The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-08

you do? Al was crying. 1 spoke
to the girl, but there was no answer.
I got into my car and drove away.
Q-What did you do then? A
I found her purse in the car. I rea-
lized I couldn't take it home, so
when I crossed bridge I threw it
out. On the way home I stopped
and bought paper. When I got
home came into the kitchen and
sat down to read, but I couldn't
read.
Q-What did you do at home? A
I got out my old clothes for my trip
to the farm. I decided the old suit
wasn't fit to wear
His wife, he said, was upstairs
and came down a little later, bus
there was no conversation.
II sat downstairs, but I couldn't
read" he went on. Things didn't
look right, so L went to bed"
Slept on Night of Killing
Q-Did you sleep that night? A
AS far as I remember.
Q-What time did you arise? A
About o'clock.
Shook was calm as he began the
story of the last hours of Theora
Hix.
He charged that the sandwich she
ate, allegedly containing the two
highly provocative drugs was pro-
vided by Miss Hix herself and that
she gave him a similar one.
"She said she already had eaten
one," he testified, when she offered
one to me-"
Half an hour after court opened,
the recital of the evening of that
tragic June night when Theora died,
was begun.
DR.. Shook began the day with
an explanation of the episodes
described by Dean David S. White
of the veterinary department of
Ohio State university in which he
was alleged to have given drugs to
a woman and had been required to
settle with the Woman's husband"
Gave Dope as Favor"
1.-THE lady had been on the cam
pus three or four years and had
done me some favors," he said. "She
came to my Office and said she suf-
fered from gall stones and only
would help her. Her doc
tor, she said, would not give it to
her and she asked me to help her.
Il gave her three tablets. A few
days later she came back and said
she had lost them and I gave her
four or five tablets and told her to
be careful. Then a few days later
she came back and said she had
spilled them in the sink and I gave
her all there was left in the bottle.
I told her again to be careful.
"a few days later her husband
came to me about it and I explained
to him and later explained to the
dean and they all seemed satisfied"
Plunging into the recital Of events
Of the night of June 13 when the
murder was done he told Of meeting
Miss Hix about 8 p m, when he
visited a market to buy hamburger
for his midnight lunch. They then
had driven by circuitous route to
the Scioto Country Club.
While driving, he said, Miss Xix
produced a sandwich and urged him
to eat it. He did
Girl Wanted to Scream
"I remarked I did not like the
crust and tossed the crust away"
he said. "She said she already had
eaten one. There was large piec0
Of meat in it. We drove along
talking about her work and my trip
home to visit my mother at Leb-
anon, o.
"I told her would be there five
or six days and she said for me 70
get back as quickly as could"
He was leaving for Lebanon Sat-
urday, he said.
When they came to the Country
Club, he said, they drove in and
he got his shooting glasses from his
locker.
Leaving the Country Club they
drove to a spot on the road near
the club where they parked.
"She didn't like II" he said. She
thought there we're too many cars
around and she wanted TO go some
where where she could scream !"
They then drove to the New York
Central rife range.
AS they drove she caresssd haEs