Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1980 — Page 1

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Hardunan was arrested at police headquarters following the confession bj Det. Sgt. Joe McCoy who had spent more than 100 hours in pursuit of the slayer. It was at first believed that Ms. Mason may have been the victim of a rapist, but an autopsy performed at Wishard Memorial Hospital revealed that the victim had not been sexually assaulted. Hardiman, who said he lived at the Fall Creek YMCA, 860 W. 10th. was picked up for questioning by Sgt. McCoy at the home of his mother who lives in the 700 block of Congress. McCoy said Hardiman's name had been mentioned to him as s possible suspect by another police detective and that he had been considered a prime suspect “almost since day one. But there were several things we had to pull together.” He refused to elaborate. Following the confession, McCoy quoted Hardiman as saying that he was “glad to get it off my chest." Describing the events lead ing up to the brutal murder, McCoy said that Hardiman. a huge man who stands 6-feet 3-inches tall and weight more

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than 300 pounds, told him that he had picked up the attractive Ms. Mason at about 12:80 a.m. last Wednesday in the parking lot of the liquor store at 25th and Northwestern. “I then took her to a bouse in the 700 block of Roache because she told me she was looking for someone. I waited for her and she came out of the house a few minutes later and said that the person she was looking for wasn’t there.” According to Sgt. McCoy, Hardiman said that at that point, Ms. Mason offered to have sex with him “for some money." "Hardiman said he then

drove to the deserted location where Udell deadends into the canal at the rear of the Commercial -Towel Co., 1277 W. 29th, where Hardiman handed his victim $4.00 and told her that that was all the money he had," McCoy told The Recorder. According to Hardiman's statement, the woman, then told him that (the $4.00) wasn't enough money and handed it back to him. “He said he men pulled out a steak knife that he said he kept in his car and the woman, fearful of the knife, told Mm, ‘You don’t have to do that, and proceeded to take off her

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IT'S OFFICIAL. When St. John's Mission ary Baptist Cfanrch celebrates the 23rd anniversary of Dr. Andrew J. Brawn’s pastorate if* have official sanction. A special City-Cnanty resnlntien adopted Monday night proclaimed October 19. 1980 “Dr. Andrew J. Brown Day." Speneered by Cenarifanea den Howard, RozeUe Boyd and Richard Clark, the rrirtltisa frif Dr. Brown for ce-foaadhag the Senthern

Christian Leadership Cenferenee in Indiana, helping start a rshahahatien pregram far drag

are {froas left) Dr. Benrt SerVose, C< president; Bnyd. Democratic minority leader; Howard. Dr. Brown and Clark. RepabUcaa majority leader. (Leonard T. Clark photo 1

The body wm hours later by a supervisor at Commercial Towel who oaid ho spotted a peel of Mood ot the reer of the building and then followed a trail of Mood to the spot where the body hod been dumped into the water. McCoy also said that there was “some very incriminating evidence (the details of which he refined to diodooo) found at the murder oeene which finked Hardman to the murder." Hardiman'o 1972 Butek sedan, containing spots on the seats that are believed to be blood, was impounded by police and police crime lob todmictanfl were attempting weopefloaj to determine if the spots are actually Mood nd, if they are, whether or not they match the victim's Mood type. A capias was served on Hardiman during an appearance Wednesday morning before Judge Taylor Baker in municipal eourt and he was bound over to the criminal

court.

Judge Baker then ordered that Hardiman be held without bond in the Marion County Jail. McCoy described Hardiman as a^giant of a man who, it appears, hurt moat of the women he came In contact

with."

He had been arrested earlier for assaulting women in at least two states. Retrial denied man serving Me sentence A man sentenced to life imprisonment in the 1979^ beating and holdup of a service station attendant was denied a retrial last Tuesday in Criminal Court, Room 2. Judge Webster Brewer decided against Nathaniel Cummings. 29. who petitioned for a new trial in the case through a new public defender after he charged his first one with failing to locate three witnesses to his whereabouts the night the incident happened. Cummings, who was convicted on three counts of robbery, one count of armed robbery and inflicting injury in the comnuasion of a felony, charged in the petition the only evidence Brewer and the jurors were presented linking him to the incident was a mug shot taken after his arrest. Richard Gilroy, Cummings' first attorney, said when the petition was filed that it isn't commonplace for a public defender to track down witnesses to aid a client. James Holland, Ms new attorney, said if the jurors had been properly informed about a lesser offense faring Cummings, Ms client might have been handed an habitual criminal conviction instead of the life

term.

