Coffin was born in Salem, Ind., the son of Zachariah T. and Caroline Armfield Coffin. He came to this city when 20 and entered the real estate business. At the time of his death, Mr. Coffin was secretary-treasurer of the Star Publishing Company, which now publishes the Indianapolis Star and the Muncie Star, and was president of the Indiana Savings and 1 Investment Company. He was an authority on whist and bridge-w'hist and wrote several books on the subject. Mr. Coffin was a member of the Indiana Historical Society, the Meridian Street M. E. church, the Woodstock Club, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Contemporary Club, Columbia Club, Indianapolis Board of Trade, Indiana Society of Chicago, University Club. Country Club of Indianapolis, Indianapolis Art Association, the Society of Indiana Pioneers and the Optimist Club. He is survived by two children, Clarence E. Coffin and Mrs. Charles Harvey Bradley, both of Indianapolis; a step-daughter, Mrs. J. H. Ingram. Washington, D. C.; three sisters, Mrs. Flora E. Gibson, Indianapolis; Mrs. Minnie Wallingford. Boston. Mass., and Mrs. Nell Broderick, St. Louis, Mo.; two brothers, William F. Coffin, Dallas, Tex., and Frank T. Coffin, Alexander, Va„ and several grandchildren.
VIENNA PREPARES FOR NEWJIPRISING Plot Is Alleged Against Communists. By United Prmn VIENNA. Oct. 15.—The government. after intercepting a message allegedly revealing plans for a Communist putsch tonight, ordered police and heimwehr guards armed throughout the city. Machine guns were mounted at entrances to public buildings, at the railroad depots and other strategic points.
By United Pre* MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.. Oct. 15. —John Hamilton. 60, Greencastle. escaped from the Warren honor farm of the state prison here last night, it was announced today. Hamilton, unrelated to the famous Dillinger gangster of the same name, was missed about 8:30 last night, farm authorities said. He had been serving a one-to-ten-year sentence on a burglary charge.
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I ginning of the famed Praetorian ' guard which eventually became the emperor's bodyguard. While Rome was perhaps the first great power to organize a police force we must turn our attention to Asia to find one of the i finest police forces ever developed.. It was under Genghis Khan that the world first witnessed a mobile police force, similar in many ways to our state police organizations in this country. These men performed many functions. They carried the mail (in fact, it was here that the pony express
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A figure long prominent in Indianapolis business and civic life, Charles E. Coffin. 85. of 1213 North Meridian street, died early loday at his home. nun
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POINCARE, WAR PRESIDENT OF FRANCE, DEAD Death Comes Swiftly to ‘Lion of Lorraine,’ Thrice Premier. By United Press PARIS, Oct. 15.—Raymond Poincare, “the Lion of Lorraine,” France's war time president, died today at the age of 74. He had been in ill health since he resigned from his third tenure of office as premier in 1929, but death came swiftly. It was announced yesterday that he was slightly ill. Last night he slept fitfully, became worse around midnight and died at 4 a. m. today. The death of Poincare, called the savior of the franc for his stabilization of the currency when he was called to the prime ministry for the third time in 1926, deprives France of a second great statesman within a week. Louis Barthou, foreign minister, who was assassinated at Marseille with King Alexander, was buried Saturday. Served France 50 Years Poincare served his country for more than fifty of his 74 years. He entered the chamber of deputies, already prominent as an editor, in 1887 and from then on was a central figure in politics. In 1929, honored and in even higher esteem than when he was president, he was forced to resign as premier because of ill health. He returned to Paris in September after spending the summer at Sampigny. He seemed greatly improved, and resumed work on his long awaited political autobiography, in which he had reached the early post-war stage. This book was expected to cause a world sensation. In his last brief illness he was helpless, paralyzed on the life side and partly paralyzed all over. His death, however, was not expected. His wife was the only member of the family at his bedside, though several of his political collaborators were there. Funeral Like Doumer’s Premier Gaston Doumergue and other members of the cabinet learned four hours later that Poincare was dead. The last bulletin they had received Sunday night announced a “slight indisposition” was terminated. It was decided that Poincare’s funeral should be one like that given President Paul Doumer, who fell victim to an assassin in 1932. The body will be placed in the Pantheon for several days, to lie in state. It will be taken to Notre Dame cathedral Saturday morning for requiem mass and returned to the Pantheon for the official ceremony, including a eulogy by Premier Doumergue. The body will be buried at Nubecourt Sunday, with members of the government and Lorraine peasants attending. Poincare was loved by few but respected by all Frenchmen, not the least by the many enemies he made in politics, of whom one of the most implacable was the late Georges Clemenceau, the Tiger, who was premier during the war while Poincare was president.
