The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-04

rides here Friday night" said E.
H. Jose, Capitol Always president.
1.-THE man with the large roll of bills
was heavily jowled, had a broad
forehead and in other respects
tailed with the picture"
Jose declared the man, now be-
lieved of certainty to have been
Schroeder, was hatlesS, cornbed his
hair pompadour and wore light
suit of plaid or herringbone weave.
The mans hair was lightly Streaked
with gray. thinning in front, and he
was growing mustache, Jose said.
Passengers Are JOvial
On two of his three rides, the man
was accompanied by his swarthy
companion. On his third ride, when
the companion refused to accom-
pany him, he picked out a stranger
from the crowd. Jose did not see
what kind of car they arrived or de-
parted in.
Luther Dillon, Brooks Bushong
and Charles Hack were the pilots
who took the strangers aloft. Hacks
flight was the longest, an hour and
ten minutes. With each of the
pilots, the man believed to have
been Schroeder stood up in the
cockpit. signaling the pilots to swing
lower over the speedway. The man
knew aviation, for he gave the pilots
signals used ordinarily only by
pilots.
When mention was made of re-
turning to the airport Saturday, the
two said they couldn't do tive
won't be here"
Making a telephone call to a
woman during their stay at the air.
port, Schroeder's companion was
heard to tell the party he called:
Eyes, We'll be there in a little while;
we're going to take one more ride"
Neither Jose nor the pilots smelled
liquor on the mems breath, but sus-
pected, from their jovial behavior,
they had had intoxicants, or, more
likely, drugs or some other stimu-
lantS.
Pilot to Be Questioned
A passenger on the Embry Riddle
plane when it left here last Satur-
day morning for Chicago may have
been Schroeder under an assumed
name. The pilot of the plane will
attempt to identify photographs of
Schroeder. The man telephoned
the field early in the morning, Civ
ing his address as Evanston, ILL.,,
and making reservations.
Employees of the Service Truck
Sales Company went into the yard
in the rear Of the shop this morn
ing for the first time since Satur-
day and found the blankets and
raincoat there. Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
c. Fouts, Is East Sixteenth street,
positively identified the raincoat as
that worn by Schroeder when they
were parked next to his car at the
speedway races. They said the
blanket looked like" the one he
used there.
demonstrating the crime, inves-
tigators pointed out that Schroeder's
car was seen in the vicinity of the
High School road scene of its
burning eight hours before Jack
Allen of Clayton and Miss Ruby
Blue of tbs North Delaware street,
while driving, discovered the fire.
They did not discover the body in
the burning car, deputy sheriffs
making the find when sent to the
scene after Allen had reported.
Believed to Be Schroeder
Allen and Miss Blue gave a lift
into the city to a man they be-
lieved a hitch-hiker whom authori-
ties now are convinced was Schroe-
der leaving the scene. He carried
a blanket similar to the one he
carried in his car, over his right arm
and hand during the entire time he
was with the couple in the car COM
ing to the city. He left the car on
Washington street near Senate ave-
nue..
That the blanket covered a burned
hand, sustained when he fired gaso-
line with which the mans body and
car had been soaked, was belief of
authorities today.
The High School road scene Of the
car burning is reached easily from
the Speedway, where Schroeder was
seen during tte races.
Police believe the body of the
dead man may have been in the
car at the time Schroeder was seen
driving near the High School road
eight hours before the car was
burned. That the dead man may
have been a Speedway race specta-
tor and have been picked up by
Schroeder for a ride into town
after the races was believed possible.