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the securities and then they asked
me TO sign a whole lot of papers,
which I did.
"I don't know what signed or
anything. gave them $2,100 in
government bonds, S3,250.06 in
building and loan shares and $500
in cash, which they got from my
savings.
They told me I would make a
lot OF money on the deal, because
a man was going to put up mill
lion dollar building on the prop
erty.
Il kept telling then I didn't
wantto do anything until they
talked to my. son Grafton, but
they told me it VIZ: all rigl1t. to let
Mr.. Dozier handle all my Affairs,
because he knew how = do it,
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might go broke" and that some
one was going to erect "a million
dollar building on the property"
II was living in the Y. w. c. A.
temporarily" Mrs. Anderson says.
There a woman told me about
the wonderful jobs at the Indiana
Estates Company.
Il went up there and met
L. E. Arnold. This was about ten
days or two weeks ago.
~AIr. Arnold asked me right
away if I had any money. told
him had a little. Then they
took me in an automobile out to
meeting on the property
Morningside- they put me in
little booth and told me to sign
a paper. ] did it.
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CYMBOL1C of the pitiful stories
- told to the Better Business
Bureau by real estate investors"
dealing with the Indiana Estates
Company is that of Mrs. Mary E.
Anderson, 903 North Delaware
street.
Mrs. Anderson told the business
bureau that on Wednesday, she
gave up $4,000 in government
bonds, IS, 250.O8 in building and
loan shares, and $500 in cash to
the company as down payments"
on lots she says she never has
seen.
Total "sales price" of the lots
was sl0,625. The money paid by
MrS.. Anderson was applied both
on town payments and. in all but
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"THEN they told me to come
Il back next morning and then
they gave me a lot Of little blue
cards to pass out to my friends.
They said they would give me so
cents for each friend I got to
come to the luncheons and lee
lures and if any lots were sold !
would be given SO.
Several days later they told
me I could come to work in the
office at $3.50 a week and they
gave me clerical work, copying
names, to do.
Then Mr.. Dozier and Mr. Arm
old came to me and told me all
about the wonderful chance
there was to make money in the
property. Mr.. Dczier said that a
bank wasn't a safe place to keep
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-06
WOMAN DIES AFTER
TAKING POISON DOSE
Body of Mrs. Jennie Lee Baker Is
Found on Canal Bank by Son.

Body of Mrs. Jennie Lee Baker,
"a, of 6419 College avenue, who
drank poison on the canal bank in
Broad Ripple Friday night. today
was taken to Carmel, Ind, for
funeral and burial
The body was found at 10 p. m.
by her son, James J. Baker with
whom she made her home. Tt was
half-Submerged in the water on
the north bank, west of the Central
avenue bridge. Coroner c. H.
Keever said she had been dead sew
sral hours. Portions of two notes
TO the son we're found.
Mrs. Baker had grieved over the
death of her husband, Charles w.
Baker. drowned accidentally near
the College avenue bridge Sept. is.
Her son said she often had threat
ened' suicide.
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SUNDAY WILL BE FAIR

Continued cloudy weather with
S-degree drop in temperature was
forecast for Indianapolis tonight
by the United States weather
bureau here today.
Sunday will be fair, the forecast
stated Weather over Indiana gen.
orally will be the same.
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money m any more. because it
might go broke, like other banks
downstate.
st had some shares in a build
ing and loan association IN
Bloomfield, Ind, and some gov
eminent bonds in a safe deposit
box in the Fletcher Trust and
Savings bank and 1 had some
money in the Railroad Mems
Building and Loan Association
here.
go they told me to put my
y money in real estate. because
the ground would always be there,
and Mr.. Dozier and Mr.. Arnold
took me down 10 the safe deposit
company and Dot the bonds and
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BY LUCIA RIZZARDI
United Press staff Correspondent


