The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-09-11
TippeCanoe Prosecutor Says
Count viii Be Placed
Against Gray Driver of
One Auto in Fatal Duel
Near Lafayette,
TWO MEN DEAD; ONE
WOUNDED IN BATTLE
Sheriff Combs County for
Two, Who Flee After
Shooting One Believed
Brother of Dead Man
Both Under Indictment.

Gary J. Gray. 6S15 Park Ave, in
Jail at Lafayette. Ind. viii be
charged with murder and d similar
charge may be placed against Ray
mond Walsh, also of Indianapolis.
according TO Mort Thompson. Tippe.
canoe County prosecutor, who came
here today 10 seek police aid in
solving a battle between suspected
rum-runners near Lafayette Wednes-
day in which two Indianapolis men
were fatally wounded and a third
seriously wounded.
The dead:
Ed ]. skivers, 1921 W. Twenty
Fifth St.
Ed Walsh of Beech Grove. Ind.
The injured:
Earl Leathers, Indianapolis, at the
Methodist Hospital with bullet
wounds in lung. May die.
Mystery surrounds the details Of
the shooting.
First reports were that Leashers
and Gray were escorting a truck
load of booze when attacked near
Lafayette by Ed J. Skivers and
Walsh in another car. Frankfort
police reported seeing a truck near
Kirklin.
New Version Given
An entire new version OF the
shooting. however. was given by
Prosecutor Thompson.
Thompson said as far as he could
learn LeaChers and Gray were
driving to Indianapolis in a Nash
car, heavily laden with liquor and
were pursued by a Dodge auto
driven by Skivers. Shots from ass
caHber revolver fired from the Nash.
smashed the windshield Of the
Dodge. fatally injuring Skivers and
Walsh. The driver lost control Of
the car. which plunged into the
ditch, and was wrecked. The Nash
car was also fired on from a
sawed off shot gun and a 45 caliber
revolver. Leathers was wounded.
but Gray was unharmed.
Gray, according to Thompson,
drove on to Frankfort, where he is
thought to have disposed of the
liquor. At Kirklin, he sought medi-
cal attention for Leathers. Leath-
ers was sent to the Methodist Hos
pital and Gray was jailed. later be
ing taken to Lafayette. where he
refused to talk.
Thompson said he had enough evil
dence. he believed, to force Gray to
talk.
Farmer Calls Officers
Lafayette authorities were called
to the scene Of shooting by Henry
Eorter, farmer on State Rd. %.
living about mile and half east of
Lafayette. Sheriff Jackson found
Walsh and Shiver dying on the road
side. Both gave fictitious names.
They were rushed to the hospital,
where Shiver died Wednesday night
Walsh died this morning. Korter
said the two men ian from the
wrecked Dodge car and disappeared
into a cornfield. Prosecutor Thomp-
son declared ne believed one Of these
men was Raymond Walsh, a brother
Of the dead man. The identity of the
ether man was not given ont. Sheriff
forces are securing the county for
both men ard they will be charged
with first degree murder if caught,
Prosecutor Thompson said
Ed Walsh was indicted by the Ma
rion County grand jury with his two
brothers. Raymond and Leo. for con-
spiracy in connection with the death
of Joe Forestal last April. which oc-
CURED in what police say was an
other battle between rival factions
THE Ace" an alleged beer camp
in the Butterfield Woods, keystone
Ave. and River Rd.. was raided at
p. m. Wednesday by Deputy Sher-
if Roland Snider and Federal Agents
John King and George Winkler. Mrs.
Irene Skivers, 1921 w. Twenty
Fifth St. wife of Ed D.. Skivers. and
Everett Brown, alias Huett. 90S S.
Pennsylvania St. were arrested on
blind tiger charges. Eighty quarts
of beer and one-third gallon of cut
alcohol whisky were seized.