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THE WEATHER
Tonight, partly cloudy, becoming
unsettled; wanner on Sunday,
vol. xxxn.
HIGHER RATES
ASKED FOR USE
OF CAR TRACKS
Service-at-Cost Plan Waits on
New Deal Sought With
Interurban Cos.
STATUS SAME 18 YEARS
The question whether an increase
|fai street car fares, if necessary, j
be contingent on the Indian-
Street Railway Company ob
-fSMtag higher rates from interurban
for the use of its tracks,
appeared today to be the most seri
ous obstacle to put into operation the
Bervice-at-cost plan of street car oper
ation. advocated by the city and the
car company.
The city, as represented by Semuel
Ashby, corporation counsel, when the
hearing before the public service com
mission was resumed, contended that as
a protection to patrons the company
should obtain more remuneration from
the Interurban companies before in
creased fares be granted under the serv
ice-at-eost or anv otl-e" arrangement.
Mr. Ashby pointed out that under a
contract made in 19"2 the Street Railway
company receives from the Interurban
companies 3 cents per passenger carried
over the tracks of the latter company,
and X cent for the use of the terminal
station.
NO INCREASE SINCE
CONTRACT OF 1802.
Fie pointed out that this amount has
not been increased since 11VC, while the
rates received by the interurban com
panies have increased in some cases as
much as 200 per tent.
Mr. Ashby contended that the reve
nue from interurban companies should
be increased as much as $250,000 annually.
Ferdinand Winter, representing the In
dianapolis Street Railway Company, ,
pointed out that the contract with the
interurban companies had been made un
der the same law as the franchise with
the city and that, inasmuch ns the city
has held that the franchise is inviolable.
It should also bold the contract inviola
ble.
Mr. Ashby replied that the supreme
court had ruled that the public service
commission could change the franchise
rate of fare in an emergency, and that
under the same reason it should be able
to change the terms of the contract with ,
interurban companies during the emerg
ency.
Ashby opened the argument with
a demand that the city be protected
against any interlocking directorate in
volving the city company and the inter
urban companies under which the inter
urban companies might be given an ad
vantage to the disadvantage of the city.
NO LEGAL WAV TO
PREVENT INTERLOCKING.
Commissioner Fred B. Johnson said he
knew of no way under the law by which
the comimssion couid prevent such an
Interlocking directorate.
H. H. Hornbrook, representing the
that If s musif3 "sVine^way 1 set up
the initial surplus or "fare index" fund,
which is to act as a barometer in regu
lating the rate of fares and also to take
cure of the floating indebtedness of the
company.
He made no suggestions, but merely
pointed these things out as one of the
problems which must be solved.
Woodburn Masson, rer resenting mem
bers of the city council, questioned the
right of the commission to act where a
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CITY’S 1920 AUTO
OUTPUT 95,600
Products of 10 Plants Here
Valued at $167,337,500.
Indianapolis automobile manufactur
ers will produce approximately 95.600 au
tomobiles this year, with a total sales
value of about $167,337,500. according to
an estimate made by the industries com
mittee of the Indianapolis Chamber of
Commerce today.
There are ten motor car plants In In
dianapolis.
The estimate does not include mil
lions of dollars’ worth of accessories
which are produced by other plants.
Abont 12,300 men are employed In the
factories.
The total Invested capital is about $24,-
000,000.
Since the total estimated value of au
tomobiles produced In the couutry this
year is $30,000,000,000, Indianapolis 1b
shown to occupy a high place in the au
tomobile Industry.
CAILLAUX, FREE,
MUST SHUN CITIES
PARIS. April 24.—Joseph Caillanx.
former premier of France, convicted of
holding communication with enemy, was
released today.
Calllaux left the hospital at Neuilly,
where he has been confined, after a
lecture by senate nffPials. who warned
him the order of liberation forbade blm
to sojourn in Paris or any of the big
French cities,
He motored to hfs residence in Paris,
from where be will leave soon for the
country.
While the former premier was sen
tenced to three years’ imprisonment, the
Mh'- he was in wolixary confinement
credited as offsetting the sentence.
CIRCUS IN TOWN—
> ‘BIGGER’N EVER’
The first circus of the season is in
town today.
The Carl Hagenbeek-Wallaoe circus ar
rived early this niorniug and began
erecting the big top at the show grounds
on West Washington street near the ball
park.
The ciruos is traveling this season In
three train sections and is said to em
ploy more people than last season.
Three herds of elephants. 300 horses,
many camels, zebras and other animals
are 'announced as features of the me
nagerie this season.
