Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1950 — Page 2
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Two Examples of How They're Paroled ~ After Shocking Deeds; Police Helpless
By ANDREW TULLY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer A short, stocky man named John Henry Garcia was arrested ysually identified as politicians, by. Bo _Angeles police on the night of Oct. 17, 1948, and. charged met - inthe Lincoln Hotel to or:
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Sex Roaming For Congress Candida Will Because. Society
pr
with assault and attempted rape.
1a January, 1949, he was sentenced to 10 vears in prison. But nobody offered odds that Garcia would serve his full g.p in the 11th District in 26 stretch because lve never hagl before. He's one of hundreds of sex years.” criminals in the country who get.
away with their shocking crimes, time after time, because society)
hasn't figured out what to
with (hem.
It was incredible that Garcia had molested other children, A
do
was free that night in QOetober,
1948; for he had given plain warn- po." 24 a psy
ing of his criminal mentality as far back as 1925, when he was arrested for molesting a 10-vear-
old boy.
Yet,
after a 90-day sen-
tence, he had been turned loose, Booked Again 1943 HOW many --acts—of sexual de
pravity Garcia committed in the Napanoch, N. Y. But three years - is unknown, Sept. 12, 1943, his name again was labeled a menace to society was candidacy for Congress blossomed) on the Los Angeles police blotter. paroled the charge was at- father,
meantime,
This time,
, tempted rape.
He was released. A year and two days
but‘ on
later,
Garcia was arrested by Oakland,
Cal., police on a charge of “in-vestigation-—rape.’ "Again he was - released. : On Oct. 11, 1944, he was arrested in Roseville, Cal, on a! drunkeness charge, fined $10
and sentenced
Jail.
On Oct. 18, 1944—only a week haps he has been hailed into cour
to five days in
after his arrest in Roseville -
police in Bakersfield, Cal, they'd finally collared Garcia for but since such acts generally are ~good. He was convicted of rape classified as misdemeanors,” and sex perversion and sentenced courts have heen unable to con-
figured
to one to 10 years in San Quen-
tin.
But on Oct. 18, 1048 four years after mentence—he was. paroled” from deviate will hurt somebody, us-
. San Quentin.
The following night, he was af- express rested for assault and attempted fashion, 'he inevitably. will force, eventually, sentenced his attentions on somebody. And ana State Police, will atidress the’
rape and, then, one day, his fear of being second report meeting of the 1950
less than
beginning his
again to San Quentin,
Garcia's record is paralleled by/caught and his intense feeling of | {Red Cross Fund campaign at
that of Harold Beach Jr. who guilt will lead him to murder.
sexually attacked and murdered|
an_8-year-old girl in Cleveland, makers, Jan, 1, 1948. Six years before, a peculiarly privileged position. Beach had been convicted of Everybody knows he's bound 1to/ices which the Red Cross gives in Colorado. sodomy in Williamson, N. Y. And] [commit a crime sooner or later, time of disasters. at an even earlier age, he had/but under present laws nobody] “served notice on society that he| can do much about it. was a psychopath whose back- (Tomdrrow: What are the laws?) pressed the hope that 50 per cent
ward brain was darkened by ob-| scene obsessions,
Checkered Childhood
As a child, Beach was shuttled back and. forth between his di-
vorced parents. When he was 6 was found dead in his apartment by Willis B. Connor Jr, campaign he was given psychia- early today by his landlord.
years old,
“trie examination ‘and found to be]
mentally retarded, feeble-minded.
—
By
though not! Apt. the time he when he was discovered by James was 13 he was attending a school W, Cook, 67, owner of the apart- will meet at 8 p. m. tomorrow in in the 40 & 8 Chateau. Postmaster for mentally deficient children! ment house, and had become an avid reader of deputy coroner said Mr. Sanders jorie Scott, 1302 E. Ohio St. so-called sex magazines.
Retired Grocer Found ‘Dead in Apartment
{died of a heart attack.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES.
GOP Bdsiness Gr
} | Prosecution Challenges 54 Veniremen, ; * Accepts Eight First Day Tentatively
‘PRINCETON, Mar. 14 (UP)—Prosecutors appeared iday on demanding the death penalty for a housewite accused of | gene her parents with arsenic,
Group Holds First Meeting Here
ternal aunt, Mrs. A group of Republican business instructor, sat win and nervous as state and defense attorneys be-' {gan a second day of questioning prospective jurors. | Selection of the jury moved ~ < =r em——. 'slowly as Prosecutor R.' Circuit Judge A.
went ‘hunting today for a “prop ] ier” congressional candidate from - Marion County. _| More than 100 Republicans, not
Dale Eby Mrs. Spurlock
(special venire into court for ques- Eunice Dearing, 56.
peatedly: A ~~is-there. Sny-Teasolr why youtioning “today and ordered ancould not recommend penalty if the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that jtngae austed ii was|ville,. the defendant was guilty?” prepared to grant that most Bixty-two veniremen were ques- his evidence against at mopt Spur- estate of $21,000.
