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SCRIPPS-HOWARD
CORSM PIN
FADING HOPES
ON MEADOWS
Paralyzed Pirates Cling to
Shred of Optimism as
They Reach East.
PENNOCK HUG’S CHOICE
Yanks Confident of Cleaning
Up World Series in Four
‘Battles.’
BY FRANK GETTY
United Press Sports Editor
NEW YORK, Oct, 7.—With the
Pittsburgh Pirates bound by the
( chains of two consecutive, disheart
ening defeats, the New York
Yankees and their practically hope
less adversaries came to town to-
to continue the one-sided world
of 1927.
Far, far into the night as a special
train whisked them eastward, the
Pittsburgh board of strategy laid
plans for the third game, and in
sisted: “We’re not licked yet.”
But the Yankees, having crushed
the Corsairs, 6 to 2, in the second
contest at Forbes field, were in high
good humor and hopeful of ending
the championship series no later
than Sunday.
Huggins at Last Optimistic
Even little Miller Huggins, who
never before has been known to
i.venture a prediction regarding the
' success of his club, declared that the
Yankees seemed quite capable of
taking four straight games and
making this the shortest world se
ries since 1914.
At noon Huggins announced that
Pennock would toe the slab for the
Yanks. Rhyne replaced Grantham
at second for the Pirates.
The Pirates are placing their trust
tcday in the strong right arm of
‘ Lee Meadows.
Pin Faith on Meadows
I. "Lee has one good game in his
system. I feel sure of it,” said
Donie Bush. “We’ll give him better
support than we did Ray Kremer
and Vic Aldridge—and 1 think that
by tonight you’ll find the series will
stand no more than two to one
against us.”
Forecast for New York is for
partly cloudy skies today, but the
1 weather bureau reported there was
little prospect of rain before night.
Mathematically, the chances of
the Pirates of pulling through to
win the world series are slim, indeed.
1 More than that, it require a great
fofm reversal to bring the Buc
caneers to the top.
Baseball fans who viewed the first
two games of the current world
series are beginning to wonder if
these Pirates are not the champion
kidders of the game. First, the
Corsairs kidded their National
League rivals out of the pennant,
I and now it seems almost as though
' they have been kidding their home
town fans when they undertook to
beat a ball club like the New York
Yankees.
One Star Infielder
A first baseman who is game and
dangerous in a pinch, but slow
' afoot; a second baseman notoriously
weak on ground balls to his right;
a shortstop who fumbles when it is
most important not to; and a great
third baseman, who can not play
(ithe whole game by, himself. Such
is the way the Pirate infield sizes
up after two games.
In the outfield, Clyde Barnhart,
filling the spot where so many
would like to see “Kiki” Cuyler, has
held his own. The Waner brothers
have lived up to their reputations
as fleeWooted, able ball players,
and have accounted for most of
Pittsburgh’s runs thus far, but it is
a coincidence that a misplay by
Paul let in the first run of the first
game and an error by Lloyd start
ed the Yankee scoring in the sec
ond game.
“ One thing denitely established in
the Yankees’ favor is that the
myth about their not being able tq
hit curve ball pitching has been ex
ploded definitely. The Yanks solved
Vic Aldridge’s delivery in Thursday’s
game after a few innings and
wound up by driving him from the
mound.
* Hill Yet to ToU
Carmen Hill has a fast curve ball
which the Yankees yet have not
looked over, and Donie Bush may
t use him .in the fourth game. The
trouble with the Pirates thus far
has been that the defensive play of
their regulars has been enough to
discourage any pitcher.
All the Yanks were hitting in the
second game except Babe Ruth and
Benny Bengough.
The Babe went without a hit, but
drove in a run with a sacrifice fly,
and his three singles on Wednesday
keep him up among the batting
leaders for the series.
“I’m about ready to bust one for
’ a homer,” admitted the big Yankee
slugger, as he climbed aboard the
ball, club’s special train last night.
"I’m all in favor of a short se
ries."
Four straight for the Yankees will
not surprise any one, now.