Mysterious Fire in
Pile of^ Lithographs
A fire of mysterious origin started in
a pile of litliozraphs on the second Boor
of the Exhibitors" Lobby Supply Com
pany. 122 West New York street, early
today.
The loss was *I,OOO.
R. D. Lett, manager cf tue ompany,
told Lieut. Woollen of the police depart
ment that he was unable to account for
the fire, as be had been hi the building
until within a few minutes of the time
the Games were discovered.
Published at Indianapolis,
Ind., Daily Except Sunday.
City Gains 80,544 Citizens in 10
Years, Census Showing 314,194
WASHINGTON, April 24.—The official population of Indianapolis to
day is 314,194.
The 1920 census figures, made public by Sam L. Rogers, director of
the United States census, shows a gain over the 1910 census for Indian
apolis of 80,544, a percentage of Increase of 34.5.
With the exception of Toledo, Indian-4
spoils has shown a greater percentage
of Increase in the last decade than any
other city of its class thus far reported.
The following table shows Indianapolis’
growth throughout eighty years:
Census Popu- I’er Cent
Tear. lation. of Inc.
1920 3X4.194 34.5
1910 233.650 38.1
1900 160,164 60.4
1890 105.436 40.5
18S0 75.056 55.6
1870 > 48.244 159.2
1860 18.611 130.0
ISSO 8.091 200.0
1840 2.692
The earliest census return for the city
was in IS4O.
In 1800 the city ranked forty-eighth
among the fifty largest cities of the coun
try, and in 1910 it ranked twentysecond.
The greatest growth the city ever ex
perienced was from 1840 to 1870 when the
population increased nearly eighteen
times.
The importance of Indianapolis’ growth
in the last ten years may be better ap
preciated by comparison of its per
centage of increase with that in other
cities:
Louisville, 4.9; Cincinnati, 10.3; St.
Paul. 9.2: St. Louis, 12.5; New Orleans,
14.3; Toledo, 44.3, and Minneapolis, 26.2.
Indianapolis is about three times the
size of any other Indiana city, and in
1910 contained 8.7 per cent of the state’s
population, which was an increase over
1900 of 1 per cent.
The city's share of the state population
can not be estimated for 1920. but it Is
believed that it will show a, marked in
crease. as Hoosiers have been showing
an increasing inclination to move in to
the capital.
Kokomo is now a city of 30.067. an
increase of 13.057. Decatur is given a pop
ulation of 4,762. increase 291: Portland,
5,958. increase 828. and Batesville, 2,361,
increase 210.
‘500.000 BY 1930*
"Indianapolis—soo,ooo population in
:930."
This is the slogan expressed by many
Indianapolis men today, following the
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U. S. Recognizes Armenia
WASHINGTON. April 24.—Recognition of the republic of
Armenia by the United States government was announced in a
note sent today by Secretary Colby to Pasdermadjain, repre
sentative here of that nation.
ARRAIGNS 'REBEL’
STRIKE LEADERS
Sets Hearing of John Grunau
and 40 Others May 5.
CHICAGO. April 21.—Forty-on® d®
fendant “ontlaw" strike leaders, including
John Grunau, president of the Chicago
Yardmen’s association, were arraigned In
federal court here today on charges of
violating the Lever law.
Their cases were s®t for hearing MSf 3.
The specific rhirge against the strik
ers was that they induced switchmen to
remain away from work, thereby con
spiring to restrain transportation of the
necessities ot life.
Railroads continue to report improve
ments in servloe throughout the middle
west.
“CLEVELAND. April 24—Leader* cf
the railroad strike here will be arrested
today unless the strikers return to work
at once, John F. Sawken, department
of Justice agent, announced.
"The government is not bluffing," he
said when apprised that the mas* meet
ing of strikers had howled down the
suggestion to return to work.
“Warrants will be served this after
noon.”
NEW YORK, April 24.—Officials of
the “outlaw" railway union were mak
ing every effort today to induce rail
road* to take back strikers without loss
of seniority.
Railroads reported the situation gradu
ally improving throughout the east to
day.
DETROIT. April 24.—Local and inter
urban service of the Detroit United
Railway will be discontinued within a
week unless there is relief from tho
present fuel shortage, the company an
nounced today.
ROADS HIRE NEW
SWITCHMEN HERE
Little change was noted in the railroad
situation here today, although several
lines reported the employment of new
men for work in the yards.
The Pennsylvania scored the greatest
gain in employment, hiring forty-five
new men, making a total yard froce of
ninety-one men.
Eight strikers have returned to work
on the Pennsylvania line.
The Big Four is still working forty
engine crews/a force sufficient to handle
all the freight passing through this term
inal.
