Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1939 — Page 5
FRIENDS RAISE FUNDS TO SAVE INDIANA WOMAN
Former New Albany Girl, Declared Legally Dead, Is Facing Chair.
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(NEA) —To save a legally “dead” woman from the electric chair, this Ohio River town has raised $700 in a drive toward a $1000 goal. She iz 34-year-old Mrs. Lucille
Anderson, first woman to be given| W
the death penalty in the state of}: Arkansas, scheduled for execution);
in the slaying of a Hot Springs chain store official. She is also “the late” Lusetta McMonigle, New Albany girl, who vanished in October, 1925, at the
age of 20, and was declared dead
in Circuit Court three years ago.
Disappearance Mysterious For years police followed every
lead in a search for Lusetta. An|t
orphan, she had been reared in the home of the Graybrooks in New Albany, sent to school, made a memper of a church. There seemed to be no logical reason for her disappearance. Some said that she might have committed suicide, as her father had. Others believed she had been kidnaped and slain. But every clew led up a blind alley. Finally, in 1936, Irene Graybrook, daughter of the woman with whom Lusetta had lived, filed a petition to have the missing girl declared legally dead in order to dispose of the $250 worth of personal property she had left. The petition was granted by the Circuit Court. The story begins again with a holdup of a grocery executive in Hot Springs, Ark, in September, 1938. Eldon Cooley, the 26-year-old victim, was murdered by bandits.
Four Get Death Penalty
Arrested in the case were Joseph B. (Smoky Joe) Anderson, 36, his wife and two others. They all received the death penalty. Then New Albany learned what had become of Lusetta McMonigle. In an effort to save herself from the chair, Mrs. Anderson admitted her identity. Two Hot Springs ministers became interested in her case and journeyed to New Albany in February. With the aid of a local preacher, they secretly raised $250 to appeal the woman's case to the Arkansas Supreme Court. The appeal was granted, but Mrs. Anderson was faced with raising additional funds to meet expenses of a second trial. Again the friends of her childhood days answered. Shortly after St. Mark's Evangelieal Church, where she was confirmed as & girl, announced a campaign to obtain more money, the financial drive received inspiration. On March 11, before he was executed, “Smoky Joe” Anderson declared his wife innocent. Strapped to the chair, he calmly told the executioner to “hold it a minute.” Then he pleaded leniency for Mrs. Anderson, placing entire blame for the killing on himself and two other men sentenced with him —Alfred Dickson, 34, and Bill Johnson, 33. Several days later, Miss Graybrook received a letter from Anderson, written before his death. The fetter stated that Mrs. Anderson knew nothing of the crime and expressed hope that friends would come to her aid. The trial is scheduled for April 17. New Albany is responding to a windup, house-to-house canvass to reach the financial goal before the deadline. And leading the drive for life is the very woman who had Lusetta McMonigle declared “dead.”
INSURANCE MEETING |S SCHEDULED AT I. U.
Times Special BLOOMINGTON, April 12.—The first Indiana Conference on Fire and Casualty Insurance, sponsored by the Indiana Asscciation of Insurance Agents and Indiana University, is to be held here May 19-20. Ross E. Coffin, Indianapolis, president of the association, and Dr. Herman B Wells, university president, have invited more than 600 insurance agents to attend. Discussion subjects include analysis and surveys, health and accident hospitalization insurance, fire and extended coverage, business interruption, inland marine, public liability, automobile and suretyship. George H. Newbauer, State insurance commissioner, will act with Mr. Wells and Mr. Coffin as the conference advisory committee. Indianapolis members of the executive committee include Robert A. Hendrickson and Irving Williams.
TAMMANY (CAT) ILL AT HOSPITAL IN N. Y.
NEW YORK, April 12 (U. P).— Tammany, the tiger cat which for seven years has been listening in the line of duty to City Council speeches, was in Speyer Hospital for Animals today, a victim of gall stones which caused uremic poison-
ing. The best ratter in City Hall, Tammany arrived there as a kitten in 1932 and was given his name by Mayor James J. Walker. After Mayor La Guardia’s second election and the rout of Tammany Hall his name plate was removed. Dr. James R. Kinney said it might be necessary to operate.
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AVERAGE STATE PAY $907 IN'37
Figure for Those Under OldAge Insurance Lowest of Five Central States.
Times Special WASHINGTON, April 12 — The Indiana worker who was covered by Federal old-age insurance received an average of $907 for his year’s work in 1937, a Social Security Board analysis disclosed today. The average for the country was $890, but the Indiana figure was lowest in the five East North Central states. The totals in this group were: Ohio, $1025; Illinois, $1029; Michigan, $1102, and Wisconsin, $928. The East North Central average was $1020. The Michigan total was highest for the country, with New York at $1042, second, and Illinois third. There were 826272 employees in Indiana covered by Federal old-age insurance in 1937 and their wages totaled $749,144 848. Ninety-seven per cent of those insured earned less than $3000 and their earnings accounted for 90 per cent of the total, the report shows.
DRUG USED FOR POISON ARROWS AIDS PARALYSIS
Curare, Weapon of Death in Jungle, May Relieve Many in U. S.
By DAVID DIETZ . Times Science Editor CLEVELAND, April 12.-Curare, the deadly drug used for centuries by the natives of Ecuadorian jungles to tip their poison arrows, has now
been discovered to be an effective treatment for spastic paralysis, a painful disease afflicting tens of thousands in this country. The successful treatment of the disease with injections of curare was announced today by Dr. Michael S. Burman, who carried out his researches at the New York Hospital for Joint Diseases. At the same time it was announced that Dr. Burman’s results had been cone firmed by Dr. Tracy Putnam of the Harvard University School of Medi-
cine. 4 It is believed that victims of spastic paralysis are more numerous in the United States than those of infantile paralysis. The disease is widespread in all countries of temperate climate but less common in the tropic zone. The disease is particularly dreadful because it is so extremely painful. Its victims are among the most pain-ridden of all mortals.
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