Cummings was arrested Mar. 22,1979,10 days after the

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One-way busing could spark hostile protests

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BARREN J. MITCHELL Congressman to launch Minority Business Fair The future for minority business in this area is looking up as the Indiana Business Opportunity Fair opens October 14, at 10 a.m., in the Farm Bureau Building at the State Fairgrounds. Approximately 75 Minority Business will have exhibit booths proclaiming their wares. Fifty Thousand tickets have been distributed to majority .corporations and others who would be actively involved in minority purchasing by the sponsoring Indiana Regional

of this fact, we are rassiutB in

Minority Purchasing Council Exhibitors will man their booths to greet potential purchasers from 10 a.m. until 8

p.m.

A Corporation Appreciation Banquet sponsored by the Minority Input Committee, IMRPC, wfll be held prior to the Trade Fair at the Atkinson Hotel, October 14th, at 6:30 p.m. with Happy Hour from 5 - 6:30 p.m. in the Great Ball-

Sincere thanks will be expressed and recognition will be given to corporations and buyers who have aided in the further development of minority enterprise through their actions. An outstanding advocate for minority business, "Mr. Minority Business" on Capitol Hill, the honorable Parren J. Mitchell, Congressman from Maryland will be the key speaker. Congressman Mitchell was the moving force behind the 10 percent minority participation portion in the 1976> PuMic works Law. He introduced legislation in the early 1970’s which in 1978 became Public Lew 95 - 507, amendment to the Small Business Act.

ef insuring that this remedy wfl be s positive experience for afi concerned." TMs ns doubt tops the Mcsst critfriam of Msuday*s Supreme Court Inaction,” giving fid go ahead far the mostly-dreaded busing of 6000 Pubfic Srhssls Mack students to suburbs, pusribly as early as January, ft was from The Urban League. Suzanne Harris, on IndianaPurdue University at Indianapolis* westside campus, put in untoppable Munt terms the sentiments of moat worried IPS parents and protestors: “Blacks always get the short end of the

deal."

Other Mack spokespersons commented critically on the hotly-opposed plan just as negatively, using everything from the open hostility of whites to the costly financial strain it'll cause as reasons for scrapping the one-way busing

idea.

"If you're going to bus, it should be two-way busing," went on Ms. Harris, IUPUI Black Student Union secretary.

“so both blacks and whites when they flashed the story," could see how the other half Dr. Busch said, ‘and it was lives." distressing to watch the hosti Everyone from the offirial, of Wy diapltyod by rtudent, in the suburbu Khool dirtrict, Wwren. Some jurt c«ne out involved to itudenU them- nod «d-Wo ttont wont thorn firct mentiorod one-wey busing “»> brior * th *

in 1973.

The most Dillin, who has presided since the 12-year-old Indianapolis Public Schools segregation suit started arguments, was reduced, temporarily, the number of Macks to be shuttled to 6,500 in 1978. Granted delays and petitioning of the Chicago 7th Court of Appeals has held up implementation of the plan, but now apparently nothing will stop Dillin from going ahead with his move to have 15 percent Mack enrollment in suburban systems. The suburban school districts and the state appealed after the major portions of DilUn’s 1978 order were upheld by the appelate court last April. Monday, the Supreme Court said it wasn't hearing any more Argumentf on defegrege * tion of the country’s 29th

largest school district, IPS. Dr. Mary Busch, serving; her second term as a School Board

member, indicated she fears for the safety of the Mack children. “I was watching television

Search on for robber win posed as woman

QIC's planned move into hotel industry gets $6,000 push from 6M

Clark Sr.]

