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GREENCASTLE. INDIANA. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1935.
NO. 76
TLAW CHIEF LIVED IN FEAR ■SAYS PIQUET! LOUIS PIQI ETT ON TRIAL FOR ■ARBORING DILLINOER AND VAN METER ICED AS MASTER MIND
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CHICAGO, Jan. 12. UJP' Attorney jLouis P. Piquett, still called “Curly" by those who remember m when he tended bar nlontf the old Chicago tenderloin, told a wide-eyed Judge and jury yesterday how John Dtllingi r cringed in terror as he fled from a “shoot to kill” army of pur-
suers.
inil Piqm tt, former city prosecutor, is on trial in federal court on charges — that he was the "master mind” of the Dillinger gang. A half dozen witnesses have said he arranged the plastir surgery operations on the ,at faces fof Dillinger and Homer Van
* Meter.
—- Thet plight of the paunchy Piquett. nt picked by the government as the bauf‘horrible example" of collusion betwen ! the underworld and shyster — lawyer* held little interest for the
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trial's! spectators.
But whenever mention was made of "one John Dillinger. lately deloj ceased' a hush fell ui>on the court-
al room.
\\ J Piquett sahl that, in his efforts to ki pursuai* Dillinger to surrender, he was assured by Criminal Court Judge IE William J. Murray of Crown Point that the fugitive would be saved from death in the electric chair if he
A; gave Jjimself up.
Judge Murray, reached at his •Mdnfrrs in Crown Point, indignant-
ly detfed the statement.
"That’s a lie and I shall be glad to ^‘Ttppear in court and testify to it,” he a f aaid. , "I never even hinted such a
,l thing.”
itoij piquett gave them an entirely new ' n l picture of the nation's public enemy
if No. 1.
Dillinger. whose five months of terror took a toll of 20 lives, sobbed h' like a baby when he read that dewt partmeut of justice agents had been wi given orders to shoot him "and count lin ten afterwards." (In* “He was anything but a swaggerS ing bandit chieftain," Piquett said. ha m The lawyer was one of the last Witness* * in his own defense and will — argue nefore the jury in his own behalf before the case goes to the jury some time Monday. "I gaw Dillinger a few hours after hie Ipfeak from the Lake county jail and pleaded with him to surrender," Piquett said, referring to the outlaw’a j "toy pistol" escape at Crown Point, Ind., last March 3. "Whnt did he tell you?” J. Albert Woll, youthful assistant attorney
genera:, asked.
“Well, the first time he said he didn’t want to surrender because he didn't know what excuse he could give for slipping out of jail.” Laughter, quickly silenced by Judge William H. Holly's gavel broke out and Piquett looked over the crowded courtroom with a puzzled
frown on his face
He|told of how Dillinger. jumping from ione hideout to another in his effort"' to elude an army that spread like ants over a dozen states, heard of tlx government’s "shoot to kill" )J order vhich was to bring his death
on July 22.
"He said lie didn't think the feds were giving him a square break," his
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New President of lluter University Begun Teaching Career In Country School
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Dr. James VV. Putnam
tiations and saw Piquett receive $10,-
000 from Dillinger. The 50-year-old branded them as
Dr. James W. Putnam, Indianapolis. acting president of Butler university, is the new president of the institution according to an announcement last night by Hilton U. Brown, chairman of the board of trustees, at the annual faculty dinner on the Fairview campus. Dr. Putnam has been serving as acting president of the instiution since Oct. 30, 1933. Dr. Putnam has been on the Butler
defendant hotly since 1900. During his twenty-double-croascrs j s j x y ears on the facuty he has served
when he took the stand. I he $10,000. j as G f the economics department, he said, was his fee for serving Dil- ,ii rec tor of the summer school, di-
linger and the outlaw's half Indian sweetheart, Evelyn "Billy" Frechette,
at the bar of justice.
Piquet tc shouted angry denials when Woll insinuated during a lashing cross-examination that the lawyer might have had advance knowledge of Dillinger's "toy pistol"
escape.
He had admitted that Miss Frechette was in his office when he learned of the serio-comic affair by radio and that she and he were with Dillinger later that day. "And you had visited Dillinger in
rector of the evening course division, dean of the college of liberal arts and sciences and acting president. Beginning his teaching career at the age of eighteen in a country school near Mt Sterling, 111., Dr. Putnam has devoted his life to education. He has taught at Illinois college. his alma mater, Northwestern university and the University of Missouri. He holds graduate degrees from Cornell university and the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin.
