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that of Click in the strange case.'to his wife 4 Another man also was in-|she 2 Marie, Bh opt on Marshal Tito that the food! ives a he Sama Sobert V.'rewards offered for solving a : , 40, Denver, Colo., was sla SB es violations o sentenced to life slayings.-Mrs. Click turned the But the Indiana Supreme Court|claim fer the re turn ordered a new trial and the a an WANs was . freed Christen after he

delayed in August, 1949,

Faces Long Sentence, $5000 Fine, if Tried ce (Continued From Page One) (Continued From Page One) 80 we could run off. So I tried his

it,” Verderosa sobbed to Dn In event of war with Rus- .. .;er and mother in the HendClick, a celery farm worker,

a ‘ricks County Jail. {made h The measuré provides that the ! e his confession In a latter United States shall serve notice

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He and went on to he had killed Miss’ Haaga, Miss : Kuzeff and Miss Conine. In each

Execution Climaxes ‘Strange Case’

sald. He said she was the wife of a freshman student at India University. ‘ imprisonment. je civil, religious and economic «: © Beek Woman tter over to authorities but her rights fn Yugoslavia. Bloomington police last night It also requires that President 2ttempted to contact the couple Click was sentenced on Dec, 1 Truman. report periodically to who livé in a $5000 trailer. They

the Shipments do not mean that this

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serving the term because it sald 5 year ago to die for thé Conine CONSTess regarding status of the Were not at home. %

it had no new evidence on which to base a retrial.

The Schricker has described as most unusual in the history of our state,” began in June, 1947, when Lobaugh walked into a Ft.

Wayne police station and con- | 'recen fessed to raping and killing three -O02USH threw a bombshell into,Tecent history.

women—Anna mina Haaga, and Mrs. Dorothea! Howard—in 1944 and 1945. The slayings had gone unsolved for two or more years. Later, Lobaugh repudiated his confession and then shocked his attorneys by suddenly pleading! guilty, He was sentenced to die, /dead in a weed patch. Prosecutor Meanwhile, Christen for the murder of Mrs. showed Click raped her, s Howard, whose ravished body her with a rock when she strugwas found in an alley He was captured in Denver where. The defense presented no wi

he was operating a notions shop. nesses but said Click’s confession slayer of Mrs. Mary Lois Burney, car while Verderosa was battling

" Mesnwhile pelice are interested

m and Marshal Tito's reslaying. He was tried only on progra . in questioning her concerning

/that charge to avoid the <compli- lations with the West. eh a / Verderosa's story.. cations from Lebaugh’'s confes- The aid does not include arms : Which Governorision to the slayings of Miss supply assistance and is to be She'd been bothering me. She thé Haaga and Miss Kuzef!. limjted to providing Marshal Tito op: aim’ Je told his father, | However, Lobaugh wouldn’ with surplus American food . the case stay uncomplicated. Five stocks to ease the pinch of one a pe ohms sat Inadlee " 'q f the shortest crops in Yugoslav S leading to the days after Click’s confession, © op sheriff's quarters, his mother’s the case by “confe . | . —- hand soothingly ilhel- on 0 a Cr Sing at he to Click's that they could talk shoulder, his father quietly asked, three slayings he had previously '0Sether but couldn't see each “Why did you do it, Guy?” jeontessed. Trois. Mice his otherOtheE LL “I don't know, Pop. 1 went confessions was subsequent! n 0 die on crazy," the young Ver - Los Y Feb. 9. 1948, Lobaugh has re- plied. 8 Verdeross re i hte pasar Said Confession Phony ~~ '¢ived almos. 20 stays and now 1, yixgice. ite iove-mad youth

Miss: Conine had been found Frog Beduled Sof Executions two b dicated that his life probably will} ui co. [In the robbery and an be spared but that he probably ndianapolis girl nearly hysterinever will be completely free. . cal. Se was driving her in her Another interested party in the CF to return to the University in 1945. gled, and then raped her again. Michigan City death row is Rob. °F Denver.

t- ert Austin Watts, twice-convicted| Miss Bond sat knitting in her

Started in 1947 cose,

Kuzeff,

police arrested Alton L. Bloom said evidence

Sentenced te Life was a “phony.”

