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Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21

Friends of Edward J. Robson, candi-
date for the Republican nomination for
mayor, have taken a part In the proceed
irgs on the petition of Dennis j. Bush
for clemency, which is now pending be-
fore the State board of pardons, to the
extent of asking that he be not released
ia order to prevent his taking part in the
campaign of Thomas c. Howe, who Is
also seeking the mayoralty nomination,
it was learned today.
Bush who is now a member or the
good government and clean politics or
ganization Is serving four months
sentence on the Indiana State farm for
assault and battery in connection with the
1914 campaign, sentence he lodged for
years. Efforts to gain his release have
been made by influential persons in the
organization, including Mayor Charles
w. Jewett. United States Senator Harry
s. New. County Treasurer Ralph Lemcke,
County Auditor Leo X. Fesler, Alvah
]. Rucker, former prosecutor, and nu-
merous others.
BUSH WOULD BE
VALUABLE TO HOWE.
Bush is the kind of man who does
things in a primary campaign" an in
dividual who knows as much about the
case as any one declared. "'The Howe
people want him out of the farm in or
der that he can serve them in the cam
pagn For this reason the Robson peo-
pie are bending every effort to have the
pardon board make an unfavorable re-
port and to keen Bush where he is.'
Particular interest attached to the
Bush case today because the pardon
board was meeting to consider 1t and
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21

Pearl Hiendlmayr. In the mysterl-
GUS case. Mr.. Moore reported the case
70 Lieut.. Clara Burnsides and the de-
scription of the missing girl was read
at each roll call Of the uniformed police
and of the detective department.
Miss Hlendlmayr is the daughter of
Carl Niendlmayr. proprietor Of baking
company in the little town thirty miles
south of Terre Haute. When she climbed
through the window of her bedroom, on
the first floor of her home, and started
out to see the world, two sisters and
brother, all younger than Pearl, were
asleep in the same room. When morning
came the parents discovered the disap-
pearance and reported it to the town
marshal. The girl left no note. She
took q travelling bag with one dress,
camera and book entitled Elizabeth
Hoover" by Gean X. Baird.
Mr.. Moore obtained information that
caused him to believe the girl was lured
to Evansville He went there, but found
the girl that he had followed to that
city was not the Hiendlmayr girl In
formation later was obtained from
ticket agent at New Lebanon. fourteen
miles west OF Dugger. that the girl ap-
peared there at a. m, March II, and
purchased a ticket to indianapolis.
The agent said the girl told him
story about being an orphan and that
she was On her way to visit relative
in Indianapolis. The details of the story
told the ticket agents are identical with
the plot Of the story in the book she had
in her travelling bag.
'Tt is probable that she has applied
for employment at some theater or at
some baking company. for her father is
q baker" said Mr.. Moore. THE girl
had with her when she left home about
$50 her own savings"
Miss Hiendlmayer wore black velvet
hat with the brim trimmed in gray
beaver, a light tan polo coat, high laced
mahogany colored boots and either
navy blue sailor suit trimmed in red or
navy blue MILDLY suit trimmed In
white. She is feet 10 inches tall and
weighs 10 pounds She has light auburn
hair, blue eyes and a fair complexion.
She carried q tan travelling bag.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21
TRIGGER TRIAL
MEN HELD NOT
GUILTY BY JURY
Sid Hatfield and Fifteen Other
Defendants Acquitted of
Murder Charge.

COURTHOUSE, WILLIAMSON, W.
Va, March 21-sid Hatfield and his if
teen defendants IN the trigger trial were
found not guilty by a jury at HIS this
forenoon.
Three minutes later Judge Bailey told
the defendants to go back to the county
Jail. where they win give bond for their
appearance in court for the indictments
of numbering six other detectives. Bailey
arranged to allow the sixteen men to go
back to Mstewan on the noon train.
J. ]. Commit, chief counsel for the de-
fense, made this statement Immediately
after the verdict was read by the clerk
of courts:
Il think the result is what the pub
lis generally anticipated. 1t means, in
my opinion, that the private guard sys-
tenn in West Virginia has been on trial
and has been condemned, and the Legis-
lature now in session should take no
tice of this fact"
The sixteen defendants received the
verdict without any show Of emotion,
except that Sid Hatfield, chief Of police
of Matewan. smiled his perpetual smile.
FELTS SAYS VERDICT
Is RESULT OF FEAR.
Fear is the answer to this verdict, ''
snapped Tom L. Felts. head OF the Bald
win-Felts Detective Agency, when the
correspondent saw him in his room a few
minutes after the verdict.
The appeal TO prejudice and the wav-
ing OF the red flag by the two attorneys
for the defense before that jury int1u-
euced the twelve men more than all the
combined evidence OF the State and de-
fense.
THE atmosphere in this town-the
miners union ribbons bEazenly displayed
Continued on Page Nine.)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21
BERNAUER GOES ON
TRIAL FOR LIFE IN
EAIDS MURDER CASE
Jury Examination Begins When Court OUer-
rules Technical Attack by De-
Tense on Jurisdiction.

