Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1946 — Page 2
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‘Witnesses Continue to Testify; Jury Waits College Medical Report.
‘Times State Service MADISON, Ind, Oct: 8.—Possi bility that the Jefferson county grand jury may recess its investiga~tion in Dupont's mercury poisoning mystery pending toxicologists’ reports from Indianapolis was seen today. : Although witnesses continued to testify before the six-man jury this | morning, the crux of the case is believed to rest in .the Indiana “university medical center labora‘tories where tests are being made to determine if mercury found in three bodies was the actual cause of "death. . * So far, the state's case against Mrs. Lottie (Tot) Lockman, Good Samaritan of the Jefferson county hills, is admittedly circumstantial, | although officials believe they have | .& strong case. Work Is Slow If authorities can determine that the mercury found in the exhumed
bodies of the elderly persons Mrs. Lockman took care of caused death,
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THE INDIANAPOLIS MER
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Army Challenged
Col. John H. Amen, attorney for Maj. David A. Watson, abeve, of Burlingame, Cal, who is charged with the theft of $1,500,-
3 at the preliminary hearing, said the JONES MURDER circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs. Davis resembled those CHARGE EASED : Indiana, was convigted of mur-
Changed to Manslaughter Pending Jury Action.
Fruster Jones, 38, is free today | under $10,000 bond while awaiting Mrs. ‘Davis died from overdoses of grand jury action on a manslaug®- | ‘morphine, allegedly administered by ter charge in the death of Mrs.| jones Mr. Rhodes contended that Vinnell Davis in a W, Vermont st. nrre Davis had consented to receive hotel Sept. 4. Likened to Stephenson Case A murder charge against Jones, | charge and set the bond at $10,000. showed Democratic candidates fav: [out to vote. who has never served a jail or!yt previously had been placed at the |ored it six t i | prison term though he has been ar- same figure in superior court 5 fol- | ever, were | rested 76 times and convicted un 16 | lowing Jones’ appearance there on |platform which | counts, was reduced to manslaugh- la writ of habeas corpus. |ter yesterday by Judge Joseph H. | Mitchell,
| Howard in municipal court 3. Deputy ‘prosecutor: Merle Calvert, | of the hearing in superior court.
lin which D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Ru Klux Klan
er, “Murder,” Jones attorney, Thur! C. Rhodes, told Mr. Calvert, “is {the charge when death of the vic[tim occurs during the commission lof a felony.”
Bond Is Same
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morphine injections.
Judge Howard reduced the
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Indiana ave. owner, posted the bond at the time |
BOP DIVIDED ON | DIRECT PRIMARY
‘Poll
Shows Favor Method 6 to 1.
| pare? headache to Fepdolionn leaders last month when "A. V. Burch,
overnor Gates and state G. O. P. Fs Clark “Springer
Democrats | platform plank.
| candidate for re-election as apditor |of state, came out in favor of it)° in'a speech at Muncie, Mr. Burch's from on the issue, action was against the “advice” of
called it “bad politics” for a Re-| | publican to run on a Democratic |
| In the face of this obvious ool
TUESDAY. OCT. 8, 1046
Y Poison Probe |
frotroet. their questionnaires left | more than half the total number, | r about 70 candidates, unheard- |
Seventy Democratic candidates, {or slightly more than half the total
who | number seeking election to the state
legislature, Sent in replies. Of these, [66 went without reservation for the | direct primary, in lines with the party's expressed platform policy." The Democrats took the upstream
A suryey hy the Indiana League ness on the part, of - Republican | =~. ° oppose the platform and
The poll,
ng” support
Joseph |a campaign promise while Repubrestaurant | lican candidates were own.” Direct primary became®an intra- |
0 one.
of Women Voters today showed Re- | higher-ups, only 25 of the approxi- | o = . publican legislators to be almost mately 125 Republican legislative evenly divided on the question of candidates were unreservedly 1 the direct primary method of nom- favor of the primary when quesinating state candidates. interpreted “b | officials as presaging “overwhelm- were in favor of primary, | | nominations “if” the public gets
tioned by thé League.
for the Democrats, howmakes the primary seven declined to comment,
their of two evils” polled a blank.
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Nine other
y. league | Republicans hedged, saying they | direct primary
Four Republicans flatly favored backed by their party's the convention system now in use, | five termed the -convention the ‘lesser and another five
_The total of 55 Republicans who!
convention system of nominating state candidates. Two others had no comment, four took It the hedge of favoring the primary case the public gets over its chronic voting * apathy, and two polled a blank.
peeree———————— INDICT SHANGHAI MAYOR NANKING, Oct. 8 (U., P.).—Chou
BLACK MARKET CAR
Fu-Hai, puppet finance minister under the Japanese China regime |
today was indicted for high treason | by the Nanking high «court.
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CZAR FINED $65,000
CAIRO, Ill, Oct. 8 w. P.).—Ben Fishel, head of one of the nationg largest automobile black marke rings, was fined $65,000 yesterday and sentenced to two years in federal prison. : The Cairo used car dealer pleaded guilty to 30 counts of a criminal information’ charging him with conducting a $3,000,000 auto black market ring, part of the time while serving as a private in the army. U. 8. District Judge Fred L. Wham directed that the prison sentence be served concurrently with a similar sentence imposed on Fishel at Detroit last May on a conspiracy charge. Court officials said the:fine was the largest ever levied upon a black
and wartime mayor of Shanghai, market automobile operator. It also
was one of the largest ever assessed against a price.violator.