BRUSSELS, Dec. 6.-Hidden with
in their homes for safety, frightened
peasants and villagers of the Mouse
valley waited hopefully today for
the lifting of mysterious, impene-
trable fog whose deadly effect no
one understood.
The fog, which for three days has
covered the lowlands in a wet, cold
haze, slowly is disappearing, and it
/ seemed likely there would be no
further loss of life from the strange
effects it bore through the quiet
countryside once torn by the World
war.
The queer similarity of these ef-
fects to those of poison gas revived
fearful, vivid memories for a time,
but it was generally believed today
that the dampness alone had
caused or fastened the forty or
more deaths attributed to the log.
Due to Natural Causes
Early reports that the deaths had
been caused by either leaking gas
shells buried in the district or from
fumes Of chemical factories, we're
refuted by the. government hygiene
commission.
The commission told the United
Press that the deaths apparently
we're due to natural couses, since
the wet, clinging type of fog would
be fatal to persons suffering from
diseases of the heart, lungs, or
throat.
Earlier estimates Of approximately
twice that number of fatalities we're
held to be exaggerated, or at least
not due to the fog.
Residents Terror Stricken
Residents of the district between
Liege and Huy were thrown into
panic by the unusual number of
deaths, and jumpde to the conclu-
sion that they we're due to poison
GUS gas, DR.. Eamdal, director gen.
eral of the ministry of hygiene, told
the United Press.
This IS not the opinion of the
government medical commission
that investigated the disaster" DR..
Eamdal said. THE preliminary in
vestigation attributed the deaths to
purely natural causes, due to an in
tense fog sweeping through a cold,
damp, flat country.
"Our investigations are not final,
of course. An autopsy will be held
on each Of the victims to enable us
to reach a final conclusion"
Discredit War Gas Theory
The theory that poison war gases
had spread through the country and
been held close to the ground by the
Fog wa sfurther discredited by the
fact that the area in question was
captured by the Germans in 1914
and held throughout the war. Poison
gas was not used until 1915, and
authorities said that it was not used
in the Mouse district.
The region affected by the fog
extends along the Meuse from
Liege to Namur. The Meuse valley
includes the towns of Andenne,
Huy, Settles, Jehay, Hernal and Sc
layn. Huy and Andenne are the
largest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-06
RECEIVER HANDLES
CITY AIRPORT FUND
Works Board Member Apportioning
$4,000 With Creditors.

Serving without pay. Charles o.
Britton. Republican member of the
works board. today took first steps
toward apportionment of a s64 900
fund involved in the municipal air.
port construction muddle. following
his appointment by Superior Judge
James NJ. feathers.
Named receiver as result of suits
by lien holders and creditor, Brit
ton will be forced to prorate the
fund which is about $4,000 less than
total claims.
Charles T. Caldwell, general air.
port contractor, originally sued
Sandage & Sheetz. subcontractors,
for alleged breach of contract. The
defendants fled a cross complaint
asking appointment Of receiver.
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ON
rum CHARGES
FOR ] HOURS
Take Case at $50 Friday
and End Study at ! A. M.
Today.
ENTRAPMENT is limited
ACquittaI Of One Officer
Ordered by Judge;
Six Others Left.

