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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-03
Police Halt Boy Burglar

BIZ United Press
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. g.
An 8-year-old boy was caught by
police here as he emerged from the
home of Robin o. Balsley loaded
down with articles he hac stolen.
He was examined at headquarters
and sent to the Friendly Inn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-03
HURT IN AUTO CRASH
Woman Suffers Broken Ribs When
Car Hits Train.

Mrs. Minnie Mills, 500 E. New
York St., sustained broken ribs and
internal injuries when her automo-
bile collided with a southbound
Pennsylvania passenger train at
crossing on Federal highway No. 81,
two miles north of Seymour Sunday.
She was removed to Schneck Me-
mortal Hospital at Seymour. The
car was carried more than a
hundred feet following the crash
and demolished.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-03
Singers From Tennessee Here

The Daugn Radio Quartet of
Lawrenceburg, Tenn, will be heard
in a free concert at the First
Church Of the Nazarene at 8 to-
night. The Daugn singers are ma
tionally known and broadcast fire.
quently from station KDKA. Pitts
burgh. -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-03
Perfects New Melon

BIZ Times Special
MISHAWAKA, Ind, Sept. s.
Worthington, melon grower near
here, announces he has perfected
a new variety which he has named
Sugar Bowl, created by crossing the
Melted gem, Usage and honeydrew
varieties.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-03
Step-BrOther, Sister Wed
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Sept. 8.
Miss Metha Jones and Vaughn
Ritenour, step-brother and sister,
we're married here, shortly after the
marriage of her mother and his
father.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-03
En- Route to World Session

BN UHtteG Press
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Sept. B.
Henry B. Walker, attorney, sailed
from New York Sunday on a trip
to Europe. Walker will represent
Indiana at the convention of Fidac,
International World War Veterans
organization, to be held at Buchar-
est, Rumania.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-03
COUNTY COUNCIL
FACES TASK OF
| PAIRING BUDGET
Meet Tuesday to Consider
Proposed 1925 Cent
H. Levy for 1929.

Budget knives of the county
council we're being sharpened today
for the annual meeting Tuesday
when they will be called on to pare
down anticipated expenditures so
as to squeeze the budget into pro-
posed tax levies.
Under the present plan, the
county tax rate for next year
would be one cent higher than last
year, or 32.5 cents. The increases
are made in half cent on the
sinking fund and a half cent on
the free gravel road fund.
Commissioners Levies
Levles set by the county commits
bioners and Auditor Harry Dunn,
and to be laid before the council
for approval. are:
Item 1928 1929
General fund ........$ las S .145
Sinking fund ........ IL .125
Free gravel roads 80. OPS .O3
q. B. hospital ......u OPS OPS
Total ...............$ 315 S 1926
If the council allows any of the
extra help or increased salaries
, asked by individual officials, and
9roWned on by the commissioners,
the budget cannot be squeezed into
the proposed tax levy, Dunn's fig
lures today revealed.
4 He has figured things so closely,
that virtually no increases can be
followed in the general fund, and at
g5east $4,000 must be cut from the
total Of $1,159,065 figure, to avoid a
deficit at the end of the year..
u Figure Perfect Collection
I Even this close figure does not
contemplate anything except a 100
per cent collection of taxes, and
experience has proved that only 95
per cent is collected.
In the sinking fund, the amount
TO be raised by the 1875 cent levy
would be $975,000, while the known
drains on this fund, none of which
can be cut, will be $974000. This
latter also contemplateS 100 per
cent collection.
Councilmen will find themselves
so tightly wedged between actual
expense and the tax levy, that
there will be little increasing done,
observers pointed out, unless the
levy is raised.
Ignore Deputy Request
The figures prepared by Dunn
and the commissioners do not in
clude the $27,840 request of Sheriff
Omer Hawkins for additional depu-
ties for a county patrol system.
The council majority, however,
consisting of members favorable to
the organization of which Hawkins
is chairman, has indicated it will
favor the plan and allow the adj
ditional men.
This would mean $4,000 would
have to be sliced from some other
individual office or institution,
whose budgets already are as low
as possible, they claim.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-03
HUNT WOUNDED MAN
Brazil Man Started Here Sunday
with Victim After Knife ARRAY.