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Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 46 10 a. m 62 7a. m 47 11 a. m 66 Ba. m 52 12 (noon).. 69 9 a. m 56 1 p. m 70 Tomorrow's sunrise, 5:57; sunset, 5:04 p. m. Bricklayers Name City Man LAFAYETTE, Ind.. Oct. 15.—Don Jackson, Indianapolis, today headed the Indiana State Bricklayers’ Association following his election as president at the closing business session of the twenty-eighth annual convention here. Times Index Page Bridge 5 Broun 7 Comics 13 Crossword Puzzle j,.. 11 Editorial 6 Financial - 8 Hickman—Theaters 11 Let's Go Fishing 11 Pegler 7 Radio 9 Sports 10, 11 State News 14 W’oman's Pages 4. 5
This is the first of a series of stories on police systems written by Albert J. Beveridge Jr., a special writer for the Lebanon (Ind.) Reporter. The Indianapolis Times will publish a story daily until the conclusion of the series. In compiling the articles, Mr. Beveridge, during the last year, has studied the operations of a number of state police setups. His survey included Indiana, Massachusetts. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the Royal Northwest Mounted. The stories also are appearing In the Lebanon Reporter.
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ADMITS PLACING GIRL IN FURNACE Relief Worker Tells Police He Thought Victim, 5, Was Dead. By United Press MOUNT VERNON. N. Y„ Oct. 15. —Lawrence Stone, 24, today signed a confession that he killed 5-year-old Nancy Jean Costigan in the basement of a fashionable apartment house and stuffed her body into the white hot firebox of the furnace. The child's body was found in the firebox yesterday. It had been reduced to charred bones and would have been consumed entirely if discovery had been delayed five minutes. Carl Hutchinson, building servant, followed a trail of blood down a steel stairway that ended in a large puddle of blood in front of the furnace. An hour before he had noticed Nancy playing with a rubber ball on the apartment’s terraced lawn and had seen her talking to Stone. He called police who came racing in an automobile that collided with another a block from the building. When the ambulance arrived to take three slightly injured policemen to the hospital, Stone showed up, his hands and clothes covered with blood. He first said he had been in the accident: After nine hours of questioning, Stone confessed that they had been playing with the child's rubber ball in the basement. He threw it. It struck her head. He said she dropped heavily, her head hitting the concrete floor. She was blue, he detected no sign of life. Panicstricken, he told police, he carried the body around several minutes, then thought of the furnace. The body was so badly charred it was imposible for physicians to determine if the child had been assaulted. Identification was established through a child’s ring and charred bits of clothing. <
1,200 Miners Refuse to Leave Pit During Strike ‘Raise Our Wages or Send Us Red Coffins,’ Entombed Hunger Strikers Tell Employers. By United Pres* FUNFKIRCHEN, Hungary, Oct. 15.—Twelve hundred desperate coal miners, who entombed themselves and went on a hunger strike in Pecz mine Thursday night, sent word to their employers on the surface today: “Raise our wages or send us 1,200 red coffins.”
At the pit head, 1.310 feet above them, wives and children w r ept, crying vainly into the mine shaft for the men to come out. Women pleaded with troops at the pithead to be allowed to descend and die with the strikers. Soldiers with bayonets and machine guns held back the wives, mothers, sisters and sweethearts of the miners, who struggled futilely, shouting: “Let us go down into the pit to die with our men.” Thirty-two hundred more miners, on the surface, went on strike this morning and tried to join their companions in the pit. Police and soldiers restrained them forcibly. Forty-five men had been removed from the pit seriously ill from coal gas fumes. Twenty more were ill in the mine. It was reported that a fire broke out in one pit and that fire workers who descended failed to return.