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VOLUME 39—NUMBER 129
Wicked City; Girls Out
for Fun; Kind Boy Hero
By United Brest
HICAGO, Oct. 7.—Chicago, as everybody knows, is a wicked
| and dangerous city.
II Nevertheless, Lucille Shearer, 16, and Esther Berry, 15,
came from their homes In Bryan, 111., for adventure.
They registered at a hotel and went to a movie. Raymond
Marcola, 19, an usher, well set up and handsome in his snappy
uniform, caught their eyes. They giggled and slipped him a note.
He made dates for himself and Leonard Denman, 18. The party
went to a movie, of course. And another date was made.
Instead of going to a movie the second time, the boys took the
girls to the police station and introduced them to Joseph Haeger,
juvenile officer.
“These kids are too young to be alone in Chicago,” Marcola told
Haeger. “See if you can’t persuade them to go home.”
Haeger succeeded.
DISEASE HOLDS
700JITMERCY
Mystery Epidemic Sweeps
Alaska Town.
Bn United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—Seven
hundred persons in the little settle
ment of Unalaska, on the west coast
of Alaska, face possible extermina
tion in a mysterious epidemic sweep
ing the village, say wireless reports
received at coast guard headquarters
here.
The coast guard cutter Northland
is rushing full speed to Unalaska in
answer to the urgent medical call.
The Northland this morning re
ported she was 700 miles away.
Unalaska has no doctors or nurses
and the Northland has but one doc
tor and a hospital corps crew to
combat the epidemic.
Several years ago Unalaska lost
half its population through an epi
demic of influenza and the re
mainder was only saved by quick
work of the coast guard cutter Bear.
The little settlement is entirely cut
off from the rest of the world, ex
cept by radio.
The only means of reaching the
village is by water and the ice slow
ly is closing in.
REFUNDS CUT ‘GAS’ TAX
Threaten to Defeat Purpose of Law,
Says Collector.
Refunds to farmers and persons
who use gasoline in industry threat
en to defeat the revenue purpose of
the gasoline tax, according to A. N.
Bobbitt, State gas tax collector.
During the financial year ended
Sept. 30, $330,768 was paid in re
funds, $1044,122 more than in the
preceding year. Number of claims
increased from 19,694 to 31,000.
$1,954 TO FETE LINDY
Half of Entertainment Fund Is Re
turned to Donors.
It cost Indianapolis $1,954 to en
tertain Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
when the air hero visited here in
July.
Total of $1,156, 61 per cent, was
returned twenty persons who gave
$1,875. Arthur V. Brown, the Lind
bergh reception finance committee
chairman reported today. Balance of
the expense was met by profits from
the Columbia Club banquet.
NEW TOWN PROPOSED
Rocky Ripple Is Suggested Name for
“ Region.
Seventy-four names were signed
to a petition to county commission
ers today asking incorporation of the
territory from Forty-Ninth St.,
north to White River and Bumitt
St. and White River east to the
Canal into the town of Rocky Rip
ple. There are 113 voters in the dis
trict, the petition stated.
REPORT CANTON SEIZED
Chinese City Rumored Taken by
General and Reds.
Bn United Press
LONDON, Oct. 7.—Unconfirmed
dispatches reaching here today re
ported that Gen. Chang Fa-Kwai
had seized control of Canton, for
mer seat of the Nationalist govern
ment, with the aid of the Commu
nist leader, Wang Ching-Wei and
five Russians.
ORDER STREET WORK
Complete N. Meridian Proj
ect by Cold Weather.
The board of works today con
firmed a resolution to widen and re
surface N Meridian St. from Fall
Creek Blvd. to Thirty-Eighth St.
The street will be widened from
thirty-eighth St. The street will be
widened from thirty-six to fifty feet.
Board allowed thirty days to ad
vertise and let the contracts. Work'
will be completed before cold
weather.
The board also heard a resolution
to widen N. Meridian St. from St.
Clair St. to Tenth St. The street
already has been widened from
Tenth St. to Sixteenth St.
