Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1938 — Page 7

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BREAK FAILS AT BLOOMFIELD AS

Friends of Alleged Slayer Open Way and Delay Too Long.

BLOOMFIELD, Ind. Dec. 13 (U. P.).—Sanford (Slim) Humphreys, indicted for the shack slaying of an eccentric widow, was in solitary confinement today after two of his

pals in the jail bullpen opened a

way to freedom, then made the mis-

take of arguing which one should

go first. Sheriff Bert Caldwell said he dis-

covered a jail break plot hatched up by Mearl Tincher of Gary ang

Charles Lash of Linton, both undt. three-year sentences for burglary.

The Sheriff twice found the door to the jail bullpen open and further

investigation revealed a hole through the jail wall. The hole had been hacked by iron bars from the prisoners’ bunks, Caldwell said, and the bullpen door had been forced. The prisoners did not escape, he said, because neither would go through the wall first. They thought the Sheriff awaited them on the outside with a shotgun, Caldwell said. Tincher and Lash immediately were taken to prison to start their sentences, and Humphreys, who denied he was in on the attempted break, was placed in solitary. Humphrey and James Batchelor, indicted separately in October for

< the slaying of Mrs. Mary Ellis of

near Midland, were reindicted

"jointly yesterday by the Greene

County Grand Jury. The new indictment nullifies action taken to bring the men to trial in different courts, Humphreys here and Batchelor in the Sullivan Circuit Court.

SANTA CLAUS IN JAM, SENDS CALL FOR HELP

SANTA CLAUS, Ind. Dec. 13 (U. P.).—Jim Yellig, commander of the Santa Claus American Legion post, has played Santa much too much and is ready to call its quits, he said today. His Legion post volunteered to answer the annual pleas of children which come into the Santa Claus postoffice in huge sacks; but it’s too big a job, Mr. Yellig said. After a conference with district Legion officials, he decided to forward the youthful requests to Legion posts in the cities where the letters were mailed.

SCHOOL LEGISLATION PARLEY SATURDAY

Representatives of teachers’ organizations and school officials will meet Saturday at the Hotel Lincoln to discuss proposed legislation for the 1939 session of the General Assembly in January. Preliminary meetings have been held by sectional groups of the State Teachers’ Associaton and cther teachers’ organizations, county

. and city school organizations - and

Parent-Teacher organizations. Approximately 25 educational organizations will be represented at the meeting, according to Robert H. Wyatt, executive secretary of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association.

BISHOP FOUT TO SPEAK Bishop H. H. Fout of Indianapolis will deliver the response at the national convention of the Anti-Saloon League of America Thursday at Columbus, O. The address of welcome will be delivered by Dr. Walter G. Clippinger, president of Otterbein College.

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Carpenter Lives to "Grieve Over Death of Wife And Children.

NEW YORK, -Dec. 13 (UU, P.)— Hans Forst, 33-year-old Brooklyn carpenter, returned -to his modest home yesterday evening to find a policeman standing at the entrance. “What's the matter?” the carpenter asked, : “Your wife and kids,” the policeman said. “They're gone. Gas.” Mr. Forst rushed inside and found the bodies of his 26-year-old wife, Margaret, and his sons, Walter, 3.

a bed. He ripped away the sheet which covered them and felt their cheeks. “They're still warm,” he shouted, “Can’t you do something?” Police in the little room, where signs of Christmas were visible, told him that there was nothing left to do. They explained that his wife apparently had been taking a nap, the ycungest child clasped in her arms. Walter, infected by the preholiday excitement which hadstirred his parents to do their Christmas shopping early, had remained awake. The position of the jet handles on the kitchen range indicated, police said, that he had toddled into the cramped little room and amused himself by turning the shiny nobs. Four were c¢pen. Neighbors had smelled gas and called the police. Mr. Porst refused to be consoled. “We had made all our plans for Christmas,” he said. The police finally went away and left him alone. At 4 a. m. today two patrolmen in a radio car saw a man lying on the ground at the corner of Seventh Ave, and 50th St., a few steps from the ¥orst home at 6018 Seventh Ave. : They took the man to Kings County Hospital. It was Mr. Forst. He said he had swallowed poison. “There’s no need of living now, aftex what happened yesterday,” he said. Physicians said, however, that he probably would live.