Dr. Putnam is a former president of the Indiana School Men’s club and
which specifically calls for repeal. "Repeal of the primary,” she wrote, to Govet nor McNutt, "would make j easy the rule of bosses and machine ; politics. It would break the princi- | pie of government by the people and would put in the hands of a few per- i sons the control of government.” j She calls ui>on the governor to withhold any proposed action on the! primary. "The repeal of the primary.” she added in a statement. 1 "would permit boss and gang rule. This repeal effort is not being advanced by and fostered by law-abid-ing Republicans and Democrats, but is being advanced by those who desire to set up the rule of the boss, the rule of the machine and eventually the mle of the dictator in Indiana.” She describes herself as a Demoerat loyal to the Democratic party, loyal to the Democratic president, and loyal to the Indiana Democratic state administration. KIND PUTNAM FARMER DEAD AT HIS HOME
Spectre of Dead Hovers at Trial
WOMAN FLIER OFF ON SOLO OCEAN DASH
AMELIA EAKIIAKT LEFT HONOLULU FRIDAY WITH OAKLAND HER GOAL
JOHN NEESE BELIEVED HAVE SUCCUMBED TO A HEART ATTACK
Oliver Wheteljr
Itidor Fisch
Violet Sharpe
The names of these three persons, now dead, have been mentioned on numerous occasions in the testimony presented at the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann at Fiemington, N. J., for the murder of. the Lindbergh baby—left, Violet Sharpe, maid in the Morrow hoina who committed suicide; right, I-sidor Fisch, the man Hauptmann claims gave him the ransom money, who died in Germany; center, Oliver Whately, Lindbergh butler, who died a year ago. Only the name of Fiach has been linked directly with the crime.
HAD BEEN ILL SOME
RITES SATURDAY FOR TIME' FORMER RESIDENT
the Crown Point jail a few days be- the Indiana Association of Economfore?” Woll continued. | ists and Sociologists.
"Say!" exploded Piquett, “I had nothing to do with that break and
you know it!”
SCHOOLS GET $28.1)00 FROM INCOME TAX
Dr. Ralpli llufienl To Teach (ilass
FORMER DEI'AUW INSTRUCTOR CONSENTS TO CONDUCT CHEMISTRY LECTURES
CHECKS MAILED SATI RDAY BY STATE BASED ON *200 FOR EACH TEACHING UNIT
COUNTY
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With Receipt Of Gross Income Tax County Will Have Received $33,113.73 From State-.
Checks totalling $2k.00<) were mailed Saturday to schools of Putnam
William E. Search, county supervisor of adult education, announced Saturday morning that because of repeated requests, Dr. Ralph Hufferd has consented to conduct a series of six lectures in chemistry, as a guest instructor for the adult educational program. The class will formally bo In charge of W. A Parker, a regular member of the staff of instructors, who has been an assistant in the department of chemistry at Indiana
university.
Dr. Hufferd is recognized as one of the outstanding chemistry in-
county as their share of more than j atructors of t | u . Middle West and $1,000,000 of gross income tux funds j made nI1 cnv iable record the 13 years
being distributed to schools by the state, it was announced by Floyd I. McMurray, state superintendent of
public instruction.
