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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-18

phone, but was prevented from
doing so by force.
Forced to drink some kind OF
liquor she became i'll, and was carried
from the house to an automobile,
taken to train, placed in a state
room with Stephenson and another
man, where she said Stephenson at
tackled and injured her. The party
got off the train at Hammond the
following morning where she was
taken to a hotel
Planned to Kill Him
While Stephenson lay asleep she
said she prepared to kill him with
his own revolver. Thoughts of the
disgrace to her family made her de-
termine to kill herself instead, she
said, but she was prevented from
doing so by entrance into the room
of one Of the other men in the party.
In the afternoon she obtained
poison by a ruse and took II. She
said she then was driven back to
Indianapolis by Stephenson and 9TH
er men in an automobile and that
her pleadings for medical attention
or to be laid along the roadside were
refused.
She said she was taken to garage
In the rear Of Stephenson home,
where she was held a prisoner until
the next day, suffering intensely.
Shortly before noon Tuesday she
was taken home.
She told her father than Steph.
enson declared my word is law in
Indiana"
Coroner Paul r. Robinson said to-
day that he would return verdict In
the case as soon as DR.. Virgil Moon.
pathologist, files his report of the
autopsy. With testimony of Ober-
holtzer at the inquest on Friday,
the last of the witnesses have been
heard unless the condition of Mrs.
Oberholtzer improves so that she can
testify. Oberholtzer told DIR. Robin
son that his wife would probably cor
roborate his testimony.
Mother Collapses
Mrs. Oberholtzer. Madges mother,
IetldlnSu uHueI IL uOCloI care TO-
day at the home. Although her con-
dition is not considered serious, she
suffered a collapse Of the nervous
system following the funeral Thurs
day. it was reported at the home.
When he testified at the coroner's
inquest Friday, Oberholtzer said his
wife would not be able to appear for
some time"
Mrs. Oberholtzer had recovered
from a two weeks illness of In
fiuenza only short time before the
night of the alleged attack. From
the time Miss Oberholtzer was taken
home until her death, her mother
was in almost constant attendance
at her bedside
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-18
Driver TAKEN,
SAID TO HAVE
HURT WOMAN
Officers Trail Car West of
City-Charge Two
Accidents.

Officers today arrested Frank
Martin, 81. r. r. ]. box 31S, on the
Charlottesville Rd., said to have in
jured a woman and damaged two
automobiles earlier in the day. He
was charged with failure TO stop aft
er an accident, assault and battery
and failure TO display license plates.
Sergeants O'Neal and Smith, who
made the arrest, said they traced the
machine and found II in the garage,
badly damaged.
Mrs. Francis Baker. 81, colored,
1907 n. West ST., crossing the street
at 12S w. Washington st. when she
was struck by the auto, said TO have
been driven by Martin. was injured
about the legs, but refused to go to
the hospital and was taken home.
Lieut. Claude Johnson and emer-
gency squad started in pursuit, and
st. found another wreck Officers
say an auto of the same description
crashed into a parked auto owned
by Martin j. Timmons, the Williams,
breaking a rear wheel and damaging
tenders. The Timmons auto was
hurled into an auto parked along
side, belonging to Claude Patterson,
Zionsville, Ind. 1t was damaged.
A United States mail truck is said
by police to have struck an auto
driven by Ernest May, 1854 Naomi
ST., at Naomi and Lockwood SITS.
The driver of the mail truck did not
give his name, May reported to po-
lice.
Miss Margaret Welty. Gil N.
Delaware ST., was struck by an auto
driven by Lance Huffman. 525 E.
Miami st. She was bruised about
the body and Huffman was charged.
She was taken home
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-18

