Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1938 — Page 7
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Carroll Branded as Killer, Defended as Prosecutor’s Victim Both Sides Dispense With Rebuttal Witnesses,
Begin Final Arguments; Case May Go to Jury This Afternoon; Conviction Would Mean Life.
SOUTH PARIS, Me, Aug. 12 (U. P.) —Former Deputy Sheriff Francis M. Carroll was called a murderer and defended as the victim of an
' ingenious prosecutor today as his trial neared its end. . Both State and defense dispensed with rebuttal witnesses and began
closing arguments, indicating that the case would go to the jury this afternoon. In the event of conviction a sentence of life imprisonment would be mandatory.
Prosecutor Ralph M. Ingalls in an 80-minute address charged that Carroll was the “real slayer” of Dr. James G. Littlefield, a murder for which his daughter's former sweetheart, 19-year-old Paul (Buddy) Dwyer, is serving a life sentence. Pointing out that in testifying in his own defense Carroll did not deny the murder, Mr. Ingalls charged for the first time that the diamond-shape design on the de-
_ fendant’s revolver butt fitted per-
fectly the wound that allegedly killed the physician. Defense Counsel Clyde R. Chapman congratulated the State on its “most ingenious case,” but told the
jury that “the murderer of Br. Lit-
tlefield already has been convicted
FIVE WEST SIDE PLACES RAIDED
Police Hold Woman, 3 Men; Deputies ‘Draw Blank’ At Roadhouse.
What appeared to be an “antigambling drive” gained momentum here today as the police vice squad followed up two weeks’ activity against marble machines with raids on five West Side establishments which * allegedly were operating slot machines. The Sheriff's office, meanwhile, “drew a blank” in its investigation of a roadhouse northeast of ¢he city which was said to be a gambling casino in published reports. Arrested last night by the vice squads headed by Sergt. Carl Ashley, were George Mates, 37; Evelyn McCready, 30; Frank Bucik, 47, and Edward Stockdale. They were to face charges of violating the Antislot Machine Act in Municipal Court today. “Raiders” Visit Resort Acting Sheriff Charles McCallister, accompanied by another deputy and four newspapermen, visited the roadhouse yesterday. Inside, the “raiding party” found five employees in the kitchen, one of whom said he was the manager.
Questioned by the acting sheriff, the |
manager explained that only ‘bingo games were held there. The acting sheriff accepted this explanation. No gambling devices were visible. Prosecutor Herbert Spencer recently said that bingo games and lotteries, even if operated by charitable institutions, were a violation of the State’s antigambling laws. The party was escorted to the second floor, where there were several doors leading off a spacious central corridor. Two of the doors were locked. The manager said that canned goods were stored behind one and that the other entered the sleeping quarters of the night watchman, Sheriff McCallister seemed satisfled with this explanation. As he turned to leave, a telephone bell jangled in the corridor. “Raiders” found no telephone visible, but noted a cord leading from the phone box running under the door of the chamber the manager said was occupied by the watchman. As the bell rang persistently, the manager said this was the waichman’s private telephone. Descending to the main salon,
the members of the party noticed |
a 15-foot blackboard which the manager explained was part of the bingo equipment. °
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byan Oxford County jury. While it Lis not now incumbent upon the defense, it has again proven Paul Dwyer the murderer.”
Barbara Attends
strangled in the bathroom of Dwyer’s Paris Hill home last Oct. 13. The State contends that Carroll committed the murder after the physician had threatened to expose and jail him for immoral relations with his own daughter, 17-year-old Barbara Carroll, Dwyer’s former sweetheart. Barbara, wearing a white dress, sat with her mother in the spectators’ section of the courtroom.
“This case has been built up most is for the purpose of convicting ¥rancis Carroll,” Mr, Chapman said. , He argued that Carroll, though under suspicion of murder, first was arresied on a charge of violating his daughter, thereby poisoning the community against him.