A number of strikers have deserted
railroad work for other Jobs, it was said
at strike headquarters in Labor temple.
Strikers were still holding meetings
and receiving news of the strike's prog
ress from other cities.
Leaders expressed confidence that sen
iority privileges would be restored to the
men when they do return to work.
Judge Nathan Goff,
Ex-Senator, Is Dead
CLARKSBURG. W. Va.. April 24.
Judge Nathan Goff, former United St3t®s
senatpr from West Virginia, is dead 8t
bis home here. ,
Paralysis caused his death.
READ IT TO
THE CHILDREN
“Puss in Boots. Jr.,” is a bedtime
story all kiddies like.
—Every day Id The Time*.
EVERYBODY IS
TALKING ABOUT
"When a Girl Marries.” the new
serial of married life.
—Every day In The Time*.
Juirtwia Sail® limes
Entered as Second Claes Matter. July 15, 11114. at
Poetofflce, Indianapolis, Ind.. under act March i, IST*.
Times First Again
/THiiBDAY, APRIL 22, 1920.^
CENSUS TO PUT /
POPULATION OF /
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The Times is first again.
There hu been no news storv quite
so interesting to citizens of Indianapolis
as the 'announcement of the population
( f the city by the census bureau.
On April 22, two days before the offi
cial announcement wn* made. The Times
stated that the official figures would be
within a few hundred of 314,000.
This was not simply a good guess, but
a statement of fact based on informa
tion’ obtained by The Times In accord
ance with its usual policy of publishing
the news first.
Other newspapers estimated the popu
lation far below the prediction based on
accurate information published in The
< Times
TELL CARRANZA
TO STEP DOWN
Sonora Rebels Send Notice of
‘Plan of Agua Prieta/
AGFA PRIETA. April 24. President
Carranza is called upon to resign from
office In n document called the “Plan of
Ago a Prleta," adopted by the Sonbra war
council late Friday and made public to
day. .
The document, which bears the signa
tures of seventy-two military officials of
the Sonora secessionist army, contains
seventeen articles.
The one referring to Carranza ac
cuse* him, among other tilings, of “abol
ishing individual rights” anil of “placing
the sovereignty of the various M®xlcau
states in Jeapordy."
The revolutionary fores are given the
name of the “Liberal Constitutionalist
Army,” and Gov. Ie La Huerta of So
nora Is named supreme commander pro
tem.
In an Interview Gen. P. Elias Calles.
commander in chief of the secessionists,
declared he had obtained Information
that Carranza Intends to send 19,000
troops against Sonora, but do®* not be
lieve he will succeed In raising that
number.
RED CROSS FIRE
HELD ACCIDENT
Popular Rumor Is Discredited
by Manager.
Investigators of the state fire mar
shal'* office completed an Investigation
of the fire which destroyed records and
office supplies of the state Red Cross
headquarters, 515-518 L*mcke building,
today and announced that it was ap
parently of accidental origin.
The fire started about 5 o'clock la*t
Saturday afternoon when employes of
the office had been away for several
hours.
Several rolls of motion plcti2e film
were destroyed and It I* thought possible
spontaneous combustion occurred In the
film containers without the assistance
of any external agency.
Clarence Stanley, manager of the head
quarters. said that none of the records
destroyed concerned finances Bnd that
the loss could not save any person em
barrasment.
Dead Man’s Words
Halt Radical Trial
TOMBSTONE. Arlz., April 24.—A
dead man's testimony caused a halt
In the Bishee deportations trial here
today.
A deposition by Clarence Ingram,
one of tlie defendant*, stated he had
given Fred Brown, a plaintiff wltne**,
an opportunity to avoid deportation.
Ingram died a few hours after the
deposition was taken. The state
sought to impearh the deposition.
Stutz Shorts Get
Settlement at $550
NEW YORK, April 24.—An agreement
was reached today between Allan A.
Ryan and broker* short of Stutz Motor
stock when trading was suspended on
the New York stock exchange.
The settlement price agreed upon was
$425 a share, plus stock dividends, mak
ing a total of $530 a share.
Stutz was suspended after a sensa
tional rise from 100 to 400 a share within
a few days and the board of governors
declared a “corner" existed.
Ryan resigned from membership in the
stock exchange, declaring he would fight
the action of the board.
Immedlataly after Stutz trading was
suspended on the exchange, it was start
ed on the curb market with quotations
around $709 a share.
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1920.
HINES TO QUIT
AS DIRECTOR OF
ROADS MAY 15
Resignation Before President
to Be Accepted, White
house Says.
WILSON COMMENDS HIM
WASHINGTON, April 24.—Walker
D. Hines has resigned as director of
railroads, the whitehouse announced
today.