Oppositipn to the widening was
made on the ground that it would
destroy trees and the beauty of the
city, but Claude Wilson, who made
the survey, said most of the trees
are dead. x
REPORT CRASH
BURIESSCORE
Wall of Wisconsin Paper
Mill Collapses.
By United Press
APPLETON, Wis„ Oct. 7.—A wall
of the Kimberly-Clark paper mill
at Kimberly, Wis., collapsed today,
reports received by hospitals here
today said . .
Loss of life was feared, as many
employes were believed to have
been at work in the building.
Ambulances and physicians from
here, Neenah and other nearby cit
ies were sent to Kimberly.
Fifteen injured persons were
brought to hospitals here shortly be
fore noon.
It was reported two floors of the
building fell, burying scores of
workers.
GUILTY OF CONTEMPT
Landreth Murder Trial Witness
Fined $lO at Bedford
Bn United Press
BEDFORD, Ind., Oct. 7.—Riley
Gibbons, a witness in the John
Landreth murder trial, was found
guilty of contempt of court today
and fined $lO by Judge J. A. Cox.
Ed Blackwell, against whom a sim
ilar charge was made, was found
not guilty.
Gibbons’ contempt was in that he
testified that he talked to Rosewell
Shields, whom Landreth shot dur
ing a quarrel Nov. 24, 1924, while
three witnesses declared that
Shields was at work that day.
Landreth has ben found guilty
of murder and is to be sentenced
within a few days.
DAILIES BEST FOR ADS
Newspapers More Effective Than
Magazines as Medium, Says Expert.
Newspaper advertising is more ef
fective than magazine copy in a na
tional campaign, Joseph P. Lick
lider, St. Louis, told Advertising
Club members Thursday at the
Spink-Arms.
Licklider is advertising manager
for the Missouri state Life Insur
ance Company.
“I believe the local newspaper af
fords the national advertiser the
best medium for reaching the mass
of the people who are potential
prospects,” Licklider said.
HOLD CHIEF’S BROTHER
Relative of North Judson Police
Head Faces Liquor Charge.
Tom Lewandowski, North Judson,
Ind., brother of the North Judson
chief of police was arrested hy Fed
eral prohibition agents Thursday on
a liquor law violation charge, ac
cording to George L. Winkler,
deputy Federal prohibition adminis
trator. He was released on $5,000
bond.
BULGARIA IS WARNED
Jugo-Slavian Wrath Aroused by
Bandit Raids.
By United Press
BELGRADE, Oct. 7.—On instruc
tions of the government, the Jugo
slavian minister at Sofia, Bulgaria:,
today threatened rupture of diplo
matic negotiations if bandit bands
again crossed the Jugo-Slavian
frontier.
Jugo-Slavian troops have rein
forced the frontier.
WELLSMERE GIVES UP
Surrenders on Indictment Charging
Security Law Violation.
F. S. Wellsmere, 2105 Park Ave.,
indicted last week for violation of
the Indiana securities law surren
dered himself to Sheriff Omer
Hawkins Thursday and gave SI,OOO
bond, signed by the National Surety
Company of New York. Indicted
with him was Virgil Vandagrifft,
former president of the board of
works, who resigned after the
charge was filed, and D. L. Taylor of
Louisville, Ky.
The men are alleged to have sold
stock in the Electric Oil Well
Rejuvenator Company, which was
unincorporated, in violation of the
“Blue Sky” law.
Hurl Bricks at Negro
Archie Coleman, 43, Negro, 319
Agnes St., alighted from a street
car at New York and Blake Sts.,
late Thursday into a shower of
bricks. His wounds were treated
at city hospital. Coleman told po
lice his assailants were a group of
men who loaf about the above
corner.
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, OCT. 7,1927
GRAND JURY 1
TRAINS GUNS
ON CITY HALL
jJ
Prosecutors Open Investiga
tion of Some Activities
of Council.
CALL NEW WITNESSES
Shake-up After Threats of
Impeachment to* Get
Their Attention.
For the first time since the probe
into alleged political corruption be
gan a year ago, members of the
Marion County prosecuting staff and
grand today looked into activities
of vhe city council.
Taking no chance that might
lead to revelation of the names of
the witnesses, Prosecutor William H.
