Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1946 — Page 2

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published reports that Heir‘Has made admissions in the lipstick murders. nial that he had made

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discrepancies are more Ap-

‘the Degnan case; solution, the punishment of the

There are the authorities subject to .that insistent demand — State's attorney Tuohy, Police Commissioner John Prendergast, Chlef of "Detectives Walter G. Storms. Months of earnest, dogged police work have been put in on the case: Knows State's Side There are the defense attorneys, Mal Coghlan spent 10 years in the state's attorney's office. As an able , he knows the state's 's side in the case, There are Heirens' parents—WilHam and Margaret—people in mod-

the you uth of Heirens— 18 until November. in & north

h knocking him uncon-

Given ‘Truth Serum’ Helrens lay in what red-40 & delirfum. Physicians "deter mined his skull had not been fraetured; that there was no concus-

sion. He was given the so-called “truth serum,’ (denials to the contrary notwithstanding). Under the serum he made certain admissions linking

him with the Degnan case. But the purpose of the examination was . primarily to determine if he was shamming. He was. Physicians said was physically fit for questionHeirens was taken to police

Pimiond by state's at-

Tuohy and his But Heirens

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Degnan and lipstick murders (again official statements to the contrary notwithstanding), Men precise and careful about words can do some halr-splitting as between “a conféssion” and some guarded adin which more has been left unsaid than has been said. 80 there followed the hastily ar-

fense lawyers—the brothers Coghlan—and State’s Attorney Tuohy and his first assistant, Wilbert P. , last Sunday afternoon. was some skilled shadow between the defense and the the 2%-hour conference up so suddenly that Mr.

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long before. fense pointed out certain irens’ youth; no Illinois |

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the hesitancy of Cook | Fg to inflict the death penalty; the fact that the Ameri- | ean mind is averse to the death

penalty as witness the many states

have no capital punishment. | State's Case

What was the state's case against

Heirens? Portions of finger and pelm prints on the Degnan ransom note. fingerprint on apartment doorjamb in the lipstick

spelling of the words as and “safty” on the Degnan note; Heirens' insistence

. the discovery in

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engagement he had |

ever sent a lad that young |

the WAVE's

the proper way to

Ab 1:30 a. m. Jan. 7 near the Degnan

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might be tried before a wa sieges Aden aa N. Delaware:

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c frre Let State’ s Attorney sk Confinement Until Death

By CLEM LANE Editor, Ohloage Daily News Here is the inside story of “the deal” to save Heirens from death in the electric chair, [ the seeming contradictions in the case of the 17-year-old Chicago student aceused-—but not formally charged—in

Susanne Degnan and the lipstick

murder Frances Brown, former WAVE, in Chicago.

the solution of the three murders to its credit, The four men concerned in the conference — Mr, Tuohy, Attorney Crowley and the Coghlan brothers —can in truth say there is no confession and that no deal has been made, ' Definite Understanding But a definite understanding has been arrvied at by the four that goes like this: If the Ooghlans can persuade young Heirens to make a complete written confession in the three cases, and this is placed in State's Attorney Touhy's hands Then when Heirens enters a plea of guilty, State's Attorney Tuohy can recommend to Ohief Justice Harold G. Ward of the criminal court, a sentence which will confine Heirens in the penitentiary until death. Btate's Attorney Tuohy as yet has not consulted Chief Justice Ward. Judge Ward can refuse to accept the state's attorney's recommendation. In that event, the plea of guilty might be withdrawn and the case tried, with or without a jury. On the judge’s shoulders would fall the responsibility largely for subsequent events, - The practice in the criminal court has been for the judge to- follow the state's attorney’s recommendation.

