Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1951 — Page 3
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FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1051 _
pr Summons Smith, Fairchild In Grubbs Case
Prosecutor Frank Fairchild and Sheriff Dan Smith were ordered to be in the chambers of Criminal Court Judge Harry 0. Chamber-| lin late today to explain their action in transferring a confessed slayer from the Marion County Jail to the Monroe County Jail without a court order, Today's . conference, Judge Chamberlin said, will be closed. Judge;Chamberlin yesterday zaid he-did not intend to let the » incident go unnoticed. He said he, felt’ “very strongly” about the c¢ase and termed the transfer “not proper.’ The confessed killer ‘of two, Ethridge Grubbs, 34-year-old stone worker, was shot to death Saturday by Monroe County Sheriff Fred Davis after he tried to slash hig wife’s throat in the Bloomington jail. Judge Chamberlin said he did ke not Hien = Sour, Fioivng jeruins} THIS DOESN'T quite fit into! ting the transfer o e prisoner. OE he would call a confer the “man bites dog” category— ence of ‘the. local officials in- but it's close enough to be news, volved to prevent a repetition of Sgt. Earl Booth and Officer the case, Judge Chamberlin yes: Heine Long,’ investigating a dis-| terday set the conference date foriturbance; found themselves at-|
11 a. m. tomorrow. [tacked by a “man-eating man” at He changed tle conference to 3 g m. today.
this afternoon, he said, at the a = = request of Sheriff Smith. | ENTERING THE apartment of
In Bloomington, Richard Wild- 1 - er. attorney for Grubbs, asked for [Theodore . Steels, 29, 50714 Mas
an investigation but said he Sachusetts Ave, doubted whether the Monroe door had been torn off and fur-
County officials would comply. ‘nishings tossed about. Sgt. Booth
Wilbur Daugherty 25 years ‘protection’.
New Twist fo Old Story— Man Bites Man
{immediately became all’ iangted
lup with Steele.
Two to Be Arraigned | In Alleged Dope Ring |
— Two members of an alleged blood. - marijuana peddling ring were) scheduled to be arraigned today
while the FBI launched an. JnBx-Policeman’ % Motion vestigation into counterfeiting ac-
tivities of the third.
Police said the ring was broken last night .with the arrest of Wanda Page, an attractive 35-year-old brunette, and her accomplice, Ralph E. Bryant, 24, They were implicated by Robert Lacy, 26, who was arrested Tuesday by | an officer who posed as a Srug) addict.
Charles Woodrow Burton, 34, ior-
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tn a term of 2 to 14 years.
: | While being held for trial Bur-| Authorities said Lacy procured! ton twice attempted suicide in the |
the drug. stored it in Miss Page’ fl Marion County jail. once by slash-
house trailer, from where it was
““dfstributed’ locally by Bryant. ing off a 30-foot balcony. Lacy was freed on $5000 .bond,
after being arraigned yesterday hased on a charge that the prebefore U. 8. Commissioner Clyde siding judge failed to delete imR. Randel. proper testimony in the trial.
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stand trial on a state charge of |
{robbery and possible return to the | Mrs. Emma Alexander, Washing -
{ton, Ind., and Mrs. Dorothy Madi
| Michigan City state prison,
4 | He wanted the federal term
because ‘he was afraid He might inet live long in Michigan City.|
(son, ' Indianapolis;
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_ijust 20 hours before ny " Korea. Four days later a Commie
bullet ended Bob Miles" fear for-
ever, ‘We Regret—' £4 His family was waiting today. There were his father and step mother, his mother, two sisters.
an S8-year-old half-sister, Lois Miles; two halfbrothers, Herschel Miles and Tommy Cornell; Grandfather Obe
{He is known there as an in iformer, prison officials declare. He wanted the .federal term because he was afraid he might | not live long in Michigan City. He is known there as an informer, {prison officials declare. ! But Daugherty wasnt grateful. He protested the 25-year sen{tence yesterday. lerossed by police.
