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By R. K. SHUT.L “I wanted to see the man -ap-+ prehended. I knew if I looked long enough; ‘sooner or later the right set of prints would show.” That's . how a mild-mannered, 30-year-ctd Indianapolis “policeman explained the break .in the baflling slaying of Alberta Green. “I spent about 2!, years, using my spare time at work to compare fingerprints,” Sgt. James Pearsey said. He had compared the bloody fingerprint left at the scene with fingerprints brought in ‘at Indianapolis Police Headquarters, “I'd read about the case in the newspapers. I wanted to see it solved. In the fall of 1949 1 was assigned to work in the identification department on fingerprints. That's when I started looking,” he said. ‘This Was the One’ » “While I was looking for this § one, I found lots of others . .. wanted criminals, suspects. But this was the one I was looking _ for. “In my mind I knew I could find him, so I just kept looking. Then on Apr. 23 I matched it, I was positive I had the right man, at least to~my own satisfaction,” Sgt. Pearsey said. No one at Indianapolis headquarters could estimate how many fingerprints Sgt. Pearsey had looked at during his 25-year search. Today, the shy police technician is flabbergasted by the publicity given his find. He's uncovered criminals through fingerprints be-
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fore, but never with so, much at- ’ Bote tached fanfare. £ After he made his discovery, his evidence was turned over to Four Ii Taken & i i detectives who originally had ge"
been assigned to the six-year-old L Thamb § R. Thumb | Right Hand case, Sgts. James - Rogers and . * : Spurgeon Davenport. They found 1 the suspect's whereabouts, traced his movements at the time of the crime and prepared the case for its presentation to the Grand Jury today. But without that vital fingerprint identification, they might still have been baffled. Married with no children, Sgt. Pearsey said his favorite pastime is golf. “No,” he said, “I don’t study fingerprints at home.” He joined his father and brother on the force four years ago, and was assigned to the identification department three = years . ago. That's when he started his search Which led to Willie Breedlove,
Slaying of Nurse and WAC Here Top List of Unsolved Murders
Here in brief are back- ically injured, didn't see her as- were mobilized to aid the bludg- , »: sailant. Only eye witness was a eoned girl but she died 97 mingrounds of the Green slaying maid, Miss Ozella Allen, who utes later. and the WAC murder, the heard a scream and ran down a Tl 4. 8 # two major, long unsolved stairway to see a masked man, WAC MURDER —- A house
keeper stopped in horror as she i i t to et out Himes Indianapolis’ his- ine o Est unlocked the door of Claypool]
729 the morning of, Aug. 28, 1943, and saw the crumao - . Mindi vg ked, tt pled, semi-nude body of a woman. NURSE GREEN—The 22-year-| Finding all doors locked, the ™ye gio very set off one of the old student nurse was struck fleeing man, who wore a white greatest hunts ‘in Indianapolis down by a mysterious assailant handkerchief across his face, ran police history.
{back past the murder scene and Dozens of clues were sifted as she walked through the lonely the shattered whisky bottle with corridor of Rotary Home about fled out the window where telltale "wa c Cpl. Ridings had
3 a. m., Sept. 11, 19486. (Prints were found later, been bhisigeoned and slashed, a Another nurse, the former Betty! The bludgeon weapon, a three- no io Soo om oF ack: Overdeer, heard:a noise and saw pound stick of wood, was found wn, was in the murder room and Nurse Green lying on the floor. two days later in a wooded lot ha1f a dozen “crank” confessions Thinking she “had fainted,’™ the/west of the hospital. Still cling- in years that followed. second nurse rushed to the fallen/ing to it was Nurse Green's; Byt for almost nine years no girl. . But just as she bent over blood-specked hairnet. A frag-ireal clues were developed to lead! Nurse Green she, too, was struck ment of wood found near the body police to the identity of the asover the head. | fitted the club. !sailant who killed the shapely! Nurse Overdeer, who was erit-! Al of the hospital's facilities WAC.
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{ By United Press { | LONDON, May 28 Britain's defense minister gave a grim] warning of a buildup of Communist strength in Korea today and) said the Reds could launch a major offensive with little warn-| ing. They could keep the offen-| sive going for .some time, he said. Field Marshal Earl Alexander, who was the Allied supreme com mander in the Mediterranean the-! ater in the late stages of World War II, gave his warning in the House of Lords while Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave a |similar one in Commepns. | The Reds, Lord Alexander said have nearly doubled .their istrength- since the truce talks started, from just over 500,000 men to nearly 1 million, mostly| Chinese. i They now probably have more | than 500 tanks and self-propelled | guns, he said. They have larger| {numbers of anti-aircraft and| |anti-tank guns, heavy mortars and field artillery and they now | have rocket launchers.
In the air, he said, the enemy] {plane strength has risen to 1800 planes, including about 1000 jets! of which most are MIG-15s. | All this build-up, Lord Alexander said, has been accomplished despite Allied aerial attacks, since the truce talks started ant} July. ’ Lord Alexander said he is]
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Korean front'at the invitation) of Gen, Mark W, Clark, the new, United Nations commander-in-chief. > \
Rains Slow Farm Work
Heavy rains ‘®ut field work from 60 to 90 per cent in Indiana last week and set farmers back from one to two. days in their normal work schedule, the U. 8. Department of Agriculture said today. : Farmers were able to work only about 10 to 20 per cent of the time in the northern portion of the state, the weekly bulletin said. Field work was possible only 40 percent of the time downstate. Heavy rain this week end is expect®d to retard field work further. = ; Half Completed
Corn planting is about half completed ahd soybeans are about one-third seeded. Sowing of tomato seed is practically completed and setting of tomato plants is about 50 per cent done Wheat is nearly one-half
headed south, but just starting
north, Oats are about 12 inches high south, and six to eight inches north. Alfalfa hay is ready to cut south, but little cutting
progress has been made.
Tobacco fields are being pre {pared and some setting fs reported i in } southeastern counties
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