Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1937 — Page 8
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TIBBETT FEARS HE KILLED HIS ~ SINGER FRIEND
Opera Companion Dies After Accidentally Stabbed At Rehearsal.
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took Mr. Sterzini’s hand, examined it and advised him to leave the stage. But Mr. Sterzini said: “Oh, no, let’s finish the scene.”
Dragged From Stage
Mr. Tibbett insisted and dragged his friend from the stage. A doctor bound up the cut. Mr. Sterzini, a member of the opera company for 30 years, changed to street clothes and later went to a private hospital. He died while Mr. Tibbett was en route to Newark. When- the singer returned to his New York apartment early today, he was met by Assistant District Attorney Sylvester Cosentino and seven detectives. They questioned him for an hour and planned today to question Helen Jepson, a mems=ber of the “Caponsacchi” cast, who was on the stage at the time. They said there was no doubt that the stab wound was accidental. «Accidents such as this happen now and then,” Mr. Tibbett said, “put usually they are not serious. Eight years ago Martinelli ran a dull sword into my side while we were playing ‘Faust’ but it never bothered me.
Wife Sees Accident
“Of course, I feel horrible. This is the most terrible thing that has ever Wappened to me.” & Asked if steel daggers always were used, he said, “Oh, yes, rubber and wooden ones look ridiculous.” Mrs. Tibbett witnessed the accident. She also was in Newark when word reached her that Sterzini was dead. Members of the company regretted that Mr. Tibbett had been in- . formed. They said he was so upset that he had great difficulty in going through with his part. At the end. of the second act, in his singing of the great aria, “Di Provenza II Mar,” Mr. Tibbetts voice displayed an undercurrent of strain and anguish that accentuated the pathos of the music. The audience did not know why.
Tells Tragic Story
The opera “Caponsacchi” is based on Browning’s “The Ring and the Book.” It tells the tragic story of the Soldier-Saint Caponsacchi and Pompilia, wife of the wicked Count Guido. Caponsacchi helps Pompilia to escape from her husband, who is plotting to kill her and her father so that he can obtain her fortune. Guido overtakes them, intending to kill the priest. Moved by Caponsachhi’s plea, a crowd intervenes and forces Guido to carry his case to Rome. There Guido’s hired assassins slay Pompilia and her parents, and the guilt is cast on the priest. The opera ends in the court room of the Vatican, where Caponsacchi is on trial for his life. Hospital physicians reported that Mr. Sterzini suffered from high blood pressure. They said possible causes of death might have been either a heart attack or a cerebral hemorrhage induced by the pain from the wound. Mr. Sterzini came to the United States from Ferrara, Italy, 30 years ago when he was 22, and soon after joined the chorus of the Metropolitan Opera Company. He sang in the chorus of the company during the days of Caruso. His wife said his “one interest” in life had been the opera.
TEETH, JEWELRY AND CLOTHING ARE STOLEN
A burglar took a five-tooth removable back bridge valued at $95 and a platinum brooch set with three diamonds valued at $185 from Apt. 2, 3520 Fall Creek Blvd. according to a report made to police last night by Sam L. Bennett. Police believe the same burglar remained in the neighborhood long enough to take jewelry and clothing valued at $168.50 from the apartment of Mrs. Joe R. Beckett, 3528 Fall Creek Blvd. A Cadillac radiator cap valued at $10 was reported stolen last night from the garage of R. C. Cashon, 3909 Central Ave. Isaac Carver, 74, of 3731 E. Walnut St., told police of the theft of an Elgin watch from his room yesterday afternoon.
SHORTRIDGE CLUB OFFICERS NAMED
New officers of Shortridge High School clubs are: Fiction Club—Bob Shank, president; Madelyn Pugh, vice president; Bill Barr, treasurer;
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lard and Julia Jean Rowe, program chairmen, and Mary Kershner and . Hirst Mendenhall, party chairmen. Radio Club—Bob Milholland, president; Claude Richie, vice president; Bruce Cameron, secretary-treasurer, and Dave Kennedy, chief operator of the Shortridgé radio station. The Shortridge Paddle Club, sponsored by Miss Naomi Fike, has started a table tennis tournament. Twenty-three members are participating.
