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Nurse Alberta Green ... clubbed to death at hospital.
1946 by The Indianapolis Times
Miss Betty Overdeer ., , . injured when she stooped to assist the killer's first vietim.
Another Girl Slugged as She Goes to Aid Dying Victim Of 3:30 A. M. Marauder
BULLETIN A suspect was arrested this aftermeon by city detectives for | questioning in connection with the brutal murder of a student nurse | and the clubbing of another at Riley hospital early today. 3 The prisoner, who had been out on bond for three days op a charge |
of carrying a razor in his hat and carrying a club, was tiken to the | home of a hospital maid who saw the killer fleeing from’ the scene of | the murder about 3:30 a. m. | He had been arrested four days age at Michigan and Blake sts, | mear the hospital, where he aroused suspicion by carrying the club. |
State police detectives were ordered by Governor Gates | to assist city detectives in an'all;6ut manhunt for the | mysterious assailant who murderéd as student nurse and wounded another at Riley hospital here about A: 30 a. m7 today. The entire city detective staff, assigned to full-time investigation of the case, réported two or three “hot leads” they indicated might lead to the identity of the slayer. The slain student nurse was Miss Alberta Green, 22, whose home is near Mt. Carmel, Ill. She died of a fractured skull caused by several blows on the head as she was walking in the corridor of Rotary convalescent building of the Riley hospital-—in the 1000 |
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block on W. Michigan street—within 20 feet of three] sleeping children. :
Police Check Two Leads \
Miss Betty Overdeer, 20, daughter of the Rev.
convalescent building—was slugged. on the head twice as| she went to the aid of the victim, One of the police leads was a-set of blurred fingerprints | taken from a hospital window near the murder scene. They |
found at Michigan and Blake sts.”/(near the hospital) with | a club’in his hand and a razor in his hat.
Maid Sees Prowler
These leads were being checked with a.weport made; by a hospital campus patrolman: that he chased a prowler | Miss
off the hospital grounds about midnight last night.
Miss Overdeer, who was sitting at a desk in the main dining room,” lobby of the home, said she heard a noise. She looked back | by the man going out the
in the north corridor leading to the dining room and saw Miss Green lying orf the floor. - She said she thought Miss Green had fainted. “When I leaned over to pick her up, I saw blood streaming from her head. Just about that time some one struck|
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nea the head. That was all I remember,” Miss Overdeer] FIVE HOOSIERS FACE U.S, USED CAR PROBE:
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murder toward the dining .room door,”
kerchief tied #cross his face. resembled those on a police record card of a former prisoner. | Sweater and a brown hat, that he was about 5 feet 9 Also police said they were seeking a<suspect who had high, weighed about 160 pounds and appeared to be 29 or 30, been held temporarily several days ago after he had been | years old.
said the assailant entered the building through a dining |; room window on the northwest corner of the north wing.
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Campus Policeman "George S. Roth peints to the window in Rotary Convalescent home at Riley hospital where the murderer.eniered, then escaped after striking down two young student nurses.
murdered Student Nurse Alberta Greene and injured her companion,
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Here in an artist's sketch is the scene of the brutal slaying today in the Rotafy convalescent home at Riley hospital. The killer-(3) entered a window (5) at the left, killed Miss Alberta Green (1) and struck down Miss Betty Overdeer (2). He then fled fo the east end of the building but the door was locked. Here
.. he was seen by Miss Ozella Allen (4) from the stairs. ® THe killer then ran to the front door, which also
was locked, and then fled by the window of entry. His weapon was a club of wood believed to have been taken from an outdoor fireplace (6).
She said she didn't see or hear the assailant. The only person who saw the prowler was Miss Ozella a maid in the home, She said she was on the second floor and heard some Grand ry Is Presented
one scream. | Handkerchief Covered Face Over Ceiling Evidence. “I ran down a stairway in the east wing of the building| Rive Indiana used car dealers and saw a man running toward the east entrance door,” she were charged with selling over
He turnedstoward | of false certificates to price boards in evidence submitted yesterday to | the federal grand jury.
