Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1947 — Page 5

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TUESDAY, DEC. 21947 eta Lawyers Plead Self-Defense|.eadership Forum i “For Marshal in Murder Trial

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«& Knox County jury today they would prove that the 47-year-old night|ship Forum, spon-

L . | ! To Hear Weaver Henry Grady Weaver, director of

Assert Prisoner Advanced as if fo Attack; ) * tors Corp. tn Detroit, will address

Stale Demands Firsi-Degree, Not Death ine anal meeting

"VINCENNES, Dec. 2 (UP)-—Defense attorneys for Lawrence John- of the 5th Annual son, the Oakland City policeman who shot and killed a prisoner, told [Executive Leader

marshal did -it in self-defense. ; by the InAttorney Clarence Rumer of Princeton said in opening ts|dianapolis Junior of Johnson's first-degree murder triab that Robert Miller, 27, Oakland Chamber of ComCity, was shot because he had | merce, at 8 p. m. threatened Johnson. the prospective Thursday in the

Rumer said Miller had told acquaintances that if Johnson ever

tried to arrest him again, he would have to do it “over my dead body.’ grand jury, and he was brought to| Georgia-Tech and " Weaver Johnson had arrested Miller once | trial in the Knox Circuit Court be-/join ed General before. |fore Judge Ralph A. Seal on a'Motors in 1918. He is the author ae change of venue. . lof “Mainspring,” a story of human The night of the s | y of oe Right of Lhe shooting in {rol Johnson allegedly shot Mr. Miller progress and how not to prevent it. Rumer said, Miller advanced toward After arresting him for intoxication. Johnson as if to attack him. and After the shooting Johnson turned

himself over to the Jasper post of

questioning: of | jurors. The indictment against Johnson was returned by a Gibson County

Mr. Weaver was graduated by

If, i {was afraid of an “angry mob” of

Did Not Ask Chair i | dents. Prosecutor Luther Benson of EM ei ONY Yesl on

_ Prosar Lier Benen of Gi In Fire Fatal to ©

- . demanded Johnson's conviction on Gavin Pr edicts | a first-degree murder charge. He| ' PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2 (UP)—| did not ask fer the death penalty. Plastic Tanks A day foreman at a charity organPrevious] a f t | WASHIN Dee __|ization’s Christmas toy workshop, had said Micon Bl "that WAS yon, 3, op | charged with manslaughter toq 8 \Tanks made largely of plastic and Was Charg m ughter day after a Fire Bureau investiga-

they objected to capital puali-i h A to be. $ ment. The jury was impaneled Jate light enoug > flown from one to BU a7 which killed six,

yesterday, just before the-court ad-| front to another will play a decisive men and injured 20 others yesterJourned for the day. {role in the event of another war, day, = a lice or he stad pened a military expert predicted today. | Detective Sgt. John McEnroe sald] io y e allorneys) praj. Gen. James M. Gavin, who Stanley Druist, 55, a day foreman | finished their arguments. John N.| { f Simon. Oakland City, and Henr {commanded the parachute assault who was discharged and then re- | : ¥ Y troops in the Normandy ‘invasion, hired last week by the Volunteers

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Dolemp, © en Sn ny > wit. said the heavy tank of World War|of America, Inc, admitted that he nesses sworn, gave routine sesti-| 11 15 so outdated it belongs in the fell asleep while smoking a cigaret mony describing the shooting scene | “Smithsonian Institution.” on a first “floor overstuffed sofa of | ‘| “Armor in the future must fly,|the four-story building swept by the

Neither Saw Shooting | just as all other means of war must flames. The building was owned by the

Each testified he didn't actually fly” said Gen. Gavin in a copy-| see the shooting. righted article in the Armored Cav- corporation and was used “as a Johnson, whose hair has turned alry Journal. work shop to make toys for orphans’ white during the months he has! Gen. Gavin envisioned the air: Christmas baskets. Some of the been jailed since the shooting borne armored vehicles of the fu- men who died in the three-alarm Sept. 12, was dressed neatly in a|ture as being made of plastic, sili- fire possibly would have been dark pin-stripe suit and conferred | cate, magnesium and soybean to re- street-corner’ Santa Clauses beginquietly with his attorney during the! duce their weight. | ning this week.

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