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M'MURTRY SAYS PAL CLUBS PAY DIVIDENDS

Summer time ig youth-prob- | lem or opportunity The work the oS ianapoli police department is doing to combat juvenile delinquency is outlined in the current issue of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin in an article by Police Chief Jesse McMurtry. Citing the growth and accomp-| moti lishments of the police efforts to combat & wayward youth tendency, Chief McMurtry describes the work of the local police in connection with the PAL clubs, “Not once have the PAL clubs

ranks,” head points out. Parthermore, Mr. McMurtry asserts to constabulary

time and again “by furnishing Information valuable to current investigations. "

ENGLAND'S BAKERIES DISREGARD RATIONING

LONDON, July 18 (U. P).— Militant master bakers from England and Wales, united in deflance of the government's bread rationing program, were scheduled to meet with Food Minister John Strachey today. Meanwhile, commons prepared for |a free-swinging debate on the ques-

ing the opposition. A mass meeting of the National Master Bakers association voted yesterday to disregard the bread rationing plan, The scheme was denounced as “unworkable.” More than 500 bakers agreed to continue supplying bread and cakes without coupons after July 21, when Teyoning was scheduled to begin,

"ARMY SURPLUS SALE SET|

TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 18 (U.| | P.), — Burplus government property stored at the Vigo county plant of | | the army's chemical warfare serv-

ice today was scheduled for im-

mediate sale, war assets administration regional director Samuel B.| | Cohen said.

experienced a disciplinary problem| of serious proportions within their ‘the Indianapolis police!

officers throughout the nation that the known evangelist and religious {outlay of police time and resources staff; by the go, this project has been an “em- | told nothing in| patie” paying proposition. He conchides that the youths The Rev. Rusell Ford, pastor of {have aided the police department | Cadle tabernacle, will sing arid the

ralerence bot the a | tiorr with Winston Churchill lead-!

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1948

o AWAIT HERENS' | WRITTEN GULLT

Youth Says Revelations, _ ‘Must Be True.’

CHICAGO, July 18 (Ui P= Progress in the state's case against william Heirens, 17-year-old col= lege sophomore, today awaited the taking of a confession in the kid-nap-slaying of little Suzanne Degnan and two other killings The actual ¢onfession is the next step in an understanding reached by defense and prosecution attorneys whereby State's Attorney William J, Tuohy has agreed to ask a life prison sentence, Instead of the death penalty, in return for a written confession of the three slayings. Heirens already has admitted the murders orally and it was reported that taking of the detailed confession had been postponed until tomorrow or Saturday because of] “publicity” given the agreement. In addition to the Degnan slaying, Heirens has admitted the brutal “lipstick” murder of ex-WAVE Frances Brown and the knife kill-

Veterans surrounding A, B.

Pfe.

(Happy) Chandler, baseball's

high comissioner, at the All-Star game last night in Victory field were among those attending from Wakeman General hospital at Atterbury. They are (left to right) T. Sgt. Arthur Wilson, Muskegon, Mich.; Pfc. Bruno Michalik, Cleveland, O.; Sal Giacommazza, Detroit, Mich, and Sgt. Stanley Yurchick, Springdale, Pa.

Eyes to Gee bi

DETROIT, July 18 (U, P.).~Jim Todd, who saw his buddies blinded in the Argonne forest during world war I, wants to give his eyes to.a veteran of world war II who met the same fate. 5 The 63-year-old former hospital orderly Is going to die -anyway-— “maybe tomorrow, maybe in three months—no longer than flve years for sure, the doc says.” He is suffering from a fatal nals ady. Mr. Todd went to see Col. Walter E. Cole, head of the Michigan army recruiting district, and asked him: “Could you please. find a G. 1 who needs my eyes more than I |@0?" | “If I could help some poor fellow who has gone over for us during

i the war, I'd like him to have my

eyes,” he said, “I'm too old. I tried to enlist in this war and mapgged to get in vhe merchant marine | “I made one trip to England, when I came back the brigadier

| general sent for me, asked my age |and told me I was too old. But

that doesii't mean I haven't got

darn good eyes.”

ing of Mrs. Josephine Ross, an at- : tractive widow, U. 8. SOLDIER MURDERED Talks to Doctor KYOTO, Japan, July 18 (U. P..

~The provost marshal’s office disPR WR nie: indiguagni on closed today that an American sol3884 : dier was muraered and his body told a county physician yesterday |. =~ ~~ ~~~

stuffed into a footlocker only a few

slain man was not disclosed pend-|have {ing notification of his next of kin. | county.