Yellow Cab joins IPD in crime battle

fight

wfll get a bag boost from the Yellow Cab Company, wMch wfll be m direct communication with the Indianapolis Police Department under a new program ansek by Mayor

against Wiffiam Hudnut.

ine leiiow uao amptftief wifi have a direct fine to the IPD dispatcher to report crimes being wit nomad by cab drivers. A large decal reading "Cabs on PatroT will appear on

Qaote of the week

the 250 Yellow Cabo and remdents who spot a crime are urged to flag down the vehicles to report the incident. Hwii—A nimtiwiwg the program at a press conference with Police CMef Eugene Gallagher, Deputy CMef Joseph MeAtoe and Yellow Cab Praaidant Riehard Hunt, said the 250 cabs

Racism passing up hope

> hours of 8 p.m. and 2 Eh msons "thare wfll

“There is a resurgence of racism spreading in tins country. The SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Confarsnce) has almost arnglshandedly been challenging the Ka KMx Klan. Attitudes on race are moving to the right. The ethnic minority poor are losing hope." Rev. Woodie White of the United Methodist Commission on Rehgioe and Race on priorities the church must deal with.

the streets looUag for activity." Hudnut said IPD wifi foot the the the

A $6,000 atipesed was made to QIC (Opportunities Industrialization Center of Indiana and its’ chairman, the Rev. Mozel Sanders from the General Motors Pubfic Affairs Committee ef t— The check was presented to Rev. Senders during a pram * —V- * -M coniereoee wmomuj moruing in the Mayor’s Cenferenee Room by Don Frnitt, operation manager for Chevrolet Division of General Motors and Mooes Gray, chairman ef QIC’s InSendak obtains $2,500,000 for upset customers Oboerving “National Consumer Education Weak" (Oct. 5-11), Indiana Attorney General Theodore L. Sendak reMs Consumer Protection Division. now in Re 10th yeer. Since ite creation by the General Assembly, the Division has retnrnad to individuals nearly $2AOOAOO. CompUat forma mnat be

dustrial Advisory Committee and director of community relations for Detroit Diesel Allison. “TMs pledge of financial support is yet, another fine example of the commitment to the City of Indianapolis by fhe private sector," said Mayor William H. Hudnut before the presentation. OIC was chosen by the General Meters PuMic Affairs Committee after review of several community organization requests. The Rev. Sanders said the money would be used to help defray cost for moving into a new facility at 3988 Meadows Drive. “We also plan to go into the hotel buaiiipm-IndftnapoMs » becoming a service tity-that’s why we're going into the hotel hnsimus," said Sanders. OIC plans to lease what is now Clardy’s Inn. As for developing manpower and training programs for

dents even get there. This kind of negative attitude doesn't make a good impression on our

students."

Wsrren Township is designated to get 1,213 blacks under the plan. Other systems and their numbers are Decatur Township. 576: Franklin Township, 326; Lawrence Township, 447; Perry Township, 1,560, and Wayne Town-

ship, 1,409.

Dr. Busch was understandably disappointed, having been a school commissioner when Dillin charged the board with figuring out ways to desegre-

gate IPS.

“Basically, I’m disappointed that the Supreme Court didn’t review the case, I’m especially disappointed that Mack students will have to carry the burden. We fought tun’d for

way busing."

A ranking Indiana Christian Leadership Conference official, Ed, O'Rhea, came up with another factor that just might warrant delay implementation, “The problem deals with finances," he says, “because IPS doesn't have money to support the plan and the townships won't put it up. The money will have to come from the state, and we might have a

then took the purse and left the good ways to wait."

bank, O'Rhea, ICLC's affirmative Police aaid the robber left the ution executive, admitted box on the counter and mem- having “mixed emotions" about

hers of the Indianapolis Police the derision."

