The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-18
GUARD HOME OF SLAYER
SUSPECTS WIFE, FEARING
SHE IS MARKED TO die
Residents in NelghborhoOd
of Victims Dwelling
Hear ProWIer.
EWING SOUGHT IN WEST
Escaped Prisoner, Wanted
for Death Quiz, May Be
Headed for Oregon.

Fear that the fiend who crushed
the skulls of Mrs. Zenith Burress
Ewing and her spetfather, David o.
Boyles, with a hand ak Saturday
night, might be planning to return
to Indianapolis and McCordsville
and kill two and possibly three per-
sons, caused a close watch to be
kept over the two houses today.
/ Fear was based not only upon the
insane brutality of the double ak
murder, but also upon the fact that
persons living near 2342 Brookside
Ave-, where the victims lived, heard
some one prowling about the house
Monday night.
The house was not occupied Mon
day night, for Mrs. David o. Boyles,
wife and mother of the victims, had
gone to the home of friends. The
bodies had been left in the morgue
at Greenfield, Ind. They were found
Monday morning, half concealed by
weeds, in a ditch beside the Thir-
tieth st. Rd, eleven miles east of
Indianapolis.
Search for Bigamist
Meanwhile, police throughout the
country were spreading their drag
net for Willard Ewing, 46, bigamist
and escaped prisoner from the In
diana State Penal Farm, last seen
Saturday night, when he drove away
from the Boyles home with his sec
ond wife and her Stepfather.
They were accompanying him to
Greenfield on his pretext that an
attorney there would prepare papers
to have their marriage annulled.
Detectives questioned Herman
Schrader, employe in the Joe Stair
restaurant, 221 S. Illinois ST., who
reported to police that a man an
swering Ewings description was In
the restaurant at Q a. m. today.
Schrader said the man ate lunch
and acted so nervous that he slipped
the money from the cash register
fearing a hold-up. When the man
was leaving he noticed his similar
ity to newspaper picetures of Ewing.
Il am certain heard someone
proving about here last night" said
Clarence Porter, who lives at 1888
Brookside Ave-, two doors distant
from the Boyles home. at don't lie
awake imagining things. But I was
awake all last night. 1 heard the
prowler several times"
ProwIer Is Heard
Mrs. r. Pence, 2340 Brookside
Ave-, next door neighbor to the
BoyleS, added her testimony that
she couldn't sleep and was sure she
heard someone around the place.
While a close watch is kept here
on the Boyles home, horsethief de-
tectives are keeping a vigil over
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin
Day at McCordsville, where their
daughter Mrs. Mary Day Ewing, first
wife OF the hunted man, and her
son, Robert, 4, are staying.
Indianapolis detectives and Han
cock County authorities were
handicapped by the slayer's thirty
six hour start. They were without
accurate description of the car in
which Ewing started to Greenfield,
and suspect it was stolen.
Police at Portland, Ore, were
notified when 1t was recalled that
Ewing had said his father had
moved from the vicinity Of South
Bend, Ind, to the west coast city.
Authorities got Scant clue Of
Ewing'S probable whereabouts from
As minutes questioning Of Mrs. Ellen
BoyleS, wife of the slain man.
Inquest Is Held
Inquest was held at Greenfield to-
day by Coroner G. M. Gibbs, as
sisted by Sheriff Harry Comstock
and Prosecutor George F. Dickman.
of Hancock County.
Sheriff Comstock believes the VIC
Tins were induced to get out Of the
automobile before the attack was
made. That there was a struggle
was indicated by the fact that key
ring, nickle, dime and two street
car token were found in the road OPP
posite the bodies.
Mr.. Boyles' hat was forty feet
down the road, the woman's left
slipper was a like distance in an adj
joining field. and the blood-stained
army ak with which the crime was
committed was found fifty feet
from the bodies, in a wooded
pasture.
Funeral Services Tonight
Funeral services for Mrs. Ewing
and Mr.. Boyles will be held at
o'clock tonight at the home, after
which the bodies will be sent TO
Loogootee for burial Wednesday
morning.
Ewing and Miss Day were married
five years ago. Ewing deserted his
first wife and on oct. 4. 1926.
married Miss Burress at Washing
ton, Ind. He was arrested here In
August on the bigamy charge.
After serving three days of six
month sentence for blgamy, Ewing
escaped from the penal farm Sept
10. His visits to his second wife
followed, eliminating in the trip TO
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