Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1950 — Page 5

FRIDAY, APR. 21, 1950

-§ Tucker Wonders What Made His Bubble Burst

| (Continued From Page One) (said he had worked for them 18| by subsequent attachments/™Onths and prior to that had against Tucker's vast holdings, 50/d Bibles and religious books. |He refused .to divulge his activi-|

Mrs.

Tucker

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subsequently di-

vorced him and moved to Albu. tie in the interim.

querque, N. M. i In Albuquerque today, Mrs. Les. t0day confirmed Tucker's em-| Suery ay, MIs; Las ployment as manager of the Ash-|

ter Edmondson admi "he | mitted to The |), ng "ky "district. They said he

Times that she was the former

Mrs. Tucker. She had denied jt 0d Pot handle money and that

when Albuquerque contacted her last night. i “Yes, I am the former Mrs.! Tucker,” she said. She a she had denied the first queries last night “quite truthfully” be. 28ents contacted them Monday cent luggage tax would remain, cause she was asked about a 2SKing them to identify “George” Tucker. . Remodels Life : “I have remodeled my ire," Russell J. Stephens, Edmondson said: anew life here. 8 “I's all such a surprise. For 10 years I thought it was dead St, a section manager in H. P, used by the shop. If retailed by a and buried and now it's come Wasson & Co., died today in Bill-|barber or beauty shop, the-items back. I was cleared in in origi. Ings

Mrs,

newspapers he made “a very good showing”

of Tucker.

I have Wasson Employee, Dies Russell J. Stephens, 332 E. 51st

Veterans

nally and I don’t want to be in- Hospital, Ft. Harrison. He was 156.

volved.”

She said her present husband, An Indianapolis resident an knew of the case and her con-/manager of the ready-to-wear de-| {partment the last 25 years, Mr.|

nection.

Mr. McBroom .said he asked Stephens was a native of Detroit

Tucker after the arrest if he was and was a member of “relieved that the

over.”

Hadn't Worried Much

Robisonsearch was Ragsdale Post, American Legion.

| Services at 10:30 a. m. Monday |{in Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary

“No, I never worried much will be followed by burial in about it,” he quoted Tucker as re- Crown Hill, plying. : |

Survivors include two brothers,

Tucker said he was acting asthe Rev. George T., and Noble,

agent for the Merchants’ Protec-'and- two sisters, Mrs. John R.'—Reduced the present 10 per cent be taxed. Other sports equipment tive Agency of Kansas City, Mo., Hanson and Mrs. Carmon Ricker, tax to 5 per cent.

under the name Lee Byrd. He all of Indianapolis.

0K S530 Millon seeds of oer ili Tip Aer 10 Years Excise Tax Slash em, cei oo = Leads to Tucker's Capture |

Merchants’ Protective Agency|

in soliciting delinquent accounts.,women’s handbags and purses,

Agency representatives said he! dded that Was hired by mail. They knew|other similar items, would be {nothing of his past until federal abolished. 'The present 20 per

a picture however, on such items as suit-| | cases, trunks and brief cases.

a to what are called retail excise

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THE INPIANAPOLIS TIMES

ing Communist” . . . that's By CARL HENN

“We finally got a valid tip after 10 years.” W. W: McBroom, U. 8. Postal Inspector, today told the story of his marathon search for Charles F. Tucker. Indianapolis insur: lance agent who fled 10 years ago. after a gigantic swindle. Search ended successfully yesterday in the postoffice at Russell, Ky. : “When I inherited the case from Inspector Alan .C. Garrigus, who was retiring, Tucker already teeta me had been gone from Indianapolis But we don’t close a case until for a month,” Inspector McBroom we know the final disposition on said. it, and I didn’t close this one.” 4 ve had hundreds and hun- When the break finally came, 3 reds of tips, not only at the five days ao, Mr. McBroo i TREASON" which starts start, but ever since. Y not been li Ch room ae in The Sunday Times. “There are a lot of cranks incase for six months because of You Can't Afford to Miss the world- who see a face on a gnother assignment. If he had “SEEDS OF TREASON" postoffice circular and immedi- not just completed it and been : Exclusively in ately think they know him.” in the office at the time the tip The committee voted to exempt THE SUNDAY TIMES Took Up Trail arrived, he might not have been barber and. beauty shops from ——

pAYMent of the-10-per-vent toftet And accessories—unchanged. at 10... Inspector McBroom, after assigned to complete his 10 years

ather idence i’ 1. 8 effort, yerCent —— gathering evidence for-then 1.8. ¢€ preparations tax on taxable items TE reduced from 25 to District Attorney Howard Caugh-. He left Indianapolis Tuesday

10 per cent. ran, took up the trail of tips and with Edward C. Cocking, secre-

House Vote Embraces Furs and Cosmetics ! : : ® The REAL inside story (Continued From Page One) of the Alger Hiss-Whit-however, to perfumes, shaving lo- taker Chambers affair tions, and other cosmetic items ~~ that's “SEEDS OF used by adults. i TREASON” which starts The present 20 per cent tax on, in The Sunday Times. ® MUST reading for every

red-blooded American . that's “SEEDS OF

“SEEDS OF TREASON,” | { which starts in The Sun- °| day Times.

men's billfolds and wallets and

Exempt Barber Shops

{ Film and photographic plates— clues. tary of ‘Sun Life Assurance- of Admigistration} would be subeet Io tax. and toi- reduced from 15 to 10 per cent. He personally traveled to Illi- Indiana, for Russell, Ky. The ey a. Seb | Household refrigerators — Re- nois, Missouri, Arkansas. New two waited a day and a half, Mr

let preparations are new subject duced from 10 per cent to 7 per|York and other states to investi- McBroom secreted just off the

taxes. The committee also tenta- cent. Freezer units added to tax- gale Susbeqts. Sometimes, when lobby of the postoffice and Mr. v s . police were holding a man IoriCocking in-the fire station. tively approved today some re- able list at 7 per cent PH ok dios oan Life ocking in-the fire station ductions in manufacturers’ excise, Commercial refrigerators and Assurance Co. of Canada oficial taxes in addition to those it ten- all types of air conditioning units op = 0" 0 Fa ear tatively okayed yesterday. —unchanged at 10 per cent.

Remained Hidden

“The postoffice was in the front

: “I had never laid eyes on the ,¢ City Hall and the fire house Here is the action the commit- gports equipment — exempted jy. » Inepector McBroom said was at the back” Inspector M tee took today on the manufac- children’s sports equipment such mppe search led into every state Bo . ho A . De acs turers’ excises: as baseballs, basketballs, skates i, the Union and into New Zea- ” a ent ba > rocRing Sayed Matches—Retained the present and footballs from the 10 per cent 14,4 Mexico and China, Tucker's SY Es ac ere with the tax of two cents per thousand. tax. The fact that such equipment picture was plastered in 40.000 i } When Tucker finally walked

Musical instruments (not in- sometimes is used by adults will oot ffices and 22,000 police sta-

cluding radios- and phonographs) make not difference—it still won't 4; no into the postoflice and was nabbed

Wouldn't Close Case by the sleuth. he denied his idenDid Mr. McBroom ever become tity. Mr. McBroom hustled him discouraged at the failure of tip back to the fire house for Mr

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