Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1939 — Page 5

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4 DENY GUILT ON £640,000 FRAUD GHARGE

Pair Admitting Bank Holdup Given 20-Year Terms by Judge Baltzell.

Not guilty pleas were entered in Federal Court today by three men and a woman indicted on charges of using the mails to defraud 200 Indiana investors of $640.455. They were Mrs. Ethel Pitt Donnell, 3715 N. Meridian St.; Robert Beckett, 5520 College Ave.; John K. Knapp, 2703 Washington Blvd, and Edward J. Hartenfeld, Henderson, Ky, and Chicago. At the same time, two men were given 20-year prison sentences when they pleaded guilty to the holdup May 12 of the Linden State Bank, which was robbed of $2000. They were Maurice Merle Herring, 31, and Byron A. Piner, 29, both of Frankfort. Four other men, held in connection with the robbery Jan. 26 of $500 cash and $7070 in bonds from the Mackey tSate Bank, also pleaded guilty and were to be sentenced later in the day.

21 Others Are Arraigned

The four were Walter Carl Smith, 32; Victor Albert Geppner, 26, and Ernest Robert Bayes, 20, all of Evansville, and Ira Kenneth Tooley, 32, Somerville. In sentencing Herring and Piner, Judge Baltzell told them: “You have no place in society.” Howard Davis, bookkeeper at the Linden State Bank, was called as a witness to describe the holdup. He said one of the men told him to push a button ovening the safe “or I'll blow your head off.” Twenty-one other defendants also were arraigned, most of them pleading guilty. Cread Stockton, Indianapolis, charged with possessing untaxed liquor, was sentenced to three months in jail.

Suspended Sentence Given

John Henry Baker, former Iadianapolis resident accused of using the mails to defraud fish wholesalers, was sentenced to three] months in jail. Mrs. Mabel M. Wells, 47, pleaded guilty to forging a Covington physician's name to 200 narcotics prescriptions. She was given a suspended sentence of a year and a day. Among those pleading guilty and who were to be sentenced later were Murray J. Gibson of Los Angeles, DeWitt Green, Kansas City, Mo, and Frank Anthcny, charged with conspiring to mail narcotics; Raymond W. Fisher, Linton, narcotics violation; Arthur LaVerne Bailey, 32, Evansville, Mann Act violation; Clayton Wilkerson and Claude Leavell, Evansville, and James Conrad Reinhardt, Kokomo, forging indorsements on WPA checks. Others pleading guilty included Delbert A. McClelland and Albert Jones, both of Muncie; Walter Roberts and William John Anderson, Cincinnati; Willie Rowan Steele and William A. Candler, both of Linton, all six charged with transporting stolen cars.

Donnell Trial Nov. 13

Judge Baltzell set Nov. 13 as the date for the trial of Mrs. Donnell and the three men indicted with er. “Are you superstitious about the 13th?” the judge asked. “Well, today's the 13th, isn't it,” Knapp replied. The bonds of both Knapp and Beckett were reduced from $10,000 to $5000 each, with the consent of District Attorney Val Nolan. However, Judge Baltzell declined to reduce Mrs. Donnell’s bond when Mr. Nolan objected that “we consider her a principal in this case.” Mr. Nolan, in commenting on Knapp and Beckett's plae, said he believed “there is some degree of culpability among the defendants.”

room. Policemen and two deputies. Mrs.

escorted to the courtroom by marshal.

Times Photos.

Defendants arraigned before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell today were guarded closely as they were taken from the jail to the court. Escorting them were six deputy U. S. marshals, headed by Julius Wichser (left in upper photo), chief deputy marshal; two State

Ethel Pitt Donnell, charged with

defrauding Indiana investors of $640,455, is shown (left, below) being Mrs. Elsie White Blackburn, deputy

HANOVER AIDED BY LOCAL GIFTS

Mrs. Edgar Evans Gives to Library; C. J. Lynn Donates Organ.

HANOVER, Ind, June 13—| Several contributions from Indian-| apolis residents are among pledges| to the $509,000 drive being conducted | by Hanover College, it was announced today. Mrs. Edgar Evans, of Indianapolis, has presented the college with a gift which will increase the library to half again its size, Dr. Albert G. Parker Jr, college president, said. Charles J. Lynn, of Indianapolis, has donated an organ. Indianapolis members of the college board of directors are Mr. Lynn, Mrs. Evans, Dr. George A. Frantz, First Presbyterian Church pastor; Dr. Jean S. Milner, Second Presbyterian Church pastor; the Rev. Harry Campbell, assistant pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church; Dr. Stanley M. Coulter, Purdue University dean emeritus, and Dr.