The resignation will become ef
fective on May 15.
It has been laid before the presi
dent and will be accepted.
President Wlmon lias written a letter
tc Mr. Hines praising his services ns
director general of railroads, as follows:
“I ean not let you rttiic front the
duties of director of railways without
telling you how I have personally val
ued and admired the quite unusual serv
ice you have rendered the government
and the country.
“I hope the future holds for you
something worthy of your ability and
ctaracter.
“With warmest appreciation,
“Cordially vours,
“WOODROW WILSON
Hines' successor, it’was learned at the
whitehouse. has already been decided
upon.
It was stated Hines himself picked
a man.
JOHNSON AGAIN
ECLIPSES WOOD
Early Returns Give Californ
ian Big Lead in Montana.
BUTTE. Mont.. April 24. -Victory for
- Senator Hlrani Johnson of California was
j indicated in incomplete returns today
from yesterday's presidential primary.
According to the returns from l'l out
| of 1,300 precincts the totals stand os
fellows:
Johnson, 6,238: Wood. 1,604: ..oo'or.
| 1259; Lowden, 1139; Harding 131.
Democrats had no candidate for pres
ident.
President Wilson lead* where names
were written in.
LOWDEN CANCELS’
TWO SPEECHES
Speeches which were to have been
made by Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illi
nois. candidate for the republican nom
ination for the presidency. In Cfiiwn
Point and Gary today were canceled be
j cause of the illness of the candidate.
A meeting which was to have been
held at South Bend last night also was
called off.
The Lowden state headquarters an
■ nouncsd that Gov. Lowden will speak at
: South Bend next Friday and in the,Lake
(X-oiMiiy rRUe-dtae following day. -*
According to James 8. Baldwin, who R
managing Gov. Lowden’s Indiana cam
paign, Got. Lowden already is certain of
820 Totes in the Chicago convention.
7TH W ARD ‘ANTIS’
TO MEET MON DA 1
Seventh ward republicans. “antl-
Ooodrlch and anti-Jewett,” will hold a
tneettng In Shank’s storage bouse, 227
North New Jersey street. Monday night
at 8 p. m., It is announced by Dan
. Brown, Jr., chairman.
The speakers announced for the meet
ing are Charles A. llookwalter and Lew
; Shank, both former mayors of Indian
apolis.
The announcement, further says:
; “Henry Cochrane, candidate for treas
urer; William K Rellv,• candidate for
prosecutor; Ir. Richard A. Poole, candi
date for coroner; Rev. Henry P. Parker,
Taylor Gronlnger, Paul Wetter and
others who are against the Goodrlch-
Jewett machine will speak."
IN JAIL, ESC APES
SLAYING CHARGE
Unless Jack Tierney ‘Went
Visiting ’ He’s Innocent.
United Stated Marshal Mark Storen to
day received a letter from James Wooloy,
sheriff at Tulsa, Okla , string he held a
! warrant for the arrest of Jack Tierney,
federal prisoner of Terre Haute, on a
charge of murder.
Tierney today completed a four month*’
sentence in the Marlon county Jail for
bootlegging.
His wife, formerly known as Edith
Brown, onee famed In the Terre Haute
red light district, was shot and killed
In Tulsa, Okla., about two weeks ago.
Some ambitious sleuths In that city
worked up a case In which Tierney was
: pointed out as the slayer.
’ When the crime was committed Tierney
i was in the county Jail for transporting
i liquor.
In federal court during an investlga
tlon of the jail it was’revealed that pels
j oner* often had liberty to roam at large,
i but it Is not believed Tierney got enough
liberty to travel to Tulsa and ge‘ back
in Jail safely without being discovered.
Mrs. Gossett to Be
Tried Again May 17
Mrs. Anna Mary Gossett is scheduled
to be retried in the Marion county ertm
nal court May 17, charged ’with the
murder of her husband, timer J. Gos
sett, on the morning of Dec. 26, last.
Lloyd Claycombe, an attorney for Mrs.
Gossett, asked that she be released on
$2,500 bond, saying she could furnish
bond In this amount.
Prosecutor Claris Adams refused to
consent.
At the first, trial of Mrs. Gossett, the
jury last. Wednesday was discharged
after failure to ag,ee.
Print Paper Bill
Signed by Wilson
WASHINGTON, April 24.—President
Wilson today signed the print paper bill.
The print paper bill provides that im
ported paper, costing 8 cents or less a
pound shall not l*e dutiable.
It raised this exemption from 5 cents
a pound a* a means of stimulating im
ports of print paper.
