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Admits He Has Urge to Hit Women

Was Under Bond In Another :

Case of Assault Spinach in the cuff of his trousey led to the arrest last night-of a 19-year-old youth who admitted a brutal attack on an Indianapolis housewife, Richard A. O'Brien, currently under bond in another assault case, "a8 to be arraigned today on a charge of assaulting and beating Mrs. Margaret Todd, 27, of 621 N. Grant Ave. last night as she emptied garbage outside her kitchen door. “I have never done anything to anybody but hit them,” police quoted the youth as saying after] his arrest by a merchant police-| man less than an hour after the incident, While a dragnet of seven patiol cars and numerous foot patrolmen scoured the neighborhood a merchant policeman, Paul Franklin, was attracted by a man at Emerson Ave. and 10th Sts. with a quantity of spinach stuck in his/| pants cuff, Identified by Victim Arrested, O'Brien was taken to| the scene and identified by the victim. Mrs. Todd told police she was

alone at the time of th: assault] and had stepped from her kitchen | to empty some garbage into a| can when she was struck from| behind. She said the youth struck her brutally about the face, head | and shoulders as she kicked and| screamed. : v She said O'Brien apparently | 4 was trying to enter the back door| but she kept him from doing so by kicking and scratching. He| fled down an alley. Detectives safd O’Brien ad-| mitted “an urge to hit women” and told them he spent consider-| able time peeping into windows and otherwise prowling. “T don't know what happens tol me,” he was quoted as saying, “I| have never done anything but hit people.” O’Brien was ‘accused of beating| a housewife on Drexel Ave, sev. eral months ago-as-she-alighted rEatrom Ris He His>ales. heen arrested in a robbery case and —-Was-onee Aned.-$1-and costs for, reckless driving.

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Detectives were questioning him in connection with other unsolved: assault cases.

LI Local Desperado oooiarter Eien Fpanes From Jail

Mrs. Lewis Douglas left today for | thé United States aboard the! ‘ Sey Ww 0 Cunard White Star liner Queen W$ ay vt

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lon the road to Michigan City now! if he hadn't ‘flown the coop.’ ” Travers was granted a change jof venue from Marion County] after awaiting trial .n the Marion County - jail for. nore than 11} months. His trial started Nov.! 22 before Judge Horace W. Hanna in Hendricks Circuit Court, He was convicted. by a jury yesterday at 3:30 p. m. and sen{tenced to 12 years. | “He was -sullen, mean and nasty in the courtroom,” an offi-| jcer said. “He looked like a des-| / |perate man when he walked from | / [the courtroom after hearing sen- ~ Itence.”

Sheriff Bayliss ia he planned i to move him immediately to the! ’ . state prison. He added, how- | ever, that he had believed it was impossible for Travers to escape from his isolated cell. The sheriff could not explain) ‘how Travers managed to smuggle hack saws into his cell. He said he was under constant guard, even in the courtroom. ; Can't Explain Saws Travers was a key, figure about a year ago in the parole scandal that stirred Indiana politics. Two prison guards were fired and a subsequent investigation revealed charges of paroie bribery, a forbidden money traffic within prison walls. Travers, while absent at the time, was believed to be one of the few men who knew the inside story. In the Marion County Jail prior to being removed to: Hendricks County on a change of venue, Travers became known as “the forgotten man.” Arrested on Nov. 26, 1948, he was charged with second-degree burglary and auto banditry. He waived arraignment and pleaded not guilty on Feb. 11, 1949. He went back to the Marion County Jail in default of a $10,000 bond. He remained in the jail until Sept. 27 of this year when he was removed to Hendricks County. He was arraigned for trial In Hendricks Circuit Court on Nov. 2 and convicted yesterday. Police of several states were

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advised to’ be on the lookout for "Travers today as Indiana state police spread: a dr over all highways.’ It was feared, however, that the fugitive had put many miles between himself and the .Hendricks County jail before the break was discovered.

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‘Wants Price Cuts

A cheaper State Fair for Indiana is the aim of the re-elected State Fair Board. 4 Carl Tyner, secretary of the board, said today members jwere ‘agreed that an effort should be

| Made to have “some nickel rides and candy.”

The Fair Board returned from

Chicago yesterday with glowing!

reports of the International Livestock Exposition and the part Indiana farmers played in winning many prizes. Lt. Gov. John A. Watkins, who

Police Skeptical

Of Murder Tip

- Messamore ‘Linked’ “To Triple Slaying

Indiana state police waited

‘|skeptically today for further word

from a phone caller who said he had a hot tip on the disappear: ance of a family of three nearly!

|@& year ago.

