Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1941 — Page 19

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GARDENIA

- By SHEILA JOHN DALY

THE FUNERAL procession moved down the boulevard toward the church. ° At the head of the parade rode three motorcycle policemen and down the sides rode their fellow offi4 cers, their caps pulled down over their eyes and their collars turned up against the rain which came down in a slow drizzle.

he pungent odor of flowers]; teached her even through the closed | | windows of the first car. There were] | lots of flowers, she thought. He'd| }_.. always liked flowers. Even when hej £

was little. Her numb brain mused

Funny, they had so many at his - funeral.

“She was little and thin and looked |

quite lost in the bigness of the affair. Her small black coat was pulled tightly around her slight frame and her wispy .white hair «stuck out from under her little Black hat with the huge feather ird. * Funny, she thought. It was raining like this the day he was born. That was over 30 years ago. She and Ben had lived in a shabby two-room apartment that they ‘had to struggle to keep. Little Ben was a good boy then, too, but when his father died he wanted more than she could give him. He liked flowers even then. In fact that was what started him on his bad life. He liked flowers and things that he couldn't afford to have and he wanted his mother to have them, too. And he knew how to get those things. : ~ 2 2 2

“SHE SCOLDED HIM when he grabbed that first gardenia off the stand in the L station but she - couldn't stay angry very long because he had stolen it to give to the little Crosley girl. The procession stopped in front of the church. She stepped out mecanically and walked slowly up the darkly wet stone steps. Her eyes dimmed with tears and she saw him

again as she had sent him to school|

for the first time. She had bought him a pair of new trousers, his first long pair. She had been saving for . them for a long time but he had wanted them so very much. A tear rolled down her cheek and ghe saw him coming home in his long trousers—ragged now—with- a big bunch of flowers in his arms. Flowers cost. money she knew .and there were lovely ones. “The teacher didn’t need the money,” he'd said. “If she had, she wouldn't have left it lying on the desk so carelessly.” His mother had been angry, but she couldnt stop ~ him then. i Another tear fell on her coat sleeve and mingled with the raindrops on it. From fifty-cent pieces to five dollar bills and from five dollar bills to gas stations he’d gone. And then they'd caught him with the money from one of the stations.

HE HAD HANDED a $10 bill to a florist who had thought it rather peculiar for such a ragged boy to have so much money and had called in a passing policeman. They sent him to reform school. He was only 14 then but they kept him until he was 21. When he got out-he was bitter toward the whole) world, . the police. especially. 3. From then on his career was fiery and when it ended he had 13 bank

lion to his credit. Every time he pulled a job he put aside $500 for -his mother and he always kept her supplied with fresh cut flowers. His own penthouse was always Shed with the sweet perfume of roses or the heavy fragrance of gardeniss. It had been easy for Joe Camonchi, the rival gang leader, to spot him and point him out to his triggermen. “The big dark fellow—the one with the gardenia in his lapel. ‘the man we want!” |

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ward and placed a new offering on top of the fragrant heap. It was a huge white cross made of white gardenias. She turned and walked slowly toward the waiting car, the soft mud squishing beneath her feets Funny, she mused sadly, that someone knew gardenias were his favorite flower. And then a sudden thought struck her. Of course—gerdenias.

Joe Camonchi knew! [Distributed by United Feature Syndicate] Tomorrow — “The | t,” by

George V. Martin,

(All events, ‘names and characters. in this t=... story are fictitious.) ’

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years of a life sentence for a murder that Jarvis Roosevelt Catoe, confessed Negro killer: of seven women, has admitted. Catoe “ will appear before a coroner's jury today at the inquest into the sex slaying of pretty Betty Strieff, 26-year-old War Depart‘ment clerk of Des Moines, Ia. Officials revealed yesterday tha

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