American Legion
Would Curb Members
State adjutants of the American Legton
In session here, today adopted recom
mendations that power be given the na
tional executive committee to curb in
discriminate action of posts and indi
vidual members.
Isn’t the Campus Charming?
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Left—ETHELWYNNE NALLEY. Right— PAU LI NE WHITT fclNBfcKU.
When F.utler college observed it* an
nual “Clean-l'p . Day” today, tho boys
slaved with hammers, rebuilding a part
of the Irwin field f®ncc and raked the
lawns, -while the fairer representative*
willingly donned aprons and served eof
fee and lunch.
CHEERFUL NEWS:
MEAT MAY DROP
Lon er Prices at Stock Yards
Forebodes Retail Changes.
The increased cost of meat, due to the
rail strike, is likely to prove poor sea
soning for your Sunday's dinner tomor
row, but there i* hope during the com
ing week, ns a result ot lower prices at
the stock yards
Your roast* an*! ytvnr steak*. If you
have the high-grade cut*, have cost from
5 to 10 cents a pound more than before
the railway strike, but during the pr-s
ent weak cattle have declined from $1
to $2.
Calves have declined from $2,.V> to $3,
a drop today which averaged $2 bring
ing most hope to those inclined toward
veal.
I’ork chops and the like have risen
from 5 to 15 cent# a pound since the
strike, but here also the housewife is
hopeful of relief In a few days, as bogs
have declined during the week from $2
to $2.30.
GAS STANDARD
SET 570 B. T. U.
City to Contest Ruling of State
Service Board.
The public service commission of In
diana today established 57b British ther
mal units as the standard heat unit* for
artificial ras plant*.
The standard was established in a set
of rule* issued to govern the service ren
dered by gas companies.
In case* where gas companies appeal
to the public service commission this
gtand will be used in making orders in
regard to the service of companies.
In Indianapolis, the city ordinance
with the gas company require* 600
It. T. U.
George Lemnux, president of the board
of public works and Hatnuel Ashby,
corporation counsel for the city, declared
when informed of the order of the com
mission tdnt the city will oppose any re
duction in standard here.
The commission's order permit* the
quality of gas to vary from 540 to 600,
but requires that the monthly average be
570 B. T. U.
Mr. Lemnux said the Citizens Gas com
pany signed n contract with the city
and the board of works In If*k r > to furnish
gas containing 600 or more Rritish ther
mal unit* to each cubic foot of gas.
This contract was to run twenty five
years.
We Have With
Us Today
THE TIMES has prepared a ques
tionnaire consisting of ten ques
tions, which It submit* each day to
some well-known Indianapolis person.
Introducing
C. E. Crlppin,
I’resident of school commissioner*.
(J. What is your name in full?
A. Clarence E. Crippiu.
Q. Have you ever bad ft nickname?
A. Yes—“Crip."
What was your favorite sport
when you were a boy V
A. Fishing.
Q. What athletics did you engage
or ex r el in when you were m
school ?
A. Baseball.
Q. How did you happen to meet
your wife, and where did you
meet her?
A. At tho home of a mutual
friend.
A. What is your hobby today? ,
A. Better public schools
Q. What was your ambition when
you were a boy?
A. To be a locomotive engineer.
Q. What event in your life caused
you to choose your present
profession ?
A. Reading the "Life of Benjamin
Franklin."
Q. if you had your life to live
over, what profession would
you i * >ose ?
A. Printing.
Q. What would you do with a
million dollars if you had it
to give away? *
A. Give worthy poor boys a csl
lege education.
c ,)Bjr Carrtsr, \Vek, InUlanapoUa, l#c; Elsewhere, lSe.
Subscription Rates. j ßy Ma „ J9o Per jgonth; *5,98 Per Year.
Over in the canteen building, Miss
Pauline Whitten berg presided at a range
r.nd watched the coffee boll properly.
Miss Ethelwynne Nailey supervised a
corps of girls wuo were anxious to serve
their college
N':ff!<-|etH to say, Butler college campus
looks much better.
NEGRO INDICTED
IN RECORD TIME
Slayer of Martha Huff to Be
Tried Next Tuesday.
William Bay. negro, confessed slaver
<f Martha Hoff, 14-y®ar-old girl, today
was indicted in record time by the Mar
ion county grand Jury.
The Jury convex**! in special session
at 9:43 o'clock and at 11:15 had coin
p'®ted It* invuatignUon.
The Indictment, which is for first de
gree murder, contain* five counts, re
viewing In detail the actions ot Ray aft
er 4 o'clock Monday afternoon, when the
Huff girt wo* lured away, and leading
up to the finding of the child's body,
stripped of i-lothing In Big agle creek
late the following day.
