Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1936 — Page 2

0-60 SLAYING HARGE PUSHED

AT ASHEVILLE

Hotel Employe Confesses to Shooting Girl on July 16.

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‘announced : ‘that he would. ask a jury convening next Monday dict Moore. Trial Within ‘Week

: “Well try him within ‘the week and have this murder cleaned up in less than five weeks after it oc-

. yeutred,” he zaid.

_ minutes.”

. Another Negro employe of the hotel, Banks Taylor, a pantry boy,

: provided the clew that caused Moore - to confess,

Taylor told the sheriff Thursday,

“fear of becoming involved, that

Moore owned “an old Spanish pistol.” Ballistics experts already ‘had determined that the gun that

“killed Miss Clevenger was of a cal- # fher not manufactured in the United

i States, so Brown questioned Moore again, Two New. York detectives came here Friday to help him, One was John Quinn, who a few months ago was credited with a major part in finding the slayer of Mrs. Nancy Evans Titterton, short story writer,

who was raped and murdered in her. New York apartment. The othar "was Sergt. Thomas Martin of the

New York Homicide Squad. Suspect Trembled

The sheriff, Quinn and Martin went to Moore’s home. “What did you'do with the pistol you killed the girl with?” Sheriff Brown abruptly demanded. Moore trembled visibly, the officers said. He attempted no evasion about the gun, but tried to lay the slaying upon anothér Negro hotel worker. “The gun's under that porch there,” Moore said, pointing at a corner of his three-room, tumbling-

- down house. “But I didn’t kill her.

I didn’t know nothin’ about it. Roddy killed her,” he said. He had lent the gun before Miss ‘Clevenger was slain to L. D. Roddy, a Battery Park Hotel bell boy. Roddy returned it, he said, after the killing. The policemen ‘arranged a unique inquisition to break his story.

Dictaphone Used

In a room at police headquarters they concealed a dictaphone. Then they ey Dus Moore, Roddy and Taylor he room together and ostensiBa left them alone. “You boys talk this over and decide who's lying,” Sheriff Brown told ‘them. “I'll be back in 30

{Roddy had been told that Moore accused him of having had the gun ‘the night Miss Clevenger was slain. - He and Taylor went to work on

Moore together. The policeman re- * fused to reveal details of what was " ‘said, except that’ Taylor said to

; Moore:

longer... - didn’t loan your gun to Roddy.”

‘rooms early

ih heres no use you bein’ a damn’ fool and 1 g:about. this thing any sherift’ll find out you

“They got so. mad they were al-

~ most ready to fight when. I opened | . the door again,” Sheriff Browh said.

“Moore was washed up. ‘I'll talk,’

he said right away. Dictated Confession He dictated a confession to a

. stenographer, then . went to Miss

Clevenger’s. hotel room and re-

- enacted the crime for photographers.

Miss Clevenger was killed at about

‘1a. m. She and her uncle, Prof. W.

L. Clevenger of North Carolina State College at Raleigh, had gone to their n the night, but the girl, after donning pajamas, sat up writing letters and making an entry in her diary. _ "I was after money,” Moore . said. “I went to 224 (Miss Clevenger’s room) and it .was unlocked. I opened the door and went in.. She

was on the bed. The bed light was -on.

“ ‘What do you, want?’ she asked

me, “I thought this room was unoccupied,’ I-told her.

Says Girl Screamed “‘If you don't leave I'll call the.

_ office,’ she told me. She got up and - started towards the door, When she got about 18 inches from me she

saw the pistol. She screamed. I

. shot her. _

“She sank on the floor on her

knees and I hit her in the faca with

the pistol butt. She screamed again.

1 hit her in the face again,

Fa did not attack her.” medical examiner previously

' nad expressed belief that Miss

Clevenger was criminally attacked,

_ but the sheriff said today that he

believed she was not.

- MADDEN-NOTTINGHAM

LEGION POST ELECTS

Orville G. Drake is the new com-

) mander of Madden-Nottingham Post 343, American’ Legion.

. elected were Harry Ba and Barney H. Fears,

MISS ASTOR IN

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{ | wood emerged esutiously from its] 5 silence today in a strenuous, last

minute effort to settle the Mary As-tor-Dr, Franklyn Thorpe «child Cus-~

g figures. of seeking to protect the reputations of high-priced stars and the moral tone

‘| of the industry, had but a few hours

[{ | to. overcome the reluctance of the

1 name

. Trial of the case in ‘Superior Court was scheduled to resume at 10 a. m. (12 noon, Indianapolis time) with Miss Astor the wit-

‘ness.

Miss Astor nd her former hus-

| band, Dr. Thorpe, were reported un-

willing to accept anything but com-

| plete victory, no matter what the

revelations or the scandal continued in court might bring. Victory in either case would mean complete custody of their 4-year-old daughter, Marilyn. = The cross-examination of Miss Astor: will continue when court convenes, also the bitter fight over the admissibility of Miss Astor's diary,

chatges, she rhapsodized extra-

‘| marital loves for the future edifica-

“Dodswo woman’s wife by Ruth Chatterton,

In the midst of a trial replete with “love triangle” testimony, where she is fighting Dr. Franklyn Thorpe for annulment of their marriage and custody of their child, Screen Actress Mary Astor is shown as she prepared to play a “tangled love” role in reel life. In * the film star is cast as a woman .in love with another usband, the latter being played by Walter Huston and the who in private-life is Miss Astor's best friend. Huston is seen above with Miss Astor. ; :