TNDIANAPOLIS offers unus-
L ual opportunities for in
1 dustrial development. 1t is
a home city. capital city and a
city Of wealth.
Located almost in the Industrial
center Of the United States, with
the greatest railroad system in
the world. Indiana polls assures un-
limited transportation, making
possible cheap concentration of
raw materials for manufacturing
purposes. An excellent belt rail-
road system in the city afford
prompt and efficient handling OF
freight. Numerous interurban lines
center in Indianapolis and branch
out into every section Of the State,
connecting with lines Of other
States. Two millions prospective
buyers live within two hours ride
from Indianapolis, and 60,0o0,o0C
more can be reached overnight.
Indianapolis is surrounded by
rich farm lands, producing un-
limited food supplies.
Located within easy reach OF
vast coal mines, indianapolis has
an inexhaustible fuel supply. 1t
has the lowest gas rate in the
United States. Electric service is
unexcelled.
Industries may be ass red most
efficient banking systems and fire
protection.
The majority Of the population
Of indianapolis Is American born
citizens. Industries have suffered
little labor trouble.
Because OF these unlimited ad
vantages, industries should locate
In Indianapolis, where the en-
ployer and the employe alike may
have a chance to live and prosper.
Other winning essaH; viii
be printod next weak.
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Three Way Probe Launched
to Determine Origin of
Blaze That Did $4,000
Damage at Home of Ac-
cuSed ex-KIan Leader.
FOUR DETECTIVES ARE
ASSIGNED BY KINNEY
0'Brien Also Orders Men
Who Fought Flames to
Turn in Detailed Reports
to Prevention Bureau
Private Inquiry Hinted.

Three observation-disclosures State
and two city-were under way today
to determine the origin of the fire
that did $4,000 damage early Friday
morning to the home Of D. c.
Stephenson, 5432 University Ave-,
deposed Klan leader and under, in
dictment in connection with the al
legged attack of Miss Madge Ober-
holtzer.
Newman T. Miller, State fire mar
shall and John Cramer, first assist
ant deputy, made an examination Of
the Stephenson premises late Friday,
following receipt of official notice Of
the fire from Fire Chief John J.
O'Brien. 1t is understood Miller will
begin a more extensive investigation
of the fire today Assuming the fire
to have been of incendiary origin,
officials are working with three pos
sible motives in mind.
Virgil T. Furgason, chief of the
fire prevention bureau Of the city
fire department, began a thorough
investigation of all the reported de-
tails of the fire.
O'Brien Busy
Fire Chief O'Brien, who was at
the scene and who found containers
full of gasoline and oil, and other
circumstances that caused the fire
to be regarded by him as that of In.
cendiary origin, ordered all f1remen
who were at the fire to file reports at
his office. These were turned over
to Ferguson, O'Brien said. He will
also be expected to learn all the de-
tails he can from the neighbors as
to conditions before the fire, ac-
cording to OBrien, and join with the
city detectives in their probe.
Police Act
Detective Inspector Jerry Kinney
said that he had assigned four de-
tectives, Lambert. Taylor, Peats and
Higgs, to the case. The two former
talked to Stephenson at the scene
of the fire Friday. Lieutenant Ander-
son, who headed the police detail
place in his examination with
Stephenson, but refused to say what
was said by Stephenson. Anderson
made his report to Chief Herman F.
Rikho1f and to Kinney.
1t was said by police that Stephen
son intimated In a statement that
private detectives would also work
on the case. He is alleged to have
said: THE biggest private detective
agency in the country will be hired
in on this case"
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Realtor Is Serious

Thomas A. Fletc' .r, SO. Of $500
Churchman Ave-. a real estate man
on the south side for a half cen
tury. is In serious condition at the
st. Francis hospital at Beech Grove.
He suffered fractured hip when
he fell IN ths- yard OF his home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-18
SHAW TO GET
VENUE CHANGE
Files Affidavit for Transfer
With Court.

Change of venue from Marion
County in the new trial of John
Thomas Shaw, colored, charged with
murder of Mrs. Helen Hager
Whelchel, Nov. 2S, 1923, was asked
In an affidavit filed today.
Judge James A. Collins Of Crimi-
nal Court said he would name the
county for the trial early next week.
When the Supreme Court granted
Shaw. who was awaiting electrocu.
ton. new trial almost two months
ago. 1t gave It's ruling on the ground
the prisoner had been refused
change Of venue In his first trial
The second trial had been set for
April ~ In Criminal Court. The afti-
davit was filed for Shaw by w. S.
Henry and Joseph K. Brown, col
ored attorneys.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-18
Refugees Cross Frontier

BIZ United Press
BELGRADE, April 1S.-The anti
Zankoff revolution has succeeded in
the Zaribrod district, according to
refugees from Bulgaria who are
scurrying pell nell across the Jugo-
Slav frontier.
1t is reported here that the Sofia
Metropolitan Patriarch Of the Creek
Orthodox Church was among those
killed in the blast at the Sveti Kral
cathedral.
Arrests Of revolutionary fugitives
near the Jugo-Slav frontier have re-
vealed that many persons are carry
ing bombs and arms, according to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-18
BAD WEATHER PREDICTED
ArmingtOo Says We May Have
Rain This Weekend.

