Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1948 — Page 12

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| Death May 10

“We All Die Sometime,’ Prisoner States

___ {Continued From Page One) | ‘guilty. I.didn’t tell her about the; _ rest of the stuff. . She'll find out soon enough.” He ‘added: “I don't want to, see her anymore.” . Thinks Trial Fair i | Watts said he thought he had been given a fair trial and added that the jury in his opinion had been as fair as any he could hope for. He shrugged off queries| '. if he would seek a new trial with: “What good would it do?” ; Asked if he hoped to escape] the death penalty, he replied: | 84 “No, I really honestly think § I'm gonna hit that seat May 10th . . maybe even before. But I —do-say this. ~My last words willi be ‘I didn't do it’. { “We, the jury, find the defendant, Robert Austin Watts, | guilty of murder in the first de- | gree while engaged in an at-| tempt to perpetrate the crime of | rape as charged in the second count of the indictment. herein and that as punishment therefore he do suffer death,” Judge Harold| G. Barger had read. As the judge uttered the words| “suffer death” there was a mur-| mur from the crowd which had risen from the seats and pressed! od an w tt 1 th ’ nly hen alls lose e Staff Photographer. ky com e which has char-! Photo by Victor Peterson, Timp cocky composure Which Mae ‘suse. HEARS DATE OF DEATH—Robert* Austin Watts lost little He involuntarily lifted his hand of his composure as he listened to Judge Yarsid G. Serger; Shelby | to his face. Then he stopped an | ie ay he must die inthe deliberately settled back com County Circuit Court, set May 10 os } y fortably in his chair. On the opposite side of the

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for the first time in the 13-day 1 ee hd) Chapter In Crime Annals

"of his on who Autry foie) with (Continued From Page On) Twain er “usbuant’s shotgun, | ugh t death: verdict firing one blast a him throughout the trial. tis i, Hi hig {As she pumped a second shell into

Prosecutor Judson L. Stark, ¥ho demanded the death penalty,| Immediately the judge called the Bun, Yoatis said, he attempied

buried his head in his ts beforé him to set the da folded arms for a moment. of executton as May 10, 1945, AY killed in the ensuing struggle. Watts had regained his com-|the electric chair of Michigan| He was Indicted | y "a posure a few seconds later after|City state prison. Indiana law County rand Jay FOF CC 0 the judge had dismissed the jury| provides 100 days must elapse be- the same day he bold a Yer and called him forward to receive tween the sentencing and execu-(*1aYing of Mrs. Me an sentence. He shoved his handstion. Judge Barger allowed 103 enacted the crime for the officers. into She pockets of his blue slacks] days. Asked Venue Change untily strode to the front * trial, the speed-| Later, on Nov, 21, Watts enof the bench. He wore a blue to att tal ot n ries, tered a plea of not guilty and on _ “sloppy joe" sweater open down county, was started Jan. 12. It Dec. 15 he asked a change of the front and his shirt collar was| J... just two months and a lay|venue to Shelby County. unbuttoned at the neck. after the 39-year-old Mrs. Burney| He was to come to trial Jan. th You have heard, the Yardy of | was found slain in her home at!5, but was granted a week's con-, er — Wats? T* 8508 N. Pennsylvania St. [tinuance nw Juage ge Barger, ahs He C hats right Watts arated. |, SREP, FOG NUCE Created by Henry Perr. Marion County n why a r. attorney; arren . the court should not now pass at is ut IB aupes ini Brunner and

: bert Ellison, appointed by the “If they believe it. no; it's all Mrs. Harriet Stout, 7910 Coliege| S070 Court A lim Ye right .. * the defendant repiied.| Ave. Mrs. Stout had reported that ‘ry. who appeared unexpectedly on “It is the judgment of this court ® man who she allowed to use the\ 2 e pe day the trial opened, {hat you are guilty of the srimeltolspA grabbed her, held: scan ce he Yad been retained of first degree murder . udge Dutcher knife to her throat and 10 eT Watts read. “And the iy here- neve, attempted to attack her. me, en ,

electric chair,

by sets the 10th dgy of May, 1948, broke {ree and ran from Fer home eo I a for the day of your execution and Investigating officers found a. "ghnelby County Prosecutor

sets the time of the execution as jacket with Watts' name on it in | y rion Dept sometime before sunrise of that her home and arrested Watts a ee ne Pa. Puy {few hours later. _ "The first three trial days were Chats With Guards Knife Near Body ‘spent in selection and impanelWatts waited a minute, as if| The proximity of the two homes, ing of a jury. There was another expecting more to follow. Then similarities of the attacks such as delay later in the week when the he returned to his guards and|a butcher knife being found near court held a “trial within a sal) chatted with them as they walked Mrs. Burney's body, implicated in tie absence .of the i him the few steps to the red-brick ‘Watts, 75, determine the admissibility of

