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THURSDAY, APRIL 3

oy Court May

Recess Trial

Until Monday Defense Asks For Directed Verdict

By VICTOR PETERSON Times Staff Writer

MADISON, Ind., April 3,—Lengthy

argument of counsel today delayed the testimony of Mrs. Lottie (Tot) Lockman in her own defense. She

is accused of attempted murder by|

poison. The Jefferson county “good samaritan” was scheduled to take the stand today as first witness for the defense following resting of the state's case. However, opposing wiorners a gaged in long verbal duels relative to a defense motion asking the court for a directed verdict. State Rests Case

The motion was introduced when the state rested its case. The defense argues that the prosecution has failed to prove that the 63-

‘year-old housekeeper was the sole

person who could have given poison for her former Dupont employer,

, Mrs. Mayme McConnell,

How long Judge Harry E. Nichols, Jefferson county circuit court, will take to rule on the motion is a matter of doubt. It appears possible that the court may be recessed until Monday. The judge has announced that there will be no session tomorrow, Good Friday, or Saturday. Be First Witness

It has been indicated that the defense motion will be overruled. Should the decision come today, Joseph Cooper, senior defense attorney, said that the accused would be the first witness for the defense. In resting its case, the state presented evidence intended to show: ONE: That over a long period of time Mrs. McConnell consumed a large amount ‘of mercury. TWO: That the defendant often spoke obscenely of the alleged vietim, even in her presence. THREE: That the defendant predicted the death of Mrs. McConnell saying that it would be for the best. FOUR: That the defendant had almost tyrannical control over the McConnell household. FIVE: That the defendant made an. open play for the affections of

Late yesterday the state completed its direct examination of Mr. McCormell. His testimony followed the pattern of others as to the “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” character of the guitar-strumming housekeeper. Praises Her Efficiency Though testifying against his formér employee, Mr. McConnell praised her for her efficiency, industriousness and business honesty. The defense earlier had charged Tot was nothing more than “a MecConnell slave.” Mr. McConnel] said: “Mrs. Lockman was a slave of her own making. She controlled her hours, but she never once complained to me about overwork.” He said he had no personal knowledge of unkindness or roughness on the part of the defendant toward his wife. He added, however, that others, including his wife, had complained of such to him, Concerned on Recovery

There were times, he said, when Mrs. Lockman seemed concerned over the recovery of Mrs. McConnell. This was after the invalid was

hospitalized last year, and tests were| ;

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beine run for poisons in her body

i I returned from a trip to California, Mrs. Lockman sald my sister-in-law (Mrs. J. 8. Kirkpatrick) believéd someone was

E- = Jans. Toate,” Mr. McConnell:

sya. the next breath, she said: “They've .got nothing on me.’ “Every time I would visit Mrs. Mrs. Lockman would ask if there was any report on the tests. “Twice she asked me outright if I thought she poisoned my wife. “I told her, I hoped not” Mr. McConnell said,

No Mercury Traced Earlier Graham Tevis, state police detective in charge of the case; sald it had been impossible to trace any mercury to Tot. Meanwhile, the alleged victim has suffered a setback and arfangements have been made for her admittance to Kings Daughters hospital here. Dr..E. C. Cook, family physician, ' described her condition as very serious, Mrs, McConnell is afflicted with a chronic heart condition and kidney ailment and a crippled foot.

Four Killed Flying |&

Home for Easter

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. April 3 (U. P.)~Three coeds homeward bound for the Easter holidays and a brother of two of thegirls were killed late yesterday when a private airplane crashed and burned “inthe intains 15 miles from here, The dead: C. Oliver Brown Jr, the pilot, and his sisters, Shirley and

Mingnon Brown, all of Coltnbie |. Saas ie: LB O and Mary Tou Cox of John (* ‘son City, Tenn. : in Se ivwitnd » wt sotoge,

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LAST STATE WITNESS —Forrest McConnell, wealthy Dupont employer of Mrs, Lottie (Tot) Lockman, was the last witness against Mrs. Lockman as the state closed its case today.

Oscar the Octopus Ready For ‘Operations Seaweed’

By HENRY MINARD United Press Staff Correspondent

SEATTLE, April 3.—A mountain-

ium owner, Oscar's greatest hazard

| According to the balding aquar-

in scaling Mt. Miller is that he

climbing octopus, Oscar III, and must start from the top and “climb” his trainer, Ivar Haglund, were en down.

route today to “climb” the moun-

“Ordinary mountain °¢

tain-infested waters of the Alaskan start off fresh to scale dryland

gulf, ’

peaks. The 11,350-foot underwater sea tle

My Oscar will have to batdown to terrific pressure

mountain, Mt. Miller, was their des-| depths, At the halfway mark he

| might falter and fall the way up Discovery of giant submarine to the top,” he said.

