Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1938 — Page 14

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Mercy for Children on Way to Chair.

JOLIET, Ill, Oct. 21 (U. P).— John Jelliga, father of two, who tortured and killed a farmer during an attempted robbery Dec. 9, died in the electric chair at the State Penitentiary early today. He was 33.

As guards strapped him in the :

chair, he murmured: “May God have mercy on my wife and babies.” ¥ y He was pronounced dead after three minutes in the chair. He and Michael Mungas, 31, shot and killed Edward Pansa, Crete, Ill, and beat his wife, Huldah, when they failed to find $1200 in savings they believed Mr. Pansa had hidden in his home. Then they fled. Mrs. Pansa, seriously wounded, crawled half a mile through snow to a relative’s home for help. ! Jelliga and Mungas were captured 10 hours after the crime. Mungas hanged himself in the Will County Jail the next day. Jelliga was the first man to die under new rules governing electrocutions at the penitentiary. They were enacted by Warden Joseph Ragen to prevent executions from being “Roman holidays.” Each witness was searched thoroughly for cameras and intoxicants. Mr. Pansa’s two brothers and two of his brothers-in-law witnessed the execution. Mrs. Pansa had been denied a request for admission to the death chamber. Jelliga’s wife and two daughters visited him before he died. —

NEW MOLESTING ATTEMPTS PROBED

Girl, 6, Accosted in Alley, Mother Reports.

Further molesting attempts were being investigated by police today, after a 6-year-old girl was accosted by a youth near her home yesterday and an older girl and a woman reported a man tried to seize them as they crossed the White River bridge on W. New York St. last night. ; Mrs. William Halpern, 3134 Central Ave, told police her daughter was playing in the alley behind her home when a youth passing on a bicycle tried to lure her into a vacant shed. The child refused to go, Mrs. Halpern said. Anna Steffi, 27, of 322 N. Elder St., and her 15-year-old companion. told police they were walking across the bridge when a man grabbed at them, but they jerked away and ran. He did not follow them, they said. John H. Sandridge, 43, of 2187 Hillside Ave., told police that burglars stole three suits of clothes and a pair of shoes worth $48 from his home yesterday. They broke a

window to gain entrance, he said.

40 AND 8 ENGINES T0 CARRY 39 CARDS

Legion Reports Membership Ahead of Last Year.

Forty and Eight engines, replicas of French wartime locomotives, and boxcars will be called into service Sunday to carry American Legion membership cards for 1939 to the national headquarters here from all points in the State. The Indiana Legion has reported 11,000 membership cards already signed for 1939, an early membership enrollment record. The National Legion has recorded receipt of 20,000 more membership cards for 1939 than had been received here at this time last year. Dean Bechtol of Garrett, State "head of the Forty and Eight, pledged co-operation of Forty and Eight voitures throughout the State in collecting cards which were signed largely in the one-day membership drives conducted a week ago by State posts.

DAUGHTER, 14, WED; MOTHER PERPLEXED

Praises ‘Gesture,’ However, Of Bridegroom, 17.

OAKLAND, Cal. Oct. 21 (U. P.). —Cedric Gallagher, 17, and his 14- " year-old bride, the former Dorothy McDonald, were home today from Reno, where they were married in what the bride’s mother calied a fine gesture on the boy's part. Mrs. J. R. Griffith believed {it would have been better had her

daughter married the young man who kept her out until 4 a. m. one night recently. After that occurrence Mrs. Griffith urged the man to marry Dorothy and told young Gallagher not to see her again. But Gallagher and Dorothy met and he told her he would marry her rather than see her forced to marry the other fellow. So they eloped. “I thought it was best that they shouldn’t see each other and that Dorothy should marry the other youth,” Mrs. Griffith said, “Now I don’t know what to do.”

RENEE VILLON ASKS DIVORCE CHICAGO, Oct. 21 (U. P.).—Mrs. Katherine Bernhard, a dancer known professionally as Renee Villon, sued her husband, Louis Bernhard, a Hollywood costumer, for divorce today charging desertion. She asked custody of their daughter, Barbara, 4.

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over White River, closed to traffic more than a ! Board is to receive bids Nov. 14.

t Times Photo. i Riviera Drive and Bellefontaine Improvement of the W. New York St. bridge | year, is scheduled to be started Nov. 17. The Works [st The supper will be followed by || HAAG Stores, 98¢c

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Velorus Butterfield, 6188 Broad- a; 1. Bown, national ‘Tepresent. way, has been retired on a pension |atve of Indiana in the Townsen - . Cts movement, will speak Sunday aftfrom the Crane Co. manufacturers ernoon in Castle Hall at a Town-

of plumbing supplies, after 50 /gend club mass meeting. years -of continuous ee. Spas ¥ pany officials announ ay. MI.| Regular meeting of the Major Butterfield has been presented with Harold C. Megrew Auxiliary 3, an inscribed gold watch by em- United Spanish War Veterans, will bloyees. : ~~ :|be ‘held 8 p. m. Monday at Ft. Benjamin Harrison will discuss] The Original General Welfare |“Pacts Behind the News from |Club 1 will have a public meeting at Furope” at a meeting of Irvington|7:30 p. m. Monday in Castle Hall Post 38, American Legion, at 8:15 p.|with' J. J. Fessler, ‘president, in m. today at the clubrooms. charge. Frederic J. Robbins, metallur- I. gical engineer for Bliss and Laugh FELLED BY CELERY, lin, ‘Harvey, Ill, will discuss lea bearing steels at a technical ses- GOES TO HOSP ITAL sion and Sines of ig Sag. Pinte Society for Me a e enaeum. Monday night. Pictures will] FT. WAYNE, Oct. 21.—William be shown by Mr. Robbins during|Trim, 61, was knocked over by a the lecture, followed by an open|bunch of celery.yesterday. The enddiscussion. gate of a truck carrying celery Tony Hinkle, athletic director and broke and it poured out on him at head football coach at Butler Uni- a street corner here. He was in

verse, ot 3 i i Lutheran Hospital today, severly in the Hotel Antlers for captains|cul: and on a liquid diet of celery of the Inter-Fleet Safety Contest. |Soup.

The Broad Ripple Townsend Club

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