jail in back of the Court House. Evidence piled up against him Watts’ confessions as evidence. . . until Nov. 18 when he confessed] . Confessions Accepted If First Try ; Fails _* land led officers to.a spot. in| The confessions were accepted. : ¢ 7. |Kansas St. where he admittedly despite Watts’ stories Ty Having : {had hidden the shotgun which he heen beaten, threatened an 0-| ry, Try Again had taken as he fled from the erced into signing. them. “WAUKEGAN, IN, Jan. 29 (U. home. Throughout the trial, Watts re; P.).—Patroiman Louis Youman He told of being. admitted to the lied on variou§ defenses. .He contook his fingerprint kit to investi- home to. use the telephone and of tended during the trial that he gate the robbery of a cash register grabbing a knife and attempting was beaten into confessing the shop, found a good print and dttack Mrs. Burney. She, how- erime and that he was “framed” arrested “a suspect. ever, fled” to a bedroom and by state police. and. county ofBut Officer Youman thought ficials. the sus His plea of insanity resulted

China Conflict

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Nationalist Strategy - Deemed ‘Outmoded’

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troops, and in its tactical appliThe Rev. Frank T. Taylor 1 pusher: 53 few No. 2 $1.30; aoe soy -

cation to land fighting. Also,

sting | $9 oats, preached a revival sermon last Pons. 14 per 1 moisture. Communist staging centers, sup- in the Heath Memorial

ply dumps and communications night in general. Church-and died of a heart at-| ju. Ss. Statement This state of affairs leaves anitack afterward in his home, 1254! WASHINGTON, gan. 2 (UP) —Govern-| eis) observer wondering If the great-\w ,ae0r St. (ek eal De ABroush Jan. 23; compared| {est immediate aid the United! qv. Rev, Mr. “Taylor became | Yih & States could render the Nanking pastor of the Heath Memorial Expenses . government wouldn't be advice Church in June, 1946. He pre- Baveih 3 — on how to apply its present po-| i,,q1y had served the East Park, C sh bal, tential to the Battle for Man- Brightwood and Southport| gs Pub, ae | ehptias Methodist. churches, He was. 56| Deficit. and had devoted his entire min5 Posey oor Hurt istry to Hoosier churches. While

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Services will be held Monday at LuP)—A chartered bus was side:{10:30 a. m. in the Heath Memorial wiped by a truck near here to-|Church with burial in Greenwood.

: D. GROCERS County Rural Youth Club mem-|through Sunday night in-the J.C.

bers feturning from - a district| Wilson Chapel of the Chimes and : : . “

mee after .9 a. m. Monday, in the = Two of the injured were n a/church. Business Incorporated 1984 ; 5 {serious condition at an Evans-| Survivors include his wie, : "ws ville hospital. The bus was. en Tillie, and two daughters, Mrs. ‘ : A : } 3 route from Jasper, Ind, to Evans- Helen B. Robinson®of Indianapo- ; ville, and originally carried *27 lis and Mrs. Fern Fowlér, Beech| | CITY SECURITIES CORPORATION i youngsters, All but 13 left the Grove. “ . . ” ‘bits at Poseyville, and New Har- 0

mony before the accident Jc- Accident Prevention

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the suspect had an accomplice. He = sought” other” prints’ found a Tine” Weat ema : tult palm’ print Hn & window.

For three or four ‘days he checked the palm print against other prints in his files. Today, he -admitted, he found | whose paim it was. It was Patrolman Souls Youman's. .

“United Nations “Called A ‘Going ‘ Concern’

FT. WAYNE, Ind. Jan. 20-(UR) ~The United Nations was declared a “going concern” by Dr. Andrew W. Cordier;. executive assistant to Trygve Lie secretary__general of the United Nations, in an address here last night. “The. United Nations must be understood — from ‘the point of view of the world in which it exists,” he said. better than most people know, but not as well as humanity desires.” : . Dr. Cordier was chairman of the | ‘history and political science department at Manchester Col-| lege in North Manchester, Ind. between 1927 and 1944 and a lecturer at Indiana Unjversity:| He has been, with the United Naons for one and a half year

Ex-Convict Denies Strangling His Wife

DENVER, Jan. 29 (UP)-—An ex-convict denied today, despite repeated accusations by his year-old son, that he Yee 7 his wife a few hours after being paroled from the state penitenHary. i - - Bobby“ Berger, 7." told: pice] | yesterday that he saw his father,

John Berger, throttle Mts mother serial numbefs on stolen. vehicles, gambling during his two terms

Tuesday night, pour whisky in her. face and shout, “Now sleep.” No formal charge has been filed against Berger.