CHURCH GROUP TO MEET The Alice Meier Circle of the Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church will meet at 1 p. m. tomorrow at the home of Mrs. J. W. Cox, 20S Eastern Ave. Mrs. Glenn Diddel, of the Y. W. C. A, will speak.
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CHAPTER ONE
Report of Detective Officer Kettering of the Florida Police CTING on instruction received I boarded the S. Y. Golden Gull from Police Launch X21 at 10:40 p. m. in the company of Detective Officer Neame, Police Surgeon Jacket, Station Photographer Southwold and Officer Gurdon of the uniform branch.
Capt. Derringham received me with the owner, Mr. Carlton Rocksavage. I proceeded to the captain's cabin to take statements, Detective Officer Neame acting as stenographer. = ® 2
Capt. Derringham’s Statement JE sailed from New York at 12:30 p. m. on the 5th carrying five passengers in addition to the owner, Mr. Carlton Rocksavage, and his daughter, Miss Ferri Rocksavage. The passengers. were Lady Welter, the Hon. Reginald Jocelyn and Mrs. Jocelyn, who are Lady Welter’s daughter and son-in-law, the Bishop of Bude and Count Luigi Posodini. We arrived off Miami at 2:35 this afternoon, where we anchored. My
instructions were that three new guests would come on and, immediately these were aboard, I was to proceed to Nassau, Bahamas. At 4:30 p. m. a Japanese gentle-
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man, Mr. Inosuke Hayashi came on board and at 6:55 Mr. Bolitho Blane, accompanied by his secretary, Nicholas Stodart. The tender was cleared at 7:05, upon which I gave orders that the ship should proceed to sea. At 8:38, just after I had sat down to dinner in my cabin, I was sent for by the owner to come down to he-suite which had been allotted to Mr. Bolitho Blane. I found the owner there with Mr.
Blane’s secretary. They explained to me that Mr. Blane was missing and had left a note which gave reason to suppose that he had committed suicide. The window of the drawing room
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cabin was wide open and it looked as if Mr. Blane had thrown himself overboard through it. It was decided not to alarm the other passengers so the owner said that he would just tell them that Mr. Blane was ill and we were returning to Miami for a doctor. At 8:45 I ordered the ship back to port. ” ® 2 ; Mr. Carlton Rocksavage’s Statement
E had just come down from New York for a few days’ pleasure cruising off the islands, and I had arranged to pick up two more of my guests who could not make the yacht at New York, from Miami. Mr. Inosuke Hayashi came on during the afternoon; and had tea with us, then Mr. Bolitho Blane arrived with his secretary, Nicholas Stodart, just before 7 o'clock. They went straight down to the private suite which I had alloted to them, and we sailed at once. I didn’t see them as I was on the bridge with my captain when we left Miami at 7:05. Then I went down to the lounge for a drink and, finding Pamela Jocelyn and Count Posodini there, I talked with them for a while. ; At 7:25 Mr. Stodart arrived and introduced himself as Bolitho Blane's secretary. He said that Blane wished to get some cables off before changing and asked that I
an appearance before dinner. I introduced Stodart to Mrs. Jocelyn and the count, then offered him a drink which he accepted. ‘After a few moments Stodart asked me if the type sheets on the notice board in the lounge contained the closing prices on the New York stock market and, on my telling Lim that that was so, he said that Mr. Blane was anxious to have the latest information. $ #” 2 2 E took down some of the prices in his notebook, tore the leaf out and, as he had not finished his drink, asked the lounge steward to take the list down to Blane’s cabin. The steward came up again and said. that the drawing room of Blane’s suite was locked and that he could get no answer. Stodart then told him to take it down again and slip it under the door. Mrs. Jocelyn and Count Posodini left us at about this time and I remained with Stodart for a while. Later, the Bishop joined us and Lady Welter came in a few minutes after him. Then I noticed that it was already ten after eight, so realizing that I would have to hurry, if I were not to be late for dinner, I went down to change. At a fittle after 8: 30 I got back to the lounge-to find all my guests assembled for dinner, except Bolitho Blane and Stodart. Just as I was contemplating sending down a message to Blane, the cabin steward came up with an urgent
would excuse him from putting in
request that I should go down to Blane’s cabin right away.