Lt. Robert H. Shields said. a man called ‘from Chicago and identified himself as a former cell-| mate of Willlam D, Messamore,| English, Ind, who is serving a 28-year -ferm 18 the federal prison for a Kentucky bank holdup. Lt. Shields said the caller in-| formed him that Messamore con-| fided to him the slaying of Thomas Vandiver, his wife. and his stepdaughter. Thrown Into River Police said the caller told Lt. Shields that after the slaying the bodies were thrown into the Ohio River. But police believed if that were true, the bodies would have beeni found.

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was coming here today would contact state police. they doubted he would.

more after their own home questioned- abopt their disappearance but saidf he knew nothing

about it.

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attended the Chicago exposition with’ the Fair Board. said they| received many ideas from the show which may be included in| next year's Indiana State Fair. | A whole new program for the! 1950 fair will be formulated at a board meeting Jan. 4.

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ooh Coniosias Brutal E Soatng of Housewil |Our-City of Pulchritude

Held Prisoner in Hospital, Patient Charges ;

Contiaed From Page One) ~ they'd Ieistas bigs if I came out afid paid the $35. Mr, Skinner sald he had told the hospital that Mr, Hawkins was a reliable worker and that

Dr. Charles Myers, superintendont of General, sald he was starting an Immediate investigation: He said it was in keeping with [the law that a patient not classi. (fied as charity be asked to make

ha, the employer, would see that

The caller told Lt. Shields he |

The Vandiver family disap- | peared while living with Messa-|

burned. Messamore often was!

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“However, we e¢an't hold’ him until he pays,” Dr. Myers sald.

‘he paid the bill after he returned to work.

y , He said the doctor, a private) ; | “I told them he couldn't pay. . . i /it as long as they kept him there physician, was “in the wrong 54 . running up a bigger bill,” he said. if he had refused to sign the thm Vv

“All the woman would say was that he had signed an agreement to pay oh discharge and that he {would have to do it.”

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velease for financial reasons. He also said the business office had ®ierred in the case, i$ He sald Mr, Hawkins would "Wl ibe released immediately and be

er refused to discuss the Hawk- | year-old Mrs. Fannie Bean. ling case with Mrs, Bea Pribble, poo poi paid up un. [Mlowed to make arrangements sister, 11-year-old Doris Jean. 19 'N. Oriental St. today. Mrs. | Y es to settle the bill, Bonnie Fayes. win, Don

Pribble, sister of Mr. Hawkins'| fil he paid up. landiady,. went to the business patient and the hospital.” ‘he'd be glad to pay the bill and | attice to Inquire about his refease.!| Later-the business office worker commented: , “If* you don't want to pay the declared that ‘Mr, Hawkins made| “I've lived here for 27 years bill yourself it's_none of your $71 & week and that he “ought paying taxes and this. is the first concern,” the business office work+/ to have enough money to ‘take time I've ever used this hospital. er told her. “Ils between the care of the bill. 3 __iT'll be glad to get out.

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Councilman Launches Rent Deconirol Move 'WHAS to Broadcast:

Donald B. Jameson, Republican, Rent control laws Automatically Indiana Central Tilt leity councilman, today submitted expire next June 30 unless r ‘Ra WHAS of Lous

ito the city clerk a resolution newed by the the federal government. T which Will pave the way for pub- te [ville will broadcast the Indiana

lic hearings on decontrol of local SMOG STRANDS HUNDREDS |Central-University of Kentucky rents. | NEW ORLEANS, Dee. 2. (UP) ‘basketball garhe tomorrow beginMr. Jameson plans to have the — The season's worst. smog, ning at 8 p. m. “.8T). . resolution presented to the coun- [pushed by brisk winds, rolled over| Coach Angus Nichoson and his

cil Monday night, IC squac left here today for a “He shot mother frst. Then If the resolution is presented, New Orleans today. blacking out| {two-game invasion of Kentucky, Jean started screaming, so he. public hearings cannot be held in traffic and stranding hundreds ON meeting Eastern Kentucky to-shot her too. $e ; less than 10 days-affer its adver- their way to work. Eight auto night in Richmond, Ky. and Unis] “Donald was standing

lone was Injured. [night in Lexington:

behind tisement by the city clerk. The accidents were reported, but 10 vers'ty of Kentucky tomorrow addy. | 1don't inks Sagdy manat %:

date will be set by the council,

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The “prisoner - patient” sald Ray was sent to

a hospital a bullet. wound in the abdomen and his condition was critical. While Sheriff Jimmy Thompsom patiently learned the

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