The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-13

shoulder to shoulder with State
troopers, county sheriffS and city
police, spread fanwiSe in all direc-
tions from the scene of the crime.
So great was the city's revulsion
at the atrocious crime that many of
the searching parties were private
ventures, organized and led by pro-
fessional men, merchants and
workers from FlintS automobile
factories.
CIubwOmen Enraged
Twenty clubWomen viewed Dor
othy's body and afterwards several
told Sheriff Cream that they would
be willing to aid in the execution
of the man responsible.
The killer, however, will escape
death, even though he is captured,
if he is guarded closely by author
tiles. Capital punishment was out
lawed in Michigan many years ago
and the most that he would suffer
would be imprisonment for life.
Farmer Gives CIew
The best cIew to the identity of
the, wanted man was furnished by
Archie Bacon, farmer, who lives
a stones throw from the spot where
the body was found, and who as
sisted the suspected man to get his
car out OF a mudhole after he had
disposed of the body.
Bacon said the man appeared to
be about SO years old, was five feet
ten inches tall, and weighed nearly
200 pounds. He was stopped slight
ly, Bacon recalled, Of light COM
plexion and full-faced He wore q
fur cap, and a gray overcoat, both
reSpeaking moderate circumstances.
Bacon's description Of the man,
who, it was indicated without doubt,
was the actual slayer, was sub
stantiated by William Lawrence, a
neighboring farmer, who helped for
about is minutes in the process of
extricating the car.
Crime Pieced Together
From several sources, authorities
pieced together a resume of the girls
activities Immediately preceding the
time she was killed, and were able,
with little conjecture, to recon-
struct the murder down to the
smallest details.
Dorothy was known to have left
school at IL a. m. She passed a
gasoline station en- route 70 her par
entS modest home and was seen by
Mrs. R. Hodges, wife of the proprie-
tor.
AS was her custom, Mrs. Mabel
Schneider, Dorothys mother, was
watching for her from window of
her home. She sighted her when
she was about two blocks away, and
immediately left the window to pre-
pare lunch.
But when she returned to the VIM
dow Dorothy had disappeared Nor
did she reappear, and by D. m. an
extensive search was under way.
Father Starts Hunt
Leslie Schneider, Dorothy's father,
was called home and led the hunt
in his automobile. About sundown,
he had got as far as a deserted
road three miles west.
There he met Bacon, who re-
called the strange man he had
helped out of the mud. In flash,
Schneider was convinced that the
stranger had something to do with
his daughters disappearance.
Neighbors were reused and the
search started, resulting in finding
of the carved and battered body.
Then Mrs. Hodges recalled that
at about the same time she saw
Dorothy trudging home from school,
she saw a dilapidated sedan on the
street corresponding to the one
described by bacon.
Car Is Recalled
Mrs. Hodges had a good memory.
She was sure that she had seen the
car Bacon saw. She remembered
small details. For instance, she re-
called that Dorothy, when she saw
her, was having difficulty keeping
her oversize rubbers on her feet
when they became stuck in the mud.
One of the rubbers was found on