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KOLB DEFENSE
BOMBARDED BY
POISONEXPERT
Strychnine Found in Organs
of Wives, Doctor
Tells Court.
STATE THRUSTS FOUGHT
Bushville Farmer Painted as
Killer Because of
Insurance. 4
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BY BEN STERN
Times SUIT Corresoondent
GREENFIELD. Ind., July 14
fclrs. Edna Dagler Kolb died of
strychnine poisoning and there
was no trace in her organs of
quinine her husband said he gave
her a few hours before her death
last fall, the state today sough to
prove.
In Hancock circuit court this
Jnoming the prosecution delivered
its deadliest thrust at George Kolb,
65. Rushville farmer, charged with
the murder of his third wife, and
tinder indictment for the murder of
his second wife.
The state placed on the witness
stand Dr. R. N. Harger, professor
of biochemistry and toxicologist at
Indiana university school of medi
cine, who said he examined rtom
uch. liver and kidneys of both
women.
No Poison in Tablets
In the stomach of Mrs. Edna Kolb,
Dr. Harger testified he found four
tenths of a grain of strychnine.
There was no poiron in cold tablets,
or aspirin which she took the morn
ing before she died, and there was
no pinine in tnc organs he ex
amined, the toxicologist told the
flury.
Before her death Mrs. Kolb
gasped to a physician that George
had given her a quinine capsule for
her cold. Kolb admitted that, and
is expected to confess it on the
witness stand when he testifies in
his own behalf.
In the stomach of Mrs. Maggie
Kolb, the second wife, Dr. Harger
declared there were forty-one one
thousandths of a grain of the
poison: another three-hundreths in
the liver, and an additional five
thousandths in the kidneys.
There was no strychnine in em
balming fluid used in either body,
he said.
Defense Fights Hard
Throughout his testimony, de
fense attorneys raised objections
that since the organs passed
through several hands before reach
ing Dr. Harger, the organs of other
persons may have been substituted.
Confuting these objections, the
mate placed on the stand Dr. J. H.
Warvel of Indianapolis, who told
the Jury he received the stomachs,
livers and kidneys from the Rush
county sherifT and turned them
over to Dr. Harger.
Other testimony today was di
rected by the state to show that
Kolb had in his possession last fall
a quantity of strychnine and eqiup
ment with which to fill capsules.
The state has charged that Kolb
murdered his wives for their
estates, chiefly insurance.
Witnesses for the prosecution are
expected to be called until Tuesday,
when the defense will begin pres
entation of testimony.
BANKING MORE STABLE
Largest Period in Two Years With
out Failure Completed.
Longest period without a bank
failure in the last two years was
completed today, it was announced
by Thomas D. Barr, assistant state
bankir. ' commissioner.
"It is more than five weeks since
any bai k el'sed its doors and we
hope th..t it will be many times
five.” Barr declared.
He pointed out that many of the
weak institutions now have been
weeded out and that banking gen
erally is improved.
ROUT INSURGENT KURDS
All But Few of Rebels Dispersed,
Official Note Says.
B v United Prrtt
ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 14.
The Turkish government has sup
pressed the Kurdistan bandit in
roads and has concluded military
operations along the Turko-Persian
frontier, an official communique
said.
The communique said that all but
to few isolated groups ©f insurgents
had been dispersed.
9 HINDUS DIE IN CLASH
'lore Than 100 Injured as Moslems
Wage Fierce Battle.
Bv United Pre
CALCUTTA. July 14. Nine
Hindus were killed and more than
100 Hmus and Moslems were in
jured when members of the two
religions clashed at Kishoreganj,
200 miles northeast of here, dis
patches received here said today.
Many Hindu houses were looted
end burned during the rioting, the
dispatches said.
ORDER FLIER ARRESTED
Swiss Charge Aria tor Threw Anti-
Fascist Literature at Milan.
Bn United Per**
BERNE, Switzerland. July 14.
The Swiss government has ordered
the arrest of Giovanni Bassanesi,
Italian aviator, on charges of hav
ing thrown anti-Fascist literature
over Milan. Bassanesi, who crashed
on Swiss territory, is in a hospital
at Annermatt with a broken leg and
**** injuries,
Complete Wire Reports of UNITED PRESS, The Greatest World-Wide News Service
The Indianapolis Times
Fair tonight and Tuesday; slightly warmer Tuesday
VOLUME 42—NUMBER 55
War's Not Over
Bu United Pre*
LOS ANGELES. July 14.