Remy ordered the summons issued
by his office.
Edward D. Moore, vice president
of the Indiana National Bank, was
the first witness before the jury.
He was in the jury room fifteen
minutes.
Martin Frankfort, 5350 N. Del
aware St., real estate partner of
Councilman Boynton J. Moore, was
with the jury for half an hour and
Councilman O/ Ray Albertson was
questioned for more than an hour.
A. O. Roberts, 2152 N. Meridian
St., president of the Mt. Moriah
Cemetery Association, was under
stood to have been called, but did
not appear before the jury switched
from city hall affairs and returned
to routine cases.
It was understood the grand jury
intended to inquire into the contro
-vefsy which arose when an effort
to locate the Mt. Moriah cemetery
adjacent to the Broadmoor Country
Club was made several months ago.
Uproar on Impeachment
The council threw city hall into
an uproar the first of this week
when word first went out that
Boynton J. Moore of the majority
faction was planning to reintroduce
impeachment proceedings against
Mayor Duvali.
When the council met Monday
night Moore failed to introduce the
expected resolution. The session
was recessed until Tuesday night,
word going out that the resolution
was not ready.
At this time the matter was not
mentioned until Democratic Council
Member Edward Raub asked Moore
what had happened to the proposed
resolution.
Before the Tuesday night meeting
two relatives of Moore was pro
moted. They are Frank Hougham,
father-in-law of Moore, promoted
from a $2,500 a year job as city sign
inspector to assistant building com
missioner at $3*600, and Ray Sie
bert, brother-in-law, promoted from
assistant to superintendent of the
city garage, a jump from $2,400 to
$3,000 a year.
Council Gets Hand In
Robert F. McNay, leader of the
Red Star League, was made city
garage superintendent a week ago
Friday, but the place only held until
succeeded by Siebert.
Members of the majority faction
were interested openly in the ap
pointments and three of their num
ber were present at the conference
in which Duvall made the appoint
ments.
Duvall admitted the changes were
made in compliance with demands
of city council.
BUSINESS LEADER DIES
Wilbur W. Wood, Ligonier, Victim of
Sleeping Sickness.
Bn Times Special
LIGONIER. Ind., Oct. 7.—Wilbur
W. Wood, 65, president of the
Ligonier Refrigerator Company, is
dead at a sanitarium in Battle
Creek, Mich., where he had been
receiving treatment for four weeks
for sleeping sickness. He served as
a member of the Nome County
army draft board during the World
War.
Funeral services and burial will
take place here, but definite
arrangements have not yet been
made.
HIT PAVING AGENTS
City Firemen and Cops Can’t
Aid Contractors.
City firemen and policemen will
get in trouble if they act as agents
for paving contractors, Fred Con
nell, board of safety president, de
clared today.
Connell said the warning followed
a statement before the board of
works early this week by J. H.
Ragsdale, 800 'Kahn Bldg., that a
fireman had approached him with
a proposal that a contractor would
pay SIOO of his street assessment if
he would petition for asphalt pav
ing. The street was North, between
Sherman Dr. and Belt railroad.
Will Hughes, said to be the fire
man who made the offer to Rags
dale, was suspended today by Fire
Chief Jesse Hutsell on charge of
unbecoming conduct. \
City Pays Homage to R iley; Dreary
Skies Bring Back Words of His Poem
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Billy and Susie, Riley Hospital patients, ancicipating the War Mothers’ jelly.
If Poet Jim Riley were alive to
day, there's just one accurate
guess as to where he would spend
his birthday—
At his home in Lockerbie St.,
for a while —of course, because
there would be little children
there to see him.
But most of the day he’d be at
Riley Hospital, a State’s most
magnificent memorial to a be
loved citizen.
Poet Jim there would find ma
terial for his pen. Verse probably
would flow therefrom for quite a
spell. And Riley wouldn’t miss a
bit of pathos, and perhaps of
gentle fun out of the War Mothers’
jelly.
Law Bows .
