Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1939 — Page 30
MERCY KILLER
OF IDIOTIC SON
gal Authority Doubts Jury
Will Indict N. Y. Man For Murder. NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (U. P)—
‘he mother of a 17-year-old hoy gin by his father decided today—
‘after hours of deliberation—that her|
husband had been right and that she would stand by him. ‘ Their son was a hopeless imbectle, “with the mind of a baby of two. y had exhausted ever resource of medicine and of hope. For 17 tears they had cared for a child which grew physically “like any ‘other child, but mentally never left the cradle. Finally, the father, Louis Greenfield, 42, chloroformed
“Legal authority expressed the opinion that no action whatever . would be taken against Greenfield, who freely confessed a crime falling unquestionably within the legal definition of murder. .
Grand Jury to Get Case. Mrs.
"no share in her husband’s decision. He sent her sway yesterday morning and when she was sent for her son was dead and her husband was fin jail. She listened to what her husband had done, thought about it all afternoon and into the eve‘ning, and last night went to the police station where he was held and asked to see him. That was against regulations, but the at-
to h : “Ask him if he’s all right,” she said. Greenfield sent word that he was all right and that she was to take a firm hold on her nerves. Police didn’t think so,” They had a guard putside his cell all night and took his belt, necktie and shoe laces away from him lest he try to k himself.
He will be in the police lineup this morning, will be formally arraigned on a charge of homicide, and, in a few days, the Bronx County grand jury will decide whether he should be formally charged with a crime and if so, what crime. Prosecutor Samuel J. Foley said he would ask for a murder indictment as a matter of duty, but he thought it a “very sad” case.
Upheld by Friends, Relatives
The son: Greenfield killed was Jerome, who was five feet, nine inches tall, weighed 160 hounds, but did not even have sufficient intelligence to reliably control the primary functions of his body. He spoke a baby gibberish understandable only to his parents and was subject to epileptic fits. Friends ‘and relatives of the Greenfields understood perfectly
. why the father had acted. as he did.
They said ‘the parents had been subjected to every conceivable tor‘ment for 15 years. “It was just a question of who was to die first from the suffering— the boy or one of his parents,” said Sol Fixler, Greenfield's brother-in-law. -Greenfield for years had spent hours in glum silence watching the almost grown man, whose face now was darkened by the first down of his beard, playing with blocks and rattles. With the greatest reluctance, he and his wife had accepted . the medical verdict that he was - hopeless and he was trying to bring | himself to permitting him to be buried alive in an institution. The lawyers who commented on the case for the United Press recalled the case of Harry C. Johnson, 67, who in October in Hewlett, Long Island, killed his aged wife because she was suffering Irightiully from incurable cancer.
eA HARDWARE MEN MEET JAN, 24
40th State Convention to Be Held at Murat.
~The Indiana Retail Hardware Association is to hold its 40th annual convention and exposition in the Murat Temple Jan, 24 to 27, it was announced today. Robert B. Kelly, Winamac, is president. Brig. Gen. D. Wray DePrez, +helbyville, past president of the Twenty-Five Year Association . Club, is to award certificates of membership at the luncheon to dealers who have been members 25 . years. Speakers will be W. H. Bryan, St. Louis, Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. divisional manager; Joseph L. Weiland, Indianapolis, Indiana Pharmaceutical Association secretary; Mrs. Margaret Hewiit, Chicago, director . of the Hewitt School of Continued Education; Charles R. Isaacs, Indianapolis, Merchandising Division manager of the National Retail
Anne Greenfield was given |§
Here are the half dozen freshmen Republican Congressmen from Indiana attending class under Jendant offered to take a message their dean, Rep. Charles Halleck (seated center),
who now is Servings his third term.
AWAITING JOBS ON COMMITTEES
Indiana Lawmakers Are Due For Assignments in Capital Soon.
Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Freshmen Republican Congressmen from Indiana expect to be given their committee assignments soon and because Rep. Halleck (R.) is on the party’s steering committee, each expects to get the principal assign-
ment he asked for, it was indicated :
today. Since Rep. Halleck is on the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee; Rep. John W. Boehne Jr. (D.), Ways and Means, and Rep. Louis Ludlow (D.), Appropriations, no other Hoosiers were assigned to the four major committees of the House. Former Rep. Arthur Greenwood (D.) would have been ranking member of the Rules Committee had he been re-elected. Principal assignments sought by the new Republicans are: Mr. Grant, Foreign Affairs; Mr. Gillie, Agriculture: Mr. Springer, Judiciary; Mr. Harness, Military fairs; Mr. Johnson, Rivers me ar bors or Banking and Currency, and Mr. Landis, Labor.
Triplets Die; Mourned by Father, 80
LEONARDTOWN, Md., Jan. 13 (U. P.).—John Benjamin Burroughs, 80-year-old father of triplets born to his 33-year-old wife, was grief-stricken today by failure of efforts to save the babies’ lives. St. Mary’s Hospital officials announced late last night that the third baby had died despite an attempt to keep all of them alive in an incubator. The babies were born prematurely Tuesday night. The first child, a boy, was delivered with the assistance of only a midwife. A country physician arrived in time to deliver the other two—both girls. The boy died soon after they were transferred to the hospital. One of the girls died Wednesday and the other last night. Mr. Burroughs has 14 other '. children. Five of them were borne by his present wife— his third—to whom he was married when she was 15. There were eight children by his first marriage and one: by his second.
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Indianapolis, Association secretary; || G. W. Sulley, Oxford, O., sales and | merchandising expert; Wilfrid D. Galpin, Cleveland, Director of Edueation, General Electric Co.; Veach C. Redd, Cynthiana, Ky., National Retail Hardware Association presi‘dent, and E. C. Gorrell, Winamac newspaperman. ‘More than 100 manufacturers and wholesalers will have displays at the Exposition. Homer Hipskind, Wa‘bash, is exhibits chairman; Karl L. er, New Albany, sergeant-at- ; Charles C. Bryan, Tipton, tions chairman; A. S. Grone- , Mt. Vernon, resolutions chairman; Ralph McCampbell, French ‘ Lick, registration chairman; Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Miller, Kendallville, ‘general entertainment cochairmen, and Mrs. Robert B Kelly, Winamac, jadies’ entertainment committee
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Pole Pioneer Unmasked at Dinner Party
NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (U. P.).—One of the guests at a party given by Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Thomas was introduced as Sheik Ahmad Mukhta Al-Sulh. He sat is native costume, silent throughout the dinner to the wonderment of guests who included Mme. V. K. Wellington Koo, wife of the Chinese Ambassador to France, Sir Ronald and Lady Storr and Comm. Donald B. MacMillan, who was with Robert E. Peary on his North Pole expedition. After dinner Comm. MacMillan mentioned the expedition and remarked that the young American who accompanied Comm. Peary to the Pole has never received the honor due him. At that the Sheik arose and doffed his turban. He was Matthew Henson, the Negro who with three Eskimoes and Comm. Peary first set foot on the North Pole.
7 NEW DIRECTORS ELECTED BY BY C. OF C.
Seven additional dh directors were elected yesterday in the first monthly board meeting this year of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. ; on The new directors are Henry Holt, resident partner of Thomson & McKinnon; Edward B. Raub, Indianapolis Life Insurance Co. president; Russell S. Williams, Gaseteria, Inc. president; Dr. Norman M. Beatty, physician; Joseph M.
‘| Bloch, Gibson Co. secretary-treas-
urer and general manager; Everett E. Allison of the Cteinhart Grain Co. and H. C. Krannert, Inland Container Corp. president and treasurer. ; . The new members increase the board membership to 28. George S. Olive’ was chairman of the special nomination committee.
FIRE DAMAGES CASTLE
EDINBURG, Jan. 13 (U. P.)—Fire damaged the south wing of Scotland’s oldest castle, Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye, for centuries the seat of the Macleod of Macleod. During one of the first snowstorms of tie season, more than 200 jslanders fought savagely to quench the flames ‘and salvage the historic treasures within the ancient walls.