‘Iganize a committee “determined to elect the first GOP Congress-
Then in 1942, wheén he was 17, Bruce Savage. president of the
- they said they nod J Jerupies “Psat swvumituntinl ee i a eit 1 , sat e her in a intent to courtroom along with her maOvie Draperideath was blamed on & stomach of Detroit. But her paternal aiiment. Mrs. Clarice Spurlock, 28-year-old wife of .a Wuslages college uncle, George Dearing of Greenville, Ky. sat across the room {at the prosecution table. . is ‘accused of became sick five months later
Special ning her father,. Winter while visit daughter, and |0, Williams asked veniremen re- called -50 more members of a[Ppiso EE ia inter ng his daugh
“They died about five months thé death ‘other venire of 100 drawn in case apart while on separate visits to Dearing and his wife showed -
Mrs. Deariig had died in- No- 4 Svidences vember; 1948, while at the Spur “lock home helping t6 care for her -in-law. At the time, her
i i
The Suspicions of" authorities became aroused when Mr. Dearing
died five days ange he wrote a will in her Ne
Exhumed,- bodies of
Beach was arrested by William-|Indianapolis Real Estate Board, tioned yesterday and only eightllock is circumstantial. In addi-| Mrs. Spurlock was arrested at Spurlock to submit cal 'son police for molesting an 11- Was named chairman of the new men—seven farmers and a truckition to excusing those who ex-Memphis, Tenn. last August in connection his illness (year-old boy. He admitted the group. Mrs, Easley Blackwood driver—were accepted tentatively pressed themselves against the/while en route to Hot Springs, but he refused and has stood by : {by Mr. Williams. The defense did death penalty, he also asked Ark. where her husband hoped tolhis wife steadfastly, maintaining = that she is innocent. - Ee
{crime and bragged that he also was named secretary. ‘Best Possible Man’ After accepting the chairman-
‘not offer a single challenge.
. showed chopathic- personalfty with an inclination for sexua
1 ship, Mr. Savage said. perversion, and that if released he. Anyone who can make a sugmight bec ome a menace to the gestion to this committee as to a
wor: | might bec: gestion tn this commits a0 30 2h Face Sentence
psychiatric examination
Bruce Savage
80 17-year-old Harold - Beach {should - contact - this group. We! ‘was committed to the Institution Want the best possible man for a. : for -Mentat-Male ~Pefectives.«at-FrePublican. candidate.’ ing 0c es Ti sree: |. The new group was launched y Group Pleads Guilty | To 88 Charges |
DAYTON, O., Mar. 1 (UP)—
later, the youth who had been hours after Charles B. Brownson's in the custory of his into the open last night at a meet-| ing of the Washington Township! And society proceeded to ignore Republican Club. Cale J. Holder, state GOP chair- Five members of a family that
him until that awful night of Jan.” 1, 1948, when a little giri man, said he knew nothing about operates an oil drilling company | was murdered. the new group. in Ft. Worth, Tex., awaited sen-! Police Files Filled Want Public Choice stencing today after pleading
Police files are stuffed with the Members of the new GOP inde- guilty to 88 charges of illegally Introducing Our Very Own Dawn to Dark ‘records of such repeaters us Gur: Pendent committee declined to say;selling-oil stocks and gas leases in cia and Beach. Invariably, before Whether they would support the Ohio. : | a sex criminal. commits a crime candidacy of Mr. Brownson. |, The guilty pleas were entered of violence he has furnished the “We want the public to recom- in Montgomery County Common . 99 community with ample evidenee mend a proper candidate of stat- Pleas Court yesterday by John E. 66 . : of his abnormal tendencies, Per-| Ure to Pepresent Marion County|Bennett Sr. and four sons, leo, oun xXecu toe - t/in Congress,” Mr. Savage as- Gene, Bayard and John E. Beng sserted. nett Jr. . JOU AIMEECHE ¢XPOSUPE OF Hof some Mr. Savage was an unsuccess- The .ive were indicted last Oct.! ful candidate for the Republican 28 after an investigation by the thei congressional race in 1948. State Securities... Division and} - - a ws - County Clerk A. Jack Tilson County Prosecutor Matthias Heck] ) - announced two weeks ago that he revealed the Bennetts had sold| : :
jurors to 0 step aside . whenever recuperate from a long illness,
i } f ny considerable eo ) fine ta any consi would be a Republican candidate $152,000 in stock and leases to) fF les Yet. eventually--and the help- for the congressional race. residents of this area. The indict-| x less police Know it ~- the sex a ments accused the men of selling
unregistered stock and of selling stoek and leases without a state license, . “The indictments covered périod from Nov. 19, 1946, through June 2, 1949. State securities in-| vestigators said the counts rep-| . 3 resented only. a portion of the ? :
jnoon luncheon tomorrow . ini pout $, million actually involved.!
society's trouble-1pArCO Hall, 16th and Alabama Oil stock and. leases sold by the, Created specifically at Ayres’ request . . »
Frederick T. "Cretors The Double Life Dress
To Address Meeting
Lt. Frederick T. Cretors, Indi-
ually a child. Being unable to himself - in a normal
* that Tops Every List for Spring
Among
the sex criminal. enjoys gts. Bennetts were for properties in Lt. Cretors will speak on serv- mexas Louisiana, Wyoming and!
Leaders of the variousMivisions ‘of the 1950 campaign have ex-
‘Mcintyre Is Candidate { For Legion Office
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