Worthy A. Butterfield, 101-
year-old war veteran, displayed
head wounds today that were
not incurred on a battlefield.
From his bed at the Saw
telle soldiers’ home, Butter
field told police that the lacer
ations were caused by his wife,
Hannah. 79.
The wife said they argued
over a business matter and
claimed he tried to choke her.
So she said she threw him over
a table and chair.
CITY RELIEVED
BY ‘COLD WAVE'
Mercury Tumbles From 100
Degrees to 56.
Hourly Temperatures
6a. m 56 10 a. m..... 60
7a. m 56 11 a. m 63
Ba. m 57 12 (noon).. 64
9a. m 58 Ip. m 65
Temperatures that Saturday aft
ernoon soared to anew record for
the last quarter century, 100 degrees,
today lay humbled by a “cold wave,”
within 4 degrees of the low record
for July 14.
At 6 a. m. thermometers at the
United States weather bureau here
registered only 56 degrees. July 14,
1926, a temperature of 52 degrees
wan noted, the lowest ever recorded
for the day of the month, and a
July low temperature of 48 degrees
was registered in 1885.
Rains that transformed the heat
wave to a cold snap benefited grow
ing crops in the state greatly, offi
cials of the Indiana Farm Federa
tion declared this morning.
Although the precipitation came
in local thundershowers, almost all
portions of the state received some
badly needed rain.
Corn, tomatoes, and other can
ning crops, and grasses sown in the
spring were chief beneficiaries of
the rains.
Temperatures are expected to re
turn to normal of between 70 and
85 degrees by Tuesday afternoon,
J. H. Armington, senior meteor
ologist at the weather ureau, pre
dicted this morning.
Sunday the mercury rose to 87
degrees at noon, and then began a
slump that ended only when it had
receded 20 degrees by sunset. The
mercury climbed slowly today.
Last of Series
The last article in the series
by James A. Reed, former
United States senator from
Missouri, entitle “The Crime
Against Temperance,” will ap
pear in Tuesday's Times.
SEEKS POST AS WET
Senate Candidate Pledges
Effort for Repeal.
Bu Time* Special
WHEELING, W. Va., July 14.
Benjamin L. Rosenbloom, the first
Republican candidate for United
States senator to announce his plat
form, emphatically declared himself
In favor of modification of the
prohibition laws in a statement to
the press today.
“I pledge myself to re-establish
the fights of the people guaranteed
by the Magna Charta, the bill of
rights and the Constitution of the
United States, many of which have
been and are being taken away from
us by virtue of the laws enacted to
further promote the rule of Vol
steadism," Rosenbloom said.
“I pledge you, if nominated and
elected, to exert every possible effort
to modify the Volstead act, legalize
the sale of light wines and beers
and to permit the sale and manu
facture of pure distilled liquors for
medicinal purposes under strict
government control.’*
CLOSE DUNES HIGHWAY
Strive to Complete Shoulders on
Road Without Traffic.
New Dunes highway. U. S. 12. will
be closed at the Miller overhead
during the day for the next three
weeks to permit completion of
shoulders without traffic, t was an
nounced today by the stare liighway
department.
The old route will be us?d for a
2*4 mile detour.
Screen Star Is Barred From Casino;
‘Children Not Admitted, 9 Says Guard
Bu United Press
PARIS. July 14.—Two Amer
ican stage and screen stars ran
into difficulties at Ie Touquet
casino during the week-end, one
because of her youthful appear
ance and the other from pure
bad luck.
A twelve-hour sensational bet
ting orgy at the Le Touquet
tables which ended at 4 a. m.
Sunday left Jenny Dolly a heavy
loser at baccarat. The amount
of her losses was not disclosed,
but it was recalled that she re
cently won 6.000,000 francs
(about $180,000) in one sitting at
the tables, and friends here com
mented that she scarcely was
“in the red” after the losses.
Lila Damita, who came to
France after ending her appear
ance In the musical .omedy,
"Sons o' Guns,” in New York,
found that she appears too
young to convince the Le Tou
quet inspectors that she is all
of 22 years old, as her passport
says.
M’DONALD 1$
RELEASED FOR
TRIPTOCOAST
Law Firm of High Standing
Takes Charge of Fight
to Free Mooney.