Promised Light Sentence
3 He said police’ bad promised to’
{get him a light sentence if he
: (talked. LAT think
if Indiana made all
with them,” the man who has
He said he was t
Miles, Martinsville, and Grandmother Emma Schafe, Indianapolis. : But his 18-year-old brother. Harold, was in Japan. They were as close as brothers can be, Harold enijsted as soon as he read the Defense Department nofce:
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Guided Missiles
Lab in the Works
mm SRO promises they should stand wa SHINGTON. June 1 (UP)
The National Bureau of Stand.
“We regret to inform you
they noticed the ,
During the struggle, Steele “sank him take a federal rap. He didn’t development,
\want to go to Michigan City and and applied research to construc-'ment assured the Augusta police that he may have been In town flammation today. {we could have sent him there in- tion of experimental models, will department today it wasn’t trying one day, issued a check, and then! to “embarrass” a party for the Augusta baseball team next week
this bicuspids into the fleshy part TERRE HAUTE, Juné 1 (UP) of Sgt. Booth's left leg, drawing
Steele was booked for drunken {disorderliness and Fesisting arrest. 10
For New Trial le Denied formed on two men convicted for A motion for a new trial for {mond in 1947.
| mer Indianapolis auxiliary police-
man, was denied today by Judge {Harry O. Chamberlin in Criminal.
Burfon was convicted Jan. 23 ion a morals charge and sentenced |
{ing his wrists and later by leap-
Hiz plea for a new trial was
‘spent 17 of his 38 years behind ,,4¢ announced today it is estab 'bars said in federal court jyester- lishing a laboratory at.Corona day. Cal., for research and develop“1 expected 8 or 10 years, of ment of guided missiles. Sourse, but I didn’t think I would; no G0 ror the center. to be
[get 2 known as the Corona LaboraThe police officer, Sgt. NaUm- yoo way transferred to the sek, said, ‘Tl talk to the judge bureau by the Navy, and 22
and see what ] can get for you’, existi ; ng buildings are being reno‘Daugherty charged in court. vated for research and develop-
Denies Statement ment work. Sgt. Naumsek has been [it. The bureau said 18 months to Naumsek for more than a year, two years construction time has [but Daugherty didn't recall ‘that. been saved. The laboratories,
operations by September, ; Every phase of guided missile from theoretical
we would,” Lt. Naumsek said. “We did him a favor letting
he covered.
FBI Chief Warns of Hitckhikers
HINGTON., June 1 (UP) gar Hoover, FBI director, It is the brother today warned motorists to beware of one of these he fears in Mich- of hitchhikers. Noting the beginning of the vaAnd Indianapolis police said he cation season, EY Hoover said
‘stool pigeoned” on two men In-|.,,¢oriste should be “alert to the volved with him in 11 robberies in danger of attack by criminals who
{Indianapolis and Marion County! may be posing in the guise of
in 1949 dnd 1950. {innocent hitchhikers along the, Marked for Death highways of the nation.” Daugherty knew he was marked, “A review of cases reported to] {for death in underworld circles. the FBI indicates an increasing He told police that he would never number involving individuals who live to complete a term in state! pick up strangers along the high-| ;|prison. Prison officials confirmed/way and‘ are later victimized, jus. according to Police Inspector robbed and in some instances Jack O'Neal. murdered,” he said. Police knew Daugherty's He said the most tragic recent
stead.”
Daugherty gained a reputation police circles as a “finger” man. Besides leading to solution of the 1946 murder of Abraham Azan, West Side cobbler, he in-
murdering two pelicemen in Ham- J. gt
life
—— ‘wasn’t worth much even in tne Case involved William E. Cook
[local jail, t's why he was Jr. Who murdered a family of transferred out*of Marion Coun- five and threw their hodies into ty jail for the federal hearing an abandoned: Oklahoma mine in- Terre Haute. A mistake in his|shaft. They had stopped to offer
" . “I made no effort to get him a added, should start limited opera- | ight sentence and never told him tions in June and reach full-scale Assured Police Not
two members of team during a rhubarb al a game last week.
sentence then brought him to fed{eral court here. It was Daugherty's tip about: [the murder weapon that led to; solution of the slaying of two
Hammniond policemen in 1047, ac-!
cording to state police. One of the gums
squeeze” —because ft r pressure from both sides of the {butt.to be discharged.
