The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-11
Indiana News in Brief

INDIANA news IN BRIEF
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HAMMOND. Ind, March 11.-At-
torneys for Phil Colenger, one of
thirteen defendants in the East Chi
cago liquor conspiracy case, have
been granted a writ of superSedeas
permitting him freedom under
s25. 900 bond by the United States
circuit court Of appeals at Chicago.
Collenger was sentenced last
week to two years in prison and
fined $4,000 in federal court here.
VINCENNES, Ind. March IL
Stories of two girls. IS and II years
old. reported by police to have been
found drunk on a street here, re-
suited in a raid on the home OF
Burley wilkins. in which officers
say a quantity of liquor was seized.
wilkins escaped by leaping from
second floor window. His wife, a
beauty parlor operator, was ar
rested.
RICHMOND. Ind, March II. -
Death has stayed its hand in
Wayne county, according to DR..
Russell l.. Hiatt, coroner. Not a
single death by violence has taken
place in the county since Jan. l. In
view of the fact that forty eight
persons met violent deaths during
1929, this is considered a record.
LOGANSPORT, Ind, March II.
Homer Stonebraker. who was ia
nous as a Wabash college basket
ball center. is a candidate for
sheriff of CasS county on the
Democratic ticket Stonebraker was
OH the Wingate high school team,
twice winner Of the state tourna-
ment, and later went to Wabash.
SOUTH BEND. Ind, March H.
Miss May Moylan IS working in
her first talking picture as a result
OF her photograph being published in
the Juggler, humorous paper issued
on the University of Notre Dame
campus here.
GREENCASTLE, Ind, March IL
Plans for a series of educational
trips to be made during the sum-
mer school session at De Paw uni
verSity are announced by Profess
sor H. E. H. Greenleaf, new director
of the session. Dates for the term
Will be held June 9 to Aug. 10.
KOKOMO. Ind, March 1l.-Phy-
Sicians at the Howard county hos
pifal here have been unable to iden-
thy q malady which caused the
death of George E. Leisure, u, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Leisure, liv-
ing near Windfau.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. March II.
"A fifty-acre farm has been given
Good VIII Industries, Inc, an or
ganization for relief unemployment
by the Hickory Grove Mining Com
pany. The donor has promised gift
of more land If the farming Of the
nifty acres proves profitable.
NEWPORT, Ind. March IL
Archie Kincaid. Crompton Hill resi-
dent. is a prisoner in the Vermilion
county Jail here as a suspect in the
murder Saturday night of Mrs.
Clara Sparks. so. He denies any
connection with the crime
ANDERSON. Ind, March IL
The theory that a mans home is
his castle was applied by Frank
Matthews, special judge in police
court, when he ordered Edgar
Archey. Negro, acquitted of charges
Of assault and battery on his wife
and drawing a deadly weapon on
an officer.
ANDERSON. March 1l.-Mrs
Edith Humphrey is held here on
a charge of having aided her hus-
band. Lawrence Humphrey. to es-
cape from the city jail at Elwood
where he was held pending trial on
q liquor law charge.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. March IL.
Arrest Of Claude AkerS, IS, and
Oral Brannon. IA. in connection
with an attempt to rob a grocery,
revealed operations OF a youthful
gang which had a rendezvous in an
old shack and that loot from theftS
included that bane of boyhood, cas-
tor oil.
SHELBYVILLE. Ind, March IL
Mrs. Eliza Dickinson, rs, widow of
James Dickinson, and one Of the
most widely known women in Shelby
county. is dead at her home. north
OF here.