HEARING TIME IS SET
Witness, Near Breakdown,
Is to Go Into Seclusion
Before Journey.
Bu United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, July 14.—John
MacDonald, waiter-witness in the
Mooney-Billings Preparedness day
bombing trials, will tell his story of
repudiation after the August
primary, it was announced here to
day in behalf of Governor C. C.
Young.
MacDonald’s story that he gave
false evidence when Billings and
Mooney were convicted of the 1916
bombing outrage in which ten per
sons were killed, will be at an open
hearing before Governor Young and
his advisory pardon board, the Gov
ernor said.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
United Fress Staff Correspondent
BALTIMORE, July 14. John
MacDonald, key witness in the Moo
ney-Billings case, was released here
today so that he may return to Cal
ifornia to repudiate testimony which
sent the two California labor lead
ers to jail in connection with the
1916 San Francisco bombing. He had
been held since Friday night by the
police.
MacDonald, now broken in health,
was released to the joint custody
of his two lawyers, Charles Ruzicka
and Hillary Gans, and Frank P.
Walsh, who Is representing the
Mooney defense committee, by Judge
Walter S. Dawkin, in Baltimore cir
cuit court. MacDonald probably will
not go west for a 3ek or more,
pending preparation oi his case here
by his attorneys.
MacDonald was pronounced fit for
the long journey by Dr. John J.
Morrissey, coroner for the northern
Baltimore district, who examined
him. Morrissey recommended a rest,
however, and MacDonald will go
Into seclusion until time to leave
here.
Wants to Undo Wrong
MacDonald awaits anxiously for
that hour when, as he expressed it,
he can “undo the wrong” that he
did, and be instrumental in freeing
the two men who have been in jail
for fourteen years largely on
testimony that he now swears is
false.
He hopes then that the load on
his mind will be lifted, and that he
again can sleep peacefully at night.
Meanwhile, his two attorneys,
members of an old established law
firm which hitherto has devoted it
self largely to corporation cases, will
put a whole staff to work to prepare
their case. They expect this to take
a week.
They realize they must not wait
too long, as MacDonald is a sick
man, and they will take no chances
that illness or death will prevent
him from telling his story in person.
Attorneys Take Precautions
The two attorneys, both World
war veterans, buttressed their case
at the outset by having MacDo\-
ald execute his new affidavit le
pudiating his testimony in the
presence of the state’s attorney in
Baltimore Herbert R. O'Conor, and
high police officials. Thus they
sought to prevent any question such
as was raised in the first affidavit
executed in Trenton, N. J., in 1921.
Frank P Walsh of New York, na
tionally known attorney, who will
a company MacDonald and his law
yers to the Pacific coast, sent a
telegram today to Mooney telling
the prisoner of the MacDonald
affidavit, a copy of which was sent
to Mary E Galagher, secretary of
the Mooney Defense League, San
Francisco.
Magistrate Ewald Resigns
Bu United Press
NEW YORK. July 14.—Magistrate
George F. Ewald today sent in his
resignation to Mayor Walker. Ewald
had been indicted by the federal
grand • jury, on charges of mail
fraud and conspiracy in connection
with the operations of the Cotter
Butte Mining Company, Inc.
Lili Damita.
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1930
Safe at Last
Bu United Press
CHICAGO, July 14.—This
may ruin a whole score of
gloomy jokes, but facts are
facts, jokes or no jokes, so, as
announced officially tonight:
Undertakers are the safest
drivers of automobiles.
Such excellent drivers are
they, added the Chicago safety
council, that not one figured in
an automobile accident here
last month. Laundry drivers
ran a close second.
SIX DROWN, ONE
SAVEELAT SEA
Youth Clings All Night to
Overturned Yawl.
Bu United Pres*
BOSTON, July 14.—A young man,
Boden Garceau, 27, was rescued and
the body of a Betty Munsell, 19, of
Watertown, Mass., was recovered
from the sea today by the mack
erel-catcher St. Rita, which docked
at Boston fish pier later.
The two were members of a party
of seven which had left Scituate
Yacht Club late Sunday aboard a
fifteen-foot yawl, piloted by Charles
Hall, according to the St. Rita’s
crew, all others on the craft ap
parently had drowned.
“The weather was fine when
Charlie nosed his boat out from
Scituate yesterday,” Garceau said.
