Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-24

nauer walked past the confectionery on
the night of Oct. % and Bernauer stepped
inside
Jones said he walked to South street
and back again to look into the window
of the shop to see whether Bernauer
would have the nerve to hold up Eaids.
AS he reached the front of the store, he
said, he heard a shot. and, looking into
the window, saw Bernauer's hand drop.
He ran to the door and then away from
the store and down South street, going
east. followed by Bernauer. He said Ber-
nauer came to his house later in the
night and divided the money which be
said Bernauer had taken from the cash
register at Eaid's store.
When Norman E. Price took the stand
he detailed his escape from the State
Farm on the morning of Oct % or &c.
On discrimination Price refused to
answer the question Of Ira Holmes, COun-
sci for the defendant as to whether he
had ever been arrested at Cincinnati,
Ohio, with Charles Jones.
Mr.. Holmes appealed to the court to
order Price to answer, but Judge Blair
declined to force an answer, stating that
Price was already in the custody offthe
officers and it would be impossible to
infiict punishment on him.
Price testified he was wearing the
brown suit owned by Bernauer at the
time he was arrested in January and
that during the time he was confined
in the Marion County Jail he sold the
garment to a prisoner named Barr, who
wore it to the Jacksonville Reformatory.
The witness identified a suit shown
by the State as the one which he had
sold Barr and which had belonged to
Bernauer. He said he obtained SO for
the suit and gave Bernauer half this
amount He asserted he did not know
whether Bernauer had spent this money
for morphine, nor did he know that
Doremus Wells was selling morphine to
the prisoners in the Marion County Jail.
Lee Parker told of a visit made to his
room at the Broadway Hotel by Ber-
nauer on the night of Oct. %. when the
defendant told him he had crooked
fellow" week later, Parker said. while
he and Bernauer, Norman Price and
Charles Jones were riding IN a stolen
auto, Bernauer again spoke Of having
killed a fellow. On the night that Der
nauer visited his room, about midnight,
Parker stated, Bernauer asked 20 wear
a suit which was lying on the bed and
was the property Of Gene Price, then a
prisoner at the State farm. He said he
consented, but for some reason Bernauer
did not wear the suit. He told of seeing
Bernauer carrying a .45-caliber revolver.
Parker admitted that Gene Price had
come to his room at the hotel after es-
scaping from the State farm, but denied
he and Charles Jones assisted Price in
making his escape.
Two nights after the murder, Charles
Newgent testified, he took a walk with
Bernauer. who asked him for money to
buy a new suit. saying the police would
pick him up with the one which he was
then wearing. Newgent said he had no
money and refused the request Ber-
Jones had told him anything" to
which he answered in the negative. He
| asserted that Bernauer told him If he
did know anything that he had better
keep mis- mouth shut. Newgent also testi-
fed to being with Bernauer and Jones
on the night of the murder, saying he
rode about Indlanapo with them in a
car that was stolen. This car was the
property Of Samuel Lynnes and was
stolen from near the Y. NJ. c. A. building
about 1880 o'clock.
Frank McNulty, a clerk at the Broad
way Hotel told of having assigned Ber-
nauer room oct. % with Jack Matthew.
/ When Matthew took the stand he stated
! that Bernauer had slept with him that
night and that be had seen him carrying
a heavy Army revolver. Matthew also
l said Bernauer asked to borrow a suit,
| but refused a brown suit, because the de
PENDANT stated it was too much like the
one he was wearing.