2 os 2 N arriving there I found Stodart standing in the drawing room looking very pale and shaken. He said to me, “Mr. Rocksavage, I'm afraid I've got bad news for you.” Then he handed me this note:
Dear Stodart, You know how worried I've been all through the trip over. Day after day I've been watching Argus Suds go down as the bears slammed into them. I had hoped to’ pull my companies through but things have gone too far for Rocksavage to join me in a decent deal, so I am past caring what happens to them now. This party was a forlorn hope and I never wanted to join it. Theres a tough crowd behind Rocksavage, and I wouldn't put it past them to try and do me in while I'm on this yacht. That would send the Argus shares down to zero without any further argument. Anyhow, I'm not going to wait and chance it. The struggle has proved too much for me. I have always loathed quitting and rather than face the nightmare of a bankruptcy examination I'm going out. BOLITHO BLANE.
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HAT he says in that note about there being a tough crowd behind me is sheer nonsense. Just a wild statement of a man who was half off his head with worry. He didn’t know the first thing about me personally as we had never even met and, as I didn’t see him when he came on board, I never set eyes on the man in my life. We had corresponded a lot in a business way, of course, ahd I knew that he had been having a tough time lately, so I was hoping that this little trip, with a few nice people, right away from everything, was just what he needed to set him up again, and I was looking forward to making his acquaintance. After I had read that letter I've just given you, Stodart handed me a slip of paper which, he said, the cabin steward had found on Blane’s table. I saw at once that it was the page that Stodart had torn out of his pocketbook after he had taken dewn the quotations of the closing prices of the New York stock market from the notice board in the lounge and
which he had sent down to Blane earlier on.
It had a few lines of writing in
CHESTERTON---Mts, Beriha Berg, Survivor: Son, Edward Rerg COLUMBUS—Mrs. Hena 0, ‘New, 54. Burvivors: - Husband, John M, New, sisters, Mrs. Ben C. Thomas, Mr. Paul 8, Reeves and Mrs. Robert Hume. Thomas Jasper Wilkerson, #9, Burvivors: Wife: daughters, Mrs. Leroy Carson, Mrs. Chauncey Patton, Mrs. Harold Helt and rs. Albert Baker, sons, Clarence and Newton Wilkerson James Madison Heal, BS, Survivors: Daughters, Anna, Magdenah and Mozenah. Henpy VonFange, 91. Survivors: Daughters rs, Frank 8cholls and Miss Clara Von Fange.
CRAWFORDSVILLE. - Mrs, Eva M, Harp, 17. 8urvivors: Daughter, Mrs, Frank McIntyre:. brother, Charley bong, half-sisters, Mrs, amie Long and Mrs, Ruth Graves. Charles W. Hughes, 68. Survivors: Wife, Etta, son, Floya, daughters, Mrs. Bert Cornett and Mrs, Ora Carver; sisters, Mrs. Anna Zachary, and Mrs. Albert Caldwell. DECATUR Mrs, 8arah Purdy, 83. Survivor: Daughter, Mrs. Ralph Mattox. DONALDSON—Bister Ewalda. Survivors: Blisters, Mrs. Prosper Ball and Mrs, George Bertha and three brothers. ELKHART--Jonas O. Hoover, 73. 8urvivors: Son, Loring; daughter, Mrs. Lois White; brother, Samuel A. Hoover; sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Lehman. GOSHEN -- John Ephraim Warner, 40. Survivors: Wife. Una: sons, Charles and Howard: daughter, Mr. and Mrs. E Dr. George Warner E. Judd En rand, 1. Mrs. Lowell Tobias. GREENSBURG—Edbert PF. Starks, Survivors: Son, Santord S. Starkes, and a daughter, Mrs. H. 8. McKee A. Robbins, “8. Survivors: £ liam: daughters, Mrs. Bernard (Hettie) Robbins and Mrs. Frank (Nettie) Bower. GREENWOOD—Nathaniel 74, Burvivors: Wife, Miss Blanche Berryman. George Berry, 74. Survivors: James, Frank and John Berry
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I sent tor the explain at once, told him what had occurred and he put back to port, while I sent a message up to my daughter that she was to take the guests in to dinner, then went up to the wireless room and sent a radio to the Miami police.
