Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-22
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streets We stopped in front of a drug
/ store for q few minutes. Before starting
to walk from the Statehouse Carl either
! said to me, How much inoney have you
got" or Let me have some money
/ 81 don't remember which and l told
him l didn't have any and he said,
you're a big liar
! "He then said: DO you know where
we can get some dough (meaning money?
| asked Carl if he had anything on him
| (meaning if he had gum, and Bernauer
said, Who, me? l am always healed
| (meaning he had a revolver).
TELLS OF DECISION
/ TO STICK TO "HUNKY."
Prom the time Bernauer called me
/ big liar and asked me if l knew where
/ he could get some dough and l asked him
| if he had anything on him several con
versations took place. Then later on Ber-
nauer asked me to take a walk with nim,
/ and as l have stated before, we arrived
at Illinois and South streets. After talk
ing for few minutes we walked over to
the northeast corner of Illinois and South
| streets and Bernauer said to me:
~ have a notion or going in this
place (meaning eating house on north
east corner of. South and Illinois streets)
and sticking up the hunky.'
Il later learned that the place was run
/ by a man named Eaids. Bernauer asked
me what I thought Of it and | said. 1
am not In on any stickup,' and Der
nauer said, Here goes and he pulled
his cap down over his eyes and entered
/ the door on the South street side, TO the
! front Of Eaids place | started walking
west on the north side of South street
ABOUT twenty steps and | was wondering
/ If Arnauer was going to stick UP the
| place and l turned and went back to the
/ front door and just as l opened the
screen door and started to step in, two
shots were fired. ] saw Bernauer behind
/ the counter and he was just bringing his
I gun down. | said:
L "'What the h--n are you doing| and
| turned out Of the door and ran east on
! South street 10 the first alley and turned
north in this alley and ont on Meridian
( street l then turned north on Meridian
walked to Louisiana street and turned
west TO Illinois street, walking about 100
feet to the rear. ! got street car and
went to Payne's Dairy Lunch and met
my wife and We went ~ our fiat
/ CALLED OVER
Z L ELEYhONE.
after my wife ard ! arrived at our
1at Carl called over the telephone and
Sad he was coming up.
"ln about ten or fifteen minutes he
arrived. Bernauer had changed his cap
to a derby hat and had changed his coll
lar. Ny wife vas present and Bernauer
came IN and asked:
what do you know"
Il replied:
"'Nothing. what do yon known
Then / said;
"'What the HI did you want to do
that for?'
~ had to do it, he said. because the
- Of a reached for something
under the counter and let him have It.
"Bernauer was smiling.
"'You ought 70 have stayed he CON
tinued and then he pulled some money
out Of his pocket aud said:
II didn't get much
~ don't want sny Of it. said.
81 am splitting ffty ATTY" Bernauer
replied and he picked up the bills and
counted them and started to split them
Some one called him TO the telephone
then and he left the hat
"Bernauer came to me later and asked
me II ! wanted to buy that gun, and
nsuer told me If any one squawked on
him about this job he would knock them
or"
Insisting that the jury return a YER
diet Of murder IN the first degree. VII
liam =. Evans, Marion County prosecu-
tor, made the opening statement. lie
asserted the evidence would show Ber-
nauer was the one person described by
Eaids shortly before bis death who was
in the store with Eaids at the time Of the
fatal shooting.
The jury was impaneled late yesterday
and DR. George Christian, deputy coroner
Of Marion County, was placed on the
stand to describe the course of the bull
let which killed Eaids.
Mr.. Evans detailed events leading TO
the attempt to rob the store owned by
Esids at 377 South Illinois street on the
night Of oct. o. 1920, and the efforts Of
the indianapolis authorities to obtain a
confession from Bernauer after his ar-
rest
According to MIR. Evans, Bernauer had
given his revolver to Charles Jones, also
indicted for the crime, and it was to be
returned on the night Of the attempted
holdup. Bernauers need for money
caused the scheme to be formed In which
the defendant and Jones were to hold
up the Syrian stOrekeepeT, he said.
The evidence viii show. said Mr. Evans,
that on Jan. 81, 1921, Bernauer made a
confession to Detectives Manning and
Steward, In which he admitted having
been at the store when Eaids was shot,
although he had denied repeatedly being
there. This alleged confession Of Ber-
nauer is said to contain the statement
that he entered the store and when inter
cepted by Eaids when he was robbing the
cash register, he drew his revolver to
hold up the Syrian. In the scpffle Eaids
knocked the weapon from his hand and
it fell to the floor.
AT this point, according to Mr. Evans.
Bernauer said Jones entered the place
and fired the shot that caused the death
of Eaids. However. Mr. Evans stated, the
last words spoken by Fails were to the
effect that there was only one man in
the shop when he was held up and shot
and the prosecutor stated the evidence
will show that man was Bernauer.
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