Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1937 — Page 21

TUESDAY, OCT. 12, 1987

BRADY, SHAFFER Two of These Men Brady Victims

SLAIN IN DUEL: TAKE DALHOVER

Three Hoosier Criminals Walk Into Trap Laid in Bangor Store.

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to the floor. There were lots of other shots. “When the shooting was over I looked out and saw two men lving in the street in front of my car. It was awful.” Took 50 Feet of Film

Hurd got out his movie camera at the start of the shooting and recorded 50 feet of film. Afterward he said: “I was the one who furnished the police with the original tip on this gang and they tell me I'm in line for a $1500 reward, $500 on each of the gangsters.” After examining Mr. Walsh, Dr. Herbert Scrivener reported that the bullet apparently had grazed the upper right lung and lodged in the shoulder.

say when we can operate to remove |

the slug.” the surgeon said. Mr. Walsh's condition was considered ‘not critical.”

Mr. Walsh was one of the expert |

marksmen of the Federal

of Investigation.

Bureau | He was & trick shot |

expert and could make a good score

on the through & mirror powerful magnum taneously at different targets.

target

or fring

range when aiming | two | revolvers simul- |

Dalhover was held without specific |

charge in the city jail. He suffered

minor cuts in trying to free himself, |

Two Federal policeman, &ll guarded his cell.

heavily

agents and & city | armed,

The bodies of Brady and Shaffer | were taken to police headquarters, | examined and then removed secret- |

Iy tablishment.

State Police Attend To Their “Chores’

The Killing of the Brady gang &.1d the capture of a third didn't prevent the State lar “chores” today. A squad went to a farmhouse near Lebanon seeking a suspect in a filling station holdup near Lebanon last June, “Where's your boy?” the suspect's father

they

“You don't

want to have happen to him what |

happened to the Brady gang this morning ’ “Thev're the guys you ought get,” the father replied. “They made him (his son) drive the car.” The police arrested John Hadley in the barn in connection with the holdup.

PUBLIC ENEMY LIST NOW REDUCED TO 3

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (U. P). —The slaying of two members of the notorious Brady gang and the capture of & third today reduced to three the number of “public ene-

mies” for whom Federal are outstanding. They are: The unidentified kidnap-slayer of Charles Mattson, 10, Tacoma. Wash. —$10,000

Hugh Gant and Alva Dewey Hunt, |

brothers-in-law and leaders of & southern bank robbery gang, $500 each.

Widow ‘Glad’

Limes Speecinl LAFAYETTE. Oct. 12. —Mrs. Margaret Minneman, widow of State Police Officer Paul Minneman who was killed in & gun battle with the Brady gang near Royal Center following the bank holdup at Goodland, said: “I am glad to hear that killings by the Brady gang are ended. But most of all I'm glad no more police officers were Killed capturing them.” Mrs. Minneman lives relatives near here.

with

two members of |

Brady's Uncle Expresses Only

Police from attending to their regu- |

N . “ . | Passing Interest in Slaying asked |

to |

rewards |

to an unnamed undertaking es-

Dr. Emmett E. Rose

“It is not possible at this time to | Sergt. Richard Rivers

State Policeman Paul Minneman

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Times Spe nl

| the event,

“His mother and father both are dead. | sisters are alive, but 1 don't know { where, and 1 have a brother living lin Tllinois. TI think there are no [other close relatives alive,” “I hadn't heard a thing about the shooting beiore. You sav the { G-Men got him? Um-m-m-m!” Mr. Courtwood was asked if he intended to claim the body of the | dead gangster. “I hadn't thought of it. But I guess IT won't. T haven't any money to bury the man.”

‘THANK GOD.’ STIVER SAYS OF KILLINGS

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State Safety Director Donald F.

| Stiver was in Kansas City where he |

| was to address & meeting today of | the National Safety Council. “Thank God,” he said, when informed by Capt. Eckert over long-

distance telephone of the slayings |

and capture. “Now I can enjoy my[self and get the full benefit of these | meetings.” 2 Herold H. Reinecke, Indianapolis Federal Bureau of Investigation head, said he had received no word officially from the Bast as to when | Dalhover would be returned here.

