The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-14
nineteen DIE
BY VIOLENCE
over STATE
Five Persons Killed at Gary
When Train Strikes
Auto.
BLAST TOLL STILL FOUR
Two Fatalities Due to
Burns Swell Week
: End List.
TOLL STILL FOUR


Violence took a toll Of nineteen
lives in Indiana over the week -end.
Donald Poole, z, of 606 w. Twenty
Eighth St., died at the city hospital
today from injuries suffered Sun
day when struck by an auto driven
by Edward Cook, 500 E. Thirty
Sixth ST., as he ran across the
street in front of his home.
The boys father, Charles Poodle,
a street car motorman, saw the ac-
cident from the controller of a
Northwestern Ave. car he was driv-
ing past the scene. He jumped out
and was the first to reach the boy.
Donald was in the second grade
of School 36. He is survived by his
father and mother; five half
brothers, James and Harry West,
cleveland, Ohio, and Edward, Mar
shall and Woodrow West, Indian
apolis, and by four half sisters, Ma
bel, Gertrude and Thelna West and
Mrs. Lloyd Thomas, Indianapolis.
Woodrow West, 13, is i'll with dou-
BILE pneumonia and is not expected
to recover.
Sam Henry Waldon, 70, Negro,
1135 Garfield Pl., was killed when
when street car backed into him
at Fourteenth and West ST. Satrr-
day night. Walden was blind.
Five Chicago residents were killed
at Gary when the auto in which
they were riding was struck by a
train. The dead are James E. Rich
ardson, 40; his daughter, Beatrice,
ID; Peter Mcdonald, 30; his wife,
Edna, 20, and her sister, Helen
Eckert, IS.
The death toll in an explosion
Saturday at the Fridlin Laundry in
Kokono remained at four today.
The victims are Mrs. Emma Ford,
%; her sister, Miss Anna Black, 21,
Miss Rosella Courtney, IT, and Miss
Thelma Garriott, 18.
Vincennes Boy Killed
Robert Lincoln, 10, Vincennes, was
killed while hurrying to Sunday
school. when struck by an auto
driven by Philip Miller, II.
Harry O. Davis, Sd, Pleasant Mills,
killed himself by shooting, due to
worry over losing his job as a rural
mail carrier at which he had worked
twenty-three years.
James McGhie, whose body was
found in the Wabash river at Vim
cennes is believed to have COM
mitted suicide. He had been in poor
health.
Woman, 80, Dies in Fire
Mrs. Sarah Reef SO, died in fire
at her home on a farm near Geneva.
Cause of the fire has not been de-
termined.
Vera Hirschy, 13, is dead of burns
suffered when her clothing became
ignited in an explosion of coal oil
she was using to start fire in a
stove at the. family home south of
Bluffton. The house was destroyed.
George HARRISON, II, died of a
broken neck suffered when trac-
tor he was operating on a farm
west of Francisco turned over.
catching him beneath it.
Marshall Miller, 81, Negro, killed
himself with poison at Gary, fol-
lowing a quarrel with his sweet
heart, Thelma Scroggins, and her
brother, Homer Scroggins
Marvin c. Jeffries, 18 months old,
drowned in a lard can filled with
water at the home of his parents,
MIR. and Mrs Roy Jeffries, Evans
vile. The child was found dead in
the can when the mother returned
to the kitchen of the home after
being absent only a few minutes.
Albert H. HuntSinger, "a, r. r. P,
box 382, was recovering from in
juries received in an auto accident
Sunday morning when Harry John
son, Chicago, admittedly driving a
stolen Marion Gnd0 machine,
crashed into Huntsinger'S car at
Emerson Ave. and Washignton st.
johnson was arrested.
His car skidded into a telephone
pole at Harding and Twenty Ninth
Sts., Roy Cartwright, 6154 Critten-
den Ave-, told police. Besides Cart
wright, Cathrene Owens, Craw-
fordsville, Ind; Mirim Owens, 3005
E. Washington ST.; Vassie Whitley
same address; Harold Neusing, 1901
Ashland Ave; Cecil NeaSe, 20 s.
Colorado ST.; Harold Theobald, 81e
e. Eleventh ST., and Helen Alex
ander, 341 Grace ST., passengers
were slightly injured.
Helen Green, 6, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Freeman Green, 1145
DeLoss Ave, was bruised when she
ran into a car driven by Frank M
Reed, 812 w. Drive, Woodruff Place
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Lola Kellog, SIS, Los Angeles
is in Methodist Hospital following
an accident Sunday at Meridian
and Forty Third Sts. A car driven
by John A. Miller, 1886 STANDARD
Ave-, collided with the one driven
by Mrs. Kellog.
John Summers, 862 N. Bosart Ave.
was injured Sunday evening wher
his car was hit at Linden and
Orange Sts., by the auto of Adolpt
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