The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-05
AND Terror
LEFT IN PATH OF
PHANTOM SLAYER
ToIedo's JekyI-Hyde Spreads
Dual CurSe-Murder,
Suspicion.

where women are struck down by a
phantom clubber, his face dyed with
crimson paint, faces a yet graver
danger.
For Toelo has become the City Of
Dreadful Suspicion.
Psychology is the answer. as in.
terpreted by the chief of police. the
coroner, the head of Toledo's State
Hospital, and psychiatrists at Toledo
University, psychology says that the
Identity of this maniac may. when
learned, stagger the entire city.
A Leading Citizen
He may be leader in the com
munity. lie may be public speak
err a man who arises to say, I'VE
have with us today
But he Is not II man who says.
We have with us tonight" For
it is at night that the Or. Iekyll
of the sunny daytime becomes the
bludgeonbrandshing MI. Hyde.
1T is very possible that some es.
teemed and loved husband and
father, respected citizen by day.
is the man who has put the curse
upon this town." says Dr. O. O. Ford.
dyce, superintendent of the Toledo
state Hospital ana expert on in.
sanity, on manias.
He explains that sadistic ten
dency, rising to crest al intervals
may send Il man otherwise normal
out on these early twilight sprees
OF violence
Ihat is why suspicion Is "o"rod
ing the heart OF Toledo Wumaphool
today; why the popular discussion
of pathological tendencies. usually
confined TO medical clinics and lalo
ratories, mas sent fear through
Toledo even greater than the fear
Of being struck to earth.
Women Desert Streets
The streets Of this busy harbor
city on the shores of Lake Erie are
almost empty of women. Twice did
the paint-splotched slayer strike just
a few days ago.
The body Of young and popular
school teacher, Miss Lilly Dale Croy
20, was found crammed beneath a
fire escape of a schoolhouse not four
doors from her own home.
The school teachers skull had
been crushed to fragments 4
bloody trail led across the autumn
leaves on the schoolhouse lawn to
the spot where the slim young body
was found.
Cmiously. it was just a year ago
that the clubber of women broke
loose before. There were weeks Of
horror Then quiet came again. To
ledo breathed freely at last The
taxi business fell back to normally
as women dared walk the streets
once more.
Three women were dubbed TO death
ut that time and seven others were
beaten into Inconsistencies.
Terror Descends Again
But now has come the heudish
clubbing and murder of the girl
teacher.
Her funeral had not been held be.
fore the police wagons dashed to
home not six blocks from the girl
teachers where another woman
had been murdered.
Hysteria grips the city again; not
only over the terror which walks
at night, but over doubt and
suspicion as well.
1.-THE murderer is not necessarily
an obvious degenerate" says
science, mot a full-time maniac, not
Il fiend incarnate--he may be
respectable citizen"
Toledo IS Il silent city. only the
taxi business is. good, Women rids
for safety's sake.
Floclls of taxis solicit their bust
ness at depot, hotel, movie and stree.
corner
Girls foreso their customary
dates
Husbands DO Shopp.n%
Husbands bring home the pro.
visions for dinner. The butcher
shops are crowded with puzzled
males.
No agent can induce a housewife
to go to her door.
If woman goes downtown by
daylight and is detained past dusk.
she calls the Medical Service Bureau
for an escort.
The escort is a Boy Scout-neat
but not powerful. one wonders what
the clubber would do to him!
1 went at dusk through the mile
radius region where the clubber
strikes. The leaf-dripping elms and
naples are thick here.
Three girls going home from work
walked arm in arm in the center OF
the street, casting wary glances
from side to side.
Only children lent life to this dis
NAL section. One tousleheaded boy
ran up a step and scratched Hal.
lowe'sn ticktack on the window. A
woman laying the supper table
screamed. Two men rushed out.
caught the boy, and whalcd him
soundly.
II Kill All Women"
The seven women who, dubbed
by the nocturnal prowler, lived t.
tell the tale, say that he sh-ial;cd a.
them before he hit
Get out of my way. | XII an
women. l hate you all"
The horror that crouched owe,
them babbled. they say. of a hated.
faithless wife-of getting even
But the phantom may be a sup.
posedly happy husband and father
and home-tender says science-a
man subject to these terrible out
breaks clever and shrewd enough to
cover his tracks perhaps even him
self forgetting by day when The
fit has passed what he has done