The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-15
Mrs. Beadie, Mills COIoredI
Tells Officers BieSecker
Fell Down Stairs When She
Delivered Blow in Face
During Quarrel,
TWO OTHERS HELD AS
ACCESSORIES IN DEATH

IIuCk - lISOll6I HSSGl 10
She Moved to New Address
After Fight,
Mrs. Beadie Mills, 80, colored,
936 Superior ST., today confessed
to detectives her part in the
affair which led to the death of
Garnett BieSecker, 40, of 827 n.
Capitol Ave, found unconscious
in an alley near his home Satur-
day night, according to police.
He died at City hospital Sunday
morning without gaining con-
sciOusness.
The confession which police say
Mrs. Mills made:
Il live at $50 Superior st. On Sat
urday April u 1 was living at 50-
Sahm St, which is upstairs. About
p. m. April IL a man known to me
as Bee came to my house and he had
been drinking He asked me where
Shorty was. I told him I did not
know where he was or whether he
had got of from work yet.
Bee stayed at my house FOR about
an hour. Ny daughter. Capitola
Coates, was there also with her sweet
heart. a man by the name or James.
Bee. the white man. was talking and
he pulled some books out Of his
pockets. He said 7 have lost a check
for So 1 said. I don't see 1t on
got it. And he said: oh. yes. Some
one has got it And then he started
cursing me.
Il told him he would have to get
out OF my house. He said: I'm going
no place I said: oh yes you are
don't want that cursing in front of
my daughter. During this conversa-
ton we were going toward the stair
way and I opened the stairway door
He said: You are a liar. You have
got the check
Struck Him I'm Face"
Then I struck him on the side of
the face. His back was to the stair
way and he doubled up and fell to the
bottom Of the stairway. which con-
crete. I then ran downstairs and
called his name several times. but he
did not answer. I then opened the
door TO the bottom of the stairway
and ran around on Superior St. and
called Hollis Jarman. and told him to
come and get Bee and take him home
He said: All right, l will be>there In
a few minutes
Hollis came and told me he had
put the truck up. Hollis went and
got the truck and came back to my
house in about five or ten minutes.
Perkins Cole came up and Hollis asked
p him to help him put Bee in the truck
which Perkins did. They then drove
west in Sahm St ] then washed the
|. blood off the stairway and the bottom
Of the stairs The following morning
1 moved TO the new address,"
Perkins Cole. %. colored. of SO11s
W. Walnut St; and Hollis Jarman
"a. colored of 936 Superior St. are
held as accessories to the murder
The Shorty referred to was Jar
man. Mrs. Mills said
Jarman said he drove west on
Sahm St. to the rear of S27 n Capt.
tol. where he said he was afraid to
take Bee" into the house.
Perkins and I sat him up against
the garage and left him there" Jar
man said. Before we put him there
Perkins said to me: Let's take him
to the police station I said: No,
we viii set him here"
When Biesecker was found the SO
check referred to was in his pocket.
Detectives Glenn, Purvis, Stone and
Dalton obtained the confessions.
With fifteen men and two women
under arrest in connection with three
murders. detectives said today the
solution of two is a certainty.
Search for Edgar Walsh, who is
wanted in the murder of Joseph For
restal, rs, of 1905 Kentucky Ave. who
died from bullets received in the al
legged "BootIeggers and fIi-jackers
war" at s49 Maple St, the home Of
Elizabeth Ping. Monday morning,
was continued. One woman also is
wanted and today another man was
sought on a tip to police that he was
the man who shot FOrrestal
Condition Still Critical
Ollie Bertle, 25. of SIT W. McCarty
St. who was shot in the battle, re-
mained in a critical condition at the
3 CITY Hospital
' William II. Craig. -. R r O.. Box
SIS, was held without bond i'm iaiI
while the grand jury was acting on
his charge Of murder. Craig. police.
say, confessed 10 the killing of John
Evans, els Division St. with d shot
gun at the Craig home Saturday
night 1t is said there was an argu-
ment over statement made about
Mrs Craig. who is held at the city
hospital on vagrancy charge, as a
material witness.
Craig waived examination in city
court Monday.