The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-14
CITY SEARCHED
FOR DRIVER OF
MURDER sedan
Five Police Squads Press
Hunt for Slayer of
Young Waitress.
HURLED TO HER DEATH
One Suspect Gives AIibi:
CleWS to Killer Are
Few!

Police, almost without clews,
pressed their search today for the
driver of the death car, "a big blue
sedan" from which Mrs. Pearl Jar
Doe, "a, waitress and mother of two
children, was hurled to her death on
e. Sixteenth ST., near Colorado ST.,
late Wednesday afternoon.
One man, an acquaintance of the
young woman, was taken to police
station Wednesday night for ques-
tioning, but today had produced
such satisfactory alibis that his re-.
lease was imminent, Detective Chief
Jerry Kinney said.
The 5-year-old son of Mrs. Jar
Doe, a half block away when she
got into the death car, said the
man held was at the wheel of the
car. Police, however, were inclined
to doubt his Identification.
Police and detectives, under per-
sonal direction Of Chief Claude M
Worley, sought vainly throughout
the night and today for some clew
to the identity of the death car or
its driver. Five police squads rushed
the man hunt during the night
Dies in City Hospital
Mrs. Parboe, the wife of Joseph
Jarboe, "a, of GA E. North ST., died
in city hospital at 5:45 p. M, two
hours after she was pushed from
the speeding r4achine.
She. suffered fractured skull and
severe cuts and bruises on the head,
hands and arms.
She did not regain consciousness,
so police were left without word
from her as to her assailant.
Wearing nothing to identify her,
her name was not learned for sew
eral hours, then her husband,
alarmed at her absence from home
and having read in a Times late edi-
ton the account of the injury Of an
unidentified woman, wearing a wait
ress' apron, called police.
Officers took him and A. w. Peter
man, proprietor of the restaurant at
502 N. Noble ST., where Mrs. Jar
boer was employed, to the hospital,
where they recognized her body.
Leaves Restaurant early
Told she. might leave the restau-
rant earlier than usual, as she re-
quested, Mrs. Jarboe departed be-
tween 2:45 and p. m. Wednes-
day afternoon.
"Good-by," she said to Peterman.
"I'll see you in the morning."
Joseph Samuel Jarboe, her s.
year-old son, was on his wey to the
restaurant to walk home with his
mother. Their home is a half
block west and one block north of
the restaurant.
When less than block distant, he
saw his mother come from the res
taurant. He scampered after her
as she turned the opposite way. He
was crying vainly for her when she
entered blue sedan on Michigan
ST., near Liberty St., block east of
The restaurant.
Sees Woman Hurled Out
1t was Joseph, several hours
later, who came home, bringing
copy of The Times, which neigh
borS had handed him.
Charles w. Hustled, 1926 Ewing
ST., told Lieut.. Victor Houston and
the emergency squad that he saw
the woman thrown from the speed
ing car in front of filling station
at 4132 E. Sixteenth st. He ran to
her and then called police from
nearby grocery.
A. e. Clayfort, 1854 Adams ST.,
working on house a block east,
said he saw the car speed by and
careen as it turned south on Emer-
son Ave.
Boy Hears Driver Curse
Jackie Kennard, 5, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hershel A. Kennard, 1913 N.
Colorado Ave, told officers he was
playing in a lot on the southwest
corner of Colorado and E. Sixteenth
st. when the woman was thrown
from the car.
He said the driver swore loudly
as he jammed on his brakes and
pushed the woman out. He thought
two other men we're in the rear seat.
All agreed the car was a large
dark blue sedan, but none obtained
the license number.
Mrs. Helen Johnson, 1905 E. Six
teenth ST., said blue sedan drove
slowly past the point 2 where the
woman was thrown out, about fif-
teen minutes after the crowd had
dispersed. Three times the car
drove slowly past, she said. In it
were two men. She did not get the
license number.
Married Nine Years
Mrs. Jarboe had been employed
at the Peterman restaurant about
three weeks, her husband said. Ex-
cept for employment short time
last fall, she had devoted her time
to household duties.
The family came to Indianapolis
from Hardinsburg, KY, two years
ago. Mr.. and Mrs. Jarboe were mar
ried nine years ago at Hardinsburg.
Besides the husband and the son,
Joseph Samuel, S, the young woman
is survived by a daughter, Mary
Agnes, 8; her mother. Mrs. Elizabeth
Morgan of Hopkinsville. KY, and
two brothers, Nathan and Elijah
Scott, also of Hopkinsville. The hus-
band is employed as a painter at
Kingan g. Co.