Bernauer entered the Shelby Circuit
Court here standing on his plea Of not
guilty.
He is represented by Attorney Ira
Holmes of Indianapolis.
Prosecutor Evans, under the alIega-
ton in the indictment, will attempt to
prove the following;
That Bernauer ON the night of
Oct. %, 1920, armed with a revolver
and bis cap drawn down close over
eyes and forehead, entered the con-
fectionary of the Syrian.
That the object Of the visit was to
obtain money because Bernauer was
broke"
That Bernauer fred the fatal shot
which resulted in Eaids dropping be-
hind a counter in his store with
a wound from which death resulted
two hours later.
That Bernauer rihed a cash drawer
and escaped with $50.
LONG BAFFLED
BY MYSTERY.
For several months after the murder OF
the Syrian detectives were baffled by the
mystery surrounding the case. The
Indianapolis detectives first arrested
Toney De Mayo, 10, who then roomed at
G West South street, but after a careful
investigation he was released.
The first intimation that Bernauer
might be connected with the murder
came when Bernauer was arrested on
charge of stealing revolvers from Eft.
Benjamin Harrison. 1t is said he at
tempted to dispose of some Of the
weapons. About the last of January
Charles Newgent, "a, was taken to Indi-
annapolis from Pennsylvania in connection
with the theft of some automobiles.
Newgent or Neugent, on the way from
the East, told Detective Mike Hynes that
he, Bernauer and Charles Jone3 were to-
gether in the early part Of thg night or
the murder and that the three stole an
automobile which they deserted on West
Washington street. According to the
detectives, Newgent claims he returned
to the car to get something which he
had left in it. He claims he did not re-
join Bernauer and Jones that night, but
on the next day overheard a CONVERSE
ton which. when told to the detectives, is
said to have linked Bernauer with the
murder Of Eaids.
TWO ACCUSED
IN DYING STATEMENT.
The Indianapolis detectives had few
facts to work on. According to the In
dianapolis authorities Eaids, before he
died. made the statement that two young
men entered his store and one said,
Hello, Shorty" and before he knew IL
he was looking into a 45-calibre revolver.
It is said Eaids stopped down behind
the counter with the intention of get
ting a bottle. The man with the revolver
then fired three shots, one going wild,
Continued on Page Nine.)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21
CLARA HAMON
SIGNS UP FOR
CINEMA JOB
Gets $4,000 iH AdUaHce-
VIII ReceiUe 80 Per Cent
of Profits.

ARDMORE. Okla, March 21-Clara
Smith Hamon, acquitted Thursday Of
the alleged murder Of Jake L. HamOn.
oil millionaire, and political car, to-
day signed a two year contract to enter
the movies
She Wi appear on the silver screen"
under the banner Of the Oklahoma Nov
ing Picture Company Of Oklahoma City.
Under the terms Of the contract she will
receive S25. 600 IN cash as an advance pay
mcnt and 30 per cent Of the profits from
the company, Charles A. Coakley, her
attorney. announced.
The company, capitalized for 81 900,
is owned by Oklahoma City and local
capital.
Only pictures Of great moral influence
will be made. declared Clara Smith Ha-
mon today, after signing the contract.
My pictures viii be manufactured un-
der Christian influences and / will use
the screen as a medium for warning
young girls against the pitfalls of life, -
she said. "No sordidness will appear in
any OF my stories"
Studios Of the company, Coakley an
nounced will be leased at Los Angeles.
Accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Van
Allen James Of Los Angeles: her brother
James. and her mother, Clara Smith
Hamon viii leave for that city within the
next few days She will visit her father.
J. r. Smith, who is critically Ill at El
Paso, en- route to the studio.
While Clara Smith ,Hamon is playing
IN pictures. Mrs. Jake Hamon, widow OF
the late Oklahoma Republican national
committeeman, will take up aviation, she
announced here To-Day. Her daughter,
Olive Belle, took a fight early today.
Mrs. Hamon announced she will purchase
the airplane. Details of establishing a
station will be announced later, she de-
clared
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21
MUST LISTEN
TO GODS WORD,'
ASSERTS Gypsy
Evangelist Tells Keith's
Audience to Forget Self,
Think of Others.
Home Run DriUeS
by Gipsy Smith

