Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1946 — Page 9

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parts, but was surprised by" several farmers. ‘The hands and foot, only slightly burned, were brought to state police headquarters in Indianapolis where police easily identified the! fingerprints as belonging to Miller! because of a police record. Left Home Wednesday Miller left home Wednesday af-| ternoon and had not been seen| since, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. | Paul F. Miller, told state. police last

night. Leland had not been in the best | of health and had suffered from | arthritis since he was 15 years old,! they said. . The youth had attended School 67 at 3615 W. Walnut st. and Washington high school until his health forced him to Jeave school as a sophomore. Lately the youth has been delivering automobiles for a local car dealer. Arrested for Theft In addition to being involved in the shooting scrape, Miller was arrested in May, 1938, on a charge of vehicle taking. A brother, Roman, 15, and two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Herring who live at the Alton st. home and Mrs. Jean Farmer, 270 N, Addison st. also survive the slain man. : The chain of events of what appeared to be one of Indiana's most bizarre murder mysteries was started yesterday morning. Two men digging ditches about & quarter mile from the old log cabin, built in the early 1800's and reputed to be Montgomery county’s| oldest structure, saw smoke shootIng up from the cabin, Phones for Owner

The men, Jess Spencer and James Everman, ran to the home of Mrs. Paul Stoner, who telephoned Mr. and Mrs. James Chaffin, owher of

| not know whether there was one| the 41-year-old actress caused an

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the Ladoga exchange and scores of | farmers gathered to watch the fire. | | The time that the cabin burst |into flames was fixed by Mrs. Mary { Wilson, who lives with her parents, | Mr, and Mrs. Lee Stark, The Stark {farmhouse, nearest the cabin, is about a quarter mile away, on Road 234. s | Mrs. Wilson said she went out after the mail at 9:15 but noticed nothing then. Fifteen minutes later she looked out of the window and | saw the place in flames. { The story then shifted to Ad-| vance, where Howard Troth, R. R. 3,| Crawfordsville, and his brother-in-| law, Alva Yitchell, 24, R. R. 2, were| working on the latter's farm. They saw a car about 200 yards from where they were working. Car Driven Away | Benito Mussolini, has been jailed They walked over, but before they! in Paris on charges of aiding the arrived, the car was started up and axis. Known to the pre-war Paris drivén away. . They said they did Stage as Magda de Fontagnes,

Madaleine Coraboeuf, above, beautiful French actress friend of

or more persons, in the automobile. international sensation in 1937 They saw smoke curling up by! hen de Sgt Count C'hatles de the bridge. and went to the creek's| ,. “moron = for “ Teveating " her edge to investigate. Mr. Troth| friendship with “my Benito. poked at the small fire and found! : . = the hands and foot, barely singed {and they inched their way into the Sheriff Frank McCormick of Boone | Si! burning cabin and retrieved county in which the dismembered | the charred torso and the skull. parts were set afire, at first thought | Authorities reasoned that the| the hands and foot were those of | Killer had at first decided to take; a woman. They were small, smooth- | ‘Ne head along and burn it with] skinnéd. State police-also identified | ‘Ne hands and feet, then for one them tentatively as those of a reason.or another, decided not to. | woman. ! The torso, burned beyond any| The hands and feet were rushed | Possibility of recognition, was taken to state police headquarters where Cox’ Funeral home at Ladoga. experts began to analyze them. Can See No Motive In the meantime the scene shifted| Folks in the Ladoga, Advanceback to the burning cabin. Crawfordsville communities were Sees Body in Fire shocked by the killing. My Shain decided to go over Nobody had seen any car drive y i if wih pw Jowme bet his wife! away from the burning cabin. “I walked up real close io the Farmers Troth and Mitchell had fire and then I saw the body with! been too far from the car on Racthe head lying close to it,” related €0on Creek to determine how many Mrs. Chaffin. She called to her Persons were in it, even whether husband. The body lay about 10 the driver was a man. or woman. {feet from the door, on the east’ Women in the Ladoga district | side of the one-floor cabin. | were nervous last night on the news Quickly they drove into Ladoga that a killer possibly still could be and called Sheriff McCormick. lin their midst and their husbands

the cabin. Mr. Chaffin has been

McCormick called state police, fingered their rifles and shotguns. |

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They were relieved today when they found that the case had no! connection with their local in-| habitants, that the principals were from Indianapolis, that the mur-| dered man had been identified and that the killer was believed known.

DONALD HOOVER TO ADDRESS STUDENTS

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. April 132. —Donald Hoover, assistant to the | editor of The Indianapolis Times, | will speak at a meeting of freshi men students interested in journalism and students of the journalism department! of Indiana university at 7:30 p. m. today at the university. . The meeting is being sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma | Phi honorary journalistic organiza-

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Mr. Hoover, who was recently discharged after 34 months overseas | with the army, is a professional | member of the I. U. chapter of Sig] ma Delta Chi and has been an advisor for it and an associate editor of The Quill, fraternity publication, since 1929. :

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