The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-22

Bank Bldg, attorney for the quintet,
today said he asked Judge Wetter to
reduce the bonds, but the best he
could get was the courts promise
Of approval at $4,000 if proper Sc
curity was obtained.
Il did what any other attor-
ney would have done for his client,
he said. 1 got them out as soon as
possible and / will defend them
when they come to trial. 1 didn't
ask the police about the case and
I don't have to ask them. 1 saw
the judge and that was all that was
necessary"
Scharffin said ne was admins
traitor for Shannon's estate and ad-
mitted he was at Clinton Monday to
identify the body and arrange for
it's burial, although refusing to dis
close identity of the "two Indian
apolis business men" who accompa-
ried him on the trip.
Father Claims Body
According to United Press dis
patch from Clinton today Shannon's
body was claimed today by his
father. John G Ecekerle, st. Louis,
who said the murdered mans real
name was Elwald Ecekerle.
Police Chief Worley said he had
received information that the slain
mans name was Edwin Eckerley,
and that he is under a $4,000 bond
in connection with a st. Louis safe
cracking case. He had been going
under the name of Shannon, how
ever, here and in his liquor ring
activities, police believed
Headquarters in City
indianapolis was the intermediate
headquarters of the gang in their
bootlegging operations between Chi
cago and Louisville, police believed,
after Louisville officers had traced
the movements of Wright, Shannon
and rival gang members preceding
the Staying
William E. Rapp, prohibition IN
vestigator. Of Louisville, learned that
war" was declared when Wright
and Joe Praum, alleged Chicago al
cohol chieftain, "fell out" over the
Louisville and southern Indiana
business, according to dispatches.
Wright and Shannon, Rapp said,
were in Louisville Saturday on a
accommodating tour. Tival gangsters,
it is believed, followed them to Cliu-
ton. There, Sunday, in front of the
home Of Louis Rolando, Shannon
was seated in an auto when a cur
tained machine drove along side.
The tip of machine gun pIotruded
through an opening and a deadly
stream of lead riddled Shannon and
his car. Wright is believed to have
alighted from the car few minutes
before it was riddled.
Police hold the theory Wright had
broken" with the gang whose
members then were out to get him
when Shannon was killed. Until
recently. Shannon lived at the N.
Alabama st. address where Wright
was arrested.
First local arrest was made Tues
day at 2 p. m, when Detectives
Barnaby and Tooley, waiting out
side the Michigan Hotel, nabbed
Walker, his wife and the Ryan
woman. Anticipating gun-fre, the
detectives beat Walker on the draw
and relieved him of a blue steel AS
Colt revolver on a massive frame.
Compare Finger Prints
At 3 p. m, Wright vas arrested
by Detectives Jordan, Tuck, Stages
and Young, at his apartment. In
his room, detectives found a shiny
.38-calibre gun,/ also mounted on a
large frame and fully loaded.
From a phone call to the rings
rooms in the Michigan Hotel, de-
tectives Gaughan and Taylor, got
the tip that led to the arrest, at
11:10 p. m, of Hunt at the Roosevelt.
Hunt inadvertently had called the
Michigan to "have Wright CAL me
when he gets out"