Wright. Develops |

Serious Lung Clot

DAYTON, O, Jan. 29 (UP) =| nen soldered to the engine block

Orville Wright, 76-year-old co-in-ventor of. the airplane, has developed a congestion in the right Wing since his collapse- Tuesday isn a orioo, condition, his clan sald today.” DY. A. BRB. ‘Brower said, howthat the Sed id held

Moved to Chicago

Wacal § 8S. Benriett, meteorokyist in_charge of the U. S. Weather Buresu Hation at * Weir Cook Municipal air ok sinve 1042, been teited b head "the newry was reorganized : hicago Municipal airport station. The selection ~was--announced. today by Dr. F. W. Reichielder(er,! chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau. : ‘Mr.. Bennett, who entered the weather. service here in 1937, has!

‘been engaged in development of/foom and pouring over into the|

new forecasting procedures and has assisted the CAA in experimental cloud height measuring

“It Is getting on, work. since joiging the airport a.

staff in 1937. He will leave for his hew post some time in February.

Police Nab Young Theft Suspect

State police today held a 23yéar- -old Louisville man who admitted stealing - 75 automobiles “for the thrill of it” The defendant, William Alva ‘Carte Jr. a tormer Army para{chutist; Jhad $700 in cash when he was charged with vagrancy ‘last

d ‘night.

Also in his possession were numerous dies, tools and a jumper: coll he said he used .to start stolen automobiles.” . . Clianges Numbers . v The dies were used to change|

he told stite police. His arrest vame when one of these numbers was challenged by a state police detective who had {been asked by Carte to check the serial number preparatory to cer{tifying an Indiana title. The officer found a strip of aluminum bearing a filse serial number had

‘of the automobile. Was Gang Member

Bince 1946, Carte has been op-

erating a8 'a lone thief, he said. Previously, he said he was ohe of a gang of five automobile thieves.

. Many of the cars were stolen in past ight + and Chicago, St. Louis and Louisville

ad taken to Mexico for sale.

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HCE IO Fronrv three: “eQuUIts wr | appointed psychiatrists that he Paul” “Coen to “Head

‘was sane. Later he completely | dropped this defense. Apartment Owners ..| A United Cab driver, Melvin N.

He also contended throughout | Paul Coen has been eleclediwijamson, 22, of 1825 Broadthat he was giver the murder President of the Apartment Own: | yay, was held on charges of ‘weapon between 9:15 and 10 a. m. {7% Association of ‘ Indianapolis.|¢,jjyre to give an emergency vethe morning of-the slaying by a Hé succeeds D. T: Nicoson. {hicle the right of way, inade-| chief state witness. Later testi- Other officers are D. J. Zim=|quates brakes, reckless driving mony showed that Mrs. Burney /Mermam and Charles A. Huff,ignq disorderly conduct. alive. and tallied .on ths tela: yice president; HH. Woodamall,, His cab. collided . at. Meridian phone at 10:30 and that the timer eASUFErs MrstOlive Hatris, soc-] ¢ her death was around 2 p. m. FRLARY. and Sol C. Back to Normaley The end of the trial marked a return to normalcy for the Shelby County courthouse. Since it began; the case has drawn teeming crowds, filling the court-

Bodner, cident prevention car being operated by Patrolman James L. Mul-

Mr. Nicoson, L. Russell Newgent said. and Toner Overley. {No one was injured.

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halls and lobbies. Day after day spectators, chiefly women, lined up as early as 6 m. to have a good seat when, the trial opened at 9. So great was the attraction that the. judge had to once threaten to call the truant officer to look over the crowd for children skipping! schoo! to attend. _

— Failure to Destroy Slot Machines Probed

EVANSVILLE, Jan. 29 (UP) Judge Nat Youngblood ~ today considered a Vanderburgh grand jury report that former Prosecutor Milford M. Miller failed to| destréy 10 slot machines seized in a gambling raid. The pan charged that the ma- | chines and. other gambling equipment “had. not been destroyed according to law,” after the six| jurors investigated the former | prosecutor's office. Mr. Miller was an active foe of

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OFFICERS Dwight Peterson, Plerre FP. Goodrieh, oP Cr aan. Vice-President «Wayne E. Paulsen, Vice-President Noble L. Biddinger. Vice-President

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