The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-05

Forty-one violent deaths were re-
corded in Indiana in the three
days ended at midnight Monday.
Injured in accidents total nearly
fifty. --latest additions to the death
list include five drownings, five
killed in automobile accidents, three
slayings, two in airplane crash, two
burned. A bullet wound, fall and
a street accounted for three more
fatalities.
Of the dead, thirty eight were in
the State outside indianapolis and
three in the capital.
At Mitchell, Lecis Shockley, SO,
Mitchell Bell Telephone manager,
and a Miss Hardesty. of Louisville,
KY, were drowned while swimming
with a party. Robert Hardesty
Mitchell, brother of the drowned
woman, came near losing his life
in attempting to rescue her and
Mr.. Shockley.
Oscar Fielden, 13, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Remus Fielden, Evansville,
was drowned while swimming with
companions in the Ohio River.
When a boat capsized in Flint
Lake, near Valparaiso, Thomas
Hynes, 81, plumbers apprentice,
Chicago, lost his life.
An unidentified young man was
drowned at Crown Point.
Ernest E. Best, 33, and his wife,
Mrs. Anna Best, 33, Negroes, 514 W..
Michigan St., were killed when their
automobile crashed into the Chi
!. cago & Cincinnati f1ier of the Penn
d sylvania Railroad at q crossing on
the National Rd. two miles east Of
Richmond.
Bedford Child Killed
Carl Carter, 4, was killed at Bed
ford, when he ran into the path OF
an automobile driven by Charles
Wright of Bedford. The boys father
was accidentally killed two months
ago at the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul railroad yards at Bedford.
The boy leaves his mother and
seven small sisters and brothers.
Mrs. Mary Motejok, 36, Joliet, Ill,
was fatally injured in an automobile
accident at Indiana Harbor.
Dale Gillispie, %, was killed in
stantly near Idaville, west of Lo-
gansport, when his automobile
collided with two other machines
that had met in a head-on collision
on State road No. "a. His neck was
broken.
Three slayings were recorded in
the Calumet district. John Lauran-
ats, 81, was killed in street fight
at Indiana Harbor. Vase Tishma,
81, is sought by police in connection
with the Staying. Herbert McGurt,
80, was killed in a holdup at Gary.
John Cannon, 80. Negro, was slain
in fight at Gary.
Harry Danbury, "a, and Raymond
Hodges, 80, we're killed when a COM
mercial airplane fell at the Laugh
cry Country Club four miles north
of Rising Sum- Edward Roef1ing,
pilot and owner of the plane, was
severely injured.
Fire in playhouse at New AL
bany caused the death of two little
girls and third was so seriously
burned she may not recover. The
! dead are Norma Kinman, 8, daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Kin
man, and Lucille Moore, 7, daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs Frank Moore.
Mary Heimbach, Moore's STEP
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Body Found on Tracks
Possibility of murder is seen in
the death at South Bend of a
young woman believed to be Clara
Smogor, bookkeeper at the South
Bend Country Club. Her mangled
body was found on the New York
Central Railroad tracks, near the
club golf course. The body of an
unidentified man was found in ST.
Mary's River, at Ft. Wayne.
Peter Burke, 55, Wabash Railway
Company machinist, received fatal
injuries when he fell down two
flights OF stairs at Ft. Wayne
hotel.
A man believed to be George
Mlocheck, about 35, died after he
had been struck by street car at
Gary.
A bullet in the brain ended
the life Of John Stearley, II, at
Seeleyville. A % caliber rifle which
he was handling was accidentally
discharged.
Harry Poindexter, 36, Terre Haute,
died of injuries suffered when an
acetylene gao tank exploded at a
machine shop where he was en-