With the receipt of the gross income tax money this week, Putnam county schools will have received *38,413.73 from the state’s three new
he was a member of the DePauw faculty. His knowledge of his subject and his teaching ability are so well known locally that Mr. Search has received many requests to try to secure him for a special class. Dr Hufferd will not be on the regular staff of instructors but has offered
own
replacement tax laws during the hj8 8e rvices free for this series, first half of the present school year, | i )r Hufferd plans to conduct the* - which began August 1. On October j clfi8Sc . a j n suc h a way that they will 15, distributions from the intangibles have a popular appeal for evoryo.v tax amounted to $2,603.02 and on 1 especially those who have none or November 1, distributions of $7,810.71 VOI .y imie knowledge of how chemwere made from the liquor or excise 1 i s try enters into our daily life, tax. j The class will be held in the chem Further distributions during the istry room at the high school Weil school year will be made April 15 nesday evening, from 7 to 9 o’clock, from the intangibles tax. May l from starting next Wednesday. It will be the excise tax and July 1 from the open to every one interested As with gross income tax. ; all adult educational classes, no fees The gross income tax distribution whatever will be charged,
now being made is based on $200 for |
each teaching unit. Putnam county _ . - was allotted 140 teaching units after iyiFC H k ||(‘|\( k S III
average daily attendance and other,
Boil\ Removed To Home Of Nislor South Of Reels\illc Early Saturday Morning John Neese, 75 years old, well known Washington township farmer, died at his home just south of the Walnut Chapel church Friday night, following an illness of several days. The body was found in bed at his home about 6:30 o'clock Saturday morning by Lem Skelton, a neighbor. Neese, who lived alone, had been confined to his home with a cold for some time and is believed to have died of a heart ataek during the night. Coroner Charles Rector who investigated, said Neese probably had been dead four or five hours when his body was discovered. The deceased was widely known through his sale of watermelons. Many Greencastle people drove to his patch each year. Neese is survived by a sister. Mrs. Mary Tressler, living south of Reelsville in Putnam county, and several nieces and nephews. The body was removed to the home of the sister pending funeral services. HEBEK FUNERAL SUNDAY Funeral services for Henry Hcbcr, age 72 years, well known farmer of Washington township, who died suddenly at his home Thursday, will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home in Washington township. The Rev. V L. Raphael, pastor of the local Presbyterian church, will he in charge. Interment will be In the Boone-Hutcheson cemetery. Lee R. Herbert Trial On Monday
Funeral services were held at Terre Haute Saturday afternoon for Mrs j Mebclle Steeg Lammers, wife of Edward S. Lammers, a native of Green- | castle who died after a few hours’ | illness at her home Thursday night j Mrs. Laniers, one of Terre Haute's outstanding club and civic workers, was born near Greencastle the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Henry Steeg. She was just two years old when the family moved to Terre Haute. Her father later served as mayor of Terre Haute one term.
INSTITUTES SCHEDULED IN COUNTY
EVENTS WILL BE HELD ON FEB. 1 AND FROM FEB. 12 TO I t
CHAIRMEN Mil
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Displays of Farm and Garden I’roduee. Cunning and Cooking, to
Feature Meetings
Full Calendar At University
CHAPELS, DEBATE AND BASKETBALL GAME HEAD WEEK'S FEATURES
The university calendar for the corning week was released today from the office of the president. There will be no university vespers
service Sunday evening but the stu- j mee tj n} .
Farmers' Institute meetings will be held in Putnam county Feb. 1 anil from Feb. 12 to 14 according to a schedule which appears in the institute schedule for Indiana as prepared
by Purdue university.
These annual events will be featured by displays of farm and garden produce and cooking and canning for which premiums will be offered. Big basket dinners also are a part of
the all-day programs.
Fillmore will have the first institute. according to the schedule. This
of farmers will be held on
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP MAN CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLING SI M OF $8
mliil
atorjjj continued. I tell you, he was j elements used in determining the al-' a frightened man in those days Some, lotment wcre chocke d by J.
time* when he got to thinking about what might happen to him he seemed
to b* sobbing.
"He was downright scared.”
William
Bosse, statistician 'or the department
of public instruction.
The gross income tax distribution eorroe|>onds with the estimate made
Primary Bailie
Lee R. Herbert, of Washington township, is scheduled to go on trial before a jury in circuit court Monday morning on a charge of embezzlement filed by Fred Holsapple of Pleasant Gardens Special Judge John H. Allee will preside. Herbert has tieen at liberty undei bond since his arrest last summer on the charge. According to the affidavit Herbert is alleged to have em bezzled $8 belonging to Holsapple. It will be the first criminal trial
dent discussion group of the Presby terian cl.urch will have an interesting guest speaker in F'ather McGrath who will talk on "The Catholic Youtli Movement ” The group will meet in the Presbyterian manse at 4 p. m At the Christian church the regular col'ege forum will be held at 3:30 p. ni. on the subject of "Co-opera-tic es.” The First Christian church has its student round table at 11
a. m.
