The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
grand JURORS
INDICT 347;;
TAKE RECESS
Federal ProberS Again to
Inquire Into La Grange
Bank Failure.
so ARE FROM MUNCIE
Several indianapolis Men on
List; Five Are Named in
Steinbrenner Case.

The Federal grand jury will re-
turn Thursday to continue investi-
cation of the failure Of the First
National Bank Of La Grange, in
which $4,000 worth of forged pa
per figured, and other matters
which may DC presented.
The grand jurors recessed and
returned to their homes for the
Christmas holidays late Thursday,
after returning a partial report con-
tanning more than two hundred in
dictments naming BAT persons.
Investigation of the bank coll
lapse and the connection, if any,
of Clyde A. Walb, Republican State
chairman and former vice presi-
dent Of the bank, was only partial
ly completed Thursday.
Approximately fifty Muncie resi-
dents, arrested in Federal dry raids
several weeks ago, were indicted on
liquor charges.
Many Other Indictments
Included in the report were a
number of indictments charging
liquor violations against South
Bend, Perry County, Indianapolis.
and Starke County residents.
Most of the indictments returned
charged liquor violations, although
there were many charging postal,
motor theft and other charges.
Nineteen residents of Milwaukee,
Chicago, Indianapolis and other In
diana cities were indicted in a coun-
terfeit liquor strip stamp conspiracy.
indianapolis defendants in the
case include Sam Fogle, 9O1 Virginia
Ave-, and Jacob Fogle, 1119 Union
st. Guy and Kenneth Whetsel Of
Munce and Clark G.. Behler, Fl.
Wayne, also were named.
Arrangement Jan. 7
Arrangement day for those ar
rested was set by Federal Judge
Robert G. Baltzell for January 7.
Trials will be started Jan. IS.
Eighty five indictments were re-
turned in the Indianapolis district
involving 161 persons, including
forty-eight at Muncie. Thirty-two
indictments were returned in the
Evansville division, involving forty
four persons; four in the New AL
bany division, involving eleven per-
sons; five in the Hammond division,
involving nine persons; seven in the
Ft Wayne division, involving seven
persons, and forty-one, involving
seventy-f1ve persons in the Terre
Haute division. Fifty no bills were
returned.
Additional indictments against
two Huntington and three Nobles-
vile men in the Steinbrenner Rub
Der Company failure were returned.
Those indicted were E. B. Ayres, 81,
Huntington County State Bank
president, and his son, E. Porter
Ayres; N. w. Cowgirl, cashier, and
Walter w. Bray, bool1keeper of the
First National Bank of Noblesville,
and S. Homer Federman, Steinbren-
ner Rubbery Company, treasurer.
Charge Check Kiting
The indictments charge check kit
ing resulting in loss to several
banks and failure of the Huntington
and Noblesville banks.
Indianapolis persons indicted on
liquor charges included John Sandi
and John Scheau of 551 w. Wash
ington St.; Sam and Manual Levin,
535 E. Washington St.; Nick Tom,
Granville Wyne, Lee Johnson, Len
cia Bornemann, Sam Lee, Charles A.
Hayman, 1896 Aston St.; George
Lucas, 1873 S. West St.; Paul Harris,
215 N. Capitol Ave-; Frank Ardi-
zonne, SGT e. Merrill St.; Florence
Dixon, Julia Brooks, 1924 N. Penn
Sylvania ST.; Harry Krovacich, S104
w. Tenth st., and Pando Bozinoff.
843 E. Washington st.