BARBER KILLS SELF AFTER WIFE'S DEATH

OAKLAND, Cal, Oct. 12 (U. P). | —Police today found the body of Alvin King, a barber, in a rooming house where he apparently haa committed suicide by inhaling gas | fumes a few hours after he delivered la note to an Oakland mewspaper | directing authorities to the body of his wife. = King's suicide strengthened police | belief that his wife may have been | murdered.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

MEETINGS TODAY Indianapolis Medical Society, meeting, te] Antlers, night Rebekah Assembly, 1, vi. OL. TR, convention, Hotel Lincoln, all da Indiana Travel Study Club, Hotel Washington, 6 p. m, Sons of Ttaly, dinner, Claypool 6:30 p. m

state yy, meeting, Hotel,

Indianapolis Lawyers’ Association, lunch- |

eon. Hotel Washington, noon, Indianapolis Hunting and Fishing Club, meeting, Hotel Washington, 7:30 p. m Rotary Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel, noon, Alpha Tau Omega, Trade, noon Gyro Club,

luncheon,

luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel,

noon. Mercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, |

noon ; Universal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon

"University of Michigan Club, luncheon, |

noon

Board of Trade

Indianapolis Purchasing Agents’ Associa- |

tion, luncheon, Athenaeum, noon Indianapolis Home Ruilders’' Association, dinner, Hoosier Athletic Club, 6:30 p. m,

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Indiana Library Association and Indiana Library Trustees’ Association, conferences, Hotel Lincoln, afternoon and night, Beverage Credit Group, luncheon, Fox's staurant, noon Rani Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,

Club,

ton, noon. ; : Young Men's Discussion Club, dinner, Y.

luncheon,

s mhimni Association, luncheon, Hotel Severin, noon. 12th District American wegion, luncheon, Soard of Trade. noon. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. Market Research Club, Washington, 6:30 p. m. Apartment Owners, luncheon, noon, H6tel W

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BLAZE AND WATER DAMAGE PRINTERY

Firemen today were to investigate the cause of a fire last night which damaged the plant of Oval & Koster, printers, 700 W. Washington St. The small fire released an automatic sprinkler svstem which drenched presess and stock. The fire started in a small box of trash on the third floor,

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| OFFICIAL WEATHER

| United States Weather Bureau

| INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Cloufly and |

considerably cooler tonight and tomorrow; | showers probable.

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TEMPERATURE Oct. 12, 1936-— 9% Nb BAROMETER

Lf MR RRESNER. |

| Precipitaion 24 hrs. ending at 7 a. m. 01 { Total ‘precipitation .......... | Excess

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana Cloudy, probably showers south portion tonight ana tomorrow and north tonight; considerably cooler tonight and central and south portions tomorrow. Tllinois—Mostly cloudy tonight : $ and tomorrow, probably showers extreme south portio and tonight central portion; cooler tonight and extreme south tomorrow much cooler for most part. ’ Lower Michigan—Mostiy cloudy tonight and tomerrow, local rain or snow tonight: colder tonight, continued cold tomorrow. near freezing central and north tonight. Ohio—Cloudy, preceded bv rain in portion, colder In west and north poruo tonight; tomorrow cloudy and much Tr.

probably Tain in northeast portion; colder SOOrTOW and in northwest portion | night,

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 5 A. M.

Station . Bar. Temb. Amarilld, Tex, y 2998 60 Bismarck, N. oston Chicago .... Cincinnati O.

Cleveland, Denver ....... Dodge City, Kas. Helena, Mont, ........ Jacksonville, Fla. Kansas City, Mo. Little Rock, Ark. ....C Los Angeles ‘ | Miami, Fla. .... ..C Minneapolis-St, Paul | Mobile. Ala | New ‘Orleans .........C | New York oii SCT Okla. City, Okia..... | Neb. “ally

Omaha Pittsburgh ein iniy Portland, Ore, AN | San Antonio, Tex. ... | San Francisco | St. Louis Ta

pa, Fla vy | Washington, D. C..\\

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east |

Kentucky—Cloudy tonight and tomorrow, |

to- |

BROOK, Ind. Oct. 11.—Charles Courtwood, who said he is an uncle | of the slain Al Brady, said he had no more than a passing interest n | Reports from various parts of the

“I haven't seen him or heard of him in Brook for four or five vears, | [at the time of his mother's death. That was before he went bad