“He then turned and ran back past the scene of the! she said. _ The maid told. police that the man had a white hand-! She said he wore a blue 9 inches,
on sales of used cars. Several private cifizens and four OPA ofi-
cials - testified at the grand Jury session,
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His complexion was dark brown, she said.
Indianapolis, Ind,
These small tots slept peacefully through the commot jon less than 20 feet from where an unknown assailant
“The door was locked and” he turned and ran back ceiling prices and the presentation | and | to the center of the lobby of the building. Mrs. Harley L. Overdeer, 819 N. Riley ave., also a student the main. entrance on the south wing and that door was
nurse—on duty with Miss Green on the first floor of the locked, too. Action on the part of OPA offi. |
cials came following a crackdown |
The first to answer a general alarm was George S. Roth,
1804 Lucerne st., patrolman on ‘duty on the campus of the Amuse .....10-11 Movies .... } ; | Building Page 8 Obituaries ... Indiana university hospital building. Business. HE een. 12 He said he was delayed a minute or so while doors to classified , 23-25 P. Cc. Othman 15
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Detectives Fred Whisler (left) and Michael Ravaaagh stand in the doorway where Miss Green WAS struck down,
A Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffics Issued daily except Bunday.
Student Nurse Slain By Mystery Prowler In Riley
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The murderer struck a second time as Nurse Overdeer bent to help Miss Green.
Photos at hospital by John Spicklemire
The eross marks the dining room window where the brutal assailant of the two nurses entered and escaped.
FUND CAMPAIGN War Danger TO START NOV. 4 Big as Ever.
Board Séts Community Goal at $1,328,000.
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Community | administration's
Taft A Asserts
* COLUMBUS, O, Sept. 11 (U. P) Senator Robert A. Taft (R. OJ | charged today that the Democratic appeasement of
| Pund will hold its 27th annual cam- | Russia has “only helped to build up
{paign from Nov. 4 through 20. {| Dates for the campaign and other | tund plans were announced today {by Walter Leckrone, campaign ‘Times.
A goal of $1328,000 set- by
7 ge neral chairman and editor of The!
the board of directors will include’
the final appeal for the USO, More than 7000 volunteer solicitors are expected to make the campaign one of the most intensive in the history of the county. Money will be | raised for the operation of the fund's {46 ‘Red Feather” services as well {as the USO in 1947. Increases to agencies were held to {a minimum of 9 per cent by the | fund board of directors when they feet the goal. “This was done,’ Leckrone pointed out, “despite the
{fact that community problems are
mounting and the cost of operation and service is increasing. AW war-
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® What the “homeless | student is doing to provide | quarters while attending
the state's crowded colleges is related today by Times Writer Jack Thompson.
® Other house-hunters may gain a “tip” on how to cope with the housing shortage from these students. Read “College Housing Improvised.”
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the greatest totalitarian state the | world-has-ever-séen”-and that. this nation is in as much danger from | abroad as before the war.’ “After the greatest and most successful war effort that any nation |
| has ever made, after the Sacrifice of |
300,000 lives, we stand in danger of losing all the purposes and ideals for which we fought,” he said Mr. Taft keynoted the Ohio Republican state eonvention. speech was considered, however, as a keynote for the whole Republican | 1946 campaign and perhaps also for the 1948 Presidential campaign. Béfore speaking, Senator Taft told re-
porters he had “no plans now” to seek the 1948 nomination. Bricker ‘Dares’ Truman John W. Bricker, the 1944 G. O.
