Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1947 — Page 4

The defense, however, said it was ready for such testimony and plans to produce experts as counterta.

agen . : Sustains Defense The trial of the housekeeper should develop much of the bizarre ___atmokphere which cloaked the case -« ‘when it"broke last August. Then a arge of attempted murder agaipgt Tot was changed to murder when the state suspected she might have poisoned as.many as eight of her former charges. A grand jury, however, indicted her on attempted murder only when laboratory tests did not prove death of alleged victims was due to mercury. The jury wasrexcused from court yesterday when the defense objected to prosecution statements concerning the illness .and health of Mrs. Minnie McConnell. The defense contended that it was not admissable Mrs. Lock-

“drudge.

began the stolid pursed face of

when Mt. Cooper pointed to her and said: “This woman has spent her life serving others. She has been a

“For four years she was a slave to Forrest McConnell, Yes, a McConnell slave.” “Never once -has he been man enough to speak to her after she was arrested. i Pictured ‘Adverse’ Life “Yet the very day he knew she was to be arrested for allegedly poisoning his wife he ate a hearty meal of fried chicken which Lottie prepared.” i Mr. Cooper pictured “Tot’s” life as one of continued adversity as she grew up in the Dupont community and how today she is a victim of circumstances. To counter state claims of the poisoning he said that never once

“Tot” Lockman changed. She wept|

was there a time other women were

Mr. Crozier, a tire dealer.

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"mercury and old lace" trial of Mrs. Lottie Lockman listens to testimony as the celebrated Hoosier-case opens at Madison. First row, left to right, are Everett Gassert; Donald Scott, Harry Dreunen, Bruce Tevis, Gaylord Crozier and Philipp Schmidlapp. Second row, Harvey Prentise, Clyde Wilson, Joseph Boyd, Howard Reid, Earl Cline and Byron F. Klepfer. All are farmers except

not working in the McConnell home and kitchen. 0 “In fact for the 16 days before specimens of Mrs, McConnell were | taken for examination, Mrs. J. 8.| Kirkpatrick had exclusive care of | the patient,” Mr. Cooper said. ~ “Now gentlemen of the jury {if Mrs.. McConnell got mercury you know who gave it to her.”

man is specifically chhrged with a gingle crime. Judge Nichols sus- | tained the defense, He ruled that only if and when the state proves the guilt of Mrs. Lockman on the one charge may such evidence be introduced. 3-Hour Address Mr. Kivett charged “Tot” with

openly wishing Mrs. McConnell's GREEK GUERRILLAS SLAIN

death while she made a play for her employer's affection.

denied every state allegation.

| Bari, set fire to three buildings and proclaimed a general strike.

la Defense Attorney Joseph Cooper that 48 guerrillas, and one gen- [port of -the chuckholes and ruts eventually . the

'darme had been killed during a bat- the board awarded contracts, crumbles.”

RIOTERS BURN 3 BUILDINGS BARI, Italy, March 28 (U. P.).— Unemployed Italians rioted today at Gioia del CoMe, 60 miles south of

ATHENS, March 28 (U. P.).—The!

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Dim Outlook Here For Street Repairs

The city’s boulevards and park-

ways emerged from the winter season in bad shape,

Engineers’ reports on road con-

ditions are discouraging, Park Director Paul V. Brown told the park .; of curbing along all of the board at its meeting yesterday. He! city’s said every foot of the 76 miles of woud be prohibitive. It would cost streets, which are the responsi- more #han $750,000, he said. bility of the park department, needs

repair.

Repair Contracts Let

Por the first time since the trial tle in the southern tip of Greece. amounting to $16,480, for materials

to improve the streets.

Mr. Brown said this year's street

repair program will consist mostly.

of patchwork. He explained the {department has” only $70,000 to maintain the streets in its care. Of necessity to the maintenance program is construction of curbing jalong residential retches and {building of drainage structures, Mr, | Brown said. He expressed belief that installa-

boulevards and parkways “The need for some curbing, how-

ever, is’ urgent,” he sald. “Cars pulling off the roads onto thé berm

reek government announced today| After hearing Mr. Brown's re- causes the edges to break down and

entire surface

Mr. Brown said inadequate sub-

surface drainage has caused many seep-holes in the boulevards, He did not know if any new drainage facilities could be provided this year. In other action the board signed a resolution - agreeing to carry out its part of the city’s first slum clear ance program. The department plans to purchase 27 acres, at an estimated cost of $60,000, in the blighted area on | the near northwest side. The tract will be converted into a park.