I believe two of his father's |

Programs Mark Observance ot Columbus Day

Columbus Day was observed here today as organizations presented programs and all public offices, except the Postoffice, were closed for the day. Regular mail deliveries were scheduled. Knights of Columbus held a joint | meeting of the Fourth Degree As[sembly and Council 437 last night. John T. Rocap, grand knight, was to speak at 5 P. m. todav over | WFBM and a Columbus week dance [is scheduled for Saturday night in | the K. of C. auditorium. Dominick Palamara, Indianapolis | fruit ‘merchant, is to give his 10th | annual celebration of the anniversary | tonight in the Hotel Severin, with | the public invited to dinner and en- | tertainment.

DR. ROSE REGRETS KILLING OF GANGSTER

{ Dr. Emmett E. Rose, 2153 Barth | Ave,, from whom Al Brady sought | aid for a wounded gang pal the day [ Sergt. Richard Rivers was murdered | by the Brady gang. today expressed | regret that the gangster had been | killed. | Not because it was Brady, but be- | cause he hates to see anvone's life | taken, he explained. He added that [he had no grudge against Brady personally. “Brady never threatened me,” Dr. | Rose said. “No, T am not lad to hear his life has been taken. My profession is saving lives.” THREATEN NEW STRIKE NEW YORK, Oct. 12, WU, P).— Charging that packers were “‘delib- | erately” withholding fresh-killed | kosher meat “to force higher prices,” more than 5000 butchers threatened tigny to again close their shops.

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$15,000 HOLDUP IN 1935 BEGAN GANG'S ROVINGS

Came Here From Lima, Met Police Squad, Killing Sergt. Rivers.

The Brady gang's reign of terrorism began on April 27, 1936, when the armed band held up a jewelry store in Lima, O., and took $15,000 in jewelry. One of its number was wounded. The same night, when they brought their wounded confederate to the home of Dr. Emmett E. Rose at 2153 Bairth Ave. to ask treatment, they encountered police officers, who answered a telephone call from the doctor's wife. In the battle to escape, Sergt. Richard Rivers was wounded mortally and Patrolman Cosmos Sansome received a superficial wound. The next day an automobile believed to have been the funeral pyre of the wounded bandit was found at the county line and Big Four Railroad, south of the Rockville Road. Gasoline had been poured over it before it was set afire. Human bones, believed to have been those of the wounded gangster, were on the rear seat. The charred remains of the car revealed four bullet holes. Almost at the same time a farmer [near Danville, Ind, discovered an- | other burning car on & side road. Authorities expressed the belief that after burning the second car the gang held up another driver on the Rockville Road and took his car. Brady, boasting that he was chief

[of the “second Dillinger gang,” was

arrested in Chicago in connection with the roundup of an alleged jewel robbery gang which Department of Justice agents charged had stolen gems worth $200,000.

One Nabbed Here

James Dalhover was captured in Chicago later and Clarence Lee Shaffer Jr. was arrested here. Charles Geisking, who it later was

‘determined was the bandit wounded

in the Lima holdup, also was arrest.

| ed here.

The four were indicted for the slaying of Sergt. Rivers. Geisking was held in the Marion County Jail here, but the others were removed to the Hancock County Jail in Greenfield where they were to have been tried last Nov. 23 for the Rivers killing. On Sunday morning, Nov. 11, the three desperadoes slugged Sheriff | Clarence Watson, beat up another | man and two women and escaped in a stolen automobile. Farm Woman Beaten

country that they were seen failed to lead to their hideout, What was believed to be the best clue was that one of the desperadoes entered the home of Mrs. Haskell Rennick, farm woman, near Archerville, and beat her when she refused him money, A bank at North Madison was held up last January, but while auvhorities clung to the belief the gang committed the robbery, bank officials were unable to identify the gunmen from their pictures. Last Feb. 17 the gang was sought after the holdup of the Carthage | State Bank in which $1250 was | taken. Cashier Howard Henley identified Brady from his pictures, | as the leader.