Six policemen and two
alleged bOOtleggers were
found guilty by a federal
jury today on charges of
conspiracy to violate ma
tiOnal liquOrt acts. The
verdict named Sergeant
John Everson, patrOlmen
Claude Ridenbaugh, Ralph
Lambert, David ]. Curran,
Thomas Gray and Martin
O'Brien, and John Price,
Negro, and Cecil (Pete)
NJ c D a nj e Is, guilty as
charged. They will be SEN
fenced Dec. 20.
A federal court jury was to
return a verdict this morning
in the police liquor conspiracy
trial involving seven Indianap-
oils policemen and two civil
ians, after elaboration which
started at 80 Friday after
noon and ended at / this
morning.
Judge Robert C. Baltzell ordered
the jurors to return a sealed verdict
if they reached one during the night.
He waited until $50 Friday night
and before he left the courtroom,
asked the jurors if they desired any
further instructions.
Are you unable to agree on a
question of fact or a question of
law" the court asked.
Willis Hoadley. Danville, foreman
intimated the jurors up until that
time had been unable to agree
there had been conspiracy.
I'VE understand he said, 1--WE
first are to ballot on whether or not
there has been a conspiracy and If
there was one, who were members
of it.
Explains Entrapment Law
In intrusting the case to the jury
Judge BaltzeH explained the law
on entrapment.
III an officer placed in person s
mind the idea to commit a crime
when that idea was notthere be-
fore, you can not convict the per-
son of the crime the court said
THE officer must have strong
suspicion that the idea was there
or it is entrapment.
Public policy says a prohibition
officer should not violate the laws
he is sworn to uphold On cause
others to violate it. So in this case
if you are certain the prohibition
agents induced these defendants to
violate the law when they had no
intention of violating it, you can
not find them guilty"
Officer Tyner Is Freed
Patrolman Otis Tyner was freed
on a directed verdict before the
case went to the jury, Judge Baltzell
instructing the jury there was nc
evidence to link Tyner to the al
legged conspiracy.
Defendants now involved in the
verdict are Sergeant Joseph Ever
son and patrolmen Claude Riden-
baugh. Ralph Lambert, David j
Curran, Thomas Gray and Martin
O'Brien and Cecil (Pete) Mcdaniel:
and John Price, alleged bootleggers
Evidence presented by three Chi.
cago dry agents was that they
opened a poolroom at 1918 East
Twenty-second street and were ap-
preached there by policemen fol-
whisky and brides.
Money was alleged to have beer
paid the officers by Horace Lyle
Negro, former dry agent, whom the
Chicago agents used for payof1
man.
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SWINE CLOSE WEEKS
TRADE 10 CENTS UP
Cattle Market a Nominal Affair
Vealers Sell OF.

Weekend trade at the Union
stockyards was mostly steady to-
day with a slightly higher trend,
prices for the most part ranging
10 cents over Fridays average.
The bulk. l40 to 500 pounds. sold
for $685.. this representing the early
top. Receipts we're estimated al
5000: holdovers we're 259.
The cattle market held nominal.
Receipts we're 100. Vealers sold of
so cents, going at S11.50 down. Calf
receipts were 200.
SteadineSs featured sheep, with
lambs mostly $3.50 down. Receipts
we're 200.
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CRITICISM OF ARMY
WILL BE ANSWERED
Reserve Officers Group to Reply TO
Statement of Wood.

Seventh district members of the
Reserve Officers Association will
draft a resolution in reply to the
recent criticism Of the army and
navy voiced by Chairman Will r.
Wood of the house appropriations
committee.
Wood is said to have declared
There is les work done by the army
and navy in proportion 10 the
amount Of money expended than
all the rest of the forces in the
government put together"
The resolutions committee ap-
pointed at the luncheon of the as
ISOLATION Friday afternoon by
Lieutenant H. B. Perkins, chapter
president. is composed Of Colonel
Robert l. Moorhead. chairman
Colonel W T. Hensley and Major
G. a TuckAE
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Jury Decides Their Cases

Verdict of guilty returned in
federal court this morning in the
liquor conspiracy cases involving
the six Indianapolis policemen
pictured here; Sergeant Joseph
Everson and patrolmen Claude
Reidenbach, Ralph Lambert,
David j. Curran, Thomas Gray
and Martin O'Brien. Judge Robert
c. Baltzell Friday directed a YER
dict of acquittal for the seventh
police defendant, patrolman Otis
Tyner.
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one Of the sales" to cover in
stallment payments of $40 a
month on each lot for the period
OF two years, she says. After that,
she must pay 500 a month on the
remainder, plus interest and taxes.
She has no income.
= =
MRS. ANDERSON is 50 years
80 of age. She is widow; she
mas had no business experience.
The securities and cash were the
estate left TO her by her husband.
She was induced to enter into
the deal, she told the business
bureau, because H. NJ. Dozier,
head Of the Indiana Estates Com
pany, told her a bank is not a
safe place to keep money--it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-06
MYSTERY FOG
KILLS SCORES
IN BELGIUM
Wet, Cold Haze Has Hung
Over LoWIandS of MeuSe
Valley Three Days.
RESIDENTS IN TERROR
DiSCredit Reports That Gas
Left From War Is
Responsible.
By United Press

