Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-05-07
COURT ATTACKED
BY MRS. HAUGH
Wants Change of Venue in
Fight for Children.

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RUSHVILLE, Ind, May IA motion
for q change Of venue from Judge win NJ.
Sparks Of the Rush county circuit court
was filed today by attorneys for Mar
guerite e. Haugh, former wife of J. Guy
Haugh, indianapolis business man.
In the petition II is alleged that Judge
Sparks Is biased in the matter and there
fore can not render impartial Judgment.
Mrs. Haugh on May 3, 1920, filed 4 mo-
ton to modify a decree and judgment Of
Judge Sparks. who presided in the d.
vOrce trial, seeking to gain custody OF
her two children, Roland, Z. and Guy, 3.
The court order placed the children in
the indianapolis Orphans home.
On May 1 Mr.. Haugh is alleged to have
taken the two boys from the Orphans
home for an automobile ride and has
never returned with them.
Since the children we're placed In the
home Mrs. Haugh, who visited in New
York, sought upon her return to Indian
apolis to see her children. but the au
thOrities at the Orphans home are said
to have refused her requests to see them:
DECATUR-Caught under an elevator
in his tile mill near Monroe. John Hy
erly, IS, was instantly killed. He hao
gone into the pit to repair the elevator
and the big lift descended on him when
he accidentally pulled the control rope.
SOUTH BEND - August Schultz,
Charles Denruther and Jack Wright have
been indicted by the st. Joseph circuit
court grand jury for murder. The men
are charged with the killing OF Henry
MuesseI and Frank Chrobot in 1918 when
they attempted to rob the Muessel brew
cry. Schultz is the only man held by
the police at present.
SOUTH BEND-YlrgiI McGnI. alleged
automobile thief was captured In pis-
toll duel in the center OF the city yes
tcrday when a bullet hit him ia the leg
LAFAYETTE-Becaus the manager OF
and 1O-cent store searched their
wraps in the clOs krocm twenty-one girl
clerks went on strike. They said the
manager had no business doing Il and
if he mistrusted them he should not en-
ploy them.
SOUTH BEND-oseph Voorde, town
ship assessor for st. Joseph county, was
arrested charged with driving an auto
mobile while intoxicated, after he had
crashed into a car driven by Louis b.
Lang of Mishawaka, seriously tnjuring
Mrs. o. E. Lang, Mrs. S. 3. McQuillen
Mrs Mary D. Keyes and Miss Mary
Booth, the lattcr's condition being con-
sidered serious.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. c. Smith says IT
didn't cost him a penny to be elected
precinct committeeman. In a foot-note
on his expense account" fled today he
said: NO money spent, no. promises
made, one nights sleep lost"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the short
age Of farm labor the trial of Albert
Bachelor, Red Parker, Thomas Bachelor
and Dan Trkulja Of Gary, accused of kill
ing Herman Necker, a bank cashier, has
been postponed Farmers can not spare
the time for jury service.
NEW ALBANY-Richard Hendrich, 5,
son Of Perry Hendrich, is dead of injuries
suffered when he was run over by an
automobile driven by his father. Hen
drich did not see the boy in front of the
machine when he started it.
SOUTH BEND-LOsing control of a
motorcycle he was driving and crashing
into a crowd Of wOrkmen eating their
noon lunch in the factory district, Hor
ace J. Taylor is responsible for serious
injuries to Edward Bber. 20. and Frank
Konopinski, 70. Taylor was arrested.
LAPORTE-Mrs. Fred p. Mann, wife
Of a wealthy farmer living near here,
was perhaps fatally burned today when
an oil stove exploded and covered her
face and body with blazing oil.