Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 261, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1936 — Page 26

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CAB DRIVER IS BADLY BEATEN, ROBBED OF $7 Condition of Operator Is Serious Following Brutal Attack. An unmasked bandit brutally beat Carl Lockhart, 29-year-old taxicab driver. R. R. fi. Box 672, with a wrench and robbed him of $7 early today. After the robbery, Lockhart drove to the offices of the r:ed Cab Cos., 739 E. Market-st, where ne is employed. and collapsed. He was taken to Methodist Hospital, where his condition was termed serious. The bandit, a passenger picked up at Washington and Delaware-sts, beat Lockhart seven times on the v when the cab reached an adnear Shelby and Knox-sts. Although in a semi-conscious condition, Lockhart was able to drive more than three and one-half miles to the cab company offices before he collapsed. James Nuckles, 17. Negro, 539 W. ]Vlirhigan-st, was arrested last night in connection with the attempted burglary of the Erganbright drug store. 784 Indiana-av. Janes R. Parker, a merchant policeman, said that Nuckles attempted to flie from the store, but halted when shots Were hred at him. A masked bandit entered the home of Mrs. Willa Mae Sanders, 36, Negro, 3052 Cottage av, treasurer of the Garfield Baptist Church's Willing Workers' Club, and forced her to turn over S3O in club funds, police were told last night. A Negro youth snatched a purse containing a Catholic medal, spectacles and 35 cents from Mrs. Nellie Templeton, 1637 Hall-pl, last nignt as she was walking at Illinois and 21st-sts. BOOKKEEPER REPORTS THEFT OF $135 RING Burglars Get Loot Worth $77 in Three Other Robberies. Leon R. Symthe, bookkeeper at the A. G. Maas Cos., reported to police today that someone entered his home at 3103 Graceland-av and stole a diamond ring valued at $135. A burglar entered the home of Walter Harris at 702 N. Bradley-av and stole S4O in cash and four shirts. At 131 W. Market-st a burglar stole $5 in cash and articles valued at sl2 from Walter Pierson. The Rev. Cornelius Vander Schoor, 351 Christian-st,, reported that a burglar stole a radio valued at S2O from his home. Bfl-EY SCHOOLMATE DIES 86-Year-Old Greenfield Man Was Mentioned in Poet’s Verses, By United Press GREENFIELD, Ind., Jan. 9.—John E. Davis, 86-year-old friend and schoolmate of James Whitcomb Riley. famed Hoosier poet, was dead here today. He was mentioned several times in Riley's verses and one volume of verse w r as dedicated to him.

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TRUST FIRM DENIES LEGAL SOLICITATION Fletcher Attorneys File Briefs in Test Case. Denial that legal business had been solicited or that they had handled legal w ? ork in other than a fiduciary capacity was made today by the Fletcher Trust Cos. in filing a brief in an Indiana Supreme Court citation sought against them for contempt of court. Trust company attorneys in answering charges of the Indianapolis Bar Association that they had conducted legal business in violation of the law, declared that attorneys not connected w'ith the bank acted in cases w'here court procedure was necessary. The brief further averred that the trust company had acted only in a fiduciary capacity in wills and trusts, as permitted under the Indiana law.

Home Burns: Woman Dies LAFAYETTE. Ind., Jan. 9.—Mrs. Edward Vick, 75. died in a hospital here today six hours after she had been burned in a fire W'hich destroyed her home.

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