Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-12
CHAUFFEUR OF.
MAYOR BOUND
OVER TO JURY
Roy Howell Held on Charge of
Involuntary Man
slaughter.
STRUCK AND KILLED GIRL
WOaneta FRANKIE, 9, Daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
FRANKIE, Victim.

Roy Howell, city chauffeur who
while driving a city owned car on
private business for Mayor Jewett
Aug. 8, ran over and killed Woaneta
FRANKIE, Thirty-Seventh street and
Emerson avenue, was bound over to
the grand jury in city court today.
He was sent to the grand Jury on q
charge of manslaughter on recommends
ion OF DIR. Paul +. Robinson. The cor
oner's verdict was involuntary man
slaughter. HowelTs bond was fixed at
$1,000 after he had waived preliminary
hearing. The bond was signed by Louis
Miller, $40 West Morris street.
Friday, Aug. 5, little Woaneta FRANKIE,
., daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry.
FRANKIE, Emerson avenue and Thirty
Seventh street, was run down and killed
by a city automobile driven by Roy
Howell, Mayor Charles W Jewett's per-
sonal chauffeur, at Thirty Eighth street,
and Layman avenue.
IN CITY CAR, BUT NOT
on CITY BUSINESS.
Howell who is employed by the city
and who was driving a city owned au-
business, was travelling at high rate Of
speed when he struck the little FRANKIE
girl, the witnesses Of the accident
stated
Following the fatal accident. Howell
was arrested by Sergeant johnson on the
charge of manslaughter and was taken
to police headquarters and slated" but
not required to give bond. Then DR..
Paul Robinson, coroner, started an in
vestigatiOn into the death of the girl.
The testimony Of the witnesses was not
made public. Thursday Howell appeared
as voluntary witness before the coroner
and it was said his testimony was quite
different from that of other witnesses.
On the morning the child was killed
Howell drove to Mayor Jewett's hog
farm" Arlington avenue and the Pendle
ton pike, -aking the mayor out to inspect
his pigs Then Howell. in the city
owned touring car, started back to the
mayors city residence. 1t was while en-
route to that place that he struck the
little girl.
CHILD WAS WALKING
WITH TWO OTHER GIRLS.
The girl was walking with her sister.
Thema. Il, and Helen Kicks. u, neigh
Dor girl. HUwell's car was west bound
on Thirty Eighth street when it struck
the child.
Jesse Todd of Lawrence and John
TrendeIman. 3S4J Denny street, were in
an automobile going east on Thirty
Eighth street when they witnessed the
accident. Both said the car driven by
Howell was travelling at a high rate OF
speed.
The testimony which led to the
coroner's verdict of manslaughter was
not made public as it is to be turned
over to the grand jury, but the SUB
stance of it is known.
Six witnesses besides the police testi-
fled at the inquest. They are John
Trendelman, 3S45 Denny street; Helen.
Kicks, j., Thema FRANKIE, IL, Carr
Wlesse, Rural Route 1, box 3S5, and
George Southwick OF Marion, motorman
on an interurban car which passed the
accident.
All the witnesses are said to havs
testified that Howell was travelling at
high rate Of speed and Southwick is be-
lleved TO have told the coroner Howell
was racing with the interurban which
was running between fifty and sixty
miles an hour. The two little girls were
with the FRANKIE girl when she was
killed and the other witnesses were
driving along the road.