Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1948 — Page 2
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REUNION THWARTED—Legal restrictions opt Ma Ruth Ward left end Vera Jean Hornbeck from eal their teen-age sweethearts William Johnson and y the laying of State Trooper Klarbert W. Smith,
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The two frightened boys and their girl friends sped away in their stolen car. Hours later, they were captured and beaten as they cowered in a cornfield. In jail, they sang “Pistol Packin’ Mama” and wisecracked.
In prison, the two boys and the two girls seem to have grown up. For the first time yesterday since prison doors closed on them, the four were summoned back to the courtroom, this time to testify in the re-trial of William
Johnson asked for a new trial on the grounds that his confession in the shooting was obtained by State Police under threat of physical violence. The State Supreme Court upheld ‘his plea. It appeared the teen agers would meet again, but that was not to be, The State kept them separated, refused to permit them to be together even momentarily for photographers. + Johnson, pale and very serious, sat quietly at the defense tablé in the old-fashioned, high-ceilinged room of Decatur Circuit Court. The thronging spectators stared at im openly.
wi : Now 19, Johnson has the air of new maturity about him. His sixfeet frame has filled ‘out to 180 pounds on prison diet and prison hours. At Michigan City he works in the parole board office as a clerk. He has made a study of fingerprinting. He hopes . learn, the field of television and radio, banking on the day he will walk out of prison a free man, e courtroom crowd stirred.
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had He said: ; “I still love Vera. I'd marry her if I were out. But I cant talk ‘about marriage. ‘That's far in a future I don’t know Aon thing about.” He looked at the floor. Answers Stopped Miss Hormbuek, no now 17, left the stand to rejoin Miss Ward in the
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Krueger, Was superintendent of ‘the Indiana ‘Women's Prison. Miss Ward was dressed in a yellow print and Miss Hornbeck in a blue, white and gray stripe. In the background the trial droned on. Both raised their eyes and started to answer when asked if they still loved Price and Johnson. They stopped abruptly. “I don't believe that is some- | thing we wish to talk about,” | Mrs. Krueger sald. “We have worked long and hard to show Vera and Ruth the right way. We don’t want them to relive old experien ces. “They are as fine girls as 1 ever have known. I hope that after today the paths of the two girls never again cross those of the boys in or out of prison.” The girls go to school at the
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Italy Some 1000 policemen tramped the Sicilian hills today in search for the island's semilegendary outlaw, Guiliano. The manhunters were re‘ported closing in on the Montelegre hideout of the man
widely regarded as a sort of Robin Hood. Authorities reported that more more than 350 of his followers were arrested, including immediate - members “of his
family The pelice calculated that Guiliano’s band had. netted
hundreds of millions of lire in the * last two years . through kidnaping, extortion and theft. More than 40 policemen and soldiers lost their lives in combat with the band.
Belgium
Eight Communists were under arrest today following clashes
last night between a Communist | mob and police outside a theater:
showing the American anti-Rus-sian film, “The Iron Curtain.” Several persons were injured. The Communist Party sent a delegation to Premier Paul Henri Spaak Monday demanding the film be banned. - Mr: Spaak told the delegation Belgium was a free country and that he had no power to take such action.
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| The body of Count Folke Bern|adotte, assassinated United Nations mediator in Palestine, reposed at the Bernadotte Castle Dragongarden here today. It will remain until Sunday, when simple funeral services will be held. Cremation will follow.
Mayor Asks Railroads To Repair Crossings Mayor Al Feeney today renewed demands that railroads keep up the repair of grade crossings within the city, He said he had noticed several crossings which had become rough and could cause damage to [aamnbiles, He pointed out that railroad companies are respon|sible for the upkeep of the crossings and requested that repairs {be made at once where they are \needed.
Warred to Deliver Speech at Evansville
CARMI, Ill, Sept. 22 (UP)— Gov. Earl Warren, Republican candidate for vice president, to{day headed his campaign train toward Illinois and Indiana, promising that the GOP “will not resort to tactics of another candidate who has said he will ‘give ‘em hell’.” : The California . governor was scheduled to make stops here and Mt. Vernon, Ill, and at Evansville, Ind.
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