The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-09
RUNNER
IS Slain FOR
PETTING GIRL
Shot Down at Green Mill
Dance Hall for Making
Love to Singer.
NINE ARE UNDER ARREST
Blues Entertainer Relates
Story of Tragedy as
She Sits in Jail.

A careless caress cost the life Of
Terrence (Red) King, q, OF 225
Beauty Ave, bootlegger and rum
runner, at the Green Mill barbecue
dance hall, 3103 E. Thirty Eighth
ST., early today, police learned as
they hunted his slayer.
Philip r. Smith, 80, of 1914 w.
New York ST., is sought as the
killer.
The might life" killing clirnaxed
a drinking party, detectives learned
from Miss Gladys De Voc, 30, and
Miss Margie Ford, %, both of Ills N.
Illinois ST., two of the members of
the party.
The two women, entertainers at
the barbecue dance hail. are being
held under $4,000 bonds. At least
one other man and another woman
were members Of the party and wit
nesses Of the Staying, and are be-
ing sought
Nine Under Arrest
A total Of nine persons are under
arrest in connection with the hunt
for the slayer and other witnesses.
Miss De Voc was the recipient Of
the caress which cost King his life,
according to the story told by Miss
Ford.
Miss Ford was a dancer at the
barbecue, Miss De Voc the blues"
singer.
And I'm some blues singer. If
they don't believe it, listen to me
sing them now, two kinds of them.
I've sung all over the South, but its
hotter here than in Virginia and
North Carolina. I'm in a hot mess
sure now," said Miss De Voc, be-
tween questionings by detectives
today.
According to Miss Ford, she and
Gladys De Voc and the man they
knew as "Smitty' drove out to the
barbecue together early in the
evening.
King There with Girl
Terrence was there with a girl
named EVA.
1t was about q. m. when the
shooting occurred.
A soldier named Byron, King,
"Smitty," Gladys the girl named
Eva, and she we're sitting at a
table on the basement floor of the
barbecue where the dance hall is
located, Miss Ford said.
They had been drinking. Police
found the table Uttered with
cigarets and glasses and small
amounts Of liquor in the glasses.
King Cred" she called him), put
his arm about Gladys shoulder.
according to Miss Ford.
Where dc you get that stuff?"
Smith asked King.
What business is it of YOURS Won
---?' King replied.
we don't have to stand this kind
OF stuff; let's CO." Gladys told her,
as the two men continued to curse
each other, Miss Ford said. She
and Gladys, she said, walked toward
the stairway at front.
They we're faced away from the
quareling men, she said, when they
heard the shot and looked back to
see King staggering to the floor
with his hand over his breast and
blood streaming from his heart.
She did not see Smith fire the
shot Miss Ford said.
Miss Ford and Miss De Voc at
first denied they knew how Smith
left the barbecue. but later admitted
they drove him to College Ave. and
Fall Creek in Miss De Woes car and
then returned to the barbecue by
themselves.
Gladys had been out with Smith
seevral times, the other girl said.
although both declared they knev
the man only as "Smitty."
Several Others Leave
Several other couples were a.
tables about the dance hall at tlia
time of the shooting, but they lef
before police arrived.
Police raided an E. st. Josepl.
st. house at noon today and ar
rested the mother and the father
of a girl suspected of being the
girl named Eva who accompanied
Terrence to the barbecue.
They also held for questioning q
young man wearing a brown suit
found there. The daughter could
not be located.
They learned that a man wear
ing brown suit was one of a party
seen leaving the E. st. Joseph st.
house early last night. A few hours
after the shooting police visited the
house. and found evidences that a
drinking party had been going on,
but no one was at home.
Mrs. Bessie Gipprich, Ills N.
Illinois ST., owner of the barbecue,
which she had only recently bought,
and Fire Captain Herbert Gardner,
1902 James ST., we're standing at a
cigar counter on the first floor and
heard the shot
They and Negro walters carried
King to a couch, where he died.
Gardner said he was returning from
a conference at Ft. Benjamin Har-
rison with Army fire department
officials and had stopped at the bar
becue to buy some cigarets.
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