The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-30
BLAST RIVER IN
HUNTFOR TALL
Police Clear Away Ice Before
Dragging Waters for Body
of City Official, Absent
From Home Since Tues
day-Auto Found.

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White River, west Of College
Ave-, seeking to solve the mys-
terious disappearance of H.
Huston Tall, so, Of 43 w. Thir-
tieth St., assistant city parks
superintendent, absent from
home since Tuesday.
After blasting the ice, Police Ser.
geant William Paulsell, brother-in.
law OF Tall. ordered that the river
be dragged, saying that he feared
Tails body would be found in the
water.
City Recreation Director Edward
e. Mcbride also sent q group of rec.
reation department employees to
search the river banks and adjacent
territory.
The missing mans abandoned au-
tomobile was found early Friday by
deputy sheriff's a block west of the
College Ave. bridge on the south
bank of the river.
George Dokes, Sixty.Seventh ST.,
and Lagoon Park, and Lester jack
son, neighbor Of Dokes, said they
saw Tall drive into the wooded sec.
tion near the river about 2 o. m.
Tuesday. They were working on
the Union Traction tracks, close by.
In Police Boat
Capt. Fred Drinlxutt sent Motorpo-
lcemen Kelch and Devault of Sub.
tation 5 in the police boat to drag
the river on Paulsells request.
At the place where the auto was
found there is a considerable under
current. The river was searched for
about twenty-five yards sdownstream
without results. Graphing hooks
were used.
Paulsell. with police and deputy
sheriffs, late Friday searched the
banks of the stream near where the
auto was found, but found nothing.
City parks and recreation depart
ment employees advanced the theory
that Tall had been robbed, and per-
haps killed.
Tall was accustomed to carry
several hundred dollars on his per-
son, they said, and although he had
been having trouble with his teeth
for about a year, had no motive
to end his life.
Tall is said to have known Chris
Braun, proprietor Of a poolroom at
121 w. Sixteenth st. Braun was
alleged to have given bribes to po.
licemen, and when charges against
them were heard before the board
Of safety Tall was called as a wit
ness. He did not testify, however.
This is said to have made him de-
spondent.
Tall wore a $40O diamond, it was
said. bolstering the robbery theory
r. Walter Jarvis, parks superin.
tendent, said he last saw Tall early
Tuesday, when he insisted that Tall
take a vacation.
He said he had urged Tall to take
an automobile trip. and that when
Tall left Tuesday he said he was
going on a vacation, but did not
state how or where he would go.
Jarvis doubted the eport OF Her.
Der Wald, secretary to Fire Chief
Jesse Hutsell, to police that Wald
saw Tall about II a. m. Friday leav-
ing city hall.
William Hoyes. 226 e. Twelfth ST.,
said he saw the missing man walking
at Thirtieth and Delaware SITS. about
1890 a. m. Friday.
Jarvis said that P. +. Ti@., q
brother, closely resembles the n. IS.
ing man, and probably ws,s mistaken
for him.
Hunting Boulder
Jarvis said Tall had been SEEKING
a large boulder on which to set a
bronze tablet for the Hilton u.
Brown Memorial Park at e. Wash.
ington st. and Pleasant Run Blvd.
The missing man, although on a
vacation. might have been hunting
for suitable boulder Eesr where his
car was found. and been attacked,
robbed and murdered, he said.
Police said that condition Of the
snow around the abandoned ma.
chine indicated it had been there
since Tuesday.
Request of Paulsell that the river
be dragged was the first official re,
port to police that Tall was missing
Policewomon Leona Foppiano, OF
the missing persons bureau said.
Family Notified
Members of the family were no
titled Friday OF the finding Of the
auto by Sheriff Omer Hawkins.
Mrs. Paulsell, wife of Sergeant
Paulsell. said she last saw Tall about
10 a. m Tuesday. Tall had been an
employe Of the park board for TWEEN
ty-eight years. He was regarded as
one of the best horticulturists in
this section Of the country.
Under his direction the beautiful
sunken gardens at Garfield Park
were developed.