The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-20

The decision probably will
have bearing on another
$4,000 accident policy which
Mr.. Latta took out, together
with the $4,000 policy, only
a few months before his auto
was struck by a Monon train
north of Carmel. A third in
surance company paid go per
cent of another $4,000 pol
icy.
A portion of the other policies,
with a $4,000 policy which he held
many years before death, was be-
queathed to two nephews, and the
remainder was placed in a trust
fund to accumulate two hundred
years.
1dkcS news OdlDnly
Then it was to be used to estab-
fish memorial university to him in
his former home at Ligonier, Ind,
and to endow an indianapolis Con-
servatory of Music. The fund at the
end of two centuries would amount
to many millions.
Miss Sanders took news of the
verdict in her favor calmly.
Il have nothing to say. Please
let me alone" she pleaded with
newspaper reporters. AS the jury,
led by Worrell, filed out of the
courtroom she rose, half-smiling
and halfweeping, to shake each
juror by the hand, and thank him.
She also thanked her counsel,
headed by Frank c. Daley of In
dianapolis, and then left the court
room.
Suicide Was Alleged
The only question considered by
the jury, according to Worrel, was
that Of allegations Of suicide made
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alton, Worrell said, the burden Of
proof rested on the defense, and at
torneys for the insurance company
failed to prove conclusiyely to the
jurors that Mr. Latta drove the car
on the tracks and waited for the
train to crush him to death.
Testimony indicating suicide was
introduced by the defense, who
brought the train crew on the stand
to relate that when the train round
ed the curve half mile away, Mr..
Latta's auto, lights extinguished,
was on the tracks. There it re-
manned, with white face rejecting
the locomotives headlight, until the
fatal crash, they said.
Love Letters Read
w. J. Krieg. indianapolis, former
business associate of Mr.. Latta, said
his friend several times had threat
ened suicide because OF financial
worries.
The plaintiff introduced forty-one
love letters to show that Mr.. Latta
was ardent in wooing Of Miss
Sanders, to whom he was to have
been married a few days after the
date of the crash, and to prove that
suicide had not entered his plans.
Closing arguments we're made
Wednesday afternoon, and this
morning Judge z. E. Dougan gave
instructions to the jury, and they
were cloSeted at 1904 a. m. At
1923 a. m, the foreman banged
on the door, and the court recon-
yened.
Jury Is Instructed
Judge Dougan's instructions to the
jury stressed the importance Of the
need for motive Of suicide before
it could find that Latta had void
ed his policy by self-destruction.
The jury was instructed that its
verdict could not be a compromise,
but must find that the $50, 600 pol
icy is to be paid in full or rule that
it should not be paid at all.
The Times erroneously said Tues
day that testimony Of Louis Rosen-
berg, indianapolis lawyer, was
stricken put of the Latta trial record.
because Of a "slanderous tinge." The
testimony was stricken out for
irrevelency. Rosenberg was brought
to the stand to impeach evidence
given by Krieg.