APPOINTS TUESDAY
MORNING FOR TRIAL.
As soon a* the Jury had instructed
; Judge James A. Coilins of criminal
i court that it had found an indictment,
the court set next Tuesday morning as
I the date for the trial.
The Jury commissioners were in the
| clerk's office and 150 names were drawn
! for a special venire.
Judge Colins gave Instructions tbst the
! sheriff begin immediately serving the
! prospective veniremen.
So speedily did the court conclude its
arrangement* for the trial that it was
only a few minutes before the Jury wn#
dismissed and provisions made for pauper
counsel for the defendant.
In view of the fact that Ray has no
| fnnd* Judge Collin* appointed Frank
; Svmnes. attorney for the poor, to act in
his behalf.
Some discussion came up as to the plea
the negro will make when he appears In
court.
In city court he admitted the crime.
JUDGE WILL ORDER
JURY DRAWN.
Should he plead guilty in criminnl
conrt Judge Collins will have a jury
drawn for the purpose of pronouncing
sentence.
t In a first degree murder charge the
court does not have the authority to
pass sentence.
Before the court set the date for the
trial Claris Adams, county prosecutor,
I told of the gravity of '.he crime and
urged that Justice he hastened.
Nora Bmook. stepsister of the slain
Huff girl; Mrs. Sara Smock, mother;
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Whitaker, Salem
Park, who heard screams in the vicinity
of the creek where the child was mur
dered; Alvin Alexander, hoy, who saw
the negro with the girl near the creek;
William Johnson, a railroad flagman,
who also saw the negro and girl; Ed
ward Weakley and Deputy Coroner
George R. Christian were the only wit.
nesses examined aside from the detec
tives.
Inspector of Detectives Manning. De-
I tectlves Sneed, Trahne, Dugan and O.
’ Simon were the police officers ques
■ tinned.
I The Jury was given a coify of the
| supposed confession made by Ray affpr
| he was arrested when it went into ses
i sion.
A vacancy in the Jury caused by the
s dismissal of one man several days ago
because of Illness was filled by Charles
A. Dodd, a paper hanger and painter,
1801 Oltve street.
He was excused as soon as the Indict
ment was returned on his plea of busi
ness pressure.
Provisions are being made for a beavy
gunrd around the courtroom when the
trial opens.
DOWNTOWN CROWD
OF “SIGHTSEERS."
While hundreds of persons gathered
j in the vicinity of the jail district last
night there was little disorder.
The .crowds, in the main, were “sight
seers” and few threats of violence
against Ray were heard.
Utmost vigilance was kept by the
police throughout the mgbt.
A reserve force of approximately 200
patrolmen was on hand at headquarters
early, prepared to put down any dis
turbances.
These men carried riot clubs.
Traffic in the neigborhood of the jail
was detoured and assemblages were dis
persed as rapidly as the police could
act.
Mounted men helped patrol the down
town district.
One man was arrested charged with
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GOMPKRB TO TALK TOMORROW.
CLEVELAND, 0., April -The polit
ical policies of the American Federation
of Labor will be enunciated by Samuel
Oompers. Ua president, ia an address
her* BundSiy afternoon. /
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COLLINS AND JEWETT
LINKED IN PARSONS’
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
Testimony in Rollins on Trial Discloses Ef
forts to Free Accused Auto ‘Fence’—Girl
Stenographer and Judge Pritchard Heard
in SI,OOO Fee Case.
Judge James A. Collins and Mayor Charles W. Jewett are the last
two prominent office holders of this community to be ■&>nnected with the
efforts of Harry Parsons to extricate himself from a charge of receiving
stolen property to which he first confessed and which he is now fighting
in the criminal court of Marlon county.
In the trial of Charles W. Rollinson, in police court, with Charles E.
Cox sitting as special Judge yesterday, Bessie Myers, a stenographer,
repeated a conversatlcn she swore she had with Harry Parsons that in
volved the names of both men.
TRIO TAKEN AS
GUNMENHERE
One Suspect Admits Part in
Series of Robberies.
Three men. snld by the polire to be
gunmen, are held under high bond* to
day following their arre*t In a rooming
house at Beech Grove late last night.
They are William Adams. 24, charged
with being a fugitive from Justice, carry
ing concealed weapons and vagrancy;
Otto Hall, alias Vernon Adams. 22.
charged with vagrancy, and Howard
j Wise. 21. charged with carrying con
cealed weapon and vagrancy.
A large number of stamps and stamped
envelopes lead the police to believe the
men robbed the Graham Manufacturing
company office* in Franklin last night.