apolis housewife. Yester- the bank cashier and his assist-

: . Indian While Lobaugh was awaiting ~ Click was senténcéd to die last da. y. however, he filed his latest ant. execution, Christen was found March 27 but appeals delayed his petition with the Indiana Supreme | Miss Bond, a former student at

guilty and sentenced to life in death.

n. _ Lobaugh's execution was still

Se Court in his long legal battle to Michigan State College, was Meanwhile, Lobadugh Ras await- escape the chair. He is scheduled transferring to the Denver school. ed his fate in a cell close enough to be executed Jan. 16. Verderosa had been asked to

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| Freeman's Resignation Ji) ave from Higgenbe : [Cave near here today more th | Is Accepted 117 hours after he fell into & & | (Continued From Page One) foot chasm five miles inside the

i v |disqualified himself from the case Cavern. lofetally when he said during a| National Guardsmen cra |public hearing that he was remov-{00 hands and knees most of the ling himself because of statements W2y through the narrow cave 'he made that might be considered Prought the youth out on & [“prejudicial.” stretcher. Gov. Schricker declined to com-' State Highway Patrolman John iment on the PSC blow-up this {morning. . | His executive secretary, Arthur. "oo {Campbell, said, however, that nolalive. but barely ving a was lone has been appointed to fill Mr. ond a broken leg. Freeman's vacancy. ’ . Statehouse sources said the i i ol ord, Ball

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Under provisions of the state's HP 2 3 utilities act, the PSC is charged Official Dies in East fi ~John

with regulating and supervising! BOSTON, Mass., Dec. {all public utilities, steam and Finneran, of Boston and Exeter, jelectric railroads, rural electric N, H. well-known advertising ex= corporations, motor vehicles for ecutive, died suddenly at his resi hire and rate-making authority gence here. over municipally-owned utilities. | Funeral services will -be: held The long-smouldering fight in tomorrow afternoon from his {the commission between Mr. home at Exeter. Mr. Finneran {Freeman and the two Democratic formerly was connected with icommissioners was brought am light yesterday in The Times national advertising director and {when the governor was asked t0 was vice president of Benton &

Miss Eleanor Bond . . . star ice-skating coed from Indiavapels {fire the Democratic commission- Bowles. He recently was advers

whose “chauffeur” attempted to rob the North Salem State drive her-there hy the girl's father last night, “It's all a nightmare. to the governor,

because of his expert knowledge|l lof automobiles. ’ =r

| “He told me he had business in Prised” at Verderosa's act. He and demanded they be fired. North Salem,” Miss Bond said last/Said the youth had been a fre-|

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few minutes.”

Sheriff Leon Bayliss structed the crime thus:

about 4 p. m.

There he knocked and was admitted. He had been in the bank ®

for a car he had sold. Verderosa

sales firm. When he entered, Verderosa

cashier, and Russell Owens, his assistant, against the wall.| They were the only persons in the bank. " T | | Tells of Obtaining Gun Verderosa said he obtained the, gun from an unidentified man] who left it at a filling station! where Verderosa had previously. worked. i Verderosa struck Mr. Owens.on the head with the gun and dropped it on the floor. Mr. Smith then threw himself on the wouldbe robber. : Verderosa drew a hunting knife ‘and slashed Mr. Owens on the) shoulder, head and left arm. Mr.| Smith was cut in the upper lip, | head, neck and arm. Mr. Smith's] ‘hands also were slashed as he at-| tempted to hold the 5-inch, razor- | sharp blade. | | Verderosa denied he had planned to use the knife. He insisted he “always” carried it in the trousers he was wearing, and that it was part of his hunting! outfit. His father said he had] sharpened the blade himself ‘only ‘a few days ago for a hunting trip. Despite their wounds, the bank employees were able to subdue Verderosa until an impromptu posse of North Salem residents, many of them armed with shotguns, came to their assistance. Mr. Smith and Mr. Owens were rushed to Witham Hospital in} Lebanon. Mr. Owens was given a| blood transfusion three hours after the attack. Miss Bond was taken by armed residents who were looking for Verderosa’s get-a-way car. She was taken to the scene and held] {until arrival of Sheriff Bayliss and his deputy, Hendricks County 'Sheriff-Elect Norman Money | Miss Bond told her father, Dr. {George S. Bond, from her jail cell