In Europe the first police force appeared in England in the time of Edward I, although Charles V of Prance is supposed to have originated some kind of an organ-
ASSASSIN RING CHIEF CAUGHT; HUNT GUN GIRL Conspirator Nabbed Near Fontainebleau After FourDay Search. By United Pres s FONTAINEBLEAU, France, Oct. 15.—Sylvester Malny, regarded as one of the chief conspirators in the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, was arrested today on the Melun road, near Fontainebleau forest. Malny escaped into the forest last week, when he eluded police who had stopped him at Fontainebleau station to examine his papers. He was sought through the woods for four days. When caught today he submitted without resistance. Malny, who has various aliases, was identified as Janos Bombay. According to confessions made to French police by his fellow plotters already under arrest, Malny left Hungary with them for Lausanne and Zurich, Switzerland, going from there to Paris and then at Aix En Province, near Marseille, for the assassination. Malny gave final instructions there and hastened to Fontainebleau to direct a second attempt on the king in Paris if the first failed. Police found him haggard and hungry, struggling in exhaustion toward Paris several miles from the forest, in which he had dodged hundreds of police. He appeared glad to get it over He is the third member of the Croatian terrorist organization, Oustachi, to be arrested on a charge of complicity in the murder. The other two (aside from their many aliases) are Yaraslaw Pospisel and Wladislas Benes. The fourth member of the band now accounted for is the actual killer, Vlada Georgieff (alias Suk and Kelemen), who is dead. A fifth, Egon Kvaternik, is being hotly pursued along the Swiss frontier. A sixth, the “gun girl,” Marie Vjoudroch, supposed to have supplied the lethal weapons, is being trailed in central France. Malny’s generosity led to his arrest. He gave a tip of 2% francs (about 15 cents) for a cup of coffee costing 70 centimes (about 4% cents) in a restaurant. Clothed in rags from his flight in the woods, he gulped the coffee greedily. Other diners, noting the unusual tip, telephoned the police. Await King’s Body By United Press BELGRADE. Oct. 15.—The body of King Alexander will arrive at 11 p. m. tomorrow, it was announced today—delayed, it seemed, because the government thought it wise to let it lie in state at Zagreb, capital of Croatia. The body arrived at Zagreb last night and will lie in state there toiay.
There was speculation, the report said, whether they were ill or had joined the strikers. The miners sent word they were prepared to wreck the water pumps, and drown, unless their demand for restoration of an 8 per cent wage cut was met. It was denied that they already had shut ventilators and stopped fans. They put the shaft elevator out of action this morning. Employers said they could not increase wages because they already had surplus coal which they fcould not sell, and threatened to close down the mine for six months unless the strikers capitulated. Premier Julius Goemboes intervened today, telephoning to the governor of Funfkirchen district urging an immediate settlement. He promised that if the miners came out he would aid them. The strikers rejected his proposal.
ization. The “Watch and Ward’’ was the first unit of its kind in England. It aimed at the maintenance of peace and order in the city of London. However, it was not until 1829. under Sir Robert Peel, that the first real organized police force was set up. Robert Peel has often been called the father of police, and it was under his guidance that the superb English system was founded, a system which spread throughout England’s colonies, varying only according to the necessities. In the United States, we have
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Louisville Belle’s Father-in-Law, Wealthy Oil Executive, Original Target of Abductors, Note Reveals. CONTACT DEADLINE DRAWS NEAR Nashville (Tenn.) Man Named Intermediary in Letter, The Times is Told; Crash Victim’s Story Is Doubted. BY HAROLD LA POLT Timrs Staff Writer (Copyright. 1934, by The Times) LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 15.—One of the greatest manhunts in southern history was launched here this atfernoon as federal agents and police' extended into Indiana their search for Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, young Kentucky society matron, and her kidnapers. With late today scheduled as the zero hour for contact set by the kidnapers, the department of justice investigators and grim-faced southern possemen vainly searched the wild and sparsely settled territory around Jeffersonville, Ind.