FAIR CATALOGS ISSUED feet from the barracks building inl RUSHVILLE, Ind. July 18.—Cat-| which he lived. The identity of the|alogs for the Rush county free fair |

been distributed over

Mr, Todd says he stays at home while his wife, Jennie, 66, with whom he came here from Bowling Green, Ky, in 1920, works in a

the | laundry.

“I do the cooking and the clean-

War I Veteran

br ing and the washing at home,” hi said, the grocery store to shop. could do that without my. eyes, All I'd need would be a cane.” Col. Cole thanked Mr. Todd and said he would post notices of his

to read—or have read to him. “You really want to do this?” he asked, leave.

“I'd be tickled to death” Mr, Todd replied.

EVERYTHING IS DONE THE SAME BY TWINS

ceived twin divorces from sisters op twin charges, tonight were honey. mooning with a new pair of 18-

twin ceremony. But the new wiv Only cousins. Elbert and Delbert Doster, Nn, {married Edna Earl and Theda Webb Mallard less than 48 hours after their sister wives, Sarah and Irene Whitley Doster, divorced them at Jacksonville, The sisters charged that the twins were caught in the act of adultery at the same time,

weren't twins,

that revelations of his admissions of the three crimes “must be true.” In his. one-sided conversation with the physician, Heirens was quoted as saying: “Doctor, it's hard for me, sitting around here all day with nothing to do. What charge will they try me-on-—burglary?” When Dr. William Haines said he did not know, Heirens continued: “I'd like to talk to you some time, Doc.. I suppose you'll be examining me one of these days. My lawyer told me not to talk to anyone.” Then, after a pause, Helrens commented: 2 “Gee, you must have a lot to do around here, with all these nuts.”

LOCAL BRIEFS

aarieth elub members will view fctures presented by Emmet T. lzer of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. at their noon meeting Monday in Parlor B of the Claypool hotel.

Brig. Gen. Elmer W. Sherwood, director of the Americanism commission of the American Legion, will address the Optimist club noonluncheon meeting tomorrow at the | Hotel Severin roof garden. |

Dr. John R. R Rice,

nationally.

| writer, will speak tonight at. 7:45! p. m, in the Berean Missionary Baptist church, Wade and Linden sts.

| Rev. Ford Porter, minister of the fo church, will preside.

A burglar literally slithered into L Hospital restaurant at 211 W.! | 16th st. last night and obtained $24 in cash and meat valued at $30. | Police said the thief entered the j fale through the greasy exhaust fan outlet above the stove.

Floyd Wampler, "40, R. R. y| Bicknell, Ind, reported to police, . today that $246 was stolen from his! billfold while he slept in his truck | {in front of a restaurant early this| | morning. He had hidden the bill-! fold under the floorboard before he | went to sleep, he said.

NEW ORDER ISSUED | TO BLOCK HOARDING

WASHINGTON, July 18 (U. P.. | —The civilian production adminis- | | tration has issued an order designed to prevent manufacturers from | | withholding household items from | the market to get higher prices, | OPA's order prohibits manufaec- | | turers from keepirig on hand more than a 30-day supply of such scarce items as furniture, refrigerators, washing machines, electric stoves, sewing machines and vacuum cleaners, It also applies to photographic equipment and some bullding ma- | terials. {

EVENTS TODAY Delta Theta Tau sorority, Lineoln hotel, | All day.

EVENTS TOMORROW pila 8" Tau sorority, Lineoln hetel,

MARRIAGE LICENSES

Bllis Merlin Cripe, 448 N. Berwick; Betly | Louise South, 1030 W.. 33d, Charles A. Bookwalter II,

111 Ww, Kess: | a

Jer Diekson Frensel,

Eleanor

George uy 40h Baws ard O'Rear, Lébanon; Jennie dd Subgrunski, former soldier, has| Wiliam doh Span, identified Heirens as a man he saw| a0; Met" Ann Midnoeier, 8h.

