Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1940 — Page 8

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* POLICE TO FIGHT PLEA OF ROMIG HERSFOR GEMS

5 Needed as Evidence if Suspect Leaves Hospital, Says Chief Morrissey.

Police Chief Michael Morrisey today indicated he will fight efforts of Carrie Lela Romig’s heirs to recover from authorities $1500 in Jewels alleged to have peen stolen

a year ago. ~ Chief Morrisey said he wants to keep custody of the jewels as evidence against the alleged slayer, William Ray Butsch, 57-year-old ex-convict, now confined at the Indiana State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

Sister and Niece File Suit

Alma D. Wernert, sister of Mrs. Romig, and Jane E. Muhleman, a neice, were named beneficiaries of the estate, and Wilbur F. Pell, executor, filed a suit in Probate Court two “weeks ago seeking to replevin the jewelry, which is locked in a Police Department vault. Chief Morrissey was named a defendant. : - Prosecutor David M. Lewis became g party in the suit Friday by filing an intervening petition and the Prosecutor and Chief Morris~ sey conferred with Probate Judge Smiley Chambers yesterday about the action.

May Seek Court Order

Chief Morrissey said that if the heirs won the right [to receive the jewels he will ask for a Court order preventing the possessors from disposing of the jewels. Butsch, who was declared of unsound mind and therefore temporarily escaped trial on murder charges, will be eligible a year from " now to make a first application for a rehearing on his sanity iran attempt to gain release from prison. Authorities hope to keep the jewels, considered the most important motive evidence in the sensational hammer slaying, until after a i hearing is held.

J. W. MOORE AND SON APPEAL SENTENCES

: John W. Moore Sr. and his son, © John W., Moore Jr., have filed notices of appeal in Federal Court from their sentences last week on charges of violating the National Banking Act. The two men, former Continental Credit Corp officials of Winchester, Ind., were sentenced to two and onehalf years each in Federal prison by Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Judge Baltzell ordered that their sentences run concurrently with sentences they received in December, 1938, after conviction on charges of using the mails to defraud. The elder Moore was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined $500 and his son was sentenced to five years in prison and fined $1500 on the mail fraud charge. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the mail fraud convictions Dec. 13. The elder Moore has indicated he would, if he can, fight both the cases through to the U. S. Supreme Court.

GERMAN BOYS IN PRISON FOR PRANK

BERLIN, Jan. 9 (U. P.).—A police court at Erfurt has sentenced two boys under 16 years of age to terms of 18 and 27 months in prison for “endangering passengers,” it was announced today. " The boys were accused of stretching a string across a street, during, the nightly air-raid blackout, to

LOCAL DEATHS

Dr. Willis B. Stewart

Pallbearers for Dr. Willis B. Stewart, Indianapolis physician who died Sunday at his home, 2621 College Ave., were named yesterday. Active pallbearers will be Dr. JW.

| Webb, Dr. H.-Alden Adams, Jesse

C. Moore, H. B. Pike, William F. Hopper and W. Earl Gentry. Honorary pallbearers include George J. Marott, Murat W. Hopkins, Harry O. Luft, the Rev. Vernon W. Couillard, Dr. John Coons of Lebanon, Ind., Dr. Roy Fisher of Arcadia, Ind.. Dr. D. F. Eikenberry and Dr. H. W. Eikenberry, both of Peru, Dr. Frank A. ‘Beardsley of Frankfort and Dr. Arthur M. Record of Franklin.* Others are Dr. Karl R. Ruddell, Dr. H. G. Hamer, Dr. T. B. Noble Sr., Dr. Edgar F. Kiser, Dr. A. F. Weyerbacher, Oscar Montieth, P. C. Jacobs, J. Albert Crouch, John W. Parkhurst, Charles F. Remy, Col Robert L. Moorhead and A. J. Hecker. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow at Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. Burial will be at Crown Hill Cemetery.

Mrs. Wilhelmina B. Winter

Funeral services for Mrs. Wilhelmina Backemeyer Winter, widow of Dr. Carl G. Winter, will be held at 1:45 p. m. tomorrow at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Margaret Puhlmann, at Cumberland, Ind. Other services will be held at 2 p. m. at the St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed Church there. Burial will be at St. :John’s Cemetery at Cumberland. Mrs. Winter died yesterday at her daughter’s home. She was 68. Dr. Winter formerly was Marion County deputy coroner and had been national physician of the Elks Lodge. He was president of the old Indianapolis Public Savings Life Insurance Co. and of the Lincoln Life Insurance Cc. Mrs. Winter .was an Indianapolis native and had attended public schools here. She was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church in Indianapolis 25 years and was a member of the Missionary Sewing Circle at Cumberland. Survivors are her daughter; two sisters, Mrs. Henry C. Bosse and Mrs. Carl M. Josse of Indianapolis; four brothers, William, Herman and Alfred Backemeyer of Indianapolis, and Henry of Bellhaven, Va., and a grandson, Carl F. Puhlmann.

