Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1948 — Page 14

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Rights Violated, Attorney ' Argues Attorneys for Robert Austin Watts, sentenced to die Feb. 1

for the slaying of an Indianapolis - woman, today awaited a Supreme Rush Hour Thief N

A hearing on the appeal was| Jimmy Valentine, the fabled | held yesterday before the Indiana jewelry crook, has nothing on a Bupreme Court justices. Watts fast-operating thief who made a was convicted and sentenced to get-away with $6250 in jewelry die by a Shelby County court for from the William H. Block Co. the slaying of Mrs. Mary Los} epartment store yesterday dur-|

Burney in her North Side home| y | {ing the peak Christmas shopping last November, He confessed both, = # ruah.

the Burney slaying and that of Mabel The theft occurred between 11 Mia, Mefrifisld, but was a. m. and 1 p. m, when crowds of

fried on anly the Burney case. {holiday shoppers filled the down-, Three Lawyers town department store. . Warren Brown, Shelbyville, one: Unnoticed, the thief pried open | of the 25-year-old defendant’sia jewelry case and grabbed six]

three lawyers, prese watches from a display tray. One| Ja prusaited : oral of the diamond-studded watches

He appealed the lower court de-| during the trial, citing three cisions on motions to quash the specifi BLURS, ate. w i epresenting the sta as indictment anda. motion. to SUP prerie Wall, attorney general, press certain evidence, Both mo-/ pn, argued that errors cited by tions were denied by Shelby/the defense were fot of sufficient County Circuit Court Judge importance to be considered reHarold Barger, versible errors, In oral argument Mr. Brown|

into Pelping’s new business dis-/gate of the walled area of

i THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES a Reds Penetrate Peiping, Push Within 60 Mi

NANKING, Dec. 17 (UP)—|in the new business district, lying north of Huai River were reported|from Pengpu southward to the Communist forces have driven outside the southwestern Fucheng| Withdrawing swiftly southward to little rail town of Chuhsien, only encircling & strong

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He said that while Mr. Stark's §

charged Watts’ constitutional actions might not have been’ rights were violated in his original{ “judicial and proper at all times” indictment by a Marion County they did not form sufficient basis Grand Jury. He also accused for a reversal since the presiding! former Marion County Prosecutor|judge had admonished the jury to . Judson L. Stark of misconductidisregard them. ;

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