Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1950 — Page 18

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“My Son Wasn't a Murderer’ Parent 1 . Says of Companion of Admitted Killer =~

By DONN AMIKELS My boy wasn't & murderer.” | “Anyway, he wasn’t a murderer to start with, * said the 30- -year“If he is now, they made-a

sold mother who looked old with sorrow. ~Jitirderer out of him." . The woman who spoke is thé mother of 17-year-old Robert

vHospital' with a homicidally-in-{—m——*————-In the murder of an old, age pen- civie consciance and found their sioner who shared his supper with conscience wanting. in Roberts mother is—her of these “ihey's” she feels, which name and the town in Indiana produced the overcrowding situashe lives in—isn't important. She tion that kept her son more than has three other children who 2 Year and a half on a waiting list ‘should not share the burden of to Bet the shock treatment doctors her oldest son, brain-injured {in thought might help him. “4nfancy: i The tragic story is that just What She Has to Say !a month before his escape that: Who she is, isn't important. lended in tragedy. Robert had at But what she has to say, is. last been transferred from the It's important because the Ft. Wayne School to Logansport | “they” she refers to when she frospital, ‘which had facilities to says “they made a murderer of 8ive the prescribed shock treata sick boy” refers to the state Ment. of Indiana and every one of its ,

‘Would Have Chance’

residents. “Whether shock treatments © “They” are the legislators who!would have helped him is probuntil recent years turned their lematical,” doctors told the backs to needs of state mental mother. “It's at best experi-

hospitals. “They” are the lobbyists who ‘preached “cut taxes,” groups who have too long opposed spending money says to expand and improve hospitals. he should ‘ “They” are the taxpayers who; His moth

mental.” “I don’t know w hether it would helped him,” the mother but I can’t help feeling. that have had the chance.” vr and doctors at the

Ask Mrs. Manners—

‘Hubby Buys Another's | Lunch With My Money’}

R MRS. MANNERS: # YOUR COLUMN is very interesting and you #0 me most of your help goes to the men but Piess them, I guess they need it. My husband does # My husband takes money from me to buy Tunch. » His actions are putting me %han life itself. » We've been married nearly 20 3 Fev and we had been so happy.

re helpful. It seems 1e poor weak things

another woman's

in my grave for I love him more

used to. We had such good times together. We were buddies. Will that time ever come ¥gain? CONSTANT READER. You thought you wére buddies for 20 years. He may have |

e've never had thooght differently, though he | { | sip and recipes. | |

erv much but Swe are buying a Pome and I am 3 1atetul # Several months go my husband mtarted stepping ut on me. I was @ne of these un-

fortunate wives aving lots of by you. Stop talking about octor bills. I vour house, neighborhood gos-

Went to work to fo help pay the bills. # This woman my husband takes ut is married and has two chil-ren.-He told me she was so un-| Herstanding. I asked him what ade him think she'd be good to im when she Steps out on her husband. ry My husband walked out and Mas gone a month. He came back, i bs we agreed to let bygones be

didn’t complain. Maybe you bored him. The other woman talks about | how wonderful he is. That's why he thinks she understands him: He wants to be told:that . You enjoy those subjects. He | probably doesn’t. If you must | pause hefore store windows | with household talk, pause at places that Interest men. He doesn't care a darn about drapes. |

Stop bickering. That bores him, too. It also convinces him vou think you've slipped as a | wife. If you don’t think you're all right how can you sell him | on the idea? . i While you're pretending, pre- | tend to him and to yourself | that the other woman doesn’t | exist. When you feel like cry- | ing go. to ‘he beauty parlor or 'UhiGi he 13 (TYING 10 freeze me, som inn apne nk You oun | out though I've been careful what , . 0.0 picture if you | say. I've tried to be so good to) : harder lob | I've. told) Y have tor. try hard Snough. a ar im . FE him but he never returns if he left you. tle am t

Dygones. I was not te question fim about a thing he does or ~ #@bout where he goes. He was not EE give me reason to wonder. = | _#m He still slips nut with this same, Mon “» He never wants to take me any| lace. He never gives me a penny.

v love. He treats me like a Make your house seeond % f ranger. If only he'd act like. he your husband. Scrubbing floors |

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Nature thin, loosen and cle: icky, strangling mueus-_then

5 ogram of Community Dynam-: so fast to hel MISS ated and better sleep

= was. in charge of the work- ou samp. His assistant war

two institutions

| wasn’t a bad boy. He wasn’t like ‘had affected him" until he started ‘because he'd run away. A year!

to school and couldn't learn. We ago in April the doctor said shock everything they could with sun{lamps and cold packs. ‘their fault—they didn’t have the

ler, and he did fine. But the next ferred, but every place was over- funds.” (Within the past fow weeks the

nis companion,’ Newlin, who used !to smile -at the thought of “how

much fun it would be t somebody.” But » influenced, a ' patient. ’

im s why we put him

“Paul Truman. Her son’s escape from Logansport State Mental institution to prevent something

like this,” she said. “Then t

“clined companion last week ended weighed a tax increase against it happen 'anyway breaks your

heart.”

“Robert had a Naw temperaIt is the combined fault of all ture when he was a tiny baby,” says in explaining her

his mother

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Robert was eas“follow the lead- "year they -didn’t open that class crowded. They couldn’t give the! again and h2 had to go back to treatment in Ft. Wayne because money for the wall has been ap- know they share it, too? {they didn't have the facilities to propriated.) : | “It was just a month ago he City Criminally Insane Prison and’ “Then we went to see him and finally was transferred to Logans- doesn’t get another, chance for, his family sent him to the doctor warned us before we port,” the mother continued. ‘But treatment, the people who keep saw him that he looked bad. They before he had a chance, the at- the pay too low to get reliable

ver B asts Tock of State Care For re Son Held Ih Traniiort Slaying Case = Tam ‘agree "Robert. (son's case. “We didn’t know it, they had to keep him I Qetenbion The boys’ ig tego pereise, 7 i

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derful,” says his mother.

did everything they could. But wall that “would allow them to ] let case.’

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