s'You are all animal. All you think
Of is markets, meat and bread. You
are chasing bubbles In the air"
Your soul isn't a trinket that you
can buy back for a penny"
'On Easter you will send cards and
flowers to your frients without think
ing of the Christ who made possible
Good Friday and Easter"
Some of you people are living on
borrowed time and you haven't ac-
cepted Jesus yet"
eff some of you people could see
your photographs as you really are,
you would shrek with horror"
"As long as Good Friday and Easter
remain on the calendar and you write
In the year of Our Lord, 1921 it Is
proof that Jesus came into the
world"
"If there is one lost girl In Indian
apOlis, II is disgrace to the city"
"The trouble is, we are all in for
the jazz, for the Eiggie and we are
always on the everlasting trOt. The
trouble is you don't think OF Jesus"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21
Mr.. Howe Would Be Mayor
BY Pardon of Bush, Claim
Robson Backers Fight Dignitaries' Efforts
to Free Notorious Pc litician From Farm

other cases before making recommenda-
tions to the Governor. Adolph Seiden-
sticker, chairman of the pardon board
who attempted to persuade former Gov
ernor James P. Goodrich to release Bush,
declared that because of his activities
in the case and because Of his long
friendship with Bush he would take no
part in the discussion. leaving it to the
other two members of the board.
WOULD LET SENTENCE
STAND; REMIT FINE.
One of the other members has sug-
gested that Bush be required to serve
the four months sentence but that his
fine of 5000 be remitted. When the petit
tion was UP for hearing 1t was set out
that Bush was a poor man and that
the payment of the fine would be hard
ship.
If Bush is required to serve his entire
sentence he will not be released until
just after the primary. Bush has taken
active and notorious parts in other pri-
mary campaigns He has been close to the
regular Republican organization and
knows a great deal about it. 1t is be-
cause of Bush's knowledge and his abil-
ity as a worker in primaries that mem
bers of the organization have been doing
everything in their power to have him
released
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21
GAMBLING
FLOURISHES IN
PETS RESORTS
Affidavit Declares Police
Smile at Games of HOwe's
Negro Aids.
TELLS OF THREE PLACES

Gambling unde rthe very noses Of po-
is shown to have progressed in the negro
quarter last week by an affidavit which
has come into the possession Of the
Times.
The affidavit shows that William Ian
caster, Rpfe Page and Joker" Young,
negro pets of the administration OF
Mayor Charles w. Jewett, and open work
ers for Mr.. Thomas C. Howe former pres
ident Of Butler College, and NewsJewett
candidate for the Republican nomination
for mayor operated gambling places. ap-
parently with assurance that they would
not be molested. while the places Of ne
groes not for Mr. Howe were visited re-
peatedly by the police.
man visited the place Of William
Lancaster, 81 Indiana avenue at IA
o'clock Wednesday afternoon and lost
$160 As he came out of the place,
the affidavit says, two policemen walked
by looked in, smiled and walked on
SO confident was Lancaster Of immunity
from interference by the police that
he had no watchers on the lookout
the AFFIDAVIT states.
At Rufe Pages place, according to
the affidavit. the craps game was not
started Wednesday afternoon until EN-
ployes of the city and Of the street car
company came in and then "the game
soon was in full bloom Two police
men came into an adjoining room whnf
the game was merrily in progress, got
something to drink and walked out IL
is stated.
When somebody got scared" because
the police had come iu, assurance was
passed around that no one need fear be-
cause Rufe was lin with the city" and
was a Howe man" Rufe Page is
quoted as having said something to the
effect that If Howe were elected he
could go on gambling for four years
The place Of Archie (Joker) Young on
Indiana avenue was the scene Of craps
CONTINUED ON Page TwO)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21