Gun Traced i
State police traced the gun to | Daugherty. He told them that he {had sold the weapon to a Frank | Badgley, 50. | Badgely led police to Robert O. 1 Brown; 37. Both were tried for convicted, and -electrocuted in Michigan City State Pris.
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{ © Daugherty was sentenced yesterday to the 25 years by Federal Judge William E. Stckler who was! upset about the entire proceed-| Hngs. “I understand this man was {brought to me in Terre Haute last
{month-as a safety measure and,
2 speedy sentence was requested,” {the judge - said. He then said this would be the {last time a case will be taken | from the state in this district “just to safeguard a man who {might otherwise be sent to a state! | prison.” | Leads to Trouble
k “Ag 1 see, it, it just leads to | trouble,” he said. { Judge Steckler sentenced | Daugherty to 12 years in Fed-
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{eral Prison on the same charge: | This sentence loaded with 5400 gallons of gas-
{in Terre Haute. | wii set aside however on
| motion by District Attorney Mat-|
thew Welsh. Mr. Welsh pointed
out that post office robbery car- IR
ries a mandatory sentence of 25 years. The judge said yesterday it was the hurry of the earlier trial which caused him to overlook the mandatory 25-year sentence, “This court has never bar-| |gained .with any man for a sen{tence,” the judge asserted. Mr. Welsh described Daugherty as: “One of the few men I have {ever séen whose profession is rob-| bery.” Daugherty was sentenced for, the robbery of Dady's Market and postal sub-station. He could have been charged for a state offense for the robbery, or could plead! guilty to the offénse of post office | robbery because the store contained the sub-station. The state offense would’ have | sent him to Michigan City, where 'he wag unpopular with other pris-| oners as a fingerman. To avoid {the Michigan City trip be pleaded’ guilty to the federal charge. Robberies Cleaned Up
‘| Inspector O'Neal sald 10 men]
(fingered by Daugherty for rob-| | beries are in jail or prison. Some were sentenced, while others are under indictment.
Daugherty's ‘willingness to talk
|cleaned up 11 robberies in this
vicinity in 1949 and 1950. He adthitted taking part in all of them, (and eventually told police who! [else was involved.
| The robberies occurred after,
‘State Reformatory at Putnam-| 1 ville, where he was serving a bur-|
[ary term. He had been trans.)
tlando;
rbrief illness,
him a ride.
Former Local Resident
'Dies in Orlando, Fla. |
ORLANDO. Tia) June 1 —~ Fu-
‘.neral arrangements. are being ar-
ased in the 063 for Mrs AGertrude Can-| shooting was an unusual 32-cali-| 8
ber revolver known 8s a “lemon gen:
dedo, former «Indianapolis resi‘home here. For eight years prior to leaving Indianapolis last September she lived ‘with Mrs. Pauline ‘Roderick, 1755 E. 52d St. She was a member of . Broadway Methodist Church and the '“Twice-a-Month" lub Surviving are a son, Louis, Ora brother, Fred Wilcox, Rockford, Ill; a granddaughter,
{a niece and several nephews.
She was the widow of Charles H. Candedo.
Former Peru | Mayor Dies After Short tHness.
mes State Service PERU. June 1-—-William A. Hammond, former mayor of { Peru, died yesterday in Methodist] Memorial Home, Warren, after a Services will be tomorrow afternoon. Mr. Hammond, who was 886, was a civic and business leader here for many years, He served as mayor from 1914 to 1918 and represented Miami County in the Rtate Legisiature in 1910.
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Gasoline Truck Fires | Building, Driver Killed ruck
OMAHA, June 1 (UP)—
loline crashed into an.office building yestérday, killing the driver and setting the building on fire. The victim was identified as obert Woodward 27, Omaha. The fire raged for hours at the Kellogg Co. general plant office, but firemen kept it from spreading to the plant's main mill. Two women employees were hospitalized.
Shoplifter Sticking Around for Refund Angle
OIL CITY, Pa., June 1 (UP)— 8hop keepers in thiz area have ‘heen warned by Police Chief Ira
L. Joslin that a new racket is
| being operated in the community. “A person walks into a store” the chief said, ‘“picks- up an {article, walks over to a elerk— {and asks for a refund op the {i'm he never purchased.”