Husband’s Grief Respect;
•ed by Dry Agents; Ar
rest After Funeral.
m3 the authority of the United
States Government more
sacred than Death? Shall
tne officers of the law bow to the
grief of a husband and father,
whose loved one’s body lies before
them?
Federal prohibition officers from
Indianapolis faced these questions
at North Judson, Ind., Thursday.
Pete McKay runs a near-beer
saloon in North Judson. But he
wasn’t at the saloon Thursday.
He was at home. And in a
casket in the front room of the
home lay the body of his wife.
Mrs. McKay was disowned when
her auto ran off the road, turned
over, and crushed her in a stream
near North Judson.
• * *
iITH Pete was Nicholas
YY7 Glutczak, the dead wom
* an’s father. Marvin Chris
tian, a friend, was there, too.
Other friends and neighbors had
gathered to stand by the bereaved
husband and father, as they
looked for the last time on the
features of their loved one. The
funeral was to begin in half an
hour.
Then came Federal officers. For
McKay, Glutczak and Christian,
it was charged, had violated the
prohibition laws. Warrants the
officers held demanded their im
mediate arrest.
Quietly the agents mingled with
the neighbors. Quietly they drew
the father, the husband and the
friend from the house. Sympa
theically they told them they
were under arrest and that they
must appear before a United
States commissioner at South
Bend Tuesday. Then they de
parted.
Mrs. McKay’s funeral was not
marred by the long arm of the
United States Government.
EXCHANGE SEATS SOAR
New Record High Price of $250,000
Set in Stock Market.
Bn 1 v• ti'd Prrxn
NEW YORK, Oct. 7. Sale of a
Stock Exchange seat has been ar
ranged at $250,000, anew high rec
ord, it was announced today. Yester
day two seats were sold at $235,000
an done at $240,000.
MRS. H. G. WELLS DEAD
Wife of Famous Writer Succumbs
at English Home.
llv United Press
LONDON, Oct. 7.—Amy Robbins
Wells, wife of H. G. Wells, novelist,
dieed today at the Wells country es
tate, Easton-Glebe, in Essex.
f
Watch for Army Deserters
Three United States Army desert
ers, armed and riding in a stolen
auto and headed this way, caused
police to do sentry duty at the west
edges of the city Wednesday night.
A wire from Ft. Leavenworth, Kan.,
said the trio were Clarence J. Byrne,
i8; Euriel James Turnbaugh, 17,
and Elchor A. Boysen, 19. f
Entered as Second-Class Matter
at Postoffice, Indianapolis
Riley certainly could have found
poem by seeing Billie and Susie,
Riley Hospital patients, who in
spected some of the 400 glasses of
jelly which the Marion County
Chapter of the American War
Mothers made and gave to the
hospital as their annual contribu
tion in memory of the poet’s
birthday.
The chapter has done this for
four years. The idea was Mrs. E.
May Hahn’s. She is a past pres
ident.
Mrs. J. L. Alexander, Mrs. H.
C. Regular, Mrs. Wade Sherman
and Mrs. Amelia Hough were the
committee in charge of the jelly
contribution this year.
PROTECT COURT
IN NEGRO CASE
Terre Haute Police Ready
for Racial Clash.
Bu Times Special
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 7.
Police stationed in the Vigo Circuit
courtroom here are on guard against
a racial outbreak as Samuel Ken
nedy, Negro, fights before Judge
John P. Jeffries in an effort to es
cape return to Madison, Ga., to com
plete serving a jail sentence for at
tacking a white man. The Negro’s
counsel declares he would be in
danger of lynching in Georgia.
After breaking jail, Kennedy fled
north and a few days ago was cap
tured in Chicago by Deputy Sheriff
J. E. Ivey, Madison. Defeating habe
as corpus proceedings in Chicago,
the officer started south, leaving his
prisoner In jail here while he made
a stopover for rest. Then the Na
tional Association for Advancement
of Colored People took up the
cudgels for Kennedy and obtained a
habeas corpus writ. They declare
that when Ives relinquished his
prisoner to the jail authorities here
he lost custody of him.
A strong legal contest has been
in progress in Circuit Court since
Wednesday. Kennedy’s counsel, J.