Cecil L, Hackney, 030 N. Highland: Pot:

home.) Bugens Hayes. 2005 Bellefontaine Mar y efontaine ary be " Lena Clark, Bel ta There is the “hidden writing on Norris Sark, ok ee N Capitol; the Degnan ransom note discovered orma L. Gibson, 3038 Colleg P by Prank San Hamel, Chicago Daily Cal) STman go, Mal x Alton; Evelyn News staff artist. vir | Bivird

winell Maar BANA Denson, 4720 W. RayOrval Robert Lagrange 434 N. Btate; Ruth

‘not guilty. | Martha Jane Bagh | ty, coronary be { william Ever ek. S Jr res Ww. © |C Bright. ba, Al t be found guilty, Zionsy Wasa HAE of Y Aine Gammons. | 7" Wubarculbii. i Velerans, uimanary of his age, cari 1 August N. Alkboma: ames Edward Leach. 80, at Methodist, sentence .hat will frie » Bree 3786 N. Meridian. Josephine no Turphy, 60, at Vingent's, | After a period of no} ! 4 Mihel I WE all for John B. Gallagher, o6, ai 893 8, Senate, Ha gene Marendt, 2730 W Willlam G.. Baumer, 74, at Off . dary Joan Hopkins, 143 o hoi sclerosis. ¥:. tvatine/ | {Hu mer, Buclid: | Kenneth MoCain, 54, at Methodist, eoro- | Ann, Pou ins. 5 es ho OW DhOIA Py Amen. ho + m of i 30th; | 0 oTOnALy rid at-3040 Forest Manor,

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IN INDIANAPOLIS

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|At Sima n.. ~Charles. Helen Tansey; Jeff,

tha Beles: Harry, Thelma Jones, | or John x Tounsend At Methodists enneth, Wilms Butcher: | | Bi Thelma Fischer; Wiliam, tlie | | Horn, and John, Mary tr . oe Vincent's—Christopher, Martha | erie | At Home—~William, Amanda ird, 1049 KN Pershing; Billie. Phyllis dge, 552 N, Highland, and Gaspord, Susie Ricketts, CAIs WW, n d | Boy»

Fravels—Owen, Frances Miller: Ar na Arpliia Jones, Lloyd, Barbara Age;. | Jnmes lizabeth Carver, and Georte. | Zappin Worthington, ol : sleman-—Charles, Aina Hampto ' ; nek Vir nia. Hill, wand Elvin, Deroth ” | Mptti odist-—William, Dorf Wigley; ul,

athryn Goins, and Kyle, Helen

Hest | At 1 "Vincent: s—Blaine, Thelma ¥ At Home-—Jewell, hon

Dorothy Howard, ‘Mildred . Majo $i nn a Jesse, Delma re Ja Carrollton; W

ne Bist 3 Setter. And Arnold, Delores Jonason.

DEATHS Prank Allen Richards, 3 5A, at BMO1 Univers |

Forence Teabeile "Shaipe, "at MOBY P assachuseets ave, cerebral hemorrhage. | leas Sargent, 58, at City, cerebral hem- |

Be hhee, d, n F.:Wood, 56, a | appendicitis Bt. Vineent's, acute

Clifford Neft > Arteriose) ent 02, a 008 X. Walnut, |

1; #0, al on "Buln 7h a vaseular |

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Nine® iabetes mellitus,

ethodist: . brain i: nareld ® sows, 0, aL Bb. Vincent's duo-

broken sizes, colors and patterns.

TOMORROW

prices,\ with everything reduced /4, !/3 and I/» OFF the original prices.

Ayres’ Semi-Annual

REMNANT SALE

T'S Ayres’ Semi-Annual housecleaning of odds and ends, broken lots, We have done a thorough and complete job of cutting

specific purchase in mind or not, we suggest that you come down and "snoop'' around,

every department, on every floor. Watch for the Remnant Sale signs throughout the entire store.

P. S. All Remnant Sale Merchandise Will Be Offered on Sale Saturday Until 1 P. M.!

Whether you have a

“I take walks, and I go to: But-I; -

pret for every veteran in Michigan .

as Mr. Todd prepared to

year-old wives they married in a

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Story of Deal’ To Save Heirens From Electric Chair |

Veterans Enjoy All-Star Game With Baseball Czar

THURST

PRODUCT

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