The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-02

TERRE HAUTE
MAIL ROBBERY
TRIAL june 10
Liquor Law VioIatorS Are
Sentenced in Federal
Court.

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Calvin Holmes, Terre Haute, charged
with robbing the Terre Haute union
station mail room March 81 an6
other defendants who pleaded not
guilty in Federal Court Friday were
being made today by District Attor-
ney Albert Ward.
Carl E. Jennings, Terre Haute,
Jointly indicted with Holmes,
pleaded guilty and will be sentenced
June 10.
Indianapolis division liquor de-
PENDANTS who pleaded guilty and
will be sentenced later include Le-
Roy Reuter-, 1902 S. Belmont Ave;
Thomas and Elmer Thompson,
Negroes, 453 Agnes ST.; Joseph
Schroeder, Sr., Greensburg, and Del
mon Clark, Shelby County; Henry
Clay, Negro, N. Senate Ave.
Others pleading guilty: Luther
r. Connally, Atlanta Ga. narcotics;
Warren H. Spoon, Philadelphia, mo-
tor theft; Virginia Fields. Susie Lar
kin, Thomas Lewis and Gordon
Fleming, Negroes, liquor conspiracy.
Sent to Jail
Those pleading not guilty to
liquor charges who will be tried
June 10 include: Charles Shriner,
1902 S. Belmont Ave; William
Shriner, 1900 w. Ray ST.; Obert
Cox, Negro; Joseph Schroeder, Jr.,
Greensburg; Frank Pangolis, 300
Elm St.; Zeda Clay, Negro, N. Sen
ate Ave; Joseph Radkovics and Jo-
seph Koegen, E. Tenth ST.; Lutee
Graham and John Harvey. Negro.
Henry Jaeger, E. Ohio St, pleaded
not guilty to counterfeiting Bert 7
Spicer and George O'Brien, Brazil
motor theft; Sol Levine. Philadel
phia, motor theft.
Indianapolis division defendants
sentenced included: William Wit
tingham, Millersville. liquor, -four
months, starting Aug. l, so he can
get his corn planted; Fred Stafford
Negro, Louisville, narcotics. year
and day; Timothy Hurley, Shelby
vile, narcotics, fifteen months: Jake
Mcdonald, Negro. Cleveland. Ohio
concealing knowledge of counter
feiting. thirty days; Cecil Rife
Bloomington, white slave, year and
day; Alfred Vance BlakeSley
Springfield, Mass, motor theft, year
and a day; Court Argadine, 344C
School ST., motor theft. year and
a day; Cecil Waymire, Muncie, mo-
tor theft, eighteen months; Ches-
ter Doty, 20; Willard Putty, 20, and
Alton Putty, %, st. Louis County
Missouri. all charged with motor
theft, three years each; Manual
Levin, Haughville, liquor, sixty days
Sentences Deferred
Terre Haute and New Albany
division defendants sentenced in
cluded: Henry Withycombe. Linton
liquor, thirty days; Frederick Wayne
Smith, Terre Haute, narcotics, year
and day; Earl Lawson, narcotics
year and day; Floyd Lee, Madison
liquor, thirty days suspended;
Michael Buckhave. Batesville, liquor
ninety days, 500; Tom Linback,
Batesville, liquor, thirty days
suspended; Robert Puccini, Bates
vile, liquor, ninety days, $500; John
Walter, Sunman, liquor, $500; Mrs.
John Walter, thirty days; William
Byard, Batesville, liquor. fifteen
days; William H. Hyden, 16, James
l.. Schaeper, Is, and Roy Benton,
Is, Cincinnati, motor theft, ninety
days each; Dannie Baker, Pekin
Ind, postal fraud, four months.
Not guilty pleas were entered by
Harry Ridley, Mrs. Mabel Ridley
and William Reedy, Terre Haute,
liquor; Edward Hehe, Terre Haute,
liquor; Charles Smith, liquor; An
thony Huber, Batesville, liquor.
Trials will be held here June 10.
Terre Haute and New Albany di-
vision defendants to be sentenced
later include George Kluty, San
born, liquor; Lindsay Borders, New
Albany, liquor; Calvin Skean, Os-
good, liquor; Harry Miles, Bernard
Schultz, Henry Gibson and Theo-
dore Warren, Madison, liquor.
Plead Guilty to Mail Fraud
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Robinson,
Evansville, pleaded guilty to using
the mail to defraud. Robinson was
fined $500 and Mrs. Robinson was
sentenced to six months. Mrs. Rob-
inson told the court her daughter,
Miss Pearl Smalley. 18, jointly in
dicted, ran away from home re-
Gently.
The trio was charged with an
swering matrimonial ads, sending
pictures taken from a true story
magazine, obtaining railroad fare
and then "jilting" the amorous ad-
vertiser. They are alleged to have
written that they had about 5000, 900