"A fruitless search was made of
Indianapolis hospitals for Herchall
Shields, 18, of Brazil, Ind, who is
said to have been cut by Manual
Poke, %, of Brazil.
The trouble occurred at Brazil
Sunday ard Poke is said to have
put the wounded man into an au-
tomobile and to have said he would
take him to Indianapolis to have
bis wounds dressed.
The chief of police at Brazil mott
led the indianapolis department to
search for the two men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-03
PRISONER KILLS SELF
MartinsvilIe Man Sentenced From
Here Last April %.
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Sept. s.
Bryan Offender, 33, of Martinsville,
sentenced to Indiana State Prison
from Marion Criminal Court last
April %, committed suicide in his
cell Sunday. He is survived by his
mother, two sisters, and four
brothers all of Martinsville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-03
FOrty-Two Blooms on sunHOwer

By Times Special
SMITHS VALLEY, Ind, Sept. g.
"A sunf1ower at the home of Mrs
Sam Day, thirteen feet in height
has forty-two blooms and thirty
buds, nv. q. -i..ss,..s
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-03
ARMY BALLOON JUMPERS
ORGANIZE NEW SOCIETY
Order Includes 76 Men Saving
Selves With Parachutes

Selves With Parachutes
By Times Special
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-Army
airmen have recognized new and
extremely exclusive order, in addi-
ton to their own Caterpillar
Club" which consists of aviators who
have saved their lives by jumping
with parachutes.
The new order is that of Balloon
Jumpers of the World War;" and
consists of the seventy-six men who
jumped with parachutes from bal
looms attacked during the World
War.
They made lit jumps in all, Lieut..
G. Phelps holding the record with
five leaps.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-03

An open air Socialist party rally
will be addressed this evening on the
south Courthouse lawn by Miss
Mary McVicker of New York City.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-03

Homer Rogers, South Bend, has
been named Indiana agency man.
ager of the Equitable Life Insurance
Society of New York and will take
charge at once of the Offices here.
He will move his family to 10 E.
Thirty-second st. this week. Rogers
has named Fitzhugh Taylor, Terre
Haute, assistant State manager.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-03

Offices of GrassyfOrk Fisheries,
Inc, formerly in the Peoples State
Bank Bldg, have been moved to the
hatcheries near Martinsville to ia
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-03

An address on "PyrOmetry," by
Claude S. Gordon, Chicago, Sept.
10. at the Chamber of Commerce
will open the 1928-1929 season OF
the Indianapolis Chapter American
Society for Steel Treating. A dinner
will be held in the chamber dining
room at $50 p. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-03

Because he refused to explain how
he received a stab wound in the
arm which he said was made with
a screw driver, George Berwanger,
80, of 1923 Royal Ave, was held at
the city prison on a vagrancy charge
after he received treatment at city
hospital.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1928-11-17
High Lights
i'm Burroughs
Case Here.
Instructions
%

ID
Every homicide in Virginia IN the
absence of other evidence, is presumed
to be murder in the second degree
and in order to elevate the ottense TO
murder in the first degree, the bur-
den of proof is upon the Common
wealth and in order to reduce the
,offense to manslaughter, or to snow
justification or excuse, the burden Is
upon the accused to introduce EVIL
Stnce to SHOW extenuating cireu.a-
Stances, or justification, unless 1t ap-
mars from the evidence OF the COM
monwealth. ,o>
The Court instructs the jury tnat
malice in law may be inferred from
H. nse of a deadly weapon.
The Court further instructs you
that to constitute willful, deliberate
and prcmeditated killing, it IS not not
necessary that the intention to Kill
should exist any particular length OF
Tine prior 20 the actual killing; 1t Is
only necessary that such intention
should come into existence for the IN
first time at the time of such KILL
ing.
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Colds, Grippe, Flu.
.Densue, Bilious Fever
and Malaria.
It's the most speedy remedy known.
WHERE TO BUY THE PLANET.
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DO YOU KNOW HIM?