“When you boil down the State’s case and take away the testimony of Paul Dwyer, what have you got?” asked Mr. Chapman. “You've got a cigaret ‘lighter; you have a blow made with a Colt 45; you have the festimony of a girl, a Talbot girl, who six or eight months afterward says she saw Francis Carroll on the hill that night; you have that Francis Carroll possibly drank a little more liquor after the murder than before. Beyond that, I don’t see that you really have anything.”
Cites Dwyer's Testimony
Then Mr. Chapman turned to the testimony of young Dwyer. “Paul tells dbout being intimate with Barbara Carroll—the woman he says he loves. This champion: of the people, who says he still loves Barbara, vilely and wilfully ruins the character of that girl for all time to come. “The State labored and brought forth a molehill.” Mr. Chapman recalled testimony vesterday concerning a $50,000 extortion note which Dwyer admitted typing but insisted he did so only when Carroll threatened his
e. “The State says that the man who wrote this extortion note was a weakling who could not kill Dr. Littlefield. This living skeleton (Dwyer) was shown to you—after undoubtedly a period of fasting.” The atforney charged that the State’s case was built on ‘“‘innuendoes and insinuations.”
Dr. Littlefield was bludgeoned and
Tu bercu losis H ospital Commission |
site for the new $650,000 southern Indiana tuberculosis hospital today continued to hear delegations
Members of the commission named to select a | from more than a score of counties who have offered
STUDY LISTS 42 CHILD MOTHERS
Indiana Census Also. Notes 118 Drownings and 591 Suicides in 1937.
Forty-two children were born to mothers between the ages of 10 and 14 years in Indiana during 1937, according -to a recent report of the
Bureau of. the Census. Two fathers within the same age group were listed in the report. Mothers between the ages of 15 and 19 years gave birth to 7859 children last year. Fathers within the same age group numbered 1138, the report showed. Indiana’s oldest mother was between the ages of 50 and 54. There were 358 men 55 years or over who became fathers.
Birth Rate Increases
A birth rate of 16.1 births per each 1000 estimated population, an increase from the 15.6 reported for 1936, was shown in the report. Six hundred ‘and seventeen sets of twins were born in Indiana last year, and three sets of triplets. The general death rate for Indiana was 11.8 compared with 123 in 1936. Infant mortality dropped from 50.7 deaths per 1000 live births in 1936 to 49.7 in 1937. The Indiana death rate from tuberculosis was 48.4 per 100,000 estimated population; from cancer, 114.2, and from motor vehicle accidents, 41.7. During 1937 a total of 591 per-
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sites for the proposed new institution. . Left to right, commission members are Murray ‘Auerbach, Arthur Sapp, Dr. Vern K, Harvey, L Pittenger and Thomas F. O'Mara.
E Tying Priest Lands at Arctic : Outpost With Stricken Friend
CHESTERFIELD INLET, Northwest Territory, Aug. 12 (U. P.) —The Rev. Fr. Paul Schulte, the flying priest, landed at the harbor today at the end of his race to an outpost 400 miles north of the Arctic Circle to save the life of a fellow priest who was desperately ill. ;
| The Rev. Fr. Julian Coehard, who & ‘| was stricken last week at Arctic Bay,
was still alive when Father Schulte landed. Father Schulte lifted him from the plane to a canoe, paddled to shore and hurried to the hospital where two doctors were waiting. Since he took off last Tuesday in response to a radio message from the Hudson Bay Co. at Arctic Bay, Father Schulte had fiown 2200 miles through fogs, headwinds and desolate darkness. Speeding his patient back southward, he had divided his time between piloting the seaplane, gripping the sick priest’s grateful hand, and praying with him that they both would reach safety.