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NEWLYWEDS MISSING AFTER MYSTERY NOTE

SALEM, Mass, June 13 (U. P).— New England police searched roadside overnight camps and summer cottages today, seeking to solve the mystery of the missing bride and bridegroom. Arthur H. Snow and his bride of three weeks disappeared a week ago from their apartment here, leaving behind most of their clothing and all of their wedding gifts, some unopened. Only clue was a note left by the bride for their landlady, saying that they had been “called away on an emergency, a matter of life and death.” “We won't be able to get back for a long time, so I want you to have anything you want and throw the rest away,” the note read. “I am nervous.”

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4-H CLUBS COMPETE AT PURDUE ROUNDUP

LAFAYETTE, Ind, June 12 (U. P.) —About 2000 Hoosier boys and girls continued a round of contests today to be climaxed by the annual banquet tonight at the 21st annual 4-H Club roundup at Purdue University. County and district champions competed for State honors in the livestock and corn judging contests, demonstration and health events, and tree and shrub identification contests. Club members toured the Purdue soil and crop farms and inspected special exhibits on agricultural engineering, horticulture, dairy farming and poultry.

SEEKS $10,000

FROM WORLEY

L[U. S. Sues Former Police

Chief for Income Tax, Judgment.

Federal Judge Robert ©. Baltzell

today had under advisement the

Government's civil suit for delinquent income tax judgment of

1$10,114.11 against Claude M. Wor-

ley. Mr. Worley, former Indianapolis Police Chief, was convicted on income tax evasion charges and served three years and nine months in Federal prison, completing the sen-

tence May, 1936. An additional sum in tax, penalties and interest claimed by the Government is offset by the sale of certain stocks owned by Mr. Worley, dividends from other stock, and $112 in gold confiscated from his safety deposit box. The principal point of contention in the hearing yesterday afternoon was an $8000 bonus paid J. E Fehsenfeld, as president of the Crystal Flash Petroleum Co, in 1936. Attorneys said Mr. Fehsenfeld and Mr. Worley were the sole stockholders, holding 51 and 49 per cent, respectively. The Government has a lien on Mr. Worley's 490 shares of stock in the company and has been collecting the dividends which have been applied against the tax claimed by the Government. Defense attorneys contended that the bonus paid Mr. Fehsenfeld should have been distributed as a dividend on the stock, in which case the Government would have collected an additional $3830 to be ap-

plied on Mr. Worley's tax debt.

Autopsy Ordered of Girl | Slain by State Trooper

MAUCH CHUNK, Pa, June 13 (U, P.) ~The body of Joan Stevens was to be examined by physicians today to determine whether the frail, 14-year-old schoolgirl was mistreated before she was shot fatally by a

Pennsylvania Motor Police Corporal.

Meantime, Corp. Benjamin Franklin, 34, at liberty in $5000 bail pending Grand Jury action, was relieved of his duties by State Police Commissioner Lynn G. Adams. Franklin told a Coroner's Jury, and

DENNY IS ELECTED TRADE BOARD HEAD

George L. Denny, attorney, will be installed as president of the Indianapolis Board of Trade at the meeting July 3. Officers were elected yesterday. Edwin K. Shepperd was elected vice president and Albert O. Deluse was elected treasurer. Elected to the Governing Board for the four-year terms were Harry J. Berry, Irving W, Lemaux, William R. Evans, A. D. Hitz, Reily G. Adams, Obie J. Smith, Joseph OC. Gardner, George L. Glossbrenner, Linton A. Cox and Carl F. walk. Elected to three-year terms were John A. Reis, Fred Hoke and Clarence J. Hill, and elected for one year were E. R. Baltzell and Murray H. Morris.

1936 GLAMOUR GIRL IS CLUBMAN’S BRIDE

NEWPORT, R. I, June 13 (U. P.). —The secret marriage of Miss Eleanor Young, society's 1936 glamour girl, and Robert Ogden Bacon

Jr, prominent clubman, was disclosed last night by the bride's

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his story was corroborated by a fellow trooper, that he fired a volley from his service automatic at the girl when she threatened to “blow your heads off” with a pistol that later was discovered to be a toy. District Attorney Albert Heimbach decided on the disinterment to “clear up persistent rumors that prevail.”

FOREST FIRE KILLS 50 ALLAHABAD, India, June 13 (U. P.) —Fifty villagers were killed and hundreds of cattle destroyed by a

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