Weekend motorists may have to
start trips Sunday under lowering
skies, with a possibility of leaving
the automobile in the garage be-
cause of rain Sunday.
This is the prediction Of j. H. Ar
mington. meteorologist of the United
States weather bureau. The unset
tied condition will apply all over the
State, say the prophets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-18
FIRST SLATE APPEARS
Endorsement Of Duvall Carries No
identification.

The first slate of the present city
campaign made its appearance to-
day. 1t was printed on a small white
slip of paper without any indication
of the identity Of the organization
putting it out.
1t carried the names Of the follow
ing candidates: John l.. Duvall, Re
publican, for mayor; William A.
Boyce, Republican, for city clerk;
Walter r. Dorsett, Republican,
council, first district; C. E. Negley,
Republican, council. second district;
Ray Albertson, Republican, council.
third district; DIR. A. II. Todd, Re-
publican. council, fourth district;
Shirley T. Mcclure, Democrat, coun-
Gil. fifth district; Boynton J. Moore,
Republican, council, sixth district.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-18
W0MEN'S FAIR OPENS
Mrs. Coolidge Presses Button Start
Ing Unique Exposition.

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO. April 1S.-The wom-
ems world fair-greatest show Of its
kind ever held-opened here today
with some 1000 women representing
more than eighty lines OF endeavor
present.
A great parade preceded the open
ing Of the fair proper.
Judieth Waller of station WMAQ,
Chicago, announced President Cool
idge, who spoke in a microphone in
Washington. Mrs. Coolidge pressed
an electric button and the doors of
the exposition opened.
The fair will last until April 25.
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The indictments were brought into
Criminal Court by the grand jury at
11:50 aa. m. The foreman of the
jury, George w. Higgins, pre-
sented the indictment to Judge
James A. Collins.
Without Bail
Collins, after reading 1t. ordered
capiases for the arrest OF the three
men be prepared providing they be
held without bail.
you always ought to indicate In
murder charge whether 1t is first
degree, because first degree is not
bailable." Collins said. "I can see
however, by reading this indictment
that 1t is in the first degree"
The capiases were taken to the
sheriff's office at once. Sheriff Omer
Hawkins was not in the office and
no immediate action was taken for
the arrest Of the three men.
1T would be a wild goose chase
to attempt to find them now"
Arson B. Wiltsle, chief deputy sher-
iff said. 1--WE are too busy anyhow"
Attorney Eph Inman, who Is rep
resenting the three men, said he had
no statement to make when he
learned of the murder indictment.
Bail Fight Expected
A fight to obtain bail. however, ls
expected to be made although the
law provides nc bail shall be allowed
in first degree murder cases.
An effort to secure Stephenson's
freedom through habeas corpus pro-
ceedings would probably be Inman's s
move, II was said. The proceeding
probably would be based on the con-
tention that the facts stated In the
indictment do not justify a first
degree murder charge.
Indictments charging Stephenson
with kidnapping. malicious mayhem
and assault and battery to commit
en- attack and intent to kill were re.
turned by the grand jury April g.
An indictment charging Stephenson,
Klinck and Gentry with conspiracy
to commit Il felony, also was re-
turned.
These cases are, awaiting trial, the
defendants having entered not guilty
pleas before Judge James A. Col
Inns in Criminal Court Thursday aft
ernoon after motions to quash the
indictments had been overruled.
Story Barred
Details Of Miss Oberholtzer's ac-
count OF the events leading up to
her death were barred for the first
time publicly in testimony of her
physician. DIR. John K Kingsbury.
Miss Beatrice Spratley, nurse and
her father, George Oberholtzer at
the coroner's inquest.
These witnesses repeated the
young woman's statements as they
heard them from her own lips, and
gave a graphic account of the
lacerated AMI bruised condition of
her body
According to Miss OberhoItzer she
was Iured 10 Stephenson's home.
54S2 University Ave, on Sunday
night, March Is. Arriving there
she realized she was trapped and
attenapted to summon aid hw tale.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-18
TURMOIL IN LISBON