Mrs. Elizabeth Schulmeyer

Mrs. Elizabeth Schulmeyer, an Indianapolis resident 60 years, died yesterday at her home, 2059 Park Ave. Ill six weeks, she was 78. Mrs. Schulmeyer was born at Columbus, Ind. She was a member of the Indianapolis Turner's women’s auxiliary and of the Altenheim auxiliary. Survivors are: four daughters, Miss Louise M., Miss Vera, Miss. Meta, all of Indianapolis, and Mrs. P. M. Orlopp of Lombard, Ill, and three sons, Frederick W. and Walter B. of Indianapolis and Harold - B. Schulmeyer of Lakeland, Fla. Services will be held at 3:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Flanner & Buchanan Morfuary. Cremation will follow : bo

Mrs. Charles W. Dowd

Mrs. Antoinette Marie Dowd, 4107 Park Ave. the wife of Dr. Charles W. Dowd, died yesterday at St. Vincent’s Hospital after several months’ illness. She was 45. Born at Louisville, Ky., Mrs. Dowd had lived here 21 years. She was a member of the St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church and of its Woman’s Club and was a director of the Floyd County Society. Survivors are her husband; a daughter, Miss Dorothy of Indianapolis; a son, Charles; a sister, Mrs. Anna H. Suttle of Louisville, and a brother, Otto J. Hudduch of Chattanooga, Tenn. Services will be held at 9 a. m.

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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF CONDITION

Mrs. Mercia N. Weitzel

Thursday at the church. Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery.

Jesse D. Click

Funeral services for Jesse D. Click, 14 S. Butler Ave. were held at 10} a. m. today at Lebanon, Ind. Bur- | ial was also at Lebanon. Mr, Click was 80. He died Sunday at a :Lebanon hospital of injuries Christmas Day in an automobile accident. Mr. Click had been visiting a sister at

Lebanon. Born in Boone County, he had. lived at Indianapolis since 1900. His wife, Mrs. Ida Click, died three years ago. Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Jean Walters of Orlando, Fla. and Miss Annice Click of Chicago; three sons, George and Walter Click of Indianapolis and Parker Click of Pittsburgh, Pa.; two sisters, Mrs. Sam Coulson and Mrs. Omer Perkins of Lebanon, and a brother, Frank of Indianapolis.

Mrs. Ovid R. Mann

Mrs. Ovid R. Mann, 4930 W. 15th St., died yesterday at St. Vincerit’s Hospital. She had been a patient there since Saturday. Born at Greenfield, Mrs. Mann was 38 and had been an Indian: olis resident 20 years. She was member of the Christian Church and of the Florence Nightingale Club. Survivors are her husband; aj daughter, Miss Margaret Kathryn Mann; a sister, Mrs. Paul Catterson, all of Indianapolis, and her father, Edward Mannon of Greenfield.

Funeral services for Mrs. Mercia N. Weitzel, an Indianapolis resident 35 years, will be held at 1:30-p. m. tomorrow at her home, 3315 E. Washington St. Burial will be at Memarial Park Cemetery. Mrs. Weitzel died Sunday at Methodist Hospital. She was 72. Survivors are four daughters, Mrs, John Lund and Miss Beatrice Weitzel, Indianapolis; Mrs. Richard Farrington of St. Louis, Mo., and Mrs. Clem F. Miller of Mulberry, Ind. and two sons, John, of St. Louis, and Harry, of Indianapolis. :

Dr. Thomas B. Johnson

Active pallbearers for Dr. Thomas B. Johnson, Indianapolis physician who died Saturday at his home, 6001 W. Washington St., will be Drs. Ross - C. Ottinger, Glen V. Ryan, Joseph L. West, Russell A. Sage,

Foster J. Hudson and John H. Eber- ||}

wein. Honorary pallbearers will be Drs. John M. Cunningham, Edgar F. Kiser, Larue D. Carter, William F. Molt, Horace M. Banks and E. O. Asher. Services will be held at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Shirley Bros. Mortuary. Burial will be at Crown Hill cemetery. ‘

CORRECTION

G. A. Efroymson is president and treasurer of Real Silk Hosiery Mills, Inc., rather than Robert A. Efroymson, as reported in an article in The Times yesterday.

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