tination,

peaks 900 miles northwest of Seattle | by the U. 8. coast guard and geodetic survey, is responsible for Mr. Haglund’s latest stunt. “Man still has not invented a diving suit to withstand the terrific pressures involved,” said Mr. Hag-

: |lund. So the actual climbing will be

done Sone a “scientifically trained oc-

Widen Search

(For Bank Bandit

SPENCERVILLE, Ind, April 3 (U. P.).—Ohio and Michigan authorities joined Indiana police today in a search for a youthful, freckle-faced bandit who held up the Farmers and Merchants bank late yesterday. He escaped with between $3000 and $4000. Miss Margaret Schaney, 2Y, was the only clerk on duty when the young man, wearing a light scarf over his face, entered the bank shortly before closing time. Keeping one hand in his overcoat pocket, he demanded that Miss

Schaney give him a large amount of cash on the counter before her.

The bank clerk said she didn’t);

hesitate. “It looked like he had a revolver,” she said. The bandit fled toward Ft. Wayne, 25 miles away, in a new Studebaker bearing Ohio license plates, police said. A police blockade was set up around the area. The youth was described as being about, five-foot-four, weighing about 140 “pounds.

Oscar, it seems, has received rigorous prepping for “operations seaweed.” “Twenty-five minutes immersion in Alaskan waters would kill the toughest man, My Oscar loves it.” When the expedition glides over the peak of Mt. Miller Oscar will be dropped overboard leashed to a two mile wire.

Charter Centennial

Plans Outlined

Centennial observance of the

chartering of Indianapolis in 1847 will be held this summer.

Plans were presented yesterday at a luncheon meeting of the Indianapolis Theater association. The celebration is scheduled to begin the last of June or the first of July. Tt will last all summer. A parade of floats and special activities at the Butler bow] are among the scheduled events, The junior chamber of commerce and a committee appointed by the mayor will help outline the program. The mayor's committee will hold its first meeting at ¢ p. m. Tuesday in city. hall, eit i im——

DR. OLIN WEST RETIRES

CHICAGO, April 3 (U. P.).—The board of trustees of the American Medical association today announced the resignation of Dr. Olin West, Nashville, Tenn., as A. M. A. president-elect. Mr. West, 73, retired because of illness, the board sald. He will be succeeded by Dr, Edward L. Borts, Philadelphia, A.

M. A. vice president:

EVENTS TODAY Helen Hessman; Bugema, Breiyn Hvelyn Walts; Shrine Olrous, as Murs temple. Mahan, Br Katherine high Bri Phi Delta, Thes- fraternity, ashing: ayer Ff uBR aR Bion She : [as on wid, Graels 18, 842 Oot ; EVENTS TOMORRO! Boys 0 w At St ag Arleen McCam-~ Shrine Clrous, Murat temple. mon; Earl, Minerva Lewis; Robert, Rose United Brotherhded of Carpenters snd | Holzer, John, Virginia Jones; Phi Delia Theta faternity, meeting, Hotel | - BAIA Thompson, ~ and Chester, Op Warren, At City_Clarence, Lee; Lewis MARRIAGE LICENSES Henr iar oll rs AVeola Pare; enry, re y Louise Payne, and Henry, Betty Gaines. Doi William Brown N. Arsenal; | At Methodist — William; Beuty : Mary Kathryn Burris, oe King. Charles. Jo Ann Martindill; Albert, Viola Ralph Brown, 1920 Sharon Fridge; Richard, Charlotte es; Dale, forence" "Elisabeth Mays, a Brook. rjorie Stanley! Harold, ois ville r dward, 8) T Francis Maurice Cleary, 274 N. Belle Vieu| Mary Van Arsdale; Eldon, Gladys Ne RN irmiaiaboth an, 28 8 Rr St: on Ean, ne: Tas or an Corse rer oa RlcCarwy; Sallie Jane Srey Frost, and .Flaugher, Maris ville, Chester Clarence Force, 8843 Mul De- ach Bt Vincent’ Bernice Short; troit; Pauline Gladys Dancer, t~ orman, Wilda snkenship; Wilbur, pelier, O, Forman Kaufman; Clifford, An s BYing. Stacey BE. Goble, & 238 W. Ray; Stacy Tons John, Mary Rares Adams, Ane Clyde,

Hendrix

Edward rd Higioger, 4 Hal Plerson; Iris Jean Foanolt om Lin fro Oliver; Marjorte

dsey Smith “1316 &. Ninth. J. Lia Johnson" Jr. Je Illinois; Doris Evelyn Davis, 331 N. Ritter, omas D. McBride, Yioo 8. Tacoma; Marorie Irene Benita, 20 a Ritu ja, John L. McElroy son; Julia SA iy 2 649 Merle Owen Plummer, 3346 Brookside ave.; ty Shanklin Mars Hill, Frank Edward Roberts, 4017 Brookville rd.; Wanda e Gaither, 1645 Union. Michael David Shark . Lafayette; Jngion Ann Mad 4830 B. WashThomas Starks, Beech Grove; wR, Ritter, 600 Sanders, Rush si Tor 3 Holmes; Lilien O, 729 Ogden; Enily | Cor:

Jefferson hotel; Jes, Jofterson hotel,

n a Hate ye Whisior, 1539 Somerset.