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HARTFORD Cry Ms Sa vis. Harris Preston Ray. mus! Jor Era aoe. Day, 92. Survivors: Brothers, Marion and Amber; sons, Cameron and Mag- / . Charles Nichols, Mrs. James Briggs and Mise jloyand 2 Zinn. John Clayton Kelly, Survivors: Sons, 3] .. and Jimes’ Kelly; daughter,
rs. Elizabeth F. Hirneise, 76. Survivors: Daughters Mrs. Bertha Smith oe Mrs. Retta Schoonermaker; Sons, William,
sisters, Clayton Fisher, and Mrs. Clarence Dixon.
ner, Turner.
SYRACUSE—Cassius M. Gordy, 75. vivors: Jay and Glenn
vivors: Kinder; brothers, Raloh and Donald; sister. Corinne Kinder VINCENNES—MTs. Survivors: y s man, Mrs. Charles Benham and Mrs. Margaret McGlivey; son,
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STATE DEATHS
Mrs. Frank P. Colemeyer, Mrs.
SHELBYVILLE — James Sylvester Ture 60. Survivors: Daughter, Helen
Sure Wife, Clemenes Jane: sons. John,
VALPARAISO—Leo J. Kinder, 29. Parents, Mr. and
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Calvin, Herman and Ray Survivors: Wife,
John . tt, 72. . ra Christ Ch d Mrs. Wretha Alwood; son, Floyd Robnet,
OKO MO—Mrs. Mary Massey. 87. Surnis Six daughters, two sons, two sisters and one brother. LAFONTAINE — Jack Poston, 71. Survivors: Stepdaughiers Mrs. Jessie Johnson and Mrs. Neala Neal; brother, Charles W. Poston. LEROY—Alva H. Gibbs, 64. Survivors: Son. Arthur; sisters, Mrs. Addie Love, Mrs. Maude Henderson and Mrs. Mabel Nethery.
% » @® MARION—Mrs. Parthenia Caine, 84.
Survivors: Son, Edgar W. Caine; fosterdaughter, Mrs. Otho Campbell.
MILFORD—James Howard Barnes, 67. Survivors: Wife, Effie; daughter, Mrs. Cecile Brumbaugh; sons, C. Barnes and Delbert Barnes: sister, Mrs. Da Coy. Dr. Samuel Stockberger. 84. Survivors: Sons, Hoy and Dr. Vernon Stockberger; sisters, Mrs. Elva See and Mrs. Matilda rown.,
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vivors: Wife, bert Holmes; so Charles Sylvester. NAPPANEE—Samuel Palmer Marsh, Survivors: Wife, two sisters. NEWCASTLE—Charles Finney, 60. vivor: Wife. RICHMOND—Mrs. Myrtle N. Marshall. Survivors: Husband, Freq: M. Marshall; son. Guy; sister, Mrs. Gilbert McDaniel: brothers, ‘Curtis ‘and Jesse Lloyd Tyner. SEYMOUR—Melvin E Graves, 52. Survivors: Father, O. C. Graves; sons, Cordes
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