WASHINGTON, March 21.-Those who
yielded to the lure of warm, caressing
spring zephyrs and took 'em off during
the last few days, had better put 'em
back on.
This was the gist of a warning sounded
by the official forecaster of the United
States Weather Bureau in predicting that
the unprecedented warm weather which
has prevailed generally over the eastern
States and in many parts Of the country
for the past few weeks, will come to an
abrupt ending tonight.
The forecaster was asked whether
spring has come
"It has not" he said emphatically, and
launched into a technical explanation Of
just what caused the summer breezes of
Palm Sunday which broke records in
many regions along the Atlantic coast.
The warm wave, as officially explained,
was blown up from the gulf regions and
Is scheduled to keep right on going.
Return currents from Canada and
the Great Lakes viii sweep over the At
lantic coast in retaliation, from Maine to
North Carolina and over the Mississippi
Valley region tonight" he said.
THE temperature viii lower rapidly
and there may be frost"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21
Denies u. S. Owes
Big French Debt

WASHINGTON, March 81. - Stories
published In Parisien papers to the effect
that the United States owes France
90 600, 600 900 francs dating back to the
days Of the American revolution, were
characterized as absurd today by Treas
ury Department officials.
"A thorough search of the Treasury
records" said Assistant Secretary Kelly,
"shows no unpaid obligations to France
of any kind" Kelly is in charge Of the
department Of foreign loans and accounts.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21
2 Americans Killed
in Germany, Report

COBLENZ, March 21.-Two American
soldiers were accidentally killed and
third seriously injured at Weissenthurm,
according to reports at headquarters here
today. The men were driving an auto
mobile which collided with an express
train. Army officers were checking re-
ports of the accident.
Harold II. Hamenkrap and Lawrence
C. Murphy were reported killed and Ham
ilton A. Baker seriously hurt. All were
privates.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21
SPRING BUDS

Miss Spring made weeping debut into
indianapolis today, and the weather man
says we are to shiver tonight with the
mercury several degrees below freezing.
He promises fair weather, but still
cold. tomorrow
Sunday, the last day of winter, while
bustery and rather threatening, took
many Indianapo polltans 10 the parks and
the country. The Dandy Trail was prac-
tically a continuous stream of automO-
biles.
MILWAUKEE,, wis, March 21-sum-
mer weather prevailed here Sunday The
thermometer reached IS degrees at 4
Continued on Page TwO)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21
STRUCK BY AUTO,
MAN MAY DIE
Machine Skids Into Pedes.
trian in West Washing
ton Street.

A man believed to be Scott Parker, &C..
suffered n fractured skull and probably
fatal injuries today when he was
knocked down by an automobile driven
by Walter Faust, in front Of 514 West
Washington street. Faust, who lives
west Of the city on the National road,
was driving west on Washington street
when the man started to cross the street
in front Of him.
Faust tried to stop his car, but it
skidded and the side struck the pedes
trian.
The victim was unconscious when taken
to the city hospital and his identifetion
has not been completed. The police be
lieve he was working near the scene of
the accident, as he carried screw driver
In his hand when injured.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21

IF you wish to be a Christian, you
must listen to the word of God" Gipsy
Smith. the evangelist, told his audience
at the MONDAY meeting at Keith's
Theater, today.
THE way to get a blessing is to for
get yourself and think Of Others" he
said.
The Rev. W. o. Trueblood, pastor Of
the First Friends Church, spoke before
the English evangelist, using as his
theme, the word of Christ, "Wist ye not
that must do the work Of my Father"
You may refuse to allow the will Of
God to occupy your heart" said Gypsy
Smith, but it viii face you at every
turn. There is no getting rid of God, or
Of His will You can be disobedient to
Continued on Page Nine.)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21
WCRAY BUREAU
SMALL RELIEF
TO UNEMPLOYED