Authorities gave no indication that this extension of the hunt to Indiana was inspired by anything more tangible than the desire to leave no stone unturned in the effort to find the missing young matron. An example of this attention to every possible angle having a bearing on the case was the checking of the alibi of Fowler Woolet. handy man on the Stoll estate, who was absent last Thursday when Mrs. Stoll was kidnaped. It was learned on high authority that Woolet, husband of the maid who was with Mrs. Stoll when she was abducted, has accounted satisfactorily for all of the time he spent away from the estate. This exclusive residential district in Louisville, where headquarters for the search are maintained, is a vast whispering gallery of rumors, many of them of the wildest type. One which gained wide circulation and which was disproved by The Times, was that the missing young matron had been married prior to her union with Berry V. Stoll and that police and federal agents were looking for the divorced husband. Father-in-Law Target Examinations of records at Jefferson county courthouse by Times reporters disclosed that Mr. and Mrs. Stoll both listed themselves as single when they obtained a marriage license in June of 1927. They were then 33 and 21, respectively, and witnesses at the marriage ceremony read by the Rev. Frank’ Hardy were William A. Stoll and Virginia H. Speed. Meanwhile, The Times learned that Mrs. Stoll probably was a substitute victim of the kidnaper and that the man who seized her in her suburban home last Wednesday originally intended to abduct her wealthy father-in-law, Charles C. Stoll. This was indicated today when The Times learned additional amazing details of the ransom letter which was left in Mrs. Stoll’s boudoir. Excerpts from the letter, obtained from an informant whose identity can not be disclosed, were confirmed partly by William Schmidt, night police chief. Chief Schmidt admitted that an out-state man has been named as an intermediary and that a five-day contact limit, which expires today, has been established. Maltreatment Is Denied He denied, however, published reports that the name of Charles C. Stoll appeared in the letter. This agreed with information obtained by The Times, because throughout I the letter, only the words “Mr. Stoll” were used and the use of a first name was avoided. Chief Schmidt denied empatically a story that Mrs. Stoll and her maid had been the victim of any maltreatment other than the blow on the head which Mrs. Stoll received. Sections of the ransom letter, hitherto undisclosed and guarded closely by federal agents, police and members of the family, indicate that: 1. The intended victim was not Mrs. Stoll, but Charles C. Stoll, her father-in-law, and president of the refining company whiefc bears his name and of which Mrs. Stoll's husband is vice-president. 2. Mrs. Stoll becam- the victim after the letter was written and when the kidnaper's plans were changed suddenly. 3. The kidnaper, or kidnapers, may be a person deranged because
had several different organizations which were the forerunners of our present state police. The Vigilantes in the northwest, and particularly in California, took the matter of law and order into their own hands. They were undoubtedly the American forerunners of what we now term state police, for their duties were never restricted to municipalities. In Texas, during the pioneer days, when lawlessness and banditry were rampant, the Texas Rangers were originated, more or (Turn to Page Three)
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of financial lass and animus against all wealthy persons. Thf National Bank of Kentucky, of which William Shallcrass Speed, Mrs. Stoll's father, was a director, failed early in the depression with a heavy loss to depositors. 4. A Nashville (Tenn.) man was named as intermediary between the family and kidnapers. “Don’t Lose Your Head” Wording of the letter, glimpses of which were seen by The Times informant, almost conclusively proved that it had been written with the idea of abducting the elder Mr. Stoll. “When you get this note, do not lose your head,” the lengthy typewritten letter advised “Do not notify the police,” it continued. “This is a matter between you and ourselves. “You would be better off telling your friends that Mr. Stoll has taken a trip for a few days* The letter went on to say, The Times was informed, that the abductor represented a well-organized “unit” who “know our business.” That the kidnapers are thoroughly familiar with the Lindbergh kidnaping law and the penalty they face is disclosed in the letter. “Should we have to take Mr. Stoll, i. e., or his body, across the state line,” it said, “we are fully aware of the penalty.” Murder Threat Hurled Another paragraph said that unless the ransom is paid, Mr. Stoll will be killed, his body burned and dissolved in sulphuric acid and thrown into the Ohio river. Purported close knowledge of the Stoll financial affairs was indicated in the letter by a reference to a loan alleged to have been negotiated by the Stoll Oil Company. The kidnaper, the letter said, realized that the Stoll company had borrowed a large amount of money recently with Mr. Stoll’s insurance as collateral. Referring to a “corpus delicti,” the letter pointed out that the insurance could not be collected without a body. There was a report here that such a loan had been negotiated by Mr. Sto’l with the amount estimated variously at between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000. However, Harold Nathan, assistant director of the department of justice investigation department here, refused today to discloso whether investigation has been made to determine if the loan actually was made. The writer of the ransom letter altered one part of it. Originally, the ransom had been set at s3o.oooJbut this figure was scratched odJ and $50,000 substituted. The Times informant, who has seen the letter, could not recall the actual wording of all of it, but declared the letter referred to a “unit composed of Socialists, who formerly had worked as honest men." The letter charged that Mr. Stoll recently charged at a directors’ meeting of the Stoll Oil Company: “Roosevelt is putting through legislation against capitalism. We capitalists must stick together." Letter Carefully Written “We are only trying,” the letter said, “to get back what is owed us.” “Foregoing statements from the ransom letter are not intended to give the full text,” The Times informant said. The letter was written carefully, well composed and punctuated and contained several Latin legal terms properly employed. The letter specified that the $50,iTum to Page Three)
THAT ROUNDUP Sixteen thousand Indianapolis and Indiana persons attended the second annual rounup yesterday at the Gregg farm. Within a year, this event has grown enormously. Keeping apace with its advancement, The Times today presents a full page of pictures of persons and events at the farm along with scenes of activities at the Columbia Club Saturday night when the annual roundup dance was staged. The pictures appear chi Page 5.
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