Father Schulte was at Churchill, south of here in Manitoba Province, when Bishop .Claubut received the Arctic Bay message, The Bishop was here at the time. Father Schulte left immediately, intending to pick up a doctor at Chesterfield Inlet and carry him to the stricken priest. But when he arrived here Tuesday the doctor himself was ill, so the
sons died from suicide in Indiana. Of this total 468 were males and 133 were females. There were 164 victims of homicide. Accidental deaths totaled 3315. Listed under accidental deaths were 118 drownings, 3 of which occurred in homes; 48 firearm fatalities; and 13 deaths from lightning,
priest and his mechanic or on, to bring the patient back. They flew up the West: coast of Hudson Bay, across Repulse Bay and Foxe Channel, then up the east coast of Melville Peninsula to Igloolik, There fog and 50-mile headwinds beset them. Once they had to turn back. There was no gasoline at Arctic Bay, so Father Schulte loaded extra fuel at Igloolik, left his mechanic there and proceeded into the storm alone. He crossed Baffin Land to Arctic Bay and found Father Cochard and started the return trip. In two and one-half hours they had reached Igloolik. While the plane was refueled, Father Schulte put ice packs on his patient's side, to relieve the pain. They proceeded down the coast to Melville, where northwest winds lessened the accumulation of ice, and over Foxe Channel, which was swarming with walruses. At Garry Bay the sun had disappeared. There was no moon and the fog was thick. A half hour later they had reached Repulse on Repulse Bay and landed on the ice. They spent the night at Repulse, and started out yesterday in a fog. At sight of the hospital here, ‘Father Cochard collapsed and nearly fainted. Bishop Claubut, priests, nuns and Eskimos greeted them. Father Cochard’s ailment was not ascertained immediately.
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ISSUE GRANTED SEC EXEMPTION
Findings. Not Approval of 1927 Merger ‘Writeup,’ = Officials Say. Times Special .
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. — In issuing an order today granting SEC
exemption to the Indianapolis Pow-
er & Light Co: for its $37,500,000 refinancing securities issue, Securities
outlined the 1927 merger “writeup” and pointed out. that their present findings do not mean approval of it. They - ordered the company to
the new issue had been: carried out and ruled the exemption terminated
should the Indiana Public Service
Commission revoke or terminate its approval given July 15, 1933. Lawyer fees and other expenses connected with the securities issue, estimated at the hearing last week at $326,890, were not commented upon although considerable detailed testimony was taken regarding them. : The following is the official SEC gomment regarding the merger fea-
“The fixed assets of applicant are stated as of May 31, 1938, at a value of $72,235,639.54, which includes going value of $8,380,341 and organization expense of $113,183.47.
Price Listed as $39,115,121 :
“In January, 1927, the applicant acquired, as of Oct. 1, 1926, the properties and other assets of its predecessor companies. With the approval of the Indiana Public Service Commission, the merger price of the physical property was treated by the applicant as being $39,115,121.
“This merger price included going |
value of $3,500,000 and was evidently based largely on a reproduction appraisal. The figure was $16,505,541 in excess of the depreciated amounts at which the same properties had been carried on the books of the predecessor companies immediately prior to the merger. “Our record does not indicate,
however, whether these book figures
of the predecessor companies were carried at more or less than the actual historical cost of the properties.
May Require Adjustments
“The applicant did not set up the properties on its books at this socalled merger price, but at a depreciated figure of $51,115,508, which included going value of $8,380,341. “This apparently was based upon appraised reproduction cost of physical property of $47,057,453, less observed depreciation of $4,322,286, as
:| Aug. 12
& - Exchange Commission officials |
show that all agreements regarding
ities Power & Light Corp. the parent of applicant, plus going value,
plicant.
“Nothing in these findings should be deemed: to be an approval by this Commission of the retention of write-ups in applicant’s property account. It appears that compliance with the recently adopted Uniform System of Accounts of the Indiana Commission may require substantial adjustments in applicant’s property account, the exact amount of which cannot be predicted.”
ARLINE JUDGE ILL SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., (U. P.)—Arline Judge, screen actress, ‘was reported recov-
ering today from a slight attack of | ptomaine poisoning. She has been |
here for the racing season.
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NEW: YORK, . Aug. 12° (U. Pp) The Academy . Medicine an=nounced today Ta a New: York physician had successfully -administered ‘radiation. treatment of the ‘eye of four-month-old Helajne Judith Colan of Vy and that the
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