The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-31
CALL JURY TO
PROBE BRUTAL
DELPHI crime
Investigation of Murder of
Aged Hermit Will Start
Tuesday.
GIRL AND MAN IN JAIL
Carroll County Seething
With Excitement; First
Death Trial in Years.
GIRL AND MAN IN JAIL
BY ROBERT BEARD
Times STAFF Corresnondent


DELPHI, Ind, Oct. 31.-Aghast at
the sordid story of the Staying OF
Daniel Sink, aged recluse, and the
burning of the body, as confessed by
girl accomplice, Carroll County>to-
day looked to Tuesdays grand jury
session for promise of its first
murder trial in many years.
Not since its white stone court
house was built ten years ago has
Carroll County tried anyone for
murder.
In the red brick jail, a block from
the courthouse, are the two figures
who will play leading roles in the
circuit court drama, if the grand
jury issues indictments anticipated
by county authorities.
They are Lloyd ,Kimble, At, boot
Logging farmland, father of six chill
dren, and Mrs. Jeanetta Ellen Tay-
lor, "a, childless farm wife, who says
she saw Kimble murder the old
man, soak his clothing and his
house with kerosene, and set fire
to it.
Denies He's Guilty
Kimble steadfastly denies his
guilt. However, the grand jury
may take his denials, they find no
credence with Delphi citizenry.
Carroll County, where chicken thiev-
cry and bootlegging are high
crimes, is anything but sympathetic.
Kimble was convicted once for boot
Logging and suspected always.
Jeanetta, his accuser, fares little
better in public opinion. Red
haired, weak willed, of slight build
and not pretty, Jeanetta was pref
ty enough, however, to make other
friends than her plugging farm
hand husband.
1t is a startling story that goes
before the grand jury in the girls
blunt confession obtained by Sher-
iff Riley Sink and Deputy State Fire
Marshal Harry Gates, after weeks
persistent attack on her denials.
Slay and Burn
It protrays two figures stumbling
drunkenly through the shadows
about the remote Sink farmhouse at
3 o'clock on the morning of Aug. "a.
Pickering rays of light flash from
the windows as if in pursuit. In the
house flames are tapping across the
floor. over the simple furniture, and
burning as torch on the slumped
figure of an old man propped up
right in chair in the corner.
A few minutes and fire has OBJ
liberated tell-tale wound on the
old mans head. A half hour later
neighbors arrive to find the old
frame house a seething mass of
flames.
Sunrise discloses scattered ashes,
toppled stoves, and at spot which
had been the corner of the living
room, greusome evidence of the
fires human toll.
The pair, the confession relates,
took fight in an auto. The girl
left the car at a dense thicket two
thirds of mile distant, and, STUN
bling into the house, stole into bed,
where her husband slumbered
Half-drunk with a bootleg whisky
that was accessory to the crime,
she dropped off to sleep.
Killed With Buggy Spring
Such is the account jeanette gave
authorities of the activities of her.
self and Kimble on the night Dan
iel Sink was slain. Kimble, she
says, struck the old man on the
head with buggy spring and then
stole his pocketbook.
Sheriff Sink is not worried by ru-
mors that sentiment exists for a
hanging. Twenty-Five years ago a
Delphi mob stormed the jail, forced
the surrender of Amer Green, sus-
pected of Staying young girl, and
strung him up on walnut tree
that remains Delphi landmark.