“After we had sailed out about five
miles, Charlie headed toward shore.
The going was smooth for a couple
of miles, then a squall hit us, and
we capsized.
“Despite the shock, we all man
aged to climb up on the overturned
yawl. It was terribly cold during
the night. I can’t say just when my
friends dropped off. But I know
they disappeared at intervals. The
only two I remember seeing drop
off together were Dave Garache
and his girl. They were the last to
go, I think.
“When the St. Rita appeared to
the south this morning, they noticed
my waving undershirt, and took me
from the wreckage in a dory.”
No Spik Italian
Bu United Pres*
CHICAGO, July 14.—Pete
Pickolas doesn’t think it’s his
fault if the horse he sold to
Pete Fodales can’t understand
Italian.
Neither does he think it’s
fair to put him in jail because
the horse objecting to some
kalian remarks by Fodales,
kicked Fodales In the stomach.
“Marie minded when I talked
Greek to her,” declared Pick
olas when arrested on charges
of swindling Fodales by selling
him a bad horse. The com
plaint was made by Mrs.
Fodales, who said her husband
was in bed complaining of
pains where Marie kicked him.
“It’s true Marie wasn’t
much on looks,” declared Pick
olas, “But she’d work when
you fed her right and I didn’t
think she’d ever get me in jail,
because she was a good horse
when I had her. Why, even my
eight kids fed her popcorn and
waffles and she never kicked
nobody in the stomach.
‘T’U bet that Italian fed
her spaghetti. No wonder she
got mad!”
PRESS HALTS GANG
QUIZ, TRIBUNE SAYS
Bu United Press
CHICAGO, July 14.—1n a lead
editorial today, the Chicago Tribune
accuses other Chicago publishers of
obstructing the crime investigation
resulting from the murder of Alfred
J. Lingle, Tribune reporter.
• Pointing out that the publishers
met after the Lingle murder and
pledged their co-operation in an in
vestigation, the Tribune says that
this co-operation has disappeared.
The hostility due, according to the
editorial, to the publication of a
series of articles by Harry T. Brun
didge of the St. Louis Star, charg
ing that reporters on other Chicago
papers are in league with the under
world the same as Lingle is said to
have been.
The Tribune’s editorial brings
into the open the divergence of
opinion among the Chicago papers
which has marked developments in
Miss Damita approached the
entrance to the baccarat room
brightly Sunday and was about
to enter when an inspector
stopped her.
“Children axe not admitted,”
he said kindly, but emphatically.
Miss Damita did not have her
passport with her, and the in
spector only laughed when she
tried to explain she was not a
child. Failing to argue herself
into the room, she waited until
the inspector was not looking,
and slipped past him without
being observed.
As she was congratulating
herself on her success, and was
about to join other patrons at
the tables, two inspectors spied
her. Once more they explained
that only adults could enter the
casino, and led her to the exit,
while Miss Damita tried to ex
plain who she was.
The director of the casino
filially recognized her, apologized
profusely, and escorted her back
Into the room past the aston
ished inspectors.
HOOVER ACTS
TO SPUR SEA
PACTPASSAGE
President Consults Party
Heads in Attempt at
Vote Next Week.
FEAR LACK OF QUORUM
Senators Urged to Hasten
Back to Capital, Block
• Treaty Foes.
Bu United Press
WASHINGTON, July 14.—Pres
ident Hoover took a hand today in
the senate fight for the London
naval treaty.
But while Senator Robinson
(Dem., Ark., one of the American
delegates to London, was addressing
the senate in support of the pact
and uring ratification, Hoover was
informed by Majority Leader Wat
son, and Chairman Borah, of the
senate foreign relations committee,
that there was no hope of a vote be
fore next week.
Hoover had hoped for ratification
last week and his anxiety at the
senate’s slow pace was communi
cated to his spokesmen at the Cap
itol. The present program is to per
mit the treaty opposition to talk
itself out and to bring the pact to a
vote the end of next week.
Plan Bipartisan Move
To this end it has been suggested
that Borah, Watson, and Senator
McNary (Repub., Ore.) join with
Senators Robinson (Ark.) and
Swanson (Va.) on the Democratic
side to outline a bipartisan program
to which the senate would be held
by cloture if necessary.
