The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-28

knew he would not be reappoi1
"I told him, What do you
care? You can make more
money practicing law, any
way, >" Mrs. McCallister said
The judge, however, was affected
deeply, she said.
This morning. Mrs. McCalliSter
said, she called the judge to break
fast several times, but he did not
arise.
About 9:35 a. m. she called him
to the telephone. A man had
phoned.
Comes Down to Phone
The judge came down to the
dining room in pajanas and slip
pers and took the receiver.
III be down in little bit" he
spoke into the phone, and turned to
go back upstairs.
Come on now and eat breakfast,
Mrs. McCallister pleaded.
mo" said the judge shortly and
turned toward the stairs.
Mrs. McCallister said she fol-
lowed him to his room and as she
reached the door saw him standing
beside his bed, examining a re-
volver. Several times he had threat
ened suicide and the family had
hidden this gun, the son, Vance
said.
Calls for Son to Aid
Vance, Vance, come quick!
called Mrs. McCallister in horror. .
The son said he leaped from bed
and ran to join his mother. He
reached her side in time to see his
father about twenty feet away, be-
tween the bed and a window, place
the gun to his head and fire. The
judge toppled onto the bed and was
dead when the son reached him.
The son said that he was awak-
ened by his mothers calling of the
judge to breakfast, but dozed again.
Then, he said, he thought he heard
loud voices in the dining room, as
if his mother and father were
arguing. 1t was only few moments
later that he heard his mother call
ing to him.
The family said the judge placed
a mortgage for $1,000 upon the home
oY1fIy q fevy dovc ooo
Vance McCalliSter told police thai
the family for weeks had believed
that the judge was not mentally his
former brilliant self. He had beer
widely known for his legal ability.
Straws which pointed to the col
lapse of the fine mind, according to
the son, we're facts that the judge
had been drinking heavily, returning
home late Sunday in a shattered
condition.
Telegram Fake Barred
Earlier in the day Mrs. McCallis-
ter had received telegram signed
by the judge, filed in Memphis,
Tenn. He had disappeared from
his Office Saturday.
The son said the judge told them
when he got home that he had been
slugged while walking in Court ST.,
came to on the back end of a Pull
man about sixty miles south of
Louisville, and rode on to Memphis.
In vestigation disclosed, accord
ing to the son, that the judge had
given the telegram to an acquaint-
ance on the street in Indianapolis
Saturday and asked the man to file
it in Memphis.
One of the unexplained incidents
according to the son, occurred a few
weeks ago. The judge, the son said
told his court attaches he was going
to New York on business for a week
Instead, the judge went home and
shut himself in a front, lower floor
room. Most of the week he spent
In that room, eating little and pacing
the floor for hours. Now and then
he would stoop to peep under a
blind through a front window, as
if he expected some one to be ap-
preaching the house.
At the end of the week, the judge
returned to his court and told the
attaches of a successful trip.
Final Blow Given
McCallister's friends believed that
word that he was not to be re-
appointed was the blow which final
ly drove the judge to suicide.
Governor Ed Jackson was shocked
and expressed sorrow when told OF
the judges death. He refused to