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Mullin Comes Back


Inspector of Detectives John Mullin
cut his vacation short and returned
to the city today to take up the in
vesdgation Mayor Shank was per
sonally active in the case.
Inspector Mullin, Captain Jerry
Kinney and Detectives Golden and
Michael Sullivan drove to the scene
Of the shooting and again went care
fully over the ground.
Reports were still being circulated
that the man and woman who ap-
peared in an automobile after the
shooting and reported it to the po-
lice might in some way be connected
with the affair The police however,
gave no credence to the report.
A remote possibility that a band of
alleged high jackers" who were
known TO have left the city the night
Of the Orme shooting might have
had something TO do with it was dis
sipated when the alleged boouegger
robbers were questioned and one con-
fessed, according to the mayor.
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mayor I'm going TO order five or
six men assigned to it with instruc-
tons to keep right on 1t six months,
if necessary. 1t might be that long
before we run into any evidence lead
ing to the murderer"
High jackers" Arrested
The suspected "highjackers" ar
rested at the Roosevelt Hotel and held
on vagrancy charges were Paul Hen
nessey, 81; Oln Mullins. IS; Ernel
Mullins, %, all giving the hotel as
their address, and James Hill, 25,
Grand Hotel
Mayor Shank and Detectives Ru-
genstein and Sullivan questioned the
quartette. together with a woman
friend who was not held, for several
hours last night.
The police said one of the quartet
confessed they We're the party which
held up and shot John Heinrich, 81,
Cooper Ave. and Sixty-First ST, in
his automobile in Hendricks County
a week ago.
The affair was not reported to the
police until twenty-four hours after
all Of the alleged ''high-j -jacking" gang
left town the night of the Orme shoot
ing and they waited until they re-
turned before making arrests. Two
members Of the gang are still at large,
IL was said.
1t was said the detectives obtained
amusing information about how Hoo
sier high jackers" work out OF Clin-
ton. Ind.
Clinton booze-makers sell a load to
bootleggers. The minute the boot
leggers depart the booze-maker teIe-
phones the high -jackers" that the
bootleggers have left and are going
in such and such a direction. The
high jackers" follow the bootleggers
to a lonely spot, hold them up. take
the liquor away, then carry 1t back
to Clinton and sell it back to the
original manufacturer, who keeps the
endless chain of crime going to sell
ing it to another set of bootleggers.
1t was stated by detectives today
that Miss nellie McCune, 1881 N. Ala
bama St, who was with Orme on the
night of the shooting, would be ques-
toned again. DR. Paul F. Robinson,
coroner, talked to Walter Gibson, a
station agent at Lawrence, who said
he was told of the shooting by a man
and woman soon after it occurred.
The coroner obtained a description of
the man and woman and said he
would compare it with the description
of the man and woman who were In
the automobile first stopped by Miss
McCune at Arlington Ave. and Forty
Sixth St, when she was in search of
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