T. Walker, Terre Haute, and two
Negro lawyers, R. L. Bailey, Indi
anapolis, and Harold W. Taylor,
Chicago, declare they are prepared
to carry the case to the United
States Supreme Court.
Governor Ed Jackson refuses ex
tradition papers for Kennedy, de
claring that since he was a prisoner
in an Indiana jail, he _ was not a
fugitive.
Deputy Sheriff Ivey is the officer
who shot and seriously wounded
Gerald Chapman, notorious bandit,
later executed, at Athens, Ga., after
Chapman had escaped from the
Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga.
COPS SELL BOTTLES
Confiscated Booze Contain
ers Swell Pension Fund.
The sundry bootleggers who once
possessed the 1,268 empty whisky and
wine bottles and jugs, which Lieut.
George Cox and Patrolman John
Fields trucked away from police
headquarters today never dreamed
they would come to such a good end.
The bottles were sold for S3O,
which goes into the police pension
fund for old officers, their widows
and children.
The fund has been enriched more
thah S3OO in this manner this year.
Last year only S2OO was realized on
empties in the whole twelve months,
indicating business picked up.
Police used to sell confiscated beer
bottles after they were emptied, but
this was stopped after Patrolman
Field lost an eye when a beer bottle
exploded. Now the loaded bottles
are smashed.
Children Visit Old Home to
Hear of Boyhood; Many
Other Observances.
j _"I VERCAST skies today failed
1C) inc * er c fty’ s homage
I to James Whitcomb Riley,
for, remembering his poetic
philosophy, “When God sorts out
the weather and sends rain, w’y
rain’s my choice,” his admirers
joined in memorial events through
out the city.
Following the Lockerbie St. exer
cises, the association's executive
comm ttee went to Crown Hill
cemetery to place a wreath on Ri
ley’s tomb.
A special program was to be
given for children at the James
Whitcomb Riley Hospital at 2 p. m.
today and the public was to be re
ceived until 4 p. m.
Anniversary Dinner Tonight
Program for the anniversary din
ner to be given by the association
at the hospital tonight was an
nounced today by Secretary James
W. Carr. President Landon will re
port on the association’s activities
since its organization in 1921.
President William Lowe Bryan
of Indiana University will deliver a
tribute to the poet. A recitation by
one of the children in the hospital
and short talks by Dr. Frank E.
Morrison, Dr. Lafayette Page and
Dr. John Oliver, members of the
institution’s medical staff, have
place;; cn the program.
First exhibition of color designs
made by Thomas Hibben, Indian
apolis architect, for a memorial
window at the hospital will be made
at the dinner.
Tenth anniversary of the dedica
tion of Riley library and Riley’s
birthday aniversary will be observed
jointly at the library at 8 p. m. with
a concert of music and dancing.
First, of the features marking ob
servance of the Hoosier poet's
seventy-eighth birthday anniversary
was the visit of fifty school children
from Schools Nos. 2 and 10 to the
old Riley home on Lockerbie St.
When a cold drizzle descended on
the youngsters, the heavy old doors
were swung open to them by Miss
Katie Kindle, Riley’s housekeeper
for twenty-five years, and the chil*
dren trudged into the hallway,
where the poet used to greet Jhem
on their visits.
Hear Stories of Boyhood
There, after an invocation by the
Rev. Floyd Van Keuren, pastor of
Christ Church, and brief introduc
tory remarks by Hugh McK. Lan
don, Riley Memorial Association
president, the children heard inci
dents of Riley’s childhood, told by
William A. Hough, State tax com
missioner, of Greenfield, close friend
of the deceased poet.
DELAY M’ANDREW TRIAL
Documents in Case of Chicago
School Chief Vanish.
Bi/ T’nitcd Press
CHICAGO. Oct. 7.—The trial of
William McAndrews, suspended su
perintendent of schools, has ad
journed until next Thursday after
a session Thursday in which it was
revealed certain documents in the
case had 'disappeared.
McAndrew was suspended on
charges of insubordination and
spreading British propaganda in the
schools. He is said to have spon
sored use of history books which
other officials held were pro-British.