Information is desired concerning
an cid colored man, named Joe Hunt.
Some well-to-do white people, who
know him and wish him well, desire
to get in communication with him
at once, IL is desired that enquiry
Be MADE in the churches and societies
for him. Any information concern
ing him will be gladly received at
this Office. Persons desiring to know
more about the matter can call up
the Planet Office, Randolph 2213.
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No amount of suspicion of guilt,
however grave or strong, is sufficient
to find verdict. Nor is it sufficient
that the evidence shows a preponder-
ance in favor of guilt, the burden
being upon the Commonwealth to
prove every necessary element of the
crime charged beyond a reasonable
doubt,-and if after consideration OF
all the facts and circumstances in this
case, you have a reasonable doubt as
to any of these matters. it is your
duty to give the accused the benefit
of such doubt and acquit him.
(1s)
The Court instructs the jury that
in ord,r 70 eIlitle the accused to an
acquittal on the ground of self
defense, the accused is required to
sustain his plea of self-defense only
to the point that the evidence in sup
port Of it when considered along with
the other evidence in the case raises
in the minds of the jury a reason
able doubt of his guilt.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1928-11-17
James Sharp respectable hard working coored man was
ked bv Officer Walter Burr ough his (Sharp) own home
August 8, 1928 @@s@=Az5 .:.~+--c
SHARP had committed no Grim and Burroughs had no warrant
@or bic arrest Or warrant to scare \ his premises.

Sharp had committed no Grim and burroughs Tau ITO ~
for bic arrest Or warrant to scare his premises.
O- 80 ~
Burroughs was chasing boys (juvenie) who are under the
Juvenile Department Of Virginia and subject to trial for oenses
onv in the Juvenile Court here presided over by Judge j. oge
Kicks These boys had commit ed crime hey were seen
lettering on corner and when spoken to ran from the Officers
Burroughs miook James Sharp fifty years Of age for
bow William Branch and he kill ed Sharp He admitted he beat
him with blackjack and shot him three times inside OF Sharps
own house. the length of a from the entrance
-tsS& l;s";
Burroughs was in citizens clio hes He did not display his badge
Of authority and he did not rea warrant to James Sharp
was too dark to badge and he had warrant with h
to read.
What do the liberal minded hte citizens think of this happen
ing and what will they do about it?
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1928-11-17
DO YOU KNOW HEf?'
-rs%=FI%S
PACE FIVE
~-.ala.a.x -

Robert S. Conn, who came to
Richmond has secured a scholarship
from New York U. and is wanted
to come home at once and secure It.
Address Rev. Lawrence Smith, 1873
W. 132nd ST., New York, N. Y. at,
once. Young Conn does not wear a
hat, his hair being combed back and
he is of yellow complexion. He
wears nose glasses, is very plain and
roughly dressed Any one knowing
him VII give him the Information
so that he may return home at once.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1928-11-17
MISSING.

