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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES SUNDAY, NOV. 28, 1048

To Testify in Child's Death

Husband Charged In Beating of Stepson

Times State Service MARTINSVILLE, Nov, 27—A grieving mother is expected to testify before the grand jury 2 t her husband charged with first degree murder after he confessed the fatal beating of her 23-month-old child. Held on a vagrancy charge as a material witness, Mrs. Florence Brummett Edwards, 26, is expected to testify how her husband, James Edwards, 19-year-old farm laborer, shook his stepson as a means of punishment. After shielding her husband through hours of questioning while both stuck to a story that Victor fell off a step of their cabin home, she finally broke down and told authorities Edwards had punished her son over her protests. The grand jury hearing is set for Dec, 15. Mrs, Edwards has indicated she will turn against her husband in the proceedings only because her feelings are stronger for her dead son. Edwards signed a confession this morning, Prosecutor Hugh M. Couch said, in which he stated, “I took the child by one arm and shook him violently and in doing so might have hit his head on the floor.” He told officers he sometimes beat and shook the child in an attempt to correct his habits, Prosecutor Couch said. The baby's death came to the attention of authorities last Monday night when a motorist sped to Morgan County Memorial Hospital with the Edwardses and the unconscious form of the baby. The baby died two hours after it was admitted to the hospital. Its body was covered with cuts and bruises, its neck was broken and there were evidences of cerebral hemorrhage. After the funeral Wednesday the wardses were arrested.

Invites Testimony In School Probe

Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Nov. 27— Monroe County Prosecutor Robert McCrea today issued a last call for patrons of the county’s rural schools to testify before a Grand Jury impaneled to investi-

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Swing Your Partner . .

Tosses New 2

new hex list. “Who's next?”

demned killer said. “That stuff you say about my hexes is bad. Even the Supreme Court is getting to believe those things— that's why they denied my ap1.” “You're all hypocrites,” he said. Then, referring to reporters and police officers whom he accused of blocking his appeal, he singled out one and said: “It would make me so happy if he should happen to die. Why, I'd drop my appeal.” It was a little less than a year dgo that Jake heard Judge E. D. Hodge sentence him to be hanged Jan. 16, 1948, for the ax murder of Mrs, Bertha Kludt and her 17-year-old daughter.

gute alleged inadequacies In ings and fixtures. The grand jury, which recessed Wednesday for the holiday week-| end, will reconvene Monday. It| is expected to report to Judge Q.! Austin East Tuesday. : Protests by parents who declared they would remove their children from the schools unless were made resulted in the calling of the grand jury to investigate the whole system, composed of 34 schools.

“Wait and see,” Jake told Detective Lt. Sherman Lyons. “You policemen and judges will be settin’ and waitin’ at the pearly| gates a long time before I u ”

Since then five men connected

—all of heart attacks. First it was J

a month after he pronounced sen-

Who questioned Ja

Killer Pooh-Poohs Hex, But

TACOMA, Wash, Nov. 27 (UP)-Jake Bird puffed on a fat cigar, smiled slyly when asked about his double-whammy which already is supposed to have claimed five lives, and then hinted at a

“I didn’t have nothing to do with no hex,” the 46-year-old con-

rollicently that there is a hex and

with the trial have died suddenlyivise Bird’s bath every Saturday, ge Hodge, onlyiguing with him lately.

tence. Undersheriff Joe Karpach,|technicalities on whether a word ke two daysishould be a ‘¢iz’ or a ‘therefore.’

Square Dancing Tougher Than Jitterbugging, Teen-Agers Learn

. Not too many years back the "jitterbug" craze sent the older dancers retreating to the sidelines, fearing for life and limb. Now the tables are furned. There's a current nation-wide revival of square dances, schottisches and polkas and it's the teen-agers who watch in

awe as the "oldsters” strut their stuff. There was a heavy sprinkling of gray an the crowd at the Indiana Roof's Hayride Frolic last week — the Roof's first experiment in alternating square and ballroom dancing. The Haymakers (background) shelled out the music and calls for the square dancing. "Tougher than jitterbugging'' was the opinion of teen-agers, who thought square dancing was strictly for squares until they saw these experts in action.

-Ply Whammy

before his scheduled execution, was next. Jake was granted a stay for questioning about some unsolved murders. Before the month was out, Mr. Karpach died. Chief Court Clerk Ray Scott died the same month. Last Sept. 28, Detective Lyons died. When told about the death yesterday of the man who defended him, James W. Selden, 76, Bird smiled and said: “The Good Bible says be happy and rejoice when anyone dies—feel bad when anyone is born.” : . Mr. Selden had defended Bird reluctantly. Bird, who was denied a re-trial by the state supreme court on Nov.-4, was talkative tonight. Although he denied having conjured up the hex he told Chief Criminal Deputy 8ig Kittleson re-

“you're on it, too.” Mr. Kittleson, who has to super-

tonight said Bird has been ar-

“He'll argue heatedly over fine

. ‘ 1 Firemen Cut Costs | BOSTON, Nov. 27 (UP)—Fire men, working in their spare time, have built Boston a $37,000 new ladder truck, using materials that {cost the city only $1133.

ROEBUCK AND (OC

"Here's how." . .. One of the first couples out on the floor when the band strick up a schottische was Mrs. Ralph Sapper and Sewell Simmermon, both of Noblesville. It wasn't long, however, before dancers who had never heard of

the Scotch folk dance caught on to the ''one-two-three jump."

"Like a conga, huh?" . ., Quick to learn the schottische were Patricia Todd and Lewis Battista, both of Indianapolis. They just reversed | the conga's backward kick to a forward motion and substituted a jump for a kick. The old-time dance was such a hit with oldsters and youngsters alike that another is scheduled Jan. 12.

We're getting so disgusted with| whenever he wants to prove alhas admitted at various times of |seemed to be subst | antiated but him that no one wants to help point, although many of the pas- being involved in as many as 44 now he jokes about the serum. him anymore. lanes don’t have a very familiar murders. | “SHucks, I could tell em about Bird says he was a porter for a ring. wanted to tell lip at

Sometime ago, Bird whs given what while and that he was baptised| about five feet 10 inches tall, la truth s i | » While apnasnat hie x Saptised) erum test to find if all said. at stuff doesn’t bother

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