HOOSIER HITCH-HIKER DIES VAN WERT, O., Dec. 13 (U. P.)— An unidentified hitch-hiker, about 40 years old and well-dressed, died in a hospital here today. He was struck while walking on the highway, five miles east of here, last night. He was believed to be from Ft. Wayne, Ind. Miss Mina Eichler,

Ft. Wayne, driver of the car, was not held by authorities. :

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Top Left—Foundations are being laid for the last of the new additions to Julietta Hospital, which is to become Marion County’s new in“firmary Jan. 1. For nearly 50 years the hospital has been the County’s

Top Right—Here is one of the new dormitories for the infirmary inmates who are being transferred to Julietta from the County’s old infirmary on Tibbs Ave. Under a 1937 law, the Tibbs Ave. property was deeded over to the State which, in turn, is taking custody of the

Below—This is Julietta’s recently constructed dining hall which will seat about 300 persons. The last of the County's mental patients

will be removed to State hospitals next week and the transfer of the last 100 of the County’s 600 infirmary inmates to Julietta will be com-

Two Kinds of Husbands, but Both Try Suicide for Love

WPA Worker's Spouse Near Death as He Shoots Her and Self.

BEAVER FALLS, Pa. Dec. (U. P.).—Maddened by his failure to effect a reconciliation with his eStranged wife, mother of eight children, Frank Hardman, 58, Darlington Township, WPA worker, ran amok with a gun, critically wounding his wife and shooting three other persons before killing himself. The scene of the attempted mass slaying-suicide was the isolated Hardman faim, five miles from nearby Darlington, Pa. The tragedy occurred late yesterday, after Hardman had spent hours trying to persuade his wife to take him back. The victims, in addition to Hardman’s wife, . Rose, 47, were his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Dorothy Hardman, 22, mother of two young ¢hildren; Chester Dickey, 24, of Rodgers, O., and Raymond Feazel, 23, of near Negley, O., friends of the younger Mrs. Hardman, Shot through the head, near the left temple, Mrs. Rose Hardman was battling for life in Providence Hospital today. She has been unconscious since the shooting. Mrs. Dorothy Hardman suffered a superficial wound in. the right side, while Dickey was grazed on both forearms by a single bullet and eazel was suffering with a slight head wound where a bullet grazed him. All were recovering at their homes after treatment by a doctor,

WABASH DEBATING TEAM IS ENLARGED

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MONEY GRANTED FOR NEW SCHOOL

Work on Lawrence Township Consolidated Building to Start Feb. 1.

Construction work on a new consolidated high school building for Lawrence Township, to cost $383,800,

will be started about Feb. 1, Carl Kortepeter, Marion County WPA director, announced today. The building, which will pave the way for merging the township's three present high schools into’ one unit, will be erected with WPA labor on township property at the town of Lawrence. A WPA grant of $286,800 for the project was approved yesterday by President Roosevelt. The remaining $97,000 of the cost will be paid out of township funds, according to Trustee Henry T. VanCleave. The townships present three high schools are at Castleton, Oaklandon and Lawrence. Part of the WPA funds will be used to remodel the Oaklandon and Castleton build-

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Mr. Kortepeter said.

WINS $8000 JUDGMENT MARION, Dec. 13 (U. P.).—A

Grant Circuit Court jury last night.

awarded $8000 to Lewis Wilson in his $20,000 damage suit against the Anaconda Wire & Cable Co. Mr. Wilson alleged he contracted lead poisoning while employed in the Marion factory.

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