A new employment Office was opened
in the Statehouse today. IT Is on the
east side of the main floor An inner
Office is occupied by Governor Warren
t. McCray, who has just returned from
a short vacation and has plunged into
the work OF considering applicants for
numerous State positions. In a large
outer office job hunters and friends of
Job hunters cool their heels for hours at
a time
There are two doors between the outer
and the inner, office. The first leads into
the office of Miss Adah Bush, secretary
to the Governor, and is being kept
closed The second leads into the inner
an active applicant for job, with good
The Governor arrived at Q o'clock
Waiting for him was Lawrence Lyons Of
Brook. one Of the Governors former cam
paign managers who is reported to be
an active applicant for a pob, with good
chances of landing.
individuals of minor Importance CON
tinued to sit in the office. Then United
States Senator Harry S. New appeared,
wearing his characteristic wide brimmed
black hat. He paused In the outer office
for q time and finally was admitted to the
Office of the secretary. After some more
delay he succeeded In penetrating into the
inner sanctum He was there about an
hour, emerging smiling, but uncommunt-
cative.
DR.. J. n. Hurty, secretary of the State
board of health, appeared on the scene.
He announced he had two letters from
the Governor declaring that the executive
wished to see him, but he was denied ad-
mission.
Meanwhile Representative Chester A
Davis, Jay County, was buzzing around
the outside. Chester admitted he would
take almost any kind of appointment
Senator Miles J. Furnas, Lynn, also ap-
peared, but he declared he wished to tell
the world that he wouldn't take any
kind of an appointment.
Along about II 80 O'Clock Representa-
tive w b. Anderson, Knox County,
chairman of the roads committee OF the
House and nightly interested in the
highway department and everything that
pertains to it, appeared. He was told
that the Governor would see him in few
minutes. At 2:15 he was still occupying
q chair in the outer office.
Frequent bulletins from the inner sane
tum kept representatives of the press in
formed that the Governor was too busy
TO see them.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21
KILLS SLEEPING
YOUTH WITH AK
Stepfather COnfesses Murder
of Boston University Law
Student.

AVER, Mass. March 2l.--Police today
are seeking a hidden motive for the slay-
ing Of Vincent Paul Planich, 10. Boston
University law student, by his step
father, Eugene Drioly, Littletou farmer.
Drioly confessed to the police that he
beat his stepson over the head with an
ak while the young man was asleep on
a couch In Drioly's home.
Drioly said his stepson had annoyed
him and threatened Mrs Drioly and him
self charge made by Drioly that the
youth chased his mother from the house
into the woods was denied by Mrs Drioly.
After killing the young man Drioly
hunted up a constable and surrendered
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21
Special to The Times.


SHELBYVILLE, Ind, March H.-To
fasten on Carl Bernauer, 81, the criminal
responsibility of the brutal and cold
blooded murder" Of Sam Eaids, Syrian
proprietor of a confectionery at 377
South Illinois street, Indianapolis, on
the night of Oct. %, 1920, Prosecutor
William F. Evans of Marion County to-
day went into the case with evidence on
which the State of Indiana is expected to
ask the death penalty for the alleged
murderer.
The case was delayed in starting when
counsel for Bernauer filed a motion at
tacking the jurisdiction of the trial court
on the grounds that the transcript in the
change Of venue had not been properly
made out in Marion County. Judge
Alonzo Blair refused to sustain the mo-
tion of the defense and ordered the work
of impaneling the jury started.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21
IL PRIZE HORSES
BURN TO DEATH
Two Others Have to Be Shot
After Fire in East.

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass, March
21.-Eleven of the country's foremost
race horses and breeding stations were
burned to a crisp and two brood mares
were scorched so badly they will have
to be shot, in fire at the Eastern States
Exposition Grounds, today.
The total loss is estimated at $4,000.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21
GARDNER NAMED
PENSION CHIEF
Michigan Man Selected to
Head Bureau.

WASHINGTON, March 21-President
Harding has selected Washington Gard
ner Of Albion, Mich, to be commissioner
of pensions, it was learned at the White
House today.
Gardner is a former member OF Con-
gress from the Third Michigan District.
serving from 1899 to 1911. He is a civil
war veteran and for two years was com
mander in chief Of the Grand Army of
the Republic. He was born in Morrow
County, Ohio, the same county in which
the President was born.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-21

mayr, II, into
trouble with her
teacher at school.
for the a t t e r
thought the girl
should d e To t e
more tim e to
study than to
writing m o vi e
plays. The teach
er posted the list
of those who
viii not pass, "
and the girl, see
ing her n a m e
there and becom-
ing discoura ged,
disappeared from
her home at Dug
ger.
The girl has
been traced to
Indianapolis by
Fred A. Moore,
publisher Of the
Dugger Tribune,
who has taken a
personal interest