20 ARE SLATED IN LIQUOR RAIDS

6 Women Reported Among Arrests. Made Over Week-End.

Twenty persons, including six women, were arrested -by police in a series of liquor rélds during the week-end. | Mae Ledbetter, 42, 425% Massa-chusetts-av, and Edna Ledbetter, 40, 421, Massachusetts-av, were arrested’ on beverage law violation charges after raids on their 'apartments, police records show. = Zerta Thomas, 32, 220 N. Illinoisst; William | . Peck, 33, 112 S. But-ler-av;’ - Sa Michigan-st} Raymond Trees, 55, 110 .E. Vermonttst, and William Kemp, 43, 331-N. Delaware-st, were arrested and charged with vagrancy when they wet found in the two apartments. -:«

Other Raids Made

Police raided a house at 523 War-

saw-st, Josephine DeLuca on charges of violating the beverages act. The officers’ said Carrey seized 44 bottles

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of beer and arrested five others an vagrancy arges. They were Arthur Summers, 441 Ketchame-st; John Arnes, 717 Elm-st; Ora MecCalley, 2410 . Washington-st; Earl Scott, 430 firginia-av, and _Florence Johnson, 522 Warsaw-st. In another raid, police said they arrested Ruby Wilson, 2%, bartender at an ueged liquor establishment at 29 W. 9th-st. Police also held James Stoehr, 23, of the same address, and two other men who were alleged to have been drinking in the place. id Anna Andrews, 538 W. Marylandst, was arrested by police, who said she ran across the yard in the rear of her home with a fruit jar alleged to have contained whisky. William Phillips, 1542 Lewis-st, Negro, was charged with violating the beverages act after a raid on his place, police said.

MOTHER OF 3 SHOT; HERO HUSBAND HELD

By United Press ; MOUNT VERNON, Ind., Aug. 10. —Willilam H. Bert McReynolds, 43, World War: , Was held in Posey County jail v facing charges in connection with the shooting of his

children. The shooting occurred Saturday night after the McReynolds returned to their home in an alléged drunken condition and began to quarrel ‘violently, - neighbors told authorities. Pus ; McReynolds fled after the shooting but last night surrendered to authorities. |

SOLDIER. HIT BY BALL Private. Wyatt Smith, 24, Com"pany “ B, "Fort Benjamin Harrison, was treated . oat Qity- Hospital for injury yesterday

‘Chapman, 41; 411 E.|

and arrested Sam - and |

wife, Rosamond, 36, mother of three |.

YOUTH'S TEMPERANCE COUNCIL TO CONVENE

Times Special } : BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Aug. 10— The ‘Indiana Youth's Temperance Council of the Women's Christian’ Temperance Union.is to open its fourteenth annual convention here Aug. 19. The principal speaker of the; three-day program 1s to: be Miss Helen L. Byrnes, Evanston, 11, national ¥. T. C. secretary. Dr. Sumner -L. Martin, Seymour District First Methodist superintendent; Dr,

M. F. Poland, Bloomingfon physi= |

cian, and Dr, John M. Walker, Bloomington district. M. E. superinjendent, also are: to speak. rthivaite, Kokomo, Is state president. ,

RED CROSS TO HOLD

LIFE-SAVING CLASS|

A soeond series - of life saving ¢

classes’ is to- be given this. week “at mbiiigal® pools @hd” Beaches,” the Thdianapolis chapter, American’ Red

Cross, has announced.

Free instruction classes are to be

conducted by William H. Merrill, Red Cross life saving director. On Mondays, Fridays, classes are to be held at the Ellenberger pool at 10 a. m,

‘and ‘at.the Garfield pool at 1 p: m.

On. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, classes are to be conducted at the Rhodius pool at 9:30 ‘a. m.

and at McClure beach sip 1p m, LEGION ARRANGES. SUPPER, ELECTION

The annual election meeting: of Hayward-Barcus Post, . American Legion, is to be held at Brookside Park Wednesday, with a pot-luck supper at 6 ‘and a meeting in the community. building at 8 p. m. Post Commander Delbert O., Wilmeth announced that Vice Commander Ed Hofstatter,’as chairman of the membership committee, reported an increase of 191 new members during the recent. campaign,

FRANKLIN TO BE HONORED “Old-Time

yesterday. A committée is to be ap-|

pointed by Edward P. Barry, president, to outline a program.

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Keutman Catia | * Georss S. Kaufman, Broadway playwright withf whori Miss Astor}

admitted an affair, was scheduled | to appear in the Sourtroom today|

in answer’ to’ a subpena.: Dr. Thorpe’s attorneys wish to_ prove through Kaufman that it ‘was the actress and not: Pr. "Thorpe, who | wanted the divorce obtained by the doctor in 1935, Terms of the divorce constitute part of the present: struggle ‘and will be settled after the end of the child custody case in a second court action. Miss Astor gave Dr. Thorpe custody of the baby and a property settlement in exchange for freedom. Now she wants return of the

child, a re-settlement of property

and an annulment instend ‘of divorce. It ‘was said thad Kaufman’ ‘may take a chance and not answer his subpena. His lawyers re have told him that technicalities free him of the obligation. . They pointed out, it was said, that he is not a resident of California, and, in addition, the subpena was served on Catalina Island, off the California coast.

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ceased fo hope and expect the Spanish population would one day recall him to Madrid is well ‘known to his intimates in exile. ~ That he regards it, moreover, as his solemn duty fo do so is likewise an open secret. Loss of the crown was a humiliation which has weighed ‘heavily upon him. Not that . he. enjoyed his kingshi much, but because he always has felt ‘he Jost something which did not belong to him alone, :

temptestuous night of April 13, 1931, whose darkness cloaked his cipitate flight from Madrid. handed the ultimatum of the victorious - republicans the day after the April 12 elections, he refused to abdicate. Didn’t Renounce Rights

his manifesto: “I do not renounce any of my rights. : They are more than mine. They are the accumulated store of

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