Opposition tactics designed to
force the debate into a fourth week
probably would be met by an effort
to invoke the cloture rule. The
United Press was informed reliably.
Borah told Hoover the real prob
lem confronting the treaty was
maintenance of a quorum. Tele
grams have been sent to all sen
ators withir. reach, requesting their
immediate presence to bolster the
administration in its fight against
a bipartisan anti-treaty minority
led by two Republicans, Johnson
(Cal.) and Moses (N H.).
Amendment Is Considered
Until the treaty’s friends are re
inforced, Republican leaders con
tend they are helpless against the
threat of the anti-treaty group to
bolt the session and leave the treaty
unattended by sufficient senators to
permit the senate to transact busi
ness. Three more senators than the
required quorum of forty-nine were
present at today’s opening roll call.
The administration group is con
sidering amendment instead of re
jection of the Norris resolution,
which stipulates the treaty shall
not be subject to secret papers nor
its provisions subject to prior in
terpretations.
“If the senate refuses its advice
and consent,” Robinson said in his
speech, “the treaty will fail and an
era of insecurity, dread and fear
will follow, making probable the
imitation of naval programs in ex
cess of anything ever conceived since
the beginning of history.”
the Lingle case for the last two
weeks.
“Within two days thereafter,
Lingle was revealed as dishonest
man,” says the paper, after telling
of the appointment of Charles T.
Rathbun, Its pwn attorney, as head
of the special board in charge of the
investigation. Shortly afterward, it
says, Frank Foster was arrested in
Los Angeles and indited there for
the murder because he once owned
the gun with which Lingle was
slain.
“With these two events the co
operation to which the publishers
had pledged themselves to insure
the deepest possible penetration of
gangland disappeared,” says the ed
itorial.
SEEKS TREE RECORD
Boy, 14, Out to Make New
Try at ‘Sitting’ Title.
Tree-sitters beware!
For at noon today Palmer Mc-
Closkey, 14 of 328 .North Temple
avenue, announced he’d break the
world’s limb-lounging record as he
swung back into the black oak in
his backyard for another try at the
title.
Palmer dropped out of the boughs
Saturday after a thirty-seven hour
stand just to keep his “grocery store
job."
But today Palmer said, his job
could "go hang" for “I’m out to
beat tha'o Kansas City boy and he’ll
have to do some sitting to out-sit
me.”
The Kansas City youth with
eighty-odd hours to his credit still
was branch-bunking at noon to
day.
Palmer is being “refueled” in his
endurance squat by his mother, ;
Mrs. Ethel McCloskey.
King Vlsityu, S. Warship
Bv United Brett
OSLO, Norway, July 14.—King
Haakon of Norway and his suite
paid a visit to the U. S. S. Arkansas,
flagship of three American battle
ships carrying Annapolis midship
i men on a training cruise, _____
Entered as Second-Class Matter
at Postoffice, Indianapolis. Ind.
CALF ALIVE AFTER
VOYAGE IN SEWER
C* ♦.
Eller and the calf, Reincarnation
Wobbly, but Ready to Eat,
Following Long Trip
Through Drain.
The goose that laid the golden
egg is a piker compared to the West
Indianapolis sewer.
The goose laid naught but a story
egg, but the sewer brought a calf
at least one and one-half miles and
presented it to Ramon Eller of R.
R. 7, an employe at the city reduc
tion plant’s pumping station.
Saturday night employes at the
pumping station were knocked for a
row of “doubts” when they found
a 4-months-old black bull calf at
the outlet of the West Indianapolis
sewer on the sanitation plant’s
grounds.
The calf, after his long trip
through the manhole, couldn’t walk.
He fell into the hands of Eller who
nursed life into him and took him
home to be babied with bottles of
milk.
Today the calf walked in wobbly
fashion.
The calf’s first and last chance
to enter the sewer is one and one
half miles from the plant—the
stockyards. Eller and plant em
ployes notified the stockyards of the
finding of the calf, but could not
verify that it came from the yards.
“I’m keeping him until someone
lays proper claim to him. What’ll
I call him—well—how’s ‘Reincarna
tion’ for a fancy name?”
And thus the calf was christened.
SEEK MISSING GIRL, 12
Police Look Without Success for
Youngster; Scoff at Kidnaping.
Police searched without success to
day for Helen Jackson, 12, who dis
appeared this morning from the
home of a Mrs. Argabright, R. R.