By United Press
PARIS, Dec. 6.-Belgians. who
died in the Meuse valley in the
last forty eight hours were the
victims of freezing fog" the
French Academy of Sciences be-
lieved today. The academy pointed
ont that a similar fog killed eleven
persons in Belgium in 1911. The
victims of the 1911 fog suffered
from asthma, or were elderly
miners whose lungs had been in
jured by long work underground.
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.JOv!
CIOthe
a Child

c is the coat, all tdttered
md torn.
Fl IS the heart as big as
it's born.
| IS the ice IN the chill of
the soul.
l. IS the look at the shirt
lCitb q hole.
ID Is orr Donny-bOy, q
name on the roll.
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A ND that's the song Of the
"A "Clothe a School Child" for
Christmas campaign
Besides Danny, we've got the two
pairs Of twins and George, who
lives a twisted life with twisted
limbs.
Then there's others who spell
she word Christmas without an
oh because so many Christmases
are that way, and just hope that
youH put the N" in with your heart
by joining in the movement OF The
Times TO "Clothe a School Child
Men who bach and live in
lonely hotel rooms and women who
hardly know the feel Of q soft,
adolescent hand are answering the
''Clothe q Child call.
And if hard lucE and depression
teens through the roll of youngsters
in need of clothing so they may ge
to school warmly clad, it also teens
through the spartan courage OF
some of those who are willing to
help e. child
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ONE woman. given a boy today,
~ replied over the telephone,
"That's Just, fine and we'll care for
him. too. even though We had a
little hard luck Just now
What was it? Well, my husband
lust lost his job. But we'll get along
and he'll have another job and we'll
take care of the boy. as we said we
would. for we know now how his
father feels being out Of work" she
replied.
SO that's the spirit that is
engendering folk aiding in the
"Clothe q Child movement. They
know that the Community Fund can
not hope to care for the poor in a
special way at Christmas time with
warm clothing.
Then you want to be part of the
campaign? You want to meet
Danny-boy, the Twins. and Crippled
George You want to have a
child all to yourself to clothe for
school days of the coming year?
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--6:J0 X. NJ
wFAA fsool. pallas-Perry Travellers.
WJR i7l0j. Detroit-windsor tontl pro-
MIC system-The Sunset Trail to WIZ.
NBc system-Coca Cola program to wEAF.
WSAI. KYw. wTAM.
% p. M
KDKA Cssol. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES; NBc
XIV ilo2n. chicaSo-News; state
CoIumbia-Lown's orchestra to wFBM.
WENR fS70l. Chicago-Mike and Herman.
WdN C72ol. Chicago-Tomorrow Tribune;
waY G9nSI p1sol. o1ss Standardization. Electric
wJR i75oj. Detroit-volga Boatmen: Trou-
wMAo ts7ol. chicaEo-Dan and Sylvia.
-9:15 P. M
NBC system-Uncle Aze and David to
Coiumbia-Heywood Broun to wFBM.
$50 p. M
KDKA CssOI. PittsburEh-wm. Penn or
MIC system-Amos n Andy to EYw.
wCAE 1i2lo1. Observation-Disclosures orches-
ColumbiaNCalifornia melodies to wFBM.
'"' ~ ~Ms:as p. M
kYW n020l. Chicago-King's ald RUSSO S
orchestras.
NBC system-Nat'l. news events to wENR,
WLW.
10 p. M
columbia--Tremaine's orchestra to WABc.
wENR (s7o]. chicago-vaudevilIe q
MIC system-Royal York orchestra to
WIZ. KDKA. WLW.
-10:15 p. M
WSM (650). Nashville-Concert orchestral:
singers.
WTAM (1o7ol. Cleyeland-Dance music;
midnight melodies
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adds to the pleasure he gets out Of
putting it on the air.
A running description Of parade
or circus is another job that inter-
estS Elvin immensely. One Of the
hardest programs he ever had, he
says, was the task of broadcasting
the happenings of three-ring cir
Gus, all three rings at the same time.
One ring at a fight is hard
enough, he admits.
With Elvin radio is more IF a
pastime and hobby than actual
work. Most of the time when ne
is not telling fight fans what it's
all about, he is to be found in his
Office in the Lumberman's Insur-
ance building, gravely pursuing the
affairs of an Indianapolis business
man. But once he gets in front of
the microphone-well, that's an
other story.
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DISTANT STATIONS
WEDNESDAY
$50 P. M

