Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1946 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

i i WEDNESDAY, JUNE. 19 1 1946

WESTFIELD, N. J, June 12 w. P)~The mysterious caller who © . shot to death millionaire William A. Whitcomb in his Boston office Mon- As day was identified today as George = °° E. Hardy, an unemployed machinist. Ti Hardy, police said, returned home and coolly prepared his own death ° trap a few hours after the murder. Lester Smith, traffic manager for Whitcomb's Great Northern Paper Co—who saw the suave, well~ "dressed slayer leave the 72-year-old Hoosler-born millionaire’s’ office— was shown a picture of Hardy in Boston. Motive Not Discovered . “That's the man, all right,” Smith | | told police. Motive behind the death of the two men still was a mystery. Boston police were seeking positive identification of Hardy as the slayer who left smudged fingerprints in Mr. Whitcomb’s office. They also sought to learn why the killer selected Mr. Whitcomb to try to brow-beat into giving him a $25.000-a-year job. © They also sought to discover whether he planned to kill Mr,

Acme Telephoto This picture of George E. Hardy, unemployed machinist, which shows him studying model trains, was used by police in Westfield, N. J, Tuesday night in identification of Hardy as the slayer of William Whitcomb and himself if the Job A. Whitcomb, millionaire Indiang-born executive of the Great Northern | was not forthcoming, or Whether| p,,.. cq, Boston. Hardy committed suicide at his Westfield home & Mr. Whitcomb was killed accident- after a telephone call from police. p ally or in a moment of rage. Gas Is Ignited | pital 20 minutes- later without re- man at the cafe also said he remembered Hardy paving been there,

Hardy ‘returned to his apartment gaining consciousness.

late Monday. His wife, Emma, was| Police were hecking Miliinocket. | not at home. He taped the crack | Me: where ad s first wife and ATTORNEY TO HEAD

around the kitchen door, turned on their 18-year-old daughter live. FOREST MANOR GROUP

one jet in the kitchen range, and lav down on the floor. Whitcomb reportedly received sev- | E. D. Steers, local attorney, will|

A neighbor traced the smell of eral threatening letters postmarked be installed as president of Forest gas to the apartment, and finding Millinocket, and residents there Ye. | Manor Civic league at its monthly the door locked, summoned Mrs. ported receiving unsigned “crank meeting at 8 p. m. today in school 1 Hardy. {letters,” which they merely laughed | auditorium. Mrs. Hardy thought the apart- at. Other newly elected officers to ment was unoccupied. She unlockegs| There was one bit of conflicting | be seated are: Charles Seashols, vice the door and flipped a light switch. evidence, | president; Norman Schlamijerdorf, A spark caused the accumulated, A waitress at a cafe where Hardy | secretary, and Phyl Boeldt, treasgas to ignite, {ate said she had served him coffee urer. Hardy did not die quietly as he and a hamburger Monday morning| Following a business discussion, had planned on the floor of his at the time he was supposedly on a new officers will outline their plans kitchen. He died of burns in a hos- {train bound for Boston. A counter. for the year.

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resolution held in abeyance by city council.on June 3 and scheduled for vote Monday. ’ Before an informal meeting of Lhe council he explained the technicalities of the proposal to construct relief sewers in the upper White riverBroad Ripple water shed. Thomas R. Jacobi, city engineer, | disclosed that the resolution held’ lin abeyance was a preliminary 0 seeking & bond issue to defray ex!penses in installing and improving | sewers in the Broad Ripple area, Called ‘Matter of Courtesy’ | As explained by Mr. Owen, the resolution was merely an “intent of | plans by the works board and the Moore firm ‘as consulting engineers on the city-wide sewer survey. “This is merely a matter of courtesy,” O, B. Hanger, assistant city | attorney, added. Executive secretary of the Indianapolis Taxpayers’ association Frank) J. Murray prompted the council on June 3 to “hold” the resolution. He interpreted the measure as! {being “an expenditure without an | appropriation.” : Hired to Make Survey He reiterated that the Moore firm was hired to make a city-wide] | preliminary sewer survey under Mayor Tyndall's post-war improvemerit plans for Indianapolis. This! completed, the engineering outfit] was prepared to install the “needed” sewers, Mr. Murray said then. Mr. Owens reviewed an “interim” report filled with the works board last month, stating that 40 per cent of the rain in the Broad Ripple area {causes the flooding of neighborhood | basements. “The present dual system of sanitary and storm sewers is inefficient,” he said. “Many new residences add to the overcrowded sit-| uation by tapping the small storm | relief sewers.” He further emphasized the need for a renovated sewage disposal plant.

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R. L. Meek, in charge of the Indianapolis project for the Moore company, explained that the Fed- | eral Works agency will “loan” $25,- | {000 for constructing plans. He also revealed that the house | of representatives in Washington, | D. C., has recently approved a $35,000,000 appropriation for sanitary | improvements throughout the na- | ition. Of this amount, Indiana will | receive approximately $825,000 and * | the city, $100,000 for preparation of plans only. Post-War Plans Mr, Jacobi explained that under Mayor Tyndall's post-war plans, | money estimated for sewer improvements would be increased by “draw{ing from other improvement items | overestimated.” | He did not reveal which “items were overestimated in the mayor's plans. Post-war planning records provide that only $1,150,000 be appropriated 'in the first year for sewer. installation. Only $5500,000 was thought necessary in the seven-year improvement program. Watson Calls Meeting

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