Hospital Says Vogeler |
Ready to Leave Today | WASHINGTON, June 1 i Robert A. Vogeler was scheduled [to be discharged from Bethesda .|Naval Hospital” today following (convalescent tréatment for 17 months’ imprisonment in Hungary. Hospital officials aid not gon {scribe the physical condition of] | the International Telephone and Telegraph Co. vice president.
ferred there from Michigan City after the Brown-Badgely trial because “his life was in danger.”
Daugherty inadvertently led police to solution of the Azan slaying. The tip led to the arrest
and indictment on first-degree murder charges of four Indianapolis men.
who died -yesterday in her,
a ‘ndictment
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Sherry Forecast
As temperatures soared to the|
90's, the weatherman today fore- eligible to |cast that the next five days cng
wh
ling tests wm be made in an at-
[tempt to solve the cases on file, { 'would bring frequent showers | On Record Here ng frequent showers and One
thunderstorms with the mercury!'the o FBI records show Mohiman was from- 5 to 10 degrees above sion.
rin Indianapolis in January of this normal. | Capt. Micha Evanagh hond ‘year. , Tomorrow's forecast was for, [of police internal security divie Using a fraudulent $2000 check, warm and humid weather, with sion, and his ging Lt. he had purchased = 1950 Packard cooler weather scheduded for neth Luke, will be in Cincinnati, and drove it here, a} {Sunday or Monday. the gchools. local FBI man said. He sold it to] Rainfall should average from a an Indianapolis auto dealer, sup- DAlf to one inch, with amounts parting the transaction with UP to two or three inches ha local- _ forged ownership papers. /ized areas.
At the time of the Cincinnati gg gy of M Missing Boy
purchase, he was posing as a sper} cial investigator from the U, s. Found Near Home Times State
Attorney General's office. When arrested in San Antonio} NABB, June But police “he was in possession of moreland neighbors whe joined an all-|’ “than 100 credit cards, severalinight search for a 5-year-old boy| ‘hundred identification and buei- found his body in a pool near the!’ ness cards and equipment for house today. falsely certifying checks. ; ‘Forrest. Leé Rycher, Nabb, was Mr. Hanley said the series of/missed at 8 p. m. yesterday and bad cheeks under investigation|the search continued for 11 hours.
'hére ranged in value from $50 to! Music Union to Meet
$150 and were drawn on the imajor stores. : | : John H. Goll, James P. Robinson and George Fretle will repreAmerican
held nt oe Fd Written examinations will
given at the conclusion, of no
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Handwriting Matched 5 The handwriting matched that sent Local 3 of the of Musicians at the!
on other fraudulent checks issued! in eastern states, the Midwest nion’ vention and some southern cities. Mohl- u 4- 54th annual con iin "New York, next Monday man listed his home as Brook- ‘through Saturday. i lyn, but was using the alias,’ i “Frank N. Crump” Memphis, . Tenn. when arrested. King's s Lung inflamed LONDON, June 1 (UP)—King|
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FORGOTTEN FAIRWAY—A year ago while on leave, Pfc. Miles took time to polish up his golf game.
Mr. Hanley said it was difficult. to determine just when the check| George VI, confined to his Buck(drtist whom they seek was gi uctpe Palace bedroom for the Permanent rank solely for politiJune 1 (UP) this area. ~llast week with Influenza, was Cal reasons in case of a change of fepart- - “He moved with such. speed suffering from a slight a in [political control in City Hall.
Taking Turns at Bat SAVANNAH, Ga. —The Savannah police
anyone by giving left immediately,” he said. rank. All 19 Heutenants and 12 of He stated that the same alias,’ Grab Lottery Tickets . !the 13 captains at present hold ‘Thomas,” was used many times, Police confiscated 112 full or acting ranks. 3 ee : yn the checks filed here, but the partial books of baseball lottery Capt Kavanagh sald when the first name was altered many tickets in raids of 2241 W. 10th merit system is re-established times. st., 1318 E. 25th St. and 508 E.there should be no more acting There were no checks bearing Washing‘on St. yesterday. ranks in the department.
Augusta: police had arrested
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