WEDNESDAY
$50 P. M
Columbia-Forty Fathom Trawlers to
WFBM.
WBBM 770). Chicago-AaronSon'S Com
manders: Lee Sims.
NBC System-Mobiloil concert to WEAF.
WTAM. WGN.
NBC system--Sylvania Foresters to WIZ,
KDKA. WLW.
WIS (S70). Chicago-Folk Music-Norway.
~ P. NJ
Columbia-U. S. Marine band to WFBM.
WBBM (770). Chicago-Gerun'S orchestra.
WGN (720). Chicago-Recital.
NBC Systenl-WadSworth program to WIZ.
-7:15 p. M
NBC system-o'cedar time to WIZ.
1870 P. M
Columbia--La Palma Smoker to WABC,
WKRC, WOWO, WMAQ.
WBBM (770l. Chicago-Dramatic sketch.
WENR f870). Chicago-Farm program.
NBC System-Palmolive concert to WEAF.
WGN. WHAS.
NRG %Jz sEsESnAAqWaTTMS9 EKDRA. WTM KYW. Rsssur' n0uF
-S P. M
Colunbia-Philco Symphony concert to
WABC. WKRC. WOWO, WMAC.
WBBM (770). Chicago - Chicagoans:
Aaronson's Commanders.
WDAF (610l. Kansas City-Musical pro-
wENR SRi' (s7o,. chicago-Minstrel show.
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Thought She Would
Die From Asthma
Tried Everything, But Finally Found
Quick and Lasting Relief.

Discouraged sufferers from asthma
or bronchial cough should read this
message from Mrs. NJ. Corn, 6l7
Buchanan St, Indianapolis:
L had asthma in severe form
Two years ago I really thought ]
was going to die. I tried all kinds
of treatments, but the bad attacks
continued until I tried Nacor. in
April, 1880. 1 took two bottles and
then found I needed no medicine
whatever. The trouble has disap-
peared entirely. and I am feeling
just fine Am doing my housework
again and am gaining back my
weight"
Hundreds Of people who suffered for
years from asthma and bronchial
coughs. state that their trouble left
and has not returned. Their letters
and a booklet of vital information will
be sent free by Nacor Medicine Co. 40S
state Life Bldg. Indianapolis, Ind.
Write for this free information. and
find out how thousands have found
lasting NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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SO LIFE Term
PRISONERS ASK
FOR CLEMENCY
Pleas Will Be Presented to
State Prison Board
Meeting July 81.