Slay Officer in Gun Battle

The three remained in hiding until the later part of May when they | made a foray on the Goodland Bank and escaped with $1427, Halted by two officers near Royal Center, they ambushed the pair, | State Policeman Paul Minneman | was wounded fatally. Deputy Sher-

| iff Elmer Craig of Cass County also |

(was wounded. | Department joined in the search.

of Justice

| most extensive manhunt conducted

[in Indiana since John Dillinger’s |

| reign of terror. . £500 Rewards Offered

A short time later it was agreed to turn over Geisking to Ohio authorities for his part in the Lima | jewelry robbery, and he was sentenced to the Ohio Penitentiary for from 10 to 25 years. Police later received reports that the gang had returned to Indianap|olis to contact members of Geisk[ing's family. But all tips failed to | reveal any traces. In addition to the four bank holdups in Indiana, authorities suspected that the Brady gang was responsihe for numerous other holdups in Indiana and Ohio. To spur & continued hunt, the Department of Justice on June 21 offered & reward of $500 for each of the three men. Brady and his associates were tracked to Baltimore, Md. haunts by Baltimore police, but they es-

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Times Special GREENFIELD, Ind. Oct. Brady, Clarence Lee Shaffer Jr.,

here, Today, when he was informed

“Well, good. The G-Men got Say I'm sure glad of that.”

with an iron bar,

ever had in here, way to get me off my guard.

about it. I sure am glad.”

Jail Jus* One Year Ago

12. Just a year ago vesterday Al

Clarence E. Watson on the head with an iron bar and fled the jail

in Bangor, Me. Sheriff Watson drawled out: ‘em, I reckon, Just shot 'em down.

Sheriff Watson recalled how trial on charges of murdering Sergt. Richard Rivers of the Indianapolis Police Force, made their escape. “I came out in the morning and opened the door,” he said. “They mobbed me and as we str Then they went, “Before that they had been just as nice and polite as anyone I But I guess maybe they were just acting that

“I had them in here about a month, Well, thanks for telling me

Greenfield

and James Dalhover beat Sheriff

that Brady and Shaffer were dead the three, in jail there awaiting

uggled Brady hit me on the head

some, who was shot in the hand during the gun battle with the Brady gang when Sergt. Richard Rivers was Killed here April 27, 1936, had a foreboding his squad would meet the mob that night, he said today. “When Sergt. Rivers, Detective Ralph Chambers and I stopped at a restaurant for dinner that evening, I had a strange ‘hunch’ we were going to run into the Brady gang,” he said, “We decided to go to the home of Dr. Emmett Rose, 2153 Barth Ave, on a routine visit to see if any wounded gangsters had been brought there. “Sergt. Rivers and Chambers gol out of the car and I drove through the alley to the rear and met the other officers. As we were standing by our car in the reer alley a radio message came over, telling us the gangsters were in the house,

Volley Breaks Out

“We jumped in the car and drove around to the front where Rivers and Chambers got out, Rivers ran toward the front door and just then a volley of shots broke out all around us from a car parked across the street. 1 backed the car out of the alley quickly and blocked off the other car. “More shots were fired and I saw Sergt. Rivers fall on the lawn. 1 jumped out and started firing at the other car and when 1 stepped in front of our headlights, I felt a sting on my left hand—it was a bullet wound. ou of ammunition, then 1 jumped behind our machine to reload. “Chambers was crouching back there firing away also. While Chambers and 1 were reloading our

caped in a gun battle Aug. 7. From evidence uncovered then, it appeared they had long made their homes there and were operating a tavern. In the basement of the tavern they

transforming shotguns into machine guns, Indiana police said. It also | became known that Brady, in light‘er moments had developed into a | fancy roller skater and gave ex- { hibitions at all the rinks in and | near the city. Loot taken in Indiana (raids also was found in the hide- | out. On Sept. 4, Matt Leach was ousted from his position as captain of Indiana State Police after the State Police Board said the Federal Bureau of Investigation had threatened to sever relations with the Indiana department because of Mr,

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‘Had a Hunch We'd Run Into Them,” Recalls Local Otticer

Motorcycle Officer Cosmos San- guns the gang backed down the |

| street and escaped through an alley. Found Sergeant Dead

[ “We rushed over to Sergt Rivers, | but, soon learned that he was dead [with a bullet wound through the | heart. We counted 27 bullets in the | police car. “After Brady and the gang were | arrested in Chicago we learned that | during the gun battle that night, Brady was in the doctor's house with Charles Geisking who was [wounded in the Lima, O. jewelry [holdup and that James Dalhover [and Clarence Lee Shaffer Jr. were the ones doing all the shooting. Brady and Geisking escaped from the house and apparently got into their auto during the shooting.”