BIRTHS Girls At St. Francis—Henry, Gertrude Coombs; DAS) Helen or; amin, Martha John, Alice Borrentino; Ral Esther ompgon, and Clarence, Pa

Grace John At ere Salvin, Colleen Green, 337 Patterson,

DEATHS

George W. Harth, 47, at 1441 8. New Jersey, nephri

Willian iri AY 51, at Long, a Hutchins, 2, at 4132 W. 16th, cardio > vascular Baide A. Nichols, 76. at City, earcinoma. Charles D. Jackson, 83, at N. Mount, arterioscler Mary B. OOS. X. 9, at St. Vincent's,

carcin atosis. Flora B.. Medert, 76, at Methodist, oar-

, Vi ot Shy, poeumonts.

Spouingoinp dni losclerosis

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arter os’ orset; | Alice M. Slocum, 57, at 2000 Guilford, teriosclerosis

pneumonia,

as ¥ lena Johnson, 2 at City, Radon B. Harris, 61, 17th, cor-

1, at. 2608 Wm. 1 onary Lp on.

“| Elmer Y. Dill, 70, at 3340 8. Randolph,

cance Ida ier. 77. at 622 N. Banerofy, pulmonary edema. - | Mary Shanon, 8, at Bt. Vincent's, peri-

Dons | Christopher C. Podson, 71, at 328 W. 11th, rif Mas. Kiloueh, 88, at City, puliam |, Breidenbuch, Ml, » an nN

| Joseph sepli, Allen Sheokles, 86, at City, peri-|

Fastest Jet Somber \Passes First Test

MUROC FIELD, Cal. April 3 (U. P.) ~The nation’s fastest bombing plane—the four-jet~propelled XB-46 —began a series of tests today at Jie scmy's. airplane proving grows

ee Consolidated Vultee bomber

{flew here from San Diego, Cal. yes-

terday on its initial test hop. Speed of the experimental bomber, completed after two years under close secrecy at the Convair San Diego plant, was withheld, but it reportedly exceeds 500 miles per hour, making it the nation’s fastest bombing plane. The wings span 113 feet, seven feet more than the fuselage length, and the plane has a 91,000 gross weight. The experimental model contains neither armament nor radar, although it includes space for both,

Dynamite Blast Shakes Dallas

‘DALLAS, Tex., April 8 (U. P.)— A ton of ais on a parked loded early today. The critically injured a fireman on an engine speeding to the burning truck. ‘ The explosion tore a 10-foot crater in ‘the suburban Dallas

blast damaged a filling station, shattered windows in North Dallas and suburban areas and awakened thousands of Dallas residents. Force of the explosion was felt. three miles away. The dynamite exploded when the fire engine was 50 yards from the burning truck. The truck was abandoned 15 minutes before the explosion by GQ. E. Black, 36, the driver, and his mother, Mrs. J. D. Black, both of Pt. Worth. They were driving the dynamite to a firm in Henderson, Tex.

Hoffmann Names

2 More Officers

Judge Joseph O. Hoffmann of Juvenile court, today appointed two additional probation officers. They are Miss Anne R. Lipken, 953 High st, and Mrs, Kathleen Sharpe, 3960 Rookwood ave, - Miss Lipken, a graduate of Butler university, has been employed for the past four years by the Marfon county department of welfare and has worked in the aid to dependent children and child welfare divisions. Mrs. Sharpe has been doing vol-

and Flanner House. She is a grad-uate-of Wilberforce university, and has served in the division of public ‘assistance at Dayton, O. She also taught social studies at Huntington, W. Va.

unteer work at the Y. W, C. A.

convention here in June. The studios had told the clubs to

age or over,” Roufe, president of the tional Fan Club league.

The studios had snapped in a 400-word letter to Mrs. Roufe that they would extend no co-operation

to the meeting.

“Their average age is 26. They're | not bobby-soxers who make nui- |

Strauss Says—

In the Shirt Cases on the First Floor—A Man will be greeted with

—an-assembly of VAN HE

HE WILL HAVE before him a notable collection—in greater

numbers and wider choice—than he has had in a long, long time.

"HE WILL BE ‘ABLE to choose om: a series of stripes—than which there is nothing. whicher—fine white pencil stripes on blue,

on green and on brown—with a stay-collar—4.50.

collar (just right for a knit tie—or “any other four-in and, particularly if tied with a Windsor knot}—3. 95.

AND. ALSO—the White' Oxford Cloth shirts—uwith the buten“down collar—comfortable, good - booliguls MUST for many

a man)—4.50.

Ready Now—for Easter—for Spring—Thank You. |