12, Box 39 W, three-quarters of a
mile east of the Pendleton pike on
East Thirty-eighth street.
Mrs. Argabright told police the
girl, who did housework for her,
gave no hint of intending to leave.
Police were skeptical of the kid
naping theory advanced by Mrs.
Argabright.
The girl was described as five
feet tall, weighing 114 pounds, hav
ing a boyish bob, and wearing a
white dress, blue sweater, short
anklet stockings and black shoes.
PREDICT WHEAT ACTION
White House Move to Aid Fanner
Urged by Senator.
Bu United Press
WASHINGTON, July 14.—Early
White House action in an effort to
alleviate the troubled wheat sit
uation was forecast today as a re
sult of heavy pressure from within
the Republican party to get the ad
ministration to spend $100,000,000
or more to “peg” the price of wheat
at a point that will make the pres
ent harvest profitable to the farmer.
Senator Capper (Rep., Kan.) was
expected to lay before President
Hover a request that the federal
farm board, through its grain
stabilization corporation, purchase
100,000,000 bushels of wheat at
once and hold it from the markets
in an effort to bolster the price.
Try Flagpole Sitting;
It’ll Ease Wifie’s Mind
Bu United Pres*
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J„ July 14.—Flagpole sitting as an occupa
tion has one advantage for the man who likes to stay out late at
nights—his wife always knows where he is.
Alvin “Flagpole” Kelly brought forward this strange philosophy
to United Press today as he settled down for a bigger and better
sitting with new records in sight. At 3:13 p. m. atop a very spindly
flagpole on the steel pier here, Kelly will round out twenty-three
consecutive days of sitting. That equals his record. From there he
plans to sit himself right on into posterity, with a record that will
shame any other aerial recumbents.
Kelly Is 36 years old. At 3:13 p. m. will have sat 5,322 hours atop
assorted flagpoles over the country. He was bom on the 13th of
the month, started his career on the 13th of the month, and has
played knob for thirteen major flagpoles.
Kelly began his record-breaking day with a fear that many a
matron justly can understand—he’s afraid of his waistline.
“I eat but two meals a day now,” Kelly advised by courier. “Some
days I eat only one. One day out of every ten I fast.”
But his refuelers say his appetite for coffee increases hourly.
He now takes on thirty-six cups a day. That aids him in keeping
awake.
“When does he sleep,” one aid said, “he reclines with a finger
of each hand in his mouth. Then if he should start to fall, he
would automatically awaken himself.”
HOOVER PERILED
IN AUTO MISHAP
Car Out of Control Hits
White House Machine.
Bu United Pres*
WASHINGTON, July 14.—Presi
dent Hoover’s tranquil week-end at
his Rapidan (Va.) fishing lodge
was nearly marred Sunday night by
what narrowly missed being a
serious automobile accident.
As it was, a White House car
driven by Lawrence Richey, one of
the President’s secretaries, was
struck head-on by an automo
bile driven by a Brooklyn (N. Y.)
woman.
iSfo'oKe’ the col
lision, which took place near Fails
Church, Va., capital suburb, while
the presidential party was motor
ing back from Rapidan,
Richey said no charges would be
filed against the woman, Mrs.
Carolyn Lone Beach, who was ac
compained by her husband, her
mother and her young child.
The Beach car swerved as if out
of control when the presidential
party approached, cutting from one
side of the road to the other in the
congested traffic. The car careened
past the first of the White House
automobiles, that bearing tne
President, then barely missed the
secret service car, directly behind.
It then plunged Into the Richey car,
the third in line.
It was said to be the first acci
dent involving a presidential car
since President Harding’s western
tour in 1923.
IMPANELS NEW JURY
Collins Accepts Final Two
for Probe Duty.
Anew grand jury was impaneled
this morning when Criminal Judge
James A. Colins accepted as the
fifth and sixth members, James F.
Patterson, retired business man of
4310 Carollton avenue, and William
R. Sides, contractor, of 121 North
Grant avenue.
The jurors were not instructed to
day, but retired to the jury room to
be acquainted with procedure.
When Judge Collins instructs them
Tuesday morning, he is expected to
order continuation of the probe into
primary elections frauds, left un
finished by the last grand jury. The
new jury also is expected to consider
the High School road torch murder
mystery to which Harold Herbert
Schroeder, Mobile (Ala.) business
man, is held as the central figure.