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Says; Didn’t Try to Sell Her Bonds.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13 (U. B).— |;
The Securities ard Exchange Commission heard today that ‘purported
. | Wall Street representatives of Wil-|4
liam F. Buckner Jr. had approached film’ stars with a “getrich-qui eme.
: ; Buckner himself, ‘indicted in the | | kiting of Philippine Railway bonds,
meanwhile was visiting the motion |§
‘| picture capital and paying court to
Police'ar-| piiug Col. D. A. Davison, En- ‘ alleged. traffic. : | tions, '20 more than the day ‘before, Sineep Coupe, v S. Army, wi "Motorcycle Crashes Spe nday at a dinner meetay oy es) ing of the Indiana Section of the - Robert: ‘Scherschel, 23, of :1402
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+ |aitiop in City Hospital with tnjuries| 2 The mesting will be held
{ at 6 p. m. at Hotel Washington. |réceived last night when the motor‘|eycle he was Tiding’ was ‘in a colli- Lieut, Col. Davison will discuss
: “Flood Control for the Ohio River : To Bjcar aticessler Bivd. and and Tts Tributaries.”
The cr was driven by Thandre HARVARD PROFESSOR.
3 8. Buck, 3048 |N. Pennsylvania St. | Of.the 73 persons arrested for al- % charged with running red lights, 14 {with running preferential streets, Samuel * H. Cross, L Cros. protesior of 15 with Speeding, one with’ reckless | Slavic languages and literature at
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Loretta Young, the actress. * But he didn’t ask Miss Young to buy bonds, she said. “He did not ask me to invest any money and I certainly didn’t invest any,” she told newsmen outside the Federal Building Hearing room where Hollywood celebrities are being questioned about Buckner’s activities. “I have: known Mr. Buckner a year or more,” she said. “You might gay I know him very well. I met him in Hollywood. Really, I've forgotten where or who introduced us. He séemed like a very nice person and I went out with him on a number of ‘occasions. : Later I
rénewed by acquaintance with him|
in New York, but there is very little I can tell you shout: his situation.
ing, left to right) Reps. George W. Gillis, Noble J ‘Johnson, Gerald W. Landis and Robert A. Grant, (seated) Forrest Harness, Halleck and Raymond | Ss. from Homer where she Was born. Dp.
eAL TINNEY T0 SPEAK.
TO COUNTY: TEACHERS Homer Baptist Church.
Teachers of 37 Marion County ness ‘with her daughter, Mrs. Hazel | will convene at 1:30 p. m. ‘tomorrow at
Warren Central High: School to hear day an address by Cal Tinney, New. York brother,
schools outside Indianapolis.
newspaper columnist.
: Ho He will talk on “The Washington |Hearst Cemetery. The county school teachers plan mass conferences, with |brother, Fred G. Arbuckle, Rush- logue of history. prominent speakers on the program, |ville, ‘and two grandchildren, Miss| Museum officials astonished police about once a month during the Godbac Ann Goldbach and, Robert, joy Setting the books’ ota value at 2 ! 1Goldbach. oR £
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with other alleged | Harvard University, will speak Feb. 4 under the auspices of the Harvard Club of Indianapolis. His subject will be, “Europe at the Crossroads.” The lecture will be given at 8:15 .m. at the Indiana War Memorial Auditorium. John G. Rauch, presi|She .attended : DePauw University |dent of the Harvard Club, will inand was ‘a: graduate of -Franklin|troduce Professor Cross.
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Mrs; Plummer, widow: of ‘Edward Plummer, came here 40 years ago
200-YEAR: OLD BOOKS | - VALUED A AT $12.50 Goldbach, 2102. N. Meridian St., in
ankers Trust Bldg. PHILADELPHIA, Jar Jan, 13 (U. P.). BD services will g held Sun- | —TWwo books, each nearly 200 rears afternoon at the home of a|0ld, have been 'siolen . from the James W. Arbuckle, at Academy of Natural Sciences. She will ‘be’ ‘buried in .. Both were printed in Latin in : 17 One was a dissertation on ‘another | travel and the other was a cata-
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