ADMITS ROBHE.RIF.S,
DETECTIVES SAY.
Wise Is said to have confessed that
he and Vernon \dams had been respon
sible fir the following robberies:
Wholesale grocery office. Hannibal.
Me.; coal office In Quincy. 111.; flour mill
office In Aurora. 111.; coal office In San
dusky. O.: fe u! store In Bellefontnlne. O.;
store In Marysville. <).; American Ex
press Company office, Newcastle, Ind.,
and the theft of a number of automo
biles.
He cLil’ns he and Vernon Adam* came
to Indiana in a stolen automobile late In
March.
The robbery In Newcastle occurred sev
eral day* ago.
From Newcastle he claims they came
to Indianapolis In a stolen automobile.
A machine deserted In Franklin where
the robbery was committed last night
hixe been idenutifled as the one taken in
Newcastle.
When the three men fled from Frank
lin they took n machine w-h U-h has been
elaimod by Amos Kelly, a resident oi
tint plaee.
Helen .ve Coleman and Giles located
the men yesterday following a letter and
a warrant from the chief of police of
Portsmouth, O.
The detectives arranged for C. E. D-
I,ong, marshal at Beech Grove, and D.
II Dennis, a deputy, to watch the room
ing house, which is conducted by Frank
Bltick.
The letter from the Portsmouth po
lice had warned the officers to “take
no chances" in arresting William Adam*.
u he was saia to hare fired several
shots at a policeman who surprised him
while he was robbing a store in Ports
mouth.
DeLong had seen the strangers at Beech
Gmve since Tuesday, he said, and last
night wanted to make sure that he was
going to arrest the right men. and
searched their rooms while they were
away.
FINDS LETTER
TO IV. ADAMS.
A letter to William Adams was fonnd,
it is said, written by the man's mother,
from Ironton, in which she said, “Keep
quiet; don’t say anything; don’t trust
anybody and your trouble here will all
blow over."
The three men arrived at the house at
10:15 o’clock last night and. leaving the
motor of an auto running, they entered.
DeLong and Dennis covered them with
revolvers, and they say William
Adams reached for a revolver, but thar
he was disarmed before he could use
the weapon.
A revolver was found In Wise's pocket,
the officers assert.
Bosse Issues Call
for Policy^Meeting
Special to The Times.
EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 24.—Mayor
Benjamin Bosse, democratic state chair
man, today issued a call for*a meeting of
candidates for state offices in Indianapo
lis next Thursday.
The meeting will consider questions of
policy during the coming campaign.
Says Sugar Misers
Boost Prices Here
Indianapolis citizens have a million
and a quarter ponnds of sugar hoarded,
according to Stanley Wyckoff, fair price
commissioner.
The hoarding began as far back as
January, he said.
"People who have a reserve supply of
sugar ought not to try to buy nny now,"
hb said today. “They only help force
the price up."
Indianapolis wholesalers agreed yester
day afternoon to continue a price of 22.95
cents a pound for sugar, according to
Mr. Wyckoff, although Chicago brokers
have offered higher prices for it.
Boy, 11, Confessed
ForgeivPolice Say
ST. LOUIS. April 24.—Milton Jaeger,
It. declared by police to be St. Louis'
youngest confesed forger, was released
to his parents today.
Jaeger, according* to police, passed a
check on a grocer, who remembered a
similar one that was bad a few weeks !
ago.
Other forged checks, which the police
said the youth admitted writing after
saying boy companions gave them to him '
to pass, were found in his pocket, it was
asserted.
Tee, Hee! Pershing's
A.W.O. L . — Oh, Boy!
CHICAGO, April 24.—Warren Per
shing, 12, was to have met his father,
Gen. Pershing, here.
The latter missed connections and
failed to show up on time.
“Dad ia A. W. O. L./’ complained
the boy.
NO. 300,
She said. In substance, that Parsons
told her that he had "direct word” from
Judge Collins that his attorney, Rollin
son, could do him “no good in criminal
court” and he should get another lawyer.
She said. In substance, that Par
son* told lier .Mayor Jewett had In
formed him that between Judge Col
lin* and Jewett the affair would be
fixed up *o that he would get out. and
then Jewett and Collin* wonld go
after Rollinson for the SI,OOO attor
ney fee* that Farson* had paid to
Rollinson and when they had got
Parson* out they wonld "get” Rol
linson.
TOLD THAT JEWETT BORE
WORD FROM COLLIN'S.
Miss Myers’ testimony fallowed the te
ttmony of three other witnesses, who all
swore that Parsons bad made the state
ment that he had direct word from Col
lins through a person he did not name
that Rollinson “could not do him any
good” in criminal court and he should
get another lawyer.