TELLS HOW G-MEN LAD ROUNDUP TRAP

Store Manager Says Gang Bought Three Guns.

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men came back and bought another 45 automatic, another clip, and another box of bullets. When I reported this to the Chief, he said he had just received deseriptive circulars of several wanted men from Washington. When I looked at them 1 spotted the one named Dalhover immediately as | one of my customers. Then I real|ized that my customers had been { Dalhover and Brady-—and police | told me Brady was America's Public Enemy No. 1. Last Friday the G-Men came and we made arrangements to hide them |in the store because Dalhover and | Brady, on their second visit, had [mentioned that “we'll be back.” We carried on our business as (usual, trying not to show any ex|citement. This morning my clerk, [oim Seeley, had just started to | sweep the sidewalk out front when IT recognized Dalhover among six other customers. At a prearranged | vignal, the G-Men walked up to him (and began questioning him, Then the shooting started. | Tt was the most exciting few min[utes in my experience since World | War days when I did some flying. | Somehow the bullets didn't stop me [from getting out my movie camera [and keeping it going till I had 50 | feet of 16 millimeter film. I don't know, but I suppose I'm [in line for the $1500 reward, $500 jon each of the men shot or caught.

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G-MEN AVENGE THREE MURDERS, $85,000 HAULS

Killed Ohio Jeweler and Two Indiana Police Officers, Records Show.

WASHINGTON, Oct, 12 (U, P) Al Brady and Clarence Lee Shaffer

| Jr, have been hunted by G-Men | as leaders of a Mid-West desperado | and robberies with loot

| more than $85,000,

totaling

| James Dalhover, 30, is the other |

| member of the gang which brought Federal agents on its trail when it transported $35,000 loot from Lima, O., jewelry store robbery into Indiana, March 19, 1936. | Attorney General Cummings had | offered a $500 reward for the ap- | prehension of eacn of the gangsters. The Brady gang was characterized by Bureau of Investigation men

John Dillinger.

tended through the Midwest and was shifted to the East after evi-

maintained a hideaway in Baltimore from which they emerged on forays to rob Midwest banks. the

after interstate operations of

had its political ramifications when [ Matt Leach, director of Indiana State Police, was ousted from his post as a result of friction between State and Federal officers over hunt,

Among the crimes attributed to

up of the Goodland, Ind. State bank, the slaving of a clerk in a Piqua, O., store, and the fatal

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of the Indianapolis Police. Brady, Shaffer and Dalhover were captured after the Rivers slaying but jail after slugging a sherifT, Early th'* year a new drive

after the Goodland holdup. diana State Police established blockade in an effort to trip gunmen. Indiana State Policeman Paul V. Minneman and Deputy Sheriff Elmer Craig of Monticello, Ind. sighted the bandit car within the blockade and gave chase.

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DILLINGER DELIVERY 4 YEARS AGO TODAY

LIMA, O., Oct. 12 (U, P.) =This city, which had first-hand knows= ledge of the depredations of both the notorious Brady and Dillinger gangs, recalled that it was just four years ago today that John Dillinger was delivered from the Lima jail by two confederates at the cost of | Sheriff Jesse L. Sarber's life, Harry Pierpont ad Russell Make lev, Dillinger gangsters, came to the office of Sheriff Sarber on Colum [ bus Day, 1933, saying they were Indiana officers and wanted to see Dillinger. When Sarber asked to ses their credentials, he was shot down, Dillinger later was killed by Ge men. Makley was slain while trying | to escape from Ohio Penitentiary, and Pierpont died in the electric chair,

QUAKES ARE RECORDED

NEW ORLEANS, La. Oct. 12 (U, P.) Earthquake shocks described as of minor intensity here were re= | corded today at 10:03 a. m. (Indians [apolis Time) on the seismograph at | Lovola University of the South, | Father Abel, seismologist, said the shocks commenced at 10:03 and lasted until 10:07. He said that they spomed to be in a southwesterly direction from New Orleans.

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