Gl Fights fo Prevent | Loss of All 4 Limbs

! BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Dec. 20 (UP)—Army doctors battled today to prevent a frost-bitten GI from. becoming the second quadruple amputee of the Korean War. Officers at Percy Jones Army General Hospital said that Pvt. Hubert Reeves of Joliet, Ill, is | threatened with loss of portions) of all four limbs. ao Pvt. Reeves suffered leg, |wounds from a sharpnel burst near the Changjin Reservoir in {North Korea and the truck bearing him out of the Chinese Communist trap was captured by the enemy. . | He escaped by crawling into the snow and remained exposed

below zero after others of the wounded were shot by their captors. Marines rescued hm lat )

In Death of Woman

. NUTLEY, N. J. Dec. 29 (UP) ~Police questioned scores of tavern patrons today in the strange ‘death of Violet Patricia Elkovics, 24, whose battered body was found on a lonely street here

"Police at first believed she was | the victim of a hit and run mo-

she apparently ‘a car and then run over, An autopsy showed that her skull, spine 'and ‘several ribs were broken and her body covered with bruises. Authorities said they learned the girl had visited several taverns with a woman companion, Mrs. Pauline Halovack, 25, of Pas-

night. “He told me to wait in the quent visitor at the Bond resi-| car, that he would be back in a dence for four years.

recon-/this morning,” the doctor said.

Verderosa walked half a block youth had been forced to drop from the car to the closed bank, his studies at Purdue University. The elder Verderosa said loss of! {an eye in a hunting accident sev-|

previously when he cashed a check |50n'8 ability to study.

is a salesman-for an imported car & daze by questioned by Prosecutor Gibbs. not believe the charges brought the Oakland commission of publie

drew a foreign-made automatic the gun deliberately after strikand lined up Fred Smith, 58, ing Mr. Owens. 1 35, want to hurt anyone,” he said.

knife?” Mr. Gibbs asked.

to temperatures 29 to 30 degrees

Tavern Owners Queried: :

ank. [TS jtising consultant to Chambers In a confidential memorandum 'wiswell Advertising Agency, of . or, Mr. Freeman pogton, and manager of the Mets can't believe it.” leveled “serious” charges against . noltan Chevrolet Dealers Assn. Dr. Bond declared he was “sur-/t he Democratic commissioners yg. was born in 1893 and is sure vived hy his wife, Julie M. Fine Volunteered to Quit neran; his daughter, Mary Ellen, Mr. Freeman volunteered to re- and a sister, Miss Sue Finneran [sign, if the Governor requested of Burlingame, Cal. : “He even helped Eleanor pack his resignation. =

However, . this A morning Mr. Frisco March of Dimes Freeman denied he resigned.

The gunvan's father said the “I only offered to resign. The Seeks Oakland OK Governor did not have my resig-: OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 20 (UP) nation. If he wants it, I will give Directors of the 1951 San Frapt to him.” |cisco March of Dimes campaign Yesterday afternoon, the Gov- planned today to appeal to the ernor refused to comment on the city council a decision refusing charges brought by Mr. Free- them permission to conduct their The gunman appeared to be in/man. ; annual drive in Oakland. last night as he was| Later the Governor said he did] = The permission was refused

ral years ago had impaired his

He told Mr. Gibbs he dropped by Mr. Freeman were “true.”

| charities, whica held that the orHe termed them “fantastic.”

| ganization’s administrative and (campaign costs had been “‘excesLOOK FOR WHAT YOU sive” y “Then why did you draw the WANT in The Times Classified] The commission voted four to

“1 didn't really;

Verderosa lapsed into mum- latest offers in real estate, used the same time it indicated it had

/bled “I don’t know’s” and buriéd cars, merchandise and jobs apne complaint against the local 'his head in his arms. i :

{pear DAILY. administration of the campaign.

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