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‘ THURSDAY, NOV. 29, 1951 | Death Steps In—

Slur on War Record Near End in Touches Off Fatal Fight Fry Slaying

Timgs State Service A slurring remarg. about a | GREENFIELD, Nov. 29—The drinking companion’'s war record i = state today expected , Somplele 4 : its evidence against George . touched off & fatal fight in a Miller, 23-year-old Greenfield downtown tavern ‘early today. youth charged with the fatal Police filed a preliminary beating-robbery of a Tl-year-old charge of murder against Joseph {crippled farmer June 9. A. Riley, 42, of 1031 Shannon | Chief witness against Miller Ave, and launched an investiga- {was Nick Csire, 22, of 214 Hantion to determine whether to

cock St., Indianapolis, one of the charge him with murder or man- three other youths also indicted slaughter, ‘&

for first-degree murder. The man arrested called it a Dressed in a blue serge suit “friendly scuffle.” A waiter wit-

rand wearing a blue checkered ess calle a" wavy. fi ”" | bow tie, Csire calmly told how he, n “ i 1 a ‘one-way Agt, Miller Dick Boschen and Jack Deputy oroner Howard T. Randolph planned the “easy job” Cravens said today he would. per- of robbing Noah Fry, the crippled form an autopsy to determine {Hancock County farmer, the cause of the death. . Ronald Wood Sr. was pro-

f Jury. Hears His Story | Cgsire told the jury the plans nounced dead shortly after mid- uy pane night at General Hespital, where

were formulated in the Union Station at Indianapolis. He said Joseph A. Riley, of 1031 Shannon Ave, had taken him in a car

he lost his nerve on arriving at driven by another man.

the Fry farm and he and Boschen Riley was arrested after quesClark Names

Joseph Riley

after they had driven to Green-

idid not enter the house until tioning at police headquarters. field and purchased a case of

a beer, In Municipal Court 3, Judge “I agreed to hit Fry,” Csire Phillip L. Bayt set Riley's bond testified. . “But 1 did not intend

at $3000 and continued the case to Wednesday. The trouble began in the Wheel Tavern, 219 N. Capitol Ave. The waiter, James M. Turner, | 41, of 112 W. Walnut St., told police Riley accused Wood of a slurring remark about Riley's “not being in the war.”

{to go through with my plans.” | He told how Mr. Fry directed them to look in his automobile for a tire pump and when they failed to find it, the elderly farmer let them into the house to use job in the telephone to call a service I station. “I could not Fry said: ‘Let me try’ “I was just leaving the room when Miler stepped in,” the witness continued. “He hit Fry from the back and then hit him two or three more times. Fry grabbed the bed. Boschen ran out of the

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Mr. Turner said the ‘one-way fight” followed and Riley hit Mr Wood three or four times. knocking him unconscious. He added that

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Columbus Men Escape

‘® The State Board of Accounts Hoosier Jail report on the missing fupds now is being studied by the grand jury. & By United Press Today's suit was, the second Es BROWNSTOWN, Ind, Nov. 29 such legal action taken against : . : the former clérk.. /The attorney Cute little styles with ruffles,

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robbery charge broke out of the Jackson County Jail here sometime early today, Sheriff George Abel said. Mr. Abel identified the two as Smith Alvin Gearries,. 23, and Havden W. Bowers, 27, both held under $5000 bond each on a charge of inflicting personal inin commission of a robbery The sheriff said he checked the jail shortly before midnight and the men were in their cells. This morning he found two bars sawed from a ow and the men gone, Abel said. Gearries and Dowers - were ¢tharged with beating and robbin a companion, Kelsa Fleetwood, of a country road near Seymour Nov. 14. Two companions, Dorothy McKain, 18, Seymour, and Irvant Nofrey, 20, Columbus,

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the night manager of the a fire chief “within the next few . tavern, Bill C. Robe, 85. of 221%2 gave” house pith B17 trousers? ou N. Capitol Ave. picked Mr. Wood Ye nav i ’sire said the four expected to from the floor ie tried to revive y i Sey 3 prominent Re net ‘$1500 from the robbery but him with wet towels, A A A 1 + all they found was $32 and two : was treasurer of the Clark-for- watches. Mr. Wood did not revive and Mavor Committee and =erved in a Miller. Who had recgesied a was rushed to the hospital. similar capacity in several other genarate trial is the oy io Police and hospital officials campaigns. the four who has not confessed estimated Mr. Wood's age at 43 Ag city controller Mr. Barney his part in the fatal robbery. The and tentatively reported his ad- wii] receive $7200 a year and other three are to be tried later. dress at 239 Indiana Ave. but would automatically become the city directory lists no such mavor in the vent of the chief address. Detectives said he had executive's death or resignation lived at the York Hotel, 236 N Mr. Barney, 42. is a native of Illinois St., until mid-September rngijanapolis, a graduate of Techand had worked as an inspector nica] High School, Butler Uniin. the Chevrolet body plant. {versity and Indiana Law School He is a member of the Ma-

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been a patient at the Veterans dianapolis Athletic Club and Hospital on Cold Spring Rd. about Fair fe Preshvterian Church iwo years ago Mr. Barnéy lives with his wife General Hospital authorities! wooo cone at 4907 N. Capitol said his father, Robert Wood. '4, 0 lives In Bloomington. The victim{ ye was a naval officer in also was reported to have a sister world War II and is a member in Bloomington and a brother'in of the law firm of Barney & Chicago Hughes. : Riley insisted he and Mr. Wood p——— $ had only a “friendly scuffle,” dur- Says Nass Before Tomb | ing which Mr. Wood fell down AM : = v | and hit his head on a table { LIMA, Peru, Nov. 20 (UP) —| athe Wee i Francis Cardinal Spellman, archWaiter Turner, in his state- bish t Now York at to lice. quoted Riley as'Dishop of New York, here on a 4men Dadce: quot po Ty day visit, celebrates mass today saying soon after the scuffle: “L _.-. «hh TE . : : at the Basilica Del Rosario belost my head. Woody is TY! tore the tomb of Santa Ros f friend. He is all right.” Lima ' Banty W053 OF

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