Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1944 — Page 6
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inadequate brakes. Ridenour’s affidavit, as recorded in safety board files.is as follows:
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by your car? A—Yes. “Q--Were the police called? A~Yes. Q-—What happened then?
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| brakes and gave me a court sum{mons for inadequate brakes to ap~ pear in court on the 23d, but I went into court on the 22d and talked {to the bailiff of Room 3. I told him what happened. He then. told Ime he would take care of the case, |He said he had been on the police | force 12 years and knew how to fix a case. Also that he was not |against taking money. He then {suggested that $50 would take care] [of everything. I told him I did not | have that much with me. He then
of June. At this time, I had a United States Rubber
bailiff that I would have to eash a check. TI did this and this man accepted $35, one twenty and one ten and one five in bills, leaving me only $5,
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what did "he tell you? A—He wanted to buy me a drink, Then he told- me that I would not have to worry anymore about the case. - : Q—Where did this take place? A—I went to the Western Auto at
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statement was signed bY Ridenour, a United States Rubber Co. employee. Traffic Capt. Thomas Schlottman was the interrogator. Sgt. Griffin, who joined the police department under his cousin, Former Police Chief Michael F. Morrissey, was said to be “out of town” by his mother, Mrs. John Griffin, 1614 E. Vermont st. She said she didn’t know “where he’s gone to.” Municipal Court Judge John L. McNelis, who dismissed the inadequate brakes charge against Ridenour in the absence of the defendant June 23, is attending the Democratic convention in Chicago.
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John Bridges, 128 E. St. Joseph st, driver of the city bus which crashed yesterday at Kentucky ave. and Missouri st, has cheated death twice in the past three years. “I guess my number wasn’t up.” he said today from the bed in his home. : Mr. Bridges refused treatment at the scene and hospital until after all passengers had been cared for. “I felt about the bus as though it were a ship. I just did my duty. “I couldn't help it. Something
top. Then we crashed.” Concerned About Trial
_ Judge McNelis, Ridenour, Sgt. Griffin and other witnesses will be summoned. to the safety board hearing next Tuesday.
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Mr. Bridges received lacerations and bruises of the head and body, chest injuries and a fractured left
private physician, “I don't see how I can appear in court today to’ answer the charge of reckless driving. I don’t see how they base the charge, either,” he
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Assassination Attempt Is | Hinted; Fuehrer Has | - Brain Concussion. ~ (Continued From Page One) °
in Holland and France. The fact that the attempt evidently occurred inside Hitler's personal headquarters--as difficult to Jeneirale as the Wihte House or No. owning st.-raised speculation “{in London that it might have been an “inside job” by Germans disgruntled with the conduct of the war and hopeful for a negotiated ‘| Peace if the leader of naziismi were removed, ? This is the first assassination attempt, so far as is known, in which Hitler was injured. The only previous ‘publicized attempt was on Nov, 8, 1939, when a bomb exploded in a Munich beer hall shortly after the fuehrer appeared at a Nazi party meeting there, This was regarded at the time as a gestapo
John Bridges, driver of the illfated city bus. . . . “I feel sorry for the others.”
with another body. He saw ‘me move. Then they went to work in a hurry,” he said.
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they will hold and cannot scratch bus was heavily loaded and I could | the skin.
not get up much speed by the time! I got to the underpass. In fact, I had just shitted into high. I know I wasn’t going over 22 miles an: hour. That's the first accident I ever have had and the first time arrested.”
Wounded by Bandit
Three years ago Mr, Bridges was| in the Vienna cafe when a hold-up
was staged. He made a dive for|DUmmer academy. wn 'the bandit who fired three times,| “The first 50 were the hardest,” he He was hit twice in the stomach conceded.
and in the right lung.
{I don't mind those metaphors about “I was pronounced dead and taken [the ship of state climbing over the
Mr. Bridges has been employed by the Street Railways for six months, five of them as a driver,
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SOUTH BYFIELD, Mass. (U, P.). —For the past 81 years, George W. Adams, 88, hasn't missed a single graduation ' exercise at Governor
trick to strengthen the German home front.
May Be More Serious
It was considered possible that Hitler's injuries were more serious than was broadcast to the world by DNB and that the agency's careful statement that the fuehrer resumed his work and received Mussolini and Goering was a cover-up. . Observers believed the attempt on Hitler's life was in some way connected with a 14-hour interruption of communications between - Germany and neutral countries yesterday and today. Although DNB said the explosion
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conservative Prussian generals and the Nagi heirarchy.
“the reichstag fire”
Recalling plant which epabled the Nazis to seize power by blaming the Communists, they believed some Naazi, possibly - Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, might have concocted this, as a plot which could be blamed on the anti-Nazi generals, who now recognize that the war is lost. Most authorities familiar with the Nazis leaned to the theory that it was an “inside job.”
Conditions Ripe
Allied psychological warfare experts were attempt had not occurred earlier. They said that all the conditions prerequisite for some such drastic occurrence in Germany long had been bubbling beneath the surface. The sequence included the dismissal ‘of the old and. trusted Field Marshal Karl Gerd von Rundstedt from command of the defenses in France, the sacrifice of more than 500,000 men in an effort to hold untenable positions in Russia, failure to write off the Baltic states which now imperil defense of the reich itself, the growing army of discontented slave labor which is frightening the German home front, ang ialability to halt or even the allied bombings.
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