Chapels for the coming week are of interest with Prof. C D. W. Hildebrand as speaker on Monday; Prof. Franklin Thomas on Tuesday in place cf President Oxnam who is out of the city: Prof. T. Carter Harrison on the Devotional chapel program, on Wednesday and Prolessor Isherwood. tenor, on music chapel Thursday. Athletically the feature of the wek will be the DePauw-Wabash basketball game here Thursday night. It will i>e a big evening witli the DePauw freshmen meeting the Wabash freshmen in a preliminary tilt to the big game. Dope counts tor little when these traditional rivals mod as the DePauw-Wabash
Friday, Feb. 1, under the direction of Marion Sears, chairman. Speak ers will be J. C. Bottum of Purdue university and Mrs. Harry Stevenson
of Bloomington.
Other institutes cyill be held at Belle Union Feb. 12. at Washington township higli school Feb 13. and at Bainbridgc Feb. II Speakers for these three are Charles W Masters of Connersville and Mrs. Lawrence F. Foster of (Tawfordsville. Chairmen of the icspeetive institutes are Doris Sitlsman of Belle Union. George Akers of Reelsville, and Allen Bain of Baininidge.
Rlrasanl (mnlens Woman Is Injurnl
HAKGAKKT LEWIS IN TERRE IIAI rr-lOKITIAL ( OMI'AN
ION ARRESTED.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Jan 12 Lacerations about the face were us
football game last November will at- tamed early K’riday >notiiiug by Maigtesi. aret Lewis, 31 years old, of Pleasant Tuesday evening nt 7:30 in the j hardens, when the iiitomobile in Little theater, the Earlliam women's which she was riding. Iriven by Sam debate team will met the DePauw Hamertek, 53, of 229 North Fifth
* ' f |uett said, he talked with | )V the state hoard of accounts last i DiaMg' i about '1110 hereafter and | f a ]| w hen local school budgets were
being prepared Estimates were pro-1
TELLS GOV. MeNUTT REPEAL WOI LD OPEN WAY TO "BOSS" DOMINATION
his dav of reckoning," but it didn't ^ seemj to make much impression on C £ the farm lad who went "sour" on the law when he was 16 years old r »' ! After he had pictured Dillinger as a nervous wreck, haunted by a lurking death. Piquett was asked if he
mn WM i frai '< of Dillinger.
no “No not physically,” he replied, ^0, ‘ but |t wouldn’t have been healthy to
y turn informer on him.”
Two surgeons, Dr. Wilhelm Loe-
vidcil in order that schools might do-
WASHINGTON,
sentative in
Jan 12 Repro-
of Albert Williams since his election as county prosecutor, while Fred V. j Thomas is attorney for Herbert. A large crowd is expected to at- | tend the trial inasmuch as Herbert ! his ! wor * c * affairs group of the Y
coeds in an intercollegiate debate on the subject, Resolved: That the present extent of Advertising is to lie deplored. DePauw women will take the
affirmative.
crease their property tax levies by ( ekes, Terre Haute, yesterday ,,< 'F rftn , ahpr j ff | 11Hl 8 p r j tl g
the amount to be received from the n fight for her own political self pre-
. became widely known through
Congress Virginia Jen- a( . ljviU( , a HS ft prirnary ratl(lillnle for | W. C A. will have as its guest speak
state.
nervation. She favors retention of
I the primary election system by which
Wendell Kay. president of the Stu- she has been twice nominated. It is dent Senate, will be the speaker at, agreed her head likely would fall unthe Vesper Service of the Gobin ! der the political axe in a congressionMemorial Church tomorrow evening al convention. 6:30 o'clock His subject will be "My j She daringly enough wrote a letter Impressions of Student Interests and to Governor McNutt voicing empha-
20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE
s«r and Dr. Bernard Caaaidy. testified, Movements" received from the Tenth tic protest against "political bosses,” for the government that Piquett | Annual Congress of the Notional though in a statement she exonerates hired them to give Dillinger and Van Student Federation of America which the state administration from being Meter who likewise was slain after- j was held in Boston, Mass , the last a part of the plan for the Indiana ward, "new faces." Arthur W. Leary, week of December. Mr. Kay repre- legislature to repeal the primary,
investigator in Piquett's office, said sented DePauw IJniversity student Governor McNutt, however, has said [ Mrs. W. O. Timmons was hostess
he was the go-between in the nego-1 body at this congress.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Dean are the parents of a daughter. Dora Sweet transacted business in
Danville.
Mrs. R. L. O'Hair was a visitor in
Indianapolis.
Dr. T. A. Sigler went to Peru on a
business trip.
