Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1950 — Page 32
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w= By IRVING LEIBOWITZ “olen edn get away with murder in: Marion County: few. who commit murder here die in the electrie chair, ‘ A life ter ‘a life is. rarely the penalty. Sentences range from two years to life imprisonment. In 20 years, only one man was “ sgntenced to die in the electric
clipair. catty MOB Murder: Trials These are statistics compiled from more than 500 murder trials in the county Why do Marion County jurors hesitate to invoke the supreme penalty? Prosecutor Dalley says “they don’t want the responsibility.” The latest murder trial here emphasized the hesitancy of many to serve as judges of their neighbers in A murder case. Asked to be Excused As deputy prosecutor Edwin J RVin examined prospective jurors in the trial of Willlam Howard I.yohs, one after angihei iequested to be excused. &1 am opposed to capital punish ment,” one grey-haired woman rad A husky young man, dressed in thw garb af a truck driver, volunteered “I don’t ever want to be the guy to #end some fellow to the chair - Eleven Excused Fleven of 21 prospective jurors were excused because they op"paged sending a man to die for a “Erne, % Lyons, charged with the Sept 11” tavern slaying of Walter A. McKane, was found . guilty of] mansiaughter, :
ors; fresh--out of - law! “school demanded the deathgpenalty In ‘the murder trial of] Thomas Patterson. an Surprised Spectators »The most surprised court spectators when the jury returned the] verdict were Rufus C. Kuyken-| dall and Thurl C. Rhodes, the prsecutors. ‘Wven the court clerk, Mrs.| Maude Smith, was vigibly upset. Inntears, she refused to read the wérdict, SS a] Vov, Gates later commuted the dfith sentence to life imprison mnt. phat Notorious Case The most notorious murder case | in. «Marion County-—the Robert’ Austin Watgs trial-ended when | the. jury returned a verdiet of guilty as charged and sentenced him to dle. — £3 But the trial was taken out of} Marion County and tried in 8hels hywille before a Shelby County! 4 " ‘ i Prosecutor Dalley says frankly! “most. people don't object to cap-| ital punishment, they just: don’t] want fo pass judgment ‘them: selwes.” : Fa i 3
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Library Has Key To As of Magic
‘Book Tells of ‘Cures’ “Used in Middle Ages JAF he Indixhapolis Public Library 8.2 den” of black magic, mys “Alc incantations and superstitions. Unfortunately for this story, it waz further revealed that all such siify-rpsa knowledge is confined to hooks and never practiced by the Ithtarians, who take a dim view, of such headache cures as the following 11th Century prescriptin. quoted from a book by Joan EVans, Librarian of Hugh's Col-| Jégh. Oxford (England) and entitied “Magical Jewels of the Middie. Ages and Renaissance, Par ticiilariy in England: t “As a cure for headache seek jitlle: stones in the maw of the young of the swallow, and take care they do not touch earth, nor water, nor other stones; sew three. of them up into what thou wilt. put them on the man who has need of them. he shall soon be better. They are good against headache, pain in the eyes, temptations, goblins, tertian. fevers, incubus, herb-magic, witcheraft and evil sorceries. The young! birds In which you find them should be big ones.” Stones Are Secrel The dridianapolis brarians who have done some reading their William Allen Wood collection of Daemonology, which is not avail alfle. for circulation know that there's practically nothing a gem or stone won't do for you, if you got the right ‘one at the right tine and use it in the right way For Instance, the librarians eotld become the richest group of people in the world-—each one a lady-Croesus—if they had time te go hunting during the open season for deer and stags ‘Because they know that “the stone found in the brain of a slag prevents baldness”--and all they'd have to do would be shoot a few stags, hunt for stones in their brains and sell the stones ta.men approaching the middle #08--or even ywunger,
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