The Indianapolis times., 1928-07-23
COMP PANION OF
WOMAN is HELD
IN Death CRASH
Searching Probe Opened in
Miss Vida Lee NObIett
Tragedy.

A searching investigation into the
death of Miss Vida Lee Noblett, "a,
of 1905 Park Ave, also known as
Miss Mildred Edwards and Miss
Margaret Banks, was indicated this
afternoon when Coroner Charles H
Keever ordered the arrest OF Harry
L. Bushman, 80, mechanic, 1924
N. Capitol Ave-, on manslaughter
charge.
Bushman owned the car in which
Miss Noblett was fatally injured
south of the city on State Rd. 81
Sunday. He was with her and was
injured. She died on the way to
city hospital. The car left the road
and turned over.
Sheriff Omer Hawkins sent dep
uties to the Bushman residence to
arrest the car owner. They we're told
at the door that Bushman had
just been given a hypodermic by a
doctor and could not be seen. When
this was reported to Hawkins he
ordered Deputies Dale Brown and
Charles Bell to go to the house and
arrest Bushman no matter what
the circumstances.
The deputies found Bushman IN
bed, but took him to city prison.
where he was released on $4,000
bond signed by Charles Roesener,
the Central Transfer and Storage
Company, 18 S. Alabama ST., for
whom he worked.
Bushman said again that the girl
was driving when the crash oc-
Cured.
Bushman is married.
The first report of the accident
was that the girl had been driving.
Bushman told officers her name
was Margaret Banks. The coroner's S
Office announced that a relative of
the girl today declared the girl
could not drive. 1t was upon this
statement that the arrest was or
dered.
Meanwhile, the coroner also in
vestigated deaths of Howard Mohr,
%, of Ben Davis, and Christopher
Scures, %, of 344 N. Pine ST., in
motor crashes Sunday.
In these accidents these persons
were charged with manslaughter.
Mohr and Scures were injured
fatally in similar accidents twelve
hours apart, but within few hun
dred feet of each other just west of
Ben Davis.
Miss Noblett is survived by two
sisters, Mrs. Elliott Rappe and Mrs.
Ray Hardin, both of Terre Haute,
where the body was taken today.
The name Noblett was used on
the burial permit.
Mohr was riding on the running
board of a car driven by STROBE,
when it collided head-on with an
automobile driven by Gorby, just
west of Ben Davis on the National
Rd. He was hurled to the pave
ment and his skull was fractured
Strobe was injured slightly.
A bottle Gorby is alleged to have
hurled into the weeds smelled Of
liquor, police said. He admitted tax
ing two drinks, the officers said.
Funeral services for Mohr will be at
II, Wednesday, at Ben Davis Meth
odist church, with burial at Shelby
vile. Surviving him are the parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Mohr; a sister.
Helen; and four brothers, Lloyd
Harold, Lowell and Norman.
Cars Meet Head-On
The car driven by Scures and the
one driven by Hessong met head-on.
Miss Mary S. Smith, 25, of r. R. B
Box 361; Miss Alma Stuart, Bloom
ington, Ind, and John Harter, %,
of SIG N. East ST., riding with
Scures, were shaken up badly.
In the car with Hessong were his
wife and three children, Charles,
Dale and Donald. They we're
bruised.
Police said they understood Hes
song started to pass a car when the
accident occurred. Scures, who
came here from Greece eight years
ago, was to be graduated from But
Ter University next year and take
up study of medicine.