John L. Poor who will talk on "Home Life in Russia." Mr. Poor Is an oil rotining engineer who speijt many months in Russia and has appeared frequently in Greencastle as
a speaker on that country.
Funeral services for Jacob Hoiwager. a former resident of Greencastle who died Thursday at the home of a brother at Madison, wil' be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the McCurry Funeral home. The Rev. Gust E Carlson will be In charge. Interment will be in
j he is standing by the party platform j to the Matinee Club. — j Forest Hill cemetery.
street, crashed into the rear end ot a city street car in front of the hi barns on East Wabash ivemi ' The injured woman was taken to St. Anthony's hospital, where her condition was reported not lerious later
Friday.
Following the accident the driver | of the ear was arrested by Police : Lieutenants Barton and Sappington. , Motor Officers Orving and Cavan- ^ augh and Motor Patrolmen Dowell and Elbrecht. He later was jailed on charges of intoxication ind driving
while intoxicated.
HAS RADIO ABOARD PLANE Noted Avaitrix Departs In Heavily Loaded Ship Following Two-Hour Downpour SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12. (UP) Amelia Earhart. first woman to fly the Atlantic, flew alone over the watery wilderness of the Pacific today. embarked on her greatest adventure the 2,400 mile all-water passage from Honolulu to the California mainland. She piloted a single-motored monojilane of land type. Her radio sputtered out a succession of "all okays,” as she left the Hawaiian islands far behind with the safety of the coast far ahead. Following the Great Circle route, and without mishaps, she should reach the mainland at 1 p. m. PST, 14 p. m. EST). Weather conditions were ideal through the early hours of the flight. But meteorologists reported a storm sweeping down from the northwest, that would lash the mainland wit | rain and lay a heavy blanket of fog above the Golden Gate. Other difficulties were faced. Although Miss Earhart has a two-way radio broadcasting set which permits her to talk to shore stations and to hear their directions, the plane has no radio beam equipment to guide her through the final stages of the
flight.
The landing gear is not retractable and should she be forced to land in the ocean, experts believe her plane will turn turtle anil toss the touslehaired flier into the sea. Miss Earhnrt's destination was the Oakland airport, where on Dec 6 Commander Sir Charles KingsfordSmith landed almost the same type of plane on a flight from Honolulu. Other airports along the northern California coast were manned, however. on the possibility that she may be forced by the fog to turn southward to seek a landing once she crosses the Faralones, tiny islands 30 miles out from San Francisco and the first land she will sight. Undaunted by these hazards, America's premier woman flier was jaunty and gay when she climbed into her plane at Wheeler field in Honolulu yesterday afternoon. Her husband, George Putnam, publisher, hovered near, more nervous than she. They kissed a long affectionate farewell. Army mechanics pulled out the wheel chocks and Miss Earhart taxini down the field with a gasoline load of 520 gallons. The plane teetered a bit but she lifted it into the air at 10:13 p. m. EST for a getaway that expert f liers cheered. There waa 4< nntlntaiMl on l*n|(e Three* MONEY TRACED TO GERMAN (Copyright 1935, By United Press) FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan 12 New Jersey will trace a total of $19,600 to Bruno Riehard Hauptmann and |>r«>ve that it is all but $100 of the *50,000 Col. Charles A. Lindbergh paid to ransom a baby already dead, the prosecutor claimed
today.
I Tills stugg ring Mow against the taciturn German carpenter charged | with kidnajiing and murdering the j Lindbergh baby, watt planned even ' while the state marshalled a great army of experts who will prove be- ] yond doubt, the prosecutor said, that Hauptmann wrote each and every , >iie of the ransom letters sent Col. I Lindbergh ami his intermediary, Dr. i lo!in F Condon.
W. S Uonner, former judge of the Putnam circuit court, announced Saturday that he has opened a law office at 19 1-2 east Washington street over the Star Barber shop.
Mr. and Mrs E I Jackson of Warren township are the narents - ot a non. born Friday. C V/. Tribby. west Walnut stiTet, underwent an operation at the county hospital Saturday morning.
Today'i Weather ♦
and ®
$ Local Temperature <9 i Rain south, rain or snow north portion tonight; Sunday rain; warmer tonight and east and south portions Sunday: colder Sunday night.
M illinium 6 a. m. 7 a. m. 8 a. m. ,, 9 a. m. 10 a. m.
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