Revolution Breaks Out in Portugal
Fighting in Streets.
BIZ United Press
LISBON. Portugal. April lS.--Rev-
olution broke out in Portugal today.
At 3;4o .. m, violent fighting wsA.
in prog1esa IA the streets Of IAshee 4
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-18
Boris May Flee

Boris May Flee
BIZ United Press
ATHENS, April 1S.-King Boris
of Bulgaria is contemplating leaving
the country as a result of the upris
ing that followed the bomb outrage
at Sofia, according to dispatches
from the Bulgarian capital.
Unless he succeeds summarily in
effecting peace between clashing
partosan groups, the King will leave
Bulgaria, dispatches state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-18
Sharp TiItS Between Troops
and Insurgents - King
ContempIateS Leaving
Country-.Demand for In
crease in Army Granted.
MOSCOW Is BLAMED
FOR DESCRIPTIONS
Government May Ask Help
From Allies to Rout Head
quarters of Communists
in Vienna and Sofia, Be-
Iieved Source of Trouble.

Bv United Press
TRIESTE, April 1S.-The anti
Zankoff revolution in Bulgaria is
gaining ground, according to dis
patches from Sofia.
Sharp clashes between Bulgarian
troops and the insurgents have
occurred in several sections, par
ticularly in the district of Varna,
where, at the port Of Belico, a revolt
was feigned to facilitate the unload
ing Of arms and ammunition from
Odessa.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-18
Home Edition

D FAD "Chickie," the story
~ of q modern girl, on the
back page of The Times every
day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-18
Forecast

UNSETTLED and warmer
~ tonight and Sunday. Prob
ably showers and local thunder
storms. Cooler Sunday night.
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First Prize Essay
BY Marjorie Nj. Brown

ENDIANAPOLIS offers unus-
ual opportunities for in
l dustrial development. 1t is
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13
ANALYzE CANDY AS 9
GIRLS ARE POISONED

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 13.-tP)-
Chemical analysis will be made today
in the state board of health labora-
tories Of samples of candy eaten by
nine Ohio State University girls and
which is believed to have caused vio-
lent illness of all of them with near
fatal results to four. All were re-
covering today. The students became
i'll Wednesday night while attending
party given by one of their num-
Der, Miss Helen McDermott Of Stock
port, Iowa, at the home Of her sister.
No food or liquid had been served
the girls, the only refreshments be-
ing a plate of fudge of which they all
partook. The girls, however, said they
tasted nothing out of the ordinary
about the candy. AS the girls had
dined in different places, the theory
of ptomaine poisoning was precluded
and Fred Berry, chief of the health
board laboratory, expressed doubt that
the girls illness might have been
caused by monoxide fumes from n gas
stove. Berry expressed the belief that
metallic poisoning was present. .
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13
Entertainers Get Valuable
Ideas in Chats With
Town Boys.

To talk with a real, live clown!
What boy is there who doesn't thrill
at the prospect? And it happens every
day that the great stretches of can
vas, housing the wonders of Sells
Floto Circus, are pulled taut toward
the peaks of towering center poles.
Clowns like boys; they like the little
folk, for it is the youngsters who loud
ly express their eager appreciation of
the ancient act of clowning. And
that's why when Sells-Floto. with its
newly-added wild animal displays,
comes to San Antonio Tuesday, No
vember IL, you'll see clowns and
youngsters chatting merrily back in
the padroom. And the better the
clown the more attention he pays 70
the naively-expressed preference of the
youthful visitors. Many a clever sI;it
in the ring, or stage or in the track
Of the big show has been inspired l.y
a town boy in one of these back of-the-
scenes visits.
There are half n hundred funsters
with Sells-Floto this season. and they
take off in laughable style all cur
rent events, but the funniest stunts
are the simple ones, many Of them
ideas of town boys, East, West, North
and South,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13
DISMISS CHARGES
Of WIFE Staying

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 13.-CP
Charges of murder preferred against
Herbert +. Richardson when his wife
was found dead in their apartment
here on September 81, were dismissed
yesterday in police court.
Richardson, whose first wife, Mrs.
Thelma Ham Richardson, formerly of
Atlanta. was killed in a scuffle over a
pistol with Thomas Pollard, local real
tor told the authorities when held for
his second wife's death that he came
home Unexpectedly and found another
man with her. A fight followed, he
declared, during which he pushed his
wife and she fell.
After walking the streets for "a
hours, he tried to end his own life and
was taken to the hospital with a self
inflicted bullet wound. He then asked
officers to investigate the condition Of
Mrs. Richardson and she was found
dead in bed.
A coroner's jury held she probably
had died from natural causes.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13
COMPTROLLER ASKS
FOR OFFICIAL HELP

WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 49,
R)-Comptroller General McCarl,
whose iron domination over govern
mental disbursement has been the ter
ror of more than one high official,
today called for help.
He asked the attorney general to
interccde on his behalf in the con-
troversy over certain items of navy
pay. Recently a District of Columbia
court ruled against him in test suit
brought by navy officers and he sug-
gested that tho attorney general ought
to file an appeals to the Supreme
Court.
Meantime. he said, &C would obey
the mandate of the lower court.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13
FREES
!. HUMAN HUSK'
! SLAYER
Judge Says Doctor Blazer
Partly Insane When He
Took Girls Life.

LITTLETON, Colo, Nov. 13.-Up
Justice and mercy seemed to combine
In forming the finale of the trial here
of DR.. Harold Z. Blazer, when by or
der Of the court the aged physician
was freed yesterday of the charge of
numbering his 34-year-old daughter,
Hazel, hopelessly crippled Child
woman" after a jury had been dis
charged on its failure to arrive at a
verdict.
The dismissal Of the charge of MUIR
der against the country physician, who
killed his daughter as IAN act Of
love-" came with startling suddenness
an hour after the jury had been dis
charged by Judge Samuel johnson.
REMOVE BLACK MARK"
Only the leading attorneys in the
case, DIR. Blazer and half dozen
newspapermen were present when the
flnal scene of the case was enacted.
Prosecuting Attorney Joel Il. Stone
quietly submitted to Judge johnson a
motion for dismissal of the murder ac-
cusation. And with few words,
stressing "the fact that insanity was
proved beyond reasonable doubt"
Judge johnson removed the laws
"black mark" from DIR. Blazer.
The jury favored acquittal by IL to
i, and as one juryman, the parent Of
an invalid daughter. put it, "if they
had given us half hour longer, we
would have acquitted him."
TRIED TO KILL SELF.
But Judge johnson decided that ii
hours of deliberation by the jury was
sufficient and that it was probable no
verdict would be returned. So he dis
charged the body. The trial lasted
eight days. :.
DIR. Blazer, while temporarily in
sane, according to his defense, pois-
oned with an opiate his helpless Child
woman" daughter. He left note de-
scribing his act as "a Staying for
love-" saying he killed her so she
would not become a burden on his
family" Then he tried to kill himself,
but failed.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13
MEXICAN RESIDENTS
BURIAL PERMITTED

SYRACUSE, Nov. 13.-CP-Inves-
tigation of the death Of Mrs. Margaret
Woodruff Lindsey of Mexico, whose
funeral was stopped Saturday, was
dropped today when Acting Coroner
W6nsketten. after an analysis of the
woman's vital organs, reported that
she could not have died of poisoning.
Death was due to heart lesion, he
added.
Mrs. Lindsey, wife of DIR. Albert
G. Lindsey, retired dentist, died q
week ago. During the burial service
Assistant District Attorney Stacy di.
rected that the burial be halted.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13
LAYNE SURRENDERS
TO ANSWER CHARGE

Willis Layne, charged BY indict-
ment with the murder of Joe Lozano,
surrendered to Deputy Sheriff Fe-
liciano Flores and was released under
$4,000 bond by Judge William S. An
derson in the Thirty-seventh District
Court Thursday.
The killing took place on the I.-G.
n. Railway tracks about five months
ago. Lozano was employed by bust
ness firms to guard their warehouses
fronting along the tracks. He was
shot as he was walking his beat along
the tracks. Fifty buckshot were found
in his body.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13
NEW JERSEY HENS
DUPED INTO LAYING
BY FAKE DAYLIGHT

ATLANTIC CITY. n. J.. Nov. 10.
The demand for fresh eggs in large
cities adjacent to New Jersey keeps
the price of eggs high, although there
are produced in New Jersey more than
S00,000,000 eggs annually, according
to Professor W. II. Allen of the New
Jersey experiment station.
The hens work overtime to meet the
demand, he said. Lights in the coop
are turned on before daybreak and
just before dusk sets in. Hens thus
duped maintain an average of twelve
dozen eggs a year.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13

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