Department's Special Invest!- “I think it's bad black stu threatening the tellers with a gttions Breach evacuated the bear the brunt, but, small box he said waa a bomb, building to examine the box, hopefully, if this is the way the The man walked into the which waa found to be stuffed ^ »t. romething we II bank at 2955 Northwestern with tissue paper. "***. * “ ve w,th ' T , e “ •

shortly before Noon and put a The teller told police the man

box wrapped in heavy tape on a was Mack, about 5 feet, 9 *[!.**" ? Jl‘ p teller’s counter, witnesses said, inches tall, with a hairy chest - He bended the teller a note and wearing a red wig. He also ntt * l, * r 1 ^ bu **»- which read: “There is a bomb in wore a print dross and fight . r***^*** 41 ®? "** the box. Put the money in the Mazer, she said. been a hot issue, politically and purse," police said. No one waa sure how or in eooversation wise, rioee The As the teller crammed money what direction the holdupmaa Justice Department found local into the purse, police said, the left the beak, and police sold <chools purposely segregated. *n*n ordered her to ask the the tellers told them no weapon There has been intradistriet other tellers for more. The man was seen. busing started in recent years,

but the most fire has been against sending Macks out, but

bo whites into IPS.

. , , A legitimate gripe voiced by w “ ^ admuMntor. S ite fact IPS can, about teuteif. aafkbor- tnnfowtt hu droppte from hood apravMMOt* and mb- 106.000 in WTO, to .lightly ploynMt, for tte note part. mort Uua MJOO this ynr. W Whoa tte tamovt far tte Th * re “ k"

TW ST Haak aoBferanca waa unnpiainabiy ■««« ■«« Jo*.

Union of IUPUI nriunnfad ita loK - ana of tte paoallat, tte

«^d aamwl -kZTrf Ite Ra». Utter HkkTted tte h »™ Of*"* Black OmmaafaT Cddtmmm u Stat, of tte Black Coni' clowng, ate there c fear C nebat Saturday totto Lecture reunity* canfareare waa adate; R? ? ho ? tnd * e ' HaO -nravidlur a crere-aactbn • w * «» wkat wa re (bbckal tte only two higtl cchoolc u tte of IbSSuS to aarea aa ^Thl* to aeeonpHak.' oaky, ceotar-oty-a heart, will coon panaBat m (teencainf nuny of "Tte’lTrteoLMreaV datethe ******* •tid A^Adi—■!# orob- fire s trek in trying to * he urtun League s *tste UnS-OL nfodme thk^ « c*apo7 so ment cm be credfled With

writ, Hicks added. being optimistic about the _ „ whole iastie: “To whose who Pnnefet other then Hicks have debated the methods to be ^winded Claudette Gsrisnd, used, it must now be undercounselor at lUPUI-UmversIty stood that the issue in this ease Division; Julia Corson, State has bean settled. It falls upon Senator; Sam Jonas, Executive all of us now to continue the Director of Ike Indianapolis peaceful process begun within

Pofiee are after a man who dressed ss a woman last Monday and robbed a Northwestside American Fletcher National Bank branch of an undetermined amount of cash.

‘State of Black Commun^ty ,

Some Indianapcfi* Macks into education want to learn and find more than technical and aeholaatic eototiona to proMema many Mack Americana continue

to face in 1960.

ths iron, or by 5616. tefl free, from in Indiana.

noted that OIC baa placed approximateiy 75 percent ef Re ia jobs. The center ia (y laented m the 2100 Mack ef North Ceflifle, with an of aeme ISO atnbetween 30-36 ataf-

lema which plague this com-

munity.

The four-hour conference No foul play in man’s death Investigators discovered no evidence of foul play in the death ef a 50-year-old area whoae body waa puUadSapt. 25 from a Weataida portion of Fall

freak.

The body of Freeman Buford, 1488 North Pennsylvaau, waa polled from Fall Creek behind Fire Station 23, 900 Mock of Burdaal Parkway, pofiee aaid. A native ef Bowifing Green, Ky. who lived here Sfyeera.Bsdbrd btss burisd laat Thureday after funeral aarvicea ia St. Bite Catholic Cbureb, ef wMck he Me wife.

Urban League; Joe Elfiett and the Indiaaapotis PuMic Schools

Faizabath Durden.

Grata Haare and Dobonk

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