SEA DASH PLANE READY
French Fier May Start for South
America Friday.
Hu Uv'teit Press
PARIS, Oct. 7.—Dieudonne Costes,
French aviator, plans to start to
morrow or Sunday morning his
projected flight across the South At
lantic to Buenos Aires and other
South American cities.
His first jump will be to Saint
Louis, Senegal, West Africa. Ar
riving there in the morning, if his
plans do not miscarry, he plans to
start at 8 p. m. The same day for
Natal, Brazil, a flight of 2,000 miles
across the ocean.
HOME
Outsldo Marlon
County 3 Ceuta
TWO CENTS
HULD WIDOW i
AND BEACH AS
MURDERERS
Mrs. Lilliendahl and Chicken
Man Sent to Jail on
Death Charge.
GRAND JURY ALSO ACTS
Woman Sobs in Cell; Poultry
Fancier Profane in His
Opinion.
Bu United Press
MAYS LANDING, N. J., Oct. 7.
Charged with the murder of the
elderly Dr. William Lilliendahl, the
widow—Mrs. Margaret Lilliendahl—
and Willis Beach were held in the
county Jail today.
Warrants charging them with the
crime were served on the two last
night after the grand Jury had been
in session 8,11 day.
Indictments accusing Mrs. Lillien
dahl and Beach of the murder were
returned by the Atlantic County
grand jury today.
Both contended their Innocence
and were composed when the war
rants were served last night. Ac
cording to county jail authorities,
howevejr, Mrs. Lilliendahl wept after
she had been taken to her cell.
The wariant was served on Mrs.
Lilliendahl as she waited in the
anteroom off the grand Jury room.
Her composure changed little'when
the warrant was read and she said
she was innocent.
Beach Voices Surprise
Beach, the poultry fancier who
had surrendered earlier in the day,
awaited in his solitary confinement
cell in the jail basement for the
grand jury’s findings. When the
warden served the murder warrant
on him he said: “What the hell
do you think of that.”
Later, alone in her cell on the
second floor of the county jail, Mrs.
Lilliendahl's imperturbability broke
down.
“She wept like a child,” said War
den John Thomas. He took a nail
file from her, fearing shte might at
tempt suicide.
Charles M. Phillips, Mrs. Lillien
dahl’s attorney, said he would ap
ply today for bail for his client.
There was some question as to
whether the three men counted
upon to Identify Beach had been
able to do so, when testifying under
oath before the grand jury.
Doubt on Identification
When they saw Beach before the
grand jury convened they had made
what officers said was certain iden
tification. But after the grand Jury
session there appeared to be doubt
about it, and one report \va:, that
they had identified Beach’s car, but
could not say definitely that he was
the driver.
Owing to the rules of secrecy sur
rounding grand jury proceedings,
definite information could not be
gained, either from officers or wit
nesses.
Beach was told he had not been
identified, and he seemed to accept
that word as final, and with much
satisfaction.
Evidence that the grand Jury sift
ed Mrs. Lilliendahl's story that two
Negroes murdered her husband in
a robbery attempt was indicated,
when County Detective Black fired
three shots into a pile of coal in
the corner outside the grand jury
room.
Two to Stand Together
This was done, it was said, to per
mit the grand jury to Judge if three
shots might have sounded like one.
Mrs. Lilliendahl said in her story
that the murderers fired only one
shot.
Edison Hedges, Beach’s attorney,
said the two would not ask for
separate trials.
"Beach and Mrs. Lilliendahl will
stand together,” he said.
STATE’S FUNDS GAIN
Indiana $1,153,951 Richer Than It
Was Year Ago.
Indiana is $1,153,951 richer this
year than it was last, according to
State Auditor Lewis Bowman.
There was a total of $12,186,011 in
all State funds on Sept. 30, the close
of the fiscal year, an Increase of
$1,153,951 over the total at the same
time last year.
The highway fund, Bowman re
ported, had a balance of $570,140;
gas tax fund, $2,708,871; auto li
cense fund, $1,147,144, and general
fund, $4,804,776. '
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