Thirty-three life term prisoners
are among lis Indiana state prison
inmates who have appealed to the
state prison board for pardons.
paroles or combinations of sent
ences at the quarterly board meet
ing at Michigan City July 81.
F1fty-one new applications for
clemency we're filed and sixty-four
Of the cases have been appealed to
the board at previous meetings.
The trustees, sitting as a parole
board. will hear personal applica-
tions Of about fifty prisoners for
parole recommendations.
Among those from Marion county
asking clemency are:
Joseph AlstOtt, sentenced July 10,
1923, for rape: Charles La Toilette,
sentenced May 81, 1924. for ten to
tWenty-one years for robbery; Vim
cent Neville, sentenced Oct. 7, 1928,
for two to fourteen years for false
impersonation; Louis Buckner, SEN
fenced Oct. 25, 1919. to life imprison-
ment for second degree murder;
Kenneth Hardy, sentenced Jan. 80,
1925, for ten to twenty-one years
for robbery: Emmett Laughlin, SEN
fenced April 80. 1929, for two to
fourteen years for forgery; Albert
Price, sentenced Jan. 30, 1880, for
two to fourteen years for embezzle-
ment; Thomas w. Shouse, sentenced
March 9, 1912. to life imprisonment
for murder; Frank w. Smith, SEN
fenced Jan. %, 1913. 10 life i'm
prisonment for murder; Willard
Whitehill. sentenced July 81. 1922,
for ten to tEenty-one years for rob-
berry; Vincent Perdiew, sentenced
Dec. 1s, 1926, for ten years for auto
banditry; Olen Simuei. sentenced
July %, 1925, for ten to twenty
years for burglary.
Neville asks a parole and depor-
tation from the country.
Twenty-nine other prisoners Serv-
ing for murder in the state are
among those asking clemency be-
sides the murder convicts from Mar
ion county.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-23
PAPERS War
IN LINCLE QUIZ
ENTERS COURT
S25o,O00 Libel Suit Filed
by Tribune City Editor
Against Examiner.

/ BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, July %. - Newspaper
warfare between the Chicago Tri-
bune and the Chicago Herald and
Examiner, over the manner in
which the Lingle murder investiga-
ton is being conducted, threatened
today to engage the two papers in
a bitter legal battle.
Notice of $250,000 libel suit
against the Herald and Examiner
was filed by Robert M. Lee, city
editor of the Tribune, just before the
courts closed Tuesday.
Lee charged the Lingle case edi-
torial carried Tuesday on the front
page of the Herald and Examiner
under the banner line heading Who
Killed Lingle and Why?" implied
Lee knew that Alfred Lingle, Tri-
bune reporter, was engaged in gang
land rackets that paid Lingle $4,000
a year on the side.
Under the same banner line who
Killed Lingle and Why?" the Her
aid and Examiner made its reply
today.
Challenge Is Answered
mo such suggestion by implica-
ton or in any other form appeared
in the editorial, and the astonishing
thought came practically out of the
blue" the Herald and Examiner
said.
Perhaps it will be explained in
the declaration of the suit, when
and if it ever is fled" was the chal-
longing statement that followed.
"Or maybe it will be made clear by
Mr.. Lee when and if he takes the
witness stand to press his libel ac-
tion-if it is ever pressed"
The article which resulted in the
libel suit notice declared that instead
of finding out "who killed Lingle
and why?" the grand jury was fur
nished nothing at its initial session
Tuesday but the testimony of Harry
T. Brundidge, ST. Louis Star re-
porter, who was before the inqui-
Sitorial body for several hours, pre-
sumably telling in detail of racke-
teering charges make by him in a
series of articles against Chicago
newspaper men other than Lingle.
Wants City Editor Called
Lees attorneys based the intend
ed libel action on the Herald and
Examiners proposal that the
Tribune city editor be called before
the grand jury, along with Scarface
AL Capone and former Police Com
missioner William Russell, both in
innate friends OF the reporter, who
was slain June in crowded sub
way tunnel. The allegedly libelous
proposal follows:
"The work of newspaper reporters
is directed by a city editor. A GOOD
CITY editor knows pretty well just
what his men are doing for the
paper and on the outside. 1t is
understood that Robert M. Lee, city
editor of the Tribune, had for about
nine years been a close friend OF
Jake Iingle. The grand jury might
call Mr.. Lee and inquire what he
knows and what MS records snow
of the activities of Lingle in the
months before he was murdered