The jurors previously accepted by
Collins are: Henry C. Askren, 5732
Lowell avenue; John Gulifer, New
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NEST OF VICE;
SAYJITIZENS
Machine Gun Kept in Home
of County Official,
Ogden Informed.
POLICE PAYOFF ALLEGED
Investigator Told SI,OOO a
Month Is Protection
Rate at Resort.
BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY
Charges that a former Tippecanoe
county official has a machine gun
range in the basement of his home
at Lafayette and that protected vice,
gambling, and bootlegging are ram
pant there were made to Attorney-
General James M. Ogden in a letter
from a Lafayette business man, re
ceived at the statehouse today.
Without the machine gun, these
charges are similar to those made
by Ogden in his state bar address
at Bloomington. He has refused to
name the city, but Roy West, Negro
investigator for the attorney
general, upon whose report the al
legations were based, today con
firmed The Times’ announcement
of Friday that the city was La
fayette.
Ogden was deluged with letters
and congratulatory telegrams upon
his expose. Many contained infor
mation regarding vice conditions in
other cities, including Indianapolis.
Letter Text Given
Without names, which are in
cluded in the original, here is the
text of the Lafayette business man’s
letter:
“The law-abiding citizens over
here know that the shoe fits and
are glad someone has the cour
age to put the facts before the
public.
“We have a dirty mess here and
it is no use to deny it.
“In my opinion, a cleanup in the
persons holding some positions
would straighten matters out very
quickly. A better place to start
could not be found than that of our
circuit court, where the ex-sheriff
pulls down SIOO a month perform
ing duties that we pay our sheriff
to look after.
“The office of this ex-sheriff is
the hangout for a number of per
sons; among them are two state of
ficers—a state policeman and gam#
warden.
“Regarding another ex-public of
ficial named, I wish to say that,
from very reliable sources, I have
been informed that in the basement
of this man’s home a machine gun is
kept and a target is set up, along
with other guns and a workbench
where are small pieces of pipe, with
caps screwed on jends.
Didn’t Kno Law
“I gave this information to our
present prosecutor, but he did not
know if the law forbids possession of
a machine gun.
“I car. furnish the names of two
persons who saw these things in
this man’s home.”
Another Lafayette letter received
by Ogden today asserted that condi
tions there were worse than pic
tured in the Bloomington speech,
but the writer was afraid to say too
much about them because “one
might get hurt or worse, for the
bootleggers have a union here.”
The writer continues:
“I do not know who is president
of the union, but I wouldn’t won
der that he is (naming an ex
public official). About all the po
lice do here is go around with a
piece of chalk and keep tab on cars
that park overtime.
“I am living in half of a double
house and it is nothing but a boot
legging and gambling joint and
they have a lunchroom for a bluff.
“It would not be so bad if there
were only a few of these places, but
they are as thick as business places
and they get molested only when
federal men do it, and they get
tipped off when they are coming.”
City Resort Named
An Indianapolis letter gave the
name and address of a north side
apartment here which “has been
running an open saloon for three
years.” It also charged that “young
girls are harbored there.”
Admitting to The Times that the
Ogden speech was based on his La
fayette report, West today declared:
“Lafayette is worse than the re
port states. We can prove all
points cited. But at the same time
conditions there are no different
from those in Indianapolis. Indian
apolis is worse than Terre Haute.”
“I was down there with a white
investigator for the attorney gen
eral’s office,” West told The Inidan
apolis Times. “We found gambling,
houses of prostitution, and bootleg
ging a-plenty, but couldn’t get any
co-operation in making arrests.
“Why, we went Into a great big
brick house there that was especial
ly fitted for these purposes. They
even had peepholes in the floor.
“Then we went to find the sheriff
and was told he was out playing
poker, or maybe it was rhum.
Followed by Police
“Instead of helping us, the police
got into a car and began following
us about when they learned we were
in the city.
“In that big brick house they told
us they were ‘paying off’ about
SI,OOO a month.
“I saw a Negro carry a jug of
liquor, a glass jug, right by the cops
and they merely waved to him.”
West was waiting to see Ogden
and to accept any new assignment
the attorney-general might have.
Asked if he would like to return
to Lafayette, West said: Tm ready
to go any place that Ogden want*
to send me. He la sq
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