Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1938 — Page 11

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BANDITS BEAT

ROB TRUCKMAN|

(Take $12 Erom Him After

Forcing Machine to Curb; |

At Corner.

Police: today sought two bandits, believed to. be brothers, who’ last night beat unconscious’ a truck driver who attempted to resist a

holdup.

_ Jacob M. Byrkett, 23, told police]

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forced his truck to the curb at ~ Grand Ave. and Vermont St, The ‘thugs alighted from the car and brandished revolvers as they took $12 from his bilifold. Byrkett

told police he attempted to seize one|

ofthe men. Both bandits then beat him with their revolvers, he said. He was taken to City Hospital. Mr, Byrkett lives on N. Denny St. . Police said a description of the men led them to believe they might have been brothers. Robert Cooper, 62, of 142 S. Oriental St, a night watchman at the Big Four Railroad yards at W. Walnut, said a Negro came to his shanty: door and said: Th Th “This is a stickup. money do you have?” S32 Cooper said he replied’ “none.” The thug then drew a blackjack from his pocket and struck at Cooper, missed him, and fled, police re-

How much

TWO ARE CLEARED IN DEATH AT HOSPITAL

SCOTTSBURG, Dec. 8 (U. P.)— - Byrén Craig, 29, of Madison, and Everett:iZehr, 31, of Marengo, former attendants at the Madison State Hospital, today stood acquitted of a charge of beating to death Everett Devaultl; 47, of Loogootee, a hospital patient, on May 6. A jury in Circuit-Court here found them not guilty of a charge of man-

slaughter in connection with Mr.

Devault’s death.:

POLICEMEN ‘EASY,’

PUGILIST CLAIMS

CLEVELAND, O,, Dec. 8 (U.P) — |i

James Leoni, 21, former Golden Gloves boxer, thinks policemen are “bum fighters.” When Patrolman John Teeters, who outweighs Leoni by 54 pounds, ordered the boxer to “move on,” he resisted, ” blacked Patrolman Teeters’ eye and “roughed up” four other members of the police force before he was subdued.

“Tt was just a light workout,” |b , Leoni said. : i

two bandits, riding In a sedan}.

- Ignorance. Is: Bliss—

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 8; (Ti Pro: =A slightly absent-minded™ |

here’s why: = : She put $309 into a spec= = tacle case and placed the case’ in a new pocketbook, which she decided later to return to’. the shop, not being to her lik- _ ing. The shopkeeper returned . it to the showecdse and ‘was _ about to ‘sell. it to another - customer when. she discovered . "g tear in the lining ‘and sent it away. for repairs. : Ten days later the woman ‘discovered she was missing a =

membered what she had done and rushed to the shop. She recovered the money intact—. no one had known it was there.

ECONOMY CREATES “SPOONERS’ NIGHTS”

_SOUTHBORO, Mass, Dec. 8 (U. P.) —The Southboro spooners ‘are

ing costs.

in street light bills raised such costs above the appropriated sum, so the town agreed not to turn-on the lights for an average of three nights a month—nights when there is moonlight. As a result of the agreement, townsfolk refer to those nights as “spooners’ nights.”

ee LT i— RELIEF COSTS BILLION WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U. P.).— The Treasury disclosed today that cash expenditures for WPA: between last July 1 and Dec. 6 amounted to $1,002,642,023 as against $556,768,520 in thie same period last

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“Istate: Schoolmen to Plan

739 Legislature.

TERRE HAUTE, Dec. 8—A pros

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Legislature next month will ‘be charted by Indiana educators at a meeting of the Indiana Schoolmen’s Club saturday at the Indiana State Teachers College-here, . ~~, “Thesdiscussion by leaders of representative school groups. through-

_ [Rushville superintendent.

McMurray, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, Washspeaker. Others on the program will include: ‘Malcolm Dunn, Marion County school superintendent and County ‘Superintendents Association president; Robert H. Wyath, Pt.

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-esfdent; and Luther A. Lockwood,

MINE CAVEIN KILLS % /THETFORD MINES, Que, Dec: 8 (U. P).~Police said today thal seven miners were killed in a caves in at the Bell Co.'s asbestos mine here last night. re Nine men were working in the mine when the walis and roof; weakened by rain, collapsed. Two

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