The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-13


make an entry in a little book, what
was the entry?"
"Oh, I don't know"
Our investigator says he saw you
drinking. is that the truth?"
,"If they say was drinking liquor,
I do deny it. I drank water"
Baltzell Quizzes Volderauer
One door of the anteroom in
which dry agents say police drank
opens ON Pine street. Judge Baltzell
quizzed Volderauer about his visits
TO the speakeasy, alluding to that
door
Did you ever station any one at
the side door to catch the fellows
who ran out?" the judge asked.
mo"
Did you ever ask the police de-
partment for help to catch them?"
mo"
There we're, you say, times you
went Ill the front door with another
man. Why didn't he go to the side
door, while you went in the front?"
Il didn't think of that Volder-
auer answered.
Van Sickle Denies Drinking
He denied once having slipped a
packet into a pocket, as one dry
agent testified Wednesday.
Have you drank since prohibition,
since you we're on the police force?"
he was asked,
YES"
The courtroom audience was in
terested.
"When?"
when I was in Canada"
Van Sickle likewise denied drinS-
ing and taking cigarets in the
speakeasy. but said he went there
often, always on visits in line Of
duty.
Had Convcrscd With Wilkey
He remembered having ordered
patrolman Herbert Reinking, on a
beat across the street, to inspect the
place frequently He said he had
conversed with John Wilkey, act
ing deputy prohibition adn1inistra-
tor, about violations there.
Bowman Elder, John w Kern.
United Staets commissioner, and
Gilbert Inman we're character wit
nesses for Van Sickle. The defense
failed in attempts to put two patrol
men on the stand when the gov
eminent objected that their testi-
mony was irrelevant and. incompe-
tent
Sergeant O'Briend followed his
character witnesses, John r. Welsh,
president of Citizens Gas Company;
Eimothy P. Sexton, county treas
urer- ELECT, and Thomas J. Black
well, funeral director.
Paid for Car, O'Brien Says
He said that last spring he sold
an auto to Ross NIajours, Negro, who
Wednesday told the jury that
O'Brien had accepted protection
money from him.
Majours paid the money in S. in
stallments, after $50 Of the $50, the
price of the car, was paid, O'Brien
said. He denied having dispatched
Majours to get liquor, or accepting
chickens that Majours paid for.
Thomas Scanlon. who ran
poultry shop at Sixteenth and Co
lumbia streets, near Majours' home,
and Charles w. CroomeS, Negro,
1923 Martindale avenue, employe
Of Scanlon, said O'Brien bought
chickens from them, but paid the
bills personally.
Louis Fullhaver, 842 North Central
avenue, garage operator, said
O'Brien kept his car in his garage.
and declared he witnessed the sale
to Majours.
Took Last Drink in France
( Patrolman Clifford Brown, ac-
cused Of having entered the East
Washington street joint the morn
ing of Aug. 16, denied that he was
there, and Sergeant Eugene Ed
ridge, to whose squad Brown was
attached, said the squad did not
visit the place. but was in another
part of the city.
Brown said he hadn't had drink
since he imbibed some cagnac in
France. That, he said to the amuse-
ment of the spectators, was "darned
good"
Patrolman Orville Quinette, al
legged to have been with Brown the
morning OF Aug. Is, and accused
Of leaving the place with quart
of whisky denied all charges, as did
Patrolman Ned Hoagland. who fol-
lowed him on the stand few min-
utes before court was adjourned
until this afternoon.
Charges we're most frequent
Wednesday against Hoagland Sew