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000 worth of Hessian crown Joweis challenged the U. §. army to prosecute all officers who have looted property from Germany. He declared that if Maj. Watson | is guilty, “proof is readily attain- | able” of similar thefts by gen- | erals and other high-ranking | officers. Maj. Watson is being held for court-martial in Frankfurt, Germany.
COUNCIL STANDS ON PAVING FUND
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then they believe they have the case clinched. But the work at the I. U. labora-
R. N. Harger, has been necessarily slow and it may be weeks, even months, before authoritative fingings are made. Three employees in the home of ; wealthy Forrest McConnell, whose 24:0 Mather, Minnie, died under strange cifcumstances, and whose wife, Mayme, suffered from the effects of —mereury - poisoning, testified this morning. First to Enter
Mrs. Anna Clashman, described as the “oldest and dearest friend” of Mrs. Minnie McConnell, was the first to enter the third-floor jury chamber. She was followed by two fellow employees, Mrs. Gladys Kelly and Mrs. Lucy Simmons. Others called to testify today included Moffett Inglis, Madison, Ind, pharmacist and drug store
-undertaker. May Delay Decision
indicated traces qf mercury in he stomach, was wheeled into the jur
of Mrs. McConnell. fled.
tories, directed by Chief Toxicologist |
proprietor, and C. O. Bear, Dupont
Mrs. Mayme McConnell, whose illness Jed to a laboratory test which
room. Mrs. Lockman was first arrested for the attempted poisoning
Her husband, Forrest, also testi-
Refuses to Ask Tax Board To Restore $27,500 Cut.
A resollition to authorize Mayor Tyndall to ask the state tax board | to restore $27,500 street paving, funds—trimmed from the city budg- | et—was voted down by the sy; council last night. { “This will mean that the projected improvement of 20 miles of city
streets will have to be dropped,” | said City Engineer, Thomas R.| Jacobi. | At the same time the council
voted appropriation of $25000 for repaving of Virginia ave. hetween Maryland st. and Fountain Square. Parking Meters Delayed Again The council also formally accepted $26,000 federal funds for use in drafting plans for the proposed | new storm sewer in Broad Ripple. | Another delay in the six- year-old! controversy .over the purchase of parking meters was voted by the council. A resolution authorizing the works board to purchase 2000 | parking meters from the M. H Rhodes Co. of Hartford, Conn., was r | referred to the council's finance y committee for further study and | recommendations at the next meet- | ing Oct. 21. ’ An ordinance authorizing an increase in the city smoke abatement department's inspection staff from
oe faced murder | three members, lo fiye_ was passed. | ie
charges in the death of the mother, Mrs. Minnie McConnel. Subsequent exhumations of two other bodies, those of “Uncle Fred” Giddings and Hattie Calhoun, disclosed mercury deposits in each. But technicians said evidence that the mercury was the cause of death in each case was not yet conclusive. Laboratory tests continued and ‘authorities hinted that the bodies
New ordinances introduced would: | ONE: Permit the city aviation commission to accept $18,000 from the federal works administration for preparation of a master plan for Weir Cook airport development. | TWO: Designate city employees] with 10 or more years’ service as! members of the city retirement plan if and when one is established.
of Mrs. Lockman’'s husband, Frank,
tests. If so, the grand jury decision | might be delayed.
and her brother-in-law, Wallace, | might be exhumed for additional]
THREE: Prohibit discrimination against any" persons in employment because of race, color or creed in the city government or firms with which it has contracts. .
EVENTS TODAY
Archbishop Elect Paul C. Schulte arrives = Pind Cook municipal airport, 6:20
Ribeias State Assembly, annual conventions Odd Fellows building.
EVENTS TOMORROW * Rebekah State Assembl : IT al a inva). conven BIETAS
At Methodist—OIT! Eleen Stockwell, At Bt. Vincents Bonaid Lydia Price,
Gir al st. Franeis—John, 3 diene Evans, and Prank, Margaret Schilling. At _Coleman—Dr, Charles Jr, Esther McCormick, and ‘William, Helen Oldham At Methodist-—Georgt, Barbara Heavilin; son, and James,
York; Guthrie,
on, . Vincents-Clarence, Lois
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omas; N= Jones, and t Coleman aqueline Yernon, Lil tivan Yriana
a thodist—8 t—8hirle: Rollie, Dean Willia z Edward, senber;
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orm Muriel Martin Richard, Geraldine MonGay; Phill ann, and Ot M vou! is, Mary Vesta Sehepper. ’ At Emhardt—Irvin, Velma Gosnell, and A Charles, Elleene Gabbard, at
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City, heart, Carmel Patrick, 83, at 982'c Stillwell st.,
Vac po 85, at 3245 N. Ili-
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r, 1, at 1430 8. Illinois st. lyn st., coro-
ab 1238 Kappes
Ella -G. Butler, 88 at 2707 N. Pennsylvania st, arteriosclerosis Tyler Ellington, 93, at 2052 Shriver ave, uremia Ollice H Matthews, 60, at City, cerebral vascular accident Lula W. Nuttall, 64, coronary occlusion. n Emma Louise Seal, 65, at coronary occlusion. { Leander M. Woliver, 77, at 1108 N. Luett st., cerebral hemorrhage,
at 1511 E. 53d st | Methodist
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