HAIFA PIPELINE AFIRE JERUSALEM, March 28 (U,P).—A pipeline fire ignited by five | Jewish underground members raged

uncontrolled for hours today in the heavily guarded oil reservation area jon Haifa bay,

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Truckers

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{wreckers charge, they simply en-

gage In a normal business sales operation. Customarily, they charge, the officers on the emergency or district car covering the accident demand and receive half the tow charge. The usual charge is $3. That makes the officers’ out: $1.50 the wreckers told The Times. Fallure to “kick in” to the poilces men on the accident, wreckers told The Times, results in police discrimination which amounts virtue ally to being barred Irom following police wrecks In search of business. This discrimination, it is charged, takes the form of police orders to the “offending” driver to move his rig away from. the scene of the accident. The wrecker must obey. or risk being charged with blocking traffic or resisting an officer. Dip Into Revenues It also was charged that in the lease of certain garages which bid for the job of repairing insured wrecks, police officers dip into revenues to the tune of 10 per cent or more. One local wrecking service was said to have stopped the payoff only to find other tow-truck operators instructed never to bring police wrecks to his establishment for storage or repair, Finally, -wreckers say, it is .impossible to organize the services against the police shakedown. Reason for this, they said, was that one favored company would still be allowed on all wreck scenes and would, if they refused to pay off, get all the police wreck business. One wrecker charged that in at least one instance within the past week he was asked to pay off on

a tow job picked up at a garage, not on the scene of an accident.

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Here Is 10,692 The Indianapolis Y. M. C. A, membership roll today was reported at 10,602. The highest in the history of the organization. “The peak was reached after a membership drive of four of the five branches in February. The previous month enrollment was 10,496. About 1700 memberships were sold during the campaign but the majority were renewals. The Senate Avenue Y. M. C. A. will sponsor a membership campaign in April,

Welfare Survey Starts Here Soon

Investigation of child welfare facilities in Marion county will be started within the next two weeks. The survey will be conducted by Community Surveys, Inc, of New York City which has assigned Paul T. Beisser, nationally-known child welfare expert, as director. Plans for financing the survey were completed late yesterday when the county welfare’ board approved expenditure of $7500 appropriated by the county council and the directors of the Indiamapolis Community Fund voted $6000 to pay private agencies’ share of the expense. ; The New York staff of child ‘welfare investigators will look into both public and private facilities for the care of dependent, neglected and orphaned children.. They will survey overlapping services and conflicting policies among the agencles, At the end of three months, Mr.

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would be in addition to $100 a year increase already approved by the school hoard as a cost of living hike, In addition, demand another $150 a year for teachers who have a master's degrée. It was estimated about $1 million of the cost of pay boosts would be covered by increased allotments of state funds voted by the legislature when it approved statewide teache ers’ pay Increases, 3 How much the demands, if met, will cost the city depends on.the percentage of overall teachers’ pay the state agrees to bear.

tribution to 80 per cent, according to Clayton Hughes, teachers federa~ tion director, the extra cost to the city taxpayers will mount to $446,000, He said he regarded an 85 per cent distribution more likely. Such a return. of state funds would reduce the local share to $204,000.

Seek Action at Once

When the teachers lay their new wage demands before the board, Mr, Hughes said, they also will demand that all teachers not now up to the approved federation pay scale. be brought into line at once. The ‘federation will seek to have

the start of the new school year next September. The amount of the tax increase, Mr. Hughes said, also depends on state distribution. With the state Covering 85 per cent of minimum teachers’ pay, the rate hike was exe pected to run around 4 cents, with

Beisser will- prepare a report on the whole child welfare fleld 1ere! and make recommendations for im-

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