The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
GEISKING ON
Way TO FACE
Indiana TRIAL
indianapolis GangSter Is
Freed as Suspect in Kill
ing of lake LingIe.
TAKEN TO RISING SUN
Heavily Guarded by STATE
Police; Held on Auto
Banditry Charges.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 1s.--
Theodore Geisking, hijacker and
gangster, was being returned to
Rising Sun, Ind, this afternoon.
where he will face auto banditry
charges, conviction on which. police
assert, will ring down the curtain
on one of Hoosierdom's most no.
torious gangs.
Authorities from Rising Sun, in
company with Carl Losey, Indiana
state policeman, took Geisking from
the city prison shortly before noon,
returning him to Rising Sun by au-
tomobile, under heavy guard.
Nine members of the GeiSking
gang are in prison, or are under
bond facing serious charges, while
their leader, Ted, has admitted the
charges against him, police say.
He waived extradition to Losey.
The prisoner is accused of aiding in
a Jail break last summer in which
mis- brother, Alex Geisking, and an
other prisoner were freed.
Freed of LingIe Suspicion
Geisking was held here since Fri
day as the newest suspect in Al
fred j. Lingle and Jack zuta Chi
cago gang murders, after having
been sought by detectives under
Pat Roche. chief investigator for the
Chicago states attorney, since July.
Then a Bertillon photograph Of
Geisking had been identified by
Lingle Staying witnesses as that of
the killer.
These witnesses, viewing Geisking
in city prison here Wednesday and
today, declared he was not the gun
man who fired into the back of
Lingles head in a crowded Chi
cago loop pedestrian subway, June 9.
AS he told Losey this morning
that extradition papers sent hur-
riedly to Kentucky by Governor
Harry c. Leslie of Indiana would
be unnecessary, Geisking asked
what sentence he would get across
the river.
Probably ten years, maybe twen-
ty-flve," Losey replied.
Mother, Sister at Prison
Geisking's mother and Mrs May
Cass, Terre Haute, his sister, were
at the prison.
Il can't see why the Indiana po-
lice are laying on him. the mother
moaned.
Ted Geisking is the last man OF
a gang he led, which terrorized
central and southern Indiana more
than year, and which police say
was responsible for most of the
major gang crimes, and hijacking
in the state outside the Calumet
regions and northern Indiana.
Losey vent on their trail after
two members held up Ralph Scott,
Greenfield broker. and shot of
SCOTS hand, Jan. 81
Member by member the gang
dWindled until only four we're left.
Given Seven Year Terms
Three of these, John Gauley, Dave
Hodges and Robert Ruddell. we're
captured after a gun battle with
federal agents and police, which fol-
lowed a. hijacking in Laurel county,
near London, KY, Saturday.
They were sentenced to seven
years each at Atlanta federal peni-
Tertiary, on liquor transporting
charges.
Of the other members, George
Evans. convicted in connection with
the Scott shooting, is serving a life
term in the state prison at Mich
igan City. Evans was a former st.
Louis gangster and machine gunner
for the Joe Traum gang in Terre
Haute.
Harley Shelton, Indianapolis. is
serving two to fourteen years in con-
nection with the Rising Sun jail
delivery.
Brother in Prison
Alex Geisking is serving two terms
Of from ten to twenty-five years in
the state reformatory, Pendleton, on
auto banditry charges.
Gail Herrod, sought two years
after jumping an appeal bond, was
sent more than a week ago to state
prison from one to seven years for
grand larceny.
Forest Whitsell, an Indianapolis
hoodlum, now is under bond on auto
banditry charges, in connection with
the Scott holdup.
Lawrence Hiatt is under bond,
scheduled to appear in Rising Sun
Saturday for trial on auto banditry
charges in connection with the jail
delivery.
To Face Similar Charges
Now Ted Geisking will face SINH
lar charges in Rising Sun. but prob
ably will not be tried before the
December term of court there, since
Losey expects to leave on vacation
later this week.
Geisking is said to have admitted
the Rising Run Jail delivery, and
hijacking and rum running activ-
tiles in Indiana, Kentucky, and
North Carolina, while he was held
here as the Louisville suspect.