Mabel Rhyme, 10 years old, dark
brown skin, large eyes, dark halr'
weight, 40 pounds; wearing brown
coat. fur collar and cuffs. Left Ben
nett College, Greensboro, N. c.
OCTOBER IS, 1928. Any one knowing
OF her whereabouts will notify Police
Headquarters.
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~ ~ ,- go, ,,y,.,. ,v.;,
The Court instructs the jury that
if they believe from the evidence tnas
w. B. Burroughs, the accused killed
Sharpe under a reasonable oeliei
that his own life was in danger and
that such danger was imminent OF
tat he was in danger of serious bod
i harm, as the facts and clrcum-
ST. noes reasonably appeared to him
n The time, ne was eXcusaole IN SO
ding. although such danger was I'M
real. The question for the jury IN
case vas NOT whether the TAX
iry of the life of Sharpe might have
been safely avoided, but whether the
a.. ised under the circumstances
n, vht reasonably have believed and
DID believe, it was necessary to shoot
he did resulting in the death OF
S. arpe, in order to save his own lie
or avoid serious bodily harm; then
aid in that event the Jury should
find the accused not guilty. The Ju-
rors are instructed that if they be-
E,.s 1r,m the evidence that the ac--
cused started firing at the deceased
in self-defense, then they are further
instructed that the accused had
ri mt to continue to shoot at the de-
Geo ed as .0rg as it reasonably APP
peareJ to him from his standpoint
tP.e thsre was still danger of losing
h., lifs or suffering serious bodily
harm at the hands OF the deceased.
T accused is to be judged by the
G -vn,s- awces and conditions as they
r-a7.oabiy appeared to him at the
t.l-.
T. was net necessary that such
q r-" did in fact continue to exist
IL {. d .oT b eve from all he
G, lcnce that it reasonably appeared
he Gefe~dan5 from his STANDPOINT
s:.l DANCE rsinueG t) exist.
Cd
To Court instructs the Jury that
if ,hey baliv from the evidence that
t. accused was dischacging what ne
" nah ' believed to be a lawful
d ard engaged in a lSwful act, he
rot rc'reat hut may rspel force
+ e~rco 4 need 5e to the extent of
~:ce his adversary. Tais is justi-
{ defense.
y this correction, the Court tells
hat f they believe from the
G. ,e~ca 4ha4 Cfficer Burroughs APP
r. 2ched James Sharp FIR the pur-
~oetirg hir' and informing
h. tina. he was police officer then
Is sae ~ OF the said James
S-crpe to submit to the officer even
~ ,h9rD= lad commit
900 ~ Nh Naicer had no
jus: reason for arresting him as
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Law

Ills ID Ii1C Ao'
ARREST BY OFFICERS. WITHOUT
WARRANT. ~
Bx Section 1888. cit shall be the
duty OF every CONSERVATION OF the
peace to arrest without a warrant
for felonies committed In his pres
ence, or upon a reasonable suspicion
Of felony and for breaches OF inc
peace and all misdemeanors OF ~nst
ever character committed in his
presence.
Section 1925. Before entering
upon the duties of Their office the
persons so appointed shall take an
oath to support the Constitution OF
the STATE and faithfully to discharge
their official duties. (Code Of Wiz.
ginia 80
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1928-11-17

That no man shall be depv ed Of his e liberty except
by the law of the land the ud gmen of his peers.
This section was not read the jury the Burroughs case
concluded with verdict Of acqui "Wednesday night October
a. 1928. IL 44 ..a.4sasz-~ ~
~ (Article |, Section l0)
General Warrants of Search Seizwe Prohibited hat gen
eral warrants whereby office may be command
ed search suspected places without evidence Of fact commit
ted any person not named whose oense
not particularly described and supported by evidence are grey
Gus and oppressive and ought to be granted.
This constitutional guarantee was not read the jury in the
trial Of Walter B. Burroughs, GUIDED Wednesday night Octo
Der D. 1928 with verdict Of acquita
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The Court instructs the jury that
in order to convict the accused as
charged in the indictment, the EVIL
dence must not only be consistent with
the guilt of the accused, but it must
be inconsistent with every reasonable
hypothesis of the innocence of the
accused, and if said evidence is con-
sistent with any reasonable hypothe-
sis of his innocence, then they must
find him not guilty.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1928-11-17

LARGE GENUINE HANDCoLoRED
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Suitable for Gift Purposes. Photo
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This is the law. The preponder-
ance Of evidence was overwhelming-
" against Burroughs, not being even
supported by the testimony OF his
Brother Officers, for they were not
present at the time Of the tragedy.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1928-11-17

The monthly subscribers will be
taken care Of and yearly subscribers
we'll treated.
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He is a minister of justice and is
therefore entitled to the peculiar pro.
lection of the law and the respect OF
citizens as such.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1928-11-17

Patronize our advertisers. Tell
them you saw their announcements
in The Planet.
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TOY

The Court instructs the jury that
ar officer in the performance of his
duty as such stands on an entirely
d'Serent footing from an Individual.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1928-11-17

invites the public and his many
friends to worship Sunday November
4, 1880 A. M. and 500 P. M.
Communion 1St Sun66ys. $3.50 ?. 4
Sunday school, 1851 4. y. SPECIAL
muGio. An n DyA11
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1928-11-17
AN ANNOUNCEMENT.

