Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-15

The corone rheld Carl Itten bach, %3o
North Alabama street, superintendent OF
the Ittenbach Stone Company; Marion
West, hosting engineer, and David Car
roll, foreman for the Ittenbach Stone
Company, to the grand jury on a charge
of manslaughter.
JURY IGNORES
CORONER's FINDING.
The grand jury ignored the finding Of
the coroner and did not indict Ittenbach,
West or Carroll.
The grand jury held that John 81. Mel
vim ''unlawfully and feloniously killed
Ezra Tabor involuntarily and without
malice, but knowingly and In the COM
mission oc an unlawful act by then and
there unlawfully erecting, constructing
and causing to be erected and construct
ed" the annex in violation of the
building code Of the city of lndianapo-
lis"
The theory OF the grand jury is that
the method Of erecting the structural iron
work was not in accordance with the
building code of the city of Indianapolis
CHARGES FAILURE
TO EXERCISE CARE.
The indictment specifically charges
that Melvin did unlawfully and care
lessly erect and construct and cause to
be erected said metal frame skeleton con-
struction work in said building without
boiling or Fiveting the hangers and roof
bracing, as provided for In the above
section Of the building code of the city
OF indianapolis as aforesaid; that the
n column connections on the second
floor OF said annex building as aforesaid
were spliced together with temporary
bolts and that said bolts were not in
reamed holes, as provided for in said
section of the building code; that said
H columns had been bricked in leav-
ing all the temporary bolts in places,
and not riveted, as provided for in the
said section of said code aforesaid; that
it was then and there possible to have
riveted the hangers suspended from the
trusses In said building and to have riv-
eted all the steel connections and TO have
riveted all the steel work In said build
ing as by law required and that said
John N. Melvin did not rivet nor did
he cause to be riveted any of the steel
connections or steel work, nor did he
have rveted the hangers that were sus.
pended from the trusses, which hangers
formed the support for the third fool
ing: that the bolting of the hangers,
which were suspended from the roof
trusses of the south end of said build
Ing. was unlawful and in violation of the
said section of the code aforesaid, in that
said structural members were not well
bOlted in every alternate hole as By law
required, nor were they connected to the
roof trusses by any rivets whatever;
that It was then and there possible to
have riveted same as by law required;
that the bolts used In the II column
spliced connections on the wall columns
were not placed in reamed holes, as pro-
vided for in the said section of the code
aforesaid and that the trusses used In
said construction work on the building
aforesaid were not rigidly held in posi-
ton either temporarily or permanently
by efficient lateral and sway bracing, all
as provided for n the section of the code
as above set out; and the grand Jurors
aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid do
further present that then and there on
or about the said eighteenth day of No
vember, A. D., 1920, and because of tie
unlawful acts of said John NJ Melvin
and as the direct and immediate result
there in so erecting and causing to be
erected said annex building as aforesaid.
said annex building aforesaid and the
said metal frame skeleton construction
work did then and there collapse and fall
and the structural steel work of said
building gave away and the third floor
of the south end of said building col
lapsed and fell and then and there and
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