Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1947 — Page 4

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Both 20-year-old Ella Mobley and John Pagan, 23, charge “public timent,” “unfair trial,” and “rot- |§

3 ton publicity”. got them their” life

body was covered with bruises and

th “Other people spank

dle. Why should we be held responsible?” Public Aroused

Terre Haute citizens were shocked

They were more shocked when

police said the war widow had let Fagan, her new boy friend, beat her child because “I was afraid I'd lose

him,” and that Fagan mistreated |

the child “because I was jealous.” Both now deny these statements. In the trial witnesses said the tot was covered with bruises. Fagan

admitted striking the child with an |

army belt, using the buckle to hit her, and a pancake turner. “Sure we spanked her when she needed it,” Mrs. Mobley said. “But “that's not how she got those bruises. “She fell off the bathroom stool the night before she died. And that week she rode her tricycle off the front porch.” Blame Publicity Both blame their troubles on public opinion “because we were living together and weren't married.” They said they would have been married in five days and that they hadn't wed before because “we had a lot of bills to pay off,” with her pension and his unemployment compensation. : Fagan, a former resident of Brazil, met Mrs. Mobley in a cafe in Jaouary. A few weeks later he moved in the home she was with war wages and the from her

on part. 2} ¢ death of Alice Mobley, whose

their chil and other people's children

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Mrs. Ella Mobley . . . “I've had my share of grief.”

Alice Mobley John Fagan

-war accident in Germany.

| quest it when the uniformed boys

spray the cans. The Scouts have been instructed to spray the inside of the cans, the inside and outside of the lids and the outside upper half of the cans. Co-operation of all residents in tomorrow's one-day DDT - blitz should eliminate most of the flies. First Fly Is Worst As Frank Wallace, state entomologist, told The Times at the start of the anti-fly campaign, “Killing that first fly in the spring is like killing® a million flies in the fall” Authorities have assured the public that the DDT to be used tomorrow 4s harmless to humans and household pets. The mixture Is

post Mrs. Mobley, a resident of "Grayville, Ill, moved to Terre Haute !because, she said, her mother-in-| law in Grayville was trying to take! her child from her. | “She said I didn't stay home but | I had to work to support me and | Alice and my mother and brother | and sister,” she said. “I thought!

do anything. Now look what happened.” “I've never done anything wrong and I've lost my husband, my baby

had my share of grief without this sentence.”

RATED AS TECHNICIAN James LI. Jackson, son of Mrs. Laura Jackson, 1323 Ewing st., is a candidate for a certificate as elec-|

husband, Louis Mobley, who died in Stieber

School of Engineering.

about 95 per cent kerosene and § per cent DDT. The city and Marion county have been divided into districts and the; Scouts will work throughout the] day until they have sprayed every, garbage can available. The - Scout office in the Chamber of Commerce building will remain open until §

if I got out of Illinois she couldn't pn m to distribute additional DDT

to the Scouts, if needed.

In Derby, Conn., They're and now my freedom. I think ve, Cooking With Water

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