She was the onlj- witness who swore
that Parsons had divulged to her that
Mayor Jewett was the man who bore the
alleged word from Collins, but she was
not the only witness who told of Mayor
Jewett’s connection with the case.
Rollinson, on trial for obtaining money
nnder false pretenses from Parsons, was
discharged hv Judge Cox after one of the
most remarkable trials In the city conrt,
a trial mnde remarkable, not *by the dis
closure of a story alleging misconduct on
the rart of the defendant, for none was
proced, but by the disclosure of a story
alleging misconduct on the part of local
officials and rerenling tremend-ns influ
ence exercised in behalf of a man charged
with re-eiving stolen automobiles.
PRESSURE BROUGHT TO
BEAR ON TRITCHARD.
Judge Walter Pritchard of the city
court was a witness, and he testified, in
substance, that several persona had come
to him and Informed him that Parsons
was a member of a certain lodge in this
city, was a man of high standing Jn tb*
! community, formerly “fired with Mayor
Jewett." and that "it would be a terrible
crime to find him guilty" of a
wh'-h he had confessed to the polli e. M
When pressed for information es to
who had thus approached hlin. Judge
Pritchard said that s-vera! men had
; come to him In the matter and he could
not state definitely which on® had made
these various statements. jj.-
n, declared, however, that he JMMot
know that Rollinson had made alq?of
them to him.
Judge Pritchard concluded his testi
mony with an explanation that he bad
continued Parsons’ case in o'der that the
evidence against Parsons might be pre
sented to the grand Jury without the ne
cessity of compelling Parsons to give a
new bond to await grand Jary action.
He denied that he had been influenced
In the discharge of his duty as judge
of the city court by the pressure
brought to bear on him in behalf of Par
sons. or that any consideration was rf
ferod him for action favorable to Par
son*.
PARSONS RELATES
BRIBERY STORY.
The hearing in which these interesting
sidelights on the manner In which Par
sons and his friends struggled to nvr.ld
conviction was on a proceeding in which
it was sought to bind Rollinson over
to the grand jury for investigation of a
charge made against him in an affidavit
filed by Harry Parsons, following n state
ment made before Judge Walter Pritch
ard on April 12.
Tn this statement Parsons said he
paid Rollinson, his attorney, SI,OOO. after
which Rollinson told him he (Rollln
son) had paid this money over to Judge
Pritchard ami others.
Judge Pritchard directed that an af
fidavit be filed against Rollinson and a
brief affidavit charging Rollinson with
taking money under false pretenses was
filed.
This brief affidavit was later dismissed
aDd anew affidavit particularizing that
Rollinson had obtained SBOO from Par
sons by representing that "one Beusin
per had executed and put up his certi
fied check for $2,000 for the purpose of
using the same to nnjustly convict him
*■ * * and it was necessary, by res
son thereof, to raise -pad pay over to
him, the said Charles the sum
of SSOO. to be used by him to protect
rffiant.”
After two delays due to the failure
of the state to be ready for trial, the
cause came to a trial yesterday before
Judge Cox.
PARSON 8 GIVES
HIS TESTIMONY.
Harry Parsons gave his testimony in
suport of the second affidavit and after a
long cross-examination by Eph Inman,
on behalf of Rollinson, Benton Parsons,
a brother of Harry, who also signed the
confession Harry had made, testified
In a manner that caused Judge Cox to
term hint a “reluctant" and “not a very
bright" witness.
He was unable to remember the fee
transactions between Harry Parsons and
Rollinson and in several other ways
failed to corroborate Harry Parsons -
story.
Hebert Rensinger, an auto dealer of
Jefferson ville. for the appearance ot
uhont the state obtained one continu
ance, declared that he had never put
up a check for $2,000 to obtain the con
viction of Parsons.
William Arthur Swift told of bringing
about the engagement of Rollinson as
Parsons' attorney and then Rollinson
took the stand in his own behalf.
REVEALS INTEREST OF
MAYOR IN CASE.
In substance Rollinson testified that
he took the case of the two Parsons for
S2OO and asked more money when ha
found that Parsons had signed a con
fession and there would have to be a
criminal court trial.
He detailed his efforts in behalf of the
Parsons and disclosed that Mayor Jew
ett was Interested in freeing Parsons.
He testified that Jewett had called
him in and had remonstrated with him
about the size of his fee, insisting that
part of it be paid back for Parsons and
said he refused to give It back.
He denied all of Parsons' material alle
gations against him.
Jap Powell, a stock buyer, testified
that he was In Kolllnaon'a office nd>
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