Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1938 — Page 7

~ Continental Notes - Paid Off Promptly, John Moore Jr. Says Petitions. Gil to Support en Claim in

Million-Dollar Mail Fraud Case; Expect Trial to End Kriday.

. Evidence intended to prove that the Continental Credit Corp. at all times prier to its collapse promptly paid’its commercial paper, was given in Federal Court today as John W. Moore Jr., one of the defendants, again went on the witness stand in an alleged million-dollar mail fraud

case. ; Mr: Moore thumbed a large ledger for several : hours, eiting various transactions to support his testimony of prompt payment of notes placed with his company for sale. In some instances, he said, his company paid for the commercial paper before selling it. + He is vice president of the credit corporation and secretary-treasurer of the Indiana Warehouse Corp. = Five officials of the credit corporation or of its alleged subsidiaries are defendants in the case. g

: Overvaluation Charged

. The trial, which opened two weeks ago, is expected to continue until Friday, defense attorneys said. More than 125 Government witnesses testified for nine.and one-half days. : The Government has charged that these officers used the U. S. mails in an alleged scheme to defraud several hundred banks. Witnesses dalled by U. S. Attorney Va® Nolan stated they purchased notes from Continental which were backed by warehouse receipts. * They later found that these receipts were identical with ones other banks held, which had been pledged on other notes, it was testified. The Government has alleged that more than $160,000 in “bogus warehouse receipts” were issued by the defendants. : : A further charge that receipts were overvalued by as much as 90 per cent was in the indictment.

Claims Firm “Defrauded”

In his testimony, Mr. Moore Jr. told the jury that witnesses who have testified against him had “defrauded the Continental Corp.” He also stated that all warehouse receipts were backed. by . collateral worth at least 115 per cent of the value of the notes. Continental stenographers - also testified that they never had made duplicates of warehouse receipts ex- . cept in cases where the receipt. was mutilated. In those cases, they stated, the word “cancelled” was stamped across the original. Defendants are: John W. Moore Sr., Continental president; Mr. Moore Jr.; Kenneth -P. Kimball, president of the Kim-Murph Co.; Ralph S. Phillips, and Russell E. Wise, Continental counsel and later receiver for the corporation.

FOUNDLING REMAINS IN GOOD CONDITION

A foundling, abandoned Dec. 5 on the doortep of a North Side home and taken to City Hopital with a congenital pinal ailment, remained in good condition at the hopital toay. No final deciion ha been made on who will get cutody of the. child. The unmarried mother wa charged with child neglect.

SAFETY RECORD IN BUILDING CITED

SACREMENTO, Cal., Dec. 19 (U. P.).—As the $7,000,000 U. S. Army air

depot nears completion, supervising engineers have called attention to the almost perfect safety record established on the project. . Only -one fatal accident has occurred, a steel worker fell 60 feet from the. frame of one of the large repair docks and died from injuries. Since construction began about two and one-half years ago# only three mien have been seriously injured.

SAVE GIRL FROM SLAYER-SUITOR

Abducted Daughter Tells of Parents Being Killed, Sisters Injured.

AUSTIN, Tex. Dec, 19 (U. P.).— Wilma Kennedy, blond wisp of a girl, 16, was rescued today from her forbidden Mexican suitor, who reportedly admitted killing her parents and crushing the skulls of her two sisters so he could abduct her. Officers. found her, apparently unharmed, in a house near Austin where they captured Frank Salazar, 24. He had been a helper at the Kennedy farm home near San Angelo until his dismissal several months .ago because of his marked attentions to Wilma. Her. parents threatened to kill him if he didn't leave her alome and get out of the vicinity. Under questioning, aided by Governor Allred, Salazar said that he went to New Mexico after Wilma’'s father, Paul Kennedy, paid him off. But he couldn’t stay away. He returned to the little town of Miles, near the Kennedy home, and waited on the streets for sight of Wilma. She noticed him, he said, but ignored him when he. tried to speak. He wrote her letters, but she would not answer them.

Rented Shotgun

‘So he-rented’a shotgun, bought ammunition, and, Thursday, hid in a cottonseed storage house near the Kennedy farm until the family retired. : “I must have been asleep when my parents were killed,” Wilma told

a shot and then groans. I it was my mother moaning got up to go to her. ; “Salazar grabbed me in the dark. I tried to scream. He choked me. Then he dragged me out to the garage and tied me with a strong cord. It wasn’t rope but it was so strong I could not break it. :

‘Threatened to Kill . .

“He threatened to kill me if I didn’t keep quiet and do as he said. “We drove off in our automobile. We went through San Angelo, Eden, Brady and Fredericksburg to Austin. There he took me to a house he said was his sister's. We stayed there Friday night. “Saturday we drove to a house in the country near Austin where the officers found us.” Every peace officer in Texas and Oklahoma was asked to join the search for Wilma and her abductor after her uncle, Earl Kennedy, discovered the slayings Saturday noon. Wilma’s sisters, Fay, 3, and Imogene, 10, are barely alive.

CHURCH TO PRESENT

The new cantata, “Navitatas Christi,” by Hugh Maurice Jones, will be presented at the University Park Christian Church on Friday at 8:45 p, m. instead of yesterday, as

reported in Saturday’s issue of The Times. :

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