Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1950 — Page 5

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Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Feb.

* Police last night reported “no new leads” in their efforts to find the

+ mysterious “Mr. X” who has been

molesting™ Bloomington women and children for more than a month. Detective Capt. Russell . Parks said progress in the case

“was at a standstill after the de-

partment quizzed and releaséd! two suspects yesterday. Latest victim of the marauder| was a 23-year-old housewife who was scratched on her throat and| - both-arms Thursday night as she : stepped outside the rear door of _ her home. “Two other women were also . scratched, neither deeply, during! January, One was the wife of an! Indiana University student, the . other a minister's wife.

Many Narrow Escapes Many Bloomington women and

“children reported narrow escapes

from the silent. “Mr. X,” who made no other move against his victims except to claw them as he grabbed. Police have not heed able to . determine whether the scratches)

#were made with. fingernails or|

« with a weapon, acpording to Capt.! Parks. “The scratches sometimes look! “like he used a pin,” Capt. Parks! : said. “They just break the skin.” The department has not been “able to obtain a good description | . of the molester's appearance. He| strikes early in the evenings) usually just after dusk, Capt.

—~ Parks said.

"METERS PAY OFF SEYMOUR, Feb. 4—S8eymour's parking meters paid for them-| . selves in about 12 months, ClerkTreasurer Ralph J. Lucas said

“toddy as he announced full pos-|

. session by the city. - By terms of the contract, one- * half of the money collected each day went to the Dual Parking ‘Meter Co, Canton, O., and was ‘applied on the $19,436.78 purchase _ price. The other half was retained by the city, which paid all traffic expenses, These included meter y maintenance, wages of two ~ patrolmen assigned to them, ex-

.._penses of the city police car and §

: installation of street signs and lights,

{FARE CHANGE SOUGHT FT. WAYNE, Feb, 4—A peti~tion seeking elimination of. the weekly pass from the transit fare Istructure was filed yesterday by Ft. Wayne Transit, Inc.. with the. « Public -Service Commisgion in Indianapelis. ©

: The present 10-cent cash fare, ~ three-for-a-quarter

token fare, * five-cent school fare and free ; transfer will not be affected by “the petition. Donald H. Walker, transit firm { president, said the company t elimination of the unprofs. “itable pass in preference to ask«ing for general fare increases... 5 PSC set no date for_a hearting on the petition, indicating a {study of the proposal will be + made.

Kills 3 W 3 Women,

Dies Under Truck

3 Victims Found Beaten And Slashed in Home:

} TAMPA, Fla, Feb. 4 (UP)— i Police investigating’ a highway

“% accident which Kifled a New" York!

i bank official today found three Swomen of his family beaten and

Two Other Cases Here Besides Gerald

By DAVID WATSON

Two other case of dreaded leu- { kemia, both afflicting young boys, {have been revealed in Indianapolis | since seven-year-old Gerald Duna-

j way flew away on wings of hope

| toward New York.

From: a bed in his home:at 1064 | Oliver Ave., Tyrone (Tony) Dig{gin, 11, is rooting for his pal, Jerry, in Bellevue Hospital for, ACTH treatment. { Tony was a St. Vincent's Hos{pital wardmate with Jerry when | both were patients there last De- | cember. In critical condition in General Hospital is Robert Clarke, 7, son {of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Clarke, 14415 E. Pleasant Run Pkwy. aon Drive. »: Robert has been receiving in- | jections of cortisone for the last i three weeks. Cortisone is recommended 4s an alternate to ACTH, ‘the miracle drug. Tony is the son of Mr. and { Mrs. Thomas F. Diggin. A history {of his case reveals the manner in which leukemia, a cancer of the blood, takes its course. -

i... Tony was. a St. Patrick's. Paro-...

chial School pupil until his vital{ity started to lag about six weeks 0. . He complained of being tired and for the first. time in the memory of his family he went to bed during the day. Usually the first up and about in the morn: ing, he lost his young enthusiasm. St. Vincent's hospital attaches and the family physician diag{nosed the case as leukemia. Tony spent Christmas in the hospital. There he became friends with Jerry Dunaway. “They talked and! played their radios together. When released from the hos!pital, they sometimes talked on the telephone when their parents iheld receivers for them.

| Wants to Get Well Now Jerry is .in New York. {Tony would like to go, too. Like |Jerry, his greatest wish is to get {well so he seturn to school. Tony has only lived in Oliver {Ave. for about six months. He moved from 525 Prospect St. Back when he was feeling better, Tony w was never one to stay

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.2s8lashed to death in the home.

‘Where he was living here. I Detective Sgt. B. G. Roberts “identified the dead man as Tony. i Slechta, 50, of Yonkers, N. Y.;

—— 4m ~wife; Ann, 47; his mothér-in-§

Peter Ruziak, 70, and Mrs, Ellen

law, Mrs. ‘his = sister-in- ~law, Ruziak, about 50.

Sgt. Roberts said police were |} ~working onthe assumption that.

“Mr. Slechta murdered the three women and then committed Bui‘cide by flinging himself under the swheels of a big truck-trailer on ; the highway a half block from the { house.

No Motive Found

2 When they entered the Peter 4 Ruziak home police found the #body %f Slechta’s wife on the livSing room floor. She had been: fbeaten about the head and face sand her throat was cut. : In the front bedroom, .Mrs. El#len Ruziak’s body sprawled across “the bed, her head crushed by a £claw-hammer.

1 Mr. Slechta’s elderly mother-in-

‘law had fought back and appar-| fently tried to escape from the

“house. Her beaten and slashed

body lay on the floor of the ‘kitchen, . Police could uncover no motive ‘immediately for the slayings.

iCharles T. Coleman .

Rites Tomorrow ' Services for Charles T..Cole-

an,~City Engineering Depart- J - gment employee the past seven’

Syears, will be held at 1 p. m. toSmorrow in the Mt. Pilgrim

. £Church., Burial will be in: New,

Mr. Coleman died Thursday inf

is home, 1239 Calhoun St, A] ‘native of Tennessee, he had lived gn Indianapolis 33 years. He was member of the New - Light ptist Church.

Crown Cemetery. 3

Surviving are his wife, Lucille; f°

- brothers, Eainest Weakley. polis; Peter Coleman. berland Furnaé.. Tenn. and

Weakley, Russ diville, Ky. L

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Tyrone (Tony) Diggin, Voyedrold | leukemia victim, enjoys western comic books.

‘his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Diggin.

long in the house. He liked a 31 lem is one of replenishing the host i

baseball game now and then; But! pital blood bank to replace issues his favorite pastime was go made for Tony. with his father, Thomas, who Yesterday Tony said he was operates a general hauling busi-!feeling better, but “didn’t feel so ness. After that, he next pre-{good” Friday night. ferred going downtown with his, Physicians said he has acute older sister, Barbara. ' myeloid leukemia which attacks But he has been too weak for bone cells. It is the most common anything like that since his re-/form and the most rapidly fatal lease from St. Vincent's on Jan. of three leukemia classifications. 14, Since then he has received two! blood transfusions. Tomorrow, he! ACTH Ohly Hope will be taken back for his third. Although the ACTH treatment {has not been proved, the family Tony needs blood donors. His| joke to it as the only hope for mother, Mrs. Ruth Diggin, hasitheir son. - |

been asked to have donors ac-, Tony is one af nine children. company “her and the ‘boy when He has four brothers and four he reports for the transfusion. | sisters. His schoolmates have not Donors will nat be classified forgotten him. His “private” rasur-

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