P. vice presidential candidate and current Republican nominee for senator in Ohio, hurled a challenge | at President Truman with a dare! that the chief executive enter the Ohio’ campaign this fall. Mr. Bricker last week was snubbed by the state C. I. O.-P. A, C., which endorsed his opponent, Senator James M. Huffman (D. 0.) for reelection, “1 say to Jack Kroll (national P. A. C, chief and Ohio P. A
chairman), and to the President of
the United States—and I hope he
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Seymour Woman Facing Trial
For Murder Hangs Self in Cell
| SEYMOUR, Ind, Sept. 11 (U.P ~The body of Mrs. Opal Seyferth, "30, held in the shooting death af 'a neighbor, was found hanging +n
building were being unlocked. He said he ran to where Comics ... hi DIPlanerty Les 18) hee Se in the Jackson county jail i Pn OT : : : BAY Louies ections Green and Miss Overdeer were lying in the corr idor. Editorials... 16. Mss. Roosevelt 15 | or VL Barkha said Then I heard a noise at @ne of the windows in the Europe Today 16 Radio . 26 Mrs, Seyferth had placed a silk he said. “The noise apparently was caused Forum ./..... 16 Scherrer ..... 16 | nightgown around her neck and window.’ . | Gardening +++ -8'Science ...... 15 stepped off an upénded steel cot. Paul Ghali... 14|8erial ....... 27 The body was discovered by Mrs, Detectives William O'Rourke and Lawrence McLaughlin Meta Given.. 21 Sports .... 12-13| George Abel, wife of the sheriff, of the homicide squad, who took charge of the investigation, Homemaking. 21 State Deaths. 27 when she brought Mrs. Seyferth’s
4 | breakfast. 12 15 Women's 18. 20, 21 | charged with first degree murder in ‘ill recently and had been Heated i (World Affairs «16 the death of asjeur-oil Mrs. Jewell | by prusicians in her cell.
‘Burkholder said Mrs. Seyferth,
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last June, 15, left a note. He did not reveal its content immediately. Mrs. Zimmerman, pretty of two small children, was shot as| she walked to a grocery store. Fo-| lice sald the shots were fired from the Seyferth residence. Investigation disclosed the two | women had been jnvolved in neighborhood arguments, A Jackson] county grand jury indicted Mrs. | Seyferth on June 19 and she had |
mother |
| been held in jail since then await- | ing trial.
Jail attaches said she had been
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string Sailors Ask : | Protest ‘Holiday.’ |
By UNITED PRESS
[ine opp re At ‘the same * the, A. re | President William the A. PF.
{poling {council on the question of with-
. | drawing A. P_of L, representatives
[from the board, an authoritative source said.
The joint committee of A. F. of
_.L maritime unions sent a request
for a national work stoppage to Mr. Green and C. I. O. President. Philip | Murray, Polls Council
Mr. Green reportedly started polling the executive council after Walter Mason, A. P.'of L. member of the WSB, said he would press {nr imntediate reversal of the board" s disapproval of a wage contract reached by ship owners and the two A. F. of L, seaffen’s unions which | struck seven days ago. Board Chairman Willard Wirts, said, however, that a ruling might not come until tomorrow. Strike leaders have made it clear that the
| board reverses its decision. | Décision of thé A. F. of L. to with- | draw from the WSB, would probably cause scrapping of the whole bonged under the present setup. The WSB late yesterday took uns der advisement requests that it re-
iverse its stand and approve wage
increases for striking A. P. of L. | seamen which it previously had reJected as inflationary.
New York City Near Panic
| Meanwhile, the combined effect of the maritime walkout and an A. F. of L. truckers’ strike brought the New York metropolitan area to the brink of its worst crisis since the | war, { New York housewives began panic | buying as groceries prepared to close for lack of supplies. Newspapers had only five to ‘10 days’ newsprint on hand before they would be forced - {to suspend publication. The city's huge garment industry was running low on materials, and a spokesman predicted as many as 85,000 workers would be laid off before the end of the week. From Indianapolis Daniel J, To= bin, president of the International | Brotherhood of Teamsters, rejected an appeal by New York's Mayor
His |
‘.! Willlam_ O'Dwyer to interveme in
{the crippling truck strike. Mr. Tobin told the mayor he | thought the strikers were “fighting for justice.” The mayor had told Mr. Tobin that one striking local of the teamsters was “completely out of the hands of its officers” and expressed the fear of violence and bloodshed if the strike continued.
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