The Goodwill Baptist Church, 40
~. Monroe Street is new unit to the
Baptist Church, with a very broad
program. Rev. w. B. Ball, pastor
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This is the law. W. B. Burroughs
statement, geographically reported
will clear up this phase OF the situa-
ton. The specific provisions OF the
State Prohibition Law settle II.
Here 1t is: -.
IF there be no complaint ON oath
that ardent spirits are being manu-
featured, sold, kept, stored or IN any
manner held, used or concealed in
particular house OF other place, IN
violation of the law, the justice OF
peace, police4justice, circuit or city
Judge and mayor of any city or town
to whom complaint is made. If sat
isfied that there is reasonable cause
for such belief. shall issue a warrant
to search such house or other place.
tho property of public service ccr'
uora ion such warrant shall describe
with reasonable certainty the bag
gage, container or package to be
searched.
eff any person shall knowingly
and wilfully make any false COM
plant under this section, he shall be
guilty of misdemeanor and fined
not less than $50 nor more than $500
for each offense.
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CHS. c.. and M. p. 95)

Before killing the accused must have reeaed far he
,eneny and safely odet avoid the assault and that not
10 invite continuance of the assault but from real tenderness
of shedding human blood But his house need not
treat but the assault other must be Immediately dam
gerous the party Staying made the first assault he must quit the
combat and retreat far he safely Otherwise necessity
will make the killing excusable, though retreat is made i'm
possible by the adversarys fierce He cannot aleg
sty which he himself wrongfuly occasioned
This is the law that did the jury the Walter B.
Burroughs case the accused being charged with killing James
Sharp after he had invaded his home search Of juvenile who
admittedly had committed and for whom he had
rant and in house. for which he had search Bur-
roughs was acquitted.
fAYNIEf*H
(Artce l. Section l.
Equality and Rights of Men, That all by nature
equally tree and independent and have certain inherent rights of
which, when they stale Of society," they cannot by
any compact deprive e their postery; namely the enjoy
ent Of life and liberty with the Of acquiring and possess
ling property and pursuing and obtanhg happiness and safety
The above is an extract from the Bill Of Rights Constitution
Virginia and not from the Am endmens in the Constitution of
the United States 1t ad the the Burroughs
case concluded "Wednesday hg October a. 1923 with
dict of acquiHa
E1QkESE
(o,s.;,,h &c N;ro;n;a Ri; of RIGHTS Article Section 81
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The Law
a.

- 4. 3.,, ~ :. s
This is the law.
..Ea.>
(2)
This is the law.
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This is the law.
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This is the law and it might be
added that w. B. Burroughs, ac'
cording to his own statement was a
minister of injustice and by his own
illegal act was not entitled to the
peculiar protection Of the law and
the respect Of citizens as such. But
this was a question for the jury to
decide and 1t was decided in the
light of the information before
them.
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The Court instructs the jury that
the, law of self-defense Is the law OF
necessity and the necessity relied
moon. to justify a killing. must not
arise out of the. prisoners own'mis-
conduct.
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This IS the law. 1t is also the
law that citizen who has commit
ted no crime and who has not been
suspected OF having done so by any
evidence present or implied and who
is resting quietly after night-fall
and after day Of honest toll as
such stands on an entirely different
footing from an individual who has
habitually violated the law.
Section IT. "It shall be unlawful
for any person knowingly to resist,
impede, or obstruct, or in any man
ner to hinder or delay any legal
officer having in his hands any
search warrant, issued by any officer
of this State having the right to
issue the same. under the provisions
of this acc. in the execution Of such
warrant. Any person so resisting,
impeding, obstructing. or in any way
h'1dering o. delaying any officer in
the execution of legal search war
rant in his hands shall be guilty Of
misdemeanor. (Code Section 1914
Id. Section % IL